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' Six SWC teams face action over weekend THE BATTALION Page 15 FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1981 Intersectional games find Baylor hoping to bounce back from its opening week setback at home against Bowling Green, SMU going for a second straight victory in Texas Stadium against North Texas State, Arkansas open ing its season in Fayetteville against Tulsa and Texas Tech be ginning its year on the road against Colorado. TCU, Houston and Texas A&M all have the weekend off. Rice, which chose to play more of a ball control game last year, will likely display more of a wide- open offense this year because of added speed and some talented receivers. “We may even run some shot gun formation,” said Albom. This will mark the second straight year that Texas has opened its season against a confer ence foe. Last year the Longhorns moved their game with Arkansas up to Labor Day for national tele vision purposes and whipped the Razorbacks. Other than the Rice-Texas game, the majority of interest will likely be focused on Arkansas’ opener. The Razorbacks are one of this year’s mystery teams and some answers could be forthcoming against Tulsa. Last weekend the Hurricane lost a 15-11 encounter with Kansas. “From everything I’ve heard and read, Tulsa should have defe ated Kansas,” said Arkansas coach Lou Holtz. “You have losses like that sometimes in season openers. There are times when the best team doesn’t win. “The greatest improvement a team makes during the year is be tween the first and second games so we expect Tulsa to be better than it was last week. ” W/i/fe Sox announcer Dt-lfl sT I United Press International ■Even Ray Alborn admits that if |ehad to pick the order of finish in the Southwest Conference that he niight select the Rice Owls last, which is exactly where most of the Hseason polls have his team. But that doesn’t mean he has to e it. |“I don’t give a hoot where we are picked, Alborn said in the prior to his team’s first apper- anceofthe season. “It is the finish counts. Every time I read [where we are picked to finish last phaps me. It really makes me rant to prove everybody wrong. irOur kids will play with confi- pice and will go all out.” ■ Rice was picked somewhere nr the bottom last year, but split Jp in its eight conference games and tied the Texas Longhorns for |rth place. The Owls finished I year on quite a high, storming It the Houston Cougars, 35-7. | Now Rice has to prove itself all p again and it gets its first race Saturday night in Austin the Owls face the Lon- in the season’s opening ference game. he Rice roster was devastated Int\\^graduation, but a winning en- ,iltBsiasm was passed on to those still on the campus. And the Owls are obviously catching the Lon- itteramifflms at an opportune moment. [ Texas, plagued by injuries in oot-l(i ithen disappointing 1980 season, hy Fre will open the year without its two ' setts®ting running backs — A.J. ot-10 fones and Rodney Tate. Jones, in- itum jury prone throughout his career, is currently suffering from a hand le squiring pull. andocff Jn their place will be sopho- kley, more tailback John Walker and Dunn junior fullback Carl Robinson. ishmeijpThe Rice-Texas meeting will be er the No. 1 attraction of a somewhat irovide'limited weekend of action in the veil. SWC, locker, if Battalion football forecast Tulsa at Arkansas If Frank L. Christlieb lii ^ ' ' ' V • dp dp fHHH This week’s guest: Dr. Charles Samson Ritchie Priddy Rick Stolle Gaye Denley Arkansas by 5 Arkansas by 10 Arkansas by 7 Arkansas by 10 Arkansas by 7 Arkansas by 19 Bowling Green at Baylor Baylor by 6 Baylor by 14 Baylor by 10 Baylor by 6 Baylor by 10 Baylor by 27 North Texas at SMU SMU by 11 SMU by 20 SMU by 21 SMU by 14 SMU by 21 SMU by 14 Texas Tech at Colorado Tech by 3 Tech by 7 Tech by 1 Colorado by 3 Colorado by 1 Tech by 7 Rice at Texas Texas by 10 Texas by 14 Texas by 13 Texas by 13 Texas by 20 Texas by 13 Notre Dame