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Lopez 71-29 .710 Melissa Adair 60-20 .750 dp 60-40 .600 Reveille 67-33 .670 itiej ^/Al. est CobIj on. ignatioiii ix yean ivas tk Divisii; >ach erbach i his ;assistaa! with amateur boxers for the past eight months. Steve SI > East Ci ;rbaclt er Pal I) edasoi ksonvi to Ten larterlsd i becai* in Peayi the Coii seasons. Yantler aordinati e of tki shown! II progn fight exhibition NFL roundup PlayofF-bound Cowboys head weekend action United Press International BALTIMORE — Former world welter weight boxing champion Sugar Ray Leonard, cured of an injury that nearly took his eyesight last year, said Monday he would return to the ring for an exhibition match. Leonard, who doctors said has completely rec overed from an operation to repair a detached retina, said he has been working out and sparring He said the exhibition match is scheduled for Dec. 10 at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland, but would not say who he would fight or whether it signals his return to professional boxing. “I’m just working out to make sure I look good at that (exhibition match),’’ he said. The former world welterweight and World Boxing Association junior middleweight cham pion retired from boxing last year after he under went successful surgery to repair a detached re tina. Johns Hopkins doctors said they don’t know if the damage resulted fom boxing, but said it was detected early enough to restore perfect vision. Leonard’s announcement that he would return to the ring at least temporarily came in a news conference announcing a new eye research center that will be named after him at Johns Hopkins Hospital, where he underwent the eye surgery. “I realized how valuable my eyesight was and how much I had taken it for granted,” said Leonard. T’ve made a lifetime commitment to part of it (the research center) to bring the public’s attention to eye diseases.” Leonard, a native of Palmer Park, Md., is helping to finance the $5 million center and will work to raise funds for it, but he would not divulge exactly how much money he has contributed. Hopkins officials said the center will be located in their Wilmer Eye Institute, the world’s most extensive eye research facility. They said research at the new center will focus on the leading causes of blinding disorders that affect the retina and vital tissues at the back of the eye. One in every 20 Americans, nearly 11 million people, suffers from some type of visual impair ment, and national polls consistently have shown that blindness is the most feared medical disabil ity, Hopkins officials said. “Eye disease has not achieved the publicity to attract sufficient funding, probably because no worldwide celebrity has lent his support to its study, ” said Dr. Arnall Patz, director of the Wil mer Eye Institute at the hospital. SU’s Stovall could be ain course Thursday year uctant It I downpi in alt bit.” United Press International . [It’s very symbolic that on anksgiving Day Coach Jerry Stovall of Louisiana State has his ad on the chopping block. [After all, his team was a turkey is season. | Stovall leads LSU into action ainst state rival Tulane Thurs- y night in what could be his last line as coach of the Tigers. jPicked to challenge for the Southeastern Conference title at beginning of the season, the Tigers have struggled to a 3-7 erall record and are 0-6 in the KC. ainW Jl That doesn’t sit well with the r - LSU’s Board of Supervisors. The nc ' Supervisors last Friday ignored a lea from former Gov. John MeKeithen to honor the remain der of Stovall’s contract, sche- fuled to expire at the end of the 84 season. The board said it would listen to commendations from Brodhead Rid Wharton at a meeting on Sto- Idl’s future Dec. 2. Even the new governor-elect, Edwin Edwards, has gotten into it thelfBe aet. erienffl Edwards said friends and alum- dofo 1 ni offered LSU a no-strings- i be J attached $1 million trust fund to elp attract the “best and bright est” football coach for the school. LSU, however, has rejected the offer. “They said it was unnecessary, (and that) whatever coach they wanted they could attract,” Ed wards said. “They told me the LSU coach makes between $200,000 and $250,000 a year. I didn’t know that. Edwards said no strings were attached to the