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NCAA 60-yard dash champ still in spotlight
TANK MCNAMARA
by John Wagner
Battalion Staff
hen Rod Richardson cros-
red the finish line in front of the
e other results ft reS | 0 ( the 60-yard dash field
with LSU: March 13 in Pontiac, Mich., he
y Trower (LSU) ^wasn’t just winning an ordinary
>-3, 6-2 race
Fernandez (FaBlVith his index linger raised
Harriet Prothrotfegh in a number one salute,
ardson broke the tape and
me the 1982 NCAA Indoor
ard dash champion, beating
n sprinters as Houston’s
Ihlev Floyd and Georgia’s
hel Walker.
With that victory, Richard-
Mary Kaye Haitijon's life has changed.
1 •■Considerably.
m-Trower defJ.| It’s been three weeks since
loten 6-3, S-fi.MlBiardson’s success in the Sil-
landez-Landn verdome, and he admits that his
are 6-2, 6-4 life is just now getting back to
Lizzul-FatimaRiifcImal.
esa Landry (It
Susan Ware 6-3,
ira Hanna (T<
Julie Roof 6-3,
i H utcherson (If
Closs-Cheryl
-6, 6-4
“Things were moving real
ast the week after I won,” he
said, "But they’re settling down
i little now.”
■ast indeed. Richardson be-
:ame the focal point of a media
|itz, appearing in Sports Illus-
Hed and several newspapers
around the state. Richardson
laid he didn’t mind all the pub-
llyan, Forsch
start tonight
n Houston
ies
play
in Astros imrasciJP': , .
Tr 1 wasn t accustomed to re-
I trotted front al ‘ that attenlion ’ bu ,l
ae mound to suit!' h | e s " (H , hin S wron g Wlth ,l -
inning Sunday . ....
standing ovali. r 1% a > the pubhcity was
t the fieldafttrpij b e | h 9 weve y- Several art.-
9 Ip-iH hp — dwelt on the f act that
don' ''^■lardson had decided to play
i the mound hejf’
i batters on gronn
I the next three ii
n retired thesklH
undout.
Manager Al Rosl
it was to pr
lined.
happy for him.
r off the plate.'
I with him,"he
efused to answer
stions.
his season, Ridnl
ssigned U) an tL United Press International
ig training in SaffOUSTON — Ace Astro
asfballer Nolan Ryan faces Bob
lorsch in a pitcher’s paradise,
.ha Astrodome, tonight to open
ik-po ofi [he season for Houston and the
O o l lL)t,|Louis Cardinals.
®; Ryan, 1,1-5 last year with a
yCf CPf National League leading 1.69
IRA, starts his second season
* lith the Astros with an almost
1 ' PS 1 ppntactteam that won the second-
tali champiionship last year and
hen lost to the Dodgers in a five
rs* International j ame YVestern Division playoff .
,’ , I ",'■Fprsch, 10-5 last year with a
1 1< dU ?, ,||.19£RA, is backed up by t)ne of
in this weeks' he Nationa) League ^ t / )Ug hes.
nameni. relievers, Bruce Sutter. The
had loin i Cardinals were second in both
last week ,iv la | ves 0 y t } ie season [ as c year
; ial pioa'diiK Kjig com piii n g tlje p, es t w i n .
is game with p 1 j n g p ei - ce ntage in the Eastern
over the A«f s £
rSe '- iji Tonight’s contest opens a
trs is only tvw h ree .g ame series. The Cardin-
it of theotheu 1 i| sre t urn to St. Louis for a home
t Monday, "Speiier Saturday against Pitt-
ten their first
matching a dn'j Q n lhe
expansive playing
e clubhouse. leld of the Astrodome last year,
Herman pron h e Houston club put together a
xlay, a whipp l |o-21 record primarily on solid
iccted to help itarting pitching by Ryan, joe
r practice in ' vjickro, Don Sutton, Bob Knep-
tre,” said Joy ter and Vern Ruble. Ryan made
: thoroughlyc ij s rory by tossing is fifth no-
y, playing J’-iitier there Sept. 26 against the
the course Los Angeles Dodgers,
day at noon. | Hits will be at a premium in
all pines they ' the opening series. Two Cardin-
t’s almostimp'l’als starters, third baseman Ken
e wind. Itswin
trees and yo®
dch way it’s btofl
Rod Richardson
football for Coach Jackie Sher
rill in the fall, and the Sports
Illustrated story gave the im
pression that Richardson was,
well ... cocky.
“That’s not me at all,
though,” he said. “But I can
understand how it happened. I
was very excited after winning,
and it would be easy to misinter
pret how I felt,” he said.
Richardson holds no ill feel
ings toward Sports Illustrated,
however. Being featured with a
picture was a thrill for him.
“Sports Illustrated is a maga
zine you r^ad all your life, and
it’s a good feeling to open it up
and see yourself,” Richardson
said.
The sophomore from
Shreveport, La., said his victory
was a case of putting everything
together at the right time.
