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Trades, expansion talks headline winter talks
DALLAS (AP) — Dave Parker
and Lee Smith moved to new teams
while baseball talked about moving
to new towns and starting interlea
gue play at the winter meetings
Tuesday.
During a day of Texas-style deal
ing that would have made even J.R.
Ewing proud, Rafael Ramirez also
got swapped and more deals seemed
on the way.
Floyd Bannister and Lloyd Mo-
seby could go soon, and Baltimore
and Seattle were close to trading
litchers Mike Morgan and Ken
)ixon.
Expansion may not he closer, but
the subject moved toward its first
-scale debate in 10 years. The is
sue was discussed at separate league
meetings Tuesday and will be pre
sented a joint meeting of owners
Wednesday, marking the most se
rious study since Toronto and
Seattle were added to the American
League in 1977.
‘Interleague play is probably the
key,” said Bill Giles, president of the
Philadelphia Phillies and a member
of the long-range planning commit
tee.
Giles, American League President
Dr. Bobby Brown and National
League President Bart Giamatti
agreed that any expansion would
mean new teams in each league.
“I don’t see any league embarking
on an individual basis," Brown said.
But Giles said the AL’s current
scheduling problems with 14 teams
would likely not prompt the NL to
go from 12 to 14 clubs, unless there
was interleague play.
“That’s the only way I’d be in fa
vor of it,” Giles said.
The real interleague action Tues
day sent two long-time dominant
players in the NL to the AL.
Parker, a six-time All-Star, was
traded by Cincinnati to Oakland for
promising pitchers Jose Rijo and
Tim Birtsas. Smith, one of the pre
mier relievers in the game, was
traded by the Chicago Cubs to Bos
ton for pitchers A1 Nipper and Cal
vin Schiraldi.
“You don’t replace a Dave Parker,
but we felt we need some more
pitchers,” Reds manager Pete Rose
said.
Recently, when Parker appeared
headed to the New York Yankees,
he smiled at the thought of batting
between Don Mattingly and Dave
Winfield. Instead, he will join slug
ger’s row in Oakland with Mark Mc
Gwire and Jose Canseco.
“We think he’s going to give us a
lot of pop, particularly from the left
side,” Oakland general manager
Sandy Alderson said.
Parker, 37, hit 26 home runs with
97 RBI last season but batted a ca
reer-low .253. He has a .297 lifetime
average with 273 homers and 1,190
RBI.
The Reds continued to rebuild
their pitching staff, which ranked
ninth in the league last season. Last
month, they got pitcher Danny Jack
son from Kansas City.
Rijo, 22, was 2-7 for Oakland and
Birtsas, 27, was 7-2 at Class AAA Ta
coma.
Cincinnati wanted to unload Par
ker’s $1.3 million salary and also
wanted to make more room in the
outfield, where Eric Davis, fracy
Jones, Kal Daniels and Paul O’Neill
already were squeezed.
The Red Sox also got what they
wanted, a major closer in Smith.
Smith is only NL pitcher with 30
or more saves in four straight years,
a streak he maintained last season
with 36 — compared to a major
league-low of 16 for the entire Red
Sox staff.
“His record and consistency speak
for themselves,” Boston general
manager Lou Gorman said. “Getting
him is a dramatic step forward for
us.”
The Red Sox got a major league
low 16 saves last season.
Smith, 30, had asked to be traded
after becoming disenchanted with
fans and some media in Chicago.
The Cubs wanted to get rid of
Smith’s $850,000 salary — possibly
to sign a free-agent pitcher — and
hoped to bolster their pitching.
Nipper was 11-12, his third
straight losing year with 12 losses.
Schiraldi was 8-5 with six saves and a
4.41 ERA, and only he and Wes
Gardner got saves for Boston last
season.
“We’ve given up someone who has
been as good a pitcher as there has
been in the last four years, but we
had to do something with our staff,”
new Cubs general manager Jim Frey
said.
In all, there have been five trades
involving 11 major-league players
since the meetings began Friday.
Trade winds also rustled around
Bannister and Moseby. Bannister,
rumored to be leaving the White
Sox, could be going to Milwaukee
and Oakland has discussed acquiring
Moseby.
Bob Horner also made another
appearance at the large hotel where
the meetings are being held, mostly
to showcase himself. Horner is a free
agent and prefers not to return to
Japan, although he is at a stalemate
with Atlanta, his former team. The
Texas Rangers, located not far from
Horner’s home, are showing some
interest in the larger-than-ever slug
ger.
Also, Texas signed Craig McMur-
try, the 1983 National League rookie
pitcher of the year, to a minor-
league contract, and Pat Corrales
was hired as Detroit’s Class AAA
manager in Toledo, and Houston
appeared ready to sign free agent
Joaquin Andujar, who pitched for
Oakland last season.
