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Pearson in serious condition
United Press International
DALLAS — Dallas Cowboys
wide receiver Drew Pearson was
injured and his younger
brother killed Thursday when
the football player’s car
slammed into the rear of a trac
tor-trailer truck parked near a
highway exit, police said.
Police spokesman Bob Shaw
said the accident, which was ini
tially attributed to “unsafe
speed,” would be referred to a
Dallas County grand jury be
cause a death was involved.
Pearson, 33, was in surgery at
Presbyterian Hospital for al
most 2'/a hours Thursday af
ternoon to stop bleeding in his
liver.
“The bleeding was stopped.
He is in stable but serious condi
tion,” spokesman Bill Mays said.
“Thai’s the extent of the infor
mation we can release.”
A team spokesman said Pear
son would spend the night in in
tensive care.
Pearson’s brother, Carey
Mark Pearson, 27, was pro
nounced dead at the scene at
the Plano Road exit of the LBJ
Freeway in north Dallas.
The accident occurred at
about 1:30 a.m. Thursday as
Drew Pearson was driving his
brother to the home of another
brother, Andre Pearson, team
spokesman Greg Aiello said.
Aiello said the Pearsons had
just returned from a bus trip to
a charity basketball game in
Coalgate, Okla., with the Dallas
Hoopsters, the off-season Cow
boys basketball team organized
by the 11-year veteran wide re
ceiver.
The truck, registered to a
Houston firm, was parked
alongside the highway with its
emergency lights on, police
said. The driver, Larry,
Jameson, was not injured.
“Unsafe speed was a contrib
uting factor of the accident,”
said police spokeswoman Eva
Romero.
Shaw said there were indica
tions Drew Pearson had been
drinking, although he was not
intoxicated.
“There is evidence he (Drew)
had been drinking but he was
not legally intoxicated,” Shaw
said. “According to the report,
the alcohol blood level was
0.053 percent and to be legally
intoxicated the blood level must
be at least 0.10 percent.
Pearson’s associates ex
pressed sorrow about the acci
dent.
“Right now he’s not feeling
too good,” said fellow wide re
ceiver Tony Hill, who visited
Pearson in his hospital room
Thursday.
“He’s going to make it for
sure. He’s spoken a little bit.
He’s not in critical,” said Hill.
Dallas Cowboys head coach
Tom Landry issued a statement
through team headquarters.
“We were shocked to hear
the news and are very sympa
thetic with Drew’s family in the
loss of his brother,” Landry
said. “We surely hope that Drew
is not seriously hurl and that he
will recover.”
Pearson, a native of South
River, N.J., played college foot
ball for the University of Tulsa.
A free agent who had been
overlooked in the college draft,
he walked into the Cowboys’
training camp in 1973. He be
came the Cowboys’ all-time
leading receiver in 1980, sur
passing Bob Hayes’ mark of 365
catches.
He became a starter for Dal
las midway through his rookie
year and has missed only one
erame due to injury, in Decem
ber 1979.
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FORT WORTH — Willie
Mays Aikens, one of four Kan
sas City Royals sentenced to
prison for drug related of
fenses, was scheduled to be re
leased from a federal correc
tions facility Friday, a
spokeswoman said.
Aikens, 29, began serving a
90-day sentence for attempting
to possess cocaine Jan. 3 and is
being released early after build
ing time off for good behav
iour, a spokeswoman at the
minimum security facility said
Thursday.
“One thing drugs can do to
you is change your whole atti
tude toward the team and ev
erything else. There were times
when I didn’t care whether we
won or lost,” Aikens said while
in a Baltimore drug rehabilita
tion clinic prior to going to
prison.
“It got to the point where I
became an addict. I won’t say
how much or what kinds, but I
became addicted to drugs.”
He voluntarily stayed eight
weeks in the drug clinic.
Aikens, who was traded to
the Toronto Blue Jays in De
cember, hit .302 with the Royals
in 1983 with 49 runs, 23 home
runs and 72 RBI. in six seasons
in the majors, he has a .273 av
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United Press International
ATLANTA — Freshman
guard Steve Alford scored 27
points Thursday night to pace
Indiana to a 72-68 upset of No.
1 North Carolina in the semifi
nals of the NCAA East Re
gional.
The victory sends the No. 18
Hoosiers against Virginia, 63-
55 upset winners over No. 16
Syracuse in the first semifinal
game, in Saturday’s regional fi
nals.
