Thursday, February 27, 1986TThe Battalion/Page 9
' Ags fear to tread on improved Bears
Men s s Tennis
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Photo by GREG BAILEY
kansas-Little Rock. The Aggie men’s tennis team
starts Southwest Conference pfay today in Waco.
By KEN SURY
Assistant Sports Editor
Texas A&M men’s tennis team be
gins its Southwest Conference sea
son today, but it won’t be wiping its
feet on the Baylor Bears.
“Baylor used to be the doormat of
the S W C, ”
A&M Coach
David K e n t ^
said. “But this
year they have a good team. (Baylor
Coach) Lee McCleary has done an
excellent job with the team.”
The Aggies, ranked 18th in the
Head Intercollegiate Tennis Stand
ings (H.I.T.S.) List, travel to Waco
today with every player healthy.
A&M junior Marcel Vos, who has
been sidelined the last two weeks
with pulled muscles, will play today.
“It’s a plus for us to have Vos back
because he’s an integral part of the
team,” Kent said. “I just hope these
two weeks he hasn’t been playing
won’t hurt him significantly.”
Vos will fill the No. 2 singles spot
behind No. I Kimmo Alkio. Alkio is
undefeated in 10 spring matches
and currently ranked No. 26 in the
nation.
Vos and Dean Johnson will be
A&M’s No. 3 doubles team against
Baylor. Russ Simmons and Mark
Smith are the Aggies No. 1 tandem,
while Alkio and freshman Brent
Haygarth will play at No. 2.
Smith and Simmons are the 20th-
ranked doubles team in the country.
“They’re going full speed ahead
right now,” Kent said. “Simmons has
been playing well and Smith was just
short of sensational last weekend.”
Smith, the only other Aggie
ranked nationally in singles, is tied
for 71st with eight other players. He
will play in A&M’s No. 3 singles posi
tion.
Xi Psi Chapter
Alpha Kappa Alpha Soroity, Inc.
presents Series 4 of 4
Tribute to Ronald McNair
1951-1986
One friend called him “a tremendous individual with a
big heart.” Mr. McNair led a very unpretentious and
well-rounded life with an avid interest in jazz, cooking
and karate. He was the second black astronaut in
space in 1984 aboard the 10th space shuttle flight.
Graduating magna cum laude and a doctorate in phys
ics from MIT prevailed to many distinguished honors
and awards for Mr. McNair such as a NATO Fellow and
Ford Foundation Fellow.
Such a brave life serves as inspiration for us all and
Ronald McNair’s loss will be deeply felt.
Agent says ex-Net Richardson accepts NBA's 2-year ban
Associated Press
NEW YORK — Micheal Ray Rich-
son now admits he used the co
caine that got him thrown out of the
NBA and wiped out his multi-mil
lion dollar contract, the agent for the
New Jersey Nets’ former star guard
said Wednesday.
■“You’ve got to understand, denial
is a major part of the illness,”
iCharles Grantham said, reflecting
on Richardson’s insistence Tuesday
that he was clean when urinalysis
said he wasn’t.
■‘After hours of spending some
time with him, talking with him, he
jncc
admitted his drug use,” Grantham
said of Richardson’s banishment, an
nounced Tuesday by Commissioner
David Stern. “Therefore, we will not
contest the validity of the NBA’s ac
tion. That seals it.”
Richardson, an eight-year pro,
four-time All-Star and, last season,
the NBA’s Comeback Player of the
Year, won’t be back for at least two
years — if at all.
Under the 14-month agreement
between the league and the Players
Association, Richardson can appeal
his permanent ban in 1988, but both
the NBA and the union must agree
on his reinstatement before he can
play again. Besides, he turns 31 in
barely six weeks and there are few
33-year-old guards in the NBA —
and none playing on the heels of a
two-year, drug-related layoff.
“We are talking about someone
who is ill,” Grantham said. “He has
agreed to go back in for rehabilita
tion and therapy. My immediate
concern is for Micheal’s welfare as a
person. He’s going to deal with this
problem for a long, long time — for
ever. Of major importance is that he
get his life back in order.”
Grantham said Richardson was
home in Mahwah, N.J., that he
would remain in seclusion for seve
ral days and that his legal problems
with his wife, Leah, had been re
solved, with all charges dropped.
They involved disorderly con
duct, property damage, simple as
sault, threatening behavior and vio
lations of a domestic violence statute,
all stemming from an altercation last
week when Richardson discovered
his wife had obtained a court order
barring him from their property. As
a result of that altercation, the Nets
ordered the drug test which turned
up positive.
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