"I've found that the more deliberate I can be in my pre-shot routine, the better chance I have of making a slow swing. Has Spud Webb landed yet? In the most dramatic performance by a tiny athlete since Eddie Gaedel drew a base on balls, Webb won the NBA's slam-dunk contest Saturday. 1 player all season despite a Venice Beach mugging in February that left him with cuts from a broken bottle in his back, knee and instep-and despite a cavalier attitude toward the sport that borders on indifference. Teammate Butch Hawking, a 6-2 guard, will attend the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo Hawking averaged 12. 4 points and 8. 2 assists a game. It's a senior-dominated team, but Henderson hasn't forgotten the early disappointment of an 11-17 record as a freshman in 1983. "But some of the events turned out much differently than I expected" The biggest surprise was Angelo Palazzo's victory over White in the 100 meters. One day, I got a telephone call from her, and we had a brief, businesslike conversation that she ended by asking, 'Ray, are you happy' "I was shaken and astonished It took me a moment to catch my voice.
The Mavericks caught up in the third period and pulled away in the last quarter Harper scored the Mavericks' last nine points. . "We challenged Mike as a senior captain (to lead the team) and he did a super job" Shannon said "He's our only three-year starter. The Dodgers stayed with him for six seasons before he finally found the groove that made him possibly the greatest pitcher of all time. A Russian exile, commenting on the recent warming of relations between the United States and the Soviet Union, said: "The Russians want to be our friends, but when they come to kiss us, we find they have no lips" Now, after years of silence, we find Zola Budd has wanted to tell us everything all along But she has had no tongue If Zola wants to be our friend, she must speak She realizes that now She is 21 years old, but is only learning how this is done Learning the difficult lesson of whom to trust and when. Mike Edwards led off the seventh with a walk and reached second on a wild pitch by losing pitcher Rod Simonson (0-2. Boston, which begins postseason play Thursday night at the Boston Garden against Chicago, stretched its one-season NBA mark for consecutive home victories to 31 Three of them came in Hartford The 28 at Boston Garden tied a team record. Mario Lopez, a 6-7 forward from Valley College who averaged 12. 6 points and 7. 9 rebounds last season, signed to play at Fresno State.
Doering, after experiencing soreness in his arm, moved from the mound to second base after the first inning. "Bloodstock Research provides the industry with pedigrees via their computer terminals. SAN FRANCISCO — Senior guard Dwayne Polee scored 24 points for the Pepperdine Waves, who clinched their fourth West Coast Athletic Conference title in five years Saturday night with a 85-64 victory over the San Francisco Dons. Seven seconds later, Grande scored on a driving jump shot, and USC called its final timeout. Things are getting so bad for the USC basketball team nowadays that even football players are beating the Trojans. He turned Ben (rookie center Benoit Benjamin) around when we thought no one could and he's learned a lot as a coach. "We've been working extra hard on power plays in practice since they took the four-on-four away" Gretzky said.
Palmer pitched a five-inning perfect game in April 1984, for his last previous complete effort Bob Horner led the Brave attack with four hits, all singles He drove in two runs and scored two others. After Texas Western won, beating an all-white Kentucky team, Haskins got hate mail by the bucketful. I had been strictly an asphalt quarter-mile racer, but it wasn't long before I was hooked on water" Ermshar, 41, is a heavy-equipment operator from Riverside who races weekends, but he has been winning so consistently in his blown gas flat-bottom that he may soon become a boat builder. Met Manager Davey Johnson went to his bullpen, which almost cost him the game. — Dwayne Polee scored 15 points, including the game-winning basket with four seconds to go, to lead Pepperdine to a 62-61 victory over Evansville Monday night in a nonconference college basketball game. This spring, they've arranged a rematch with Franklin Stubbs, the 6-2, 215-pound pride of Hamlet, N. C, an All-American from Virginia Tech and another favored protege of Campanis. "Some day, if we don't, (the courts will) allow a high school graduate to declare himself a pro any time And that would be harmful to most people.
