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Rivera paralyzed
Irom chest down
■ United Press International
\ PITTSBURGH — Doctors
attending to Pittsburgh Steel-
ers’ defensive lineman Gabriel
Rivera saici Tuesday the
rookie is paralyzed from the
chest down from injuries suf
fered in a car crash last week
and likely will never walk
again.
■pDr. Daniel L. Diamond,
who has been in charge of
Rivera since he was brought
into Pittsburgh’s Allegheny
General Hospital Thursday
night, said the former Texas
Tech star has numerous frac
tures of the spine and will
undergo an operation in a few
days.
■Diamond emphasized,
however, the operation will
only be to stabilize the frac
tured vertebra and will not im
prove Rivera’s paralysis.
IB'The fractured area of the
back needs to be stabilized.
This is not something we ex
pect will result in any im
provement in his paralysis,”
nepld reporters. As each day
Hses, it is more and more un
likely that he (Rivera) will ever
walk again.”
fi® Diamond said Rivera, 22
and the Steelers No. 1 draft
pick in this spi ing’s draft, has
fractured the vertebra in his
upper chest, between the
shoulder blades.
miB)octors will attempt to
graft the bones in Rivera’s
back and insert metal rods to
Gabriel Rivera
hold the spine in place, Di
amond said. If the operation is
not performed, Rivera’s up
per body would lean and
eventually “just slide off the
lower spine,” he said.
In addition to his paralysis,
Rivera also injured his right
arm, but doctors are hopeful
the arm can be returned to full
strength.
Diamond said doctors be
lieve Rivera’s life is in no im
mediate danger.
He is in serious but stable
condition in Allegheny Gen
eral, where his wife of Five
months, Kim, and his parents
are with him. Kim is expecting
the couple’s first child in a few
months.
Because he has a tube in his
throat and is on a respirator,
Rivera has not been able to
talk to his family, but can com
municate and seems to know
what is going on, Diamond
said.
The accident occurred ab
out 9 p.m. Thursday after
Rivera left Julian’s, a Pitt
sburgh restaurant and bar.
Rivera’s car crossed the
center line and collided head-
on with a car driven by Allen
Watts, 48, and was thrown
from his late-model Datsun
280-Z, police said. Watts was
not injured.
Police have charged Rivera
with drunken driving, reck
less driving and speeding in
the accident, although two
television reporters who were
with Rivera that night say he
did not appear intoxicated
when he left the bar.
Gontacted Tuesday in Lub
bock, Texas Tech football
coach Jerry Moore said, “Boy,
that’s tragic. I’ve talked to the
doctors and his parents from
time to time but have never
talked to him (since the acci
dent). All of us were keeping
our hopes up that this
wouldn’t happen.
“It’s always a depressing
thing, I think particularly so in
the circumstances of Gabe,”
he said. “He had done so well
here in his senior year. Every
body had such high expecta
tions of him.”
Taking the field
Jackie Sherrill, at left, follows his players onto
the field prior to the Aggies’ game with Rice
Saturday. The Aggies face their stiffest test
to date Saturday when they play SMU.
Aggie Sports Roundup
“tannon Sr. says son earned
'1400 a week during summer
United Press International
BATON ROUGE, La. — A
Misters-affiliated garbage-
leij’s local paid Texas A&M
nebacker Billy Cannon Jr.
400 a week for a summer job
1 , jarning about unions, the foot-
illjplayer’s father has said.
Billy Cannon Sr., an ortho-
ontist and former Heisman
rophy winner who has confes-
:d in a $6 million counterfeit-
ig[scheme, was president of
Canisters Local 100 while his
jmkas on the payroll.
“'‘■'he elder Cannon — a
.ouisiana State back and later
' l ' irolwith the Los Angeles Rams
nd Houston Oilers — told of his
on's union connection Tuesday
diile testifying as a government
i; ntness against Herbert “Jack”
essup, a codefendant in the
ounterfeiting ring.
)ok f «Gannon and four other parti-
d i;: Spams in the caper already have
| )f Headed guilty and agreed to
, :ooperate in the government’s
Id :ase against Jessup.
During cross-examination by
idas
esstip’s attorney, Cannon said
le never was paid for his role as
president of Teamsters Local
100. However, he said his son
received checks from the gar-
bagemen’s union.
“My son received some
checks, but not because I was
president,” Cannon said. He
said the younger Cannon work
ed for long-time Baton Rouge
T eamsters boss Edward Grady
Partin to earn the money.
The elder Cannon, who said
he served as president as a favor
to Partin, said the labor boss had
put college athletes on union
payrolls for 25 years in a public
relations program.
“I worked for him in the same
program that Little Bill worked
for him — he had a number of
LSU players and Southern play
ers,” Cannon said. “Partin said,
‘while I know you college
athletes are not going to derive
an income from the work force
you will get a feeling for the
working man.’
“The education program is a
feeling a boy that works with the
union carries on in private life,”
Cannon said.
He said his son never went out
on a union job to work with
laborers, but “worked in the
office when he was in town.”
Partin has been serving time
in a LaTuna federal prison for
obstruction of justice. He faces
trial in Baton Rouge next month
on charges of misappropriating
union funds for his own benefit.
Golf team
at Pan Am Classic
The men’s golf team will travel
to Harlington for the Pan Amer
ican Classic this weekend. The
team finished lOlh at the Andy
Bean Invitational last weekend.
The University of Houston
finished eighth and Univeristy
of Texas finished 11th. Oklaho
ma won the tournament. A&M’s
Philip Parkin placed seventh
with a score of 218.
Women’s tennis
team at La. Tech
The women’s tennis team will
face Louisiana Tech this Friday.
The matches will start at 9:00
a.m. at the Omar Smith Tennis
Center.
Volleyball team
faces Rice
The volleyball team will take on
Rice at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Oct.
31 in G. Rollie White Coliseum.
The team beat Baylor last Mon
day to maintain their No. 2 place
in the Southwest Conference be
hind Texas. A&M’s record is 5-1
in the SWC. The Aggies will be
idle this week while preparing
for their end-of-season string of
conference games. League
leading Texas will come to town
Nov. 16 for a match that could the SWC Championships on
possibly decide the conference Monday, Oct. 31 at Rice. The
championship.
Cross-country
in Championships
The men’s and women’s cross
country teams will participate in
men’s team placed third at
Georgetown last weekend. T he
women’s team also placed third
last weekend at the Michigan
State Invitational.
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