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AT JERSEY io n Classified 845-2611 Page 12/The Battalion^Thursday, April 2, 1987 Landry: Dallas successful if over .500 IRVING (AP) — Dallas Coach Tom Landry says the deflated Cow boys will have a big 1987 NFL season if they can climb over the .500 mark. “If we’re better than a .500 team this year, then we’ve been success ful,” Landry says in the club’s pre season prospectus which will be re leased later this week. “And once you get over the .500 mark, anything can happen.” The Cowboys were 7-9 last year and missed the playoffs for only the third time in 20 years after a 6-2 start in the first half of the season. “Our goal this year is to get back into the race,” Landry says. “We can’t even think about the playoffs, or the Eastern Division championship because we were com pletely out of the running. The way we played the last eight games, we’re no different than any other losing team.” White says no to additional wrist surgery DALLAS (AP) — Dallas Cowboys quarterback Danny White, who suf fered a broken right wrist playing against the New York Giants, ruled out further surgery on the injury unless he can’t throw at the season’s start. White was smiling Monday when the Cowboys’ three-day minicamp opened because doctors said he would not need surgery to play two more seasons. “I’m very confident now in my de cision not to have surgery,” White said. “I don’t think there’s any ques tion I’ll be ready when the season be gins. Doctors say it might not ever be the same and that I might eventually need surgery. But it will get better before the season begins.” White’s slow-healing wrist was broken on Nov. 2 by the Giants’ Carl Banks. One athletic physician. Dr. Frank McCue of the University of Virginia, said two weeks ago that White would be able to regain full range of mo tion in his wrist without surgery. The hand specialist’s comment was the second outside medical opin ion that White could play without an operation. Team doctor Marvin Knight concurred with the opinions, along with trainer Don Cochren. 3-point shot to remain at same range NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The 3- point shot will stay at its present dis tance of 19 feet, 9 inches for at least another season of college basketball, and intentional fouls will be more expensive, the secretary of the NCAA Rules Committee announced on Wednesday. “The 3-point rule did exactly what it was intended to do,” said Ed Steitz, the committee secretary. It increased scoring, opened up the game and re duced rough play under the boards, he said. Despite howls of outrage prior to the rule’s implementation for this past season, a late-season poll showed overwhelming support for retaining the 3-point shot in some form, Steitz said. Overall, he said, 1,448 coaches re turned their questionnaires, and 80 percent favored keeping the 3-point shot. Of those in favor, 35 percent wanted it kept at its present distance, and 36 percent favored moving it back nine inches to the Olympic dis tance, he said. Three changes were voted in for next season, Steitz said. “All intentional fouls will carry a two-shot penalty plus possession of the ball,” he said. Currently, an in tentional foul carries a two-shot pen alty, but the offending team gains possession of the ball. The new rule would not have changed the outcome of Monday night’s Indiana-Syracuse championship game, he said. Der rick Coleman of Syracuse was fouled by Indiana’s Keith Smart with 28 seconds left in the game. Coleman missed the front end of a one-and- one, and Smart wound up scoring the winning basket in a 74-73 In diana victory. Landry says the Cowboys need to take things more seriously. “We’ve just got to develop a mad temperament,” Landry says. “Do you want to be a losing team or not? I don’t know of any team that has come off a long winning streak and then not stayed down for awhile. That’s the challenge we have.” The Cowboys split with the World Champion New York Giants last year but a wrist injury suffered by quarterback Danny White in the sec ond game against the Giants started Dallas’ slide. “That was a terrible stretch we had the second half of last year,” Landry says. “We’ve never had a stretch like that before in 