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Baseball ports Wednesday, February22 1984/The Battalion/Page 11 ^Aggies iers found ;spon$e ( ihecasl" in crucial contest By BILL ROBINSON j Assistant Sports Editor ■Tonight could be a turning point in the Southwest Confer ence basketball race. Not at the top, but a turning point just the same. ■With the SWC post-season tournament looming just two direction! [weeks hence, the bottom half of i kind, the conference will be looking how B to! grasp as high a position as mmandtr Hssible in the standings in a v (Dr.Me- full slate of hoop action tonight. iulu),Wal HOne of the most crucial of v), Jamti these contests will be in Fort 1 Ntchdlt Worth, where Coach Shelby aid accept Metcalf will lead Texas A&M ubbingd against Coach Jim Kill- iwactor ingsworth and his TCU Horned e chan Frogs. w anted to i|For the Aggies it is not so r said pub- much a question of where they :d because will be playing in the first round pare note of the tournament as it is of who J front to A&M will face. The Aggies are diredon!virtually assured of a home I insecure berth to begin the tourney. ■But for TCU, each victory ksintotbe brings them a step closer to fin- moments.»hing j n t | u . t() p — ailc i Q ff out and roac | to open tournament . One c action. Ik to v 01 1 Metcalf says TCU will pose a as the fa real challenge for the Aggies. Juptotlif| “They scare us to death be- feeling cause of the long shooters they have,” he said. “And playing up J shooting there is tough. ofB'We’re now in the position where Rice has to lose, and we have to win, in order to get the home court advantage.” Blhe Aggies will get some out- side help on that end tonight ■cause Rice faces almost cer tain defeat at the hands of the Houston Cougars. I Houston has won 36 consec utive SWC games and the Cou- >e credip gars have only lost to the Owls he sho»!|once in their 25 meetings, vho appijBAnd in Waco tonight, the f Jeannei Bavlor Bears will have their best sdupani opportunity this season to pull erherhaii themselves out of the SWC cel- taut, eli®' lar when they host the Texas lines and | Longhorns, a Baylor victory ars offhe'lwould move them into a last- place tie with the Horns, was made■ Texas finished last in the surgery* SWC a year ago in a one-win secretwi) 1 ; season and this year’s club has ontheai only managed two conference and fe victories. The Horns have not The rf won a SWC road game in well d irnmedi- oyer two years, a comforting thought for the Bears, iewers^l Before the 1983 campaign d. “Wlie» Texas had finished last in the it the life SWC basketball race only three -re look®!fines, in 1931, 1957 and 1959. ffiwo years after their 1931 cel- wroteand lar finish the Longhorns won about cos- the league and just one year af- Uer their 1959 collapse they were conference champions, he costnf [Considering the overall ie produt- youth and strength of the explained [league, that’s not likely to hap- ,es wront pen this time. age woiiidt j Finally, the Arkansas Razor- Ibacks gear up for their Sunday .‘Showdown with Houston by iPCll lravellin g lo Lubbock to do bal- ' W V' tie with a vastly improved Texas Tech team. jentswerf| /ersity ugh TueS' THEFT: vas stole® n g Anne* gh schoe 11 ! aining • dent IT I leu ite - Ml /as sto 'J i the #1 iter offe*! ling- Looking for respect: USFL ready to ‘play ball’ United Press International NEW YORK — Now that it has the at tention of the National Football League — along with all pro football players and their agents — the United States Football League hopes to ingrain spring football in the hearts and minds of the fans. The USFL heads into its second year coming off a good off-season, in which it made a lot of headlines, flashed a lot of money and took some of the NFL’s bright est stars and best college prospects. When play begins Feo. 26, USFL brass hope the fans take to the league as warmly as some of the top football “names” have embraced it. “Last year, I thought the USFL was going to be another World Football League,” said quarterback Brian Sipe, who jumped from trie NFL’s Cleveland Browns to the New Jersey Generals. “But it changed a lot in one season. It gained a lot of credibility in the off-season and that had a lot to do with my decision to come here.” The USFL beefed up to 18 teams from the original 12 and only seven of the origi nal owners remain. Donald Trump in New Jersey, Jerry Argovitz in Houston, Ed De- Bartolo Sr. in Pittsburgh, J. William Olden burg in Los Angeles and James Hoffman in Chicago bring new cash and energy to the league. Along with Houston and Pittsburgh, there are expansion teams in Jacksonville, San Antonio, Oklahoma and Memphis. Also, the Boston team moved to New Or leans while Arizona and Chicago flip-flop ped franchises. For the most part, the newcomers are ag gressive and more willing to challenge the NFL than the original owners. Battles loom down the road concerning unchecked spending and a possible move to the fall, but the owners are taking a “strenghth-in- numbers” approach for now. “Expansion was very helpful, all the new franchises are strong ones and they brought in increased revenues,” said Dr. Ted Diethrich, owner of the Arizona Wranglers. “Two other important things are the changes in ownership in New Jersey and Los Angeles. Both of those franchises will be stronger.” Along with Sipe, the USFL claimed quar terbacks Cliff Stoudt from Pittsburgh, Glen Carano from the Cowboys, and the Hous ton Gamblers signed Jim Kelly. Just as important, the USFL has added to the less glamourous offensive positions and overall defense. Michigan paid most at tention to those spots last year with Tyrone McGriff, Ray Pinney and linebacker John Corker, and went on to win the league championship. Tight ends Dan Ross and Gary Lewis, safety Gary Barbaro, offensive linemen George Yano and Mike Butler, and line backers Jim LeClair and Willie Harper were pilfered from the NFL. Still, the USFL’s best position is running back. Herschel Walker, Kelvin Bryant and Tim Spencer were among its brightest stars in 1983 and they’ll be joined by Joe Cribbs in Birmingham and Mike Rozier in Pitts burgh. The league received a setback here when Billy Sims was sent back to the NFL’s Detroit Lions by a court of law after Argo vitz thought he had him signed at Houston. But Cribbs was one of the NFL’s best, and Rozier joins Walker to give the USFL the past two Heisman Trophy winners. Three former head NFL coaches were added: Walt Michaels in New Jersey, Marv Levy in Chicago and Jack Pardee in Hous ton. With free-spending owners, and more name players and coaches, USFL officials expect to do much better in attendance and television ratings in 1984. bruises di- Photo by DEAN SAITO Texas A&M center Jimmie Gilbert works the baseline against TCU forward Paul Kapturkie- wicz in the Aggies’ loss to the Horned Frogs earlier this season. TCU hosts A&M tonight in a Southwest Conference game at 7:30. Cabell returns to Astros United Press International The Houston Astros Monday signed free agent fielder Enos Cabell to a two-year contract, making him the second free agent to return to the team this year. Infield-outfielder Cabell, 34, a 12-year major league veteran, played the last two seasons at Detroit. He had played for Houston between 1975 and 1980. Earlier this year, free agent Denny Walling was re signed. Terms of his contract were not released. Cabell’s career high batting average of .311 was achieved last year at Detroit. He started his major league career in Baltimore between 1972 and 1974, Duran in of losing United Press International PANAMA CITY, Panama — The World Boxing Association said Tuesday that junior mid dleweight champion Roberto Duran could lose his title if he insists on fighting World Box ing Council champion Tommy Hearns. Duran, who asked special permission for a bout with world middleweight champion Marvin Hagler last November, was required to face the WBA’s No. 1 challenger, Jamaican Mike McCallum, within three months of the Hagler light. Duran, however, wants to fight WBC super welterweight champion Tommy Hearns next, his counterpart in the 154-pound class. 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