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Thursday, August 30, 1984TThe Battalion/Page 11
Oilers halt
talks with
USFL star
United Press International
HOUSTON — Houston Oilers
General Manager Ladd Herzeg said
Wednesday evening negotiations to
bring U.S. Football League running
back Mike Rozier to the NFL had
been suspended until the end of the
season.
Herzeg said Rozier’s agent, Art
Wilkinson, had been unable to re
solve a $1.9 million settlement with
ihe Pittsburgh Maulers in time to
meet Houston’s Wednesday dead
line for negotiations.
“We have informed Art that any
further negotiations with him and
our attempts to get Mike under con
tract will be for the 1985 season and
beyond,” Herzeg said.
"I don’t anticipate any more nego
tiations until the conclusion of the
84 season.”
Rozier, selected by Houston in a
pplemental draft this summer,
won the Heisman Trophy at Ne
braska before signing a three-year,
13.1 million personal services con
tract with Maulers owner Edward
DeBartolo Sr.
The deal included a $1 million
loan and a $900,000 signing bonus,
which DeBartolo wanted to recoup
before agreeing to release Rozier
from the team.
Herzeg had offered Rozier a four-
year, $3 million contract.
The Oilers have only 48 players
on their roster, keeping the last spot
open in the event Rozier was signed.
Veterans are the key
to Hickey’s first year
Photo by DEAN SAITO
Evasive Moves
Texas A&M wide receiver Jeff Nelson (#8) tries to get by
freshman defensive back Chris Ford (#36) during workouts
Tuesday at Kyle Field, while Jeff Holley (#47), converted
from the secondary to wide receiver in ’84, looks on.
By JAN PERRY
Sports Writer
According to Texas A&M’s new
Women’s Basketball Coach and As
sistant Athletic Director for Women
Lynn Ann Hickey, possessing a win
ning attitude is the most important
skill her players could have.
“I’m really impressed with their
attitudes,” Hickey said. “They’re al
ready out on the floor scrimmaging
with each other on their own.
They’re very enthusiastic.”
Currently, Hickey said the NCAA
requires the men’s basketball team to
practice without its coaches until
Sept. 15. This rule, however, doesn’t
apply to women’s athletics until
1985. So the women’s team has al-
ittle longer to work together.
“We need to start thinking like
winners,” she said. “We have to have
a super positive attitude and think
about how many games we’re going
to win.”
When Hickey came to A&M in
July, it was already too late to acti
vely recruit players for the 1984 sea
son.
However, the veteran Aggie team
doesn’t have that many vacant slots
to be filled. Eleven members from
last year’s team will be returning
along with two new freshmen re
cruits.
To fill two or three additional
slots left on the team, Hickey will be
holding open tryouts Sept. 20 and
21, at 2 p.m. on the main floor of G.
Rollie Wright Coliseum.
But, even with the additional
walk-ons, the team will be predomi
nately a veteran team. Returning are
Lisa Langston, Michell Tatum and
A&M’s Lynn Ann Hickey
Jenni Edgar, all of whom are double
figure scorers.
Hickey said the team has a minor
problem that has nothing to do with
the performance of the team or with
the coaching.
The problem is team size.
“We don’t have any great size,”
she said. “We’re going to have to de
cide on getting another tall player or
going with a small team. Either way
the key will be speed.”
The team’s height, or rather its
lack of height, and its past perfor
mance (13-15 overall for the 1983-
84 season) are the factors that are
have Texas A&M ranked as an un
derdog this season.
“They don’t expect much from us
this year,” Hickey said. “But, since
we’re an underdog, everything we
do will look good.
Hickey said the team has a couple
of good players, but no real super-
stars. Their forte is a strong group,
team effort.
To increase the team’s strength,
Hickey will try to add some variety to
the teams defense this seson by add
ing some different zone plays in ad
dition to the player-to-player de
fense the team is accustomed to.
This season A&M is going to face
some tough opponents, Hickey said.
“The conference has really im
proved,” Hickey said. “It’s going to
be a tough round robin conference.”
“We just need to think about how
many games we’re going to win,” she
said.
Again, attitude will play an impor
tant nart in the team’s performance.
Hickey, who’s last coaching stint
was at Kansas State University, said
she has really enjoyed Texas A&M.
“I’m proud to be at A&M, and I
hope the players think that way too,
she said.
“A&M is not a regular university,”
Hickey said. “It’s special.”
She said she was amazed by the
student support at Texas A&M for
athletics. She did say, however, that
the women’s athletics could use
more support.
“In Kansas, we had over 2,000
spectators a night, and we were in
the middle of nowhere, Hickey said.
She said Aggie basketball players
practice at least three hours a day for
six days a week and deserve the same
support Kansas had.
“We’d score 10 points better if we
had the support,” Hickey said.
McEnroe, Navratilova win opening matches easily
United Press International
NEW YORK — John McEnroe,
washing away the lingering memory
of a rare defeat, and Martina Navra
tilova, who barely remembers what it
feels like to lose, won opening round
matches Wednesday at the U.S.
open.
McEnroe, after dropping only his
second match of the year last week to
Vijay Amritraj, was in devastating
form as he crushed Britain’s Colin
Dowdeswell, 6-1, 6-1, 6-1, winning
nine straight games.
McEnroe required only 62 min
utes to dispose of Dowdeswell, who a
year ago lost 17 matches in a row,
but the top seed faces a stern test in
the second round against 18-year-
old Swede Stefan Edberg.
Edberg, the Olympic champion
and winner of all four Junior Grand
Slam Championships in 1983,
reached the second round with a 6-
4, 6-3, 6-0 victory over Larry Ste
fan ki.
“No one expects me to lose to any
one at this point, especially when
you play a guy like that,” said McEn
roe, who has a match record of 60-2
this year.
Navratilova stretched her winning
streak to 49 matches although she
was surprisingly extended more
than an hour in beating Lea Antono-
plis, 6-4, 6-2. The defending cham
pion has been beaten only twice
since January 1983 and now has won
232 of her last 237 matches.
“I had a hard time with my timing
because of the wind,” Navratilova
said, “but I never felt threatened. I
felt every time I concentrated and
played a decent game I won it.”
Second seed Ivan Lendl, claiming
he now takes a more relaxed attitude
to both tennis and life, won his open
ing round match from Brian Tea
cher, 6-4, 6-4, 7-5.
Third seed Jimmy Connors, con
queror of Lendl in both the 1982
and 1983 finals, was to begin de
fense of his title against Matt Mitch
ell in the featured night match.
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