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♦ WEDNESDAY, APRIL 7, 2004
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‘Home’
ALAMEDA, Calif. (AP)
Cornerback Ray Buchanan
signed Monday with the Raiders,
becoming the latest addition to
Oakland's revamped defense.
Buchanan, an 11-year veteran
who made the Pro Bowl in 1998,
spent the last seven seasons with
the Atlanta Falcons He has 46
career interceptions, fourth
among active players behind
Oakland safety Rod Woodson
Buchanan was a standout
early in his tenure with the
Falcons, but they waived him last
month to avoid a hefty roster
bonus. He was benched late last
season in a defensive shakeup
shortly before coach Dan Reeves
was fired.
The Raiders' defense has
received a healthy influx of veter
an talent after last season's 4-12
finish. Oakland also has signed
defensive tackles Warren Sapp
and Ted Washington, and line
backers Dwayne Rudd and
Danny Clark.
The Raiders also designated
cornerback Charles Woodson as
their franchise player, keeping
him in Oakland next season.
Buchanan will compete for play
ing time with Phillip Buchanon
and Nnamdi Asomugha.
Huskies win national title
SAN ANTONIO (AP) Led by
24 points from Emeka Okafor and
21 from Ben Gordon, the
Connecticut Huskies outclassed
Georgia Tech 82-73 to win the
national championship.
UConn became the first team
since the 1996 Kentucky Wildcats
to win the title after being ranked
first in the preseason.
Drtxtor, others added to Hal
SAN ANTONIO (AP) Clyde
Drexler was one of six former
players, coaches and team exec
utives announced as the newest
members of the Naismith
Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame
in Spnngfield, Mass
Joining him are Lynette
Woodard, an Olympic gold
medalist and the first female
Harlem Globetrotter; coach Bill
Sharman, already in the hall as a
player; the late Maurice Stokes,
the 1956 NBA rookie of the year;
Jerry Colangelo, chairman of the
Phoenix Suns; and Drazen
Dalipagic, an international star for
Yugoslavia.
They will be inducted Sept. 10
in Springfield.
In 1997, Drexler was selected
as one of the NBA s 50 greatest
players. He is one of three play
ers in league history to accumu
late 20,000 points, 6.000
rebounds and 6,000 assists
Baseon mutt rttwtinfl
SAN FRANCISCO (AP)
Major League Baseball will not
retest the approximately 500
samples remaining from last
year's drug tests for the steroid
THG, a baseball official said
Results of the drug tests on
Barry Bonds and several other
players are being sought by fed
eral prosecutors probing a San
Francisco-area nutritional supple
ments lab It is not clear if the
samples for Bonds and those
other players are among the ones
that still exist.
As part of baseball s effort to
determine the scope of steroid
use, two samples were taken
from each of the more than 1.400
major league players last season.
Most were destroyed, but about
500 were saved when a grand
jury in San Francisco issued a
subpoena for baseball's drug
tests.
The steroid tests did not check
for THG. which was undetectable
until last summer. Officials did not
know of THG's existence when
the baseball tests were carried
out last season. THG is at the
center of the federal probe.
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) The
Texas Rangers signed shortstop
Michael Young to a $lO million,
four-year contract extension with
a dub option for a fifth season
The 27-year-old Young volun
teered to switch from second
base to shortstop when Alfonso
Soriano came to the Rangers in
the trade that sent Aiex Rodnguez
to the New York Yankees in
February. Texas had been work
ing hard through spring training to
re-sign Young to a long-term deal
Young batted .306 last season
with career highs in home runs
(14) and RBIs (72). His 204 hits
ranked third in the American
League.
He led the Rangers in batting
average, at-bat*, hits and triples
and tied for first in doubles
PITTSBURGH (AP) General
manager Dave LMMMft con
tract was extended for two sea
sons through 2007 and manager
Lloyd McClendon's 2005 option
was exercised by Pittsburgh.
McClendon also was given a
ciub option for 2008.
Old hobby spawns new memories
I did something Saturday
that I’ve done each
spring or summer for
the last 20years. (Considering
I’m only 25 years old, I think
that is a pretty commendable
streak.)
