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Thursday, July 10, 1986AThe Battalion/Page 5 Sports Magazines pick Aggies as one of football's best By Homer Jacobs Sports Writer It was a cold, damp Saturday af ternoon in mid-November in 1984, and the Aggies had just been handed a humiliating 28-0 trounc ing by the Arkansas Razorbacks in Fayetteville. It was the worst of times for Coach Jackie Sherrill’s Aggies. Fourteen games and 12 victories later, Texas A&M q . is on the verge of »ponS enjoying the best Analysis of times. m—mmmmmmmmmmm “Best” as in legitimate contenders for the national championship. At least that is what some college foot ball preview magazines are predict ing, as the annual publications began hitting area newsstands. Athlon’s college preview was the first to arrive, and it picks the Aggies to win the national title in 1986. Ok lahoma, Ohio State, Tennessee and Michigan follow to round out the top five. Athlon also believes Sherrill will be the National Coach of the Year, and 1985 All-America linebacker Johnny Holland will again anchor the Aggies defense and repeat as an I All-America. The college section in Don Hein- I rich’s Pro Preview/86 foresees a per- | feet 12-0 season for the 1986 Cotton I Bowl champs, viewdng A&M’s I chances of a national crown as cush- 1 ioned because of a “patty-cake I schedule.” The Aggies’ “patty-cake | schedule” includes conference road I games at Houston, SMU, Arkansas | and Texas. Two other well-respected preview | magazines, The Sporting News Col- I lege Football 1986 Yearbook and the | College Football 1986 Yearbook, I don’t predict such lofty results for I the Aggies. The College Football Yearbook thinks the Aggies will be the fourth- !, best team in the nation, edging out s Baylor for the Southwest Confer- | encecrown. TSN drops the Aggies to No. 10, four spots lower than A&M’s finish in last year’s final Associated Press poll. Texas is picked 16th and Bay lor 18th. TSN predicts another national championship for Oklahoma, while UCLA, Michigan, Alabama and Mi ami (Fla.) should give the Sooners the most competition for the top spot in January. By the way, TSN has failed to cor rectly pick the national champion the past four years. In its “Linebackers — Wild and Crazy Men” section, TSN mentions Oklahoma’s Brian Bosworth, Cali fornia’s Hardy Nickerson, Ohio State’s Chris Spielman, Penn State’s Shane Conlan, LSU’s Michael Brooks and Alabama’s Cornelius Bennett. Holland did not make the elite list, but was placed on the Division I All-America checklist, along with ju nior quarterback Kevin Murray and senior defensive end Rod Saddler. Aggie Notes . . . Heinrich’s colorful college football section also con tained “The Best (And Worst) of College Football.” In this section, the Texas-A&M rivalry was considered as the eighth best in the country; Ag gie bonfire was the third-best tradi tion in college football; and A&M’s 12th man kick-off team was re garded as the fifth-best miscella neous happening in the college game. ESPN continued its broadcast relationship with A&M by picking up the season opener for the Aggies at Louisiana State in Baton Rouge on Sept. 13. The cable network also bought the rights to the A&M-UT game in Austin Thanksgiving night, after ABC decided to pass on the rights to the annual clash. Both games will televised in prime time, although specific starting times for the games have not been finalized. Major League Baseball AMERICAN LEAGUE East Division NATIONAL LEAGUE East Division W L Pet. GB W L Pet. GB Boston 54 29 .651 — New York 55 25 .688 — New York 47 38 .553 8 Montreal 45 36 .556 10'/2 Cleveland 44 37 .543 9 Philadelphia 40 41 .494 15'/2 Baltimore 44 39 .530 10 Pittsburgh 34 46 .425 21 Toronto 45 41 .523 10'/i St. Louis 34 47 .420 21'A Del roil Milwaukee 41 42 40 42 West Division .494 .488 13'/; 13'A Chicago 34 46 West Division .425 22 California 40 37 .554 — Houston 45 39 .536 Texas 45 39 44 .536 .463 1 '/> San Francisco 45 39 .536 (Jiicago 38 38 7'/it San Diego 43 40 .518 I'/it Kansas City Minnesota 40 .452 8'/t Atlanta 42 42 .500 3 30 48 .429 8 Mt Cincinnati 38 43 .469 5'/it Seattle Oakland Late Games 30 oil 32 54 Not Included .419 .372 11'/it 15'// Los Angeles 37 46 Late Games Not Included .446 7 Mi Wednesday’s