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Mavs look to wrap up their fi rst title
SPORTS BRIEFS
PISD summer sports
camps ongoing
Plainview ISD summer
sports camps include:
•Lady Bulldog Softball
Camp, June 9-11 from 9
a.m.-noon for fi rst through
sixth grades; June 16-18
from 9 a.m.-noon for seventh
and eighth grades; cost
is $35 for all three days or
$15 daily; call Michael Stephenson
at 806-778-5005
or e-mail johnny.hill@
plainview.k12.tx.us.
•Lady Bulldog Volleyball
Camp, June 13-16
from 9 a.m.-noon for
second through sixth grades
and 1-4 p.m. for seventh
through ninth grades; cost
is $50; call Torri Hatch at
292-9986 or e-mail torri.
hatch@plainview.k12.tx.us.
•Plainview Tennis
Boosters is sponsoring a
tennis camp for incoming
kindergarten through eighth
graders from 9-11 a.m. June
13-16 at the PHS tennis
complex. Cost is $30. To
pre-register contact Ricky
Powell at powellricky@
yahoo.com. Registration the
fi rst day of camp is at 8:30
a.m.
•Hector Limon Plainview
Bulldog Baseball Camp,
June 13-16 from 9-11 a.m.
for second through fi fth
grades and 11:30 a.m.-
1:30 p.m. for sixth through
eighth grades; cost is $30,
includes T-shirt; call 445-
7395.
•Bulldog Football Camp,
July 11-14 from 9-10:15
a.m. for fi rst through fourth
and 10:30 a.m.-noon for
fi fth through ninth grades;
$25, includes T-shirt; 296-
4081 or 296-4083.
Final Flying Queens
camp coming soon
The Wayland Baptist Flying
Queens will hold their
fi nal summer basketball
camp June 27-29.
The camp is a Position/
Agility Camp designed to
give campers one-on-one
time with coaches to develop
guard and post skills.
Cost is $210 for overnight
campers and $160 for
commuters. A $75 deposit
is required at sign-up. The
deadline to sign up is June
17. Registration will be
10 a.m.-noon June 27 in
Hutcherson Center.
Golf for Kids’ Sake
tourney upcoming
Big Brothers Big Sisters
of Plainview will hold its
fi rst-ever Golf for Kids’
Sake Tournament at Plainview
Country Club July 23.
The event will be a fourman
scramble. Cost is $75
per player or $300 per team.
Prizes and awards will be
presented.
For more information,
contact Herminia Armendariz
at 806-288-9271 or
Shyenne McAnally at 806-
763-6131.
NCAA: Giving away spending money
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players were breaking rules
because, unless you’re
Lance Armstrong, your lies
are going to come to light
someday.
But I think for years the
NCAA’s leniency has allowed
schools to tip-toe the
boundary lines of the rules
without much consequence.
I think that attitude is well
displayed in how USC felt
like it had been slighted
when the NCAA handed
down some of the strictest
sanctions it had given
in almost 20 years for the
By BRIAN MAHONEY
AP Basketball Writer
MIAMI — The hammer Dirk
Nowitzki is so close to escaping is
pounding away harder than ever at
LeBron James.
The Dallas Mavericks are a victory
from claiming the title that James
came to Miami to win. It would
forever alter Nowitzki’s reputation,
which has already been elevated
enormously during this series as
he’s ignored injury and illness.
And James is now the target of
all the criticism Nowitzki long endured,
the one shouldering most of
the blame as things go wrong.
“That’s just a part of the game
if you’re the star or the face of the
franchise,” Nowitzki said Saturday.
“If you win, it’s great for you, and
everybody looks at you. And if you
lose, you’re going to get hammered.
It’s just part of the business. I think
we understand that, we’ve been
around long enough. I got the hammered
the last 13 years, basically.
So hopefully this year I can make
the hammering go away for a year.”
He has two shots at it. The Mavs
can win their fi rst title tonight (7
p.m., ABC-TV), or Tuesday if the
Heat force a seventh game.
