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(Grossman/Smith)
April 16, 1991
Draft One
DUKE
PRESIDENTIAL TALKING POINTS: DUKE CEREMONY
ROOSEVELT ROOM
MONDAY, APRIL 22, 1991
shi SHEF ski coach sunit
Welcome Coach Krzyzewski (sheh SHEH ski), players. It's
humbling to have so many great athletes in one room -- even if I
do have home court advantage. / I've invited you here, not only
to congratulate you on a great season, but to recognize that
while you may be the Blue Devils on the court, you're the
guardian angels to a lot of Tittle schoolchitdren out there.
Blue Devils Angels
Brian Davis, Christian Laetther -- I hear you've been
involved in North Carolina's Literacy Campaign. ((If my reviews
were as good as the Devils' I'd want people to read about them
too)) Bob /Hurley, Bill McCaffrey, Greg Koubek, Kenny Blakeney
(BLAKE nee) -- we're all grateful for the work you're doing to
keep at-risk teenagers in school. Because the child who's not
into learning today is going to be out of luck tomorrow.
0 S.C.C on lady
O
And you all know that preaching education to others means
nothing if we neglect it within ourselves. Crawford Palmer knows
Ribbiner
that -- Top Student Athlete for the last two years in a row. He
Howher How
may be making great passes on the court, but he's doing much more
than passing in the classroom. ((I won't ask what he does on his
dates)).
But buth tens
This-team hasn't had to look far for examples in excellence.
Just as you provide role models to schoolchildren, you've had a
great model in your coach. It's been said that a "good coach is
much more than a basketball instructor for
he assumes the role
of an educationalist carrying his influence far beyond basketball
itself." Well, Coach K has proven himself to be an educator in
more ways than one -- now if he could only teach me how to
pronounce his name. And as for coach Sn it
o
I've talked before about "doing the hard work of freedom."
That's what you do every time you help a child to learn. Because
when a kid turns his back on education, he's going to walk
through a life of closed doors.
O
Even though he's never been recognized for his basketball
game, Woody Allen said that "eighty percent of success is showing
up." Now, you and I know it takes a bit more than that -- but
when a kid drops out of school, he's copping out on his future.
And I'm sure you've all learned that you can't show up for games
without showing up for school.
o
Who knows -- the student you help today may be the Blue
5 lady Vols
Devil of tomorrow. But it's only by keeping kids in the schools
and off the streets that we can give them a chance to steal
passes instead of hubcaps / score points instead of drugs / and
break sports records instead of earning police records.
I've been told that your school's seal carries the words
"Knowledge and Religion." In true Duke spirit, you've proven you
have the kind of faith it takes to spread the light of learning.
Thank you all for coming. I know you'll make next season as
great as this one. And keep scoring those points for education -
- it means a winning game for America. Thank you very much.
Jennifer - also need to include Tenness EE .
(Grossman/Smith)
April 16, 1991
Draft One
DUKE
PRESIDENTIAL TALKING POINTS: DUKE CEREMONY
ROOSEVELT ROOM
MONDAY, APRIL 22, 1991
Welcome Coach Krzyzewski (sheh SHEH ski), players. It's
humbling to have so many great athletes in one room -- even if I
do have home court advantage. / I've invited you here, not only
to congratulate you on a great season, but to recognize that
while you may be the Blue Devils on the court, you're the
[schod kida?]
guardian angels to a lot of little schoolchildren out there.
Brian Davis, Christian Laetther -- I hear you've been
involved in North Carolina's Literacy Campaign. ((If my reviews
were as good as the Devils' I'd want people to read about them
too)) Bob Hurley, Bill McCaffrey, Greg Koubek, Kenny Blakeney
(BLAKE nee) -- we're all grateful for the work you're doing to
who barns
keep at-risk teenagers in school. Because the child who's not
will have a bright future
into learning today is going to be out of luck tomorrow.
O
And you all know that preaching education to others means
nothing if we neglect it within ourselves. Crawford Palmer knows
that -- Top Student Athlete for the last two years in a row. He
may be making great passes on the court, but he's doing much more
than passing in the classroom. ((I won't ask what he does on his
dates)
HA!
This team hasn't had to look far for examples in excellence.
Just as you provide role models to schoolchildren, you've had a
great model in your coach. It's been said that a "good coach is
much more than a basketball instructor for. he assumes the role
of an educationalist carrying his influence far beyond basketball
itself. " Well, Coach K has proven himself to be an educator in
more ways than one -- now if he could only teach me how to
pronounce his name.
I've talked before about "doing the hard work of freedom." "
That's what you do every time you help a child to learn. Because
when a kid turns his back on education, he's going to walk
through a life of closed doors.
Even though he's never been recognized for his basketball
game, Woody Allen said that "eighty percent of success is showing
cherk?
90%
up." Now, you and I know it takes a bit more than that -- but
when a kid drops out of school, he's copping out on his future.
And I'm sure you've all learned that you can't show up for games
without showing up for school.
o
Who knows -- the student you help today may be the Blue
Devil of tomorrow. But it's only by keeping kids in the schools
and off the streets that we can give them a chance to steal
passes instead of hubcaps / score points instead of drugs / and
break sports records instead of earning police records.
short loops instad of each other/
crach Books instend of smoke crosh/
get good grader instead of early graves!
Phi fate & matriculate &cogitate / Ingreat/
learn & earn insted of smoke & furn I am some body!
I've been told that your school's seal carries the words
"Knowledge and Religion." In true Duke spirit, you've proven you
have the kind of faith it takes to spread the light of learning.
Thank you all for coming. I know you' 11 make next season as
great as this one. And keep scoring those points for education -
- it means a winning game for America Thank you very much.
I've talked before about "doing the hard work of freedom."
That's what you do every time you help a child to learn. Because
when a kid turns his back on education, he's going to walk
through a life of closed doors.
They know & you knew that
Who knows the student you help today may be the Blue
Devil or the Lady Vol of tomorrow. But it's only by keeping kids
in the schools and off the streets that we can give them a chance
to steal passes instead of hubcaps / score points instead of
drugs / and break sports records instead of earning police
records.
o
Thank you all for coming. I know you'll make next season as
great as this one. And I know you'll continue to work to make
the next generation of students even better. Thank you very
much.
(Grossman/Smith)
April 16, 1991
Draft Two
DUKE
PRESIDENTIAL TALKING POINTS: DUKE CEREMONY
ROOSEVELT ROOM
MONDAY, APRIL 22, 1991
E
Welcome Coach Summit, Coach Krzyzewski (sheh SHEH ski),
players. It's humbling to have so many great athletes in one
room -- even if I do have home court advantage. / I've invited
you here, not only to congratulate you on a great season, but to
recognize two teams that know that the points they score for
education mean a winning game for this country.
You may be the Blue Devils on the court, you're the guardian
angels to a lot of little schoolkids out there. Brian Davis,
Christian Laettner -- I hear you've been involved in North
Carolina's Literacy Campaign. ((If my reviews were as good as the
Devils' I'd want people to read about them too)). Bob Hurley,
Bill McCaffrey, Greg Koubek, Kenny Blakeney (BLAKE nee) -- we're
all grateful for the work you're doing to keep at-risk teenagers
in school. Because the child who's not into learning today is
going to be out of luck tomorrow.
o
As for the women of Tennessee -- you've given a new meaning
to being a "Lady Volunteer" -- going to area schools, reading to
students. Take Daedra Charles for example. I hear your coach is
fond of saying, "Rebounding wins championships." Well, your
Night Train is a champion rebounder in more ways than one. This
one time proposition 48 came back to win the Wade Trophy -- the
highest honor that any Lady Vol has ever won. Her coaches once
gave her a chance, now Daedra spends her time improving the
chances of the kids of Tennessee.
o
And you all know that preaching education to others means
nothing if we neglect it within ourselves. Crawford Palmer knows
that -- Top Student Athlete for the last two years in a row. He
may be making great passes on the court, but he's doing much more
than passing in the classroom. ( (I won't ask what he does on his
dates)) And I hear that the day Tennessee's Debbie Hawhee got
back from the national championship only to find out she'd be
initiated into Phi Beta Kappa. She's decided to become a college
professor -- I only hope she won't be as hard on her students as
she is on her opponentes.
o
But both teams haven't had to look far for examples in
excellence. Just as you provide role models to schoolchildren,
you've had a great models in your coaches. It's been said that a
"good coach is much more than a basketball instructor he
assumes the role of an educationalist carrying his influence far
beyond basketball itself." Well, Coach K has proven himself to
be an educator in more ways than one -- now if he could only
teach me how to pronounce his name. Pat Summit was a masters
degree student when she began coaching -- and when she's not
teaching her women how to guard, her care helps to guard that
100% graduation rate.
(Grossman/Smith)
April 16, 1991
Draft Two
DUKE
PRESIDENTIAL TALKING POINTS: DUKE CEREMONY
ROOSEVELT ROOM
MONDAY, APRIL 22, 1991
Welcome Coach Summit, Coach Krzyzewski (sheh SHEH ski),
players. It's humbling to have so many great athletes in one
room -- even if I do have home court advantage. / I've invited
you here, not only to congratulate you on a great season, but to
recognize two teams that know that the points they score for
education mean a winning game for this country.
o
You may be the Blue Devils on the court, you're the guardian
angels to a lot of little schoolkids out there. Brian Davis,
Christian Laettner -- I hear you've been involved in North
Carolina's Literacy Campaign. ((If my reviews were as good as the
Devils' I'd want people to read about them too)) Bob Hurley,
Bill McCaffrey, Greg Koubek, Kenny Blakeney (BLAKE nee) -- we're
all grateful for the work you're doing to keep at-risk teenagers
in school. Because the child who's not into learning today is
going to be out of luck tomorrow.
As for the women of Tennessee -- you've given a new meaning
to being a "Lady Volunteer" -- going to area schools, reading to
students. Take Daedra Charles for example. I hear your coach is
fond of saying, "Rebounding wins championships." Well, your
Night Train is a champion rebounder in more ways than one. This
one time proposition 48 came back to win the Wade Trophy -- the
highest honor that any Lady Vol has ever won. Her coaches once
gave her a chance, now Daedra spends her time improving the
chances of the kids of Tennessee.
And you all know that preaching education to others means
nothing if we neglect it within ourselves. Crawford Palmer knows
that -- Top Student Athlete for the last two years in a row. He
may be making great passes on the court, but he's doing much more
than passing in the classroom. ((I won't ask what he does on his
dates)) And I hear that the day Tennessee's Debbie Hawhee got
back from the national championship only to find out she'd be
initiated into Phi Beta Kappa. She's decided to become a college
professor -- I only hope she won't be as hard on her students as
she is on her opponentes.
O
But both teams haven't had to look far for examples in
excellence. Just as you provide role models to schoolchildren,
you've had a great models in your coaches. It's been said that a
"good coach is much more than a basketball instructor
he
assumes the role of an educationalist carrying his influence far
beyond basketball itself." Well, Coach K has proven himself to
be an educator in more ways than one -- now if he could only
teach me how to pronounce his name. Pat Summit was a masters
degree student when she began coaching -- and when she's not
teaching her women how to guard, her care helps to guard that
100% graduation rate.
I've talked before about "doing the hard work of freedom."
That's what you do every time you help a child to learn. Because
when a kid turns his back on education, he's going to walk
through a life of closed doors.
O
Who knows -- the student you help today may be the Blue
Devil or the Lady Vol of tomorrow. But it's only by keeping kids
in the schools and off the streets that we can give them a chance
to steal passes instead of hubcaps / score points instead of
drugs / and break sports records instead of earning police
records.
o
Thank you all for coming. I know you'll make next season as
great as this one. And I know you'll continue to work to make
the next generation of students even better. Thank you very
much.
one time proposition 48 came back to win the Wade Trophy -- the
Stei
highest honor that any Lady Vol has ever won. Her coaches once
gave her a chance now Daedra spends her time improving the
chances of the kids of Tennessee.
; now, Daedra
And you all know that preaching education to others means
nothing if we neglect it within ourselves. Crawford Palmer knows
that -- Top Student Athlete for the last two years in a row. He
may be making great passes on the court, but he's doing much more
than passing in the classroom. ( (I won't ask what he does on his
dates) ) // And I hear that the day Tennessee's Debbie Hawhee got
back from the national championship only to find out she'd be
initiated into Phi Beta Kappa. She's decided to become a college
professor -- I only hope she won't be as hard on her students as
she is on her opponentes.
But both teams haven't had to look far for examples in
excellence. Just as you provide role models to schoolchildren,
you've had a great models in your coaches. It's been said that a
"good coach is much more than a basketball instructor
he
assumes the role of an educationalist carrying his influence far
beyond basketball itself. " Well, Coach K has proven himself to
be an educator in more ways than one -- now if he could only
teach me how to pronounce his name. // Pat Summit was a masters
degree student when she began coaching -- and when she's not
teaching her women how to guard, her care helps to guard that
100% graduation rate.
percent
I've talked before about "doing the hard work of freedom. "
That's what you do every time you help a child to learn. Because
when a kid turns his back on education, he's going to walk
through a life of closed doors.
o
Who knows -- the student you help today may be the Blue
Devil or the Lady Vol of tomorrow. But it's only by keeping kids
in the schools and off the streets that we can give them a chance
to steal passes instead of hubcaps / score points instead of
drugs / and break sports records instead of earning police
records.
O
Thank you all for coming. I know you'll make next season as
great as this one. And I know you'll continue to work to make
the next generation of students even better. Thank you very
much.
(Grossman / Smith)
April 16, 1991 Thee
Draft Two
DUKE
PRESIDENTIAL TALKING POINTS: DUKE CEREMONY
ROOSEVELT ROOM
MONDAY, APRIL 22, 1991
Welcome Coach Summit, Coach Krzyzewski (sheh SHEH ski),
players. It's humbling to have so many great athletes in one
room -- even if I do have home court advantage. / I've invited
you here, not only to congratulate you on a great season, but to
recognize two teams that know that the points they score for
education mean a winning game for countr Averia
first Turning First to Duke,
but
O
You may be the Blue Devils on the court, you're the guardian
angels to a lot of little schoolkids out there. Brian Davis,
Christian Laettner -- I hear you've been involved in North
Carolina's Literacy Campaign. ((If my reviews were as good as the
Devils' I'd want people to read about them too) ) // Bob Hurley,
Bill McCaffrey, Greg Koubek, Kenny Blakeney (BLAKE nee) -- we're
all grateful for the work you're doing to keep at-risk teenagers
in school. Because the child who's not into learning today is
X
going to be out of luck tomorrow.
/
O
As for the women of Tennessee -- you've given a new meaning
to being a "Lady Volunteer" -- going to area schools, reading to
X
students. Take Daedra Charles, for example. I hear your coach is
fond of saying, "Rebounding wins championships." Well, your
Night Train is a champion rebounder in more ways than one. This
(Grossman/Smith)
April 17, 1991
Draft Three
DUKE
PRESIDENTIAL TALKING POINTS: DUKE CEREMONY
ROOSEVELT ROOM
MONDAY, APRIL 22, 1991
Welcome Coach Summit, Coach Krzyzewski (shi SHEF ski),
players. It's humbling to have so many great athletes in one
room -- even if I do have home court advantage. / I've invited
you here, not only to congratulate you on a great season, but to
recognize two teams that know that the points they score for
education mean a winning game for America.
