Page 8/The Battalion/Wednesday, June 5, 1985
SPORTS
Unusual trends
may dominate
summer sports
By ED CASSAVOY
Sports Writer
Another sports summer has be
gun with a whimper. Because I ad
mit to finding little of interest occur
ring in the local area, I will move to
the sphere of broad sports trends.
I guess these muggy, lazy days in
College Station — the kind that
make moss grow on the north side of
your body — have gotten me into a
more philosophical mood than
usual.
And so I feel a little more pro
found than usual, daring to predict
future trends and events in the
world of sports.
• First, the Texas Rangers will
trade their entire team to San Anto
nio for the Gunslingers. The new
San Antonio Rangers will immedi
ately roar to first place. The only
question remaining, in what sport?
• Carl Lewis will not sign a con
tract with the San Francisco 49ers ^s
a wide receiver. I’m sure Joe Mon
tana is taking a deep sigh of relief.
• The new “Twin Vision” dome
light system, already receiving rave
reviews from the Minnesota Twins,
will be copyrighted and the new
company be flooded with orders. Of
course the trend-setting Twins out
fielders, sporting sunglasses to help
cut down the glare indoors, will im
mediately put out their own de
signer frames.
• In Chicago, Wrigley Field will
still have only day games. But the
Cubbies begin playing night games
on the streets surrounding the field.
They do have nice lights, but no ivy-
covered walls.
• Muhammad Ali will astound
the sports world by insisting on mak
ing a comeback to regain his heavy
weight crown. Unfortunately (de
pending on how you look at it) he
picks wrestling, not boxing. “The
Missing Link” promptly pile drives
Ali into the mat, thus ending a glori
ous comeback by “The Greatest.”
• A new cable channel will ap
pear called “Late Night Bowling and
Comedy Cable” where all the bowl
ers will look and sound like David
Letterman. Each bowler will be re
quired to do a “dumb, but in” two
‘VI new cable channel will
appear called "Late Night
ble % where all the l>owlers
will hx>k and sound like
i>a vid Letterman, 1 : . SIS'
minute monologue before each
game. LNBCC organizers are confi
dent that it will be syndicated by the
fall to all major Icelandic markets.
• The NHL, hoping to regain a
slumping Canadian market share
will institute a new pregame warmup
to increase fan interest in the Great
White North. Each team member on
both teams will be required to chug
six Molson Goldens, and then they
will be expected, after the brews, to
try and name all the Canadian play
ers in major league baseball.
• George Steinbrenner will once
a^ain try to attract media attention
with another PR ploy. This time,
Steinbrenner plans to break the
world record for continous sports
job firing by firing Billy Martin as
manager of the Yankees until the
end of time. It is rumored Georgie
was heard to mumble, “Ripley’s Be
lieve It or Not, here I come.”
• The revamped USFL, search
ing for the crowds to fill its teams
stands announces they have a new
schedule and team locations that
USFL officials are boasting, “will
have 300,000 to 400,000,..uh fans,
flocking through the turnstiles each
weekend.” USFL planners are still
working on the sticky problem of ex
plaining the concept of a two point
conversion to Antartic penguins.
League officials are optimistic that
this new Northern Lights schedule
will be ready by the spring ice break
up.
McEnroe frolics on French court
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Associated Press
PARIS — Playing on his least favorite surface and in a tournament
no American man has won in the last 30 years, top-seeded John McEnroe
swept into the semifinals of the French Open tennis championships
Tuesday by halting a stubborn challenge from Sweden’s Joakim Nys-
trom.
The talented left-hander from New York now will face fourth-
seeded Mats Wilander — his third straight Swedish foe — in his bid for
the title on the slow, red clay courts at Roland Garros Stadium.
McEnroe, ranked No. 1 in the world and the reigning Wimbledon
and U.S. Open champion, outlasted Nystrom, the No. 7 seed, 6-7, 6-2, 6-
2, 3-6, 7-5 in a 3-hour, 32-minute battle under a blazing sun and 100-de-
gree temperatures.
Wilander, who captured the French Open in 1982, dashed French
hopes when he oustea unseeded Henri Leconte of France 6-4, 7-6, 6-7,
7-5.
In the women’s singles, the semifinals were completed when second-
seeded Chris Evert Lloyd, a five-time French Open champion, crushed
fellow American Terry Phelps 6-4, 6-0 and now will play 15-year-old Ga-
briela Sabatini of Argentina, the 14th seed, who eliminated No. 4 Man-
uela Maleeva of Bulgaria 6-3, 1-6, 6-1.
Defending champion Martina Navratilova will face No. 7 Claudia
Kohde-Kilsch of West Germany in the other semifinal.
The men’s semifinal field will be completed on Wednesday when de
fending champion Ivan Lendl of Czechoslovakia plays unseeded Martin
Jaite of Argentina and No. 3 Jimmy Connors faces no. 14 Stefan Edberg
of Sweden.
Although his game against Nystrom was sprinkled with occasional
brilliance McEnroe failed to sustain the high standard he always sets for
himself. The steady, unspectacular Swede was content to feed on the
American’s frequent errors, and although he fell behind in the begin
ning of the match, he never appeared to be out of it.
Nystrom forced his way back by taking the fourth set and had the
match in his sights when he broke McEnroe’s serve to grab a 3-1 lead.
But McEnroe, seemingly able to shift gears and pull out those mag
ical shots whenever they are need, abandoned all caution and unleashed
a series of shots, ripping off four straight games to take a 5-3 lead and
serving for victory.
But Nystrom still was in the chase. He saved a match point with a
spectacular service return, broke back, then held his serve for 5-5, in
creasing the pressure on McEnroe.
It was the Swede’s final shot. McEnroe had been too close to victory
to let it slip away again, and he closed out the match when Nystrom sliced
the ball wide.
“I’m Just glad I won it,” McEnroe said. “There were a lot of ups and
downs, and I feel good that I hung in there and won a tough fifth set.”
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Bates not ready to blast Guns’ follies
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I hope this short list of coming
summer sports attractions has every
reader out there drooling with antic
ipation. If not, just pray for the start
of roller derby season.
Associated Press
SAN ANTONIO — Former San
Antonio Gunslingers coach Jim
Bates says he’d like to tell all about
his experience as mentor for the
troubled United States Football
League team.
But Bates says franchise owner
Clinton Manges still owes him pay-
checks extending through Nov. 29.
“I’d like to tell you what I really
think,” Bates said. “But until then
(when he collects his salary), for me
to blast them, I’d be out of bounds.
I’d hate to say anything. I’ve got a
wife and kids to support. I’m sort of
in a hard spot.”
Bates resigned suddenly May 18,
just hours before the Gunslingers
were to take on the Oakland Invad
ers in a home game. He had led the
team to a 3-9 record.
He has remained unemployed
since then, but said he is pursuing
another coaching job at a major col
lege or as a National Football League
assistant.
“I probably will get back in foot
ball,” Bates told the San Antonif
Light newspaper. “But it’s hardllu
time of year. T his is as toughatim
as there is for employment. Everv
body’s set.”
Bates said he is puzzled aboutwhi’
interim coach Gil Steinke, who tod
over after he resigned, is stayiiii
with the team.
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