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NORTHWEST HERALD Sec t ion A Saturday , September 7 ,1*15 Page 13 Sports You want to talk scary, let's talk football Pardon me for beine a wimn hut n.i.1. >* »« «« .. . .. .. ... Pardon me for being a wimp, but football scares me. It's not the leather-encased, ob­ long rock that gets punted, passed and kicked that has thrown fear into me. It's just. . .football. Lemme 'splain. I played high school football. So what? A lot of others have and a lot more will. When I played, it was no big deal. I was a pretty dedicated player. It taught me discipline, and I figured it beat the heck out df running cross country. , In addition, I have been covering football games as' a reporter from the sidelines for six years (injury- free, mind you) and, up untH now, I* never realized how much football has changed. I am seven years removed from my last prep football game, and it's just now that I realize how intimi­ dated the game makes me feel. It's scary. Here's what actually made me go overboard on the wimp scale. I was reading a story recently about a Texas player who has had four arthroscopic knee operations -- Sam Natroii Herald sports editor three on the left and one on the right. His name is Edwin Simmons. Simmons is attempting to make his umpteenth comeback as a run­ ning back at, the University of Texas. . . To make a real long story short, and what put the fear of the Football Lord in me, is that Simmons has had four knee operations. He is 6-foot-4 and 235 pounds. And he runs a 40-yard dash in "better than 4.6,(seconds)," he says with a smile. For those of you unfazed by the 4.6-second stat, suffice it to say that Carl Lewis -- most likely the fastest human being on earth -- would run a 40-yard dash in 4.1 or 4.2 seconds. And suffice to also say that Lewis is not 6-foot-4, 235 pounds, and has not had four knee operations. Anyone out there who played foot­ ball in the 50s and 60s is probably sitting in his chair thinking, "Boy, football has changed a lot since I played it." Let me assure you, I've been out of high school less than a decade and it's changed plenty from when I wore the orange-and-blue of Apple- ton (Wis.) High School-West. Dudes who play professional and college football today aren't just big and mean. They're fast. Jeez they're fast. I think of all the football players in the world who I'd least like to meet in a dark alley. Think of it. Men who were 6-3 or bigger once were looked upon as the mutants of our society. They were taught to slouch, talk soft and ad­ vised to wear conservative clothing so as not to draw unneeded attention. Now, guys that big are wearing gold and silver and earrings and leather and chains and fancy hair­ dos and just abdut everything short of Madonna garb. It scares me that guys 1 once laughed at for the funny clothes they wore can run a 40 in 4.5 seconds. 1 can't drive my car that fast. 4 The athletes are getting bigger and faster and stronger than those in the previous generation. Guys like Ray Nitschke, Dick But- kus, David Deacon Jones -- we're talking about great, great football players. And to their credit, they played professional football when it was a game and not a showcase for prima donna athletes dancing all over and whining about how under­ paid they were. But the guys playing in the shad­ ows of Nitschke and Butkus -- guys like Lawrence Taylor, Mike Single- tary, and Randy White -- can do one Hernandez takes stand; big-name drug list grows By Thorn Cole UPI sports writer V PITTSBURGH - Keith Hernan­ dez of the Mets, who called cocaine the "devil on this earth," and Enos Cabell of the Dodgers testified in federal court Friday they shared the drug and its addicting highs with other major-leaguers during the ear­ ly 1960s. Hernandez and Cabell also named defendant Curtis Strong as one of their cocaine connections, but only Cabell was able to testify to buys from Strong in Pittsburgh, within the jurisdiction of prosecuting U.S. Attorney J. Alan Johnson. Strong, a 38-year-old Philadelphia caterer on trial for 16 counts alleg­ ing cocaine sales to players between May 1980 and June 1984, is one of seven men indicted earlier this sum­ mer after a 13 1/2-month investiga­ tion of drug trafficking in the Na­ tional League. Three men have pleaded guilty to various charges. Hernandez, a four-time All-Star and 1979 co-Most Valuable Player in the National League, said 1960 was baseball's "romance year" with co­ caine and that usage among players has since declined dramatically. "It was a demon," Hernandez said of cocaine. "I had an insatiable urge (for the drug). I got to the point when I wasn't using it at all, period. "In my opinion, it's the devil on this earth," he told a courtroom packed with about 100 people. Surveyr%hQw$ sports halts academic growth By United Press International NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- More than half the players on the nation's most competitive college basketball teams feel athletic demands prevent them from being top students, a new survey by two professors shows. The survey found 55 percent of males on NCAA Division I teams felt demands of coaches on their time and energy hindered studies. Overall, 41 percent of male and female athletes on top college teams felt under pressure to give priority to sports. The study was conducted by pro­ fessors Allen L. Sack of the Univer­ sity of New Haven and Robert TheiL* of Southern Connecticut State Uni­ versity, who called Thursday for re­ forms in college athletics. "Not only has college sport be­ come a commercial venture, but col­ lege athletes are increasingly being asked to fill roles that are virtually indistinguishable from those of bona fide professionals," the professors said in their 30-page report. Sack and Theil polled 644 male and female basketball players in all three NCAA divisions at 47 colleges and universities and 37 conferences around the country. Sack is chairman of the sociology department at UNH. Theil is a pro­ fessor of health sciences at SCSU. Their survey found marginal stu­ dents, who ranked lowest in their high school class or required special tutors in college, were most likely to respond to pressure with academic short-cuts such as "gut courses" and cheating. The professors excluded Division I teams at colleges that do not grant athletic scholarships, such as the Ivy League schools. The study called such institutions a model because programs are com­ mercial without sacrificing academics. Sack and Theil urged a return to four-year athletic scholarships, which in recent years have been placed on one-year renewable scholarships. 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They can run like the wind. Fast. Strong. Agile. Quick. Better- educated on the game. It's scary to think that extremely large humanoids blessed with ex­ traordinary, God-given talents can be assembled~«n4he same playing field with the instructions; Kill or be billed. It's scary to think that the same influence has trickled down to the college level and kids fresh out of high school are being exposed to what was once reserved for highly- trained, professional athletes That's what scaresj me about football. 1 Where will It end? -- It's scary. Real scary. for the Giants; with former 'hiladelphia Phillie Dick Davis, who now plays in Japan; and with Dave Parker of the Reds, who was with the Pirates at the time Cabell testified they shared the drug. Smith, now a member of the Kan­ sas City Royals who testified against Strong Wednesday, and Cabell both named Davis as the person who in­ troduced them to the defendant. 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