European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 28, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 20 b the stars and stripes tuesday january 28, 1992 reality Steps out of super Shadow by Robert Lipsyte the new York times like spectral blimps three big Heads haunted sundays super bowl. Now that the game is Over we have Iron Mike the owner from hell and Tark the shark Back in our faces. Mike Tyson a trial started monday in Indianapolis and the Basic beef a whether the 25-Ycar-old former heavyweight Champion raped an 18-Ycar-old woman who was a Beauty pageant contestant a May get lost in the sauce. Commentators Are already loading the plate with discussions about the difficulty of communication Between men and women the entitlement of Power boys to grab and squeeze and the danger of greedy girls who kiss and sue. Tyson staggers into the courtroom with Clarence Thomas William Kennedy Smith and Zeke Mowatt on his Back. Thomas and Smith won their cases and Mowatt accused of sexually harassing a female reporter in the locker room has so far escaped even paying an ordered Fine. Will Tyson profit from these precedents or suffer from them boxing people will be watching the trial for business news. Don King the reigning promoter for Many years is under attack these Days most notably by the investigative reporter Jack Newfield. Boxing May be growing weary of King. Without Tyson King will have a looser grip on the game. No wonder Tyson a main defense lawyer is the old Smoothie who won an acquittal for King in his 1985 tax fraud Case. As for Tyson unless he is convicted and sent away to prison none of what happens will dam commentary age his image one dimensional out of control thug or his stated career ambitions driving noses into brains. He needs a new handler. How about. Yeah that rough beast slouching toward us really is George Steinbrenner. Isnit he in exile forever Why docs he get so much attention Why do All these sportswriters who claim to hate him want him to come Back a because he a like the Devil a said my chief baseball adviser the to producer Roger Sims. A if George was old scratch Beelzebub the Guy with red socks whatever you sportswriters would still interview him All the time you a be saying a of gods Okay but he s mysterious and sort of inaccessible never returns phone Calls and when he does his quotes Are vague. But the Devil is or.  a i hate to think this is accurate analysis. But nobody talks to Fred Wilpon of the mets and he a not even god. Does believing in the Devil make him real do you think that George will return just because the lost boys of literature need copy fodder do you think commissioner Fay Vincent would drop his foreign Trade sanctions if Nintendo offered to buy the Yankees instead of the mariners then there a Jerry Tarkanian the Bald Towel chewing coach at the University of Nevada Las vegas whose vision of populating the desert with jump shooting Urban nomads has made him to the National collegiate athletic association the bugs Siegel of basketball. The Battle Between Tarkanian and the Mcaa has lasted so Mike Tyson. New handler Long that the grudge match has become More interesting than the original allegation of rules infractions 20 years old at a different school. The Battle has now come Down to a pair of fascinating lawsuits. The Mcaa is trying to strike Down As unconstitutional a new Nevada state Law requiring the group to follow due process in its investigation of a four year old Case against Tarkanian and univ. Tarkanian. Has counter such accusing the Mcaa of a enforcement atrocities in what he Calls a vendetta that has caused him and his wife emotional and financial harm. No doubt Tarkanian has Cut Corners. How else can a functional illiterate get into College Tarkanian maintains that he has Walker remains in running for pair of bobsled berths trials by Karen Rosen Cox news service Atlanta a after surviving push and tribulations the members of the . Bobsled team still have no guarantees  compete in the olympics because of the performance of one Man Herschel Walker. The pro football player from Wrightsville ga., was so Good he could be a Pusher on both the two Man and four Man sleds displacing another team member. Quot its not cast in Stone but it looks that Way a said Ray Pratt acting executive director of the . Bobsled and Skeleton federation. Walker finished first in push offs from the Brake Man and Side push positions a weekend ago in Altenberg Germany. Walker the push trials were held after a week of Legal mane vering. Football players Willie Gault and Greg Harrell and hurdler Edwin Moses a who later dropped out a had filed a grievance with the federation that they weren to properly informed of the schedule and regulations for the original trials last summer. An arbitrator ruled in their favor and ordered new trials but Todd Snavely Jeff Woodard and Bryan Leturgez won an injunction blocking the trials. The appellate division of the new York state supreme court had the final word throwing out the injunction. Harrell Woodard and Leturgez won positions on the bobsled team Gault and Snavely did no to. Pratt said he Hopes there is no further Legal action. A i Hope we can concentrate on getting this team ready for the olympic games a he said Thomas Allen who lost his bid to make the team accepted a position As an assistant coach Snavely also had an Opportunity to stay As an assistant coach but turned it Down. The . Team will train in Winterberg Germany the rest of the week then move to Innsbruck Austria until Jan. 31, when it will depart for Albertville. Pratt said coach John Philbin will a move some bodies around the next few weeks to Quot see How they feel on the sleds with the  the main Competition for the United states will come from Germany Switzerland and Canada. Jerry Tarkanian. San Diego st.? Given poor kids a Chance to make something of throwaway lives. The Mcaa sees him flouting their authority and exploiting youngsters just to win games. He does win games by the end of this season he will probably be the most successful coach in won lost percentage in history. But the third party Here univ has become weary of Tark the Man who made it famous who filled the basketball Arena it has called the shark tank. Bugs a a Oasis aches for legitimacy. Tarkanian will leave the school at the end of this season. Civility has already decamped. Last week after a Regent reportedly told a Booster she was tired of Tarkanian recruiting a ghetto kids a team members practice with her Pic amt 3 George Steinbrenner. A emr. Soundbite a Ture on their backsides. Meanwhile the Mcaa seems to be cleaning up its own House. At convention earlier this month it instituted 67 new rules Many of them reformist. Most controversial were those raising standards of admittance and eligibility number of conventioneers from historically Black colleges and predominantly White colleges that maintain predominately Black Varsi ties like Georgetown cried racial discrimination. Count on this Issue to surface again and again perhaps even from Tarkanian at a new College. Latest Rumor has him going to san Diego state Hope you enjoyed the super bowl. Now that the blimps have touched Down the real games can  expecting to Start at the top Zagreb up croatian Aba player Drazen Petrovic has predicted his country will make the menus basketball final at this years olympics in Barcelona. Beyond that however he Isnit saying. Petrovic traded by Portland to new Jersey last january has predicted a showdown for olympic Gold Between Croatia and the United states but declined to predict who would go Home with the Gold medal. Speaking to the croatian weekly a Globus a Petrovic said he expected his new country a officially recognized by the International olympic committee since january a to emerge As an International Force in basketball and water Polo. Petrovic told the Magazine that he would join Dino Radja Toni Kukoc Arian Komazec and Stojko Vrankovic a All highly rated players from the former yugoslav team a on the croatian team. Petrovic said he expected Croatia to win its qualification Drazen Petrovic a Pitta group and play Yugoslavia for a spot in the olympic tournament. He added that he was a a sure Croatia could defeat Italy Spain and Lithuania to Advance to the olympic final where he expected to meet the . Team composed for the first time of professionals