27 years. I’m talking about being mentally on the downslide for that long a time. “Even in the early years, we might not win for three or four games, but we were always on a positive note. We’ve been knocked down before and come back, but we’ve never been on the skids like last year. And that is bad.” He adds, “The toughest thing we are going to have to do is regain con fidence.” Landry continues, “The other Steitz agreed that few of the 64,959 people in the stands would believe the foul an accident, but that’s not the way intentional fouls are determined. “He played the ball directly. When you go through a player or wrap your arms around him, that’s when the intentional foul is called,” he said. Another change permits calling a technical foul on the coach if any of his players leave the bench to take part in a fight on the court. The third change reduces the penalty for erroneously questioning a scoring or timing decision. Cur rently, a coach can be called for a technical foul, if he questions a deci sion that is deemed correct. The change calls for charging his team with a timeout. Dallas Cowboys Tom Landry Bass, Astros hoping to repeat ’86 results KISSIMMEE, Fla. (AP) — The question about Kevin Bass and his Houston Astros teammates seems to be the same — can they do an encore? Bass had a career best perfor mance last season, finishing fourth in the National League in hitting at .311, fifth with 184 hits, .486 slugging percentage and 287 total bases. The Astros came from also-ran status to win the National League Western Division title, but their consistency still is being ques tioned. “Until the fact is done, nobody can talk about it, there’s no wiz ard who can pick the winner,” Bass said. “I just don’t believe what I read.” “They picked us fifth last year and see what happened? “If we all do our jobs, there’s no reason we can’t contend Bass reported to camp a year ago, thinking he’d fit into new Manager Hal Lanier’s plans. He just didn’t know where. I^mier put Bass in right field and Bass took over from there. “This year is a lot easier,” he said. “I know I’m going to be in there so I’m just gearing myself for the start of the regular sea son.” Bass was one of three Astros to place in the top 10 voting for the league’s Most Valuable Player trophy. First baseman Glenn Da vis was second, Bass was seventh and Mike Scott was 10th. Bass hit .378 in June and put together a 20-game hitting streak from July 22 to Aug. 13. The streak matched the fourth longest in club history. again. Bass also reports himself ready for the start of the season, despite off-season arthroscopic shoulder surgery. “The shoulder is going to be fine and I’m going to try to hit .300 just like I did last year,” Bass said. “If every man takes it upon himself to give his best then we’ll win again.” “I've got confidence in my abil ity. I don’t worry about whether I can have another year like last year. I just know that I’m going to try as hard as I can to do it," Bass said. Bass didn’t play in the early spring games, giving his shoulder more time to recover. But he’s warmed up quickly, hitting .375 in 15 games going into the final week of spring training. m v ^ H ’,0* 7 'V 1 , P if ‘ " B «ff: SlMfBilB ■ i.!,, Turn Two LOS A we must do is find young, impact players, preferably on defense. Drafting late in the first round all those winning years just caught up with us. It’s hard to get those real im pact players unless you drafiq the first round.” Landry says his offensive under re-evaluation but cm “our biggest improvemem J come on defense. Defense ih we need athletes.” Landry says he will be more time with the defenseitJ “The players have to wort w j lose rv the coaches have to work®fflLi s try cause there is no easy wayoit;« lt | er ji thing,” Landry says. Til be j^, that , ing more time with thedefentfoLj. a s \\ < \<- ag.