The Chapel Hill News from Chapel Hill, North Carolina • 11

The Chapel Hill Newspaper Section Friday October 30 1987 Eddy Landreth Staff Writer Pick Ntil RHttnbury-CHN Mark Maye (top) hopes to lead a UNC victory on Saturday 4 Maryland Game Ends Crazy Month The time has arrived for the NCAA and the entity that is college football to cease and desist with the smoke screens the pseudo-reasoning and the double talk The time has arrived for a playoff system of some sort in college football Money and tradition or rather a fear of change are the two reasons that we still have a mythical national champion The conferences that have contractual agreements with bowls are satisfied with the fat checks that roll In just after the first of the year Academic integrity is the excuse that is used but who do the powers that be think they are fooling? People fear change Situations always seem more comfortable the way they are now If academics were the real problem the lengthy Kvwhaii season and the tournament that follows would be cut Spring practice in football would be eliminated A playoff system in football would affect far fewer student-athletes than the basketball tourney The bowls could be incorporated as part of the system People say the bonds would be de-emphasixed but it would be just the opposite The early rounds of the basketball tournament are far from de-emphasized and the NFL playofT games prior to the Super Bowl are certainly popular Place the bowla within a playofT system and the television ratings would soar Americans love that kind of competition Champions and losers are as American as football itself Last week: 6-5-1 For the year: 57-22-3 My offto Chapel Hill High for its upset win last Friday at Roxboro Person This week the winning steak ends at two: Warriors 28 Tigers 13 After beginning 50 Wake has lost two in a row Make it three as Clemson does to the Deacs what it wishes it had done last week to NC State: Tigers II Dick Sheridan is unbelievable He may say beating Clemson is no big deal but few people do it and almost no one does it in Death Valley and even fewer do it two years straight Nevertheless even the miracle-working Sheridan will not be enough this week South Carolina will be ready: Gamecocks 27 Wolf-pack 17 Georgia Tech and Duke both need a victory real bad Duke gets it: Blae Devils 24 Jackets 21 Pittsburgh is about as unpredictable as NCSU This is the week for the Panthers to play well and knock 1 Syracuse from the ranks rtf the unbeaten: Panthers 21 Oraagemea 13 With all the controversy surrounding Auburn's gril-led Burger the Florida Gators are licking their chops Wwimtti Smith will romp and so will Florida: Gators 24 Tigers 14 Miami sets down in Greenville this weekend to pay Carolina an unfriendly visit When this one's done the bodies will look much like their uniforms purple: Hurricanes 42 Pirates II Notre Dame has an off week Navy comes to South Bend: Irish 45 Middles 2 If Oklahoma beat Kansas by 45 points it should count as a loss: Sooaers Jayhawks I Michigan state versus Ohio State should be a good game The edge goes to the home team Bnckeyes 17 Spartaas 14 UCLA has run into troubles in the past when it traveled to the State of Arizona This week the Bruins will escape from the clutches of Arizona State and remain on the road to the Rose Bowl: Brains 35 8n Devils 28 It seems as if been months instead of weeks aince the Tar Heels played UNC travels to Maryland and although this been one of the Terrapins' better years you can count on North Carolina getting the best shot UNC will come out sluggish after the off-week but will squeeze it out in the end: Tar Heels II Terrapins 14 Maryland Lest their season be reduced to rubble At stake is a fighting chance to win the Atlantic Coast Conference championship Maryland is tied with Clemson at 3-1 in ACC play (4-3 overall) while the Tar Heels are 2-1 (also 4-3) Only The Shadow knows what version of the Tar Heels will appear at Byrd Stadium where Dick Crum has a 1-3 record but one thing's for sure: a loss here and it's wait-til-next-year time yet again Is there a chance the Tar Heels will be flat as they were in foe Wake loss or in the last game they played at College Park (a 28-10 loss in 1985)? "Well I hope this team is mature enough that we don lose that edge'' Crum said this week got good senior leadership I think they can help us there" Crum expects a grind-it-out game much (See Game page SB) By LEE ROBERTS Sports Editer North Carolina has had a crazy month of October Oct 2 the Tar Heels played an inspired game but score when they needed to in foe second half losing to Auburn 20-10 Oct 10 North Carolina came out and played its most disappointing game in years losing 22-14 to Wake Forest Oct 17 the Tar Heels completely domin- ated NC State in terms of possession time and total yardage yet sctwe an offensive touchdown and slipped past the Wdfoack 17-14 Oct 24 UNC enjoyed a week off You figure it out i In what has been thus hr a disappointing month the Tar Heels can ill-afford a disappointing game Saturday (12:05 pm telecast on WFMY-Ch 2 and WRAL-Ch 5) at Qemson-UNC Time May Be Moved Back By LEE ROBERTS Sports Editor Kickoff for the Clemson-North Carolina football game on Nov 7 originally scheduled for 12:05 pm in Kenan Stadium