Games New York .">. Texas 4 Lalilnmiu (>. Milwaukee 1 Driroil 7. Minnesota 0 (Cleveland (i. (!liieaK<> 1 monto (i. Seattle 5 Hnslnn 7. (laklaiul (i Kansas C atv .4. Baltimore 0 Wednesday’s Games Montreal 2, Houston 1 Atlanta 7, Philadelphia Cincinnati 11, New York 1 Chicago 4, San Francisco 3, 10 innings St. Louis at Los Angeles, (n) Pittsburgh at San Diego, (n) Ags’ Heard paces relay team to win More records broken in sixth day of Goodwill Games competition MOSCOW (AP) —- Texas A&M’s Floyd Heard ran the sec ond leg of the 400-meter relay and Carl Lewis anchored the U.S. team to a first-place finish and the world’s third-fastest time in the event at the Goodwill Games Wednesday. In other action, Canada’s Ben Johnson ran the fastest 100-me ters ever at low altitude and con tinued his recent domination of Lewis, and 400-meter hurdler Edwin Moses won his 111th con secutive race in the final day of the track program at the Good will Games. “If my block didn’t slip at the start a couple of inches, the time would have been even better,” said Johnson, who was timed in 9.95 seconds. A fifth world record was added to the list at the games, this one in cycling, as a Soviet squad smashed the record for the four- kilometer team pursuit. At the end of the sixth day, the Soviet Union had 35 gold medals and 1 12 overall, compared with 30 golds and a total of 85 for the United States. Johnson, who finished third in the 1984 Olympics, blasted out of the starting blocks and sped to the finish to tie Jimmy Hines for second on the all-time list and come within .02 seconds of the world record of American Calvin Smith. Both Smith and Hines ran their races at high altitude — Smith in Colorado Springs, Colo., in 1983, and Hines at the Mexico City Olympics in 1968. Moscow is much closer to sea level and the heavier air gives more resistance to runners. Second was Chidi Imo of Nige- Poor crowd, attitude apparent at Games MOSCOW (AP) — Empty seats and complaints from some ath letes of favored-nation status for Soviet competitors have cast ill will over the Goodwill Games. After Tuesday night’s track events, Harry Groves, the U.S. men’s track coach, called the games “international bush league” for the way Soviet ath letes appeared to receive advanta geous competition assignments. Stephanie Hightower of the United States, who clipped a hur dle and failed to make the finals of the women’s 100-meter high hurdles Tuesday night, said the “whole trip has been horrible.” “They couldn’t pay me $3,000 to do this again,” she said. In terms of most common com parisons. the efames have fallen far below the Olympics, boy cotted or not. About 3,000 athletes from 70 nations are competing. Athletes numbered 8,200 in Moscow for the 1980 Olympics and 10,825 in Los Angeles four years later, with twice as many nations participat ing, despite boycotts of both events. Another big difference is at tendance. At Los Angeles, tickets were scarce even for events such as team handball and synchronized swimming. But Tuesday night, when Sergei Bubka of the Soviet Union raised his world pole vault record to 19 feet, 8Yi inches, less than half of the 100,000 seats in Lenin stadium were filled. ria at 10.04, with Lewis, the 1984 Olympic champion, third at 10.06. It was the third consec utive race in which Johnson has defeated Lewis. “When I beat Garl last time, he was complaining,” Johnson said. “This time I beat him pretty good. I just want to see what he will say this time.” Lewis didn’t say much. “I didn’t get off to a good start and Johnson ran a great race,” said Lewis, who nipped U.S. tea mmate Lee McRae for third. The U.S. women’s 400 relay team also won, with Evelyn Ash ford anchoring a run of 42.12 seconds. Moses, running only his second race in almost two years, led from the start and scored a two-meter victory in the 400 hurdles, an event that has become almost his personal domain. He was clocked in 47.94 sec onds, well off his world record of 47.02 but fast enough to beat Alexsander Vasiliev of the Soviet Union and Dave Patrick of the U.S. Since just after his Olympic tri umph in Los Angeles, Moses has been hampered by back and leg injuries and — between late Au gust 1984 and last month — has run only one race, in Finland two weeks ago. The