The York Dispatch from York, Pennsylvania (2024)

January 16, 1989

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The York Dispatchi

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York, Pennsylvania

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Monday, January 16, 1989

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23

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THE YORK sMj DISPATCH Page 23 INSIDE YCIAA statistics Page 25 Bowling Page 27 Scoreboard Page 30 MONDAY JANUARY 16 1989 Walslfo tffi ii mag Denary war with press By Art Spander SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER sy this season Will anyone deny that? Walsh in fact does deny it was of his making blaming writers in general and one paper in particular for the difficulty He contends that instead of reporting the news we were creating the news For sake let us agree Let us say we of the fourth estate invented the Joe Montana vs Steve Young situation out of whole cloth Let us say we were biased and uninformed So what does it matter now that the 49ers are going to the Super Bowl that Walsh is being hailed as a genius that the fans of San Francisco are enthralled with the results? To Walsh it matters a great deal Please see WALSH Page 29 49ers Bill takes the criticism personally as if we were questioning his manhood instead of merely his strategy Why I cannot say Walsh is an urbane intelligent often jocular being He draws up plays that cannot be stopped and tosses out one-liners that be topped reached the peak of his profession even making the big bucks And yet he wants sycophants not sportswriters Walsh has been at it long enough to understand the nature of his job And our jobs Bill Bradley played basketball for the New York Knicks Now he plays pivot for the US Senate metaphorically The press and the athlete or coach are according to Bradley inextricably locked in a dance COMMENTARY from which neither can escape The relationship is adversarial but the results may often be functional Walsh has always been a splendid loser In defeat he is properly humble giving credit to the opposition and deprecating himself But in triumph the demons seem to take charge More than just accept accolades he rattles skeletons Walsh is hardly the modern-day Field Marshal Montgomery of whom Churchill said: defeat unbeatable in victory But success does bring on arrogance elation appears to come as much from taunting his critics as winning the contest The 49ers had a quarterback controver a funny world out there A man is not content to be great he must be told he is great Whether that the fault of the man or the world remains grist for many a mill Is Bill Walsh an excellent football coach? Does a bear live in the woods? Walsh has brought the San Francisco 49ers to the Super Bowl for a third time San Francisco is being called by some the team of the decade And yet Walsh broods about the way he is depicted in the media primarily in the newspapers If a journalist shows anything but unflagging loyalty toward him or toward the 3 i Bill Walsh Overconfidence 9 nearly costs Impact By Dick VanOLinda STAFF WRITER i Pitt shocks 3rd-ranked Oklahoma THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Maybe Pjtt should stick with Top Five opponents Just ask Oklahoma Coach Billy Tubbs The Panthers lost earlier this season to Siena and Duquesne and had lost three of their last four COLLEGE BASKETBALL HERSHEY The new-look Dayton Dynamo nearly made the Hershey Impact pay for their overconfidence The Impact fell behind 4-0 before rallying for an 8-6' victory last night Midfielder Franklin McIntosh had a hat trick for Hershey which moved into a third-place tie in the American Indoor Soccer Association standings with Milwaukee Both clubs are 10-8 The Dynamo who acquired four new players in the past week are in last place in the AISA very tough to motivate the team to play against admitted Hershey coach Niki Nikolic saw Dayton on the bottom (of the standings) But I can tell you right now that Dayton is a hard team They look very competitive with Gino DiFlorio (formerly of the Cleveland Force of the Major Indoor Soccer League) Lesh Shkreli and a couple of new additions They know to move the ball and they know this The Dynamo looked like anything but a last-place team in the first quarter as they stunned the crowd of 4022 with two goals Shkreli opened the scoring at Franklin McIntosh 10:38 when he ripped a hard drive from 20 feet away in the upper 5 left-hand corner of the cage Solomon Hilton supplied the assist The Dynamo increased the lead at 13:24 when Shkreli assisted on Brian goal Impact goalie Scoop Stanisic came out to try and cut down the angle on Koren who had beaten the last defender but the Dayton forward dribbled around Stanisic and pounded the ball into the net Hershey finally broke the scoring ice in the second period when Mark Kerlin connected on a one- Please see IMPACT Page 25 games when they upset third-ranked Oklahoma 99-91 yesterday saw the real Pitt team Tubbs said played a physical game and they whipped us physically and emotionally Every time get close make the big play and make the wrong Brian Shorter scored 37 points and had 12 rebounds and Steel-High graduate Rod Brookin had 24 points as Pitt overcame Moo-kie 37-point performance for Oklahoma Neither Shorter nor Brookin had ever scored that many points in a college game Oklahoma 13-2 had won 11 in a row and the loss was the first for the Sooners in the 12 games they have scored 90 or more points were ready to play the most ready ever seen Brian (Shorter) and Rod (Brookin) for a Sean Miller said think shown that we are capable of beating anybody or of losing to only victories in its last five games have been against then-No 2 Syracuse and Oklahoma which lost since losing to Michigan in the third game of the season is capable of dominating a lot of games the way he played Pitt coach Paul Evans said of Shorter a 6-foot-6 sophom*ore who sat out last season because of Proposition 48 was the player I recruited And Rod told me before the