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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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