European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 14, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday january 14, 1994 sports the stars and stripes Page 35 stones to jump Back in action at up games by Bert Rosenthal new York a telling Dwight stones that he can t do something makes him even More intent on accomplishing it. That s Why stones a 10-time National Champion and two time olym Pic Bronze medallist wants to become the first 40-year-old to Cleat 7 feet in the High jump. Given impetus by Eamonn Coghlan s heartily accepted attempts to become the first 40-year old to break four minutes in the mile last year he missed by less than two seconds stones will launch his comeback sunday at the Montreal grand prix indoor games. It will be his first major Competition since fail ing to make the tvs. Olympic team in 1988. After the trials stones nurtured the idea of jumping 7 feet at age 40, but it did not reach fruition until last summer when he proposed it to Howard Schmertz meet director of the feb. 4 millrose games. Eamonn Coghlan had some hand in my Deci Sion stones said wednesday at a luncheon where it was announced he would return to the millrose games 20 years after his first Victory there and 10 years after his last millrose Triumph. You re not necessarily finished from Competition when you reach a certain age said stones a track and Field commentator for the past sever a debate about Opportunity Jim Litke can t do. Society has been obsessed with the idea of telling me i can t do certain things. I will not buy into that age thing. If i jump 7 feet at age 40, i know that won t change any thing. I just want to change people s  boil Down the rhetoric from the Camps warring Over the Mcaa s decision not to restore a single basketball scholarship at each school and what it comedown to is a debate about Opportunity. Plain and Sim ple. And raw. Paying positions in College sports Are scarce right now. It seems hard to believe that in these Days of $1 billion to payouts Over four years for the basketball tournament and offers of $50 million or More per year for a College football playoff. But something has 1o give if the outgoing chairman of the Mcaa presidents commission can be believed. According to Gregory o Brien who is also Chancellor of the University of new Orleans and an adequate mathematician .70 percent of division i schools including Many of the big time programs Are already operating at a deficit. Two years ago the Mcaa voted to Cut the number of basketball scholarships at each school from is to 13. Black coaches voiced objections at the tune that the cuts in conjunction with tougher academic standards would mean less opportunities for Black kids. They were no doubt right. And with even tougher standards set to go into effect next year those same coaches let it be known As the Mcaa convention got underway this week in san an Tonio that if the proposal to restore the 14th scholarship failed they would do More than simply talk. So now we apparently Are going to have a Boycott of some kind or other beginning As Early As saturday the birthday of slain civil rights Leader Martin Luther King or. For All its symbolic value the coaches leading the Boycott would rather the rest of us focus specifically on what the Defeated proposal meant one More scholarship at each division i school translates into 300-plus More opportunities most of which would be snapped up by Black kids in the inner cities. We have lost sight of the role of athletics George commentary town coach John Thompson told new Day in an inter View. This is a Means of survival for some  the Mcaa vote by a 191-119 margin was not with out symbolic value of its own. When the presidents commission took control of the organization a few years ago its stated goal was to rein in College athletic departments with their runaway budgets and repeated abuses. Though they be managed to do neither in the Short time they be been calling the shots not enough of the University cos could convince themselves to Autho Rize one More scholarship. So dire was a yes vote on the Issue portrayed that it seemed the cos would have to Rush from the convention Back to Campus and find an English professor to Lay off the same Day. Frankly it s hard to imagine the Trade off can be that Stark. If the presidents really want to control matters each could Start with his own athletic department. It won t be easy but if one More kid on scholarship Means one less assistant coach or fewer recruiting vis its a Little or a lot less videotape equipment cheaper hotels whatever that is the place to begin making cuts. Every athletic department will argue that it is already a Bare Bones operation. And no doubt most of them Are. At most schools Only football and basketball bring in real Money and that has to be stretched across a half dozen other programs and that s usually before women s sports arc factored in. Still if we re going to prioritize As cos like to say it Only seems fair to Start with those who otherwise have the least Opportunity. And besides there s always the Chance that a handful of the kids who go on to become pros will take the lessons they Learned on Campus about Opportunity to heart. After leaving before his senior year and signing a multimillion Dollar Deal with the Aba s Dallas Maver icks Jamal mus Burn turned around and endowed the University of Kentucky with a $300,000 scholarship. That buys a lot of Opportunity. The associated press Dan o Brien slips on ice cuts fingers new York a Dan o Brien the world Champion Ana world record Holder in the decathlon Cut three fingers on his right hand and required 10 stitches to close the wounds when he slipped on ice and fell outside his Home at Moscow Idaho. The injury tuesday was o Brien s Sec Ond within a week. On Jan. 5, he aggravated an injury to his left foot. He had an Fri on the foot and we re not sure if it s a Tendon or what Mike Keller one of his two coaches said wednesday by Telephone from Moscow. We re still waiting for the  the hand injury appeared much More serious. He Cut the fingers when he grabbed onto Sharp Metal on his pickup truck while trying to Brace himself fro the fall on the ice Keller said. After that Keller said that o Brien went to Seattle and became sick and nauseous apparently from the Shock of the hand injury Keller said. Keller said that because of the foot in jury o Brien had withdrawn from from the Long jump at Friday night s Hamilton on Tario Spectator indoor gashes in Canada. His next scheduled meet is the Minrose games feb. 4 at Madison Square Garden where he is to sprint and hurdle. People read Small ads you just did you can now advertise your products events and services to 150,000 daily readers at incredibly Low rates. This and for example can Cost you As Little As $51.72. For info Call Germany civilian 06155-601247 or Dan 348-8247. Phils boost Greene s pay Philadelphia a right hander Tommy Greene got a five fold salary increase wednesday when he agreed to a $2 million one year contract with the Philadelphia Phillies. Greene 26, made $390,000 last season when he was 16-4 with a 3.42 Era. 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