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Isrsonr Ma i -bU 4- Saturday June 17 1995 £ht Birmingham forge SATURDAY Birmingham Port-Herald Baseball D4 Update D5 Auto racing D6 Deaths D9 1 A enalties hurt Barracudas summary in the game that left the Cudas struggling up 4 front "The worst thing that came out of the game was losing a couple of linemen when we short there to begin Pardee said Quarterback Reggie Slack subbing for injured starter Matt Dunigan completed 10-of-18 passes for 108 yards and two touchdowns before sitting out all but one drive of the second half Backups Jimmy Klingler and Kelvin Simmons split that time Klinger was good" Pardee said "then they burned us on two or three screens we have to be able to react Tbe Cudas first score came an their second drive at 5:23 in the first quarter After super back Willie McClendon raced 31 yards on a draw the Cudas' first run of the game kicker Franco Grilla converted a 45-yard field goal for a 3-0 lead Then the penalties started to kick in Two (days after an offsides penalty gave the Pirates a first down Billy Joe Tolliver hit' Wayne Walker for a touchdown at 1:28 and a 7-3 lead On the last play of the second quarter defensive lime man Donovan Cans sacked Tolliver forced the ball loose and recovered ft at Shreveport's 11 Slack then put the Cudas ahead 10-7 by hitting John Brawn HI in the left corner Please turn to CUDAS page D8 season July 4th at Winnipeg got a chance to look at must of the 67 players who dressed out for the game Coach Jack Pardee and his staff must cut their 78-man roster to 55 by Monday It's a good thing the Cudas have more time need it after committing 17 penalties for 143 yards and sustaining a multitude of injuries that must be evaluated during the weekend certainly hope the penalties that we had are going to be correctable" Pardee said had an aggressive team on the field and if we can keep doing that I think we can eliminate some of these penalties and move on to be a better team" The Cudas outgained the Pirates 428 yards to 405 but the offensive production was hurt by injuries to first-team linemen Chris Rodahaffer and Craig Gibson early in By Richard Scott PmI TTcrili Btpmtrr SHREVEPORT La For the CFL expansion Birmingham Barracudas the best thing about last 31-28 CFL exhibition loss to the Shreveport Pirates is that it count in the standings While the second-year Pirates needed to impress the 18883 fans at Independence Stadium after a miserable 3-15 season last year the expansion Cudas simply needed to use their first preseason game to discover what they have and what they need In the process Birmingham took Shreveport into the fourth quarter before the Pirates scored the winning touchdown with six minutes 26 seconds left in the game The Cudas who play their final preseason game next Saturday in Miami against the Baltimore CFL Colts before they open the completed eight and a touchdown of 14 passes for 171 yards SCORE: Shreveport Pirates 31 Birmingham Barracudas 28 1 STAR: Shreveport Junior Smith accumulated 100 yants rushing and 4 receiving on six carries and One receptions KEY STAT: Bvminghsn committed 17 penalties tor 143 yards NOTE: This was the irst exhibition game tor the Barracudas a CFL expansion team Shreveport is a second-year CFL team NEXT: The Barracudas' next and final preseason game wfl be played at pm next Saturday at Maml against the Baltimore CFL Colts -Richard Scott but he turned the bait over on a fumble at the Shreveport 1-yard line and threw the interception that ended the last chance Defensively the Cudas gave up too many big plays but they made some too including a fumble recovery ami an intereception that set up first-half touchdowns pressure defense early in the game ilia Norman can hold lead this time at US Open 'A 'Vi JJ i -f '-v'5 -v I 4' an American major waves to the Top 10 leaders Greg Norman Jumbo Ozaki PMMkMaon Bob Tway BiGlasson fVn fNX rnCwNNiMti Davis Love I MckFaktor Curt Byrum Mark Roe 68-67-135 -5 69-68-137 -3 68-70-138 -2 69-69-138 -2 69-70-139 -1 66-73-139 -1 72-68-140 72-68-140 70-70-140 71-69-140 36 boles in a major Yet his only victories were in the 1986 and 93 British Opens The last time he led the UB Open after 36 holes was at Shinnecock in 1981 He finished tied for 12th clos-I with a 75 on Sunday i time could be different A clearly determined Norman worked and willed his way around an already difficult Shinnecock course that was getting tougher by the hour as steady sea breezes dried the links "Shinnecock is starting to show its Norman said "By No 7 the wind started to pick up and It's get- close ting tough It's going to be a cl It might not be all that close Only Ozaki was as near as two strokes following his opening-round 69 with a 68 for 137 Please turn to OPEN page D9 -I Say