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♦ FRIDAY, MARCH 11, 2005
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Bulldog tackle released
ATHENS - Georgia defensive
tackle Darrius Swain was freed*
from jail Wednesday, allowing him
to join the Bulldogs for spring
practice after being arrested on a
probation violation.
State Judge Kent Lawrence
ordered Swain's release from
the Clarke County jail after being
assured that the senior would pay
$232 in fines listed on the petition
to revoke his probation from a
criminal trespass conviction last
year.
Swain, 22, of Decatur was
arrested by University of Georgia
police on Feb. 23 and accused of
driving with a suspended license
and speeding.
He was accused Of breaking
down the doors of an apartment
in December 2003 and was fined
SSOO plus surcharges after plead
ing guilty in April.
That incident drew a one-game
suspension for the Jan. 1, 2004
Capital One Bowl. Coach Mark
Richt indicated there would be no
further punishment.
Falcons sign Reese
FLOWERY BRANCH - The
Atlanta Falcons have signed free
agent linebacker Ike Reese, who
played seven years in Philadelphia
after being selected by the Eagles
in the fifth round of the 1998 NFL
draft out of Michigan State.
The 6-foot-2,222-pound Reese
is considered one of the best spe
cial teams players in the league
and earned a Pro Bowl selection
in 2004. He totaled a team-best
33 tackles on special teams for
the NFC champions last season
and has 139 special teams stops
in his career.
As a nickel linebacker, Reese
made 36 tackles with one sack,
five quarterback pressures, two
interceptions and one forced
fumble in 16 games played, with
one start.
For his career, Reese has 210
tackles, 6.5 sacks, 25 quarterback
pressures, five forced fumbles,
one recovered fumble and two
interceptions in 112 career games
with five starts.
Players subpoenaed
NEW YORK (AP) - Jose
Canseco, Jason Giambi, Mark
McGwire and four other current
and former players were subpoe
naed to testify before a congres
sional committee investigating
steroids policy, a move the sport s
leadership vowed to fight all the
way to court.
Curt Schilling, Sammy Sosa,
Rafael Palmeiro and Frank
Thomas also were subpoenaed
to appear at the March 17 hearing
of the House Government Reform
Committee along with players'
association head Donald Fehr,
baseball executive vice presi
dents Rob Manfred and Sandy
Alderson and San Diego general
manager Kevin Towers.
Stanley Brand, a lawyer for the
baseball commissioner’s office,
said baseball will attempt to fight
the subpoenas.
Canseco, Fehr and Manfred
had agreed to testify. Manfred
would speak on behalf of baseball
commissioner Bud Selig.
Ankiel to swap positions
JUPITER, Fla. (AP) - Rick
Ankiel is ending a pitching career
derailed by injuries and record
wildness and will try to make the
St. Louis Cardinals’ roster as an
outfielder.
In the 2000 postseason, Ankiel
became the first major league
player since 1890 to throw five
wild pitches in one inning, and he
totaled nine wild pitches in four
playoff innings.
Ankiel is a career .207 hitter in
the major leagues, going 18-for
-87 with two homers, a double, a
triple and nine RBIs.
Montana earns NCAA bid
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP)
- Montana earned a bid to the
NCAAs by holding off Weber
State’s late rally for a 63-61 vic
tory in the Big Sky Conference
title game.
The Grizzlies are making their
first trip to the tournament since
2002, when they were eliminated
in the first round by Oregon.
Marshall s Pruett retires
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (AP)
- Marshall football coach Bob
Pruett retired after nine years,
saying it was time to move on.
Pruett is the most successful
coach in Marshall history, going
94-23 with five MAC champion
ships and five postseason bowl
victories.
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scouted at Peach County,
nor was it the same one that
lost to Warner Robins 11-1.
“They moved their best
player, number five (Hannah
Purvis) to fullback,” he said.
“She disrupted our attack
all night.”
She did more than that.
With five minutes left in the
game, Central head coach
Ken Cowart moved Purvis
up to center-mid and upped
Lance endorses France for Olympics
By JEROME PUGMIRE
AP Sports Writer
PARIS - With the
International Olympic
Committee in town, Paris
bid officials are jockeying
for all the votes they can
get.
They already have Lance
Armstrong’s.
The six-time Tour de
France winner threw his
support behind Paris’ bid
for the 2012 Olympics on
Wednesday, the same day
IOC members started
assessing the city’s plans
for the games.
