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by Steve K WalzNew York—Last year the Pittsburgh Pirates danced to the tune of ‘We Are Family.' But Bucs million-dollar slugger Dave Parkerhas changed all of that This year the Pirates are riding high on the Baseball' theme song by Warner Brothers jazz musician Michael Franks The cut, off of the ‘Bad Habit album is also being played in other ballparks around the league, and Major League Baseball Films has decided to make a movie around the song The highlights will include on the field brawls, crashes into walls and player collisions The analogy? ‘Love is just like baseball.’ To me it sounds like the plot of Irwin Allen's first baseball disaster flickAfter every basketball draft each team claims to have improved itself immensely That is until training camp starts where most of the rookies begin to show some bad habits. In the New Jersey Nets case, the oppositemay be true Kevin Loughery has had to put up with a young but inexperienced club the last few years and with the Nets expected move into the Meadowlands Arena (when and if it is ever completed) the front office would love to have a marketable team With the selection of Mike Grmns-ki. Mike O'Koren two local heroes, along with Lowes Moore and Rory Sparrow it looks like things are about to change for the better in the Garden State(From left to right) and Dave ParkerWillie Stargell, Michael Franks, Chuck Tanna* *More draft notes—The Kmcksdrafted Kelvin Hicks from New York Tech in the sixth round. What's so special about this forward? Well for one thing New York Tech, under coach SamStern, was one of the nation's best Division II squads with Hicks leading the way in rebounding and scoring I remember broadcasting a game between Brooklyn College and New York Tech when Hicks was a freshman Even then Kelvin used to bring his own fan club along to watch his magic.’ Division II and III basketball games rarely draw big crowds but Kelvin lit up the league His chances of making the Kmcks though, are slim and from what I'm told he might play in Sweden this fall if he fails in training camp And Dave Kufeld, a hulking center from Yeshiva University, a Division III school where sports is given a very low priority was drafted in the tenth round by the Portland Trailblazers Dave led the nation in rebounding last year but his chances of making the pros are ml Stu Poloner was the last Yeshiva player chosen by the pros, and that was nearly ten years ago. Poloner could have played for the then Baltimore Bullets, but his religious beliefs precluded any pro basketball involvementTV COMPUlOG SfftVICfS INCPag* iTV TIMIS, JULY 4-JULY 12, 1*16
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Kannapolis Daily Independent
Kannapolis, North Carolina, US
Sun, Jul 06, 1980
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