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Lloyd Wells’ World of Sports
\The new Rocket owner just as well
came to town and put salt in our
drinking water, or tried to bomb the
NAACP office......fired Calvin
Murphy, our Hall of l ame star that
has been with the team 22years and
is loved by Blacks as well as Whites??
I don't care what the conditions and
terms of the deal are, he could have
waited until later if he was going to
make that kind of move.
Post veteran sports re porter, M icke y
Herskowitz, and a very fair guy in
my critical book of white media types
here, called the Calvin Murphy
disgrace a “mistake” by the Rockets
new owner, I as Alexander 1 wonder
what the gu y (l^es) was thinking about
when he fired a guy who was just
inducted into the Hall of l ame, has
his #23 hanging from the rafters in
the Summit, and was a plus against
all the Rockets’ mistakes.
Unlike most of his peers, Calvin
never slighted, nor forgot, the Black
media. I remember being at the Hard
Rock Cafe with him last spring, and
after waiting in line for an
autographed pic of him, he looked
up and said, “No way, Judge. 1 have
to give you something special, so
slop by my office at the Summit.”
Giving Murphy a job as color
announcer is like throwing him a
bone how he can swallow such a
doga— rotten trick as that and still
say, “I’ll be glad to be on the radio
for the team.”
Well, he is free to make his own
decisions . I’d have told them what I
told Kansas City Chiefs when they
fired my main man Hank Stram:
‘Take this job and shove it, and all
the future benefits where the sun
don’t shine.” As I don’t get one
penny from 12 years of service in the
AFL & NIT, if I had to do it again,
so be it, I would. This is one hell of
a city.....as I listened to the Ralph
Cooper Show the day the news about
Murphy broke....Mr. Cooper had
only one caller tocall in about Calvin.
Oh, how we support our own in
Houston!!!! Had that been in Los
Afl|etes. pickets, protests, and all
kinds of anger would have been
forthcoming. Suppose a new owner
would go in and fire Larry Bird in
Boston, what do you think the Boston
fans would be doing now???? Me,
I’m mad as hell!!
The best pure shooter I’ve ever
seen in a career of playing, coaching,
and writing about
basketball.....Calvin Murphy. The
best pure shooter I have ever seen in
55 years of being a part of basketball,
bar none... .Michael Jordan included.
Did you see the TV program where
the stars honored Jordan last week?
Houston never had a night or day for
Calvin, Akeem, Carl, or Moon.
I can live with that......2-1/2 years
for those two Los Angeles
officers......I know that right now the
brothers are licking their chops
waiting for Stacey Koon and
Lawrence Powell. That 2-1/2 years
must just end up as “life”.....theirs.
It’s bad enough to be an ex-police
officer going to place where police
have put all the inmates, but to be
those two that beat the living hell out
of a defenseless brother, well, just
like I always say... “just wait.”
Mike Tyson told me there is nothing
as bad as being locked up in a
cage...Warren McVea called it
“cruel.’
Back to Calvin Murphy.....the
former Astrosowner John McMullen
fired Nolan Ryan and the white folks
here will never forgive him for that
as Ryan is still winning in baseball
and boxing. Bud Adams, owner of
the football Oilers has never had his
team in a Super Bowl, but at least he
is getting closer and has kept and
paid Warren Moon fairly. Maybe the
new Rockets owner found out
something we do not know...What
was it, Jay Goldberg???
Like a little kid would say, “told
you so.” And just as we expected,
the new president of “our TSU” is a
woman mid an outsider. Sure, we all
wanted ()tis King, mid that is why we
did not get him. White folks showed
us who still is, and always will, run
things. The number two guy in the
running was from Louisiana’s
Southern University, my old school
(Freshman 1941), and that was jut to
show us that “they” don’t give a
damn what “we” want for our school
and community. We will live through
it, mid after Dr. Harris, it cant' be that
bad...at least I hope the lady and the
good white folks will at least let us
have our “Ocean of Soul” marching
band back.
1 wrote tins before the news came
out last Friday, so sure of the results
I was.
I ley. Hey! Football is in full swing
now with the NIT and next week
college and high schools will start
practice. Hottest topic in the NFL.
now is if, or when, will Emmett
Smith report to the Dallas
Cowboy s.. .he made Jimmy and Jerry
big with his running the ball better
than anyone in the NFL for the past
two years, so let’s see if they are
crazy enough to try and do without
his contribu lion to the Pokes’ offense.
Same goes for the Oilers in the case
of Loren/a White, but as we know
Bud Adams, he ain’t going to break
in the impasse regarding “Lo” being
back in the Oilers’ field. Hey “Lo”,
thay say you got paid for what you
did, and after all you ain’t no
quarterback. So you just as well
hitch it on up and take what they
offered you....a million dollar raise
can’t hurt your bank account.
The Way I See It
— by
Henrietta Griffin
| Mistake! That’s what sin is
sometimes called, and because it
carries that label, there is a built-in
devastating detour to what needs to
be done about sin.
When someone fumbles in a
football game, it is a mistake It can
lose the game, and that's
embarrassing, even costly; but it’s
not the end of the world. When the
referee sees someone breaking the
niles, that player may be penalized
for a few minutes or for the entire
game. But that’s not all. So it is with
sin, popular opinion tells us. It is
breaking of the rules of the game, a
stepping offside, but that’s all.
But that isn’t all. Life is not a
sporting event, and Jesus didn’t go
to the cross as a supreme referee.
, He is not watching, whistle in hand,
jmcatdiu, off guard. He ^ done
something about a basic problem.
We are separated, we are removed
from Him. We aren’t even in the
game. Sin is a barrier.........a wall.
Jesus broke down that wall. He
didn’t go to the cross to point out an
error. He went to the cross to destroy
the power that keeps us separated
from God.
In a world such as we live in
today, we need to re-examine our
priorities. We are killing each other,
and destroying each other daily.
Gangs and sinners are murdering
and robbing with guns and other
weapons, but the church people are
killing each other with their
tongues.
Mistake. Hardly. In a time when
the church needs to stand together,
sadly it’s falling apart. Accident.
Hardly. It’s all about who’s going
to sit on the right and who is going
to sit on the left.
God does not need kings and
queens, but servants. “Whosoever
is great among you, let him be a
servant of all.”
No mistakes....no errors....no
games...no referee...just people
caring about people.
And that’s the way I see it.
1931-1993
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