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ston home
h yin streak ends
Hartford
ueei |HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — The
Bcs spared Boston by ending
B 48-game home winning streak
I maleBartford, their home away from
offe (ome.
“It’s too bad,” the Celtics’ Kevin
s besMcHale said Tuesday night after the
i haiffem’s 117-109 loss to the Washing-
lilies taBullets before more than 15,000
iding {Sunned observers at the Hartford
itrDrlvk Center. “But if it’s going to
nahat !nd, it might as well be in Hartford.”
Broil Ijlie streak also began in the civic
iowbo Biter, 110 miles from the Boston
Bden, its old parquet floor and all
those championship banners. The
enoi jellies play three regular-season
es in Hartford each year,
he Celtics had not lost a home
e since Dec. 6, 1985, when they
!fe beaten by the Portland Trail
;ers at the Boston Garden. The
winning streak started four days
I f>late f when they defeated the Atlanta
' ^jflawksin Hartford.
Bhe Celtics last season broke the
previous record for consecutive
home victories, 36 games, set by the
Badelphia 76ers in 1966 and
k B7.
Bfhis ended our streak even
though we weren’t at the Garden.'
Iflwere the team in white, so it was
^wHorne game for us,” Celtics Coach
K,C Jones said.
■ones had never lost a game in
flit ford as head coach.
■I used to say that I didn’t like
aks, but now I realize that I do
like them,” he said. “They don’t start
talking about them until they reach
V |bout 10 games and they’re only
bilken by one loss.”
Baid Moses Malone of the Bullets,
“1|isn’t the Boston Garden, but we
belt them.”
Boston’s misfortune was Washing-
Bs salvation as the team recorded
■first win af ter seven losses on the
i road this season.
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MRVING (AP) — It’s no secret that Reggie Col-
v ..jlier is one of the best athletes on the Dallas Cow-
I)o\> roster. Not as widely circulated is the fact
, that he’s one of the top eaters on the team, too.
ranfflB'I * ove to eat ’” sa ^ l h e res erve quarterback
who may be just a hard tackle away from calling
„ i,djthpsignals as the team’s offensive leader.
■"Collard greens and smoked neck bones, wow!
Jtmust be a southern dish. I haven’t been able to
-—find smoked (pork) neck bones around Dallas.”
■Collier has to eat in a hurry these days, how-
1 Br. He has been very busy signing with the
■wboys in May after stints with Birmingham,
Washington and Orlando in the U.S. Football
! f g ue -
■The big difference in trying to learn the sys-
tm here and in the USFL is that you have to take
the books home and work every chance you get,”
P llier said.
'In the USFL, the playbook wasn’t that big or
complicated. We studied in class before going on
the field to practice what we’d studied, and that
ras it. You couldn’t keep up if you tried that
iere.”
|ln addition to studying, Collier’s three years of
experience and outstanding accomplishments in
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the USFL have put him into the Cowboys’ No. 2
quarterback slot, even after veteran Paul McDon
ald was signed.
“All you try to do is be ready every game,” Col
lier said. “Last year at this time, Steve Pelluer had
no idea he’d be the Cowboys’ starting quar
terback.”
Collier, who went to college at Southern Mis
sissippi, signed with the Stallions in 1983 after
being told by the Cowboys that he might have to
play a skill position other than quarterback.
“The Stallions guaranteed me I could play
quarterback,” Collier said. “I was out practicing
one day when I heard Dallas had drafted me (in
the sixth round). I wondered then why they’d
bother, but now I guess I understand they
wanted the NFL rights to me, just in case.”
Through the spring and summer of this year,
Collier studied and worked daily with the Cow
boys’ quarterback book, but when his first chance
for NFL action came it was as a wide receiver.
“We had a bunch of injuries and they asked
me to go outside for a month,” he said. “I played
a few downs against Detroit and Atlanta.”
Since then, he has moved back to quarterback,
and he played well during the final minutes of
the Cowboys’ 41-14 loss to Washington on Nov.
Collier’s talents as a passer-runner had just the
right showcase at Southern Mississippi, where
Bobby Collins was running the same option he
would later bring to Southern Methodist.
When it came time to select an academic major
in college. Collier, a football and basketball star
in Biloxi, Miss., was ready.
“I was already at ease with reporters and cam
eras and all that,” he said, “so I got into TV-radio
communications. Maybe I can make something
out of it when football is no longer my thing.”
For Collier and his wife, Cynthia, their idea of
a big day is Tuesday. That’s the Cowboys’ day off
and although Cynthia, a speech therapist in the
Plano school system, has to work, there’s a brief
respite from the study-and-praedee routine that
necessarily must consume an aspiring NFL quar
terback.
And maybe, if Collier can find them, there
may even be time for some collard greens and
smoked neck bones.
Becker hammers Nystrom
in Masters tennis tourney
NEW YORK (AP) — Playing
tith a cool demeanor and a hot
6rve, West Germany’s Boris
ecker easily advanced Wednes
day night to post his 18th consec
utive match victory as the
SOO,000 Masters tennis tourna
ment began at Madison Square
-arden.
Becker, a two-time Wimbledon
amp, crushed Sweden’s Joakim
Kystrom 6-1, 6-3 to begin the
Bound-robin portion of this sea
son-ending tournament.
I Swedes were more successful
in Wednesday’s other matches as
third-seeded Mats Wilander de
feated Henri Leconte of France
6-1, 7-5, and Stefan Edberg
stopped Ecuador’s Andres Go
mez 6-2, 6-3.
Becker has been unbeatable in
his last four outings, winning
three Nabisco Grand Prix tourna
ments and an eight-man exhibi
tion in Atlanta where he toppled
John McEnroe in the final.
Tonight, Edberg will face Yan
nick Noah of France, top-seeded
Ivan Lendl of Czechoslovakia will
play Gomez, and Wilander will
face Nystrom.
Bass set for surgery
HOUSTON (AP) — Astros
rightfielder Kevin Bass is sched
uled to undergo arthroscopic sur
gery later this month in Los An
geles for a bone spur in his right
shoulder, a spokesman for the Na
tional League team said Wednes
day.
Bass was examined in Houston
last week and on Tuesday in Los
Angeles by Dr. Frank Jobe, Hous
ton Astros spokesman Richard
Fairly said.
Bass had soreness in his right
shoulder for most of the 1986 sea
son and it persisted afterwards.
Bass is expected to report on
Feb-
time to spring training
ruary, Fairly said.
The Astros also announced
Wednesday that the club has
agreed to terms for the 1987 sea
son with Jerry Trupiano for broa-
dacst of the Astros games.
Trupiano has been a member of
the team for the past two seasons
and has covered Houston sports
for KRTH radio station since
1972, Fairly said.
Trupiano is sports director for
KTRH, the flagship station for the
Astros’ network.
Terms of the contract were not
disclosed, he said.
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