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Sports
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Card veteran
catcher signs
with Rangers
Associated Press
ARLINGTON — Four-time All-
Star catcher Darrell Porter, who has
seen World Series duty with Kansas
City and St. Louis, agreed Tuesday
to a one-year contract with the Texas
Rangers, the American League club
said.
Terms of the pact were not dis
closed.
Porter, 34, batted .221 and had 10
home runs and 36 RBIs in 84 games
with the Cardinals in 1985. He spent
part of the year on the disabled list.
He was released by the Cardinals on
Nov. 18.
“We are very pleased that Darrell
decided to join the Rangers,” Rang-
I ers General Manager Tom Grieve
I said. “He give us a solid left-handed
hitting catcher to provide us additio
nal depth.”
Porter will be a backup catcher to
I right-hand hitter Don Slaught, team
I officials said.
Porter has 169 home runs, 776
RBIs and a .247 batting average over
a 13-year major league career. Origi
nally signed by Milwaukee in 1970,
he was traded to Kansas City follow
ing the 1976 season.
He enjoyed his best offensive sea
son in 1979 when he became the sec
ond catcher in AL history to collect
100 RBIs, 100 runs and 100 walks in
the same season.
Porter signed as a free agent with
the Cardinals in December 1980. In
| 1982, he was named Most Valuable
| Player of the National League Pen-
I nant Series and World Series as the
Cardinals captured the world’s
championship. Porter batted .351
with one homer and six RBIs in 10
; playoff games.
He has played in Five league
championship series and three
[ World Series and has been selected
to the American League All-Star
team four times.
Hogs level Lady Ags, 74-65
By DOUG HALL
Sports Writer
After spotting the Arkansas
Razorbacks an eight-point lead
early in the First half, the Texas
A&M Lady Aggies made an im
pressive 17-point turnaround to
lead 37-28 at halftime.
If only the game had ended
there.
Instead, Arkansas came out of
the locker room and shot a blis
tering 60 percent from the floor,
created nine Aggie turnovers and
hit 10 of 11 free throws to win 74-
65.
“We blew it,” A&M Head
Coach Lynn Hickey said. “We
played real well the first half and
had the momentum going. If we
hadn’t had a halftime, we’d have
probably been all right.”
The victory keeps 13-4 Arkan
sas in second-place in the South
west Conference race at 7-1, a
game behind No. 1-ranked
Texas, which defeated Texas
Tech 64-57 Tuesday night.
A&M falls to 10-9 overall and
4-4 in the SWC after the First
round of play.
The Lady Ags, who have been
troubled by inconsistency
throughout the season, waited for
more than three minutes in each
half to hit their first bucket.
The Lady Razorbacks, on the
other hand, took advantage of
the Aggies’ cold spell in the sec
ond half to hit eight straight sec
ond-half points to close within
one, 37-36.
“We lost the game in the first
11 minutes of the second half,”
Hickey said. "We came back out
and stood (around on the court)
on both offense and defense. Af
ter that, we started playing.”
By that time, however, Arkan
sas led 54-44 and never relin
quished its lead, despite a last-
minute surge by A&M.
When asked to explain why her
team was so flat coming out after
halftime, Hickey replied, “If I
knew that, it wouldn’t have hap
pened.”
Hickey attributes much of the
Lady Ags’ inconsistency to youth
and inexperience. Ten of her 14
players are in their first year at
A&M.
“Evidently they are not men
tally prepared to start the game,”
she said. “I just don’t think they
understand that you have to play
40 minutes real, real hard to beat
the best teams in the conference.
“They (the Lady Ags) are a
good team. We have good ath
letes. We’re going to be OK, but
we have to increase that inten
sity.”
Arkansas Coach John Suther
land, who contributed to A&M’s
first-half comeback by being as
sessed two technical fouls when
he threw a towel on the court and
proceeded to argue with the ref
eree, had nothing but praise for
the Lady Aggies.
“A&M has a heckuva team,”
Sutherland said. “I’m just glad
they went cold (in the second
half) or we would have been bea
ten.”
At halftime, Sutherland said he
told his team to play tighter de
fense, avoid giving up second
shots and make A&M score from
the outside.
His plan worked like a charm
as the Hogs out-rebounded the
Ags 15-11 in the second half and
held Lisa Langston, the Aggies’
leading scorer, to 11 points, four
of 16 from the floor.
Arkansas, which starts four
players averaging in double fig
ures, was led by junior guard
Tracy Webb’s 18 points. Fresh
man guard Donna Roper scored
14 to lead A&M.
Hickey, however, remains opti
mistic about the Lady Ags’ re
maining SWC games.
