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Wednesday, February 3, 1988 / University Daily Kansan
Agent Walters indicted
The Associated Press
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Attorney General Don Siegelman announced yesterday that a grand jury had indicted sports agent Norby Walters concerning dealings with former University of Alabama basketball player Derrick McKev.
The Tuscaloosa County grand jury returned the indictments Friday in response to evidence the attorney general presented last week, Siegelman said.
Siegelman said Lloyd Bloom, vice president of the company Walters heads, was notified yesterday that he was also indicted.
"I plan to fully utilize Alabama's laws and shoot at the sports agents with everything we've got," Siegelman said. "Hopefully, we'll score a hit; if not, at least they'll know
they've been shot at."
During the 1986-87 NCAA basketball season, McKey, a scholarship basketball player at the university, was signed by Walters to a contract. The signing violated regulations of the university, the Southeastern Conference and the National Collegiate Athletic Association.
University officials immediately declared McKey ineligible for athletic competition in his senior year when they learned of the signing, and the university itself was forced to forfeit approximately $250,000 that it won in the 1987 NCAA basketball tournament.
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Siegelman said Walters and Bloom were indicted on the same three misdemeanor counts as was former sports agent Jim Abernethy, who was indicted in the case of former
Auburn football star Kevin Porter case in Opelika.
The counts are a violation of the state's deceptive trade practices act, a commercial bribery violation and tampering with a sports event. Walters' firm, World Sports and Entertainment Inc., also was indicted on the three misdemean counts.
Siegelman said a line must be drawn somewhere or sports agents would continue to break the rules for their personal financial benefit.
Walters' attorney said his client would waive extradition and voluntarily come to Alabama, Siegelman said. No date was set immediately for Walters' arraignment.
"In Alabama, we've drawn the line with this and the earlier indictment of Jim Abernethy," he said.
' Jammin' Jamaican' bobsleds don't need snow to compete
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — The absence of neither snow nor sleet nor hail has prevented Jamaica from putting together two-man and four-man bobsled teams for the Calgary Olympics.
That's right — Jamaica, a tropical island where a temperature drop below 80 degrees sends shivers through the population, is a country that never has been represented in the Winter Olympics.
As far-fetched as it might seem, the Jamaicans believe they can be competitive in the two-man run.
Their optimism stems from their performances in December at the World Cup at Igls, Austria. They placed 35th in the field of 41 but produced the fastest time ever for a first-time team in the competition.
The idea for a Jamaican bobsed team was conceived by George Fitch, an American business consultant in Jamaica. He had the dream of sending a team from a warm-weather country to the Winter Olympics.
Fitch got the idea last August when he was watching the "Push-Cart Derby" in Jamaica. In the sport, teams push wheeled carts down hills
at breakneck speeds.
The principle involved is the same as in bobsledding, the explosive push at the start is the key, accounting for about 40 to 50 percent of success in the race. The strong start requires great leg drive and a sprinter's acceleration, qualities Jamaicans have established in track.
"Watching the push-cart races reminded me of bobsledding," Fitch said Monday at a press conference. "Of course, there was no snow or ice."
Afterward, Fitch contacted the World Bobsled Federation about the possibility of organizing a team. He was given encouragement by the world federation and the U.S. Bobsled Federation.
"We wanted to dispel the myth that you can only become bobsledders if you have snow and ice in your backyard." Fitch said.
Bobsled tryouts were held in September and were described as "rigorous and dangerous." Some 40 candidates showed up and were put through a grueling series of eight qualifying steps, including sprouts of 30, 60 and 100 meters, push starts and weightlifting.
The U.S. Bobsled Federation sent a coach, two bobsledders and some sleds to help the Jamaicans.
Eight sledders were chosen, five from the Jamaican Defense Force and three civilians.
The first six will go to Calgary, where the team already has worked out, the other two will serve as reserves.
JDF Captain Dudley Stokes and Lt. Devon Harris will fill the two skill positions of driver and brakeman, respectively.
"We are not here as a gimmick,not for a show," Harris said. "We want to prove to other people of the world that we can learn a new sport in a short period of time.
Michael White, JDF member and potential Olympic spinner for Jamaica in the Summer Olympics at Seoul, said that when the team began practicing at Lake Placid, N.Y., "there were a lot of crashes."
"Most of the guys thought it was crazy," he said. "And they disappeared."
The ones who stayed are proud to be on the first Jamaican squad competing in the Winter Olympics.
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