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'21 Celtics bust Bullets Boston beat Washington, 106-94, and now prepares for Charlotte and the playoffs. Page 29. lr Also Inside Racing 35 Scoreboard 36 Schools 37 THE BOSTON GLOBE MONDAY, APRIL 26, 1993 PaMofe aramedl for te future ifplffe New England picks Washington State quarterback Bledsoe By Ron Borges GLOBE STAFF ringing and they would not stop. "Two minutes after commissioner Paul Tagliabue opened the draft, the phones started ringing and it's been nonstop," Nichols said two hours and 100 new season-ticket sales later. "It was a lot more than I imagined." Phone calls began pouring into the Patriots' ticket office, where Nichols and two others were stationed, as soon as Tagliabue made his announcement, and within an hour 75 season tickets had been sold on the strength of Bledsoe's right arm.

That number grew to more than 100 within two hours. Bledsoe had yet to arrive in Foxborough and he already had earned the Patriots $28,000. Considering that he will be paid approximately $2 million this season, he has a long way to go before he balances the books, but he was already on his way to disproving what Patriots coach Bill Parcells was trying to insist was the case.s "I really detest the term franchise quarterback," Parcells said minutes after drafting this year's franchise quarterback. "That's "a term that has to be earned on the fieldi'by performance. It puts the kind of pressure on a PATRIOTS, Paga33 FOXBOROUGH What Drew Bledsoe's impact will be on the future of the New England Patriots is unknown, but he's killing Mike Nichols.

Less than three minutes after the Patriots made the Washington State quarterback the National Football League draft's No. 1 pick yesterday, poor Nichols, who manages the Patriots ticket office, began to think there was a 12-alarm fire in the next room. Bells were 1' J-- I- JA 4 ufc 4l I 'l' 1,1 1 W-1 u' "4 fa jdrflfclj flltl inn il Player School Pot. 1. NEW ENGLAND Drew Bledsoe Washington St.

QB 2. Seattle Rick Mirer Notre Dame QB 3. a-Phoenix Garrison Hearst Georgia RB 4. NY Jets Marvin Jones Florida St. LB 5.

Cincinnati John Copeland Alabama DL 6. Tampa Bay Eric Curry Alabama DL 7. Chicago Curtis Conway Southern Cal WR 8. b-New Orleans Willie Roaf Louisiana Tech OL 9. Atlanta Lincoln Kennedy Washington OL 10.

LA Rams Jerome Bettis Notre Dame RB 11. c-Denver Dan Williams Toledo DL 12. LA Raiders Patrick Bates Texas DB 13. d-Houston Brad Hopkins Illinois OG 14. Cleveland Steve Everitt Michigan 15.

Green Bay Wayne Simmons Clemson LB 16. Indianapolis Sean Dawkins California WR 17. Washington Tom Carter Notre Dame DB 18. e-Phoenix Ernest Dye South Carolina OL 19. Philadelphia Lester Holmes Jackson St.

OL 20. f-New Orleans Irv Smith Notre Dame TE 21. Minnesota Robert Smith Ohio State RB 22. San Diego Darrien Gordon Stanford DB 23. Pittsburgh Peon Figures Colorado DB 24.

Philadelphia Leonard Renfro Colorado DL 25. Miami O.J. McDuffie Penn State WR 26. San Francisco Dana Stubblefield Kansas DL 27. San Francisco Todd Kelly Tennessee DL 28.

Buffalo Thomas Smith North Carolina DB 29. g-Green Bay George Teague Alabama DB 30. Seattle (2d) Carlton Gray UCLA DB 31. New England (2d) Chris Slade Virginia DLLB if j-- li 1. Traded running back Johnny Johnson and fourth pick overall to New York Jets in exchange for third pick overall.

Traded LB Pat Swilling to Detroit for eighth pick overall and a fourth-round pick. Traded 14th pick overall and third-round draft choice to Cleveland for 1 1th pick overall. t-Traded 19th pick overall and third-round draft choice to Philadelphia for 13th pick overall. (Traded 20th pick overall and filth-round draft choice to San Francisco for 18th pick overall. t-Traded 26th overall pick and third-round pick to San Francisco for 20th pick overall.

(Traded two second-round, a fourth- and an eighth-round pick to Dallas for 29th pick overall. I Parcells rings in new era by maMng the tough caU YOU ARE PATRIOTS coach Bill Parcells and you receive these calls. The San Francisco GLOBE STAFF PHOTO EVAN RICH UN Reader Feedback Did the Patriots do the right thing in selecting Drew Bledsoe? Coach Bill Parcells welcomes quarterback Drew Bledsoe to the New England Patriots. 49ers contact you Saturday, one day before the National Football League draft, and make a proposal. "We will give you our Newcomer is already off to a nice start Yes: 617-929-2019 No: 617-929-2235 Note: This Is an unscientific survey.