Turning first to Duke -- you may be the Blue Devils on the
court, but you're the guardian angels to a lot of little
schoolkids out there. Brian Davis, Christian Laettner -- I hear
you've been involved in North Carolina's Literacy Campaign. ((If
my reviews were as good as the Devils' I'd want people to read
about them too)). // Bob Hurley, Bill McCaffrey, Greg Koubek,
Kenny Blakeney (BLAKE nee) -- we're all grateful for the work
you're doing to keep at-risk teenagers in school. Because the
child who's not into learning today is going to be out of luck
tomorrow. /
As for the women of Tennessee -- you've given a new meaning
to being a "Lady Volunteer" -- going to area schools, reading to
students. Take Daedra Charles, for example. I hear your coach
is fond of saying, "Rebounding wins championships." Well, your
Night Train is a champion rebounder in more ways than one. A one-
time proposition 48 came back to win the Wade Trophy -- the
highest honor that any Lady Vol has ever won. Her coaches once
gave her a chance; now, Daedra spends her time improving the
chances of the kids of Tennessee.
O
And you all know that preaching education to others means
nothing if we neglect it within ourselves. Crawford Palmer knows
that -- Top Student Athlete for the last two years in a row. He
may be making great passes on the court, but he's doing much more
than passing in the classroom. ( (I won't ask what he does on his
dates) ) . // And I hear Tennessee's Debbie Hawhee got back from
the national championship only to find out she'd be initiated
into Phi Beta Kappa. She's decided to become a college professor
-- I only hope she won't be as hard on her students as she is on
her opponents. //
O
Both teams haven't had to look far for examples in
excellence. Just as you provide role models to schoolchildren,
you've had a great models in your coaches. It's been said that a
"good coach is much more than a basketball instructor
he
assumes the role of an educationalist carrying his influence far
beyond basketball itself. " / Coach K has proven himself to be
an educator in more ways than one -- now if he could only teach
me how to pronounce his name. // Pat Summit was a masters degree
student when she began coaching -- and when she's not teaching
her women how to guard, her care helps to guard that 100 percent
graduation rate. //
O
I've talked before about "doing the hard work of freedom."
That's what you do every time you help a child to learn. Because
when a kid turns his back on education, he's going to walk
through a life of closed doors.
O
Who knows -- the student you help today may be the Blue
Devil or the Lady Vol of tomorrow. But it's only by keeping kids
in the schools and off the streets that we can give them a chance
to steal passes instead of hubcaps / score points instead of
drugs / and break sports records instead of earning police
records.
o
Thank you all for coming. I know you'll make next season as
great as this one. And I know you'll continue to work to make
the next generation of students even better. Thank you very
much.
NOTES
small
Welcome Coach Krzyzewski (sheh SHEH ski), players. It's
humbling to have so many great athletes in one room -- even if I
do have home court advantage. 1 I've invited you here, not only to
congratulate you on a great season, but to recognize that while
you may be the Blue Devils on the court, you're the guardian
angels to a lot of little schoolchildren out there.
Brian Davis, Christian Laetther -- I hear you've been
involved in North Carolina's Literacy Campaign. ((If my reviews
were as good as the Devils' I'd want people to read about them
too). Bob Hurley, Bill McCaffrey, Greg Koubek, Kenny Blakeney
(BLAKE nee) -- we're all grateful for the work you're doing to
keep at-risk teenagers in school. Because in the child who's not
into learning today is going to be out of luck tomorrow.
And you all know that preaching education to others means
nothing if we neglect it within ourselves. Crawford Palmer knows
the last
that -- Top Student Athlete for two years in a row now. He may
be making great passes on the court, but he's doing much more
than passing in the classroom, (I won't ask what he does on his
dates)).
This team hasn't had to look far for examples in excellence.
Just as you provide role models to schoolchildren, you've had a
great model in your coach. It's been said that a "good coach is
much more than a basketball instructor for
he assumes the role
of an educationalist carrying his influence far beyond basketball
itself." Well, Coach Kr zyzewski (sheh SHEH ski) has proven
himself to be an educator in more ways than one -- now if he
could only teach me how to pronounce his name.
I've talked before about "doing the hard work of freedom."
That's what you do every time you help a child to learn. Because
when a kid turns his back on education, he's going to walk
through a life of closed doors.
Woody Allen says
It's been said that eighty percent of success is showing up.
Now, you and I know it takes a bit more than that -- but when a
kid drops out of school, he's copping out on his future. And I'm
sure you've all learned that you can't show up for games without
showing up for school L Who knows, the student you help today may
be the Blue Devil of tomorrow. But it's only by keeping kids in
the schools and off the streets that we can give them a chance to
steal passes instead of hubcaps / score points instead of drugs
and break sports records instead of earning police records.
L. Thank you for lelping kids, and for coming
to us while your
X I've been told that Duke's seal carries the words "Knowledge and
Religion.' (segue) Thank you all for coming. I know you'll make
next season as great as this one. And keep scoring those points
for education -- it means a winning game for America. Thank you
very much.
X
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risky, this business of seeing the beach.
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their coac
toward some placid horizon, and you
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a row. You don't do what Duke did Mon-
an ordinar
day night in Indianapolis-beat Kansas
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for his gyn
first ever in nine trips to the Final Four.
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The danger of seeing the beach is all
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LAETTNER
the more acute at a school like Duke,
won on ]
where Krzyzewski conscripts valedictori-
Laettner 1
ans and amateur musicians into his cause
on free th
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line for th
a basket or a rebound," he says. "So they
his tourna
MADDOX
can rationalize when there's a roadblock,
win the m
when maybe they should stay on the same
Hill they
avenue a little bit longer. For instance,
and an as
32
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[freshmen] Grant Hill and Tony Lang
dunk two
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don't want to get in the way. Sometimes it
the tone
takes a little prodding, we have to tell
and Billy
Grant, 'When you dunk, you're not in the
and six f
way.' And Christian Laettner, Bobby
while Ka
Hurley and Brian Davis-we have to tell
two No. 1
them, 'Go ahead! You can be good. We
final-m
don't mind.'
shot after
One rationalization had thrown itself
and Duk
up as a roadblock year after year. It wasn't
Roy Will
on the road to the Final Four, for the Blue
assistant,
Devils had reached four of the previous
game. "(
five Final Fours. The problem cropped up
sassy abo
once they got to Dallas or Kansas City or
the Jayh
Seattle or Denver. They simply couldn't
horror."
win twice.
The no
Yet this season Krzyzewski could see
had susp
the road clearing. He discovered that al-
day's ser
though this Duke team was young, a
long the
young team can be more teachable. And if
rooms an
it was a skinnier and smaller team than
same. If
others he had coached, he found that a
gas-anc
runtier one didn't drag as much when fa-
that this
tigue set in-it didn't get "cumbersome,"
happen?
which is how Krzyzewski described the
guard G
team that reached last season's title game
into fou
only to lose to UNLV by 30 points.
would h:
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end, to
want to see something besides basket-
UNLV d
S
ball," Krzyzewski said on the eve of the
fresh def
championship game. "I don't feel that
star Lar
con
way about this team. I want to keep
And an
until it (
Laettner's efforts inspired his teammates and
environs
earned him Final Four MVP honors as well.
game. O:
coaching it. I don't want it to end."
Thus Krzyzewski's task-to ensure that
the end didn't come too soon-became
easier. For an instant after its 79-77 semi-
final defeat of previously unbeaten
UNLV on Saturday, Duke lost all compo-
sure. Hurley confessed that he "acted like
a fool," leaping on the back of a team-
mate. Moments later the Devils received
their coach's counsel. "An ordinary team
would be satisfied beating UNLV," Krzy-
zewski told them in the locker room, "but
an ordinary team won't win on Monday."
Suddenly Hurley had an explanation
for his gymnastics: "I was tired. I'd played
DAVIS
40 minutes. I needed a piggyback ride."
So it was that an extraordinary team
won on Monday. From a visibly tired
12
Laettner the Blue Devils got 18 points, 12
on free throws. He was 21 of 23 from the
line for the weekend (and 112 for 132 in
his tournament career), which helped him
win the most valuable player award. From
Hill they got eight defensive rebounds
and an astonishing one-handed, alley-oop
dunk two minutes into the game that set
the tone for the evening. From Hurley
and Billy McCaffrey they got nine assists
and six field goals, respectively. Mean-
while Kansas, so magnificent in beating
two No. 1 seeds and a No. 2 to reach the
final-mock chalk, Jayhawk!-missed
shot after close-in shot. With 8:30 to play
and Duke leading by 12, Kansas coach
Roy Williams, the former North Carolina
assistant, sent five substitutes into the
game. "Oh, no!" yelled Duke fans, still
sassy about the Tar Heels' elimination by
Coach K made sure his youthful charges didn't
they stayed close on Semis Saturday.
the Jayhawks two days before, feigning
"see the beach" before their work was done.
Against Vegas, Duke would only slight-
horror. "Not the Blue Team!"
ly alter its pressure man-to-man defense:
The notoriously cocky Duke partisans
In the case of Duke, several additional
Center Laettner would slough off his
had suspended such comments for Satur-
elements were required. Hurley, the point
UNLV counterpart, George Ackles, to
day's semifinal with UNLV. All winter
guard, had the flu against Vegas a year
help out whoever was checking Johnson
long the fanciful topic in basketball press
ago, and his quickest move came on a
inside. Ackles might wind up beating
rooms and coaching salons remained the
sprint to the john. He had to come up big.
Duke with medium-range jumpers, but
same. If any team were to beat Las Ve-
Hill, a forward, erratic of late, had to get
the Blue Devils would take that chance.
gas-and there was considerable doubt
off quickly. And Duke had to banish all
Krzyzewski also appealed to his players
that this was even possible-how might it
recollection of the biggest rout in the his-
to summon forth some of the substance
happen? Well, Runnin' Rebel point
tory of the NCAA championship game.
that sustained his own playing career un-
guard Greg Anthony would have to get
Early in the week, Krzyzewski and his
der Bob Knight at West Point-testoster-
into foul trouble. Vegas's opponent
players watched a tape of last year's fi-
one. Midway through the second half,
would have to use the entire offensive
nal-but only the first six minutes-to il-
Hurley got a bead on Anderson Hunt, the
end, to "swing" the ball to stretch the
lustrate to themselves the difference be-
man who had been MVP of the 1990 Final
UNLV defense at its edges. A parade of
tween playing with emotion (UNLV) and
Four at Hurley's expense, and hammered
fresh defenders would have to keep Rebel
without it (Duke). Krzyzewski also asked
him on a breakaway. "Last year, Hunt
star Larry Johnson sealed in the post.
his team to visualize the final minutes of a
dunks that," Duke assistant Mike Brey
And an opponent would have to hang in
close game. "Game pressure," Krzy-,
said. "Then he swings on the rim a little
until it could take UNLV into the alien
zewski called the circumstances his Blue
bit, and they come back downcourt smil-
environs of the final minute of a close
Devils, who had played a far tougher
ing. But we fought them the whole way.
game. Only then would there be a chance.
schedule than the Rebels, could expect if
We matched their aggressiveness."
COVER PHOTOGRAPH BY JOHN W. McDONOUGH
When 'The Best'
Went Bust
AT THE FINAL CURTAIN THE FORMER
champions strode into history the same
way they had tromped over the basket-
ball planet for the better part of two sea-
sons: proud, unlamenting, the hint of a
sneer on their collective face. Were they
one of the best teams of all time? Or
simply a sham bully whose reputation
and 45-game winning streak fed off the
slim pickings of some conference called
the Big West?
How much of UNLV was glitz? How
much heart? To the very end-which
turned out to be Anderson Hunt's pan-
icky 23-foot rainbow prayer shot that
plunked harmlessly off its target, giving
Duke a 79-77 victory over Nevada-Las
Vegas in their semifinal game-never
has a team mirrored the soul of its bi-
zarre city more than these Rebels.
"Clear the aisle! Clear the aisle!" a
security guy shouted as the UNLV play-
ers approached the floor at the Hoosier
Dome to face the Blue Devils. "Comin"
through!" It turned out to be a peculiar
choice of words given that the one thing
these masters of intimidation would ul-
timately not do was come through.
"Everyone says how powerful
[Duke's] league [the ACC] is. We take
that as an insult," wrote UNLV guard
Greg Anthony on March 26 in the diary
he kept for The New York Times.
"First two minutes, dunk by Augmon
dunk by Johnson
Ackles over-
the-back dunk
Anthony for three
Anderson Hunt for- three. That's it.
Duke no score," forward Stacey Aug-
mon said on television on Saturday.
And so the defending champions sa-
shayed down the aisle to another execu-
tion. Single file, staring straight ahead,
with zombielike focus, not speaking.
Damn! What happened? And what
happens now to coach Jerry Tarkanian
JOHN W. MCDONOUGH
and his Runnin' (on Empty) Rebels? In
One year later, Hurley hammered the Devils'
new message home to the Rebels' Hunt.
24
THE FINAL FOUR
In this machofest there would also be
charges for the Blue Devils to take-as
the face of an ongoing NCAA investiga-
many as 20 at the defensive end alone, the
tion into the recruitment of non-high
Duke staff figured. Forward Brian Davis
school graduate Lloyd Daniels and the
took the riskiest charge of all, with 3:51 to
plea-bargained sanctions preventing
JOHN MCDONOUGH
play and UNLV leading 74-71, when a
UNLV from playing both on live televi-
driving Anthony muscled in a layup as
sion and in the tournament next season,
bodies scattered. "If Greg gets the basket
Tarkanian swears he will not bolt to the
instead of the foul, experience makes no
NBA or to Il Messaggero in Rome for a
difference," Rebel coach Jerry Tarkanian
reported million dollars. Then again, he
Whither the Shark: the NBA, Rome or.
?
would say. "How many tight games we
may not have a choice. If the NCAA
played makes no difference."
finds that Tark cheated again, UNLV
ed to Duke's fronting defense of Larry
As it happened, the basket was waved
president Robert Maxson will undoubt-
Johnson. He never switched the best de-
off as Anthony was called for charging
edly fire him. At the same time, if Hunt
fensive player in the land, Augmon,
and banished with his fifth personal. Hunt
returns-a hot rumor in Indy had the
onto Duke's dominating Christian
suddenly had to bring the ball upcourt in-
Rebel guard, the only one of this year's
Laettner. He never ordered a press. At
stead of spotting up to let it fly. "When
stars who will still be eligible in 1991-92,
the end, Tarkanian never set up a play
your leader goes out down the stretch, it's
transferring to Michigan-the UNLV
for the tying/winning basket, so that
like your head is gone," said Hunt.
cupboard will not be entirely bare, and
Johnson, the player of the year, took a
Meanwhile Laettner's mobility and ball
Tarkanian has vowed to file a personal
powder on the shot of the year, passing
handling skills had enabled Duke to pull
harassment suit against the NCAA.
instead to Hunt for the final failed shot.
