European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 3, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday december 3t 1993 sports the stars Ano stripes. Pago 39 local notes by sue Harper staff writer in terms of pure numbers Basket Ball players might be More Likely to be injured than footballers according to Safe and Usa eur sports injuries reports for fiscal year 1992. Basketball accounted for 38 injuries to air Force athletes and 32 to sol Diers. Football was a close second for the air Force with 29, a Distant second in the army with 14 touch and four tackle football injuries. The army does not have a a theater wide organized tackle football program but the numbers Don t Tell the whole Story. One reason for the higher number of basketball injuries is More people play basketball but not necessarily on an organized team. The injury figures include All injun. Ries sustained in sports and recreation activities not just organized teams. More people play basketball than football because Quot All you need for basketball is five people in4shorts and a basketball. Very few places can put together a tackle football team because of the equipment you need Quot Safe sports director Tom Burkett said air Force varsity teams had 610 football players 364 softball and 336 basketball players last fiscal year Burkett  numbers do not include unit level or intramural teams so the jury is still out on which sport is rougher As far As injury is concerned. Air Force and the army basketball players sprained twisted and broke their Ankles More than another body part on the  on the other hand saw fingers account for 23 percent of All injuries. Fingers get caught in jerseys get stomped get slammed trying to catch balls and jammed trying to break a 200-plus-pounder�?Ts fall. T memories . A a a. T a 1 Arney and air Force softball players seem to suffer More facial injuries than other sports. Softball tied basketball and soccer with two in air Force sports Eye injuries. Army softball led the category with two. But for the injuries that might be recounted Over some recreational Beers the Small but interesting categories such As injuries caused by association with Small children Freak injuries and sudden movement injuries ave to be explored. Sudden move injuries account for 8 percent of football injuries and 3 percent of basketball a. The More interesting injuries Are of course the Freak  example the Good Samaritan injury where a person fractured his Collarbone after losing his Ballance while helping someone up after warmups. The army however topped the ironic injury cat agony with an Elbow fracture attributed to dancing. Also in that cat Groy the army had a Guy who dislocated his shoulder while running. The air Force had a bicyclist who hit his head on a soccer goal. That injury sort of blurred into the embarrassing injury category. Such As a the hang glider who broke an Elbow because he Quot pulled instead of pushed and landed  there s also the weightlifter who As he was adding More weights caught his Finger Between the weight and the bar. A lesser known injury category is the child related sports and Leisure injury children under 8, and adults in sports and recreation Are a Nasty mixture but not for the children according to the army and air Force statistics. One. Softball player got his Teeth loosened when hit in the face with a Bat swung by a Small child. Another it Erson went Down a slide with a child added wrong and broke an ankle. I weekend sports on an cantral european Tima television pro basketball a san Antonio at Orlando 2 am. Saturday. College basketball a Kansas at de Paul. College football a army is. Navy 6 . Saturday Sec championship game Alabama is. Florida 930 . Saturday Wisconsin is. Michigan state 5 50 . Sunday. Pro football a Green Bay at Chicago 7 . Sunday new York giants at on a a from wire report Gainesville Fla Judd Davis a walk on who won his Job with Florida after the season began thursday was named the Winner of the Lou Groza award As the nation s top place kicker. Davis a Junior has made 18 of 23 a Field goal attempts and 57 of 59 extra Points in his career. A panel of 30 voters nationwide chose him Over four other i finalists Michael a Proctor of Alabama Lawson Vaughn of Oklahoma state Bjorn Merten of Urcla and Joe Allison of i Memphis state. Davis Allison won the first Groza award last year. Heels going Gator Durham . With North Caro Lina locked out of the new year s Day bowl extravaganza the 12th-ranked tar heels on wednesday accepted a Gator bowl bid. The tar heels 10-2 will play the loser of the Sec title game this weekend Between no. 16 Alabama and no. 9 Florida in the Jacksonville fla., bowl. Testaverde returns Berea Ohio a Vinny Testaverde practice with the Cleveland Browns on wednesday for the first time in five weeks Ana said he Hopes to play sunday against new Orleans. He had a separated world notes a shoulder. Faldo Price tied a Sun City. South Africa a Nick Faldo of England and Zimbabwe s Nick Price fired 5-under-Par 67s to share a four stroke Lead after the first round of the million Dollar Challenge on Thun Day. Tied for third at 71 were David Frost of South Africa Zimbabwe s Mark Mcnulty and Corey Pavin. Elkington takes Lead Sydney a Texas based australian pro Steve Elkington got off to. A spectacular Start in a treacherous South Easterly wind thursday to hold the first round Lead in the $4b2,000 Greg Norman Holden Golf classic. Elkington shot a 6-under-Par 67 Over the 6,856-Yard lakes course to Lead by one shot Over american Curtis strange and Canadian Jack Kay. . Ices Russia Amherst mass. A former nil player Jeff Lazaro scored one goal and set up another wednesday night to Lead the United states to a 6-3 exhibition Victory Over Russia in an olympic tuneup.  Mike Dunham made 20 saves including a Brilliant one off Dmitri Popov with 3 29 remaining and the United states clinging to a 4-3 Lead. Pagliarulo crosses Pacific Tokyo a infield or Mike Pagliarulo made a free agent by the Baltimore orioles will play in Japan next year. Pagliarulo signed a one year $1.8 million contract with the Seibu Lions. Heavyweight tourney set Bay St. Louis miss. Two former world champions and a couple of olympic Gold medallists will fight for a reported $1 million in a one might heavyweight tournament Friday Alt 15 three round bouts in the 16-Man Competition will take place Between 9 . Est today and 1 . Saturday. The world champions Are James Quot Bon Crusher Quot Smith and Tony Tubbs. Both held thew a title. A _  olympic champions Are Tyrell Biggs and Henry Tillman. A a Smith will Box Jose Ribalta a cuban fighting out of Miami in one first round match while Tubbs will meet Magna Havana of Norway. Ukrin while. The dominican Republic. Avn a of Norway. Biggs will fight Yevgeniy Sudakov a Rantan fighting out of new York rile Tillman will Box Leonsio Bueno of Miami 10 . Sunday Cincinnati at san Francisco 2 . Monday Philadelphia at Dallas 3 . Tuesday. Radio. Pro basketball a Portland at Boston 130 . Saturday. College football a army is. Navy 6 . Saturday Sec championship game Alabama is. Florida 9 30 . Saturday. Pro football a Minnesota at Detroit 7 . Sunday new York giants at Miami 10 . Sunday Cincinnati at san Francisco 2 . Monday. Each fighter is supposed to Gist $20,000 for each fight he appears in and an additional $20,000 for a knockout. The win. Ner of the title will have fought four times and is supposed to get $1 million. The loser is supposed to collcct$100,000. Weiss skates ahead 7&Quot Colorado Springs Colo. Michael Weiss went for broke. When other skaters chose to play it conservatively Weiss attempted a triple Axel the most difficult of All triple jump in the men s technical program tuesday at the world Junior figure skating championships. The gambit paid and off Weiss finished the program ranked first heading into thursday s deciding free skate. In pairs the russian team of Maria Petrova and Anton Sikhart Lidzy skated to their first world Junior title. They were Silver medallists in this event last year. Canada s Caroline Haddad and Jean so Bastien Fecteau finished second and Ukraine a Galina mania Chenko and Evgeny Figursky were third. The top . 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