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NATIONAL AMERICAN PRO BASKETBALL A frustrated Jordan lashes out at Bulls INDEX Los Angeles 4, Chicago 3 Montreal 4, San Diego 0 Detroit 5, Texas 1 TV column Pro Furman Kansas City 4, Boston 1 Chicago 6, Baltimore 3 New York 12, Minnesota 0 Seattle 4, Cleveland 1 Houston 7, Pittsburgh 5 S. Francisco 6, St. Louis 1 Complete coverage, C4-5 CASZCALL Yankees hit 6 HRs in whipping Twins C2 basketball C3 Bisher C3 For the record cj Outdoors jc PageC4 Oakland 12, Milwaukee 5 California 5, Toronto 4 PageC3 SECTION THE ATLANTA CONSTITUTION THURSDAY, MAY 24, 1990 TTTITT i A MfJ 'lmer chili -7 I Steve Y' I Hummer joins 1 352 lull 111 iiiii ml Til ami Allocation rules will make tickets Super scarce Al Atlanta officials turn attention to planning CIO Rankin Smith Sr. was key to city landing bid CIO Atlanta boots Luckhurst at the last minute CIO Awarding of '94 game takes only four ballots By Glenn Sheeley Staff writer IRVING, Texas Unaccustomed to NFL victories, Atlanta won the right to play host to Super Bowl XXVIII in 1994 even though the $210 million Georgia Dome is 26 months away from its scheduled completion. Atlanta, a rookie in this competition, won out over three Super Bowl site veterans seven-time host New Orleans, six-time host Miami and Tampa, which will stage its second Super Bowl after the 1990 season.

Confident going into the voting but wary of assuming victory, Falcons owner Rankin Smith Sr. said through teary eyes at the microphone, "Phew It was a real sweater." Get ready: Super Bowl on the move to Atlanta IRVING, Texas It's set then. Come 1994, the sporting gaze of the world will lock on Atlanta as it is decided whose turn it is to knock all the vital fluids out of the Denver Broncos. Super Bowl XXVIII that's 28 for those of you born after the fall of the Roman Empire was delivered Wednesday to a city whose athletic ambitions have for so long twisted into a punch line. On an empty bracelet, hang this one charm.

This is a most significant rest stop in history. The day Atlanta decided that if it couldn't participate in a Super Bowl, it would purchase one. Only 1,350 or so days (the exact game date has not been set) left to rustle up a ticket to the embarrassingly overdone commissioner's party. So much to do and so little time. Only that long before Underground is overrun by the crush of fans determined to replay Sherman's greatest hits.

Only that "We're going to do everything we can to make this the finest Super Bowl ever," he said. The victory came on the fourth ballot by a vote of 22-6, the earliest the owners made up their minds since 1984. Tampa was eliminated during the first ballot. When no team gets at least Please see SUPER, CIO ifiiiiil yy ink long before a player misses curfew while mesmerized at the Cheetah III. Only that long before Atlanta witnesses a production of such epic proportions that it will make "Gone With The Wind" seem a home video.

Falcons find 'Headstart' is 'Hitstart' mMmm' 'A token of esteem for Rankin Smith And, to hear all the estimates of Super ft vm i lit aia 1 ByLenPasquarelli Staff writer "Operation Headstart" has been a bit more ambitious than most of the Atlanta Falcons bargained for when they agreed to attend the off-season program at the team's Suwanee headquarters. The four-days-a-week workouts, which conclude today, have escalated to near-scrimmage conditions at times, even though the players don't wear pads. Ballcarriers are regularly thrown to the ground, except perhaps for No. 1 pick Steve Broussard, who continues to draw rave reviews. Receivers pay for going over the middle.

Linemen absorb plenty of W.A. Bridges JrVStaff Rookie RB Steve Broussard has been earning praise. i punishment, and quarterbacks don't wear red "hands-off" jerseys. Head coach Jerry Glanville seems oblivious to the possibility of Please see FALCONS, C9 mmmmmm Marlene KarasStaff Super site: On the day Super Bowl XXVIII was awarded to Atlanta, construction crews worked on the foundation of the Georgia Dome, scheduled for completion in August 1992. Five spots for a Classic coilap ris i Par 4 452 yards Par 3 183 yards Par 4 340 yards Par 3 206 yards Par 4 421 yards 'Bowl windfall, only that long before we all get a 10 percent raise.

Atlanta's anointment as a Super destination was fairly quick and simple. The presenters came back strong from a glitch in their video presentation, slipping a reserve tape into a balky machine. Otherwise, it was seamless. When the owners were ready to vote, it took but 13 minutes and four ballots to arrive at a three-fourths agreement on Atlanta. It was the first time under the current selection system that a city received such a sizeable majority.

