THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Friday, August 11, 1995 TAG: 9508110211
SECTION: FRONT PAGE: A14 EDITION: FINAL
TYPE: Letter
LENGTH: Short : 26 lines
Regarding Guy Friddell's ``Dream team should leave us something to anticipate'' (column, Aug. 1):
I don't have any sympathy for the overpaid babies in the NBA or any other league. I don't even watch it on TV.
But it's like the line in ``The Good, the Bad and the Ugly'': ``If you're going to shoot, shoot, don't talk.''
Everyone in the Olympics plays by the same rules. We played so-called ``amateur'' hockey teams from the Eastern bloc for years, and even beat some of them. Besides, why lower the standard of a sport? If this is the way basketball can be played, maybe other countries will see that the gap in scores will not be so great in the future.
THOMAS G. EISCHEID
Franklin, Aug. 1, 1995 by CNB