That would require a stronger
effort from James, who this time a
ODOM: ‘It was the best the women’s game had to offer’
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with Wayland ties: late
longtime sponsor Claude
Hutcherson, coaches Harley
Redin, Dean Weese and
Marsha Sharp (coach of the
Queen Bees before a stellar
career at Texas Tech)
and fellow all-Americans
Katherine Washington,
Patsy Neal and Jill Rankin-
Schneider.
The hall, which opened
in 1999, now has 121
members.
Also on hand were Laura
Sailor Reyher of Canyon
and Tina Rhoads of Pecos,
who fi nished second in
state in tennis doubles as
well as playing for Odom
at White Deer in the 1970s.
Other former Flying
Queens in attendance were
Tennessee residents Paula
Westfall Baisch (1954
graduate) and all-Americans
Carolyn Bush Roddy
(1975) and Kathy Harston
(1980). Roddy formerly
coached Hiwassee Junior
College and Knoxville
College, and Harston, who
coached Plainview High
to a state championship in
1987, is director of basketball
operations for the
University of Tennessee
women’s program.
Asked by emcee Debbie
Antonelli of ESPN — the
new “Voice of the Hall of
Fame” — “What was it
like to be a Flying Queen?”
Odom replied, “It was the
best the women’s game had
to offer. We fl ew to all the
Trojan’s transgressions in
2004.
But here’s the thing. If
giving players incentives
(i.e., money) to cover extra
expenditures is made legal,
then this all becomes a nonissue.
To me, the idea seems
like a quick and elegant
fi x, but it’s as polarizing as
Team Edward, Team Jacob
debates.
If you give players more
money, theoretically, all
the reasons for seeking out
illicit benefi ts vanish. They
no longer need extra cash
for a tattoo because they
can pay for it. At the very
year ago was coming off his second
straight MVP award and was three
weeks from becoming among the
most sought-after free agents in
sports history.
Now he’s the guy who can’t produce
in the fourth quarters, with 11
total points in fi ve games, the one
with the big name but the puny stats
who had to spend part of his off day
answer all sorts of questions about
what’s happened to him.
•Are those 44 minutes per game
you’re playing too much?
“I wouldn’t say it’s too much,”
James said. “I don’t feel like I’m
hurting my team for the time I’m out
there. I don’t feel like it’s too much.”
•Is something wrong with your
shot technique?
“At this point, I don’t think technique
has anything to do with it,”
James said. “Shots go in, shots don’t
go in. I don’t stop to think about my
technique or anything like that.”
•Are you simply feeling the pressure
of the fi nals stage?
“I think the game of basketball
can be pressure,” James said. “It
doesn’t matter if it’s the fi nals or
the conference fi nals or fi rst round.
Playoff basketball is all about pressure,
how you can handle it.”
James did allow that perhaps he
hasn’t been as aggressive in the
fourth quarter because Dwyane
games.”
“They had planes back
then?” Antonelli asked in
mock surprise, prompting
Odom to respond, “Sometimes
we had to lift our feet
up so they could get the
planes going.”
Odom led Dimmitt to
three state championships
— once scoring 78
points against Penelope
despite sitting out the last
four minutes — and made
all-American four times for
the Queens. She is a member
of several other halls of
fame, including the Texas
High School and Panhandle
Sports venues and was an
inaugural member of the
Wayland Athletic Hall of
Honor. She still ranks No.
9 on the all-time Queens
scoring list with more than
1,600 points. She is retired
and lives in Amarillo.
After allowing the six
newest members of the hall
to view their exhibits and
enjoy a leisurely buffet dinner,
hall offi cials sat them
before an attentive and appreciative
crowd in a mock
gymnasium, introduced
each one and then turned
the fl oor over to former
teammates and coaches,
friends and family to relate
generally humorous stories.
•Notre Dame coach
Muffet McGraw, sporting
Irish green toenail polish,
was hailed for her emphasis
on defense, but lost the
national championship to
Texas A&M this year after
upsetting UConn because
least, you could rationalize
that it would do away with
a lot of the shady dealings
that haunt college athletics
year in and year out.
Of course, this rationale
rests on the idea that the
reason players sought out
extra money was for out of
need, not want.
Regardless, if it reduces
the number of scandalrelated
news stories I have
to sift through next year, it
will be worth it.