-d in thedefen-JjL net { u . We didn’t have the pass r* rhe R , year, the power that we bail «,T exaSj s; 1970s and 1980s.” Rev. Riel Landry says Ite thinkstbetf will 1h‘ OK if White's heals. “We’ll be in good comes hack okay,” Landn ■George Feb. 18 f reasons u Astros owN HE jfthat proi resignatit Charlotte sees rise in i feSg Hartch ai attendance;:; 11 ,,: 1 ; pan identified r , N tros owner jonn mcmuims optimistic alxaut home aiteJ this season. T think the eommunin JhVI ■ I should lx* much better tbit i ause cil the season weft .md ili< exciting ptyrtmir* v * lheM< is. \h Mullen said. Mi Mullen said 9,(XX)AsJBQ^ son tie keis have been sold so :i™ percent increase over the6 1 the year before. jl LON; ■‘That's one of the lai ; «pf Com 11 eases in the league. pen»jP iar g in wise, he told The Hourl/Storing from the Astros' train;:;Lwas abo Luesday in Kissimmee,Fk I ago. McMullen told the noL, Lawn that professional baseball ■■•I defeat ; address the growing niE3*|h av e bn games being televised or. Ltnent fo superstations. lithe seve ihe deal McMullen said steps "Jfcj.dh a | )( taken to stem revenue losseK All p; the broadcasting of games :Hp omnio s u pci si a I ions. About 400 f ree home games were bra Houston last year, l (l '' ,enr ‘i^»ition ai dance at the Astrodome, ''•"‘1 Bvasanm The Astros are to ofcls Law-a home season Monday apjp spurred l os \11gelcs Dodgers. i| s j on ()V( the mu |aunche< the deatl , Photo by Bilif'l Texas A&M second baseman Terry Taylor gets North Texas State’s Bruce Rodgers out at second and goes for the at Olsen Field. T double play in Wednesdays^ 1 aylor had two doubles forAS:M Angels’ DeCinces dislikes dealings of new contract Utah edges San Antonie PALM SPRINGS, Calif. (AP) — Doug DeCinces has learned to play in pain. Now the California Angels’ third baseman is learning to deal with disillusionment. “I don’t feel good about the way I was handled,” DeCinces said of his contract dealings with the club ear lier this year. “I wanted to feel like I was impor tant to them, that they would think it was important to talk with me. “They didn’t call me until four days before the deadline in January. They had all winter long, but they didn’t even have the courtesy to call me. “I’d like to have seen what they would have done without me last year ... I can’t pretend now that it’s all peaches-and-cream.” The 36-year-old DeCinces-signed his new contract with the Angels on Jan. 8, the free-agent deadline. “I signed with less than an hour to go,” he said. “Why did it have to come to that? I did everything I could, played my heart out for this club last season.” Some of his veteran teammates who felt the same way are no longer with the club — Reggie Jackson, Bobby Grich, Rick Burleson, Terry Forster and Bob Boone are all ex- Angels. DeCinces, who has been troubled by a hack problem for the past few years, still had 26 homers, 96 runs batted in and was the key hitting cog late in the season as the Angels cap tured the American League West ti tle. He reportedly will earn $1.1 mil lion this year if all incentives are met. The contract is assured only for 1987, with the second year of the agreement not guaranteed. Although he wanted 1988 to also be guaranteed, he said the club’s dealings with him — not the terms of the contract — were the source of his ill feelings. He said he talked with a number of other teams over the winter, but none expressed any substantial in terest in signing him. That, he said, illustrates the new, arid climate for free agents in major league baseball. Only two of the eight premier free agents have signed with other teams. The Angels’ offer was the best available in these “changing times,” he said. “I signed because it was a business decision and I didn’t want to have to take my kids out of school and move,” he said. SAN ANTONIO , rell Griffith scored i 9 of I* points in the fourth quat® lead the Utah Jazz to a® from-behind 107-104 NlM i tory over the San Antonio'! Wednesday night. Behind Griffith, tht erased a 10-point deficit in nal seven minutes of tM and improved their record 32. The Spurs droppedto” With 18 seconds to pla Stockton fed Karl Malone layup put Utah on top 105-104. Stockton starte^l play when he stole a Jon ^ void pass intended for Spa 1 '! ter Artis Gilmore. 1 Malone led Utah ^ points. Utah center Mark fa® jected a one-handed junf the Spurs’ Walter Bern seven seconds remaining. Stockton added two throws with three second* T he Spurs’ Alvin Robertson® a 3-point shot at the hi# would have sent the gam* overtime, but the ball tin#' basket and fell out. Berry and Gilmore s# points each for San Antoni* G< 30* Co] 6* Hom Mon. Sat.