In Carlton's first start this season, on opening day, the Cincinnati Reds clubbed him for nine hits and seven runs in four innings. "My belief, if I can permit myself an ego, is that I can get people ready to play big games" he said. It was one of my better performances this year" It was Gooden's sixth start and second shutout In no start has he given up more than two runs or two walks Four times he has gone the distance In the other two he pitched eight innings. "It really hit me something was wrong when I had to spend $12 million for free agents after the '84 season" Williams said "Fixing the farm system is the No. The defending champion Red Raiders (17-13, who finished fifth during the regular season, cut short a rally by A&M (20-11) on two dunks and two free throws by Chism in the final minutes. Dosage has only been published in advance of the Derby in recent years, but working backward, Rasmussen and Roman say the system has worked for the last 57 runnings of the race. His coaches knew it. McMahon doesn't limit his tirades to coaches.
Trainer Charlie Whittingham said that if Lively One runs well but does not win, he would still consider the Kentucky Derby, although earnings might be a problem if there's an overflow of horses at Churchill Downs. Five members of the Dodger starting lineup came into the game hitting below . 200. I had some trouble off the tee today but I hit it in some places I could play from. But, at that, they were not as hostile as another American city, Denver, had been. Before the game, General Manager Bill Bergesch threatened to make changes if the club didn't start playing better.
After 14 seasons, he will finish a career . 236 hitter"I've got a lot of things I can do" he said. Groovy was injured in the Spectacular Bid, rapping his leg and not racing for more than two months, after which Peters saddled him for the first time in the Bay Shore. The public attitude was who needs them? You paid for the Olympics in red ink or red blood Los Angeles changed all that. was bad, but losing at Daytona was the real disappointment" Pruett said. During the past two months, 23 campus and community business and service organizations gave almost unanimous support for the move. The schools would call players chosen in the first couple of rounds and offer them full scholarships. Outside Connecticut and Grand Blanc, Mich, a suburb of Flint where he won the Buick Open last summer, Ken Green is as well known as, say, Adrian Stills, Dave Rummells, Peter Senior and Greg Twiggs, some other famous names on the tour.
But Padre reliever Greg Booker got Damon Berryhill to ground into a double play to preserve the shutout. "I've been swinging too hard, trying to hit the long ball" Campaniello hit the batting cages every night this week. Played a lot of zone in college and will have to work on transition to man to man The bigger the game the better he plays Ron Harper, Miami (Ohio, 6-7 Outstanding athletic skills Good passer and top-rate defender Probably will be converted to big guard Averaged 24. 5 points and 11. 5 rebounds Cedric Henderson, Georgia, 6-8 Would have just completed sophomore year. Mark David and Adulfo Hernandez combined for nine runs batted in as Poly (7-0) scored nine runs in the first inning and had 21 after three.
"Soccer is a sport I've always enjoyed because it's so different" Last summer, Ekdahl decided he was too busy with football and baseball to continue playing on the club soccer team, Triad, but he was tempted to remain with the promise of a trip to Hawaii for a tournament. On Thursday, the USA/ABF announced it will do essentially the same thing this summer, just before the Olympic Games at Seoul, South Korea. However, the Kings wasted a chance to move into sole possession of third by squandering leads of 2-0, 3-2 and 4-3 against St Louis. I can't fault them for that" Mitch McMullen, who had trouble in the Aztecs' earlier games at higher elevations, matched his season high with 24 points and shot 8 for 11 from the field. The first-year coach, Sue Hall, who moved to Kennedy from Woodbridge, has 11 players, including nine starters, returning from last year's team that was 21-9. Two 1987 All-Southern Section 4-A selections-Laurie Graper at second base and shortstop Missy Gyde-are back, along with junior catcher Kris Vucurevic and senior first baseman Deanna Mayes, a 1986 All-Southern Section player who has accepted a scholarship from the University of Nebraska Suzie Berdis will play center field and hit leadoff.
And there were some bad passes and traveling violations committed by both teams in the same stretch. Cudmore's only loss was on Wednesday to defending champion Rod Davis, the skipper for Newport Harbor Yacht Club's America's Cup Eagle syndicate who lost his first two races Friday to Flam and Dellenbaugh and stands 4-3, virtually out of contention. Also, I might say to Terri, 'How many rebounds can you get' and I'll ask Chanelle (McCoy) how many assists she can get" During his team's first two games this season, Trepanier played his seniors as one unit and his underclassmen as another. Lisa Wagner of Palmetto, Fla, earned a nifty $40,000 paycheck last Saturday for winning the LPBT U S Open.
