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Page 16/The Battalion/Friday, October 9, 1987 4 Frogs leave Cavs’ camp From Staff and Wire Reports Four members of last year’s South west Conference champion Texas Christian basketball team were re leased from the Cleveland Cavalier camp Thursday. Carven Holcombe, the 1986-87 SWC Player of the Year, was cut from the National Basketball Association team, along with guards Carl Lott and Harold Jenson and forward Larry Anderson were all cut from the train ing roster. In other conference news, Arkan sas cut two players from the team, in cluding split end Donnie Centers. Centers and offensive lineman Matt Kingfield were released for un- disclosed reasons. Stabler drops unshorn look for suit-and-tle job HOUSTON (AP) — A snake, by instinct, will shed its skin for a new After 15 years as a quarterback in the National Football League, Ken “Snake” Stabler in 1984 shed his scraggly beard and game jerseys for the clean-shaven look, complete with suit and tie. “I stayed 18 yeap old for 20 years,” Stabler told members of the Touchdown Club of Houston dur ing a recent meeting. Stabler, known primarily as the quarterback who led the Oakland Raiders to a Super Bowl victory, also played for the Houston Oilers and New Orleans Saints. today’s Stabler is a family man with a 10-month-old daughter. And he is now a CBS-TV sports analyst, cover ing NFL games with Jim Lampley. Stabler seems to have one of those, “soft” kind of personalities. Will Rogers and Stabler would have been best friends. Stabler can tell a joke — and take one. This Snake’s bite has Band-Aid on the corner of his left eyebrow and a cut under his left eye made one think of his days of old. no venom. In a Foley, Ala., drawl, he cracked, “I auditioned with CBS and, lo and behold, they must have been hard up for people, so they hired me.” “I came to Houston about three days early for this speaking en gagement, and I got hooked up with Gifford Nielsen (ex-Oilers teammate and now the sports director of a Houston television station). We went to Spencer Highway in Pasadena (home of Gilley’s nightclub) . . . you can’t go anywhere with this guy.” Stabler said he enjoyed his stay in ' ' ' Tile Houston with the Oilers (1980-81). Once known for his love of cri tiquing country music played in bars, Of the NFL strike, Stabler said, “I Finally get a job and then they quit.” Stabler looked snappy, wearing a gray suit and black tie, but the small “I’ve got a ton of fond memories here. I wish we had had better teams. I wish we would have won for Houston at that point of time. That’s what we tried to do.” Stabler liked playing under then- Oilers head coach Bum Phillips. “The Houston organization made the biggest mistake they ever made in their life — they Fired Bum,” he said. “The other guy (Ed Biles) took over, and I couldn’t play for him. So I retired. I later came out of retire ment and went down to New Or leans and played for Bum. “Looking hack on my career, there was always one thing that stood out — I always played with a ? ;reat supporting cast. We always ound a way to win. need to remain, somehow, t sport he loved. “1 missed the crowd locker room, the players, the,| scene.” He didn’t want tospe time that coaching requires.[ ured the other way was tot the game. Vol. “The thing that got me; the scene again was writint (titled “Snake”). I circulatea book tour, and it got me; sports writers, other media; players that 1 had playedmth'l Stabler recalled some “All the coaches I played for al ways found a way to win, and it car ried over to the players.” After retiring, Stabler lelt the “Earl Campbell was a ra wonderful football player,anti better person than he was a 6 player.” Ultimate in Heavey Metal Coming Thursday Oct. 15 Eastgate Live 764-2095 POST OAK THREE 1500 HARVEY RD. 693-2796 THE BIG EA&Y (R) 7:05 9:15 (5:00 Tue» Only) DIRTY DANCING (PG-13) 7:10 9:10 (S:05 Tu»» Only) BIG SHOTS (PG-13) 7:15 9:1 (5:10 Tue» 1 REAL MEN 'PG-13) BARBARIANS (R) THE PRINCIPAL (R) 7:00 9:: (5:00 Tues ' 7:05 9:25 (5:05 Tue» Only) I 7:10 9:30 (5:10 Tues Only) w The cottage m in Brookwood square 268-0062 ANTIQUES Glassware Folkart Quilts Classes in: Tole Rubouts Handwork Seasonal Decor 3601 E. 29th Street Speed Reading Free one hour lesson! We v wiil double your speed. 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