Johnson away from the basket and open
It's not as if the Shark lacks for sup-
It was Tark pal Mike Toney, a casino
up the middle of the Vegas defense. Duke
port, either. His cheering section for his
host at the Sands Hotel, who gave this
made so-called flashing moves, sallies and
encounter with Ted Koppel on Nightline
Vegas team its motto, a mob phrase
cuts into the newfound fissures in the
last Thursday night was bolstered by ce-
from numbers running that neatly de-
Rebels' D. With a couple of minutes to
lebs ranging from Georgetown coach
scribed UNLV's attitude. The thrill
play, Brey turned to Tommy Amaker, an-
John Thompson to ESPN pitchman
ain't in the winnin'," the players liked to
other Duke assistant. "It would be a
Dick Vitale. If Koppel didn't lay a glove
say. "It's in the collectin' [of debts].'
shame if we lost this game," he said, "be-
on Tarkanian-which was the verdict of
Alas, the Rebels turned into nothing
cause everything is falling into place."
Thompson, Vitale and a host of other
more than the neighborhood tough who
The last things to fall came with slightly
sycophants who greeted the UNLV
whimpers when finally challenged
more than 12 seconds remaining: two free
coach as if he had just dunked on Sad-
With the final 12 seconds still to go
throws from Laettner, his 27th and 28th
dam Hussein-it was Tarkanian's one
last Saturday night, right after Duke had
points. They gave the Blue Devils their fi-
shining moment of the week.
taken its winning lead, a wise old man
nal 79-77 lead. Moments later Hunt was
Shuffling down the hall after his
rose from his seat and hobbled out of
jacking up a hurried 23-footer as Laettner
team's loss to the Blue Devils, those
the Hoosier Dome. "Let's wait and see
and Hurley hurtled toward him. "A stupid
bags under his eyes nearly touching his
about UNLV," former UCLA coach
shot," Hunt called his effort, which
knees, Tarkanian spread the blame.
John Wooden had said more than once
glanced benignly off the glass.
"We let the slip away from us,"
during the season. "A lot of teams have
Tarkanian thought that Johnson
he mumbled. Augmon,
won one [NCAA title] in a row."
should have shot from the right wing mo-
nothin'! I don't know if that
The Wizard must have known. Some-
ments earlier, before passing to Hunt.
Ackles knew where he was!"
body else was about to do the winnin'
"I'll never know why Larry didn't take
But did Tark know? He never adjust-
and collectin'. -CURRY KIRKPATRICK
that shot," he said. Faced with their only
desperate moment in 35 games, the Reb-
JOHN MCDONOUGH
els did what Krzyzewski had told his play-
ers they would do. They let game pressure
get to them.
UNLV is normally one of the most
open of programs, but even the casino
host in Tarkanian hibernated on the eve
of the Final Four. Perhaps he sensed
something in the wind. On Wednesday
night, 63-mph headwinds slowed Vegas's
charter to Indianapolis, forcing it into a
refueling stop-in Kansas City, right next
door to the Rebels' good friends at the
NCAA. Tarkanian, who had dozed off,
awoke with a start. Had NCAA executive
director Dick Schultz's private jet flown
25
THE FINAL FOUR
an intercept mission? "I thought, Oh,
god, what did we do now?" he said.
The Rebels slipped in and out of side
entrances of their hotel, forswore all
autograph requests and had security
guards stationed on their floor.
While normally loosey-goosey UNLV
withdrew into a tight knot, Duke spent
the first five minutes of its Friday practice,
which was open to the public, staging a
slam-dunk contest. Krzyzewski lamented
that his team had been quartered out by
the airport, rather than downtown where
the Blue Devils could be among their
fans. And he played possum, talking up
UNLV at every turn: "The more tape you
watch of 'em, the more scared you get of
'em." And: "The last time we played Ve-
HOWEN
gas, they beat us by 30. The last time we
played North Carolina, they beat us by 22.
And I just found out that Roy [Williams]
runs the same system as [Tar Heels coach]
Dean [Smith]. So what the hell are we do-
ing here?"
Kansas earned its place in the final in a
game disfigured by more than 150 substi-
tutions and the ugliness that prevails
when the defenses know exactly what the
offenses are trying to do. This was be-
cause Williams had apprenticed under
Smith for 10 years. To counteract the Tar
Heels' familiarity with the Kansas attack,
late in the first half Williams's players de-
cided to go out and improvise, and the
Jayhawks came up with more, and better,
shots than did North Carolina, the team
from which they supposedly had been
cloned. "It came down to the free-lance
game, and we did it better," said Kansas
forward Alonzo Jamison.
Faced with having to watch a full min-
ute and a half of guys in the wrong shade
of blue using his venerable four-corners
delay offense to ice a 79-73 victory, Smith
was put out of his misery with 35 seconds
to play and the Jayhawks ahead by five.
Referee Pete Pavia slapped Smith with
his second technical foul of the game,
which is grounds for automatic ejection.
Pavia is in the midst of a heroic fight with
cancer, and he can be presumed to know
what in life is and is not worth getting
steamed up about. But his thumb has also
proved to be a quick one. He ran George-
town's John Thompson from a game in
Syracuse last season, Gonnecticut's Jim
Calhoun from a Big East tournament
game in March and Oklahoma's Billy
Tubbs from last week's NIT final. Injudi-
cious bellyaching earned Smith his first T,
KAΓ
26
late in the first half, as Kansas built the
was great that they killed us. It gave me a
lead it would protect the rest of the way;
clear course of action."
the second was for leaving the coaches'
Krzyzewski discovered that this group
box while deciding whom to send in for
took to coaching. "They gave me more
Rick Fox, who had fouled out. "I was ask-
than I gave them," he said. "I could make
ing how much time was left for me to
adjustments, and they'd really listen."
make my substitution," said Smith. "He
None reacted better than Hurley. Last
answered my question with a technical."
season the Duke staff found his gestures
As Smith took his leave, he stopped to
and facial expressions so petulant that
congratulate Williams. Then he made his
they produced a videotape to shock him
way along the length of the Kansas bench,
into reforming himself. With the help of
greeting each opposing player as he went,
Laettner, who constantly reminded Hur-
like some uncle at a family reunion. In the
ley of how important a point guard's com-
tunnel the minicams caught up with him,
posure is to the stability of the entire
and here Smith must have realized he was
team, it worked. Superb throughout the
infringing on Williams's moment. He
tournament, Hurley was never more
grinned, did his best paparazzi ward-off
poised than for an instant midway
gesture and strode away. Security guards
through the second half Monday when
had to restrain Bill Guthridge, Smith's
Kansas suddenly threw its 1-3-1 trap at
longtime adjutant and Williams's jogging
him. Within seconds he had lofted the
partner all week, from going after Pavia
most precise of lob passes, just off the rim,
when the buzzer sounded. But woeful
where Davis made emphatic work of it.
shooting had more to do with the Tar
"Last year at this time I wasn't crying,"
Heels' fate than anything any referee did.
Hurley would say after Duke's triumph
"It was like losing to a friend," said Fox,
Monday. "I was just empty inside. I
the Tar Heel forward whose 5-for-22 per-
couldn't even cry because I had no emo-
formance was an advertisement for the
tion. To tell you the truth, I feel more like
quality of the Kansas defense.
crying this year."
Outsiders have subjected Krzyzewski
"He did what college kids are supposed
to the same easy presumptions as they
to do," Krzyzewski said. "He learned
have Williams. Call it the protégé's curse.
from failure."
"My only pet peeve is when people ask,
Krzyzewski's wife, Mickie, calls the
'Did you call [Knight] to find out what
family beach house in Pine Knoll Shores,
you're going to do?' Krzyzewski says.
N.C., the Season's End. "It's the light we
"C'mon, man."
see in March," she says. "We've always
That Krzyzewski would say "C'mon,
gone there the day after losing in the tour-
man" should be enough of an indication
nament. I'm afraid I don't know what we
that Knight he's not. Certainly Knight
do after we win."
would never share with the public so
As Monday night turned into Tuesday
much vulnerability. The Krzyzewski who
morning, and Krzyzewski walked arm in
began this season was, by his own admis-
arm with his family down a Hoosier
sion, a mess-scarred by last spring's title
Dome hallway, the answer was not yet
game and frazzled by a summer of coach-
clear. Eldest daughters Debbie and Lindy
ing a U.S. national team to a silver medal
were on his right; on his left strode Mickie
at the Goodwill Games and a bronze at
and their youngest, nine-year-old Ja-
the world championships. He knew his
mie-whom the players call Mo Minutes,
off-season, duties would exhaust him and
because they think they get more playing
feared they would adversely affect his
time if they let her sit on their laps on the
Duke team. Thus he left more recruiting
team bus. Together, Family K cut a wide
and public-speaking responsibilities to his
and happy swath, as if plying some yellow
assistants and trusted his players to meet
brick road from Kansas to
to
where?
him halfway.
A tough call. Do you choose-one-more
The Blue Devils' first big test came in
game in this season you wish would go on
early January, after they had lost their
forever and spend it with your boys? Or
MANNY
ACC opener at Virginia by 17 points.
do you repair to the Season's End, with
"We played like it was our birthright to
your girls?
win," said Krzyzewski. "I hate that. So it
"Did you see their faces?" Krzyzewski
asked. He was talking about his boys.
Aggressiveness by Laettner and Duke stymied
"They were so happy. Gee, I'd like to do
Augmon's and UNLV's hopes of repeating.
this again. When will we do it again?"
27
18 Dictionary of Sports Quotations
Dictionary of Sports Quotations 19
BASKETBALL
8 Three things are vital to success in basketball - condition,
fundamentals, and working together as a team. I said that when
I played, I said that when I first started coaching, I said that
last year, and I will keep on saying it next year, the year after,
This
1 I'd rather play a pinball machine than watch a basketball game
and for the rest of my life.
N
today. You can score the same number of points.
John Wooden
Chick Davies
They Call Me Coach, 1972, p. 123.
comi
'Scorecard', Sports Illustrated, Mar. 23, 1964, p. 12.
g
W
2 Basketball
is staying in after school in your underwear.
illus
(Gabriel), in Drive He Said (Col. 1970).
issue
Quoted by Ronald Bergan.
tl
Sports in the Movies, 1982, p. 144.
BILLIARDS/
S
rang
3 It is an axiom that good players without a good coach make a
SNOOKER/POOL
mediocre team.
aca
Alexander Gomelsky
dia
Sport in the USSR, Dec., 1981, p. 14.
1
1 The Billiard table is the paradise of the ball.
a
4 Quick guys get tired. Big guys don't shrink.
A. E. Crawley
bala
Marv Harshman
The Book of the Ball, 1913, p. 201.
an
(On selecting Basketball players)
t
'Scorecard', Sports Illustrated, Jan. 30, 1984.
2 Dressing a pool player in a tuxedo is like putting whipped
pers
cream on a hot dog.
Minnesota Fats
As W
5 The good coach is much more than a basketball instructor
tl
"Scorecard', Sports Illustrated, Apr. 4, 1966, p. 24.
for consciously or subconsciously he assumes the role of an
con
educationalist carrying his influence far beyond basketball itself.
B. Jagger
3
a billiard player of average ability can always turn his hand
pur
to playing quite a good game of snooker, whereas a fair snooker
c
Basketball: Coaching and Playing, p. 11.
player rarely can turn his hand to playing a good game of
nat
billiards.
ai
6 Basketball has so much showboating you'd think it was invented
Jack Karnehm
by Jerome Kern.
Billiards and Snooker, 1973, p. 117.
Art Spender
'Coaches Corner', Scholastic Coach, Dec., 1983, p. 60.
4 If snooker hadn't existed TV would surely have had to invent
it.
7 To achieve a minimally acceptable level of success, a college
Geoffrey Nicholson
coach must be either a very good coach or a very good recruiter.
The Observer, Apr. 22, 1984.
To experience great success, he must be both a good coach and
a good recruiter.
5 Up, all of us, and to Billiards -
Dr W. F. Stier Jr
Samuel Pepys
Scholastic Coach, May/Jun., 1983.
The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Jul. 17, 1665.
172 Dictionary of Sports Quotations
Dictionary of Sports Quotations
173
13 Everything about being a professional sportsman is about
2 Sport was the first great separator of the sexes.
Robert Lipsyte
winning.
Graeme Souness
National Forum: The Phi Kappa Phi Journal, vol. 62, no. 1,
Quoted by The Guardian, Jan. 20, 1984.
1982, p. 29.
14 Americans are experts at winning, but still amateurs at losing.
3 "Women in Sport' is no longer an issue. It is a fact.
Suzi Olcott
Edward R. Walsh
The New York Times, Mar. 20, 1977.
Scholastic Coach, Aug., 1979, p. 61.
15 Because the dread of losing dominates our sporting lives, we
4 Frequently track and field events are relegated to the realm of
have bleached the fun out of colorful games.
sweat and muscles, unsuitable for the 'gentler sex'. There is
nothing wrong with sweat, and a strong woman whose figure
Edward R. Walsh
Ibid.
stands up for itself is much to be admired.
John T. Powell
16 There's more to victory than final scores and banner headlines.
'How to Teach the High Jump to Girls',
Let's emphasize the fringe benefits of competition, winning
Proceedings, First National Institute on Girls' Sports,
friends, trust, respect, confidence, knowledge, skill, happiness
1963, Norman, USA, p. 119.
and fun.
5 Physical activity should never be a threat to femininity but
Edward R. Walsh
Ibid.
should be part of the development of it.
Paul D. Robinson
(Attributed)
17 Everything a champion does must be in terms of winning.
Les Woodland
Cycle Racing: Training to Win, 1975, p. 134.
6 The female of our species has been hindered by the propagation
of myths regarding her abilities to withstand stress, to perform
heavy work, to run, jump or just plain play.
C. L. Wells
"The Female Athlete: Myths and Superstitions
Put to Rest', in E. J. Burke (ed.),
Towards an Understanding of Human Performance, 1978,
WOMEN
p. 39.
1 Riding as an exercise for women below forty-five years of age
is to be condemned. Of the young married women who ride to
hounds about sixty per cent are childless; and of the remainder
WRESTLING
few have more than one child. No girl over thirteen years of
age should be allowed to ride much if at all, and then only at
an amble. The reasons are obvious, but cannot be given in
detail here.
1 The best offense in wrestling is often good defense.
Dariel Daniel
James Cantlie
Physical Efficiency, 1906, p. 189.
Scholastic Coach, Nov., 1980, p. 44.
Dictionary of Sports Quotations 147
146 Dictionary of Sports Quotations
3 The growth of skill comes largely as a result of the challenges
4 Man's play is less governed by rationality than most activities,
within the game, no matter how simple it is.
and attempts at intellectual analysis of its forms and motives
DES (Department of Education and Science)
find it hard to avoid the impression of being either patronizing
Movement: Physical Education in the
or disparaging.
Primary Years, 1972, p. 76.
D. Brailsford
Sport and Society: Elizabeth to Anne, 1969, p. 5.