“I didn’t train differently or
harder or anything,” Richard
son said. “In fact, I can’t remem
ber doing anything differently.
When I was in the blocks, I felt
real sharp — real confident. I
didn’t feel like an underdog.
“I think I just came together
at the right time. I just won at the
right moment.”
Richardson said he decided
that track was the sport for him
at the end of his high school
senior year. After a dual career
as a running back and sprinter at
Fair Park High School in
Shreveport, Richardson had to
make a choice.
“After my senior year, I had
to choose between football and
track because the recruiters
were wanting me to sign,” he
said. “At the time, I didn’t think
my body was mature enough to
play football in college. I
thought about it a lot, and I
chose track,” he said.
Coming to Texas A&M was
an easy decision for the 5-10
sprinter.
“When 1 came here, the peo
ple treated me real well,”
Richardson said. “Everyone I
met was real nice. They showed
a genuine interest in me, not
only as an athlete, but as a stu
dent also. I figured the athletic
part would take care of itself if I
tried my best, but 1 was really
impressed with how they treated
me as a student.”
Although winning the 60-
yard dash in the NCAA Indoor
Meet is the highlight of Richard
son’s young career, he was not
an unknown when he went to
Pontiac. He placed second in the
100-ineter dash at the Southwest
Conference Outdoor Meet as a
freshman, and had a 6.11 time
to his credit in the 60-yard dash.
Earlier this year, Richardson
won the SWC 60-yard dash with
a time of 6.12. He cut that mark
to 6.07 in the NCAA competi
tion, and although he missed
Stanley Floyd’s world record by
.03 seconds, his time was good
enough for a new meet record.
Richardson said he feels he
can improve on his times.
“I can get better,” he said. “I
need to get a consistent string of
victories going, because that
would help my confidence. If I
can stay healthy, I can get
better.”
When he returned from Pon
tiac, Richardson won the 100-
meter dash at the College Sta
tion Relays. But his string was
broken at two when he was dis
qualified for a false start during
the finals of the 100-metef dash
at the Texas Relays Saturday.
Richardson said it wasn’t a
case of getting over-enthusiastic.
“I think it was more a mental
letdown,” he said. “I think there
are days when you just fail to
concentrate, and that was one of
them.”
Although Richardson is con
centrating on track now, he is
considering going out for foot
ball in the fall, probably as a kick
returner and receiver. He is
quick to point out, however, that
track season isn’t over yet.
“As far as I’m concerned, I
just run track right now,” he
said.
The biggest change so far,
Richardson said, is that now he is
the favorite going into a race,
and that puts more pressure on
him.
“The pressure really hasn’t
bothered me that much yet, and
I think I can shake it off when I
run,” he said. “But people ex
pect more of me now. I’m not
expected to lose. There was a
time when I could lose and it
wasn’t that big of a deal. Losing
now might bother other people
more than it would me.”
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Rangers begin 1982
with 11 new players
United Press International
NEW YORK — The Texas
Rangers open their season today
against the New York Yankees
w'ith a new-look lineup and their
same old optimism.
Eleven members of the cur
rent Texas roster — including
the club’s opening-day pitcher
and six of the nine players who
will fill out today’s batting lineup
— were not with the Rangers
when the strike-shortened 1981
season came to a close.
The Rangers had already
made several changes before
two major trades late in spring
training caused the club to take
on an even more dif ferent look.
Among the newcomers is
Frank Tanana — acquired in the
free agent market after he play
ed out his option at Boston.
Tanana, who posted a lackluster
4-10 record with the Red Sox
last year, will be on the mound
today against the Yankees.
New York will counter with
Ron Guidry, who has lost only
one game to the Rangers in his
four-year major league career.
New faces in the starting
lineup will include first baseman
Lamar Johnson (free agent
from the Chicago White Sox),
second baseman Doug Flynn
(traded from the Mets), left fiel
der Lee JVlazzilli (also from the
Mets), rookie center fielder
George Wright, right fielder
Larry Parrish (traded from
Montreal) and rookie desig
nated hitter Mike Richardt.
The only players starting to
day for Texas who were with the
club last year are third baseman
Buddy Bell, shortstop Mark
Wagner and catcher Jim Sund-
berg.
In the past weeks the Rangers
have traded away designated
hitter Al Oliver and second base-
man Bump Wills — both of
whom wanted to be somewhere
else. There is more speed on the
team than ever and the Rangers’
front office feels they have the
strongest defensive infield and
the best overall pitching staff in
the American league.
Now all they have to do is win,
something they have done little
of during the course of their
first decade in Texas.
“This is a better team than the
one we opened the spring with,”
Oberkfell and catcher Gene
Tenace, are injured. They will
be replaced in lhe opening series
by Steve Braun and Darrell
Porter.
The Astros will field a light-
hitting lineup. Houston added
right-handed hitting Ray
Knight, but did not improve it
self at the plate over lhe winter.
Last year the Astros hit only
.257.
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