4 Page 8 - The Michigan Daily - Thursday, February 7, 1985 Georgia Tech upends fifth-ranked Duke Raising Iel BY PAUL HELGRE\N Start the violins... ... here's my final column ATLANTA (AP) - Mark Price scored 22 points and John Salley and Yvon Joseph each had 17 as 10th-ranked Georgia Tech pounded No. 5 Duke 81-71 in Atlantic Coast Conference basketball last night. The Yellow Jackets surged to an 8-0 lead in the first three-and-a-half minutes, and Duke never was able to get within five the rest of the way. PRICE, Joseph and Bruce Dalrym- ple each had four points in the first six minutes, when the Yellow Jackets bolted to a 16-4 advantage. Tech's biggest lead was 15 points, coming three times during the game. The victory lifted the Jackets to 17-4 for the year and 6-3 in the conference. Duke fell to 16-4 and 5-4 and had a three- game winning streak snapped. The victory left Tech in second place behind Maryland, which went to 5-2 in the conference by beating Wake Forest 64-62 last night. Johnny Dawkins led the Blue Devils with 21 points, many of them coming on long jumpers from the 20- to 25-foot range. Mark Alarie added 20 points and David Henderson scored 13 for Duke. ffardad 64, Wake Forest 62 WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) - Rserve guard Jeff Adkins hit three of four free throws in the final 10 seconds to preserve 20th-ranked Maryland's 64- 62 victory over Wake Forest in Atlantic Coast conference basketball last night. The Terrapins led by their largest margin of 12 points at the 2:16 mark. But the Demon Deacons fought back by out-scoring Maryland 12-4 in the final minute. Delaney Rudd pulled Wake Forest within 61-60 when he stole an in- bounds pass and made a layup with 24 seconds left. ADKINS WAS fouled in the backcourt with 10 seconds left and hit both his at- tempts. Rudd countered with a layup with five seconds left, but Adkins went back to the line with three seconds left and hit one of two chances. For some time now, I've been debating about what I should write for my final column. The problem with the Daily sports staff tradition of "farewell columns" is they all tend to fall in one of three categories; a) The gosh-I-had-a-blast-but- shucks-now-it's-all-over-sob-sob column. b) The yeah-I-love-sports-but-lemme-tellya-sportswrit- ing-ain't-what-it's-cracked-up-to-be column, and c) The I'd-like-to-thank-all-the-little-people-for- making-it-possible column. I could easily write any of those three columns. But why should I? What could I possibly tell you that you haven't heard before? I could tell you all about the frustration and sen- se of futility that builds up whenever you devote so much time to something you know isn't working quite right. I could tell you how unsatisfying it can be to write about the games others are playing, all the while peeking and prying into the private lives of people who in most cases are as ordinary as Mike in your econ discussion, or Jennifer from chem lab. I could tell you how truly absurd it is to try to tell "the" story of one person in 500 words or less, and what a fiction sportswriting ultimately can be. I could tell you how it feels to be ridiculed by the people you write about, the very same ones you worshipped, as a kid, ridiculed because you "don't know what you're talking about," or because you're "always being negative." I could tell you how it feels to write something "bad" about someone for no other reason than something called journalistic objectivity, which is a baffling concept for sportswriters, who are almost as a rule unobjective fans in the contests they cover. I could warn you how stale sports can become when you get so close to them you can't breathe. But I want to tell you more than that. If I only told you the negative side, then I'd be creating yet another fiction, showing only one side of what, on balance, has been a childhood fantasy come true. Besides, like a sports-knowledgeable friend of mine once said, "I don't want to read about what a drag it is to watch Michigan football from the press box." Fair enough, Jason Lassner. There are two sides to every story. And I'm smart enough to know that as the years roll on (violins please) I'll probably forget all about that other stuff, sen- timentally reflecting upon my years devoted to the Daily and to sports, and everything they meant to me. I'll remember my freshman year, when a sinewy wide receiver by the name of Anthony Car- ter made Michigan football games worth the bother. I'll remember the elation of watching the goal posts come crashing down after we (yes, we) beat Purdue to clinch the Big Ten title, and helping to carry them out of Michigan Stadium. I'll remember how nervous I was going into the lockerroom while covering my first Piston game - and how ex-Wolverine Alan Hcrdy made me feel so at ease there when I interviewed r. I'll remember my sophomore year, when Bill Frieder trotted over to the student section after an 80-77 triple-overtime loss to Purdue to thank us for our support. I'll also remember that summer, when a car load of us made the trek to Omaha for the College World Series, and how then-sports editor John Kerr nearly died from excitement when Casey Close murdered a pitch in the ninth in- ning for a grand slam that beat Stanford and kept Michigan's hopes alive. I'll remember my junior year when I had a very relaxed, hour-long interview with Antoine Joubert after practice in a spooky-quiet Crisler Arena. I'll remember a similar session later that same season, with Bill Frieder, who was kind enough to take the time and straighten me out after I "rip- ped him" in a column. I'll never forget meeting Bo Schembechler for the first time, the old coach leaning back in his of- fice chair, puffing contentedly on his pipe and carefully answering questions for the young pup reporters as if it were the first time he had ever heard them. I'll remember the football season my senior year and everything that went along with covering Bo and Michigan. I'll never forget the chill I felt as I stood on the sidelines after the Miami upset, lost in a storm of triumphant Wolverines that raced past me. I'll remember Thursday mornings with assistant coach Gary Moeller; Bo's familiar, "Hiya, stud," which he said to everyone whose name he couldn't remember. Of course, I'll remember the irrascible side of Schembechler, too, like the time when I asked him if he had any response to criticism of his play calling by several Iowa players. Looking me square in the eye he said "That's just like the copy boy telling you he's a better writer than you are. You may agree with the Iowa players - I agree with the copy boy." I'll remember other things from my final year as a Daily reporter, like celebrating in the streets, and libraries of Ann Arbor after my beloved Tigers won it all, and another season with the basketball team (this time covering the games for a wire service), in which it was my extreme pleasure to be humiliated by the legendary belit- tler, Bob Knight of Indiana. "We'd double-cover you if you had the ball down low," he said in res- ponse to my routine query. "And you don't look like you'd be too goddamned effective, either." I hope you were wrong, Bobby. I hope that in at least some small way my three-and-a-half years at the Daily were effective, after all. 4 Action Sportswear Footwear * sw soccerI 419 E. 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