4
the ability to execute a pattern of behavioural elements in
proper relation to a certain environment and this can be further
5 Physical activity and sport are basic and universal elements
stated as skill = speed X accuracy X form X adaptability.
within virtually all cultures from highly industrialized societies
Harry W. Johnson
to developing countries.
(Definition of Skill)
Albert V. Carron
Quoted by P. C. Freeman.
Social Psychology of Sport, 1980, p. 1.
Target Pistol Shooting: Eliminating the Variables, 1981, p. 72.
6 It cannot de denied, I think, that sports and games are now a
5 Technical excellence, however great, is all but useless, unless
necessity of civilisation.
fired by the dynamism of the human spirit.
Norman Clark
A. J. (Tony) O'Reilly
How to Box, 1931, p. 2;
Foreword in E. S. Higham and W. J. Higham, High Speed
Rugby, 1960.
7 Cultures have seen fit to reinforce sport or punish it or ignore it.
J. Dickinson
A Behavioural Analysis of Sport, 1976, p. 29.
8 Sports are utilitarian in product but not necessarily in process.
SOCIETY
Harry Edwards
Sociology of Sport, 1973, p. 56.
9 The athlete's role in sports is characterized by powerlessness
1 For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours,
in terms of decision-making authority.
and laugh at them in our turn?
Harry Edwards
Jane Austen
Ibid., p. 176.
Pride and Prejudice, ch. 1.
10 In every society, sport not only reflects but also reinforces and
2 Without play and recreation it is impossible to develop good
reaffirms the prevailing character of human relations and the
citizenship.
values of dominant group members.
Henry A. Barker
Harry Edwards
Quoted by Thomas Curley.
The New York Times, May 6, 1979.
'Playgrounds as Laboratories of Social Service
and Civil Betterment', Hygiene and Physical Education,
11 A lasting adolescent passion for football, an early-established
vol. 1, no. 1, Mar., 1909.
interest in cricket, boxing, ténnis, athletics, help to keep the
3 The concepts and language of sports are so familiar and
flame alight, but it is the point at which sport makes some kind
of comment on the human situation which is truly memorable;
pervasive that they are used as metaphors to clarify other
aspects of American life.
and valuable.
Arnold Beisser
Brian Glanville
The Sunday Times, Sep. 25, 1983.
The Madness in Sport, 1977, p. 9.
156 Dictionary of Sports Quotations
Dictionary of Sports Quotations 157
28 If Sebastian Coe is running against High Wycombe's third string
35
true sport is always a duel: a duel with nature, with one's
800 metres man, that's not sport. But if Coe is running against
own fear, with one's own fatigue, a duel in which body and
Ovett, that's sport.
mind are strengthened.
Dick Palmer
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
The Observer, Aug. 22, 1982.
Sports Illustrated, Dec. 19, 1966, p. 112.
29 It would appear that the problem of definition lies primarily in
the field of semantics as the word 'sport' has been so widely
used that any exact meaning which the term may have had has
been eroded.
John Pearson
Action: British Journal of Physical Education,
vol. 13, no. 3, May, 1982, p. 82.
SPORTSMANSHIP
30 All sports are games of inches.
Dick Ritger
The New York Times, Apr. 17, 1977.
1 Friendship first, competition second.
Anonymous
31 Sport is an activity that may contain one or more elements of
(Chinese Motto)
play but is particularly characterised by components of skill,
competition and the desire to achieve.
2 Always play a game with somebody, never against them.
R. S. Rivenes
Always win a game, never beat an opponent.
Foundations of Physical Education, 1978.
Andrew Bailey
Future Sport, 1982, p. 32.
32 Sport is a school of honest competition, of doing one's best.
N. Terekhov
Sport in the USSR, Jan., 1983, p. 3.
3 Playing a cheater is the real test of sportsmanship.
Jack Barnaby
33 Sports are a form of recreation, a way, literally, of recreating
Winning Squash Racquets, 1979, p. 210.
ourselves. They should enable us to relax and enjoy ourselves,
to find new meanings in life, to get a different perspective on
4 I care not who makes the laws or even writes the songs if the
our jobs, our families, and the things we think are important.
code of sportsmanship is sound, for it is that which controls
They should encourage us to participate and keep our own
conduct and governs the relationship between men.
bodies ('a temple in which resides the soul) healthy, lean, and
Marcus Tullius Cicero
firm.
Quoted by Carle Willgoose.
Gus Turbeville
The Curriculum in Physical Education, 1979, p. 61.
'On Being Good Sports in Sports', in Ellen W. Gerber (ed.),
Sport and the Body: A Philosophical Symposium, 1974,
5 I've been thinking a lot about 'sportsmanship'. It's hard to
p. 255.
define - especially in football, which starts with premeditated
mayhem.
34 The attraction of sport lies in its creative essence.
Pat Culpepper (Texas Linebacker)
Yuri Vlasov
(On receiving the Swede Nelson Sportsmanship Award)
Sport in the USSR, Jun., 1979, p. 18.
'Scorecard', Sports Illustrated, Jan. 21, 1963, p. 9.
154 Dictionary of Sports Quotations
Dictionary of Sports Quotations 155
12 Sport includes many diverse forms of behaviour, from highly
20 Sport - any competitive activity demanding skill and frequent
cerebral games of strategy to the application of maximal force
physical exertion, the result of which may be decided without
in a single response.
recourse to judgement.
J. Dickinson
David Hunn
A Behavioural Analysis of Sport, 1976, p. 25.
The Observer, Aug. 22, 1982.
13 One characteristic of all sports is that they require gross physical
21 Sport is in the eyes of the beholder and in my view it is best
movement.
left at that simplistic interpretation.
J. Dickinson
Peter Lawson
Ibid., p. 70.
Ibid.
14 Each sport resembles some others in certain respects, but there
is no one property or group of properties possessed in common
?
22 Sports is, or should be, just one of the things people do - an
by every sport by virtue of which each of these activities is a
integral part of life, but only one aspect of it.
Robert Lipsyte
sport.
'Peddling Sports Myths: A Disservice to Young Readers',
R. K. Elliott
'Aesthetics and Sport', in H. T. A. Whiting and
in Interracial Books for Children Bulletin, vol. 12, no. 1,
D. W. Masterson (ed.), Readings in the
1981.
Aesthetics of Sport, 1974, p. 107.
23 Sport is a stone of many facets.
15 There are few words in the English language which have such
Peter McIntosh
a multiplicity of divergent meaning as the word sport.
Fair Play: Ethics in Sport and Education, 1979, p. 153.
H. Graves
'A Philosophy of Sport', in Ellen W. Gerber (ed.),
24 Those who know little about either like to see parallels between
Sport and the Body: A Philosophical Symposium, 1974, p. 6.
war and sports.
Drew Middleton
16 There is no realm of human activity about which it is more
The New York Times, May 8, 1977.
difficult to think clearly than sport.
H. A. Harris
Sport in Britain: Its Origins and Development, 1975, p. 11.
25 Sport is an exportable commodity, like language and cuisine.
Andrew Mulligan
17 The whole aim of any sport is to prove that on a particular day
'Scorecard', Sports Illustrated, Dec. 20, 1965, p. 20.
1
you can beat someone else at that sport.
Dick Hawkey
26 Sport is a contest of physical strength or manipulation or more
Winning Squash, 1976, p. 7.
probably both (if it involves mental agility, so much the better,
but that's no criterion).
Geoffrey Nicholson
18 Sport can be cruel to men.
Arthur Hopcraft
The Observer, Aug. 22, 1982.
The Football Man, 1970, p. 11.
27 Sport is life to the nth degree.
19 It is the uncertainty in sport which gives it much of its drama.
Neil Offen
Arthur Hopcraft
Quoted by Richard Lipsky.
Ibid., p. 95.
National Forum, Winter, 1982.
170 Dictionary of Sports Quotations
Dictionary of Sports Quotations 171
2 For me this man has always been not only the personification of
5 Will-to-win is not the key to Australia's success in sport, but it
strength, but that of inspired strength, of lofty human qualities.
is an essential part of the compound of responsible factors.
Yuri Vlasov
H. Gordon
(On Paul Anderson)
The Reasons Why', in T. D. Jaques and G. R. Pavia (ed.),
Sport in the USSR, Jun., 1979, p. 17.
Sport in Australia: Selected Readings in
Physical Activity, 1973, p. 96.
3 The jerk was and remains, without doubt, the main record in
6 Success is important but defeats are valuable.
weightlifting.
C. M. Jones
Yuri Vlasov
Bowls: How to Become a Champion, 1972, p. 137.
Ibid.
7 Everyone has a will to win but very few have a will to prepare
to win.
Vince Lombardi.
Quoted by Dr Robert D. Steadward.
AJHPER, The Australian Journal For Health,
Physical Education and Recreation, Autumn, no. 91, 1981.
WINNING
8 Winning isn't everything; it's the only thing.
Vince Lombardi
(Attributed)
9 The desire to win is sometimes so strong that sport cannot
1 To the religiously devout, God is everything; to the American
contain it; when this natural desire is reinforced with political
athlete, it would seem, Winning is everything.
pressures it is small wonder that on occasions the structure of
Arnold Beisser
the sporting event bursts asunder
The Madness in Sport, 1977, p. 145.
P. C. McIntosh
Sport in Society, 1963, p. 199.
2 In pro football, it's obvious that you must win. In college foot-
ball there's sometimes talk of other goals, but when you get
10 The win ethic is epitomized in professional sport where, irres-
pective of the attitudes of the players, the sole function in terms
right down to it that's what really matters there, too.
of the organization and consumers is to win.
John Bridgers
Alan Metcalfe
'Scorecard', Sports Illustrated, Jan. 6, 1969, p. 8.
British Journal of Physical Education,
vol. 6, no. 1, Jan-Feb., 1975, p. 8.
3 Australia's National Sport - Winning.
John A. Daley
11 Winning is both excellence and vindication in the face of the
Title of Article in William Johnson (ed.),
gods.
Sport and Physical Education, 1980.
Michael Novak
The New York Times, Jan. 30, 1977.
4 Whatever the cynics may have to say, the manner of winning
12 When you win you eat better, sleep better and your beer tastes
is important
better. And your wife looks like Gina Lollobrigida.
Geoff Dyson
Johnny Pesky
Athletics Weekly, vol. 26, no. 41, Oct. 7, 1972, p. 21.
'Scorecard', Sports Illustrated, May 20, 1963.
172 Dictionary of Sports Quotations
Dictionary of Sports Quotations 173
13 Everything about being a professional sportsman is about
2 Sport was the first great separator of the sexes.
winning.
Robert Lipsyte
Graeme Souness
Quoted by The Guardian, Jan. 20, 1984.
National Forum: The Phi Kappa Phi Journal, vol. 62, no. 1,
1982, p. 29.
14 Americans are experts at winning, but still amateurs at losing.
3 'Women in Sport' is no longer an issue. It is a fact.
Edward R. Walsh
Suzi Olcott
The New York Times, Mar. 20, 1977.
Scholastic Coach, Aug., 1979, p. 61.
15 Because the dread of losing dominates our sporting lives, we
4 Frequently track and field events are relegated to the realm of
have bleached the fun out of colorful games.
sweat and muscles, unsuitable for the 'gentler sex'. There is
Edward R. Walsh
nothing wrong with sweat, and a strong woman whose figure
Ibid.
stands up for itself is much to be admired.
John T. Powell
16 There's more to victory than final scores and banner headlines.
'How to Teach the High Jump to Girls',
2
Let's emphasize the fringe benefits of competition, winning
Proceedings, First National Institute on Girls' Sports,
friends, trust, respect, confidence, knowledge, skill, happiness
1963, Norman, USA, p. 119.
and fun.
Edward R. Walsh
5 Physical activity should never be a threat to femininity but
Ibid.
should be part of the development of it.
Paul D. Robinson
(Attributed)
17 Everything a champion does must be in terms of winning.
Les Woodland
Cycle Racing: Training to Win, 1975, p. 134.
6 The female of our species has been hindered by the propagation
of myths regarding her abilities to withstand stress, to perform
heavy work, to run, jump or just plain play.
C. L. Wells
'The Female Athlete: Myths and Superstitions
Put to Rest', in E. J. Burke (ed.),
Towards an Understanding of Human Performance, 1978,
WOMEN
p. 39.
1 Riding as an exercise for women below forty-five years of age
is to be condemned. Of the young married women who ride to
hounds about sixty per cent are childless; and of the remainder
WRESTLING
few have more than one child. No girl over thirteen years of
age. should be allowed to ride much if at all, and then only at
an amble. The reasons are obvious, but cannot be given in
detail here.
1 The best offense in wrestling is often good defense.
James Cantlie
Dariel Daniel
Physical Efficiency, 1906, p. 189.
Scholastic Coach, Nov., 1980, p. 44.
8 Dictionary of Sports Quotations
Dictionary of Sports Quotations
9
6 For ages the bow was man's most efficient instrument in the
chase, and for ages it was his most deadly weapon in war.
ATHLETES
C. J. Longman
C. J. Longman and Col. H. Walrond (ed.), Archery, 1894, p. 1.
Thi:
7
neither dancing, nor hunting, nor any other sport has
1 Being a successful person (or athlete) is not a fortuitous, or
played a part in the history of the world which can compare
lucky happening. It is the end of something often well-planned
with that of archery.
for, worked for and earned. It can, indeed must, be based on
con
C. J. Longman
inherited factors.
Ibid.
Percy Wells Cerutty
Success in Sport and Life, 1967, p. 137.
8 (We) walked over the fields of Kingsland and back again, a walk
illu
I think I have not taken these twenty years but puts me in
2 From little-league sports up through the professional ranks, the
issu
mind of my boy's time, when I boarded at Kingsland and used
athlete's role is fixated in institutionalized adolescence.
to shoot my bow and arrows in these fields.
Harry Edwards
Samuel Pepys
Sociology of Sport, 1973, p. 177.
rar
The Diary of Samuel Pepys, May 12, 1667.
ac
3 The rodeo cowboy represents the last frontier of the pure,
dia
9 A well-experienc'd archer hits the mark
unpampered athlete.
His eye doth level at.
Gordon Hansen
William Shakespeare
Quoted by Robert Creamer.
(Antiochus, King of Antioch), Pericles, Prince of Tyre,
'Scorecard', Sports Illustrated, No. 9, 1970, p. 13.
bala
act I, SC. I, 1. 164.
ar
4 The athlete does not embark upon a sport but upon a way of
10 Draw, archers, draw your arrows to the head!
life.
per
William Shakespeare
W. R. Loader
As V
(King Richard), The Tragedy of King Richard the Third,
Testament of a Runner, 1960, p. 30.
act V, SC. III, 1. 340.
t
COI
11 Among the arts that have been carried to a high degree of
5 Pressure does crazy things to athletes. Some love it, thrive on
pur
perfection in this kingdom, there is no one more conspicuous
it. Others choke on it. Most learn to live with it. A few go nuts!
Herman L. Masin
c
than that of Archery.
Joseph Strutt
Scholastic Coach, Nov., 1980, p. 19.
nat
ai
The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England,
1830, book II, p. 48.
6 The taboos surrounding 'nerve' and 'nerves' in sport are many,
for the sportsman is often cast in the role of fear frontiersman.