For all that has been said about Rankin Smith's position of respect among his fellow owners, Wednesday came the proof. Sentiment delivered the numbers, an outpouring of approval cutting through self-interest and politics. There was the Falcons owner, so often maligned at home for his pitiable product, now being declared a civic savior. Said Atlanta Mayor Maynard Jackson, "Smith is a genuine 24-karat gold asset to our city. Thank you, Rankin Smith, we know you brought the bacon home." "It's nice for them to say all that," Smith said, "but I just feel good about my hometown." As the steward of professional football in Atlanta, Smith has fathered few moments you'd want to stuff and hang on the wall.

A lot of years of weathering that gracefully came in handy Wednesday. In partial repayment, his sympathetic friends in the NFL gave him this little token of their esteem. Presented to the good and solid organization man is this solid gold cluster of roman numerals. That's the least the league could do, if it wasn't going to allow him to trade straight upforthe49ers. Credit due to the Georgia Dome plan While credit is being rationed, save some for that hole in the ground out back of the World Congress Center.

A Super Bowl could not have been won without the persuasive power of the construction site. The NFL loves a new stadium smell. The Georgia Dome was conceived as a Cable-Supported, Teflon-Coated Oval of Dreams. Build it, and they will come. We are.

And now they will, i You didn't think the state was going through all that trouble and expense just for the Falcons, did you? Having them as the sole G-Dome tenant would be as inappropriate as renting out the Taj Mahal as a flea market A big-ticket arena deserves a high-impact event at least once every half dozen years or so. Now, there is no need to stop building and invite the weeds to reclaim the land. Atlanta has its first Super Bowl. There is some time yet to consider the impact of that. Said Jackson, "This is a declaration that Atlanta is a member of a higher league." This from Dan Graveline, executive director of the World Congress Center: "This will generate a lot of excitement.

All the hoopla. All the times people will hear their city mentioned on TV. And the crowd that comes to one of these things is a well-heeled one that will spend money." And eagerly, we await word of what John Elway thinks of Buckhead. 1 A scary run by Schrader captures pole Chevrolet driver records 172.963 mph at Charlotte Wednesday's qualifying, C8 By Bill Robinson Staff writer CHARLOTTE, N.C. Ken Schrader ran what he called a "banzai lap" of 172.963 mph in his white No.

25 Chevrolet Wednesday and won the Winston Cup's richest pole position, the No. 1 spot for Sunday's Coca-Cola 600. But it wasn't easy. "I scared the hell out of myself that time," said Schrader, who fought the car through the treacherous one-two turn of the banked, 1.5-mile Charlotte Motor Speedway on the first of two qualifying laps. "I knew if I got anything between turns three and four I wasn't going to take another lap.

I'd gotten down into the first turn, and I picked the throttle up, and she started coming around on me a little bit, and I kept legging it When I came off of one, I said, 'That was I tell you one thing, that was as fast as I could go. And I didn't want to do it again. That's all I had to throw at 'em." Schrader's pole prize totaled $42,500. It was his second pole of 1990, and his first since the season-opening Daytona 500. Mark Martin was second in his Please see RACE, C8 TREE TOPS: Tee shots to right side must contend with one mean pine tree, OVER THE S3DE: Reaching green Is hard; avoiding drop-off Is harder.

IN DEEP: Deepest bunker on course makes approach a profile In courage. WiLD THING: Getting Into overgrown hillside on right means automatic bogey. Any ball over the back of the green rolls off a cliff, perhaps forever. Many pros get lost in Atlanta Country Club's black holes ByThomaiStlnson Staff writer A fun house is only as good as its trap doors. Today through Sunday, the PGA Tour traipses through a whole gantlet of sloughs, hillocks and other geographical features that make Atlanta Country Club one of its more engaging recreational stops of the season.

There are assorted dangers here, many of them far more subtle than the lake on No. 18 or the covered bridge on the 13th. At the Atlanta Classic, there are certain places you simply cannot go, sites of certain treachery where a player can slip right out of the tournament with a single swing. "You don't have to go very far to find trouble," said Larry Nelson, the host pro. At some tournaments, these places are treated with a sense of humor.

Off the second fairway at Augusta National, for example, is a deep drainage ditch the players have named the Pan Am office. The notion was that if your ball made the ditch, you might as well Please see CLASSIC, C9 Where: Atlanta Country Club. When: Today-Sunday; first round begins 7:30 a.m. 1 Par, yardi: 36-3672, 7,018. TV: Channel 5, Saturday p.m., Sunday p.m.

Tickets: $15 today-Friday, $20 Saturday-Sunday. On sale at all tour-nament gates. Parking: Available In assigned lots, with $5 round-trip shuttle..