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.
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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.
Ripken, hitting .297 with 12 hom
ers and 46 RBI, collected the most
votes, 1,486,806 — more than 1 mil
lion votes ahead of shortstop run
ner-up Alan Trammell of Detroit.
In a close race at third base, Brett
with 1,257,432 votes, withstood a
large surge by Boston’s Wade Boggs,
the AL’s leading hitter, to win the
spot by 84,903 votes as both players
top the 1-million mark.
It marked the 11th consecutive
year that Brett, batting. 291, earned
a starting job.
Dick Howser is the AL manager,
while Whitey Herzog of St. Louis
will manage the NL.
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