14 - The Michigan Daily - Monday, July 23, 2001
Bulls' Crawford re-
injures left knee
Warrant issued for
CHICAGO (AP) - Chicago
Bulls point guard Jamal Crawford
suffered a serious knee injury this
week while shooting baskets at a
private gym.
"We know it's certainly not
minor," general manager Jerry
Krause said of the second-year
guard's left-knee injury. "But we
will not know the extent of it until
the swelling goes down,"
An examination Saturday will
determine whether Crawford tore
his anterior cruciate ligament,
which would require surgery and
cause him to miss a good chunk, if
not all, of the 2001-2002 season.
Crawford hyperextended the
same knee in April, causing him to
miss last season's final four
games. Recently, he said his knee
was still bothering him and
declined to join the Bulls last
week at a California summer
league.
The latest injury occurred Tues-
day at a private gym.
Krause said he was not angry
that the former Michigan player
was injured while playing in a pri-
vate gym.
"Guys are free to go out of this
building and play," Krause said.
The 6-foot-5 Crawford averaged
4.6 points and 2.3 assists a game
last year.
Searight's
PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) - A judge
has issued a warrant for former Uni-
versity of Michigan basketball player
Maurice Searight, who failed to
appear as a witness in a murder trial.
Searight was subpoenaed as a pros-
ecution witness in the slaying trial of
Jerry Hardin, 17, of Pontiac.
Searight, who was cut from the
Michigan basketball team after the
season by new coach Tommy Amaker
for violating team policies, was a no-
show Thursday in Oakland County
Circuit Court.
Assistant prosecutor Mark Bilkovic
then requested a material witness
warrant for Searight .
Judge Denise Langford Morris
arrest
issued the warrant, which allo
police to arrest Searight and keep h
until he appears before the judge
posts $50,000.
Hardin is accused of killing T
rance Tolbert, 20, outside a ho
after a graduation party in June 2
in Pontiac. He is charged with hor
cide open murder and possession o
firearm in commission of a felony.
Bilkovic said Searight was expe
ed to testify that he saw Hardin sho
ing at the victim as Hardin a
running.
Searight's testimony would put 1
gun in Hardin's hands, as wou
another witness, Bilkovic told T
Oakland Press.
arnasE M ARSHALLDiy
Jamal Crawford, (top) and Maurice
Searight (below) had a rough week.
Celebrating a glorious European weekend for Old Glory
-- By David Horn the President this past weekend. So par-
Daily Sports Editor don these patriotic ramblings, as I pre-
tend that the only place America's
As President Bush wraps up his image is observed is on the playing
meetings at the G8 Summit, American fields of international athletic competi-
international relations are the worst they tion,
have been in years. The President's mili- David Duval and Lance Armstrong
tary and environmental plans gave America a belated
have alienated the United Commentary Fourth of July present this
States from the rest of the past weekend. What a gift to
international community. Fortunately, a America, to not only represent but to
Texan (not Dubya) and a Floridian (not excel on behalf of the stars and stripes
Jeb) represented the U.S.A. better than on an international stage. Duval,
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thought by many to be the second-best
golfer in the world, finally won his first
major by shooting 10-under at Royal
Lytham to capture the British Open.
Meanwhile, Armstrong - who has
battled away testicular cancer to win the
Tour de France in each of the past two
years - captured the lead in the race's
13th stage on Saturday. Armstrong is
now expected to cruise down from the
Pyrenees, north through the streets of
Paris and into the record books as the
first American to win the world's great-
est bicycle race three-straight times.
And what of these accomplishments?
As American sports enthusiasts get
caught up in home run races and pen-
nant races that reoccur every summer,
two Americans are laying claim to their
nation's domissance internationally.
There are few fair and true interna-
tional competitions. The Olympics have
become diluted by controversies over
amateurism, drug abuse and IOC scan-
dals. The World Champions' status
credited to the yearly winners of the
NBA Finals and World Series is an
obvious anomaly. America participates
in a hockey world championship, but it
is strictly a North American/Northern
European/Slavic affair. International
athletic prowess is gauged by success in
sports like track, tennis, wrestling, soc-
cer, cycling and golf. In these sports
every continent is represented. This past
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Lance Armstrong Is a model - competitively and personally - for U.S. athletes
weekend, America earned two notches Vijay Singh - it's Duval. He a
in its red, white and blue belt as Duval Woods represent America with trem
took golf's oldest major, if not its most dous dignity, and have regenera
prestigious, and Armstrong all but American interest in their sport.
assured his three-peat in a sport typical- In the international tennis wot
ly dominated by Europeans. Venus Williams won her second-
Armstrong's story is a heart-warming secutive Wimbledon crown earlie.
one of a man's triumph-over-illness. His month. She leads a powerful Ameri
comeback has been an inspiration to corps of herself, her sister Serena, Lii
everyone who is familiar with it, and his say Davenport and a renascent Jeuni
ability to complete the 3,600 kilometer Capriati to reclaim American dot
race through the French countryside nance in women's tennis.
(and across some of Europe's highest And if you can't get excited for
peaks), let alone win it three-straight white and blue achievement, perh
times is astounding. the promise of a maize and blue lege
As Charles Barkley pointed out, we in-the-making will get you going. A
should not look to athletes as role tnod- Webb, who will be a freshman on
els. But if ever there was an athlete Michigan track team this year, be
whom a nation could revere, respect and the first American highschooler
celebrate, then he is Lance Armstrong. years to run a sub-four minute m
He is respected amongst his peers, and when he accomplished the feat this p
applauded in France, where applause January in NewYork.
for Yanks is generaly reserved for Jerry America takes a lot of criticism fri
Lewis. the international community - in pm
By winning the British Open on Sun- tics, and in sports. But our image
day, Duval becomes the sixth American both fronts can only be improved by t
to do so in seven years. He can now continued success of athletes like Ar
claim, without reasonable debate, that strong and Duval. It is not just their s
he is indeed the best golfer in the world, cess but their always humbl4
besides fellow countryman Tiger sometimes inspiring success that ea
Woods. The only golfer other than fans for the USA and her athletes ov
Woods to hold the No. 1 world ranking seas, and gives us back on this side
is not Scotsman Colin Montomerie, not the pond something for which we c
St frica Erie Els and not Fiji's whole-heartedly cheer.