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Show SportsStars t if ' '- . I I A This An' That There's always plenty of talk about sportsmanship in athletics, both amateur and professional. With few exceptions, athletes are always good sports, win or lose, and this is something that cannot always be said for their support-era. support-era. There have been many instances in-stances where the unsportsmanlike conduct of fans has penalized the players they root for. When it's over, the fan goes home and forgets for-gets about It. But players, coaches, school and league authorities usually us-ually have some apologizing to do. Recently, fans at Mississippi State "booed" so steadily when Kentucky Ken-tucky was defeating their team (the Maroons' first conference loss of the season) that State's Athletlo Director Wade Walker felt it necessary to apologize for their behavior in a letter to UK's Athletlo Director Bernie Shlvely. Taln't fair to the players, or the schools, we say, and the fans should know better . , . Art Spinney, veteran offensive guard for the Baltimore Colts, Is now an assistant football coach at Boston College, his alma mater . . . The Los Angeles Rams have signed Marlln McKeever, star end for the University of Southern California and the National Football League No. 1 draft choice . . CLYDE LOVELETTE WAS OVER 6' tall when only 12 years old. He skipped rope and did other exercises to overcome youthful awkwardness. Now 6' 9". he developed devel-oped into one of professional basketball's, bas-ketball's, most outstanding: stars. |