offer of a $1 million trust fund, which he said would earn interest of about $100,000 annually. “I said that when they decided who they wish as coach, be it Sto vall or Mickey Mouse, that I could help if additional funds were needed to attract the best and brightest,” he said. Although school officials turned down the trust fund offer, Ed wards said it would stand if LSU needed the money later. Despite all the turmoil sur rounding each school, Thursday night’s game figures to bring out the best in both teams as it usually does. Who can forget last season when Tulane, a 24-point under dog, upset the Orange-bowl bound Tigers, 31-28? In the only other game on Thursday’s schedule, Louisville entertains Memphis State. Although most of the major col leges have finished their regular season, four of the nation’s top- ranked teams will be in action Saturday. No. 1 Nebraska visits Oklahoma, No. 2 Texas plays host to Texas A&M and No. 6 SMU visits Houston. United Press International DALLAS — Since the Dallas Cowboys are now officially in the playoffs, they will have some time perhaps to tinker with areas that need improvement. And no area so dramatically calls for improvement as the secondary — which currently ranks dead last in the National Football League. “That (the Cowboys’ pass de fense ranking) is a real statistic,” Cowboys coach Tom Landry said Tuesday. “And when you have that kind of statistic you need to do other things like make the inter ceptions and put on a good pass rush and control the run well. You can contol the passing yardage in other ways. ” Kansas City passed for 432 gross yards against Dallas last Sun day, only the fourth time the Cow boys have ever given up that much yardage in the air. Kansas City quarterbacks threw the ball 59 times. Still, the Cowboys won the game, 41-21. That victory, combined with the loss by New Orleans on Mon day night, clinched at least a wild card spot in the playoffs for Dallas. It marks a league record ninth con secutive year for the Cowboys to make the post-season competition and the 17th time in 18 years they have made it. “We know we will be playing somebody, somewhere,’’ said Landry, “unless the National Football League folds.” But just how far can Dallas get in the playoffs with a secondary that keeps giving up that much yardage? Does it negate any hope of getting to the Super Bowl? “Not necessarily,” the coach said. “We can improve and we will keep trying to do so. “But you have to remember our cornerbacks play man-for-man de fense a lot more than most teams,” he said. “And this is a passing game these days. If you play man defense you are going to have big plays against you. “That is why you need to com pensate by making the big defen sive plays, too,’ he said. “It’s when you don’t stop anybody at anytime that you worry.” Nevertheless, Landry admit ted cornerback Everson Walls (who led the NFL in interceptions his first two years as a pro) is not having the kind of season he pro duced in 1981 and 1982. “1 think Everson would say he is not having the kind of year he has had,” Landry said. “But I have watched him in the Pro Bowl and he plays pass defense as well as anybody in the league. I don’t know who I would want instead of him. “It’s hard to say what causes a player to have a down year,” Landry said. “It just happens sometime.” Landry said he would classify the secondary’s performance against Kansas City as, “poor.” “But the final criteria,” he said, “is how many points are scored against you.” Around the league Try telling the Pittsburgh Steelers that the holidays are a time to be home. The Steelers, upset last week in Three Rivers Stadium by the Min nesota Vikings, have won five straight on the road and will try to make it a club-record sixth on / Thanksgiving Day against the Lions in the Silverdome in Pon tiac, Mich. The 9-3 Steelers still lead the AFC Central by two games over Cleveland, despite fheir 17-14 loss to Minnesota. Another strong road performance would keep them in the chase for the home field advantage through the play offs. “But it isn’t like a normal week,” said Pittsburgh coach Chuck Noll. “There are some things you just can’t cover. ” Noll isn’t wild over playing on Thursday but when he learned he would be playing the game, he prepared as best he could. “We