Jemseo leads Bears to am 8-4 victory THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Rod Brookin front tries to gain control of the ball as Oklahoma's Herman Henry reaches in THE ASSOCIATED PRESS any closer than five points after halftime Brookin had scored in double figures only three times previously this season previous career high was 29 points against Toledo and Brookin who was averaging only seven points a game had 23 last season in 86-83 loss at Oklahoma which had beaten Pitt the last two seasons Stacey King had 26 points and nine rebounds points although his shooting range was obviously affected by a broken left index finger that forced him game that his best game ever was agaoinst Oklahoma last year and he felt really good coming into the Shorter had 22 first-half points as Pitt used a nine-point run aided by a technical foul on Tubbs for a 55-49 halftime lead Pitt scored only 57 points in its last game a 76-57 loss No 7 Georgetown last Wednesday Brookin who was 40 pounds overweight at the start of the season then scored 11 second-half points as Pitt 8-6 never let the running-and-gunning Sooners get to miss three games Virginia 106 North Carolina 83 Cavaliers presented Coach Terry Holland with an unusual get-well present yesterday is the best healing mechanism around the best medicine Richard Morgan said after he scored a career-high 39 points to help Virginia to a stunning Atlantic Coast Conference victory over No 8 North Carolina Morgan a 6-foot-4 senior guard most of his damage from the outside hitting a school Please see PITT Page 29 GLENS FALLS NY Chris Jensen scored twice and added two assists and teammate Bruce Rendall had his first two-goal game as a professional to lead the Hershey Bears to an 8-4 victory over the Adirondack Red Wings in American Hockey League action yesterday The Bears who led 3-2 after two periods iced the game with three goals within a 2:05 span early in the third period Rendall Harry Gant shakes off injury sets his sights on Daytona 500 scored on a rebound at 3:09 to give the Bears a 4-2 lead At 4:46 Brian Dobbin tipped in a shot off stick to stretch the Bears lead to three And just :28 later Rendall scored his second to give the Bears a 6-2 lead The Red Wings fired 38 shots on Bears goaltender Marc in the last two periods Joe Murphy had three goals to pace the Wings offensively as Adirondack lost at home for the fourth time in the last five home games Hall of Fame welcomes six new members By Bryan Householder SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT Frankie Thompson is the newest member of the York County Racing Club Hall of Fame in the past driver category Thompson was honored yesterday at Wisehaven Hall in York as the YCRC held its annual Hall of Fame awards banquet Nearly four hundred people attended the affair to see NASCAR driver Harry Gant and to see several local racing personalities including Thompson honored Thompson raced on the local circuit in the late 1950s and early 1960s He drove several cars and scored numerous wins including three straight track championships at Port Royal Thompson also spent some time racing with NASCAR and raced on the old beach course in Daytona The past ownermechanic hon-oree was Hanover furniture dealer OJ Myers Myers sponsored several race cars but met most of his sucess as car owner for Steve Smith Sr in the late 1960s and Please see FAME Page 25 so far at Daytona He and Phil Parsons his teammate have both been clocked over 196 miles per hour times that exceed the pole speed for last race also the fastest clockings since NASCAR instituted the one-inch carburetor restrictor plates a mo've designed for safety (lowering speeds) on the superspeedways knew run good but I think run said Gant of his testing speeds was a little surprised because we had gone down in December and run a few laps and gone about 192 know if going to be the quickest but real pleased with that Although Gant had a successful season running on the Busch Grand National circuit (primarily late-model sportsman car races) he had a disappointing Winston Cup campaign His best finish was sixth in the Busch 500 at Bristol In fact he won a Winston Cup event since 1985 Please see GANT Page 25 learned some lessons and I think because of it the tires will probably be a little slower and a little harder talked with both companies and neither wants to have a situation like we did last year where everyone was blowing The problem came to a head at last Coca Cola 600 where Gant was injured when 10 of 41 starters were knocked out of the competition because of tire-related accidents Gant said the problem became so severe many drivers were leery of racing was he said of them only ran the last laps hard because you could not really push the throttle and get the speeds you wanted or your tires would If early testing for this Daytona 500 is any indication though it appears those problems rrlght indeed be over Gant who is driving this year for a new team owned by noted engine builder Leo Jackson has been among the fastest two cars By George Hammond ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR Nearly eight months have passed since Harry Gant slammed into the wall at Charlotte NC Motor Speedway shattering his leg One of many Winston Cup drivers who became accident victims caused by last controversy Gant still sports a cast on his left leg had two operations the most recent resulting in doctors inserting an eight-inch steel plate in his leg and continues to need crutches Despite the handicap though he plans on a full racing schedule this year with his sights set on winning premier event the Daytona 500 next month He just hopes the tire problems that plagued the circuit last year have been resolved I think have the controversy over the tires like we did last said Gant who was the guest speaker yesterday at the York County Racing Hall of Fame banquet think they both (Goodyear and Hoosier tire companies) T'k Harry Gant right signs an autograph for Marge rite Klunk.

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