Angela Potmore
Playing on Their Nerves: The Sport Experiment, 1979, p. 27.
7 Of all the psychological difficulties to beset sportsmen under
pressure, indecisiveness seems the most damaging to
performance.
Angela Potmore
Ibid., p. 67.
10 Dictionary of Sports Quotations
Dictionary of Sports Quotations 11
8 Being a role model is as integral a part of the athlete's world
years of age should never run at all for anything, not even to
as artificial turf and artificial friends.
catch a train.
Peter Richmond
James Cantlie
Miami Herald, Nov. 25, 1984.
Physical Efficiency, 1906, p. 179.
9 The essential psychological ingredient in any world class athlete
4 Running without grace, beauty or elegant style, the marathoner
is the drive to excel in the toughest possible competition.
confronts distance, weather, terrain and endless time in an
The Final Report of the President's Commission on Olympic
intense struggle to discover how well-tempered is the gentle
Sports, vol. 1, Jan., 1977, p. 3.
fiber of his flesh, how stern is the tinsel thread of his will.
Crispin Cusack
10 The need to compete with other athletes and with oneself and
"Transcendental Runner', in The Editors of
with Nature is the driving force of all athletes.
Runner's World Magazine (ed.), The Complete Runner, 1974,
Rex Van Rossum
p. 18.
Track Events, 1964, p. 11.
5 Sound field event coaching should have three bones: a wish-
11 An athlete's sporting career is determined by the length of time
bone on which to fix goals and ideals; a backbone with which
he can go on striving for better results.
to maintain persistence; and a funny bone with which all the
Yuri Vlasov
work can be made to seem worth while.
Sport in the USSR, Jun. 1976, p. 17.
J. Kenneth Doherty
Modern Track and Field (1953), 1964, principle 28, p. 298.
6 The pole vaulter, early in his career, must learn that the mind
is something to think with not just for worrying.
Dr R. V. Ganslen
ATHLETICS
Mechanics of the Pole Vault, 1973, p. 5.
7 If you define poetry as the right words in the right order, then
good running is the right movements in the right tempo.
W. R. Loader
1 I leapt at the tape like a man taking his last spring to save
himself from the chasm that threatens to engulf him.
Testament of a Runner, 1960, p. 1.
Roger Bannister
(On running the first sub-four minute mile, May 6, 1954)
8 The true sprinter is, by nature, necessity and training a physical
spendthrift
First Four Minutes, 1955, p. 192.
Brian Mitchell
2 I sometimes think that running has given me a glimpse of the
Athletics Weekly, vol. 26, no. 34, Aug. 19, 1972, p. 32.
greatest freedom a man can ever know, because it results in
9 I never had technique.
the simultaneous liberation of both body and mind.
Al Oerter
Roger Bannister
(World record holder and four times Olympic discus champion)
Ibid., p. 205.
Quoted by Neil Amdur.
The New York Times, May 16, 1978.
3 Running races should be absolutely forbidden to men over 27
years of age. Between 30 and 40, a man may indulge in running
10 Mention that you are a hammer thrower to someone who is
at a moderate pace for exercise, but not in races. Men over 60
not an athletics enthusiast and you will be met with any reaction
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erase a 60-55 deficit, then thwarted a last-
the nine honorees stood on the
gasp drive by Virginia's Dawn Staley at
dais in the Hyatt Regency ball-
the end of regulation, and buried five of
room in New Orleans last
six free throws to account for half of Ten-
Thursday night, acknowledged
nessee's scoring in OT.
for their achievements in the
For last Saturday's semifinal game
initial 10 years of the NCAA women's Fi-
against Stanford, Summitt had pared
nal Four. Nora Lynn Finch, who was the
down Head's various duties on offense
first chairperson of the NCAA Women's
and made her a shooting guard. But on
Basketball Committee, approached the
Sunday, Summitt coaxed a grin out of the
microphone. "As we stand up here," she
normally dour Dena by reinstalling her at
said, "we are reflecting an era." Finch
the point. When the starting lineups were
paused a moment and then singled out a
announced for the final, Head charged
particular luminary: "Does that make you
onto the floor, beaming. "I was like, Oh
feel old, Pat? To be reflecting an era?"
my god, Dena is smiling, what is wrong?"
The Pat in question was Tennessee
Charles said. "But I knew right then that
coach Pat Summitt-even her players call
Dena was going to come out and do the
her Pat-and she let her Lady Volunteers
little things to help the team succeed."
deliver her reply three days later before
Said Head, "A lot of emotion flows
7,865 folks at Lakefront Arena. There,
throughout my body. I'm just not one to
Tennessee responded to all the thrusts of
jump up and down." When time had run
a quicksilver Virginia team and gutted out
out, though, and the title was in hand,
a 70-67 overtime victory, the Lady Vols'
Head proceeded to jump up and down,
third national title in the last five seasons.
bounding over to engage Summitt in an
At the
In just a fleeting decade, the 38-year-old
impromptu Tennessee waltz.
Summitt has earned more NCAA cham-
The Lady Vols' celebration was not just
pionship titles than any coach but
a frolic, it was an exorcism. Last year, Vir-
UCLA's John Wooden, Kentucky's
ginia tripped Tennessee 79-75 in over-
Adolph Rupp and Indiana's Bob Knight.
time in the East Regional final, thus keep-
She has deployed a total of 37 players
ing the Lady Vols from defending their
Summitt
since 1981-82; 27 of them now wear
1989 title in Knoxville, the site of the 1990
championship rings.
Final Four. Summitt called that defeat
Reflecting an era? Heck, Summitt
her most difficult time in coaching, and
practically embodies it. She has taken her
her peevishness about the loss is now leg-
teams to seven Final Fours, including the
endary in Knoxville. Flying home from a
first one in Norfolk, Va. "The NCAA has
Again
recruiting trip this past September, the
made a real difference for women," Sum-
pregnant Summitt suffered labor pains
mitt said after Sunday's final. "And I feel
and was faced with the untimely birth of
very fortunate to be a part of all the
her first child while in the air. But she
growth and development."
gamely held out until she had passed
One constant in Summitt's 17 seasons
through Virginia airspace, and Ross Tyler
Tennessee's women won
at Tennessee has been the Lady Vols' fe-
Summitt was safely delivered, on the
rocious post play, which saps opponents'
ground, in Tennessee. The baby was at
yet another NCAA title for
wills and weakens their knees. (Summitt's
Sunday's game sporting a CAVALIER
assistant coaches use football tackling
BUSTER insignia across his tiny chest.
their coach, Pat Summitt
dummies to toughen up their kids in prac-
At practices every day this season,
tice, and the Lady Vols even take the
Summitt had her players wear last year's
dummies on the road with them, discreet-
prematurely printed T-shirts that read:
by HANK HERSCH
ly concealed in garment bags.) But while
TENNESSEE AND THE FINAL THREE-SOLD
6' 3" All-America center Daedra Charles
OUT. With Charles as her only senior, the
came up big in the final (19 points, 12 re-
coach helped her callow club along until it
bounds), the knockout shots were deliv-
was mean enough to whomp opponents
ered from the outside by Dena Head, a ju-
on its own. When the Lady Vols reached
nior guard from Canton, Mich., who
New Orleans, Summitt sounded confi-
scored 28 points and grabbed nine re-
dent. "I like our chances," she said last
DAMIAN STROHMEYER
bounds. More important, Head scored
Friday. "We never play well early. I'm just
a slow teacher. I don't throw all the pieces
Charles's second-half power-play basket left
to the puzzle out on the table and try to
Virginia's Heidi Burge (34) empty-handed.
match them. I go one piece at a time, and
37
PLAYER FOUL
CAN
WOMEN'S FINAL FOUR
ple see me," Auriemma says, "they don't
like me, because they think I act like I
know everything about everything"-
Auriemma had pushed, prodded and OC-
casionally overpowered Ryan. "I didn't
have a philosophy of life then, and it used
to drive Geno crazy because he did," she
says. "It wasn't until he left that I devel-
oped a lot of my sense of myself."
Both parties realized a break was nec-
essary. "The bottom line is I went to Vir-
ginia and did everything I could to help
the program reach national prominence,"
Auriemma says. "[But] having me around
while you're going through growing pains
is no trip to the beach, believe me. And
you can ask my wife that."
In six years at UConn, Auriemma has
transformed the Huskies from Big East
doormats to the conference's first-ever
envoy to the Final Four. This season, he
welded an assortment of odd parts into a
powerhouse led by Kerry Bascom, a 6' 1"
center as capable of popping three-point-
ers as of posting down low. "We have a
5' 11" power forward, a 6' 1" center who
EN'S
shoots the three, and our entire team isn't
afraid to put it up-no hesitation," Bas-
JIM GUND/ALLSPORT
com says. "We're crazy."
The Cavaliers ignite their explosive of-
fense with a ball-pressure defense that
forced an average of 25 turnovers a game.
Cardoza gave the Cavaliers their last lead with
Barmore. "But the 'B' player today is bet-
Given the task of harassing Bascom was
this acrobatic lean-in jumper in overtime.
ter, and there are more of them." Pro-
Tonya Cardoza, a lithe 5' 10" senior who
gress, thy name is parity.
last year watched the Final Four in her
it's March before it all comes together."
The darkest horse to arrive in New Or-
Roxbury, Mass., living room while on aca-
But Staley, the nation's consensus play-
leans was Connecticut. On the surface,
demic suspension. Cardoza's dogged de-
er of the year, nearly upset Tennessee's
the semifinal matchup between Virginia
fense-"Every time I made a cut, she was
table once again. On Sunday she lived up
coach Debbie Ryan and UConn's Geno
right behind me," said Bascom-and her
to her billing with 28 points and played
Auriemma, who had assisted Ryan for
flashy open-court moves (12 first-half
over her 5' 6" head with 11 rebounds. She
four years, ran a neat parallel to the men's
was named the tournament's outstanding
Final Four confrontation between North
player (in a vote taken before Head's last-
Carolina coach Dean Smith and his for-
minute flurry), though that was small con-
mer aide, Roy Williams of Kansas. But
solation. "I gave it all I had to give, and we
the reunion in New Orleans had all the
JIM
lost," said Staley, a junior. "But we'll be
tranquillity of Saturday night on Bourbon
coming back."
Street. Shortly before Auriemma left Vir-
Virginia should be back next year, but
ginia for UConn in 1985, Ryan had a crisis
reaching the Final Four is getting to be a
of confidence. "It just didn't seem like I fit
tough proposition. This year, two of the
in the profession," she recalls. "It was a
game's hardiest perennials, Texas and
real crossroads in my life." NCAA execu-
Louisiana Tech, bowed out in the first
tive director Dick Shultz, then the Virgin-
round of the tournament; and top-ranked
ia athletic director, did his best to encour-
Penn State went down 73-71 to James
age Ryan, and she also began seeing Bob
Madison in the second. The Lady Vols
Rotella, the team's sports psychologist.
found themselves sharing the Final Four
Auriemma's exit helped Ryan arrive.
floor with opponents wholly new to them.
Direct and driven-"The first time peo-
"There may not be that many 'A' players
around, like Cheryl Miller or Teresa Ed-
Staley (24) overcame leg cramps and tight
wards," says Louisiana Tech coach Leon
Head-to-head defense to take MVP honors.
38
WOMEN'S FINAL FOUR
points) helped the Cavs open up a 34-24
spread at intermission. But Virginia
lapsed into an all-too-democratic one-
pass, one-shot system that overlooked
Cardoza and allowed UConn to cut the
lead to 55-53 with 26 seconds left.
Ultimately, the Huskies held the Cavs
to 35.3% shooting, including a 3-for-16
game from Staley, who was hampered by
leg cramps in the second half. But Cardo-
za sank four free throws down the
stretch-her only second-half points-
and then Staley stole the ball with seconds
DAMIAN STROHMEYER
to go to seal a 61-55 victory for Virginia.
In the other semifinal, de-
fending champion Stanford
The net result after Sunday's final:
couldn't overcome its physi-
Summitt (above) once again hit the
cal woes against Tennessee.
heights, and Charles (far left) and
Center Trisha Stevens had
Nikki Caldwell were impish snips.
JIM
ruptured a tendon in her
right knee during the first
60-55 edge. Then, as she had
minute of a 73-47 victory
all day, Head got help from a
over Washington in the West
high screen to break free for
Regional semifinal on
a left-side bank shot, and a
March 21. Stevens under-
foul by Cardoza made it a
went surgery and wore an an-
three-point play. Staley
kle-to-hip cast to New Or-
came down and missed a
leans. Then, with four min-
wild runner, and as Head
utes to go before last
was penetrating once again
Saturday's tip-off, another
at the other end, she was
Stanford post player, leading
hammered by Staley with
scorer Julie Zeilstra, pulled a
seven seconds to play.
calf muscle during warmups.
Head drilled both free
She was outfitted with ban-
throws to tie the game at 60.
dages and ice and sat glumly
Then Staley made one last
on the end of the bench for the game.
To ensure a national network audience
mad end-to-end dash, shaking past Head
The injuries left coach Tara VanDer-
for all three games over the weekend, the
and barreling into the lane. With her left
veer with one experienced player down
NCAA played its women's final less than
hand cradling the ball, she had a clear
low, 6' 3" sophomore Val Whiting, who,
24 hours after the second semi. Staley
path to the basket that would give Virgin-
with an array of weak-side help, limited
wolfed down a cheeseburger and a baked
ia the national championship. But Head
Charles to just two free throws in the first
potato on Saturday night and, as a pre-
hadn't quit. "The only thing I could do
half. With All-America point guard Sonja
caution against leg cramps (of which she
was try to block her shot from behind,"
Henning performing twisting double
has a history), was scheduled to receive
she said. "I just got a small piece of the
Lutzes in the teeth of the Tennessee D for
added nutrients intravenously. Instead,
ball, but that small piece prevented it
18 points and seven assists, the crippled
the Cavaliers merely had an assistant
from going in." Acknowledged Staley, "It
Cardinal raced to a shocking 28-21 lead
trainer standing by to massage Staley's
was just a great defensive play."
at intermission.
legs if the cramps occurred. Perhaps sens-
The overtime had drama, too, but it
Summitt's halftime speech left her
ing Staley's vulnerability, the 5' 10", 160-
was minimized by Virginia's five misses in
hoarse, though she managed to bellow to
pound Head repeatedly bulled past her
as many free throw attempts. Summitt sly-
Charles: "Nobody in the country can stop
early on. But Staley answered right back,
ly switched from her bread-and-butter
you one-on-one!" Charles got the mes-
either whirling in or dishing off for 10 of
man-to-man to a matchup zone, and
sage, blasting for eight of the Lady Vols'
Virginia's first 18 points as the Cavs
Head continued to sink clutch shot after
first 13 points in the second half to trim
roared to a 10-point lead.
clutch shot. "One thing she kept saying to
the margin to 36-34. Stanford sagged
Despite the Cavaliers' identical twin
me was, 'Daedra, this is for you, this is for
while Tennessee soared. The Lady Vols
towers, 6' 4" sophomores Heather and
you,' Charles said. "That made it even
outshot (53.3% to 38.5%) and outre-
Heidi Burge, Tennessee mastered the
sweeter, because she wasn't just playing
bounded (26 to 17) the Cardinal after
glass at both ends to take a 27-26 lead at
for Dena. She was playing for me, playing
halftime, and Charles finished with 18
halftime. But the Burges (a combined 18
for the university, playing for Pat."
points and nine rebounds in the 68-60
points and 17 rebounds) stiffened, and
Hmm, playing for Pat. Sounds like a
Tennessee win.
with 1:25 to play, Virginia reclaimed a
good way to win a national title.
