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At the beginning of volleyball practice, Erin Kramer stretches her arm by spiking against the wall. The team practiced passing and ran spiking drills Monday afternoon in Robinson Center.
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Bird's back could be trouble
The Associated Press
BOSTON—Larry Bird is home from Barcelona with a gold medal, a back that held up very well and an uncertain future.
After missing 59 regular-season games because of back problems over the last two seasons, he hasn't announced whether he will return for a 14th National Basketball Association campaign.
The Olympics, however, probably put him in a positive frame of mind. Ed Lacerte, trainer for the Boston Celtics and the U.S. Olympic basketball team, said Thursday.
Lacerte was unsure if Bird knew whether he would play another season. "Nothing would surprise me about Larry," he said. "He's a unique individual in his ability to tolerate
Bird missed 37 regular-season games last season and two of six in the Tournament of the Americas in Portland, Ore., that preceded the Summer Games. But he played in all eight games in Barcelona, where the United States easily won the gold medal.
Lacarte said Thursday that Bird, who is in the Boston area, has said he would make a decision in early fall. The Celtics open training camp Oct. 9.
Since travel can aggravate his back condition, one possibility would be for Bird to play mostly, if not exclusively, home games. Lacerte indicated that limiting his playing might be one consideration in Bird's decision whether to return. He is signed through the 1993-94 season.
Injuries plague NFL quarterbacks
The Associated Press
WEST CHESTER, Pa. — Randall Cunningham knew it had to happen. Quarterbacks don't wear red jerseys in practice for nothing. They are football's living, breathing targets.
In Cunningham's case, he was a standing target when Green Bay's Bryce Paup dove into his right knee Sept. 1, tearing even longer ligament to put him out for a season. That's the ironic part—everyone thought it was Cunningham's running that would get him in trouble.
"I used to go out and just say to myself, 'I'll be fine, God protects me,'" the Eagles' quarterback said one hot day last month as he prepared for his comeback.
"Then I started to second-guess myself and say 'God's protected me a long time, and now it's my turn to get hurt.' You know, the law of averages. I guess what's caught up with me. It was just my time."
It was time for a lot of quarterbacks last season, just as it was for San Diego's John Friesz in his team's opening exhibition game this season. The perpetrator was Phoenix's Ken Harvey, but the principle was the same — a sack, a knee that doesn't flex enough, and season-ending surgery.
But last year seemed different, even by NFL standards.
By season's end, 20 of the 28 teams had lost their starter for at least one game. Included were some of the game's best.
Start with Joe Montana, who missed all season with a sore elbow that may have to be operated upon again this year.
Add Cunningham, of course. And throw in Timm Rosenbach of Phoenix, one of the NFL's better young quarterback, prospects. He went down trying to cut in a routine practice session last August, tore up his knee and missed the entire season while the likes of Tom Tupa, Chris Chandler, Stan Gelbaugh and Craig Kupp tried to play quarterback for the Cards.
Rosenbach came back with a flourish, going 13 of 13 for 150 yards and three touchdowns in the Cards' first exhibition game this year.
"I felt better in training camp than I did last year," Rosenbach said.
Cunningham, held out of Philadelphia's first game, started the first two series against Pittsburgh Aug. 1, ran for 13 yards on his first carry and completed one pass in three attempts for 10 vards.
"it felt good to get out there and run around," he said. "It was kind of crazy because I didn't think I'd be running around like that."
But Montana...
Poor Montana.
The boyish enthusiasm that brought him back eight weeks after major back surgery in 1986, when he was 30, may have done him in at 36.
On July 24, a week into his comeback at training camp, he had to quit practice after he felt pain and arm fatigue.
A few days later, he stopped throwing altogether and sought more medical advice that could result in surgery
for the second straight year.
Montana began throwing hard during a mini-camp in April, six months after the operation to reattach a severed tendon in his right elbow. He said some of his doctors had warned him he might experience a "dead arm" if he came back to soon and now he regrets not heeding the advice.
"If I had to blame anybody, I would blame myself," he said. "I'm just sure I overdid it on my own."
Troy Aikman would like to do the same.
By quarterbacking standards, Montana, like Cunningham, has stayed injury-free long enough to put together a good career.
Aikman hurt his knee Nov. 24 as the Dallas Cowboys were handing the Washington Redskins the first of only two losses they sustained last season. He missed the last four regular-season games and two in the playoffs, although he came in at halftime in the second.
That marked the third time in three NFL seasons that Aikman had been hurt.
He missed two games with a shoulder separation in 1990 and five games with a broken finger on his left hand in 1989 after he was the No. 1 overall pick in the NFL draft.
Even in college, Aikman had his problems.
He was recruited for Oklahoma by Barry Switzer, who promised to change from the wishbone to suit his drop-back style. But he broke an ankle in his first season, so Akman transferred to UCLA.
He got through one healthy season but was a disappointment as a senior, when he was expected to challenge for the Heisman Trophy. He says now that was because he had bone chips in his right elbow and could not throw deep.
Like Cunningham, Aikun looks at the law of averages. Unlike Cunningham, he figures it works in his favor.
"Things happen to me, strange things," he said in camp this summer. "Maybe that is all part of my past now. I won't dwell on it."
Aikman has a good example to look at — Phil Simms, who will turn 37 in November, feels great starting his 14th season with the New York Giants after being considered a walking accident in the early part of his career.
Simus missed parts of his first three seasons with injuries and sat out a year, then he started 79 straight games between 1984 and 1988 before injuring his ribs.
At the time, it was the longest stretch of consecutive starts by any NFL quarterback.
Not that age has made Simms
exempt.
Two years ago, as the Giants headed toward the NFC East title, he broke a bone in his foot against Buffalo. Jeff Hostetler took over, guided the team through a Super Bowl victory over the Bills and was given the quarterback job for 1991 and, so far, this year.
The only time he played? When Hostetler broke a bone in his back last season against Tampa Bay and sat out the four games.
Proving again that every quarter back is a target.
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