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Fonner Park closed its gates Saturday and Ak-Sar-Ben opens its 50th racing season today at 4
p.m. This is the first season Ak-Sar-Cen will hold Sunday racing and advance betting on
upcoming same-day races. Today's feature is the Ambassador's Stakes, which will be won by
Vital Contact. (The DN's double pick, for all of you who care to put your money where our
mouths are, is Patricia's G race (No. 2) to Pledge Pin (No. 5). Longshots are Royal Diana in the
first and Shortstop Sped 1 in the second. Remember, you read it here first.)
Seven consecutive strikes help
Warriors capture bowling title
By Richard Cooper
Staff Reporter
The Colonial Star Warriors rolled
seven consecutive strikes in the sixth
round of the finals ts win the All
University Bowling title and $200 at the
East Campus Union.
The Colonial Star Warriors, the com
bined No. 6 and 10 teams from the
Classic Big Eight League, which feeds
members to the university intercolle
giate team, got to the finals Monday
night by defeating the Basil Burns in
the quarter final match.
The final four consisted of two teams
from the Big Eight League, No. 4 and
the Star Warriors, Schramm Two, from
the City Monday Night League, and
Better Late Than Never from the East
Campus Night Owl League.
Before the finals, eight teams were
seeded into pairs. Four of them were
left after duel matches. One upset took
place in the quarters, when No. 4
scored an upset over the pre-meet
favorite Boomer Sooners.
In the first round of the finals, team
No. 4 got off to a quick start by jumping
into first place. But in the fifth round,
the Colonial Star Warriors made up a
22-pin deficit to cut No. 4's lead to two
pins. In the sixth round the Warriors
had seven consecutive strikes to finish
with 1,358, No. 4 second with 1,321,
Schramm Two was third, 1,300 and Bet
ter Late Than Never was fourth with
1,213.
Tom Masters of the Star Warriors,
and a second team member on the uni
versity team, finished the tournament
with a high score of 268 and a 488 series
(two games combined). Russ Leeper, of
No. 4 team and a first team university
member, finished with the second
highest score of 255. Rick Scott,
another member of the university team,
bowled a 249 in his quarterfinal match.
Ray Koziol, the operations manager
of East Union, said he was surprised
that the teams from the Big Eight
League did so well. .
"I thought the teams from the Big
Eight League bowled very well tonight,"
Koziol said. "It appears that club has
gotten a little bit better than it was last
year."
The members of the Colonial Star
Warriors are Jeff Etheridge, Craig Her
singer, Vinny Viespoli and Masters.
USFL needs to cooperate with NFL to survive
Now that it is three years old, I think
it would be fair to give the United
States Football League overdue evalua
tion. Three years ago, when the idea of
this spring league was just originated,
the idea was to slowly build until one
day it reached a competitive level with
the mighty National Football League.
Realizing, however, that the league
could hot be attractive without at least
one player of a "star" status. The New
Jersey Generals infuriated everyone in
the state of Georgia by signing Her
schel Walker to a multi-million dollar
contract when he still had a year of
college eligibility.
The signing of Waiker was supposed
to give the-league the credibility it so
badly needed, but the other owners of
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it as more of a threat. The Los Angeles
Express signed Steve Young, the Mem
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and the now-defunct Pittsburg Maulers
signed Nebraska's Mike Rozier.
These signings, along with countless
others by nearly every USFL franchise,
instantly violated the idea of building
the league slowly. Countless millions
were spent to get these players out of
the "star" status.
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Another area where the league has
gone back on its word is in its relation
ship with the NFL
When the USFL was just in its plan
ning stages, it was built up as an alter
native to the NFL No longer would the
hearty football fan have to go six
months without football. Immediately
after the Super Bowl the USFL opened
its spring training camps. The empha
sis throughout all of this was that the
league would in NO WAY compete with
the NFL.
The USFL's seemingly greedy owners,
however, immediately broke this prom
ise. The Boston Breakers (who later
become the New Orleans Breakers, only
to move to Portland this season) were
the first franchise to break this rule,
when they signed former Cincinnati
tight end Dan Ross to a multi-year,
multi-million-dollar contract while he
was still playing for the Bengals.
Not to be outdone, the New Jersey
Generals once again entered the pic
ture, as they signed former Nebraska
linebacker Willie Harper away from
San Francisco, safety Gary Barbaro
away from the Kansas City Chiefs and
defensive lineman Jim LeClair away
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Feeling threatened by these actions,
the remaining owners of the fledging
franchises signed some players them
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may seem, caused the NFL to take a
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The final area that the sinking league
has failed in, is in its appeal to ihY
public. When the league was still in its
"baby" days, it signed a $1 million con
tract with ABC. Now, after ABC officials
have watched their televison ratings
steadily drop week by week, a renewed
contract looks impossible.
The league did manage to get a con
tract with cable channel ESPN, but
this is a far cry from what it originally
had projected. To put it bluntly, the
USFL needs television exposure des
perately to gain some credibility, and it
simply isn't getting it.
More importantly, the league isn't
putting people in the stands. In Denver,
home of the famed Denver Gold, the
Denver Bears, a triple A baseball fran
chise, outdraw the Gold. Stories such
as this are common around the league.
Fewer than 20,000 people show up in
Los Angeles to see $40 million quarter
back Steve Young and the Express play
yet another one of their "Who cares?"
games.
Even with the franchises that do
draw well (Orlando, Jacksonville,
Tampa) it isn't enough to keep these
franchises afloat. There's only so many
millions of dollars these free spending
owners are going to be willing to lose.
The final area where I would like to .
evaluate the league is in the area of
overall play. In 1982, when the league
made its initial appearance, I honestly
thought it showed potential. Although
its level of play wasn't near that of the
NFL's, I thought (dreamingly) that it
would one day improve.
Now, however, I realize just how
wrong I was. I tried to watch several
USFL games and I get so sick of seeing
their "stars" doing so well when they
probably couldn't even make any team
in the NFL.
My point is, the only way the USFL is
going to survive is if it combines with
the NFL and starts to work with them.
The style of play is not near that of the
NFL, but maybe, just maybe, with the
pre-established league's help, it could
survive.
Otherwiseit will end up just like
the old World Football League: defunct.