may be moved to 4:00 pm to accomodate the ESPN television network "That is a UNC athletic director John Swofford said Thursday "We wont know for sure until late Saturday night or Sunday ESPN will not make the decision until It is a safe assumption that if North Carolina and Clemson both win in this weekend's games next week's game will be moved to 4:00 pm If that happens Swofford said the Blue-White basketball game scheduled to follow the conclusion of the football game would probably be moved to early afternoon in the Smith Center AP Ll IT Photo Ilearng (R) Roldan in 4th round Hearns After Leonard Hagler Lust For Rematches Propels Hit Man9 Into Record Books Today 2:00 pm Tennis MltaCelebrlty Championships from Lake Tahoe Nev taped (ESPN cable) 3:01 pm PGA Golf Nabisco Championships from San Antonio Texas taped '(ESPN) 7:00 pm Sportscenter (ESPN) 7:00 pm Inside the NFL with hosts Len Dawson and Nick Buonlcontl (HBO cable) 7:30 Magic Years In Sports focuses on the year 1936 with special segment on Olympian Jesse Owens (ESPN) i 9:00 pm Jet Skiing World Championships from Lake Havasu Arlz taped (ESPN) 11:30 pjn High School Football Piedmont Football Highlights with Mike Hogewood (WFMY-Ch 2) 11 :30 pm Sportscenter (ESPN) pm Sports Tonight (CNN cable) 1 :00 pm Auto Racing Cart Marlboro Challenge from Miami Fla live (ESPN) 2:00 PBA Bowling $150000 Kodak Invitational from Rochester NY same-day tape (WXII-Ch 12) 2:00 pm PGA Golf live third-round coverage of the Nabisco Classic from San Antonio Texas (ESPN) i 2:30 pm Road To Calgary a preview of the 1988 Winter Olympics (WGHP-Ch 8) 3:00 jn College Football Syracuse at Pittsburgh (WFMY-Ch 2 WRAL-Ch 5) 3:00 pm College Football TodayHorse Racing pre-game show hosted by Al Trautwlg and Jim Hill Also the Washington DC Inter- national horse race a Ufc-mlle turf race for 1 thoroughbreds from Laurel Md live (WGHP-Ch 8 WTVD-Ch 11) 3:30 pm College Football Regional cover- age of UCLA at Arizona State or Michigan State at Ohio State (WGHP-Ch 8 WTVD-Ch 11) 3:18 Pm Sports world replay of the Super-stars competition from Miami same-day coverage of the Breeder's Cup Steeplechase from Fairhill Md (WXII-Ch 12 WPTF-Ch 28) 1 4:00 pm College Football Air Force at Brigham Young (ESPN) 7:00 pm High School Volleyball 1987 women's high school volleyball championship live from Carmichael Auditorium (WUNC-Ch 4) 7:30 pm CNN Sports Saturday (CNN) 7:10 pm College Football Florida at Auburn (ESPN) LAS VEGAS Nev (AP) Thomas Heapis may have become foe first fighter ever to win championships in four different weight classes but he may never get a chance to fiilfill another of his dreams Hearns weathered some vicious punches from Juan Domingo Roldan before knocking the Argentine out in the fourth round Thursday night to win the World Boxing Council middleweight title vacated by Sugar Ray Leonard after his April victory over Marvelous Marvin Hagler a very proud young man right now said Hearns who revealed that he had set a goal of four titles seven years ago Leonard and Hagler looked on at foe outdoor arena at foe Las Vegas Hilton as Hearns knocked Roldan down four times while nearly hitting the canvas himself in a wild brawl that delighted a crowd of more than 10000 Hearns then issued a challenge to Leonard and the only fighters to whom he has lost in a career that has spanned a decade to fight him again "I hope this brings not only Ray Leonard but also Marvin Hagler out of Hearns said "I think the public deserves a rematch between me and Ray Leonard and Marvin But Hagler and Leonard werent impressed by the challenge "The only reason I would come out of retirement is for said Hagler who was a color commentator few the closed-circuit television broadcast limit have anv interest in Tommy" Leonard said happy for him but Leonard said preoccupation with the rematches nearly cost him the fight when he was hurt on several occasions by the powerful and wild-swinging Roldan "I figure he was trying to be impressive with Marvin and my being said Leonard who knocked Hearns out in their welterweight title fight in September 1981 "Thomas was hurt bad but Roldan have foe kind of ring generalship he needed to put him away" In another title fight on the card Charles Williams of Philadelphia shocked Bobby Czyz to take his International Boxing Federation light heavyweight crown with a ninth-round knockout Czyz making his fourth title defense knocked Williams down in the second and third rounds But Williams used a stinging left jab and stiff uppercuts to close the champion's right eye and force the fight to be stopped it seemed like he was the better Czyz said "I'll be back though This is just another hurdle for me to Hearns who first won a portion of the welterweight title with an August 1980 knockout of Pipino Cuevas later won a 154-pound crown and added a third title in March when hie took the WBC light heavyweight crown from Dennis Andries Hearns who weighed in at 15914 pounds was foe fourth fighter to try to win four titles Saturday College Football Preview (CNN) 11:30 am Sportscenter Saturday (ESPN) 12:00 Pm College Football North Carolina at Maryland (WFMY-Ch 2 WRAL-Ch 5) 12:00 College Football Notre Dame vs Navy (WGN-Ch 9 cable) 12:30 College Football Rutgers at Vanderbilt (WTBS-Ch 17 cable).