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, 734 21 2AQ 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. 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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.