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The Ked and Black
Thursday, November 12, IWI
Bulldog netters gearing up
for Region III qualifying
By BRIAN MOERSCH
Krd and Black I oniribulm* W i iter
The 1981 men's tennis
team has some big shoes to
fill as last year's team sur
prised everyone by finishing
No. 3 in the nation
Graduation saw four of
1980 s top six players pluck
ed from the squad Only
John Mangan and Tom
Foster return. This year the
Dogs will have to be even
tougher as the schedule in
cludes top 10 teams Arkan
sas, Texas Christian.
Alabama. Miami and Clem-
son.
The team's next tourna
ment will be the Region III
qualifying tournament in
Athens Nov. 19-22 The win
ners and runner-ups of this
tournament will gain berths
in the National Indoor Cham
pionships at Princeton, N.J.,
in January
From now until after
Thanksgiving the Dogs will
be competing in their annual
round robin challenge mat
dies to determine who will
play in what positions when
the season starts These in
clude matches between
every member of the team
with the best records at the
end of the competition winn
ing the higher spots on the
team. This system is used
for both singles and doubles
competition
Head Coach Dan Magill
and the players are all look
ing forward to the upcoming
season with enthusiasm
Both he and the players (eel
this year's team is a top 10
contender.
"I'm very hopeful we'll
have a great team this
year,” Magill said. "We’re
off to a great start by winn
ing our first tournaments.
I'm certain that we ll be able
to hold our own against
anyone," Magill said.
Mangan said the team is
young and inexperienced,
but also very talented, and
he looks forward to a produc
tive year for the team.
"I think this year’s team is
very talented, but also inex
perienced. But they've all
shown they can play at the
college level," said Mangan.
"This could be considered a
rebuilding year, but we re
real hungry and I think we’ll
have a good year."
Foster said he thinks the
upcoming season will be full
of surprises.
“I think it will be very in
teresting. We probably have
more raw talent than we did
last year," Foster said. “I
think we play a very tough
schedule this year and in
order to come out successful
we re gonna have to play our
best tennis.”
And their next opportunity
comes next week at the
region qualifying tourna
ment.
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Seven & Seven
Bezecny wins in
USTA nationals
One Georgia freshman tennis player is already making
marks for himself since coming to Athens this fall
George Bezecny, a native of Fort Lauderdale, Fla , won the
United States Tennis Association national men's singles tour
nament for sectional champions last weekend after he
defeated Brian Joelson, the No. 1 player at Texas A 8 M, in
the finals 6-1,6-3.
Bezecny was the youngest player at the tournament in San
Diego and said it was the biggest tournament he had ever
played in. Competitors at the tournament were all champions
from the 16 sections in the United States.
"It was the first men's national tournament that I'd ever
played in," Bezecny said "There was a lot less pressure
because I was playing older guys and I was not seeded at
all.”
In the first round, Bezecny defeated Butch Seewagen 1-6,
6- 0, 7-5, after being down six match points Seewagen has
defeated Jimmy Connors
“I just hung in there." he said That attitude is not uncom
mon for the freshman according to Head Coach Dan Magill
"He's a good competitor and he plays smart," Magill said
"lie’s like Bjorn Borg in that he’s a quiet fellow. He coneen
trates very well."
Bezecny also defeated Western champion Jerry Karzen.
7- 5, 6-2 and Kocky McGuire. Northern California champion
6-3,6-2, on the way to the championship.
“I was very surprised to win,” Bezecny said. "I just went
in there with the attitude that 1 could do my best I had
nothing to lose By winning the tournament I got a lot more
confidence ”
Bezecny's main concern for now is getting ready for the
Region III qualifying tournament in Athens Nov. 19-22
— Jackie Crosby
Freshman George Bezecny won the USTA na
tional singles title in San Diego last weekend in
his first national tournament appearance
It’s time pro basketball
cleaned up its unsightly act
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II was supposed to be the
sport of the '70s
Bui professional basket
ball never made it to the top.
and it's clear to me, at least,
where the central problem
lies
I consider myself
something of a basketball
fanatic. I read everything I
can get my hands on about
the subject. During the past
season (1980-illi, 1 watched
in the neighborhood of 250 to
300 games, cither live or on
television.
But of that total, very few
were professional contests
I've tried to get into wat
ching NBA basketball, but I
just can’t. Why 7 Well, for the
simple reason that the game
played in the colleges is far
superior to the brand of
basketball played in the Na
tional Basketball Associa
tion But I'll get back to that.
When the past decade
began, the future of NBA
basketball was indeed
bright The league had strug
gled through some hard
times through the years
from its inception in the
1940s, but in the '60s things
began to click.
The Boston Celtics dynas
ty — the team dominated the
league championships, w inn
ing the title every year but
one, in the '60s — attracted
fans and the all-important
media interest
The '70s started well
enough, but as the decade
drew to a close most of the
league's teams were having
problems drawing at the
gate and television ratings
were becoming incresingly
poor.
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And at the same time, pro
fessional and college football
were booming, baseball was
enjoying a resurgence, and
college basketball was more
popular than it had ever
been
So what happened to the
NBA?
Some people would have
you believe that the NBA s
troubles are race-related
Blacks began to dominate
the game during the '7(Js.
and NBA rosters began to fill
up with black players
The argument goes that
white sports fans just don t
want to watch — in person or
on the tube — blacks play
basketball.
I don't buy that reasoning
Black players in the other
hig-time sports, although
they don’t so totally
dominate the lineups, are
just as popular as whites,
even in college basketball,
which is also predominantly
black I fail to see how
racism can influence in
terest in one sport and not
the others.
I believe that it's not
racism that plagues the
NBA, but rather the struc
ture of the game itself
College basketball and pro
basketball are almost two
different sports NBA games
remind me of a game we us
ed to play in high school call
ed "Canadian Basketball "
The only rule was that there
were no rales.
In short, the NBA has
become far too physical,
games often resembling
loosely organized street
fights. College ball is played
the way the sport was
designed to be played; it's a
game of finesse.
It wouldn't take that much
to improve the quality of the
NBA game, believe me
A few suggestions for pro
fessional basketball;
Adopt more stringent rules
regarding contact and bring
back the three-official
system of a couple of years
ago Three officials can do a
far better job of covering the
court than two and could
work to eliminate the
ridiculous amount of pushing
and shoving that is
degrading the game
Adopt a 30-second shot
clock and legalize zone
defenses Legalizing the
zone would enable the teams
that can't match up physcal-
ly to play clean defense
while the 30-second clock
would give offenses more
time to set up good shots
Those changes would most
certainly have a positive ef
feet on the game and on fan
interest. I'd put money on it
Basketball is the lastest
moving and potentially most
exciting of all sports, and
NBA players are surely
among the most gifted
athletes around The NBA
need only clean up its act a
little and professional
basketball could become the
sport of the 80s
Mihe Christensen is assis
tant sports editor /or The
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