Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SUNDAY, July 2, 1995 TAG: 9507040016
SECTION: SPORTS PAGE: B-1 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: JACK BOGACZYK
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
HOLLAND DAYS: Terry Holland's first day in office as Virginia's athletic director comes Wednesday. One of Holland's first tasks will be to initiate a study on whether UVa should replace University Hall, which needs replacing or expanding.
If Virginia builds a new hoops hall, anything with 12,500 or more seats would make it special. It would be the state's largest arena.
BRAINE POWER: Virginia Tech athletic director Dave Braine is in the second year of a two-year contract. Considering what Braine's leadership has brought to the Hokies in credibility, conference affiliation and more, he deserves a raise similar to the one the Hokies gave Tech football coach Frank Beamer, who is paid about $30,000 more annually than Braine.
If Holland is receiving $155,000 annually at the only other state school with Division I-A football, Braine surely should get more than his current $111,000.
HOOP DE DO: There's no doubt the first regularly scheduled basketball date between neighbors VMI and Washington and Lee on Nov.28 is big news. What could be bigger?
How about the first women's basketball game between the two Lexington schools with a combined three centuries-plus of all-male tradition. Of course, the Keydets are likely to go to a higher court to play a preliminary to that game.
DINOSAURS: Did you see that mascot the Toronto Raptors unveiled Wednesday night at the NBA draft party? It kind of looked like Barney with an attitude.
OK, kids, let's all sing: ``I stomp you, you stomp me, let's all dunk on Charles Barkley ... ''
WAITING: There are whispers that Ferrum is seriously considering applying for membership in the Old Dominion Athletic Conference. If it happens, the Panthers should be admitted. They fit geographically, and their program is more broad-based than some others in the ODAC.
YOUTH SERVED: The ACC saw 10 of its players selected in the NBA draft and only one - Wake Forest's Tim Duncan - of the 12 members of the U.S. team for the World University Games is from the league, but help is on the way.
Six of the 12 players on the U.S. Junior World national team are ACC players or recruits, including the Duke trio of Trajan Langdon, Steve Wojciechowski and Taymon Domzalski. And there is no truth to the rumor that Wojciechowski and Domzalski signed with the Blue Devils because Mike Krzyzewski was the only coach who could pronounce their surnames.
SNOW JOB: The transplanted Quebec Nordiques of Denver are considering Avalanche as their new NHL nickname. Perhaps baseball's Colorado Rockies should tell their new neighbors there is a team on the farm in Salem with that moniker. We don't need Kelvin Bowles hiring Robert Shapiro and Johnnie Cochran.
BRONX ZOO: With George Steinbrenner, Luis Polonia, Steve Howe and Darryl Strawberry having convictions, one Newsday writer has a new name for Yankee Stadium. It's ``The Halfway House that Ruth Built.''
TAXING: So, threatened with exiting franchises, Cincinnati is going to pay $540 million to build new, adjacent stadiums for baseball's Reds and football's Bengals on a site next to the Ohio River by 2000, and tear down Riverfront Stadium, which is only 25 years old.
They could call the new site Extortion Plaza.
by CNB