Soviet Union’s four-man pursuit cycling team was clocked at 4:12.830 in qualifications, smashing the old mark of 4:14.264 set by another Soviet team. Erika Salumae of the Soviet Union, who set a world record in qualifying Tuesday, advanced to the semifinals of the women’s 200-meter sprint cycling with a 2- 0 victory over Renee Duprel. A second American quarterfinalist, Ellen Braun, also was eliminated, 2-0, by China’s Zhou Suyin. The U.S. women’s basketball team remained unbeaten, with a 67-58 victory over Bulgaria. The U.S. women’s volleyball team won its first match of the tournament over Czechoslovakia 11-15, 16- 14, 15-10, 15-4, and the Ameri can men’s water polo beat the Ne therlands, 12-5. The Soviets swept the modern pentathlon gold medals, with Vakhtang Yagorashvili winning the men’s and Tatyana Chernetskaya the women’s. American Lori Norwood took a bonze medal in the women’s com petition. Mike Conley of the United States won the triple jump with a leap of 58Va feet. Doug Nordquist won the high jump with the best outdoor per formance by an American this year at 7-8. Doctor says Bias free-based cocaine BALTIMORE (AP) — University of Maryland basketball star Len Bias died after apparently smoking a pure form of cocaine free-base, rather than from inhaling the drug in powder form, the assistant state medical examiner said Wednesday. Redness in the lining of Bias’ tra chea, or windpipe, caused by the in halation of heat, and unusual con gestion in the throat, indicate Bias had smoked, or free-based, the drug, said Dr. Dennis F. Smyth, the assistant medical examiner. “We’ve never seen people snort ing get levels that high,” said Smyth, adding that the telltale sign was a red lining in the trachea usually present in fire deaths. The high concentration of the drug, 6.5 milligrams per liter, in the blood also pointed toward the use of free-base, Smyth said. It was believed earlier that Bias had inhaled the drug in powder form. Smyth said it was not possible, from the autopsy, to determine the Smethod of free-basing used. Free-base is manufactured by freeing the cocaine base from the adulterated powder form, thereby reducing the melting point of the drug and allowing the smoking of al most pure cocaine vapor. Bias suffered a seizure, collapsed and died June 19 in his dormitory room just two days after the Na tional Basketball Association cham pion Boston Celtics made him the second pick overall in the college - draft. A water pipe, which is commonly ( used to smoke free-base cocaine, was ' found in a dumpster behind the Col- < lege Park dormitory where Bias col- . lapsed. Yale H. Caplan, the state toxico logist who tested the water pipe, said • it showed no traces of cocaine, but t added that would be expected when free-base is smoked at its maximum efficiency. Rookie Joyner gets starting spot on AL All-Stars NEW YORK (AP) — First base- man Wally Joyner of the California Angels on Wednesday became the first rookie named to an American League starting berth by fan ballot ing as he won a place for the July 15 All-Star Game in Houston. Other starters announced by the Baseball Commissioner’s Office in cluded New York Yankee outfielder Dave Winfield, who has been in a slump most of the season. Kirby Puckett of the Minnesota Twins, who never was among the top three outfielders in the previous voting periods, overtook Reggie Jackson, a 14-time All-Star, for the final outfield berth. Rickey Hender son of the Yankees is the other start ing outfielder. The remainder of the AL starters named were second baseman Lou Whitaker of the Detroit Tigers; shorstop Cal Ripken of the Balti more Orioles; third baseman George Brett of the Kansas City Royals; and catcher Lance Parrish of Detroit. Joyner, whose development al lowed the Angels to pass up re signing seven-time batting champion Rod Carew, was batting .298 with 20 home runs and 66 runs batted in through Tuesday’s games. Joyner, 24, attracted 917,972 votes to beat out the Yankees’ Don Mattingly, last year’s AL MVP win ner and a .330 hitter this year, who got 783,846 votes. This was the first year that rookies appeared on the computerized bal lot. Until now, first-year players had to rely on write-in votes. 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