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SPORTS
FANFARE
The Georgia women's basketball team will be featured on the
first regular season network telecast of a women's college bas
ketball game. They will play Iowa on CBS on January 5, 1991.
CBS will also feature Auburn and Purdue In a game that day.
Dooley: There’s so much to do, so little time
By ROB KREMER
Sports Writer
Twenty months ago Vince
Dooley decided to step down as
coach of the Georgia Bulldog foot
ball team and concentrate fully on
the job of athletic director.
So what is he doing to keep him
self busy?
Well, the way Dooley is working
these days, a better question might
be: What isn’t he doing?
He has worked with numerous
projects this past veer, and con
tinues to work with ones on the
drawing board. The projects have
covered the entire spectrum of
Georgia athletics, including the
renovations at Foley Field as well
as constant upgrading of the facili
ties at Butts-Mehre Heritage Hall
Now, as the sports programs
take the summer ofT, Dooley heads
to the drawing board and looks to
future projects. Possibly the most
carefully watched project will be
plans for an addition to Sanford
Stadium.
“We’ve got an initial approval by
the athletic board on the design
phase," Dooley said. ‘They autho
rized us $250,000 to design the ad
dition to the stadium. My personal
goal is to have it ready for the 1991
season, which means we would
huve to start immediately after the
1990 season — assuming every
thing is passed."
Football fans may also be con
cerned about who will play the
Bulldogs in the newly remodeled
stadium in the future. Doolev said
the Bulldogs, as well as the South
eastern Conference in general, is
holding off on any new contracts
for future opponents because of the
possibility of the league expanding.
“We want to put a moratorium
on scheduling right now with the
potential expansion of the confer
ence," Dooley said. “If we go to 12
or 14 teams then that’s going to re
quire us to do some shuffling, and
that tournament.
“Our philosophy has been that
we will only fund the sports that
the conference recognizes as
championship sports, and they
compete for a championship,”
Dooley said. “Because of the in
creased popularity of soccer and
the interest in soccer if there is fur
ther growth in the conference, I
think that it would be the next
sport that we would strongly con
sider. We discussed soccer as a con
ference this summer for the first
time ever."
Vince Dooley: being Athletic Director is more than enough
work to keep him busy
we don’t want to get locked into too
many future games.”
The stadium isn’t the only ath
letic facility in line for remodeling.
The exhibit at Butts-Mehre, which
showcases the achievements of
Georgia athletes and teams, will
need to accommodate a new dis
play for the national champion
baseball team.
“We constantly upgrade the ex
hibit here at the Butts-Mehre
Building," Dooley said. ‘We will
certainly have to build a cube for
baseball, they have earned the
right to have a cube exclusively for
winning the national
championship. We also will add
one for the accomplishments of the
decade of the 80’s, ending up first
in the Southeastern Conference.
We will upgrude the weight
room and the video equipment,” he
said. “Well start construction on
phase 4 of the renovation over in
the Coliseum, which deals with of
fice space.”
One sport where Dooley and the
rest of the SEC’s athletic directors
may look to is soccer. The interest
in the sport is on the rise after the
World Cup and the U. S.’ entry in
Because of the
increased popularity of
soccer and the Interest
In soccer if there is
further growth in the
conference, I think that
it would be the next
sport that we would
strongly consider.’
-Vince Dooley,
Athletic Director
So much to do, so little time. In
fact, Dooley doesn’t have enough
time to take on another job, even
one he enjoyed doing, like that col
lege football analyst job at ESPN
he had last year.
‘Doing television today is a full-
day i
time job,” Dooley said. "Which
means you almost have to put in as
much time preparing for a game as
you would if you were a coach.
Then I would find myself coming
back (to Athens) on Sunday af
ternoons and going to the office to
catch up on my Athletic Director’s
work. My wife even said that I
might as well go back to coaching.
If I could do a game every other
week I would er\joy doing it, but the
demands are just incredible."
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Murphy comes up to bat
By DAVID PACE
Sports Writer
ATLANTA — Dale Murphy
sits at his locker alone quietly
changing from street clothes to a
baseball uniform.