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DUKE
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: BASKETBALL CEREMONIES
ROSE GARDEN
MONDAY, APRIL 22, 1991
Mike Krzyzewski -- Coach K. -- a 1969 West Point graduate.
And who has many classmates with us today -- including Bob
Kimmitt, whom I know rather well. Blue Devil players and staff.
/ Coach Pat Head Summit and her assistants. And the players who
helped Tennessee reach the summit. It is a pleasure to welcome
you to the White House. //
Just a few feet from here is where Yogi Berra once said of a
State Dinner, "How could you get a conversation started in there?
Everybody was talking too much. " //
Well, today all of America is talking. They are talking
about your two teams, and your incredible championships. They're
calling it Blue Devil Destiny. Or yet another Volunteer victory.
/ Compared with you, Walter Mitty's was a hum-drum existence. Of
your success, even Ripley would disbelieve. //
Consider, first, how Tennessee won its third title in five
years. Showing what Hemmingway termed "grace under pressure" --
that depth and quickness, shooting, intelligence, and strength of
character, which embodies a champion. //
In the Good Book it reads, "And a little child shall lead
them." Here, the little child was Pat Summit's 6-month-old son,
Tyler. / Before the title game against Virginia, Pat dressed him
in a T-shirt with a Cavaliers mascot crossed out -- then
2
presented her son to the team. / The gift helped the Vols upset
Virginia. Mission Impossible became Mission Achieved. //
Dana Head spurred that mission -- scoring 28 points in the
championship game. So did teammate Daedra Charles -- 19 points
and 12 rebounds. Together, you helped Pat win her third NCAA
championship title -- more than any coach but John Wooden and
Adolph Rupp. / She's fast becoming the most famous legend to
come out of Tennessee since Davey Crockett. //
Then, there's the pride of Tennessee's neighboring state.
Five times in the last six years -- including the last four --
Duke had made the Final Four. This year, you made a good thing
even better. / First, you stunned unbeaten UNLV in one of the
greatest upsets in NCAA history. ((I think Jerry Tarkanian knew
he was in trouble when he learned his Rebels had to face Duke.
Rumor is that he switched to an aspirin-flavored towel. )) //
Next, Duke beat Kansas in the title game with one of the youngest
teams in Coach K's tenure -- two seniors, three juniors, three
sophomores, and five freshmen. //
( (Like fans across America, I marveled at the wizardry of
the Blue Devils all year. // Actually, when I was in college, I,
too, could dribble a ball with either hand, behind my back, and
through my legs. // Which got me thrown out of a lot of bowling
alleys. )) //
Bobby Hurley never had that quandary. His craft is
basketball, and he is a virtuoso on the court. So was Christian
Laettner, the Final Four's most Valuable Player. Grand Hillard
3
and Thomas Hill added to the Blue Devils' hit parade. Helping
slam-dunk opponents and winning Duke's first-ever championship.
Coach K, like Pat Summit, you showed that nice guys can
finish first. Moreover, your teams proved that scholar-athlete
is not a contradiction in terms. / Let me repeat your words:
"Everything in players' lives doesn't hinge on a basket or a
rebound. So when they can rationalize there's a roadblock, then
maybe they should stay on the same avenue a little longer. " //
At Duke and Tennessee, that avenue leads to graduation.
Both schools have high academic standards. Each recruits
aggressively, but honestly. Both stay within the rules. / Over
the last decade, more than 90 percent of Duke and Tennessee
players got their diplomas. Like many of your fellow alumni, you
will make an even greater difference after graduation than
before. //
In a real sense, you have become a metaphor for our national
education strategy -- a long-term movement that touches every
school and student in America. Showing why education is our most
enduring legacy -- vital to everything we are and can become. //
For that, I salute you. And let me leave you with the words
of a great British statesman, Benjamin Disraeli, who said:
"Youth is the trustee of our posterity." You are the trustees of
America. No Nation could be in better hands. //
Thank you for what you've done, and are doing today. God
bless you, and the United States of America.
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Draft Four
DUKE
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PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: BASKETBALL CEREMONIES
ROSE GARDEN
MONDAY, APRIL 22, 1991
Mike C,
Mike Krzyzewski (shi-SHEF-ski) -- Coach K. -- a 1969 West
Point graduate. And who has many classmates with us today --
including Bob Kimmitt, whom I know rather well. Members of the
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Hyattsville Midnight Basketball League -- póints of light for an
Phill
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entire nation. Blue Devil players and staff. / Coach Pat Head
Summit and her assistants. And the players who helped Tennessee
reach the summit. It is a pleasure to welcome you to the White
House. //
Just a few feet from here is where Yogi Berra once said of a
yos'nt
State Dinner, "How could you get a conversation started in there?
Everybody was talking too much. " //
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Well, today all of America is talking. They are talking
about your two teams, and your incredible championships. They're
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years. Showing what Hemmingway termed "grace under pressure"
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Tyler. / Before the title game against Virginia, Pat dressed him
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Adolph Rupp. / She's fast becoming the most famous legend to
come out of Tennessee since Davey Crockett. //
Then, there's the pride of Tennessee's neighboring state.
Five times in the last six years -- including the last four
Duke had made the Final Four. This year, you made a good thing
even better. / First, you stunned unbeaten UNLV in one of the
greatest upsets in NCAA history. ((I think Jerry Tarkanian knew
he was in trouble when he learned his Rebels had to face Duke.
Rumor is that he switched to an aspirin-flavored towel. )) //
Next, Duke beat Kansas in the title game with one of the youngest
teams in Coach K's tenure -- two seniors, three juniors, three
sophomores, and five freshmen. //
((Like fans across America, I marveled at the wizardry of
the Blue Devils all year. // Actually, when I was in college, I,
too, could dribble a ball with either hand, behind my back, and
through my legs. // Which got me thrown out of a lot of bowling
Jamb
alleys.) )) //
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basketball, and he is a virtuoso on the court. Bill McCaffrey,
another general on the court. So was Christian Laettner, the
Final Four's most Valuable Player. Grant Hill, Thomas Hill added
to the Blue Devils' hit parade. Together, the Blue devils slam-
dunked opponents and seized Duke's first-ever championship.
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maybe they should stay on the same avenue a little longer. //
At Duke and Tennessee, that avenue leads to graduation.
Both schools have high academic standards. Each recruits
aggressively, but honestly. Both stay within the rules. / Over
the last decade, more than 90 percent of Duke and Tennessee
note
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players got their diplomas. Like many of your fellow alumni, you
will make an even greater difference after graduation than
before. //
In a real sense, you have become a metaphor for our national
education strategy -- a long-term movement that touches every
school and student in America. Showing why education is our most
enduring legacy -- vital to everything we are and can become. //
For that, I salute you. And let me leave you with the words
of a great British statesman, Benjamin Disraeli, who said:
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youth of a 4 Nation are the trustees of Posterity"
"Youth is the trustee of our posterity. " You are the trustees of
America. No Nation could be in better hands. //
Thank you for what you've done, and are doing today. God
bless you, and the United States of America.
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Breaking the finx: By finally winning a national championship, Coach Mike Krzyzewski has established Duke as the No. I college basketball program in the country
There's no Duke without the 'K'
Dovils dedication to cutting off passing
seems his sup runneth over
Krzyzewski has been one constant
lanes and overplaying defenders is even
Unless center Christian Laettner pulls a
more exaggerated than the Hoosiers ap
surprise and decides to skip his senior year
in Blue Devils' continuing success
proach, Duke can fulfill Krzyzewski's defen-
and enter the NBA draft) Duke will have
sive wishes because of its team-wide quick-
every key player returning from this year's
ness; Knight's team suffered this year in
team except Greg Koubek, who played a
By PAUL ATTNER
ber also that UCLA and Cincinnati did not
elite matchups with quick opponents.
limited role in the squad's success. Laett-
have to compete against the same pool of
On & personal level, Krzyzewski would
ner, whose versatility and competitiveness
y winning his first national champi-
quality schools that confronts Duke every
like to step permanently from the Knight
enabled him to win Most Valuable Player
B
onship after four frustrating fail-
season.
shadow. The two are close friends and talk
honors at the Final Four, could use another
ures, Coach Mike Krzyzewski has
These are the glory years for college bas-
often, but Krzyzewski has built à national
year in college to mature emotionally and
made two major breakthroughs:
ketball, with more great players and more
power without Knight's help. Indeed, prior
also to improve his endurance. It will help
He's established Duke as the legitimate No.
great teams than ever before. Yet the Blue
to beating Kansas in Indianapolis for the
that Duke has signed 6-11 Cherokee Parks,
1 college basketball program in the country
Devils have remained dominant despite a
1991 NCAA crown, Krzyzewski reacted
one of the best high school big men in the
and hc's finally shed forever the tag 88 a
changing cast of characters over the past
much more strongly to questions concern-
country. He will provide the back-up center
Bob Knight copycat who could never sur-
half-decade.
ing his relationship with Knight than he did
that was missing from this year's club.
pass his mentor.
The one constant, of course, has been
inquiries regarding his failures in the Final
There is every reason to expect improve-
Although Knight still leads Krzyzewski in
Krzyzewski, an intense, tightly strung man
Four.
ment in Duke's performance. Swingmen
national titles (three to one), the Indiana
with R biting humor who has emerged as a
"Sometimes 1 feel," he says, "like people
Grant Hill, Brian Davis, Thomas Hill and
coach has brought four teams to the Final
kinder, gentler version of Knight.
think 1 can't make & move without consult
Antonio Lang all will benefit from experi-
Four in 20 years with the Hoosiers, com-
Krzyzewski can be a volatile, demanding
ing Coach Knight. We will be playing a team
enco gained this season, Grant Hill cBpe-
pared to five for Krzyzewski in 11 years at
taskmaster who requires the kind of ex-
that Indiana has played and they will say,
cially could emerge 88 one of the country's
Duke. More significantly, the Blue Devils
traordinary effort and a toughness from his
Did you call him? Hey, I've put together
top stars, which would make Duke even
show no sign of 8 drop-off and should be
players that Knight admires. At the same
scouting reports for years without any out-
more difficult to defend. Look also for guard
even better next year than they were this
time, he also has backed away from the kind
side help. I think what we have done can
Bill McCaffrey, one of the stars in the Blue
season. Indiana wasn't good enough to beat
of public tirades and demeaning scenes that
stand on its own.!
Devils' victory over Kansas, to take on a
Duke this time around and the gap should
Knight inflicts upon his athletes.
But Krzyzewski refused to be bogged
more prominent role: This was the young
still exist next season, even though Knight
Krzyzewski expects commitment and will
down with the burden of not having won 8
est team Krzyzewski has taken to the Final
will have a nationally competitive team
settle for nothing less, but he has main-
championship despite all the Final Four
Four, but it wasn't the best-that honor
Quite simply, Krzyzewski is riding a bas-
tained a human side with his players that
tries, He claimed he wasn't obsessed by
goes to the 1986 team) which had been
ketball high that, in terms of staying power,
sometimes is missing with Knight and the
title quest and friends say he was being hon-
aranked No 1i before losing in the final to
only UCLA and Cincinnati have surpassed,
Hooslers.
est, that be knew his time would eventually
Louisville But as long as all the parts stay
Under John Wooden, the Bruins became a
The diffarences can be seen in the way
come,
healthy, the 1992 squad should develop into
dypasty, establishing a level of excellence
the two teams perform. Indiana often plays
Considering the controversy dogging
Krzyzewski's finesth
no other school is ever likely to equal. Dur-
mechanically, with a touch of fright, always
Jerry Tarksnian and Novada-Las Vegas,
The coach bluntly states that he will not
ing one stretch, they appeared in nine
looking toward the bench for unending rep-
Duke's surprising rise to the national title
leave Duke for another job, This is it for
straight Final Fours. Cincinnati made it to
rimands from Knight for even the smallest
this year serves as a much-needed breath of
me
he
says.
the
the Final Four from 1959 to 1963 under
of mistakes. Duke performs much more
fresh air, not only for the game but for the
His major flirtation occurred last year
two coaches-George Smith, then Ed
freely; there is an ad-lib nature to the play-
NCAA itself. Duke goes about winning the
when the Cellics came calling. That's when
Jucker.
ers' movements that is absont from In-
right way, The school has legitimately high
he made up his mind to stay in Durham,
And then there's Duke, whose four
diana's scheme.
academic standards and, from every indica-
N.C., and see if he could continue to conjure
straight Final Fours amid a run of five in six
Krzyzewski, who played for Knight at
tion, recruits consistently within the rules/
up more Final Four magic.
years is both dazzling and histor Just
Army and was a graduate assistant at In-
It took Krzyzewski four years to establish
At the rate he is going, David Copperfield
consider some of the basketball powers that
diana in 1975, has taken Knight's defensive
his program at Duke and to carve out A
would be proud
haven't equaled either feat: Kentucky,
concepts and developed his own Approach.
pipeline to athletes who could quality for ad-
North Carolina, Louisville, Ohio State,
Duke starts its defensive pressure farther
mission and also be good enough to come
Paul Attner is a Senior Writer for THE
Michigan, Georgetown, Kansas. Remem-
from the basket than Indiana, and the Blue
pete at a high basketball level. Now, it
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No longer
'blue' Devils
Duke finally terminates
Final Four heartbreak
By PAUL ATTNER
triumphs using one constant defense and a
combination of intense defense, the
lot of courage. It took fortitude to stand up to
play of center Christian Lactiner and
UNLV, which had beaten Duke by 30 points in
guard Bobby Hurley and the experience
last season's championship game. It also look
gained from heartbreaking Final Four
fortitude to survive the grinding final few
failures in four of the previous five years
minutes of the championship game, when the
gained Duke the national title it needed to be
Blue Devils had heavy legs and nervous hands
rightfully proclaimed the best college
and Kensas was applying exeruciating
basketball program in the country.
pressure.
Krzyzowski believes no team had ever
A 72-65 triumph over Kansas in the NCAA
played harder for 80 minutes to win two
Tournament championship game Monday
night at the Hoosier Dome in Indianapolis
games in the Final Four Certainly no team
climaxed an emotional, draining weekend for
has over worked harder on defense, the basis
Duke, which had less than 48 bours to recover
of Duke's success. Krzyzewski wants his
from its stunning victory over top-ranked
players to be chost-to-chest with their foes, to
Novada-Las Vegas Saturday. The Blue Devils'
wear them out through Trustration and
turnovers.
