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team, the Penguins, will
need.
Williams’ position on the
football field has always
seemed to be a bit of a mys
tery, even back in his days as
a Northside Eagle.
“At the end of (July), I’ll be
going to Youngstown State
so I can finish up my foot
ball career,” said Williams
after he worked out at Mark
Taylor’s speed training ses
sion at Warner Robins High.
“When I talked to the coach
es, they told me I would be
playing receiver and I’d be
doing punt returns and kick
returns.
“When I went there on a
visit, (the coaches and play
ers) showed me a lot of love.
That’s what I needed at the
time because I was going
through some stuff with
schools. When they came
through, they really came
through for me.”
Williams said the
Youngstown State coaches
were following him through
his final year at Georgia
Military, which is the only
PRO, COLLEGE
BRIEFS
AL rallies late against NL
PITTSBURGH (AP) - No mat
ter who’s on the mound, the National
League can't find a way to close out an
All-Star game.
With the AL down to its final strike,
Michael Young hit a two-run triple off
Trevor Hoffman for a 3-2 victory that
kept the Americans unbeaten for the
past decade.
Behind David Wright’s homer and
some daring, old-style baserunning, the
NL took a 2-1 lead into the ninth and
brought in Hoffman to try to finish it.
But the San Diego Padres’ reliever
failed to put this one away.
He gave up a two-out single to Paul
Konerko, who was replaced by pinch
runner Jose Lopez.
Troy Glaus’ smash bounded over the
left-field fence for a ground-rule double,
perhaps preventing Lopez from scoring.
He was held at third, but Young made
that moot.
Young earned the MVP award _ and
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clad girl from certain
doom.
Well, you won’t see that.
You have to make conversa
tion.
I like talking to Muffin
and am more than willing to
converse between the first
10 laps and last 10 laps of
the NASCAR race.
I’ll babble with the best of
them during commercials of
the Women’s College World
Series or any baseball game.
We can talk anytime dur
ing tennis or golf, but we’re
both bored into a stupor
and incapable of any kind of
intelligent conversation.
That’s how you avoid
those trying moments when
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he added in regard to the
Team Georgia and Smyrna
training, “is they’re all start
ers who’ll be back. They’re
all good kids and they all
work hard.
“(More importantly),
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junior college football pro
gram in Georgia. Through
the help of Jesse Hicks,
the head football coach at
Baldwin High School in
Milledgeville, Williams got a
look from Illinois and South
Carolina State.
The major issue was schol
arship money, Williams said,
where these other schools
told him they would have to
divide the money between
him and other players.
That’s the area where the
Penguins made his decision
easy.
Williams spent the last
two years at one of the win
ningest junior college pro
grams in the country. With
his help, Georgia Military
finished No. 2 in the find
NJCAA poll in 2005. That
was the Bulldogs fifth top
five finish in the last 15
years.
“That’s where it’s at,”
said Williams. “They show
you dedication. They show
you how to be a family. They
show you the little things
you need to know about
going to the next level. There
are some real good coaches
down there.”
Williams had originally
signed with Tennessee-
the AL again earned home-field advan
tage in the World Series.
Player admits to insult
MILAN, Italy (AP) - Marco Materazzi
acknowledged he insulted Zinedine
Zidane before the French captain head
butted him in the World Cup final, but
repeated his denial that he called Zidane
a terrorist.”
A Paris-based anti-racism group
issued a statement Monday saying
Materazzi had called Zidane, whose par
ents emigrated to France from Algeria, a
“dirty terrorist."
Zidane and Materazzi exchanged
words in extra-time of Sunday's final in
Berlin. Seconds later, Zidane lowered
his head and rammed Materazzi in the c
Judge gives Hawks, Thrashers
get more ftexaiftty in ruNng
ATLANTA (AP) - The Atlanta Hawks
and Atlanta Thrashers on Tuesday were
given significant added flexibility in their
ability to negotiate trades and free-agent
acquisitions.
your minds on the game,
and hers remains fixated on
any excuse she can find to
make you acknowledge her
existence. Get her to watch
with you.
The way our conversation
relationship is set up, we
gather in the living room
- me in the recliner, and
Muffin on the couch.
Muffin is knitting or cro
cheting. Her leisure time is
spent more constructively
than mine.
When the crowd roars,
she looks up and catches the
replay.
The joy of watching sports
with her is that she gets
involved, ask questions and
expresses opinions.
The best part of her pres
ence means that she can
make conversation before
the climactic moment and
they’ve all done it ... pur
sued it (the aforementioned
training) on their own.
“That makes me feel good.
They’ve tasted a little suc
cess and they want to con
tinue to be successful.”
Hornets, Bears
take it easy
As far as the status of
Bacon and Brian Devoroux
of Lee County, Colby Britt
of Schley County, Frankie
Davis of Stratford Academy,
Trent Franzago of Peach
County and Jared Reaves of
Dodge County.
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Chattanooga out of Northside
after his senior season ended
in 2003. He accounted for
22 touchdowns as the Eagle
quarterback that final high
school campaign and had a
56-yard touchdown pass in
the North-South All-Star
Game.
The Maryland judge who lass week
ruled the teams could not begin negotia
tions to sign a free agent to a deal longer
than one year on Tuesday changed that
maximum contract to four years.
It was not known what prompted the
new ruling Tuesday from Montgomery
County (Md.) Circuit Court Judge Eric
Johnson.