it so Bartow It seemingly has happened every spring in Gene professional career This year is no exception Somehow somewhere Bartow's name pops up for a JobF Fora couple of days there is rush of information and rumor Then Bartow withdraws his name from consideration Several times during PAUL FINEBAUM Commentary the years it appeared Bartow taken actually had taken lobs In 1985 he verbally agreed to be the Kentucky coach But the UAB president at the time Dick Hill urged him at least to come back and talk it over UK wanted a decision on tbe spot and Bartow backed out making way for Eddie Sutton One only can wander how many Final Four teams Bartow would have coached in the Bluegrass State In 1989 Wake Forest came after Bartow and again the story goes he verbally agreed to take the post before having a change of heart There have been countless other flirtations during the years from too many schools to mention in such a small space But the most recent situation should be taken seriously Tbe University of Memphis has a vacancy for athletic director It is interested in Bartow for many reasons primarily tiie fact he is a revered figure in the Bluff City There also is reason to believe tl also is reason to believe this time that Bartow probably would take the offer In many respects I wouldn't blame him The past few years hive been long and arduous for Bartow it UAB Besides the well-publicized battle for Division I-A football Bartow has esperienced his first losing season at UAB Go top of that crusade to see his aon Murry replace him aa head coach has not met with universal acceptance bum top university officials So who could blame him if he left? I think anybody could But I leave Though I have hope be doesn't leave had my skirmishes with Bartow luring the yean disagreed with him often and criticized him mightily he truly is one of the classiest acts to come to our town In many respects be is as important to UAB basketball as Bear Bryant was to Alabama football Bartow put this program on the map and has not really received the appropriate degree ofn appropriate degree 1 appreciation The most obtrusive slap at Bartow occurred several years ago when UAB Arena was built Originally it kneBartow was to be called the Gene Arena -I But someone connected to the University of Alabama board of trustees puts stop to ft Someone propagated the notion that the system doesn't name things after living people which we all knew was ridiculous In recent years Bartow has had to-endure the constant criticism by a certain fringe element of Alabama fans who seem to make it their work to find fault with the UAB bead coach Two years ago Bartow waa pilloried by many people after a letter he had written to the NCAA that was critical of Alabama including (heaven forbid!) criticism of Bear Bryant was published in the Los Angeles Times Last winter he was criticized for his handling of the firing of football i coach JimMyer and the hiring of Watson Brown I was among those blasting Bartow Please tan to FINEBAUM page Dt i Jfe -v-- 1 -I'-' -j -tv a -k 'V if V'A I 1 Grwg Norman who never has won More than 766 volunteers have stepped up to work in various capacities Holleman said More than 56006 tickets already have been sold "with virtually no Lemak laid And corporate sponsors have reached into their collective coffers to provide a stable financial base bum which to operate One area that concerns Lemak is public awareness of the event and the significant impact a good showing by Birmingham next summer could nave on the cityi future ability to attract similar events think the greatest challenge we face from here until July of 1996 is Lemak said "What we really have to show people is that these are the actual Olympic I Olympic Games This is not the preIym-pics this Olympics or this is not a preview of the spies or like the Olympic Games is a chance to go to an Olympic event right here in town without having to get into the crowds in Atlanta and all the hassle over there They can come to Legion Field attend an Olympic event and hpve the time of their "St--' fc 1 4 v-j 3 ii'-- ft crowd after his birdie at No 18 pie doing the picking and the belief mat staging the Olympics in the United States is virtual lock for 1 successful Games Salt Lake was the favorite before the vote Still the speed and size of the victory wss stunning The city won on the first round of a secret ballot by the International Olympic Committee receiving 54 of the valid 89 votes The number of votes required for victory was a majority of 45 Sion Switzerland and Ostersund Sweden each received 14 votes while Quebec finished last with 7 Normally it takes several rounds before a winner emerge with a majority IOC officials said the last time an Olympic election involving more than two cities was