Former Savannah State student "running" World Championship Wrestling
Atlanta native Ernest "The Cat" Miller is apparently running the showat World Championship Wrestling. Before climbing into the squared circlethree years ago, Miller was an electrical engineering student at SavannahState University. He is now acting Commisioner of the wrestlingfederation
Meanwhile, another black grappler in WCW, Booker T ofHouston Texas, was crowned WCW heavyweight champ a few weekends ago. He'sonly second black to hold the crown in the history of WCW and the third tohold a major belt in the history of pro wrestling (the first was RonSimmons, the former Florida State All American linebacker who grabbed thegold in 1993, then the Rock, current holder of the WWF title). Naturallywith pro wrestling changing players faster than most folks change theirsocks and panty hose, the whole thing might change by the time you readthis.
The big joke in SIAC land is not how much change new Commissioner RobertVowels will make but how long he will stay. Predictions gun the gamut fromsix months to no more than two years.
The scuttlebutt is that current SIAC supervisor of officials Jimmy Askew maysoon be replaceed by former NFL official and Fort Valley grad Wlson Gocier.The poop is that this is a tradeoff to those forces within the conferencewho pushed hard to get him the commissioner's job.
Jean Chandler is interim athletic direcotr at Clark Atlanta University. While few will argueagainst her capabilities to take the job on a permanent basis, whether shewants the headache is another matter. Logically, the choice of AD ought tobe handed to assistant CAU head football coach Greg Thompson who already hasextensive experience there. His major obstacle is being a graduate of rivalMorris Brown College. Yes, Virginia, the school will allow such pettiness tostand in the way of putting a solid man in the chair.
Morris Brown's decision to back out of it's traditional seasonopening grid cojntest with arch-rival Clark Atlanta may have a silver liningafterall, albeit an odd one. The Morris Brown band will provide pre gamefestivities on Labor Day when Clark and Morehouse tangle in the new holidaylineup at the Georgia Dome. Then,the Saturday before, the band will again perform their routine halftime showwhen the Wolverines open their season against the visiting Bulldogs ofGardner-Webb.
DID YOU KNOW that Lee Callum, the aerodyte defensive coordinator for FortValley State University was also one of the original Atlanta Falcons. Callum,the former New York Giant, was picked up by the Falcons in the 1966expansion draft and was with the team at their first training camp at theYMCA retreat camp in Black Mountain North Carolina's Blue Ridge Mountains.How do I know this? I was at the YMCA camp in 1966 when the team arrived..