"If I don't run fast times and win by a lot, they'll be disappointed" Watts said "But I won't worry about that I'll just concentrate on winning. The Flyers scored two of their goals in the closing minutes of one of their infrequent one-sided defeats. Our defensive concept is pretty sound and we've been playing better lately, but we still have to play more consistently" The Lakers got into trouble most of the time when they committed turnovers. Sollom's 38-yard scoring toss to Chad Zeigler ended the drive with 8:47 left in the third quarter.
Their case must have been pretty solid" But strong enough for the committee to act without hearing Alemany's side? "We had no reason to talk to anyone from Alemany" said Donald Hahn, IAC member and chairman of the rules committee "We make a decision based on hardship. top 10 poll have suffered from balks in their two meetings this season In the first game on March 23, three balks were called. Henderson, a junior catcher, was 2 for 4 with 2 RBIs, and Robertson, a senior first baseman, was 2 for 4 and hit his second home run of the season, a solo shot in the fifth inning Steve Zeiss (5-2) picked up the win for Westlake. "Realistically, I think I can make the top eight" says Shelton "Just making it there would be quite an accomplishment. In addition to his 12 victories, he has saved five games, and has 103 strikeouts in 124 innings His ERA is a respectable 3. 55. While defending champion Toshihiko Seko of Japan will be absent, Boston once again has the opportunity to host a dream marathon, with many of the world's best lining up on Patriots' Day. He gave million-dollar contracts to free-agent pitchers Nolan Ryan and Don Sutton and even paid $450,000 for utility infielder Dave Roberts.
After he had scored six straight knockouts, his handlers decided to throw him in with the Golden Boy By 1953, almost everyone hated the Golden Boy This would be the end of Arrogant Art, many predicted Our guy Elmer, he'll wipe that sneer off his face. After Forty Niner, it was three lengths back to Risen Star, who had a half-length on Proper Reality, the fourth-place finisher. Danny Manning of Kansas, who figures to be the first lottery pick in the National Basketball Assn draft, said he would enjoy playing for the Clippers "In the lottery, the Clippers have a good future" he said "They have a lot of promise They are very young They're a talented team. The Rams beat the Cowboys, 24-17, on a frozen Texas day that magnified every hurt and made simple tackles sound as if someone was getting hit with a waffle iron. The Angels have been unwilling to go beyond 1986-unless, as Gene Autry revealed Friday, the club holds the option. "Players today in my opinion don't want to pay the price to be good" Kaline says.
Troy 4, Fullerton 2-Troy's Tom Wilson hit a two-run homer in the bottom of the sixth inning to break a 2-2 tie. In his three years at the school, Agoura has compiled a 52-7-5 record. But Ruzich, Ramos and Dean Ehrlich all hit clutch free throws down the stretch to give the Parrots first place-for now. "Our comeback was an indication that this team is getting back to where it was" The Lakers had fallen behind by 13, 100-87, after a jumper by Rocket guard Allen Leavell, before rallying to within two, 106-104, on a three-point play by Johnson with 4:59 left.
Around the same time, he hopes to pitch again-barring further complications For Cliburn, that mean two reasons to celebrate. But Salas got Jeff Sears to strike out on a high fastball to end that threat. . It starts off with the rather ambitious allegation that "nothing has done more to despoil the games Americans play and watch than widespread gambling on them" How widespread? Don't ask. Ralph Sampson, one of Lucas' closest friends among his Rocket teammates, said he hopes something good can come out of Lucas' problem. Not after any of Macon's 8 air-balls, and not after any of the other 21 shots Macon missed Saturday. She obliged. Great defensive plays by Royster (six assists, Templeton (he robbed Terry Pendleton of a hit) and Bip Roberts (he snared a line drive but went 0-for-4 at the plate) kept things going But then came that seventh inning Thurmond had a perfect game going when McGee came up Later, he did walk Vince Coleman in the ninth "I didn't know if it would fall in" McGee said Templeton: "I didn't worry about a collision It was just out of my reach.
Well, Super Bowl XX will feature two teams that have never been there before. Currently, Northridge spends $1,579,862 to fund a program that has won 32 national titles and is generally considered the nation's best in Division II. Saturday, he pitched two innings of no-hit relief to save the championship game of the El Segundo tournament, one of the best in Southern California, for starter Mark Juas. With the start this season, the doubters are taking a second look. -Greg Minton, struggling in his attempt to rehabilitate a frayed ligament in his pitching arm, was put on the 15-day disabled list, meaning that he will be sidelined until at least mid-April and probably longer.