decided in the first round was when Sapporo Japan was selected to host the 1972 Whiter Games That vote was the first of Sait four unsuccessful bids "I have to admit we expecting such a rapid result" said Salt Lake City bid chairman Frank Joklik 4 This was the fifth 0 Salt Labe City dating This was the fifth Olympic bid by back to 1966 Four yean ago Salt Lake tart the 1998 Games by four votes to Nagano Japaa Please tire to 2602 page D6 Amriated Ppfw SOUTHAMPTON NY This UB Open could come down to Greg Norman vs himself Or Norman vs Shinnecock Hills Another round such as 67 and the greatest golfer never to win a major championship on UB soil couldbe so far ahead that all he will have to contend with in tomorrow's final round is his history of losing tbe big ones Norman simply was brilliant in a five-birdie two-bogey round that put him at 5-under-par 135 after 38 holes two strokes ahead of Jumbo Ozaki and three ahead of Phil Mick-elson and Bob Tway It was a round that would have been a 64 or better on most any other course all depends on Greg right said Nick Price who followed his first-round 66 with a 71 playing so well in control of his emotions and his game If he plays well tomorrow there probably will be only two or three guys with a Norman notoriously tough when he has a cushion he can build on and has been known to run away and hide from tbe field He also has been known to fritter slim leads in major champi- pway sli onships Twelve times since 1981 Norman has been fifth or better after two rounds of a major And this is the fifth time he has been leading after The plot thickens Grass transforms Legion Reid into Olympic site By Urn Stephens PmHIwiU Cbtrtiyetnl As Dr Larry Lemak peered proudly through 'the glass windows of the press box high atop Legion Field a beaming smile stretched across his face as if he were a new father in the delivery room The grand old 83091-seat stadium ion Graymont Avenue seemed a bit brighter to him as Lemak described it yesterday than it hid since artificial turf was installed in 1969 The turf was gone replaced by vibrant green grass -It was the greenery that captured Lemak! attention even more so than the 40-foot by 60-foot cutout of a soccer player that hung underneath the famous "Football Capitol of the South" banner on the east grandstand I leave a legacy for Birming-uTid Lemak who as ham this is said chairman of the board for the Birmingham Soccer Organizing Committee for 1996 helped lead the switch bum carpet to grass as part of bid to host Olympic soccer games in 1996 1 "Legion Field is now one of the best playing fields in the Lemak said taken a great stadium and made it even greater" Utah just hiding time Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City Rowland SchermanSpedal to the Port-Herald legion Field is now one of the best playing fields in the world' says Dr Larry Lemak chairman of the board for the Birmingham Soccer Organizing Committee taken a great stadium and made it even AMocistcd Pi Mi BUDAPEST Hungary The fifth time was the right time for Salt Lake City After nearly three decades of being told it would have to wait the Utah capital finally ended its frustrating cnaae yesterday by being the overwhelming choice to boat the 2002 Winter Olympics Salt Lake Cuy was selected in a landslide over three other candidates bringing the Winter Games to the United States for the first time since Lake Placid NY in 1980 It also will be the second time in less thm six yean that the Olympic flame will bum on US soiL Atlanta hosts the centennial Summer Games next year feel like the climber made it to the top of Mount Everest" said Salt Lake City Mayor Dee-dee GorradinL been a tong hard climb To reach that peak is one of the moat exciting moments of my "I really believed we would Utah Gov Mike Leavitt said "Inside I knew ft was the right thing to Rejected four tiroei in the past 29 BSOC President Bill Holleman even wss bolder in his assessment of Legion new look By dumping the man-made turf once considered the only modern way to play has kind of stepped into the 31st he said and main concern however has little to do with the next century They are more focused on 1996 mid on making sure Birmingham is prepared when the best soccer teams arrive in the city to compete for Olympic £kEe process accelerated yesterday as Olympic soccer leaders Sthered to announce that only 469 ys remain before the games begin The playing field might now be marked off the checklist they said but there still is much work to do and time in which to do it is growing short Olympics are) 1 once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for all of us in this Holleman said time we all rallied behind this project" So far Holleman and Lemak said community support has exceeded ations expectati 7.