In an interview with The
Associated Press, Armstrong
acknowledged he is torn
between the competing
Paris and New York bids,
but said the French capital
deserves to be picked.
Paris would be “outstand
ing,” said Armstrong, who
hails from Austin, Texas.
New York also merits sup
port given “everything
they went through the last
four, five years,” he said,
an apparent reference to
the Sept. 11, 2001, terror
attacks. But he added: “If
they don’t win in 2012, they
could win in 2016.”
NYC2OI2 officials had no
comment on Armstrong’s
endorsement.
Moscow, Madrid and
London also are competing
for the games. The host will
be determined in a vote by
the full IOC in Singapore
on July 6.
French officials showed
the 13-member IOC panel
their bid for 2012, includ
ing presentations about the
sites that would be used
and the plans to build a
$2.52 billion Olympic vil
lage on an old railway yard
in northern Paris.
Mayor Bertrand Delanoe,
sports minister Jean-
Francois Lamour, bid direc
tor Philippe Baudillon and
others took part in the
meeting at the hotel where
the IOC panel is staying.
Inspectors arrived Tuesday
for a four-day tour of the
city considered the favor
ite to stage the Summer
Games.
Lamour spoke of creat
ing a “new sporting infra
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the Lady Chargers’ attack.
Central had a chance to tie
the game when Northside
keeper Tiffany Corley came
out too far and left the net
wide open.
The Lady Chargers
couldn’t capitalize, how
ever, because the rest of
Northside’s defensive line
stopped the ball long enough
for her to get back.
Corley ended the game
with three saves. That’s how
structure” for Paris. He
highlighted plans to hold
swimming and diving at
an aquatic center near the
Stade de France in the
gritty northern suburb of
Saint-Denis.
The IOC inspectors also
were shown plans for a pro
posed Superdome to host
gymnastics near Porte de la
Chapelle, another somewhat
run-down area of northern
Paris. Yet to be built, the
25,000-seat arena would be
used for basketball, hand
ball volleyball and music
concerts after the games.
Paris has been under the
Olympic spell.
The 2012 logo adorns
the facades of the National
Assembly and City Hall;
lights in the colors of
the logo are projected at
night from the bridges of
the Seine; and metros and
buses have been decorated
with Olympic hid slogans.
On Wednesday, the city
unveiled a plan to rename
its national 80,000-seat sta
dium Stade de France Paris
2012.
Armstrong said Paris
was “arguably the best
candidate” for the 2008
Olympics, which went to
Beijing instead.
“To be fair, I think
that Paris deserves the
Olympics,” he said before
starting Wednesday’s stage
of the Paris-Nice race.
Armstrong has a soft spot
for Paris. For six straight
years he has ridden onto
the famed Champs-Elyses
as winner of the Tour de
France. But as an American,
he has feelings for New
York, too.
“You’ve put me in a hard
place, but I think Paris
shoiild be an outstanding
city. But I also think that
in some points New York
deserves to have something
as special as the Olympics,”
he said.
Paris also picked up sup
port from Arsenal and
Chelsea soccer stars.
“My family wants to see
it. Now in my lifetime, I
hope to have the chance
to see it,” Arsenal striker
Thierry Henry said in a
video released by the Paris
bid organizers.
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many shots Central took in
the match.
The Lady Eagles travel to
Colquitt County Saturday
for a 4 p.m. non-region
match.
SCOREBOARD
NORTHSIDE 1, CENTRAL MACON 0
NS - Courtney Hoffman (Brittany
Sampson), 56:00
Shots: (CM) 3, (NS) 21. Saves: (CM)
Laurel Bowers 15. (NS) Tiffany Corley 3.
Records: (CM) 4-3, 0-2 in 3S-AAAA, (NS)
5-0, 1-0. Next: (NS) at Colquitt County,
Sat., 4 p.m.
Paris previously hosted
the Olympics in 1900 and
1924, and has since shown
that it can handle big events
with the 1998 soccer World
Cup and the 2003 world
track and field champion
ships.
The IOC will visit the pro
posed village site Thursday,
as well as the Roland Garros
tennis arena and the Eiffel
Tower, where volleyball
would be held under the
landmark’s giant iron legs.
Thursday’s tour coincides
with strikes by French trade
unions.
The protest is not con
nected to the Olympic bid,
but threatens to give IOC
inspectors a taste of French
labor unrest.