Anyway, my landmark
accomplishment involved pur
chasing baseball curds you
know, that old hobby not so
many kids seem interested in
anymore. I bought a box of 11
packs of 2004 Topps cards for
$lO.
My mom would tell you that
I have 11 billion baseball tmd
football curds cluttering up
the closet in my old bedroom,
but once again, haseball cards
seemed to call me out. I prob
ably didn’t need any more.
But at this time of the year,
checkbook balances seem sec
ondary when you have the
chant* to pick up new batting
gloves, softball cleats, a fitted
Braves hat and, for me, base
ball cards. It’s Spring Fever at
its finest.
I would estimate that I have
about 15,000 cards, and base
ball cards represent 90 per
cent. The most valuable 30 or
so are in plastic shields, so
they'll supposedly remain in
mint condition.
I spent hundreds of hours
sorting and arranging most of
them in protective pages. And
luckily, the pages are still in
binders standing the test of
time, or at least out of the
reach of pets mid little kids.
Go figure that my most pre
cious one is a football card, a
1986 Jerry Rice rookie card I
simply haven't brought fill my
best baseball cards together to
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Northside's Jonathan Holifield lets a ball
pass where his doubles partner, James
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see which one has the most
value, but I’d guess it would
be one of those from ’97-’Ol,
when Andruw Jones, Nomar
Garciaparra, Alex Rodriguez
and Vladimir Guerrero
arrived. I don’t recall owning
any cards from special sets
during their rookie years, but
I know I have a couple of stan
dard ones.
You might wonder why
those more recent cards
would have the most value if
I’ve collected them for 20
years.
That’s because my age
group is at the short end of
the stick. Between ages 8-14,
which I consider a kid’s prime
for a hobby, haseball card com
panies were just starting to
improve the look of their
products.
More companies got into
the mix, and generated inter
est bv randomly including
exclusive, limited edition
amis in ordinary packs. They
brought much-needed
upgrades, like placing empha
sis on the quality of the pho
Bears, Eagles
Houston County and Northside met in
a Region 2-AAAAA tennis match
Monday at the Warner Robins
Recreation Department courts. In the
end, it was the Bears boys who won
their part of the match 4-1, while the
girls came out victorious 3-2.
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snazzier graphics.
Busically, my fellow collec
tors and I fell between the
cracks during this transition.
We’d been able to buy boxes of
curds for under S3O every now
and then from our allowances.
Consequently, the value of our
best cards remained around
$3.
When the quality rose, so
did the cost. The card values,
especially the more exclusive
ones, reached new highs.
Greater investments yielded
greater value, but when was
the last time you won a raise
in your allowance with an
argument about inflation.
In a not-so-scientific poll, I
learned a couple of my friends
in their mid-20s are still proud
of their Greg Maddux and
Frank Thomas rookie cards.
Most stopped collecting
around high school, but
almost everybody can tell you
about their best cards. What
are your best?
It’s amazing to see how
cards have come full-circle. I
bet I have cards from the play
ing days of half of the current
Major loague managers.
A handful of them are
already in the Hall of Fame.
Hindsight is 20/20, but it’s
just disturbing to see the
dozens of common Barry
Bonds, Randy Johnson, Roger
Clemens, Sammy Sosa, Gary
Sheffield, tmd Pedro Martinez
cards we all have remain at 75
cents. These days, you find a
glossy Marcus Giles worth $2.
No ofTense to Marcus, but
all of them are future Hall of
Fnmers.
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Northside’s John Tran returns a volley.
Perry girls sweep Dublin
Special to the HHJ
Midway through the first
half in a critical region game
Friday, senior Lisa Sweat
sent a dangerous comer kick
into the penulty box that
sliced between the near post
and Dublin defenders.
There wus nothing the
defenders could do but
wutch as the ball bounced off
of one of their own and into
the net.
It was a great moment for
the Lady Panthers’ leading
scorer to break out of a
slump. Her goal was the only
needed, as the Lady
Panthers not only swept the
Irish for the first time but
also shut them out twice this
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shot advantage, whereas
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momentum of its own. The
center midifield duo of
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half, but when Jordan Dykes
scored late in the second
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