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United Press International
Los Angeles combined the
lasic and the bizarre down the
[tretdi Tuesday night to form
lie usual Laker victory.
This game gave me a
leadache,” Laker Coach Pat
Riley said after Los Angeles
used the traditional skyhooks of
ireeni Abdul-Jabbar and a
:ak play by Norm Nixon to
eat San Antonio 137-132 in
Jouble overtime at HemisFair
Irena. “Our poise in those over-
limes makes this team very
ough.”
Nixon, who scored 10 of his
25 points in the fourth quarter
— including the Lakers’ last 5 —
sent the game into overtime with
some unplanned trickery. Los
Angeles was trailing, 116-113,
with 4 seconds left in regulation
and Nixon at the free throw line.
Nixon hit the first foul shot
then faked the second, causing
players from both sides to enter
the lane, and a double violation
was called. Abdul-Jabbar con
trolled the jump ball and Nixon
tied the score, 116-116, on an
18-foot jumper at the regulation
buzzer.
“I faked the shot when I saw
everyone jump into the lane be
cause I wanted to wait while ev
erybody was scrambling to get
position, then throw the ball up
off the rim for one of our play
ers to get,” said Nixon, who
added 13 assists. “I wasn’t even
trying for a double violation.”
San Antonio’s Mike Mitchell,
who led all scorers with 29
points, hit a layup with 32
seconds left .
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United Press International
What’s with North Carolina?
The NCAA champions re-
i xtramurJ IUrnec ^ as the No. 2 team in the
' , country this season and prompt-
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nday ail |two games. Not since 1919 had a
orth Carolina team begun its
ason with such a record.
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lllC'jHeels escaped with a 70-68 vic-
tory over Tulane in triple over-
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ilation, Tulane passed, in
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29-yar(fi DALLAS — Because the Dal-
as Cowboys have missed the
quartd layoffs only once since 1966,
|)a lly broil here was every expectation be-
rhtintltd fdrethe 1982 season began that
^ polled I* *hey would make them again.
liams. Michael Jordan of North
Carolina grabbed the ball and
fired a 20-footer to tie the score
at 53-53.
In the first overtime the Tar
Heels could have won but Jor
dan missed a layup at the buzzer
with the score 59-59. North
Carolina was taken to the third
overtime when Tulane guard
Howard Jenkins hit a short jum
per at the buzzer.
The third overtime belonged
to North Carolina with the Tar
Heels going to a slowdown and
making their foul shots.
“We should have won the
ballgame,” Tulane Coach Ned
Fowler said. “People who came
to the game must realize North
Carolina was very, very fortun
ate to win. It was a freak thing
for them to get a desperation
shot.”
Elsewhere in the Top 20, No.
3 Georgetown routed Morgan
State, 91-57, No. 14 Missouri
pounded Augustana, 85-55 and
No. 18 Oklahoma beat Auburn-
Montgomery, 104-83.
United Press International
DALLAS — Bobby Collins
and Foge Fazio shook hands for
the first time this year Tuesday,
and it’s a little surprising that
they hadn’t run into each other
before then. After all, they’ve
been traveling along the same
road all season.
Both coaches, whose teams
meet Jan. 1 in the Cotton Bowl,
are in their first year as head
coach at their respective schools
— Fazio at the University of Pitt
sburgh and Collins at Southern
Methodist University.
Both moved in after their
predecessors left to take high-
profile jobs (Jackie Sherrill leav
ing Pittsburgh for the $ 1 million
contract offered him at Texas
A&M and Ron Meyer leaving
SMU to take the head job with
the New England Patriots of the
NFL). And both inherited teams
that were predicted to do excep
tionally well.
The two schools also just hap
pen to be in the middle of metro
politan areas that are hotbeds of
professional football and both
found enough pressure riding
on their shoulders this year to
last an entire career.
Last week Collins admitted
that once the Mustangs’ last reg
ular season game was over he
finally realized how much press
ure he had been under.
“It was like a weight being
lifted off my back,” he said.
Fazio, meanwhile, said he
knew from the beginning that
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tom each conference will be a
part of the Super Bowl tourney,
t is almost a foregone conclu
sion that Dallas will be there.
Even Cowboys’ coach Tom
andry speaks of the playoffs in
rms of “when” rather than
fcf.”
A week ago while discussing
an injured backup player, Land-
ysaid:
“He could be back for the
blayoffs.”
And on Tuesday, he indi
cated that the games between
now and early January were not
much more than glorified ex
hibition games as far as Dallas
was concerned.
“The fact that we won the two
games (after the strike) is impor
tant,” said Landry, whose (earn
has a 3-1 record and needs only
two wins to ensure a playoff bid.
“Now we are in a position to
start making a move to the play
offs.
“Right now my main concern
is how our team is playing. What
you want to do is to try to reach a
certain level going into the play
offs. That’s what you are trying
to do.”
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the pressure would be intense.
“The pressures were very
great,” said Fazio, who came to
town Tuesday for an advance
look at the facilities his team will
use during its Cotton Bowl trip.
“We had all these fellows who
were supposed to be all-
Americans and we had to play
North Carolina right off and
had a tough schedule.
“I tried to take as much press
ure away from the players as I
could. Our first game had so
much hype to it that it was as bad
as a political convention.
“But I knew all along it was
going to be like that. If I didn’t
want the pressure I could go to
Slippery Rock. There was plenty
of pressure on Johnny Majors
and Jackie Sherrill before I took
over. In our town even (Pitt
sburgh Steelers coach) Chuck
Noll gets a lot of heat.”
photo by Mark Berrier ,
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