The Atlanta Braves’ superstar
rightflelder has already attended
to hie “paper work” duties such
as sorting through his fan mail
and autographing photos for hos
pitalized youngsters. Murphy is
now ready to prepare for the eve
ning’s game with the Philadel
phia Phillies.
Murphy is a very buBy man.
On top of his baseball duties, he
devotes much of his spare time to
charitable organizations not only
in Atlanta but around the
country. So much time in fact
that Sports Illustrated named
Murphy one of the top eight ath
letes in the world in 1987 in place
of their normal “sports
man/sportswoman of the year.”
‘It’s a good opportunity to help
others and it helps an athlete re
mind himself that not ever
is as lucky as he is.” Murphy said.
And not many teams have the
fortune of having a player like
“Murph”. Among his many
awards and honors include back
to back National League MVP
awards in ’82 and ’83. He was
only the fourth player in N.L. his
tory to do so. He is also one of
only three players ever to win six
player of the month awards,
joining Pete Rose and George
Foster. He has been to the All-
Star game seven times, including
1985 when he garnered the most
votes for the game.
Although he is struggling at
the plate for a third straight year,
Murphy is still the biggest attrac
tion for the Braves.
But nowadays mixed in with
the cheers Murphy has heard the
boos also. Many Atlanta fans feel
that Murphy, despite being only
34, is past his prime and should
be traded for younger players. He
was nearly traded two years ago
to the New York Mets for Lenny
Dykstra, Howard Johnson and
Rick Aguillera. It would seem to
many Braves’ fans that General
Manager Bobby Cox missed the
boat on that trade, given the
numbers that Murphy has put up
since then. But there is no guar
antees in baseball and those
players may not have been able
to perform in Atlanta either.
Many before couldn’t.
“It's the nature of the game,”
Murphy said. “I haven’t really
gone through it until the last
couple of years, bo it’s unique to
hear your name pop up in talks
like that.”
Now in his 13th full season as
a Brave, Murphy iB one of the
most popular sports figures the
city of Atlanta has ever em
braced. It would be hard not to
like the guy. He’s not flamboyant.
He doesn’t curse the umps or
throw temper tantrums. He
seems to be the perfect all-amer-
ican-boy-next-door-Mr.-nice-guy.
That image is OK with Murphy,
but he feels it’s no big deal. He’s
just being himself.
“I’ll get upset with myself
when I don’t do well, but I don’t
try to portray any certain image.
I think you can get into trouble
when you do that,” Murphy said.
“I’ve tried to figure it out. But
that is the hardest question for
me,” Murphy said, about quitting
the game. “Perhaps somewhere
down the line I could get into
coaching but honestly I don’t
know right now."
Then it’s time to go to work.
Murphy grabs his bat and heads
down the tunnel to the playing
field. Murphy wants to get in
extra batting practice before the
starters have to report. Awaiting
him are scores of little kids
screaming for an autograph. Dale
Murphy always makes time for
them.
Soccer tournament fever hits Athens
By DAVID PACE
Sports Writer
This weekend the Athens United
Soccer Association hosts the
summer sports tradition at the
UGA intramural fields.
The tournament, which begins
Friday and runs through Sunday,
will feature over 25 teams from the
under-14 level to the amateurs
(adults 19 and over). There will
also be a division of girls teams on
the under-19 level.
This is the first year for a girl’s
division. The Athens United
under-16 team played against the
boy’s teams on the under-14 level
last year.
The tournament is free to the
public. Games will begin in the
mornings at 8:00 and run
throughout the day. Preliminary
games will be round-robin competi
tion within each four-team divi
sion. Semifinal and final matches
will be played late Saturday and on
Sunday for the amateur and
under-19 boys teams. Under-19
girls and under-14 boys have only
one division and will determine
their winners at the end of round-
robin play on Sunday.
Featured in the tournament are
two of the top girl teams in the
state’s Metro Division, the home
town Athens United Gold-Girls
and the Datagraphic Eagles from
Atlanta. Datagraphics also fields
an amateur men’s team which has
won three of the last five Athens
tournaments and is considered one
of the best teams in the country.
Individual trophies will be
awarded to the first and second
place teams on each level. Plaaues
will go to the third and fourth place
teams.
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