Johnson also stipulated Tuesday that
the Hawks and Thrashers could not sign
players to contracts that would put the
teams above the league's respective
salary caps.
Hawks and Thrashers president
Bernie Mullin applauded the ruling.
“We now have the needed flexibility to
be able to enter into player transactions
for both teams,” Mullin said Tuesday,
added Hawks general manager Billy
Knight and Thrashers general manager
Don Waddell “are aware of the modifica
tion and have expressed confidence in
our ability to initiate and pursue the kinds
of deals that will continue to improve
our dubs."
car washing never comes
up.
That is the key, dear read
er. If you involve your signif
icant other from the outset,
you can limit interrupting
conversation, and you can
see that turning point of the
game/program.
Another alternative will
lead to a happy ending and
has worked for me for many
years. Muffin gets disgusted
or bored and goes to the
computer in the other room.
The disadvantage to that is
the computer always breaks
at the worst moment. In the
end, it’s less expensive to just
talk to the little woman.
Remember, when she gets
fed up, lawyer’s fees, court
costs, child support and ali
mony result in part-time
jobs and no time to watch
anything.
a couple of other Houston
County schools, Bears head
wrestling coach Heath Burch
said him mat men were tak
ing this summer off.
That was ditto for
Westfield, said head coach
Clint Humphrey, although
he did add the Hornets were
in the gym “lifting weights”
and getting/staying in shape
for football.
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Georgia Military’s staff had
the idea of using Williams
as a wide receiver and kick
returner. However, there
were some problems with
the slated starting quarter
back at that time. Basically,
this player wasn’t ready to
handle the position, so head
HORSESHOE SPRING LEAGUE FINAL STANDINGS
PLACE NAME WIN LOSS AVE HCP RINGER
1 DAVE MCKIM 35 4 68 47 46.28
2 HOWARD KUEHN 28.5 10.5 60 54 38.27
3 LARRY MYERS 25.5 13.5 56 58 35.32
4 MARYANN GIBBS2O 7 66 49 44.91
5 BUDDY AYER 19.5 16.5 41 71 18.61
6 THOMAS CARTER 19 20 41 71 19.29
7 JOHN RACKLEY 18 16 53 60 32.43
8 CHUCK POOLE 16.5 19.5 49 64 26.18
9 DANE CLARK 14 22 58 56 36.11
10 DOYLE JOHNSON 13.5 14.5 59 55 35.18
11 JEROME KENNEDYI2 18 40 72 20.67
12 WAYNE WILDES 11.5 15.5 26 85 12.59
13 MAUREEN THOMPSON 9.5 11.5 35 76 14.76
14 JAN COLLIER 9 17 31 80 12.02
15 RICHARD THOMPSON 8 4 46 67 26.88
16 SUZANNE MILLER 7 2 37 75 16.67
17 BILL DEAN 6 6 16 94 3.96
18 RONNIE MILLER 4.5 4.5 51 62 24.44
19 MARCUS WATERS 4 2 49 64 22.08
20 WILLENE HALSTEAD 3 3 20 90 5.42
20 CAROLYN HILDENBRAND 3 6 49 64 23.33
20 TRACY HILDENBRAND 3 6 24 86 5.83
23 GORDON VANDERGRIEF 2 4 20 90 5.83
23 WOFFORD SINYARD 2 13 46 67 25.00
25 JOANNE KENNEDY 1 2 58 56 32.50
25 WAYNE LAWTON 1 5 18 92 6.25
27 TIMBOZMAN 0.5 5.5 17 93 3.33
28 TONY MATIAS 0 9 9 100 1.11
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coach Bert Williams turned
to Ferlando Williams.
“We got us a nice ring
(for the Golden Isles Bowl)
and things like that,” said
Ferlando Williams. “The
coaches always come through
for you when you need it.”
Even at Northside, quar
terback wasn’t the position
Williams expected to be play
ing for coach Conrad Nix.
“Every school I’ve been
too, it’s been the same
thing,” he said. “I’m always
supposed to be at another
position, but I would have
to step in and play quarter
back. It’s all for the good,
though. ,
“My senior year we went
11-1 and played against
Newnan (in the playoffs)
and lost. It really hurt us
because we were a champi
onship team. We just had
little mistakes and couldn’t
adapt to them like we were
supposed to. We were never
used to losing, so when
you’re not used to losing,
when those problems come
you can’t adjust.”
Sounds a bit familiar,
like last season’s trek for
Northside to the state cham
pionship game, where lit
tle mistakes here and there
Ferlando
Williams
practices
with Warner
Robins
speed
coach, Mark
Taylor, on
Tuesday at
McConnell-
Talbert
Stadium
in Warner
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cost the Eagles against
Statesboro.
“It was the little things,
the plays a player’s supposed
to make didn’t happen,” said
Williams. “The ball wasn’t
in their favor then.”
Williams still remembers
the lessons drilled into him
from the Northside pro
gram.
“It was another process
where they teach you how
to be together, making sure
you’re on time and make
sure you are where you
need to be and not doing the
bad things,” said Williams.
“Around here there are a
lot of little things you can
hurt yourself with. If you
stay with the coaches and
believe and trust what they
say, you’ll be 0.K.”
At Youngstown State,
Williams will major in civil
engineering. As a football
player, he wants to continue
the hard work that got him
there in hopes that it will
take him to the next level
“like my boy, Willie Reid.”
Reid is heading for the
Pittsburgh Steelers of the
National Football League.
He and Williams work out
together with Taylor on that
all-important speed.
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