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V SAITO yAgs SO-75. ace ibout five 'ho don the road We'll evec : Vemesfelil the SWCI o. 20 bd -5 on jnferenceJ lay in C | 5 p.m. t Scores tals) Thursday, January 23, 1986AThe Battalion/Page 15 TANK MCNAMARA* _ \&J(? OJJsJGf?'5 MeWGlAJ? vJ THE OKJC \WO OJ&pU? M& D^OM ; -\l TWg THE OUHOLG &AM£ " by Jeff Millar & Bill Hinds IWo coaches get edge to succeed Lewis at UH Associated Press HOUSTON — Lamar University coach Pat Foster and University of Houston assistant Donnie Schverak have received early endorsements to replace retiring University of Houston basketball coach Guy Lewis. Lewis announced his retirement Tuesday after 33 seasons at the Southwest Conference school and said he would recommend Schverak, his longtime assistant, for the position. “Donnie’s been with me for 17 years as a coach and a bunch of years as a player and I’m going to recom mend him for the job,” Lewis said. Former Arkansas coach Eddie Sutton, now at Ken tucky, said he would choose Foster, his former assis tant at Arkansas, for the job. “I hope they consider me,” Schverak said. “I know how to coach and I know how to recruit the kind of player who doesn’t want to be bought.” Foster, who built a successful program at Lamar over the past five seasons, has been mentioned fre quently in connection with recent coaching vacancies, including Baylor and Arkansas in the SWC and Au burn in the Southeastern Conference. “I don’t think they could find a better man to re place Guy than Pat Foster,” Sutton said. “He’s an out standing coach. Certainly he helped me in developing our program in Arkansas.” Foster was an assistant to Sutton for eight seasons at Arkansas. ‘With the situation coming up at this time, in the middle of the season, no coach would want to com ment,” Foster said. “We’ll have to wait and see what happens.” Sschverak, 45, has been with the Cougars 17 seasons and like Lewis, played at Houston before joining the coaching ranks. It was Schverak’s recruiting violation last year that led the NCAA to declare 7-foot center Tito Horford ineligible to play at Houston. As a result, Schverak has been prohibitea from off-campus recruiting until July. Another candidate is former Houston All-American Elvin Hayes, now a special assistant to Athletic Direc tor Tom Ford. Hayes, who retired from the Houston Rockets after the 1984 season, said he has missed the game. “The game is a part of me,” Hayes said. “It’s some thing I did all my life. I would love to be a part of this program.” Ford said an eight-to-10 member search committee would start a coaching search immediately. After playing three years for the Cougars in the 1940s, Lewis returned as an assistant in 1953 and be came head coach in 1956. Over the past 30 years, he had only three losing sea sons, the first three, and has a string of 26 consecutive non-losing seasons still intact. Lewis went into Wednesday night’s SWC game against Texas A&M with 586 victories, second among active coaches. Lewis teams have had 14 20-victory sea sons and 29 of his players have been drafted by the pros. Pokes’ Dorsett to pay off outstanding loan Associated Press DALLAS — Dallas Cowboys run ning back Tony Dorsett will pay about $107,000 to a suburban bank this week to satisfy a delinquent loan, his attorney says. Dorsett was ordered by a state dis trict judge last month to pay First City Bank of Richardson $85,000 borrowed in 1983, plus about $9,100 in interest and $12,750 in attorney fees. In a separate case last August, Dorsett was ordered by another judge to pay the bank $186,379 for defaulting on a $ 175,000 promissory note. “I expect it will be paid before the week is out,” said Dorsett's lawyer, H. Allen Hill Jr. of Austin. “Tony has been making arrangements for the financing to get that paid.” Hill said this week’s payment will complete settlements of Dorsett’s debt problems, which surfaced last July when the Internal Revenue Service temporarily seized his two Dallas-area homes to force him to pay $414,000 in income taxes. Last fall, Dorsett signed a lucra tive new contract with the National Football League team, which report edly paid him $450,000 this season. It also includes millions of dollars in deferred payments. e way : 1 18 poi" 11 Rory Wtn |( re TODAY! Playboy’s Playmate Of The Month Miss February Julie McCullough Meet Julie In Person And Have Your Personal Playboy Centerfold Autographed Today From 3:00 - 5:00 p.m. CULPEPPER PLAZA OPE N 10-10 Mon-Tfiur 10-11 Fn & Sat 12-10 Sunday Nicklaus starts 25th PGA Tour Associated Press PHOENIX — Winning, Jack Nicklaus said, is important to his continued participation on the PGA Tour. “If I can’t win, if I can’t compete, I won’t play,” the Nicklaus said Wednesday before beginning his 25th tour season this week in the $500,000 Phoenix Open. Nicklaus, one day past his 46th birthday, was quick to point out, however, that there’s “no reason I can’t be competitive. I’m in good shape physically, mentally. I still have the desire to work at it. “Having the ability to compete is a lot of fun,” said Nicklaus, whos holds a record 17 major professional titles but has won only one tournament in the last three seasons. “Just playing and not being competitive, is no fun at all. And I had a lot of that last year.” And, despite increased pressure from his various business interests, he’s planning a busy playing sched ule in the immediate future. “Right now, my schedule has me playing eight of the next 12 weeks and 12 of the next 18,” the game’s all-time leading money-winner said. “Don’t ask me why. It just worked out that -way. That could be ad justed, but that’s what I’m planning right now.” Nicklaus, who Won this tourna ment in 1964 but hasn’t played here in 18 years, opens his campaign against the strongest field the old event has ever had. It includes Tom Watson, Lee Tre vino and Tom Weiskopf, also mak ing their first appearances of the year, along with British Open champ Sandy Lvle of Scotland, West Ger man Bernhard Langer, the Masters title holder, and PGA winner Hu bert Green. Also on hand are last year’s lead ing money-winner, Curtis Strange, 1985 Player of the Year Lanny Wad- kins, Fuzzy Zoeller and Calvin Peete, the defending titleholder who opened his season with a run-away victory two weeks ago in the Tourna ment of Champions. The chase for a $90,000 first prize begins Thursday on the 6,726-yard, par 71 Phoenix Country Club course. trs, k f t- UM 1909 1984 'Toward The 21st Century Sigma Alpha Mu 1986 Spring Rush Schedule •Thursday, Jan 23-Party at the Ramada Inn at 8:00 pm •Saturday, Jan 25-Party at the Treehouse Phase 1 Party Room at 9:00 pm •Saturday, Feb 1-Party at Treehouse Phase I Party Room at 9:00 pm Information Call: David Goldstein 846-2957 Jay Katz 696-4152 Come party with Pee Wee and the Phi Delts Friday, January 24 8:00 Knights of Columbus Hall Definitely Phi Delts ii Advertising in The Battalion is as Good as Gold! CALL 845-2611 AFTER YEARS OF PREPARATION AND HARD WORK, YOU DESERVE THE JOB YOU WANT. 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