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Texas A&M Football
Jackie Sherrill’s Texas Aggies
will try to improve on its 1-0 re
cord against the Iowa State Cy
clones Saturday at 11:20 a.m. in
Kyle Field. The Cyclones are 1-1
going into the game, having de
feated Drake last weekend 21-17
and losing 59-21 to Iowa in their
season opener.
Texas A&M Volleyball
Head Coach Terry Condon
and the Texas Aggie volleyball
teamwill take its 8-1 overall mark
into the Texas A&M Volleyball
Classic this weekend. The Ags
will host Southern Illinois, Flor
ida State, Louisiana State and Illi
nois State during the two-day
tournament in G. Rollie White
Coliseum this weekend.
The tournament pairings are
as follows:
Friday:
10 a.m.
SIU vs. FSU
12:30 p.m.
LSU vs. ISU
3 p.m.
A&M vs. FSU
5:30 p.m.
SIU vs. ISU
8:00 p.m.
A&M vs. LSU
Saturday:
10 a.m.
ISU vs. FSU
12:30 p.m.
LSU vs. SIU
3 p.m.
A&M vs. ISU
5:30 p.m.
LSU vs. FSU
8 p.m.
A&M vs. ISU
Admission to the tourney is $2
for adults, $1 for A&M students
with an I.D. and free for anyone
with an Texas A&M All-Sports
ticket book. Saturday’s last three
games will be free to those with
an A&M vs. Iowa State football
ticket stub.
Texas A&M Women’s Tennis
Head Coach Jan Cannon’s Ag
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Pro-Am Royal Oaks Tournament
this weekend in Bryan at the
Royal Oaks Raquet Club. The
tourney will be strictly doubles
competition. The Ags will pla\
Friday at 6 p.m. and Saturday at 4
p.m. and 6 p.m. after the football
game. Finals are scheduled for
11:30 Sunday morning.
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Anderson wants Tigers to
stay 'spark/ in playoffs
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Sparky Anderson isn’t big for
those pre-game meetings. He
doesn’t believe in them too much.
What for?
Ever sit in on one? Some wise guy
way in the back lets go with a block
buster of a belch right in the middle
of your talk and there goes the
whole meeting.
Most of those sessions are only a
waste of time. Nevertheless, Sparky
Anderson still believed it was impor
tant for him to get together privately
with his Detroit Tigers, without any
others in the clubhouse, before
Wednesday night’s ball game with
the last-place Milwaukee Brewers at
Tiger Stadium.
You could say he was anxious to
talk to them on the morning after.
The morning after they had
clinched the American League F.ast
title by beating the Brewers the night
before.
He wanted to tell big Kirk Gibson
not to worry about that whack on the
head he gave him with a champagne
bottle during the clinching cele
bration because it was really nothing.
He wanted to tell all his players
something about next spring. Above
everything else, he wanted to re
mind them about this past one.
Sparky Anderson is not what
you’d call a celebrant.
His Cincinnati dubs won two
championships, four pennants and
five division titles during the time he
managed the Reds, and you’d better
believe he was every bit as happy as
all his players, maybe even happier,
but he didn’t go whooping it up or
dousing anyone with champagne.
That’sjust not him.
Same thing after the Tigers
clinched Tuesday night.
Immediately after the last out, he
walked into his manager’s room in
the clubhouse. For a moment or so,
he was there all by himself. He
looked toward the ceiling and ut
tered two words:
“Thank you.”
The Tigers already were celebrat
ing. They had every right to do so
after the season they had, starting
out by winning 35 of their first 40
games, leading the league all the way
and breezing home in front by 13
games.
Anderson was sitting in his office,
thinking how sweet it was, when Gib
son, his 6-3, 215-pound right fielder,
and Lance Parrish, his muscular 6-3,
220-pound Mr. America catcher,
came into the room trying to get him
to be a bigger part of the celebration.
Gibson had a champagne bottle in
his hand and when he turned it over
to spill some of the contents on his
manager, the top of the bottle acci
dentally nicked Sparky’s head.
“I didn’t even feel it,” he says. “Af
ter awhile, though, someone told me
there was blood dripping on my
pants. I was so happy and excited
over what we had done, I hadn’t
even noticed it. The doctor told me
the top of the scalp is just like the
skin on your face, so that when you
cut it, it’s hard to stop the bleeding.
“It wasn’t serious, though. After it
happened, Billy Console (one of the
Tigers’ coaches) said to me, ‘do you
get the feeling some of those boys
out there don’t like you?’ I told him I
wasn’t going to go out there and find
out.”
Anderson laughs about that. He
doesn’t laugh about the message he
had for them before Wednesday
night’s game. It was tied in with a
previous one he had delivered last
April 1, the day before the Tigers
left their Lakeland, Fla., training
camp, and he reminded them of
that.
“On that day,” Anderson says, “I
told them ‘this is the finest camp I’ve
ever seen. I thank you for that. Now
go out and play.”’
That was five months ago in Lake
land. In the meantime, the Tigers
have gone out and played better
baseball than any other club in the
universe.
Sparky reminded his players of
that meeting in Florida when he
talked with them again Wednesday
evening.
“It’s going to get a little hectic
from now on in and I won’t get
many chances to talk with you
again,” he told them. “But I’m tak
ing you back to what I told you about
this team the day before we left
spring training. We finished first in
the division and I thank you for that.
Now go out and play.
“Nobody cares what you did yes
terday. I don’t, and nobody else
does. You’re gonna get two chances
now. You can rock along on this all
winter and you can come to camp
next spring not being ready to play.
Or you can do what you did this past
year. It’s entirely up to you.”
That was pretty much the nub of
what Sparky Anderson had to say to
his players. He rented three of them
— second baseman Uou Whitaker,
shortstop Alan Trammell and Par
rish — Wednesday night.
Anderson startled some people
the very first day he became the De
troit manager on June 14, 1979
when he said that with some of the
talent the Tigers had, he felt he
should be fired if they didn’t win in
five years.
Bears’ legacy reborn in NFL
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United Press International
One of pro football’s pioneer
powers, long in the shadowland of
mediocrity, hopes to convince Na
tional Football League powers this
weekend that they have regained the
status of contenders.
The Chicago Bears and the NFL
are virtually synonymous. Former
owner George Halas was one of the
league’s founding fathers and the
modern T-formation was one of his
innovations.
The team played in eight of the
first 11 championship games and
won six of them. Toss in names like
Bronko Nagurski, Sid Luckman and
Bulldog Turner and you’re on your
way to writing the history of pro
football.
But the Bears came on hard times
in the 1960s. They’ve played better
than .500 ball in only four seasons
since 1967 and haven’t advanced
past a divisional playoff since the
modern post-season system was or
ganized.
They’re 3-0 this season, lead the
Central Division of the NFC by two
games and are one of four unbeaten
teams in the league.
They’re still short on believers,
however, and find themselves 3 ‘/a
point underdogs to the Seattle Sea-
hawks (2-1) this Sunday in a game
that also is featured by the assaults of
the Bears’ Walter Payton and the
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Brown’s all-time league rushing
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In Sunday’s other games, Kansas
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New England, San Francisco at Phil
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the New York Giants, Minnesota at
Detroit, St. Louis at New Orleans,
Houston at Atlanta, Indianapolis at
Miami and the New York Jets at
Buffalo.
The defending Super Bowl cham
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home seeking their fourth straight
victory when they meet the San
Diego Chargers Monday night in the
ABC-TV game of the week.
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points in three games but have
yielded the fewest points (21), fewest
total yards (179.3 per game), fewest
rushing yards (58.0 average), and
fewest passing yards (121.3 average).
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