at LSU Notre Dame by 12 Notre Dame by 10 Notre Dame by 22 Notre Dame by 5 Notre Dame by 7 Notre Dame by 16 Tennessee at USC USC by 20 USC by 13 USC by 17 USC by 20 USC by 21 USC by 25 California at Georgia Georgia by 14 Georgia by 17 Georgia by 4 Georgia by 13 Georgia by 17 Georgia by 25 St. Louis at Dallas Dallas by 7 Dallas by 11 Dallas by 2 Dallas by 10 Dallas by 10 Dallas by 14 Houston at Cleveland Cleveland by 3 Houston by 3 Houston by 1 Houston by 1 Houston by 3 Cleveland by 14 6-4 .600 7-3 .700 7-3.700 7-3.700 8-2 .800 8-2 .800 —i in.... —i K. elJ Dolphins hand Steelers embarrassing loss, 30-10 -foot-S yisafr uspended for remarks about players 7 wives United Press International the a* JrCKlCAGO — Jimmy Piersall ;e voile has survived tangles with players, bot-10 Ripires and writers during his ^irls m fte years as a Chicago White Sox Mevision announcer but his dis- ; team foraging comments about players’ DallasJ lives has again put his job on the hall Asa line. 1 thevJl Piersall was suspended indefi- ikthitfptely with pay by the team’s own ers Wednesday night because of his comments on a recent televi sion show hosted by Chicago Sun- limes columnist Mike Royko. I White Sox owner Jerry Re ins- dor! denied Piersall had been er tP hied, saying he and club Presi dent Eddie Einhorn will meet with Piersall within the next sev- n to * urai days to discuss the television illvisitl ||inouncer’s future with the club. PiegO'j I Piersall had told Royko, “I Tbe | flunk each ball club should have a >pt. 23wnic once a week for wives (of “ayers) on baseball because I lon’t think they know what the baseball is. First of all, they Jere horny broads that wanted to get married and they wanted a lit tle money, a little security and a big, strong ballplayer. ” Several White Sox players’ ives complained about the re- arks to Reinsdorf, who de- ribed them as an “embarass- lentto the organization,” during an impromptu press conference piling the Sox’ Wednesday night me against Seattle. “We need time to reflect and we meet with him to discuss the ituation. ” Piersall, who was not on the air Wednesday night, was unavail able for comment. I Sources said the new owners Were upset about the numerous controversies in which Piersall had been involved in the past sev- iral years. He missed several mes last year after he allegedly Jhoked a local sportswriter. Empires earlier this year reatened to forfeit a game [ainst the Sox, saying his taunts 'ere inciting the crowd. Piersall last week criticized Sox lugger Greg Luzinski for his fai- re to run out a grounder, uzinski threatened not to re-sign ith the Sox if Piersall remained ith the club. Piersall’s playing career also Pas laced with controversy. He 'as the subject of the biography “Fear mental and subsequent movie, Strikes Out,” detailing a breakdown he suffered during his playing days with Boston. United Press International MIAMI — Evidence that the Pittsburgh Steeler dynasty is ag ing its way out of existence is mounting. The four-time Super Bowl champions lost their second game of the season, 30-10, to the Miami Dolphins Thursday night and con cern for the Steelers is deepening. But the Steelers aren’t giving up. In fact, they’re spending a lot of time looking for answers. “We’ve got to win a game to realize we can win,” said quarter back Terry Bradshaw, 33, after the embarrassing loss to the now un beaten Dolphins. “Maybe if we can get a win, we can get back on the track again. “I think we need to relax—quit thinking about mistakes and have some fun.” Coach Chuck Noll’s solution was characteristically simple: “We’re just going to have to play better, naturally. We might use Miami as a model.” Not only did the Dolphins win impressively as they did in their 20-7 win over St. Louis in their opener Sunday, they did it in the most entertaining way possible. “We went for it — for the big plays — figuring that was the only way to win a game like this. 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