Ryan Thurman is the sports
editor of the Herald.
phsports@hearstnp.com
806.296.1355
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Gary Blair’s Lady Aggies
turned in one of the greatest
defensive performances
in NCAA fi nals history.
•Val Ackerman, a
founder of the WNBA, is
an attorney and teaches
graduate sports leadership
classes at Columbia
University in New York.
“I’d like to see a day when
women are coaching men’s
teams,” she said.
•Pearl Moore, who
scored 4,061 points — including
60 in one half after
being benched for daring to
wear a pair of sneakers that
didn’t match her teammates
— was a master at drawing
fouls. That was aided, said
her Francis Marion College
coach Sheryl Hatchell, by
appreciative male offi cials
who said, “She always
pats us on the butt after
she makes a free throw.”
Wade has been playing so well.
Wade is averaging 28.4 points —
11 more than James, who also trails
Chris Bosh.
“He’s one of the best players in
the world,” Wade said. “So we’re
not necessarily concerned about
him to that extent. I want him to
play and feel confi dent.”
James noted that he did have a
triple-double last game, but even
with 17 points, 10 rebounds and 10
assists, he said, “I had a bad game
in a lot of people’s eyes. I understand
that.”
Nowitzki knows the feeling. He
has been the lone big star on a Dallas
team that’s won 50 games for 11
straight seasons, yet he’s known best
for his failures: the collapse after
a 2-0 lead over Miami in the 2006
fi nals, the fi rst-round loss to eighthseeded
Golden State in the fi rst round
the next year after winning 67 games.
He was tagged as soft — a label
many European players receive —
and given derisive nicknames such
as No-win-ski or No-ring-ski. But
he showed plenty of toughness Saturday
when he fi red back at Wade
and James after they appeared to
be mocking his recent illness on a
video that made the rounds Friday.
Nowitzki called it “a little childish,
a little ignorant,” but denied
that it would give him any added
Moore loved chocolate
cake, and to motivate her
Hatchell would scream
out at crucial moments,
“Cake!” Hatchell said she
was able to keep her job
despite wrecking the awning
of a motel by hitting it
with a bus because the vice
chancellor, telling her the
damage was in the thousands,
declared, “You have
Pearl Moore.”
•Ruthie Bolton, one of 20
children (12 girls, 8 boys)
of a minister in McLain,
Miss., was not recruited by
any college despite a stellar
high school career, playing
in the shadow of another
sister who played at Auburn.
The Tigers’ coach
let her walk on with little
expectation that she would
play, but she went on to
lead her team to three SEC
titles, play for Sacramento
Come
motivation to claim the ring he’s
been chasing for 13 years.
“We’re one win away from my
dream, what I’ve worked on for
half my life,” Nowitzki said. “This
is really all I’m worried about,
this is all I’m focusing on, and not
really the off-the-court stuff that
happened.”
James and Wade downplayed the
video, but even if their intentions
weren’t malicious, it gave Heat
haters yet another reason to dislike
the team that already provided so
many from the moment they came
together last summer.
Though they took less money
than allowable, the James-Wade-
Bosh union left little room to fi ll
out the lower half of the roster. That
didn’t matter earlier in the playoffs,
when the trio played well enough
to win with whatever support it got.
Now James is well below his usual,
Bosh is shooting just 37 percent,
and the Mavericks’ superior depth
is helping them pull out close
games at the end.
The Mavs’ nine-point Game 5
win was the biggest by either team
in the series, in which Dallas has
outscored Miami 463-459. The
previous three had been decided by
three points or fewer, and the Heat
know they’ve been good enough
easily win the next two.
Listen or
or
Dance
to the
Music!
in the WNBA and star on
two Olympic teams. She
survived a car accident in
which she was thrown from
the vehicle, winding up in
a ditch with her father’s
Bible next to her — seen
by her sibling as a miracle
of God. She also played
overseas while serving in
the military.
•Vicky Bullett, a star
for Maryland and later in
the WNBA, was, like her
fellow inductees, praised
for her humble spirit
despite her fame, and the
ability to make others feel
important.
More information the
Women’s Basketball Hall
of Fame can be found at
wbhof.com.
Danny Andrews is director
of alumni relations at Wayland
Baptist University.
andrewsd@wbu.edu
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