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Western Carolinian Volume 44 Number 25

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PAGE4/THE WESTERN CAROLINIAN/MARCH 22. 1979 sports NCAA champ Bird not just your average jock by WICK TEMPLE AP Sports Editor The blue and white Cessna cut smartly through the crisp, clear Midwest morning and purred to a stop on the tarmac at Meigs Field, Chicago's downtown airport. The door flopped open and three rather ordinary men stepped out and shook themselves like chickens, as if to shed the wrinkles of the flight. Then in one sighing motion that allowed the little plane to rise perceptibly on its wheels, the Cessna disgorged Larry Bird. The young man who is one of the Finest basketball players the game has seen wore neatly pressed slacks and a loose-fitting sweater. The sun sparkled in his sandy hair. He carried a styrofoam cup into which he casually spat tobacco juice. The first impression of his is one of awe. Larry Bird is built exactly like a tree trunk. It isn't the height. Six feet, nine inches is not out of the ordinary for today's basketball players. But Bird is not one of those people who look like they were put on a rack and stretched. He is perfectly proportioned. He has shoulders broad enough to handle the height. Shaking hands with him is like being grabbed by a steamshovel. He is truly a giant. Human beings aren't supposed to come in that si/.c. Bird and his Indiana State University coach. Bill Hodges, had flown up to Chicago from Torre Haute to receive AP College Player of the Year and coach of the year awards. It was the morning after they had beaten Virginia Tech at Lawrence, Kan., in the second round of the NCAA Tournament. Bird had to be a little tired, but he didn't show it. In the question and answer period that followed the trophy presentation. Bird explained one of his reasons for not talking to reporters. He said they wanted to write only about him and not about the other players, and Bird considered that bad for the team and for the morale of his teammates. To anyone who had been around athletes and heard them talk for public consumption, this sounds like a tired old slab of baloney. The difference is, Bird means it. According to Landini, he means it for the same reason that he is as good as passing the ball as he is at shooting it. When you begin understanding that, you realize that Larry Bird may be exactly what he appears to be. Bird comes from the plateau country of southern Indiana around the town of French Lick, whose claim to fame is the fact that it is the place where ketchup was invented. If there are purebred country folk anywhere in the world, it is there, far enough south of Chicago and east of St. Louis not to be troubled by city influences, and just north of the Kentucky bluegrass which lures most of its good basketball players. Bird is unassuming and without affectation, but he is not inarticulate. He just doesn't have much to say. especially to strangers. Asked how he thought he'd get along in pro ball with so many reporters looking for stories, Bird said, "I think I'll do fine because they'll be talking to a lot of players. They'll be talking to everyone and I'll just be one of them.'' He was asked a tough question about what he thought of being pro basketball's "white hope." Bird was drafted a year ago by the Boston Celtics. More than 70 percent of the players in the National Basketball Association are black, and there is a theory that this keeps some white people from buying tickets to games. Such a question could give a lot of people trouble. Bird explained bluntly that he was not a racist and did not intend to sound like one. He said there are so many great black players in the NBA, and he just hopes he can keep up with them. In a sense, he ducked the question, the only articulate thing to do aside from telling the questioner that such queries are in bad taste and impossible to answer. On the court, he is the complete player. Hodges calls him the smartest basketball player he's ever seen. Bird seems to know, as if directed by radar just where and when to shoot, jump, pass—do everything that one in his sport is supposed to do. His passing is the most startling aspect of his game, especially considering his size. "You know how kids on playgrounds are all gunners? How they all shoot every time they get the ball?" Hodges asked. "Around Terre Haute all the kids are passing the ball. They're actually practicing passing because they're emulating Larry." all. they were untested by the Top Ten and they played Bird and Hodges and everyone else at Indiana State have experienced frustration on their way to a 32-0 record and a place in the NCAA's final four this weekend. AH along, they have had to listen to skeptics talk about a weak schedule. The pollsters seemed to almost grudgingly rank them first in the nation. After in what some called an easy conference, the Missouri Valley. It is the typical frustration of the team that comes from nowhere to the glare of national recognition. No one believed the Sycamores were as good as they knew they were. Fighting off the frustration probably made them stronger. Sports car slalom reappears For several years the sports car slalom was a regular feature of spring semester, marking the return of sunshine and warm weather to Cullowhee. The annual event usually drew do/ens of competitors and hundreds of spectators for an afternoon of automotive competition. The event, formerly sponsored by the UCB, seemed lo die a death of neglect, with only nine competitors showing up for the last spring autocross, in 1977. But last semester the Homecoming Committee decided to try it again, and the overwhelming success of that event prompted The Western Carolinian and WWCU-FM radio to continue the spring tradition. The 1979 version of Ihe annual spring sports car slalom will be presented this Saturday al the Whitmire Stadium parking lot. with registration beginning at 10 a.m. The first runs will hopefully begin about II a.m., and the event will probably last until about 5 p.m., according to Western Carolinian Editor David Jackson. Irophies. cash awards and merchandise totalling about $300 will be presented to the fust, second and third place winners in each of three classes, which will be designated the morning of the event after registration. All cars will be inspected for safety defects, and all cars must be equipped with seat belts. Drivers of open sports cars must also wear approved crash helmets. "We just want to have some good clean fun, and John Halverson pilots his VW Scirrocco in the fall Homecoming Autocross. This semester's event promises to be bigger and better, with several hundred bucks worth of trophies, cash and merchandise to be awarded the winners. Saturday's event is expected to draw a record number of entrants. provide some entertainment for the weekend in doing it," Jackson continued. The Gallery, TD's Newsstand, The Grapevine wine shop, Smoky Mountain Auto Parts, Lay's Department Store, and Speedy's Pizza are furnishing prizes and awards for the event.

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The Western Carolinian is Western Carolina University's student-run newspaper. The paper was published as the Cullowhee Yodel from 1924 to 1931 before changing its name to The Western Carolinian in 1933.
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- Creator
  - Western Carolina University
- Format
  - Publications (documents)
- Type
  - Text
- Date
  - Date original: 1979-03-22
  - Date digitized: 2018-09-10
- Extent
  - Dimension: 15" x 11.5"
  - Pages: 20 pages
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- Location
  - Jackson County (N.C.)
  - Cullowhee (N.C.)
- Source institution
  - Western Carolina University
- Source Collection
  - WCU Students Newspapers Collection
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  - HL_WesternCarolinian_1979-03-22_Vol44_No25
- Repository
  - Western Carolina University Hunter Library

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