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8 • The Red and Black • Thursday. July 12. 1990
IFANFARE
Former Georgia Tech basketball player Karl Brown ended his
brief pro football career when he left the Denver Broncos this
week. Brown will try to catch on with an NBA team, but might go
to Europe if that doesn't work out.
Diaz and netters face a rollercoaster summer
By JON TULLY
Sports Editor
Foi Georgia tennis coach
Mamie’ Diaz, the summer has
bear, a time of both happiness
and disappointment.
Happiness has come in seeing
the improvement of new signee
Ivan Baron, who has become the
hottest American junior in the
world, and the continuing re
covery of A1 Parker, who is be
coming a better conditioned
player after an ir\jury.
Disappointment came when he
found out he would be without
All-American Murphy Jensen,
who was declared academically
ineligible, and will not be playing
here for the next two quarters.
"You just go on and try to make
the best of it," Diaz said. “The
men’s tennis program has the
highest cumulative average of all
of the sports, but every now and
then you hit a point like this, and
that’s just something to get over."
All-AmericanJensen played
with Parker last year as the
number-one doubles pair for
Georgia.rred from the University
of Southern California after
playing two years for the Trojans.
“It’s a little disappointing,”
Diaz said. “We hope to go on. I’d
like more than anything to see
Murphy continue here. We all
want to see Munphy graduate,
and well try to offer him all the
upport we can.
Dia
Peter Frey/f he Ned and Black
Murphy Jensen: won't be serving foi Bulldogs this fall
haz said he hopes the rest of
the team can help fill the role
Jensen has on the team until he
can return.
“When you lose a player like
Murphy, you lose a little bit of an
edge," he said. “He’s a piece of the
puzzle we must try to replace.”
Incoming freshman Baron
from Plantation, Fla., will do his
best to fill the hole. He has be
come one of the toughest junior
players in the world. Baron won
the Italian Open juniors tourna
ment, finished in the quarterfi
nals in the French Open juniors
and, last week, advanced all the
way to the semifinals in Wimble
don’s junior tourney.
1 think we’ve really struck
gold with this one,” Diaz said.
“Not only is he a fine player, but
he’s an ‘A’ student as well. He’s
quickly becoming an impact
player.”
Baron’s combination of good
playing and good grades brings to
mind another of Diaz’s disci Dies,
Parker. Parker is getting ready to
resume his training for the U.S.
Open in late July and early Au
gust, which he will enter as an
amateur. Diaz said Parker is
going to Indianapolis at the
Olympic Testing Center and will
be devising a conditioning pro
gram.
“We’re trying to minimize inju
ries with Al," Diaz said. “He’s
given a lot to our program and he
deserves to have a fair shot at the
NCAA title.”
The presence of Parker and
Baron, along with the return of
Wade McGuire, the 1989 Small
College Player of the Year who
was out of action with an injury
last year, should help the Bull
dogs get over the loss of Jensen.
Baseball is still our favorite
What is it about the World Cup
soccer games that the Europeans
(and some Americans) consider a
good reason to get tanked and start
riots in the streets whether their
teams win or lose?
American sports fans seem co
matose compared to European
soccer fanatics. If the Atlanta
Braves were a soccer team in Eu
rope, WWIII would’ve broken out
by now and Ted Turner would be
sailing row boats in China. Like
many Americans I’m not ready to
toss out my footballs, baseball bats
and basketballs for a big round
white leather soccer ball. The sport
just doesn’t appeal to me. At least
not yet.
Well dust off your foreign lan
guage books and break out the riot
gear, because the biggest sporting
event on Earth is coming to
America in 1994 when we Yanks
host the World Cup.
But the sweat pouring forth
from my body tells me this is base
ball season and as usual the At
lanta Braves are still in the back of
the tent. We did have one All-Star
this season, catcher Greg Olson,
who deservedly earned a spot. But
what of Ron Gant? Going on pure
statistics it would seem that Gant
deserved to be in Chicago also, but
unfortunately for Gant there were
just too many other All-Star out
fielders in the league. And more
importantly, they were more recog
nizable than Gant.
Gant has had a hard time
gaining recognition. When he was
a rookie for the Braves in 1988, he
led all major league rookies in
home runs, RBI’s, runs, extra base
hits and triples but yet finished
only fourth in rookie of the year
voting.
David
Pace
Last season, the Braves decided
perhaps Gant wasn’t an infielder
after all and sent him all the way
down to single A Sumter to learn
the outfield. He learned a lot fast
and made it back up to the big
leagues in less than a year. Now
many consider him a top prospect
for Comeback Player of the Year
honors. But after the lesson he
learned as a rookie and this year’s
snub from the All-Star team, Gant
won’t be getting his hopes up.
“1 can’t worry about that right
now,” Gant said. “I thought I had
good enough numbers to make the
All-Star team, but I didn’t. Right
now I just want to help this team
win some ballgames.”
To win some ballgames the
Braves will need some better
pitching in the second half of the
season. At the break Atlanta is 33-
47. The same miserable record as
last season at this point. But the
Braves are on the right track.
The Braves need help in the
bullpen. But they should place
hands off signs around the necks of
their “Young Guns:” Pete Smith,
John Smoltz, Tom Glavine and
Steve Avery.
This pitching staff will go on to
strike tear in the hearts of op
posing teams around the league. It
would just be a shame for these
guys to be playing elsewhere.
David Pace is a sports writer for
The Red and Black
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