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NORTHWEST HERALD Section A Saturday, August 31,1985 Page it Sports Tuned in on the QB 'Ready, set, I needed you to run anerrand' FortWorth Star-Telegram By KEN SINS IRVING, Texas -- The Houston Oilers were experimenting with radio- equipped helmets at their practice field the other day in Houston when a message crackled over the receivers: "We need you to go to Westheimer to run an errand." Upon further investigation, it was discovered that the Oilers were tuned in to the same frequency of a message service for hospitals near the Oilers' practice site. < Telex, which developed the helmets, already has investigated the Texas Stadium area and officials report it is interference-free. That's good news because the Oilers and Dallas Cowboys will use the helmets during their exhibition game Saturday night. The Cowboys reported few problems in their earlier use of the helmets, which are supposed to eliminate offensive communications problems at the line of scrimmage in noisy indoorsUdiums. Each team has two transmitter helmets for quarterbacks and eight receiver helmets, to be divided among ends, flankers and running backs. The system, as set up bj^Cowboys President Tex Schramm's Competition Committee, will be activated by a sideline observer as the offense walks to the line of scrimmage, then it will be turned off when the ball is snapped. Thus, communication between quarterback and receiver during a play that would give the offense an unfair advantage presumably would be eliminated. Of course there still is a chance one might break in on a CB radio conversation or have an opportunity to order a large pizza with everything. "It's not designed to give the quarterback any additional ability that he doesn't have when the crowd is normal," Schramm said. "Eventually if this works the defense is going to have the same thing. Obviously the defensive signal-caller should have the same ability. "But it was never intended to be solely an offensive thing. There was a lot of concern about the quarterback talking after the ball had been centered but that will be no problem." Cowboys quarterback Danny White is in favor of the idea because he believes the offense will get an edge. "One of the things we were talking about yesterday was that once you get up to the line and see the coverage, you could tell the receiver what to run," White said. "The receiver might not see the strong safety coming up to blitz so you might tell the receiver, 'Hey, run a Quick 9,' and he's gone. "I think it's going to have quite an impact on the game if utilized correctly. It's going to give the offense quite an advantage if they don't put a lot of restrictions on how it's used. "Of course you're talking about something that you really need only 2 percent of the time. But we've also missed some big plays because of the noise. At Detroit a couple years ago (center Tom) Rafferty hit me in the stomach with the ball while we were in the spread (shotgun) because we had problems communicating." The helmets were to be used the first time in a Pittsburgh-Minnesota exhibition two weeks ago. The Steelers used them, but Vikings Coach Bud Grant refused because he believes Schramm is trying to remove Minneso­ ta's home-field advantage in the enclosed and noisy Metrodome. Schramm got the idea when the Cowboys had problems hearing signals during a game against the Vikings two years ago. "He's absolutely correct," Schramm said. "He seems to take, great pleasure in saying there wasn't any trouble until Tex came up and played in his stadium." Oilers Coach Hugh Campbell hopes the System works, but he is skeptical. "If it works, it certainly would stop the wave from interfering with the game," Campbell said. "But we've had some static problems with ours. Pm worried that the quarterback might say '2-63' in changing a call, then a receiver would only hear *63.' That would be worse than not having them at all." (Distributed by Scripps Howard News Service.) Wishing You a Happy and Safe Holiday... CRYSSARi Home irHtfnishiny» 19 Berkshire Near Virginia 815/455-2370 or 815/455-2371 NCAA crackdown may begin next year Mandatory drug testing inevitable TEE BIGQEST...THE BEST ...IBS LOOSEST m VEST SOHFIGHT EVER! By GENE COLLIER Scripps Howard News Service It Is late December 1986, and the All-American boys from high- powered Upstanding U. have landed in sun-splashed Miami for the apoc­ alyptic showdown with unbeaten Beloved State in the Orange Bowl Classic. This week's itinerary for the boys is printed on fancy invitations in each of the student-athlete's hotel rooms. It reads: Pregame Festivities. Tuesday, Dec. 28: Mayor's break­ fast, 10 a.m., Grand Ballroom (West). Scuba Tour, 3 p.m., Dock of the