<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">There's a reason you see so many sons of great athletes turning up in professional and major college sports. In the great crapshoot of scouting and drafting players, good genes at least give you something to go on. Peyton and Eli Manning. Chris Simms. Koby Clemens. Joakim Noah. Kellen Winslow. Luke Walton. The Phillies relied on DNA in making Kyle Drabek, son of Doug, their first-round pick in this month's entry draft. And so did the 76ers when they took Rodney Carney in Wednesday night's NBA draft. The difference: Unlike all those other guys, Carney's father wasn't a great athlete (although he played college football). His mother was. DeAndra Ware - nee Carney - recalled the time she was working out with her son on a track near their home in Indianapolis. "He zoomed past me," Ware said by telephone yesterday. "He said, 'Mom, you don't have it anymore.' " Ah, but she did. DeAndra Carney was a terrific high school and college sprinter in her day. She held the world indoor record in the 60-yard dash, and her national indoor record for the 55 meters, 6.74 seconds, held up for 18 years. Ware was ranked ninth among American women in the 100 meters as a high school runner in 1978. She remembers beating Evelyn Ashford in a race, but is hazy on the when and where. When she left Indianapolis for Tennessee State, her dream was to run in the 1980 Olympics.</div> Source