However, the strike is set
for the southeast of Paris,
while the IOC will be visit
ing sites in the north and
west of the city.
“I have had guarantees
from the unions and from
police that it will not inter
fere with the work of the
IOC,” Delanoe said. “In
a democracy it is normal
that people express their
opinions. We hope all goes
well.”
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of their postseason flame
outs be blamed on a lack of
offense.
I just hope this year does
not see a regular season drop
off for the same reason ...
While my alumni men’s
team is not faring well
and will be needing a new
coach soon, the Lady Vols are
certainly doing themselves
proud.
Pat Summit is about to pass
Dean Smith for most wins by
a college coach and the Big
Orange have a good chance
to win it all, as long as they
can keep out of Connecticut’s
bracket.
Of course, this is just the
preamble. Tennessee is about
to take off on another of
those streaks they had when
Holdsclaw was on campus.
Alexis Hornbuckle and
Nicky Anosike will be start
ing next season as sopho
mores. Shanna Zolman and
Tye’sha Fluker will be seniors
and coming on the scene will
be Candace Parker off a year
of rehab. They will sweep all
before them ...
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X\football team will do in
a couple of years.
They look to be SEC cham
pionship material next year
and national champ the year
after. Phil Fulmer has stock
piled some good young talent.
They have the best corps of
wide receivers in the country
- amateur or pro - and have
LEAD
From page 1B
kick by Mayo.
Mayo completed his hat
trick with an unassisted goal
that started on the right wing
at midfield.
He took the ball to the box
and booted it past the goalie
with 11 minutes left in the
game.
“We noticed they were a
little bit slower on the out
side,” Lane said, “so we tried
to take advantage of that.”
Currently, Mayo leads the
Eagles with seven goals.
Hayes is second with three.
Johnson has allowed only
HAMMER
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In all, Perry had 12 shots
on goal to the Golden
Hawks’ six. Daniel Douthit
also recorded six saves for
the Panthers to Washington
County’s goalkeeper who
had seven.
Most importantly to head
coach Sam Said, the victory
improved the team’s Region
4-AAA record to 2-0 and,
“moves us closer to a state
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some good young arms to
throw to them. The defense
will be sound as usual and
the sound of Rocky Top will
be heard throughout the land
Too bad my Indianapolis
Colts can’t do the same
thing. They just sort of flow
on through the regular sea
son and then lay a big egg
when it counts.
What they need to do is
get homefield throughout the
playoffs and then see if they
can take the measure of the
Patriots in the dome for all
the marbles.
A lot of commentators like
to paint Peyton Manning as a
choke artist. I have followed
him throughout his career
and it’s hard to deny the fact
he does seem to find a way to
lose the big ones.
He never could beat Florida
in a big game and the Steve
Spurrier curse seems to have
been revived by Belichek.
I think the main problem
is he just puts too much pres
sure on himself and won’t
spread the responsibility
around. Michael Jordan had
to learn that lesson before he
became a winner in Chicago
and I think Manning does
too. He also needs to defer
some of that big contract he
got so the team can sign some
good defensive players.
But the big thing is that
he needs to learn he does not
have to do it all himself.
Sort of like Michael Vick.
four goals in five games,
including shutouts against
Mary Persons and Perry.
Northside improved to 4-1,
1-0 in 3S-AAAA subregion,
while Central fell to 2-4-1, 0-
2 in the subregion.
SCOREBOARD
NORTHSIDE 5, CENTRAL MACON 1
NS - Sean Mayo, unassisted, 5:00
NS - Mayo, unassisted, 11:00
NS - Jesse Hayes (Mayo), 15:00
CM - Blaine Hays, unassisted, 22:00
NS - Hayes, unassisted, 64:00
NS - Mayo, unassisted, 71:00
Shots: (CM) 8, (NS) 23, Saves: (CM) Jason
Griffin 7, (NS) Steven Johnson 7. Records:
(CM) 2-4, 0-2 in 3S-AAAA, (NS) 4-1, 2-0.
Next: (NS) at Colquitt County, Sat., 6 p.m.
playoff birth,” he said. “But
we still have a long ways to
go
“We have a lot of young
players that still need more
experience at this level of
play, but they are coming
along nicely and it will be
fun to see these guys con
tinue to grow and gel more
as a team with each game
they play as the season pro
gresses.”
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