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Wednesday, December 3, 1986/The Battalion/Page 7 Sports U drops Aggies »ras. h, Israeli, ie rebel, esday not cbty do will] ' the a ransferr 'hood' ' bs sit I is, bin I xplam lid Sbaol Shulia that lirj CUSS tll{ m expli rngtopj lies OS oe V Its l£| arnica e infc its ssid tsewa?: s mem s Inch I ted a ;[ ise am! i| agust. theli monil e ir. LI ; incres :tois liiil trenpl llofiJ whidj decM reflectl Ametl sector. I iernh j lose." eto time. | si AScM's Graves sparks Ags ith 20 points The Ilth-ranked Oklahoma tooners, behind the scoring of Tim McCalister and Harvey Grant, de feated the Texas A&M men’s basket- lall team 93-79 in the Aggies’ season bpener Tuesday night in Norman, •Ida. McCalister accounted for 21 loints and Grant scored 19 as the iooners cut away at a 41-39 A&M halftime lead. The Aggies were lown by just four points, 73-69, with eight minutes left, but the Sooners Ian off three straight baskets to be- [in to pull away. The Aggies were particularly >othered by the shooting of Oklaho- na’s Ricky Grace, who hit three of live three-point shots. unior transfer Keron Graves iparked the Aggie offense with 20 joints, hitting 6-of-9 f rom the floor ind 8-of-9 from the line. Guard fodd Holloway led the Aggies with Keron Graves 21 points. Forward Winston Crite had live points before fouling out with 8:10 remaining in the game. “OU just kept coming at us,” A&M Coach Shelby Metcalf said. “They pounded away; they were tougher mentally and physically on the front line. “We were prepared for the (OU) press. But their strength on the boards (51 rebounds to A&M’s 47) bothered us more than anything.” LSU council likes Archer as successor BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The Louisiana State LIniversity Athletic Council recommended defensive coordinator Mike Archer on Monday as the succes sor to Bill Arnsparger, who is re signing Jan. 1 as the school’s head football coach. If the LSU Board of Supervi- sors accepts the recommendation when it meets Lriday, Archer, 33, would become one of the young est head coaches in major college football. Prior to an executive session of the athletic council Monday, Chancellor James Wharton asked the panel of faculty, staff, alumni and students to name someone al ready on the coaching staff to succeed Arnsparger. Arnsparger, who compiled a 26-7-2 record in three seasons at LSU, announced Saturday that he was retiring as coach. Archer, a former University of Miami defensive back, became a defensive coach therein 1978. UH names Pardee coach HOUST ON (AP) — Jack Pardee, who coached the Chicago Bears and Washington Redskins in the Na tional Football League, was hired as coach by the University of Houston Tuesday with the the task of lifting the school’s sagging football pro gram. The 50-year-old Pardee succeeds Bill Yeoman, who retired from coaching after 25 years to take a post in the university administration. Pardee was left without a job when the U.S. Football League sus pended operations for a year. He was to have coached the New Jersey Generals after their merger with the Houston Gamblers. Interim Athletic Director Michael Johnson said Pardee was given a four-year contract that pays $100,000 annually. Pardee takes over a team that won only one of I 1 games this season and lost all eight Southwest Conference games. The team also played under the shadow of allegations that play ers were paid. Pardee said school officials briefed him on an NCAA investiga tion into the allegations. “The impression I have gotten is that no violation should be cata strophic in any category,” he said. Pardee said his goal was for his athletes to get an education, play football and have a good time. School President Richard Van Horn indicated recently that if the program was not turned around within live years, football might be eliminated. Pardee, a linebacker at Texas'! A&M from 1954-56, played 13 years! for the Los Angeles Rams and two- more with the Redskins. Dallas is not premier sports town according to Rond McNally book McWilliams speaks with UT as job search commences AUSTIN (AP) — Texas Tech [football coach David McWilliams, a jfonner University of Texas assistant :oach, has talked to UT Athletic Di- Irector DeLoss Dodds about return ing to Austin as the Longhorns’ head Icoach. “There was no job offer. He indi- [cated he had some other people he would visit with,” McWilliams said of [theSunday interview with Dodds. McWilliams moved to T exas Tech [this season and led the Red Raiders [to a 7-4 record and Independence Bowl bid, while Texas struggled through a 5-6 record that ended with the firing of coach Fred Akers on Saturday. Dodds confirmed the Sunday in terview with McWilliams, but said he has discussed thejob with more than “There was no job offer. He indicated he had some other people he would visit with.” — Texas Tech football coach David McWilliam., one candidate. He would not iden tify the others. Among the names that have come up are John Cooper of Arizona State, Larry Smith of Arizona, Fisher De Berry of Air Force, Mike Shanahan, an assistant with the Denver Broncos and Allen Lowry, a Dallas Cowboy assistant. Miami (Fla.) Coach Jimmy John son also has been touted as a possi bility, but said he plans to remain with the Hurricanes next year. Akers described McWilliams as a personal friend and said he would wish him well. “If David wants it, he’s got my blessing, of course. I think David’s a good man,” Akers said. “ If David were to get it and he wanted it, I’d be happy for him.” DALLAS (AP) — Sports fans in Dallas may think Big D is preemi nent when it comes to sports, maybe the best anywhere. Just ask the guy yelling at his TV on Sunday af ternoons or the guy behind the beer can at Grapevine Lake. But it appears that not everyone knows what Dallas knows. Now comes a new Rand McNally publica tion called “Sports Places Rated: Ranking America’s Best Places to Enjoy Sports.” According to Rand McNally and the. author, Richard Whittinghani, Dallas is No. 13 as a sports town. Houston is ranked ninth. “Rand McNally should stick to their specialty, printing population figures and maps,” says Tex Schramm, president of the Dallas Cowboys. The publishing company ranks cities acording to several categories: professional sports, college sports, sports events and facilities, sports environment, and recreational sports. For instance, a city gets 100 points if it has a National Football League franchise, another 4 points if the team has won a Super Bowl in the past five years, 4 points for playing in the Super Bowl, and 4 for making the playoffs. Newark-Jersey City comes in first in the pro category because four professional teams play there — the New Jersey Devils, the New Jersey Nets, the the New York Giants and the New York Jets. Newark-Jersey City is followed by Los Angeles, Anaheim-Santa Ana, San Francisco, Miami and Washing ton. Overall, as a sports city, Chicago finishes in third place. Schramm is mystified. “They have a football team that has done well one year, a hockey team that never has done anything, a basketball team that hasn’t done any thing, and two baseball teams that haven’t done much,” he says. Dallas’ No. 2 professional pride and joy, the Dallas Mavericks, do not make even a blip on the Rand Mc Nally radar. The list of the top 10 pro basketball towns ignores Dallas, a fact that Norm Sonju, the Maver- icks’-vice president and general man ager, finds amusing, especially con sidering that the likes of Boston and Philadelphia make the top 10. “Look at where they play in Bos ton,” Sonju says. “They have an old, filthy arena where there are big pil lars you have to look around. In Philadelphia, the arena is in an area of Lown where you don’t feel safe walking when you leave. “Here in Dallas, we have beautiful Reunion Arena, and when you leave you can walk to the West End, or The Hyatt. With its fountains, it’s kind of festive down there. That’S gotta be worth something.” Dallas pulls its best ranking— No. 5 — in the area of sports events and facilities mainly because it has sp many places to play games and be cause it attracts such touring events as the Virginia Slims Tennis and the Byron Nelson golf tournaments. An area of particular embarrass ment to Dallas is the category of col lege sports, where the Big D comes out a Big 0. It is not in the T op 10 in football, basketball (men’s or wom en’s), while Houston ranks third, seventh and second respectively. In the category of sports environ ment,, which considers the proximity and availability of national and state parks, fishing, seashores, biking and rock climbing, Dallas crashes near the base of the cliff, ranking No. 101 among 1 13 cities. In the recreational sports cat egory, Dallas does better, ranking No. 6. There are subcategories here too: Dallas is No. 7 in health clubs and fitness centers, No. 7 in tennis facilities and No. 11 in spectator sports. 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