| Show Page 6 February 10 1994 Men’s hoops throw best punch but still lose by Randall Harrington sports editor Psychiatrists are always telling people to talk out their problems However that is the worst advice you car give people when competing on the basketball court Especially in this d egos day an age of and glamorized trash talkin' The College of Eastern Utah came off a disappointing 79-6- 4 home-cou- rt loss to the Ricks College Vikings on Feb 5 CEU over-inflate- let the frustrations of a losing season erupt on the floor of the Bunnell-Dmitric- h Athletic in the form of Rosell Center Ellis "1 think that it was a combination of things that just boiled over in frustration and just snapped he knows what he did was wrong" CEU head coach Ronnie Stubbs said As the teams came to midcourt to shake hands after the final buzzer Ellis took this opportunity to release the anger he could not in the game Viking forward Adam sophomore Rogers a was the focus point of this release Ellis walked towards the Ricks team and threw a roundhouse which landed on Roger’s jaw Stubbs tried to restrain Ellis after the fact but needed the help of two other people to hold him back Rogers was taken to Castle- -' view Hospital where he received stitches for his lower lip "It's cheap and that's just the way he (Ellis) was and has been all year long He did that to us up there (Rexburg) and he wanted to do it again" steamed Ricks head coach Clyde Nelson "Coach Stubbs should have control of that and he tried to and he didn't get any 1 guarantee you we will do everything we can He won't play again! He won't Yet each one of us will have to ally it will all be worth it and powerful Soviet Union That that will a unified and overcome moment Seeing they go through our share of day as we could victories and defeats and we this too are inspired to country nothing else 1993 J The time is muary of have That day will live in the must learn how to deal with press forward in our lives "Vee" and those Does memories more hearts else both of these along the way of Jimmy anything fully State Valvano the former NC Athletics gives us the chance who witnessed it for the rest of reflect life? basketball coach and ESPN time "Do you believe in Tell means to experience the thrill of nothing? Sports His cancer miracles? Yes!" that to the players on the analyst is battling victory and the opportunity to time is running out and he is out leant how to rise above defeat the best of Sports brings University Kentucky's Does answers for in and worst each The advise searching of us Sport sports have any relevance to Kentucky head He would remember that astonishing flood of emotional life? Had he wasted his whole unlike TV or the coach Rick to him after NC State written letters that had dying people life over his obsession for movies is comPitino offered earlier people thanking had shocked Houston nine basketball? In a Sports real years his team of to prised commentIllustrated interview hhniot giving them a reason not to give up and he would after this people in real cancer on his circumstances ing fight against heartbreaking sit there shaking his head he said “The triviality of it just No one has defeat was The thoughts otJimmy Valvano during Ns battle with cancer clobbers me You get this sick written a script to "Do not let two and you say to yourself seconds be acted out no determine your director moves 'Sports means nothing' and that feels terrible God I basketball career" Do not let characters into just the right basketball team Those were devoted my whole life to it" one k determine your real tears streaming down their spots at the right time What direction in life faces after Christian Laettner If the story ended there the will happen ho one knows Athletics bridges the gaps in When a leg is broken it is not with no time left on the clock feeling would be one of for it is real round felt not the is and the hit "shot act heard an society During chilly October only Jimmy despair pain for millions Valvano but world" to win one of the So sports take us out of our Friday nights as fans throughout die US gather at their around the world Sports own realm and transports us greatest college basketball local high schools to cheer on a The Tell that to means nothing? for a moment into another pain games ever played the football team it does not nation who shared shouts of realm of reality A realm in Kentucky felt was just as real as a and matter if someone is Democrat witness we ecstatic excitement the as which regular men joy and tears of happiness or Republican Catholic or tremendous jubilation experiand women striving to oversagging economy and low Jew The game gives the and obstacles Duke simultathe that enced by at times come national moral were players their fans The players and seem insurmountable We sec community a rallying point neously swept away with the and for that one night everythat of were mortals be who coaches these 1980 US Olympic hockey part striving to one is unified with one thought their best in hopes that eventu teams' victory over the game will never be the same The significance of sports ld set-bac- play again this year!' The fight was inevitable as the game turned very physical from the opening tip Officials tried to curb the verbiage between players as well as the unnecessary pushing shoving and extracurricular activities They did a poor job of controlling the excessive talking and rough play even though they called close to 40 fouls “1 think that the referees let (see Holyfteld page 7) on their mind football Even though Valvano felt that possibly sports really did mean nothing he hoped that in someway and somehow he could find a meaning to them that would give meaning to his life and his fight against cancer He found his answer in a paragraph from a book he was reeding quotes SI “That is why athletics are important" wrote a British sportswriter named Brian Glanville "They demonstrate the scope of human possibility which is unlimited The inconceivable is conceived and then it is accomplished” "That's it!" cried Vee “That's why we strive! That's the value of sports! All those games they mean nothing -and they mean everything!" His fist clenched He hadn't poured himself into emptiness for 23 years he hadn't devoured players stats for nothing he hadn't The people who compared his upset of Houston to his fight against cancer were right “It's what I've got to do to slay alive" he said “I've got (a— Sports pages) |
