European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 25, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse Courier Rolls into Australia Panther Power Pittsburgh Center Eric Mobley finds it lonely at the top when he easily slams Home two Points against Miami As the panthers beat the hurricanes 86-84 at Miami Arena saturday. See Page 29 for results of All College played saturday. Melbourne Australia up Jim courier who wins in Australia in showers or Sunshine tuned his game on a Rainy sunday with a straight set Victory Over Serge bruguera that took him to the quarterfinals of the australian open. A summer downpour washed away most fourth round matches at the National Tennis Centre but not those on stadium court which is equipped with a retractable dome. Courier beat bruguera 6-1, 6-3, 7-6 75his 10th consecutive Victory at the australian open a string dating to the first round of 1992. Bruguera a spaniard seeded no 15, appeared to sleepwalk through the first two sets before challenging the 22-year-old american. Bruguera saved two match Points in the third set tie Bra scr then pushed a Forchand Long. A this is definitely a step in the right direction a courier said. A i really hammered the Ball today i needed to go out and unload on some round strokes. This is the Way that 1 was Oping that i was going to courier said he is trying to build momentum for the second week of the years opening grand slam event. In All five singles matches were postponed and another was suspended because of sundays showers. Before the Rains came no 2 seed Steffi Graf cruised into the women a quarterfinals. After winning her match 24 hours earlier in just seven games when her injured opponent withdrew the German Star eliminated no. 15 Magdalena Malleva of Bulgaria 6-3,6-3. Among the women no. 10 Mary the stars and strip sports january 25,1993 Page 36 Pierce an american playing out of France blanked Gigi Fernandez 6-0,6-0 no. 4 Arantha Sanchez Vicario beat no. 11 Anke Huber of Germany under the roof 7-5,6-2 and no. 3 Gabriela Sabatini eliminated Nicole Provis the last remaining australian 7-5,6-3. 1 those who did not get a Chance to play included women a no. 7 Jennifer Capriati who is fighting a stomach virus and no. 1 Monica Seles who has won two straight australian open crowns. No. 2 Stefan Edberg a Winner in 1985 and 1987, withdrew from his doubles match with dutch partner Jan is Mccrink because of lower Back spasms. Today the swedish Star plays Arnaud Boetsch of Franco for a place in the quarterfinals. A we Are hopeful that he will be Able to the his place on court tomorrow a said Edberg a coach Tony is this game an alphabet soup by Eric Noland the los Angeles daily news suggestion to the Powers that be in the nil lose the roman numerals. Just Call it the super bowl. That a enough. Do we really need that Jumble of xes and Vas and los lacked onto an institution that is pretentious enough already no other major pro sport in this country numbers its championships we did t hear anybody talk last year about the 90th world series or the 46th Aba final or the 109ih Stanley cup or the 54th final four to compound that with a conversion to numeric figures of an archaic system is overkill on a monumental scale. Nothing new for the nil come to think of it. Imagine final four la Aba final xvii Stanley cup cd and world series excl the reason those look so Odd is because roman numerals simply Arentt used much anymore. And for Good reason. The rest of the world moved on after commentary Theodosius 1 carved up the Empire in the fourth Century. Not this league. Today roman numerals Are used to number Popes which is appropriate for an institution based in Rome. They re used to count olympiads which is Odd because those games began in Greece. They accompany British monarchs a fitting because civilization did no to really come to those Isles until the roman legions tramped in. And of course they re used by the nil to number super bowls an american event which got its name from a Rich texan who owns a team in Kansas City folklore has it after head watched his children play with a super Ball. You remember that toy talk about planned obsolescence you Bounce it once it goes Over the House you can t find it you have to go buy another marketing Genius the roman numeral was shipped on about the same time As the �?T70s decade dawned to give the event a More grandiose feel. A great Deal of the �?T70s was similarly ostentatious but that does no to mean anyone still wears those clothes or see pages 32 and 33 for More on the super bowl listens to to Donaldson and the hey Woods. Somehow with the nil it All endured. The problem with numbering your championship games a especially when you do so with figures that look As if they should be chiselled into Marble a is that once you get started its pretty Tough to Stop. The a Fly a quandary is compounded by the fact that its season keeps creeping toward Valentine s Day. Next sundays super bowl can t be called the 92 super bowl because its being played in �?T93, but if you Call it the �?T93 super bowl someone will undoubtedly say some Day that the 93 Bills and cowboys met in it which Isnit at All accurate because they re really the 92 Bills and cowboys and you can t say 92-93 season because the Only part of the season contested in �?T93 is the playoffs. The nil clears All this up by jamming a Bunch of xes and Vas and i s together in some ways its been fun. When the 85 bears and patriots met in the 86 super Bowa Beer drinking columnist at this paper repeatedly referred to the event As super bowl Dos eau is. Fitting that super bowl xxx was held in new Orleans the land that moderation forgot. But the real fun lies ahead when this numbering system really starts to get away from the nil. A if you re not careful with spacing in the logo for the 50th super bowl it will come out super bowl. A similarly the 500th game would be super Bowld. 1 a you be got to figure corporate sponsorship will be firmly in place before Long. So for the 30th game put it in new Orleans again with sponsorship by the Bourbon Street merchants association and Call it super bowl xxx All live nude. A for Thi 400th game the recording Industry will surely want to promote super bowl cd. A to and Way Down the Road in the 3,000th game you just know you la see a logo that urges you to attend the Campbell s soup super bowl Mem Good. On Madison Avenue that ought to be Worth a few win 8th straight $ Page 35 f ? Fyk j