“The season is not over,” she
said. “So we’ll get ready for Satur
day (when A&M travels to Bay
lor’s Heart O’ Texas Coliseum)
and get after it again.”
Photo by MIKE SANCHEZ
A&M’s Paula Crutcher (33) goes up for a rebound, despite the block
out of Arkansas’ Sheila Burkes. The Lady Ags lost Tuesday, 74-65.
Pats’ drug
difficulties
not recent
Berry says problems
arose last January
Associated Press
FOXBORO, Mass. — The Newr
England Patriots have been dealing
with a drug problem on the team
since last January, including the test
ing and successful treatment of two
players. Coach Raymond Berry said
Tuesday.
“We were not treading water,”.'
Berry said of the Patriots’ response
to the problem.
He said that drug use was a se
rious concern that had to be ad-<
dressed but was not a major problem .
that ever affected the team’s perfor-;
mance.
His comments came at a news con
ference one day after the team an- ;
nounced it would submit to volun
tary drug-testing. That decision
came after published reports that
four starters were among players on
the American Football Conference
Championship team who frequently
used cocaine and marijuana.
Berry said reports that 12 players
are involved are not accurate, but he
would not say how many players
might be using drugs.
The NFL Players Association said
it would file an unfair labor practice
charge over the decision to test the
players for drugs.
Assistant Player Representative
Ron Wooten said team members
agreed in a recent meeting to be the
first National Football League team
to undergo voluntary drug testing
because of their special respect for
Berry.
Wooten said the testing plan was
not well received by the players asso
ciation.
“The union’s position is (that)
there’s a way to handle the problem
in collective bargaining. We don’t
feel that overall that is the way to at
tack this problem,” Wooten said.
Hornung tops list of five to enter NFL hall of fame
Associated Press
CANTON, Ohio — Paul Hor
nung, whose Golden Boy image was
tarnished in the 1960s when it was
disclosed he had bet on NFL games,
finally made it to the Pro Football
Hall of Fame on his 15th try. Four
teen times previously, the former
Green Bay Packers halfback failed to
get enough support for the Hall.
But on Tuesday, when the results
of this year’s voting were an
nounced, the votes were there, and
Hornung was elected with four
other former National Football
League greats — quarterback Fran
Tarkenton, halfback Doak Walker
and defensive standouts Willie Lan
ier and Ken Houston.
They will be enshrined at ceremo
nies next summer.
Hornung’s one-year suspension in
1963 for betting on his own team
had been blamed for keeping him
from the Hall until now. Last year,
he was elected to the College Foot
ball Hall of Fame for his exploits at
Notre Dame.
“I’ve been very optimistic in the
past, and I’ve learned not to be too
optimistic,” Hornung said. “This
year, it seemed, everybody was tell
ing me that I had an excellent op
portunity, I was getting closer. It
seems like there was more calls from
the media this year, so where there’s
a little smoke there’s fire.
“In December, I was inducted into
the college football hall of fame.
Now in January, it tops it off with
the professional hall of fame. I
couldn’t be happier.”
Others also made no secret of
theirjoy.
“I’m elated,” said Houston, who
played as a defensive back for the
Houston Oilers and the Washington
Redskins.
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“It’s fantastic,” said Willie Lanier,
a linebacker for the Kansas City
Chiefs, saying notification of his in
duction gave him a “very rewarding
and refreshing feeling.”
The selection committee is made
up of one media representative from
each NFL city plus a 29th member
from the Pro Football Writers Asso
ciation. To be elected, a player must
receive support from about 82 per
cent of those voting. Rules call for
the election of four to seven new
members to the hall each year.
Houston became the eighth de
fensive back from the modern era
and the fifth safety to win induction, he was a two-time NFL MVP. From
In 14 seasons, he garnered 49 inter- 1959 through 1961, while playing
ceptions and established an NFL re- for Green Bay Coach Vince Lorn-
cord by running nine back for bardi, he led the NFL in scoring for
touchdowns. three consecutive seasons.
Lanier was the second Kansas City
Chief player — after Bobby Bell —to
make it to the hail and the eighth
linebacker from the modern era. In
11 seasons, he intercepted 27 passes
for 440 yards and two touchdowns.
Hornung became the 10th mem
ber of the 1961 Green Bay Packers
to be inducted into the hall. A Heis-
man Trophy winner at Notre Dame,
Tarkenton became the first player
with any significant playing time
with the Minnesota Vikings to gain
entry into the hall. He also played
for the New York Giants.
Over his 18-season career, he :
amassed NFL career-record passing
totals of .6,467 attempts and 3,686
completions for 47,003 yards and
342 touchdowns.
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