79-77 triumph over the previously unbcaton
Runnin' Rebels, which many had proclaimed
That defense was never botter than during
as invincible, will be remembered 88 one of
this long weekond, when the Blue Devils
the groat upsets in NCAA Tournament
scoined to contest almost every pass and
history. But the victory over Kansas is the one
make nearly every opponent's shot more
difficult than it should have been. UNLV hit
this generation of Blue Devils won't over
forget, not after all the ghosts created by their
only 45 percent of its attempts from the field
predecessors' travails in the Final Four
and Kansas shot only 42 percent, including 38
percent in the second half.
It was always an injustice to both Duke and
Coach Mike Krzyzewski to be branded as a
It was on defense that Duke utilized its
failure for not having won a NCAA
quickness, which became its major asset
against slower Kansas. That also was the
championship, considering the challenge of
just getting to the Final Four. This was the
biggest difference between this team, which
Blue Devils' fifth trip to the Final Four in six
finished with a 32-7 record, and the 1989-90
years and their fourth in a row. Krzyzewski
club that and mental toughness. The Blue
has won with true scholar-aibletes and
Devils were pugnacious, much like their
coach.
without the stigma of an NCAA investigation.
In the process, he has developed the
Duko boat UNLV on the strongth of a
prototype program. But he needed a
precisely executed game plan that stripped
championship to climinate any doubts.
the Rebele of their sura of superiority. The
"It's never been a monkey on my back," said
Blue Devile relied on heart and the talents of
Krzyzewaki, who thought his 1985-86 team,
their two stars, Hurley and Lasttner, to hold
which was ranked No. 1 most of the scason,
off Kansas (27-8). The final triumph wasn't
should have won the championship. Duke lost
pretty, but Hurley and Laattner simply
to Louisville, 72-69, in the title game. "Kids
wouldn't allow their team to lose. In contrast,
shouldn't play for coaches. They should play
no Kansas player was able to step up his play
to play together and to have fun." But he
at the ond and apply a knockout punch to a
conceded: "It's also nice to say we finally
reeling, Ured opponent.
played well in April.
Not that Kansas didn't have. its
"This was the youngest team he has
opportunities. "Tyo never seen the lid on the
brought to this extravaganza it was
basket (for us) like it was in this one, Kansas
comprised of five freshmen, three
Coach Roy Williams sold. The Jayhawks
Duke's destiny: Bobby Hurley (front) and Christian Laettner celebrate Duke's first national
sophomores, three Juniors and two seniors
wanted to be aggressive and take advantage
championship.
and it wound up grinding out consecutive
of Duke's overplaying defenso by making
back-door cute and slashing to the basket.
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"
However, the Blue Devil's superior
quickness thwarted those tactics.
Kansas found itself pulling up in-
Duke's championship fiber a tribute to Special K
stead for short jumpers that consis-
tently bounced around the rim but
wouldn't fall. As a result, the Jayhawks
Duke's 108-73 loss to UNLV in the
mission. As Hurloy sold, "We didn't
didn't draw many fouls (13 to Duke's
By JOEL BIERIG
championship game. Unpleasant as
come here to win the semifinals.
21) and wound up trying just. eight free
Duke's Mike Krzyzewski is known
the experience was, Hurley said, "I
We came hero to win the champion-
throws to Duke's 28. The Blue Dovile'
as Coach K for short. Before this
think it helped. I didn't want the
ship."
20-4 advantage in free-throw points
year's NCAA Final Four, some had
same thing to happen that hap-
Whon Duke returned from its
was more than enough to secure the
begun to wonder if Krzyzeweki's
pened last year. 1 didn't want to go
championship victory over St.
victory.
nickname had been derived from
home empty-handed. Neither did
John's in the Midwest Regional,
It was crucial for Lacttner, a junior,
baseball's scoring system, in which
the other guys.
Krzyzewski watched for the first
to at least noutralize Kansas on the
"K" stands for strikeout.
Duke's improved approach was a
time tape of the 108-78 loss to
boards. He hadn't recovered from the
Duke, after all, had struck out in
tribute to Krzyzeweki, who always
UNLV in last year's title game.
exhausting UNLV game and was visi-
four previous trips to the Final
has been Special K in the eyes of
Publicly, he said the video scared
bly tired soon after the championship
Four under Krzyzewski. By the
his players. As Hurley said, "Coach
him. To his team, however, he
game began. He once went almost 22
time the Blue Devils faced Kansas
K does not rest on anything he's
spoke confidently.
minutes without a field goal, but he
in the title gams Monday night in
done in his life. He always looks to
"I saw we were tired and didn't
still wound up with 10 rebounds and 18
the Hoosier Dome in Indianapolis,
the next thing. He does that better
use the dribble productively." Krzy-
points (including 12 for 12 in free
poor Krzyzowski was being lumped
zewald said. They were better
throws). And down the stretch, he was
with such sports bridesmaids its
than us, but not 80 points better.
the one who came up with every big
former National Football League
Our older guys had hollow looks.
rebound to hold off the Jayhawks. Cou-
coach Bud Grant, whose Minnesota
We had no pizazz, no spark. I
pled with his 28 points against UNLV,
Vikings made four Super Bowl ap-
looked the same WRY."
it was a performance good enough to
pearances and lost all four gamos.
In the rematch, the Rebels were
carn him the honor of the Tourna-
But after Duke held off Kansas,
the once who looked hollow, espe-
ment's most outstanding player.
72-05, to break its 0-for-8 drought
otally at the end. Entering the
That distinction also could have gone
in Final Fours, nobody was laugh-
game, Nevada-Las Vegas had
to Hurley, who perhaps carried the
ing at Krzyzewski. On the contrary,
trailed for only 81 seconds of 681
biggest burden of Duke's 103-73 cham-
Coach K had suddenly become
second-half minutes all season. And
pionship-game loss to Nevada-Las Ve-
Coach KO. Duko floored Nevada
without sonior point guard Greg
gas a year ago, when he was a fresh-
Las-Vegas, 79-77, in a semifinal
Anthony he fouled out on a charge
man. He was overwhelmed by UNLV's
game that ranked among the
with 3:51 left and UNLV leading,
defense and atteripted only three Held-
biggest upsets in NCAA Tourna-
74-71 the Rebels unraveled. Had
goal attempts (he missed all three). Ho
ment history, then finished the job
Anthony been in the game on the
played all 40 minutes against Kansas
by applying the knockout punch to
last play, be surely would have pon-
(just as he had in the semifinal gamo),
Kansas.
etrated and dished off to Anderson
scored 12 points, had nine assists and
In some ways, the second victory
Hunt or All-America forward Larry
committed only three turnovers de-
was more remarkable than the
Johnson.
spite doing most of the ball handling.
first.
With UNLV trailing by two
He performed even better in the sem-
"All the media, all the so-called
points, none of the Rebele seemed
ifinal game, considering the pressure
experts, made a big deal about how
to want the ball in the final sec-
applied by UNLV's defense. His devel-
Duke wouldn't be able to focus af-
onds. Johnson hositated, spurned a
opment as a three-point shooter he
ter UNLV," said Duke Junior center
three-pointer and passed to a cov-
made five of eight three-point attempts
Christian Lasttner, who was voted
ored Hunt, who forced up a 25-foot-
in the two Final Four games gave Duke
the moat outstanding player in the
er that missed. Throughout the
& much-needed boost.
Final Four after his 18-point, 10-re-
game, the Rebels hadn't seemed
That's certainly what Duke did in its
bound performance against Kanasa.
like the Rebels: As Kansas point
victory over Nevada-Las Vegas, which
Motivation: Mike Krzykewski's
"Well, we talked about it, and Coach
guard Adonis Jordan observed:
came into the Final Four with a 45-
work ethic inspires the Blue Devils.
K got on us. He said, You must fo-
They started playing Duke's tempo.
game winning streak and a goal of be-
cus on Kunsas. They'll kill us If you
They got away from their running
coming the first team to win back-to-
don't.'
than anybody 1 know."
game, and it hurt them."
back titles since UCLA won the last of
"Duke (32-7) led from start to fin-
This, howevor, was Duke's fourth
Krzyzowski knew how his players
its seven consecutive championships in
ish, which is not to say the Blue
consecutive trip to the Final Four
might react in the aftermath of the
1973. UNLV had 90 much ability and
Devils ever appeared to bo safely
and the fifth in six years under
UNLV game. A year earlier, Duke
played so well all season that it was
ahoad even with 8 14-point lead.
Krzyzowski. The Blue Devils previ-
had threshed Arkansas, 97-88, in
considered a prohibitive favorite to ro-
Krzyzewaki had to rest a weary
ously lost twice in the champion-
the sernifinals, only to be walloped
peat. In fact, UNLV had trailed only
Lacttner four times in the first
ship gamo and twice in the semifi-
by Nevada-Las Vegas 48 hours lat-
once at halftime all season a chilling
half. Point guard Bobby Hurley
nals.
or.
calling card.
played all 40 minutes, just as he
Who could have blamed the Blue
"We started celebrating too early,"
But Duke Hatened to Krzyzewski
had against UNLV, and somehow
Devils had they celobrated long and
recalled senior forward Greg Kou-
when he told the players that if they
totaled 12 points, nine assists and
hard after their upset victory over
bek, the first player to appear in
challenged UNLV and played aggres-
only three turnovers. Sophomore
UNLV, like a jackpot winner on the
four consecutive Final Fours
It
sively something they didn't do last
Bill McCaffrey, part of Duke's end-
Vegas Strip? In ending UNLV's win-
was the first game our group had
year they could win. They also needed
less supporting cast, came off the
ning streak at 46 games, Duke had
won in the Final Four, and we were
to keep the tempo at s moderate pace;
bench to hit six of eight field-goal
denied the Runnin' Rebels (34-1) a
pretty excited about that.
counter Vegas' overplaying defense by
attempts and collect 16 points.
chance to become the NCAA's first
This time, the Blue Devils were
dribbling aggressively to the basket;
"Bobby's performance was remark-
repeat champion since UCLA in
older and wiser: We started talking
reduce forward Larry Johnson's offec-
able," Krzyzewski said of Hurley,"
1973 and the first undefeated
about winning the championship
tiveness by having Laettner drop off
who had 16 assists and only six
champ since Indiana (82-0) in 1976.
when we got on the bus to go back
center George Ackles to double-team
turnovers in the two Final Four
Krzyzewski, however, refused to
to our hotel (after beating UNLV),'
Johnson: cut down on UNLV's easy
gamos. Vegas and Kansas played
be party to any partying.
Hurley said. "That wasn't the case
transition baskets by getting back
the best man-to-man defonse any-
"He told us an ordinary team
last year: I don't remomber talking,
quickly on defense, and have Laettner
one has played against 118 all year. 1
would be satisfied with winning
as a group, about winning the na
touch the ball as much as possible on
don't know how he played 80 min-
this (UNLV) game," Hurloy said.
tional championship.
offense.
utes."
"And he said there was no way that
This year, it will be a long time
Remarkably, the Blue Dovile execut-
On adrenaline, for the most part.
an ordinary team would win Mon-
before they stop talking about it.
+
ed that gamo plan almost to perfec-
Last year, as a freshman, Hurley
day night."
fool Bierig is a free-lance writer from
tion. The double-teaming of Johnson
(two points, five turnovers in 32
It WAS then that these extraordi-
Chicago who covers pro and college sports,
minutes) had been the goal in
nary Blue Devils remembered their
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limited him to 13 points and forced
Then, with 12 seconds left, Lacttner
"the emotional investment" needed
UNLV to roly more than it wanted.or
made two foul shots for a 79-77 advan-
finish off its title quest, especially cont
ita perimeter shooting. UNLV never
tage.
sidering it was facing u Kansas team
did get its running game untracked,
Vegas had one last chance. The
that was surging with confidence
and it had problems handling Duko's
Rebels wanted Hunt to try a three-
But his doubts were answered in the
quickness to the basket off the dribble.
pointer but he was double-teammed
first half. His team sliot better than
And Lactiner confirmed UNLV Coach
and Johnson wound up dribbling into
expected from the floor (59 percent)
Jerry Tarkanian's concerns about de-
the front court. He had an open shot
Kansas shot only 45 percent and out
fending the Duke center by botting to
just outside the three-point arc, but he
scored the Juyhawks, 11-2, at the foul
20 first-half points. Lacttner spend a
hesitated "10 wasn't good enough," he
line. In addition, reserve guard Bill
lot of time around the perimeter and
said later and passed to Hunt, who
McCaffrey scored soven points en
Ackles wasn't comfortable covering
launched a desperate 26-foot heave
route a 16-point game. Kansas was
him that far from the basket. After
just before the buzzen If Anthony had
within eight points at halftime (42-34)
racing to 8 15.6 lead, the Blue Devils
been in the game, he would have tried
only because of its aggressiveness on
realized this would net be B repeat of
to penetrate and either dish off to
the boards; the Jayhawks scored 18
last season's embarrassment.
Johnson Inside or to Hunt on the pe-
30
points on offensive rebounds.
Vegas, which never played as aggres-
rimeter. Without him, Anthony said
The Jayhawks thought they could
sively as it did in the 1990 gaine, had
the Rebele "weren't sure of our op-
catch up by working barder for inside
so much ability that it still should
tions. It. was uncomfortable." Vegas
shots. Instead, they grew more impa-
have won despite Duke's gritty play.
had never faced a last-shot situation
tient in the second half.
UNLV pecked away at the Blue Devils
all season; that lack of experience
Although Lacttner was 50 tired that
in the second half until a layup by All-
haunted them.
he could hardly move at times, Hurley
derson Hunt, who scored 8 game-high
"It really hurts," said Tarkanian,
and McCaffrey were scoring 80 well
29 points, gave the Rebele R 76-71
whose team will be on probation next
from the outside and Kansas was
lead. But in the middle of their surge,
season and will not be eligible for the
shooting 80 inconsistently that Duke
floor leader Greg Anthony fouled out
NCAA Tournament. IL WHB an upset of
was able to build an 11-point leed with
for the first time this season. Rival
incredible proportions, ranking with
67 seconds remaining. The Blue Dev
coaches thought UNLV might be vul-
the best of the Tournament shockers,
ils stumbled and staggered a bit in the
nerable without Anthony's playmak-
including Villanova's victory over
ing skille, and they were right. His ab.
On guard: Bobby Hurley was able to
final minute Kansas reduced the mar-
Georgetown in the 1985 championship
sence was the final broak Duke
contain Adonis Jordan in the battle of
gin to 70-65 with 34 seconds remain
game. "We had a chance to put it away
the point guards.
ing but a dunk by reserve Brian Davis
needed. Duke tied the game on a
when we were up five and we messed
off an inbounds pass finally allowed
three-point field goal by Hurley and a
it up. We didn't handle 11. very well,"
Duke to colebrate that elusive title.
three-point play by Thomas Hill.
