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By BRANT LONG
Assistant Sports Editor
Mark Richardson, son of restaurant entrepreneur
Jerry Richardson, announced Monday thai
Dec. 15 would be the date that the site for the
stadium of a possible NFL expansion team tithe
Carolinas will be determined.
Richardson, whose father has been trying tc
attract an NFL team to the Carolinas since late
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1987, joined a partnersnip wnn nis laumy am
other prominent business officials in Septembei
1989. He owns Richardson Sports in Charlotte.
"We've spent the last three weeks evaluating
all of the information we've had and gathering
additional information," Richardson said
"We're still doing that on a daily basis. We'v<
got about a week and a half left, and we're stil
shooting for that deadline, and I think we'll b
able to make that announcement on that day."
The four sites in contention for th<
65,000-seat complex are uptown Charlotte
York County, S.C. (near Carowinds), across th
street from Charlotte Motor Speedway and be
tween Gastonia and King's Mountain in Gasto
County, N.C.
Richardson said there are many factors th;
have to be weighed before determining the fin;
location of the stadium on Dec. 15.
"There are a lot of different issues, and we'v
had to take a look at all of them," Richardso
said. "There's the issue of how the traffic gel
in and out That's a major factor to us. We nee
to have the ability to get the fans in and out."
According to Richardson, the NFL has
guideline that says a stadium parking lot neec
to be cleared within one hour after a game. R
chardson and his associates are looking inl
what kind of projects will have to be done i
him foui
SPORTS BRIEFS hind Jan
I : I 1984.
s Shame sets record Bay re<
J for pass receptions Scsh"
Former USC star wide receiver ^owton
Sterling Sharpe has broken the
Green Bay Packer record for pass
receptions in a season, according J *
to the National Football League to ac
franchise.
Sharpe caught eight passes for Steph;
169 yards in a 17-16 Packer win of the 1
over Tampa Bay Sunday, surpass- leyball
ing Don Hutson's season record !989 G'
for receptions set in 1942. Sharpe District
has 77 catches on the season, three men's
more than Hutson's 74. by the (
Sharpe, now in his second year, Directo
has 12 receiving touchdowns this Thursda
season and 1,252 reception yards. Pflug
Sharpe's 12 touchdowns tie him 3.6 GP>
for third on the season list, five be- every m
hind Hutson's 17. Sharpe's 1,252 led the
receiving yards currently places categor
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"We need to sell this as a Carot
linas franchise. We need the peoj
pie from Greenville and Spartan1
burg, Columbia and Florence to
} feel that this is their franchise."
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r order to meet the guideline.
"We've tried to assess what's the best for the
; fans' convenience," he said, "not the fans in
l any one area, but for fans across the Carolinas
. as a whole, what's going to be the easiest for all
^ of our fans ? not just one group of fans."
1 Richardson emphasizes that a team in the
s Carolinas would be a regional team, not just a
Charlotte team.
i "We need to sell this as a Carolinas franch'?
ise," Richardson said. "We need the people
e from Greenville and Spartanburg, Columbia and
Florence to feel that this is their franchise."
n Richardson also said that NFL teams such as
New England, Seattle and Denver are teams
it that sell themselves regionally,
d Richardson said some advantages to building
the stadium in York County would be the abile
ity to make the NFL team a true "Carolinas"
n team.
ts "The main advantage is that it allows us to
d tie in the Carolinas concept that we are trying to
market.. . .the franchise is going to be affila
iated with Charlotte ? that's going to be the
Is metropolitan market ? and tying in the stadium
i- in South Carolina would probably give us a betto
ter marketing angle to take it to everybody in
in the Carolinas."
th, but only 109 yards be- hitting percentage, s<
les Lofton's 1,361 yards in block assists, total I
blocks per game.
i has also tied the Green She has earned nume
:ord for most 100-yard such as being named I
a a season with six, a re- and 1989 All-Metro
holds with Hutson, Bill Teams and the 1988 A]
and Lofton. gion Team. She was
the Metro Conference I
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rs of America this past ^ meet> with six
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considered,
Richardson is still unsure about when the
NFL will decide if and when they will expand,
partly because of the recent change of the NFL
commissioner. Former commisioner Pete
Rozelle wanted a collective bargaining agreement,
and in two years, two new teams would
be playing.
Richardson now thinks a new collective bargaining
agreement will be negotiated in the next
few months, and the NFL would possibly begin
expansion in March or the spring of 1990. It
would then take six to nine months to decide
who the first expansion team would be.
'That would mean this time next year ? late
1990 ? we should find out whether we're going
to be taken in the first wave of expansion,"
he said. "If we're taken in 1990, we'll probably
begin playing in the fall of 1992. That's our
timetable that we're working under, that is not
the timetable set by the NFL."
A temporary facility might be used if the or
ganization nas a year ana a nair to two years
before it begins play. The stadium cannot begin
construction until the Carolinas learns if it will
have a franchise. It will take about 24 to 30
months to build a playing facility.
Other cities vying for a franchise are Baltimore,
Oakland and St. Louis, which have all
had a franchise before, and Memphis, Jacksonville
and the Carolinas.
"When you look at all the numbers, you
understand exactly how strong the Carolinas
market is and how much the Carolinas have to
offer the NFL," Richardson said. "I'm getting
to the point now that I think it's going to be
hard for the NFL to say no to the Carolinas."
3I0 blocks, Mark Smith in the 200-yard
blocks and breaststroke and the Gamecocks'
400 and 800 freestyle relay teams,
rous honors Smith finished eighth in the 200
to the 1988 breaststroke with a time of 2:10.5.
Conference In the 400 free relay, the GameLl-South
Re- cocks used the team of Rick
also named Havekost, Peter Cadwell, Brent
5layer of the Blackman and Tom DeJarnette and
3ct. 17. the team of Brian Benda, Jeff
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In the 88 freestyle relay, Dennis
swimming Mehan, Blackman, Hannafin and
fall swim- Cadwell swam the Gamecocks to
tst weekend their best finish in the three-day
exas Invita- meet, placing seventh,
ng some of USC's men's and women's
earns. swim teams will now concentrate
teams com- on final exams and the holidays
sixth-ranked before returning to action against
host team, Metro foe Virginia Tech on Jan. 6.
to. 1 ranked The double dual meet will be held
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