A sampling of reader opinion will be published In tomorrow's Globs. mm, NEW YORK -COULD the young man be just a lit-. I tie nicer, a little more hum-1 ble, a little more accommo- 1 jr 3 1 rfiitincr' I CHTijpjl3J' entire draft this year, two first-round picks and every other pick, nine in all, for your first and second picks," the Niners say. Tempting. If you make the deal you would wind up with 16 draft choices, at least two on every round.

You would start draft day with nine picks, give up two, but then get nine more. The Indianapolis Colts call and make another proposal. "We can do it three ways," the Colts say. "You can have our first, second, third and fourth draft choices this year for your first Or, we will give you our top three choices and defensive tackle Jon Hand. Or, we will give you our top three choices, protect 10 of our players, and then you can pick any one of the players we have left" Mcdonough, Page 33 7 V.

jf cause they never realized that Drew was sih a big deal. There aren't a lot of newspaperi Yakima, where Mac Bledsoe now The dad of the No. 1 pick in the lartd. Ax walked around the sixth floor grand balh-ir of the Marriott Marquis holding a Sonyr! corder. He was making a home movie-.

looked like a young dad at his son's game. The dad was preserving this mbme for posterity. Now they can show thelolkt back home what it was like on the day. thai -Drew hit the big time. We asked Mac to re-tell a story abVut-c Drew's first contact with professional footbU And so he told us about the day baby Drevj-peed into the shoes of Hall of Fame wide SHAUGHNESSY, Pag sneakers, jeans and a red shirt If he wasn't 6 feet 6 inches, he'd look like the proverbial boy next door.

Bledsoe is every kid who ever delivered your paper, raked your lawn or vaulted your fence in pursuit of a ball gone astray. He is from Walla Walla, a land of wheat farms. His dad is a teacherfootball coach. His mom, also a teacher, says those wonderful things that only a mom can say. "We're proud of the fact that he Is a neat young man," a beaming Barbara Bledsoe said yesterday.

"He's kind. He's grown to be a fine person. He's kind to his grandparents, and to puppies." There is no Eastern cynicism in these folks. They say they've been buying every newspaper they can get their hands on be Not likely. The New England Patriots yesterday made Washington State quarterback Drew Bledsoe the No.

Headed west: Mirer lands in Seattle. Page 32. Team-by-team: All the picks. Page 32. 0 Mure on the Patriots.

Page 33. 1 pick in the NFL draft This kid is right out of Central Casting. Six of yesterday's top picks came to New York for the serious spectacle and all wore impeccable new suits except Bledsoe. He wore Clemens good, but 4 Sabres rewrote script Bruins' plans certainly didn't include bitter sweep ending Salmon, Lovullo homer; Sanderson silences RedSp On hockey ByNickCafurdo CLOI1E STAFF night at the hands of Scott Sanderiort fw; Joe Grahe. The mood is shifting from upbeit gloomy.

The happy faces have turned' The brief feeling of invincibility is goif now they wondervwhen optimism will if AWAUPIM flnlif grin, and tips the grail to take a triumphant swig. Ah, sweet triumph. Wait a minute. Look out. Wile the Roadrunner is snickering and bcep-becp-beep-ing.

That's not champagne in there. KA-BOOM! Smoke clears, and you know the rest There's ol' Wile his thirst quenched by a face full of dynamite. In a flash and a beep, the Roudrunncr ia racing down the roud, fustcr TwrL rj Phy'8 Law has descended lifT'lrriTiltl upon the Red Soxfrroof! upon i UFFALO NOW THAT WASNT (3 vcry n'ce Here the Bruins were, ready to guz-() le from that hallowed hunk of tin culled the Stanley Cup, and the Su-rcg race out of nowhere (the very definition of Schools: Bishop Fenwick pitcher Kerri Lyman. Page 37. Bulls still NBA team to beat.

Bob Ryan column, Page 28. ItiKTo Mediate wins Greater Greensboro Open. Page 31. than Brad May lifted the puck by Andy Mong Luis Polonia throws out a runner at the plate when an umpire makes the wrong call after the bascrunner hesitates on an obvious hit More proof? Roger Clemens allows home runs to people named Torey Lovullo and Tim Salmon. The Okie Towne tam Is hnvln liwt five kM-hIp-M.

It 2-1 liwf "There's no reason to panic," Clemens, who dialled any notion of bow problems with his nine-strikeout, nt walk effort "We Just have to finish strot In Oakland and then go back home with good attitude and tick up the pace ngaiiu wrn fnx. Pw Buffalo) and ly the Roadrunner to their Wile 1,1 owrm Saturday night F(. Coyote. So, why did it all blow up in tho Bruins' Ticture It The ifafty, assured Coyote em- k.toce? braces Cud, flashes his snarling, sawtoothed ON HOCKEY, Tuge 34.