Bay. Wednesday, Dec. 29: Governor's Brunch, 11:45 a.m., Grand Ball­ room (North). Deep Sea Fishing, 4 p.m., Dock of the Bay. Thursday, Dec. 30: President's Snack, 2 p.m., Grand Ballroom (South). Friday, Dec, 31: Orange Bowl Queen's Dinner, 8 p.m., Grand Ball­ room (East). Dance Cruise, 10 p.m., Dock of the Bay. Saturday, Jan. 1: NCAA Urinaly­ sis, Noon, Gentlemen's Lounge (Basement). Even if ESPN goes live from the Gentlemen's Lounge, there is a troubling sense of finality to the onset of mandatory drug testing at NCAA championship events and bowl games. Is it inevitable? "There's no question in my mind," said Ed Bozik, Pitt's athlet­ ic director. "It will pass." It is the end of an era in some way. Beginning late next year, just because someone trusted you to cruise with the Orange Bowl Queen on New Year's Eve doesn't mean they won't hand you a specimen bottle the next morning. You're not even going to get to see the queen if you don't agree to it. No longer need you only be a football hero to get along with a beautiful girl. Forget cleanliness of thought. We're talking cleanliness of kidneys. Apparently, this is all very neces­ sary and not an indictment of col­ lege athletes as a whole, whosle ad­ ministrators are left to present the "society as a whole" parallel to excuse society as a hole. "At first we had the (testing) la­ beled as more of a medical thing, not to hunt drug users but to help anybody who might have a prob­ lem," Bozik said. "But after the Tulane incident (in which cocaine allegedly lubricated a fix scandal that terminated the basketball program) and at Vander- bilt (a trial over alleged dispensing of steroids will begin soon), it be­ came clear that you don't have to defend it on medical grounds alone. "You can defend it on the grounds of (university) integrity." Bozik reported that Pitt's integri­ ty held up pretty well in the first year of drug testing. "Our experience last year was pleasantly surprising," Bozik said. "We did not find any steroid abuse at all and with other kinds of drugs, it was well below what I would have expected. It started out voluntary, because we didn't know what the legal interpretation would be, but now it's mandatory. "It's a team rule you have to take the test. If you fail, we don't take a scholarship away, but you won't practice." • - - A player with a positive test at a championship event or a bowl game will be ineligible. The motivation is twofold: To discourage the prospec­ tive drug user from embarrassing himself, his university and the Or­ ! There is no question in my mind it will pass. Ed Bozik Pitt Athletic Director JESSE JAMES IS BACK, in the "5th Annual Grant Northfield, Minnesota Bank Raid" t \ i ange Bowl Queen; and to encourage individual schools to implement their own policies and thus take a clean act on the road. The idea was first committed to print for the NCAA convention last January, and although it was deemed a good and necessary idea, it was deemed a shoddy piece of legislation. It was hurriedly shov­ eled together and contained a list of prohibited substances longer than an episode of "The Young and the Restless." Muffy using Midol at the women's fencing finals would have triggered banishment. But John Toner, the former NCAA president, was appointed to chair a committee that would give the legis­ lation legs. The new document will be put in the mitts of the nation's athletic directors in October. Dr. Dan Hanley, who was the drug-testing officer for the l#S. Olympic Committee, served on Ton­ er's committee and said Thursday he was satisfied with the revisions and proposed program. "The testing will be very effec­ tive," Hanley said from his home in Maine. "There will be no way around it. People are always taking things they think will hide the drugs they're taking, but masking drugs are a myth manufactured by people who think they can take drags and get away with it. We'll test for ste­ roids (the allegedly widespread muscle bulking agent), for stimu­ lants? and, for some cases, street drugs. We'll test for everything at bowl games." The Dallas Morning News this week ran an exhaustive article on the troubling notion that sports heroism is becoming an anachro­ nism, or even a contradiction is terms, in the face of rampant law­ yers, drags and money. Well, maybe. Certainly, with mandatory urinalysis, we are going to have a different opinion of a player of whom it is said, "What a specimen!" (Gene Collier is a sports colum­ nist for The Pittsburgh Press.) •GUNflOHTS •STAGECOACH RIDES •PONY RIDES •KIDS' GAMES •BANK- A re-creation of Jesse James' famous bungled bank heist featur­ ing 40 costumed actors, wild west stunts an horseback, and more... RAIN OR SHIN! 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