played the (Philadelphia) Eagles a pre-season game on a Thursday just to kind of get a feel for it,” Noll said. Pittsburgh has not faced Detroit since it beat the Lions 24-10 in 1973. The Steelers have not play ed in Detroit since prevailing 24- 14 in 1967. Detroit is 6-6 and tied with Green Bay for second place in the NFC central Division, one game behind Minnesota. The Lions must win or face the prospect of possibly being two games behind with three games to play — the next a Monday night hosting of the Vikings on Dec. 5. They helped their cause Sun day by defeating Green Bay 23-20 in overtime. The Lions drove to the 15-yard line on their first pos session of overtime but Ed Mur ray was wide on a 33-yard field goal attempt. He got his second chance just seven plays later, fol lowing an interception. “I thought the first kick went through hut the call was out, Murray said. “It was still early in the overtime and I felt we had an opportunity to get it back. The in terception was just what we needed. “I’m just really getting back into form,” said Detroit running back Billy Sims, who missed four games with a broken hand. “We didift give up today. We knew we had to get the game to have a chance to win the division.” Detroit has a 20-21-2 record on Thanksgiving, including three straight victories over AFC teamfe. Pittsburgh’s Franco Harris en ters the game 555 yards short of Jimmy Brown’s career record of 12,312 yards. ! On Sunday, Baltimore is iit Cleveland, Houston at Tampa Bay, Minnesota at New Orleans, New England at the New York Jets, Philadelphia at Washington, San Francisco at Chicago, Buffalo at the Los Angeles Rams, Denver at San Diego, Green Bay at Atlan ta, Kansas City at Seattle, and the New York Giants at the Los Angeles Raiders. On Monday __ night, Cincinnati is at Miami. r Things haven’t exactly gone smoothly this season for Tulane either. The Green Wave is 4-6 but school officials spent much of the year fighting whether quarterback John English, the coach’s son, could play after the NCAA said he had violated the transfer rule. Both the state and federal courts both ruled he couldn’t play. 1 THE UNDERGROUND SBISA BASEMENT cp aN° 6 Pack Pudding Special ^o° Monday Nov. 28 Friday Dec. 2 6 Pack Pudding $1.29 OFFER GOOD TO THE LAST PACK ‘The Best Food. The Lowest Price.” Arkansas iwbeij setfl •y. HeJ ‘^prepares is-'f for Tech United Press International FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — rkansas spent its final football actice in pads Tuesday, concen- ating on fundamentals for Satur n’s season finale at Texas Tech. “We will work in sweat clothes Wednesday and Thursday so we anted a brisk practice in pads,” coach Lou Holtz said. “Our last ractice in pads was much like the rst one was. We worked on fun- amentals and finished with a 3- on-3 session. “Except for the 3-on-3 it wasn’t a particularly good workout but me of our young guys got a pic- re of drills they will see many jimes in the future,” Holtz said. The Razorbacks were at full strength except at linebacker rhere Milton Fields missed prac- ice because of a knee sprain suf- 3redagainst SMU. Fields may re urn to practice Wednesday and is xpected to play against Tech. Holtz had no idea what type of [ame to expect Saturday. (While supplies last) ' ftiPT. OF ANIMAL SCIENCE MEAT SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CENTER (Located on West Campus next to Kleberg Center) PRE-GAME SPECIALS We will be open for all Aggie home football games. OPEN BEFORE AND AFTER THE A&M - t.u. GAME BEAT t.u. EAT MORE BEEF! Bevo Roasts BEEF ARM ROASTS (bone-in, 3-6 lbs.) $1.09 per lb. 50 lb. box $.99 per lb. BEEF CHUCK ROASTS (bone-in, 3-6 lbs.) $.99 per lb. 50 lb. box $.89 BEVO STEAKS BEEF RIB STEAKS (bone-in, 2 per pkg.) $2.19 per lb. BEEF SIRLOIN STEAKS (boneless) $2.99per lb. GROUND BEVO AND BEVO SIDES LEAN GROUND BEEF (wrapped, frozen in 2 lb. pkgs.) $1.49 per lb. 50 lb. box $1.35 per lb. LEAN GROUND BEEF PATTIES (wrapped, frozen in 2 lb pkgs., 8 patties per pkg.) $1.59 per lb. 10 lb. box $1-49 per lb.5r/£, BEEF SIDES (cut, wrapped, frozen) $1.20 per lb. Avg. Weight: 250-400 lbs; sold on hanging weight basis CHRISTMAS HAMS WHOLE CURED AND SMOKED HAMS (bone-in, 14-20 lbs. Avg. Wt. 18 lbs.) $1.98 per lb. 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