Tarkanian said.
hawks the worst free-throw shooting
Duke cut off Kansas' rebounding au-
Kansas' triumph over North Caroli-
team in the Tournament hit just
periority and its defense limited star
na was an upset on a much-smaller
enough foul shots to secure the victo-
scale. The Tar Heels were favored be-
center Mark Randall to six points In
We're-Giving Away Money!
ry. It was 8 notable triumph for Wil-
the second half. Krzyzewski allowed
cause of their superior depth. but
liams, who had been an assistant un-
their senior starters Rick Fox, King
Lacttner to rest by letting him sag
der Dean Smith for 11 years before
Rice and Pote Chilcutt combined for
back on defense and by using a zone
accepting a job in 1988 as Larry
more than. he normally would have
only 22 points and hit only eight of 36
SPORTS
Brown's successor at Kansas. It was a
field-goal attempts. Fox, the catalyst
liked. He would have preferred to fin
sad time for Smith, who picked up a
ish off the Jayhawks with a man-to
of the offense, made only two of 13 at.
second technical with 35 seconds re-
man defense, but his team was too fa-
tempts in the second half as Carolina
maining and was ejected for only the
became impatient on offense and
tigued to provide the necessary ener-
TRIVIA
third time in his 30-year career.
gy
stopped working for high-percentage
Kansas entered the championship
shots.
But in the end, Duke had enough to
game with consecutive triumphs over
end the years of frustration. Before
The Jayhawks built a 10-point sec-
two regional No. 1 seeds (Arkansas
ond-half lead behind superb pressure
the game, Krzyzewski told the players
$1000 $1000 $1000
and North Carolina) and a No. 2 seed
defense North Carolina shot only 38
to try and win not for: him, but for
(Indiana). The Jayhawks' defense had
EVERY WEEK
percent in the game and dominance of
themselves. They didn't listen.
been especially effective, limiting
the backboards But the Tar Heels
"We wanted to give coach this one,
Tournament opponents to 41 percent
Hurley said. "He's earned it.
Just Answer
closed to 58-57 before missing four op-
field-goal shooting. Kreyzewski was
portunities to take the lead. That gave
concerned about whether his team
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Kansas time to regroup, and the Jay-
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BASKETBALLO
Baby helps Lady Vols
Virginia's Melanee Wagener inbounded the
ball to Staley, who drove the length of the
court for the potential game-winning basket,
but Head deflected the shot away.
Head was voted to the all-tournament
again reach Summitt
team along with Staley. teammate Dacdra
Charles, Tonya Cardoza of Virginia and Sonja
Henning of Stanford:-
The Cavaliors missed all five of their foul
By SCOTT VIGALLON
She then presented her son to the team.
shots in the overtime, and that led to their
"Tyler's T-shirt was to inspire and moti-
downfall. Virginia, which beat upstart Con-
vate this team," Summitt said. "Some friends
necticut, 61-55, in the other semifinal, en-
A baby's T-shirt, a motive for revenge and
of mine from Virginia sent It to me. When I
joyed its best season ever and returns four
a graduate assistant cosch's game plan added
Was in labor flying over Roanoke, Va., on a
starters next year,
up.to another NCAA women's basketball
recruiting trip, I told the pilot there's no way
Those facts weren't lost on Staley.
championship for Tennessee.
I am having this baby in Virginia. When 1 held
"I, don't think we've had an unsuccessful
In other words, the Lady Vols pulled out all
Tyler up on the bus (Sunday) morning and
season," she said. "You can't really count us
the stops in beating Virginia, 70-67, in over-
showed the team, that Just made them more
out because we'r coming back next year."
time last Sunday before 7,865 fans at Lake-
emotional."
Tennessee probably will, too. The third-
front Arena in New Orleans:
Fourth-ranked Tennessee (30-5), which
place finisher In the Southeastern Confer-
The title was Tennessee's third in the past
eliminated defending champion Stanford in
ence also has four starters returning.
five years. It also won in 1987 and '89.
Saturday's semifinals, 68-00, needed all of its
-For the moment, though, Summitt just
Wioning was different this time, however.
emotion to get past the second-ranked Cava-
Giving her all: Virginia's Dawn Statey
wants to Ravor this title, 88 she did the Lady
The Lady Vols used graduate assistant An-
liers (31-3) and their consensus player of the
(center) scored 28 points and grabbed 11
Vois' first two.
gela Lawson's plan of stopping Virginia's
year, Junior guard Dawn Staley.
rebounds in a lasing effort.
"(Sunday's) win feels like the greatest of
transition game and penetration to limit the
Staley, voted the tournament's most out-
all the national championships,' she sald.
Cavallers to 38 percent shooting In the sec-
standing player, had 28 points, 11 rebounds,
"But in 1987 we were the underdogs, and
ond half.
six assists and three steals before she fouled
Aside from the emotional edge, the biggest
that was Tennessee's first national title. So
Tennessee also had two motivational in-
out with two seconds left in overtime.
difference came at the foul line. The Lady
that WAS extra special, The 1989 champion-
centives. The first was obvious: Tennessee
Staley's effort was matched by Tennessee
Vols made 22 of 35 free throws while Virgin-
ship WAS rewarding because we were ranked
lost to Virginia, 79-75, in overtime in the
guard Dena Head, who had 28 points, nine re-
is sank just seven of 19.
No. 1, and we were supposed to win. We did
East Regional final a year ago, denying the
bounds, three assists and three steals.
Head made two free throws with seven
what we were supposed to do that year. This
Lady Vols an opportunity to play in the Final
Staley and Head broke the championship
seconds remaining in the second half to tie
win is a for like 1987's because, again, we
Four on their home court in Knoxville.
game individual scoring record of 27 points,
the score at 60 and force the overtime. She
were the underdogs. We overachleved, and it
The second wasn't HS obvious. Earlier
formerly shared by Southern Cal's Cheryl
scored all five of her points in the extra pa-
worked for us again.'
«
Sunday, Tennessee Coach Pat Head Summitt
Miller (1983), Southern Cal's Cynthia Con-
riod at the foul line.
dressed her G-month-old son, Tyler, in A T-
per (1986) and Tennessee's Bridgette Gor-
Head's biggest play, however, came after
Scoll Vigation covers college sports for the
shirt with a Cavaliers mascot crossed out.
don (1989).
she made the tying foul shots in regulation.
San Jose Mercury-News
What a difference a year will make for Rebels
his buddy Donald Sterling, who owns the Los
season. UNLV did not sign anyone in the
coaching job. Tulea, where J.D. Barnett
Angeles Clippers, comes to his rescue.
earlier signing period, but Tarkanian said his
was fixed, not because of his record but
Tarkanian isn't ready to retire. He has no
assistant will be on the road this week in
because of an attendance decrease, has
hobbies and would never dream of making do
hopes of signing recruits on April 10.
requested permission to talk to Richard-
with golf clubs or fishing poles. His idea of fun
is coaching and be basn't finished having fun.
Shaquille isn't ready to work
non. Houston's Pat Foster has expresed
an interest in the Tulsa job.
College
Rebels guard Anderson Hunt, the only
Kentucky assistant Billy Donoven
Basketbal
starter back from 8 34-1 team, said be
Shaquille O'Neal. LSU's 7-2 sophomore
appears to be the leading candidate to
wouldn't be surprised if Tarkanian did not
center, said it was 8 tough decision but he will
fill the coaching vacancy at Brown. Also,
Report
return. Then again, Hunt said he wouldn't be
return for another year of college ball and
Wildcats assistant Tubby Smith is
surprised if the coach comes back.
bypass, or at least delay, the millions of
interviewing with various schools,
Hunt, a junior, is pretty sure he will return
dollars he no doubt will earn in the National
including Tulsa and Texas A&M.
to play for the Rebels next season.
Basketball Association.
Look for Texes A&M to offer its open-
It's going to be strange turning on ESPN's
"The only reason I would leave is if
"At first, 1 was thinking if got hurt I can't
ing to Creighton's Tony Barone.
"Big Monday" next season and not finding
somebody from the NBA just comes and
play anymore. I had to realize if 1 got hurt, it
Nevada-Las Vegas hogging the midnight
grabs my arm and says, Come on, let's leave
wasn't meant 10 be, O'Neal said.
time siot. Because of NCAA penalties
school. Other than that, I'll be in school,'
Besides that, he is still having (un.
3-pointer to go international
delayed from this year to next, the Runhin'
Hunt said.
"I'm 19. I'm still a kid, I'm not ready to
Rebels will be barred from live television and
During the just-completed season, Hunt
work," he said.
postseason competition.
would sometimes think about what was aliead
May 12 is the deadline for underclassmen
An 11 man NCAA committee will vote at
Not only will "Big Monday" have a
for next. season. The thought of life without
to declare themselves available for the NBA
different look next season, but so will the
Johnson, Augmon, Anthony and George
draft in late June. Expect Georgia Tech's
the National Rules Meeting on April 29 in
Kansas City to extend the three-point line
Rebels. No defending national champions. No
Ackles scared him and made him nervous.
Kenny Anderson, a sophomore, to bypass his
nine inches-from 19 feet, 9 inches to the
Larry Johnson, Stacey Augmon or Greg
"It's going to be a lot of emptiness around
junior and senior, seasons.
international distance of 20 feet, 0 inches.
Anthony. And there might not be a Jerry
the locker room and the whole city," Hunt
Syracuse's Billy Owens also is trying to
The vote should pass because college
Tarkanian either.
said. "They gave us that leadership spark.
make up his mind. The possibility of an
coaches are worried about dropping further
Tarkanisn had said throughout the NCAA.
They had everybody laughing and cracking
NCAA probation for the Orangemen will
behind international competition.
Tournament that his intentions were to
jokes. We're going to mlss that."
have some effect on his decision. However,
Other changes to expect: an amendment in
return. But after his team lost to Duke In the
The Rebels also are going to miss the
the outcome of the NCAA's investigation will
the 10-foul rule, which was expected to speed
national semificals, be hedged a bit.
points and rebounds. The starters averaged
not be known before the deadline.
up the game but has not; and changes the
"That could change if something were to
76.5 of UNLV's 98.3 points per game this
develop that 1 really thought was a good thing
Coaching carousel
mimber of timeouts in a television gaine from
BCBSON. Of those, Hunt averaged 16.9. Now
three to four.
for me and my family,' he said,
the Rebels will look to players like Melvin
Tarkanian, 60, appears to have little
Love, Evric Gray, Elmore Spencer, Travis
It looks as If Oklahoma State assistant Rob
Kelly Carter covers college basketball for
chance of landing a job in the NBA-unless
Bice and H Waldman to get them through the
Evans is close to getting Texas Tech's head
the Dallas Morning News.
McGroarty/Dooley
April 8, 1991
4:00 pm
[TEACHER]
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS:
TEACHER OF THE YEAR AWARD
SLANESVILLE, WEST VIRGINIA
APRIL 10, 1991
9:55 am
Thank you, Mr. Secretary {Alexander}, for those kind words -
- and thanks to all of you for this warm West Virginia welcome.
[Additional introductory acknowledgements.] I'm especially
pleased today to be here with our new Secretary of Education,
because next week, back in Washington, we're going to unveil our
new national education strategy -- a long-term strategy to make
America all that it can be -- to spark a nationwide movement that
touches every school and every student in America. //
That is next week. Today, I want to focus on the fact that
in the end everything we try to do in education comes down to
teaching and learning -- to each teacher and student in our
classrooms. There is no better way to make that point than to
come here to honor someone Slanesville knows so well -- the 1991
National Teacher of the Year, Rae Ellen McKee. //
[[Last time I went to a school -- just a few miles away from
the White House -- I had a 3rd-grade boy ask me to prove I was
the President. // I finally had to show him my American Express
Card. // This time I came prepared. First, I brought the
Secretary of Education. Second, I flew down on Marine One.
Third, when we're done here, I'm going to take Mrs. McKee back up
to the White House. ]]
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[[I heard a story about one of Mrs. McKee's reading students
-- about a boy who'd been watching me almost every day on
television, back during the war in the Gulf, making speeches and
making statements to the press. This boy asked Mrs. McKee: "Are
you really going to go to Washington and meet the President?"
She said yes, she was. He said: "He doesn't need you. He can
already read. "]]
This is a proud day: For Rae Ellen's husband, John McKee -
- and their children, Molly -- a second-grader here at
Slanesville -- and Zachary. For all the children of Slanesville
Elementary School. And for every hard-working teacher in America
-- who sees the future, and shapes that future, every day our
children walk into that classroom. ///
Being here today to honor this special teacher reminds me of
my own days in school -- all the way back to 1941. I remember my
high-school history teacher: Dr. A.B. Darling. He was demanding
-- disciplined -- and I learned from him. I don't know how much
I remember of the history he taught me -- but I know I won't ever
forget his example. // Years from now, you'll all remember Mrs.
McKee the same way. //
Our national teacher of the year grew up in Levels, just 10
miles from here. Rae Ellen McKee is West Virginia born and bred.
She comes from a family of teachers -- 5 generations, to be
exact. And she's still a student herself -- working now on a
second Masters degree in education at West Virginia University:
proof that learning is a life-long process.
3
Rae Ellen McKee knows that teaching is more than giving
tests and assigning grades. Teaching, she says, is the "impact
of mind upon mind --and heart upon heart."
There are plenty of schools bigger than Slanesville's.
Plenty of towns with more people. But in this small school,
great things happen. // Every day -- these children, your
children, take a step forward, toward their future. That's a
testament to this teacher and this school.
And above all, it's a testament to the strength of this
community and its values. Our children learn from all of us --
not just from teachers. What happens at home -- and in the
neighborhood -- matters just as much as what takes place in the
classroom. //
I know that many of the kids here today learned to read with
Mrs. McKee's help. I've just spent a little time with some of
you in her classroom -- asking questions, watching you learn. //
Let me ask a question: How many of you have ever read a
story or a book that's been made into a movie -- and then you
watch that movie, and you say to yourself: the book was better.
// When you read, the power of your imagination paints the
picture in your mind -- and there isn't anything in the world
stronger than the power of your imagination.
That's why reading is so important. It's more than picking
out the words on a page. Reading is one way we learn how to
think. // When you open a book -- you open your mind to a world
4
of experience. Right here in a classroom in West Virginia -- the
world comes to you. //
Let me say to all the kids here today: I hope you won't
mind that we're going to borrow Mrs. McKee. For the next year,
as Teacher of the Year, she will travel across the country -- to
share with all our schools the secrets of her success here in
Slanesville. We need to learn from her how we can teach all kids
just as well as she's taught you. //
Pretty soon, you'll be back in class. I'm going to ask you
to do something for me -- today and every day. Work hard. Ask
questions. Have fun. And learn. That's what school is all
about. //
Once again, my thanks for this warm welcome, for the chance
to spend some time in your classroom -- and for the opportunity
to share this proud moment for Slanesville. // And now, I am
honored to present this crystal apple to the 1991 Teacher of the
Year -- Rae Ellen McKee.
# # #
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The sad fact is, millions of grown-ups can't read. You can
pretend to know -- but pretending can't help you pass the test.
And life's full of tests
Learning is about thinking for yourself -- not just
repeating what the teacher tells you. Reading opens the door --
it's a way for everyone to
Let me say something to the students here today about your
teacher, Ms. McKee. She has given a gift to you. I want to ask
each of you -- in your own way -- to give a gift to someone else.
Now -- if you can. Or when you grow up.
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But don't let the fact that Mrs. McKee was born and raised here
fool you. She's travelled far to get to where she is today.
Community
[["It's nice to get 26 valentines on Valentine's Day. " ]]