At the same time, Melvin
Turpin scored 10 of his 14
points in the second half Thurs
day night, leading a surge that
lifted No. 3 Kentucky to a 72-67
victory over Louisville in the
NCAA Mideast Regional semi
finals.
The Wildcats advance to the
Mideast championship game
Saturday against No. 6 Illinois.
The Illini defeated No. 10
Maryland 72-70 in the first
game at Rupp Arena.
In the East, the top-seeded
Tar Heels couldn’t stop Alford,
the Hoosiers’ scoring leader. He
hit from the corners and the
free throw line causing North
Carolina to fall behind in the
opening minutes.
The Tar Heels, 28-3, had 26
points from one of their All-
Americas, Sam Perkins. But
Resign
their other All-America, Mi
chael Jordan, wasn’t a factor
until the closing minutes and
fouled out with 13 points.
Indiana, 22-8, led 32-28 at
halftime and 59-47 with 5:32
left before Perkins and Jordan
led a belated rally that cut the
margin to 2 points in the closing
moments.
North Carolina closed to 70-
68 on a layup by freshman Joe
Wolf with 10 seconds left. But
the Tar Heels were forced to
foul Mike Gionh with five sec
onds to go and he sank both
shots to sink Carolina.
The previous time Indiana
played North Carolina was in
the finals of the 1981 NCAA
championship — and Indiana
won 63-50. North Carolina re
turned the next year to win the
title.
The Cavaliers, who upset No.
7 Arkansas last Saturday, got
suprisingly strong inside play in
the early going from 6-loot-1 1
freshman Olden Polynice to
build a 10-point halftime lead.
The Orangemen, with four
starters fouling out, were never
able to get closer than 6 in the
second half.
Virginia, not expected to
come this far the season after
Ralph Sampson graduated,
didn’t score in the first five min
utes, but took an 8-6 leaf
12:23 to play in the half.!
the ( Cavaliers ran off 12siiJ
points in just over font rain
to widen the margin to 10.
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points to place Virginia
44-28 with 10:26 to go
c use then began fouling
attempt to hall the Cava
slowdown.
In Lexington, Ky.,Jiiii
tet and Dicky Beal led thel
tats, 28-4, with 15 [joints
But it was Turpin in the
hall that buried Louisville.!
lucky was trailing 49-41
forward Sam Bowie
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making two free throws
tied it with 9:29left.
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to take a 57-49 leat
Louisville scored
with 5:21 left. IheCardsi
almost six minutes withouii
ing. The Cardinals,
fought back to within 2 pi
but Kentucky’s foul shoo
down the stretch kept thet
bay.
fit the first game,
Montgomer y, a mobile Wo
center, scored 15 points
grabbed 7 rebounds.
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a man with a grand plan.
Just after Sherrill arrived on
the Texas A&M campus I asked
him a question that had puzzled
me from the moment he agreed
to come here: Why would the
coach at one of the top football
schools in the country agree to
come to Texas A&M? Was it
just a matter of money?
Without a moments’ hestita-
tion Sherrill replied that here,
at Texas A&M, he had a chance
to build an athletic program
from scratch — a program that
would include both champions
and graduates.
H e has already begun the
part of the plan to increase the
scholastic achievements of his
athletes. In fact, some players
have been complaining that the
coaching staff has been spying
on them to make them go to
class.
Part of the plan, expanding
athletic department facilities,
will cost money. Building a spe
cial events center, a track com
plex and a quality indoor swim
ming facility will cost big bucks.
And these big bucks will have to
come from the Aggie Glut) or
from within the Athletic De
partment — most likely, from
the non-revenue sports.
What are the non-revenue
sports? That converts into al
most everything except football
and men’s basketball. And the
coaches of these sports have
good reasons to be scared.
Many people who are doing a
good job may lose their jobs as
positions are combined and de
partments are realigned to help
save money.
The reorganization of the
a major part ..I the Sherri
— this with John DavidCra
the helm. The fact that
women’s basketball team
not been highly successful
tier Rapp may have speeds
the process.
1 he combining of the
lions of women’s bash
coach and of women’s all
director into a single p«
may add prestige to the)
help recruit a basketball
that c o u 1 cl p to duel
championship programvdi
the same time savingmont
salaries.
The combining of the
lions of athletic dtreclorai
head fdotba)) roach into a'
position helped*recruit
Sherrill.
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