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IRVING (AP) — Tom Landry, in
the face of criticism from the team
owner — which Landry called a
break with tradition — said Tuesday
he intends to coach the Dallas Cow
boys until 1989.
“1 knew it would take three years
to bring the team back into conten
tion again when I signed my con
tract," Landry said. “There is no
magic to it.”
Landry was heavily criticized for
the first time by principal owner
Bum Bright after Sunday’s 21-10
loss to Atlanta that dropped the
Cowboys to a 5 7 record.
The loss all but eliminated them
from the NFL playoffs.
Tve been down a little bit but
that’s part of football. To receive
criticism from an owner was a devia
tion from the past a little bit,”
Landry said.
Still, Landry said he expects to
keep coaching.
“Nobody can predict what’s going
to go on. I don’t intend to retire be
fore then but you never know.”
Club President Tex Schramm also
said he expects Landry to continue
coaching.
“What’s happened this year in
creases the challenge,” Schramm
said.
Bright said after the Atlanta game
that he was “horrified” at some of
the play calling.
Bright also criticized Landry’s fail
ure to make greater use of defensive
lineman Danny Noonan, the team’s
first-round draft choice, and run
ning back Herschel Walker.
Landry was asked if Bright was
suggesting plays to run, and he re
plied, “If ne wants to try one I’ll wel
come him.”
The late Clint Murchison, the
Cowboys’ original owner, once re
peatedly asked Landry to try Bob
Hayes on a certain play.
Landry did, the play lost 12 yards
and the coach never heard from
Murchison again.
Washington Coach Joe Gibbs de
fended Landry in a phone hookup
with the Dallas media on Tuesday.
“Coach Landry is a one of the
guys all the younger coaches in the
NFL would like to be like,” Gibbs
said. “He has been a success over a
long period of time.”
The Cowboys travel to Washing
ton Sunday to meet the 9-3 Redskins
who have already clinched the NFC
East after a win over St. Louis last
Sunday.
“Washington doesn’t have to win
the game except for what they think
about the Cowboys,” Landry said.
“They remember we beat them twice
two years ago,” he said.
“We expect Dallas to be in a foul
mood. The rivalry is still there,”
Gibbs said.
Danny White will return as the
starting quarterback for the Cow
boys, Landry said.
Steve Pelluer, who suffered a
knee injury on the fourth play of the
loss to the Falcons, was moving bet
ter on Tuesday and could play.
“I will work Danny in there and
see what he can do for us,” Landry
said. “If White is going good then
that is our best chance to win the
game.”
Landry said Paul McDonald, who
has never played in a regular season
game for the Cowboys, could see
some duty.
“If Paul gets to play he will play
well,” Landry said.
Rookie Ron Burton will start at
middle linebacker against the
Redskins.
Starter Eugene Lockhart is out
with a broken leg and backup Steve
DeOssie is on crutches with an ankle
injury.
“We have a lot of adversity but
when you have adversity you have to
be stronger,” Landry said.
Sooners still on top;
Ags jump two spots
From the Associated Press
Oklahoma is ranked No. 1 and
Miami is No. 2 but not everyone is
convinced that their Orange Bowl
clash will decide college football’s
national championship.
Syracuse University Coach
Dick MacPherson is among the
dissenters.
Only two teams have a shot at
going 12-0 — the Oklahoma-Mi-
ami winner and fourth-ranked
Syracuse, which meets No. 6 Au
burn, 9-1-1, in the Sugar Bowl.
Third-ranked Florida State, 10-1
with a 26-25 loss to Miami the
only blemish on its record, plays
No. 5 Nebraska, 10-1, in the
Fiesta Bowl
“Oklahoma and Miami are
playing a good opponent (each
other), and so are we,” MacPher
son said. “Any team that wins the
Southeastern Conference is a
good opponent.”
Miami completed its second
consecutive 1 1-0 regular season
by defeating South Carolina 20-
16 Saturday night. Oklahoma,
which finished 11-0 two weeks
earlier, received 47 of 57 first-
place votes and 1,129 of a possi
ble 1,140 points in Tuesday’s fi
nal regular-season AP poll.
Nine first-place votes and
1,088 points went to Miami, while
Florida State remained third with
1,018 points. The other first-
place ballot went to Syracuse,
which received 955 points.
Nebraska held onto fifth place
with 926 points and Auburn re
mained No. 6 with 847 points.
MacPherson concedes there’s
nothing he can do about the
Orange Bowl matchup and all the
attendant hype — past, present
and future.
“If one of them is a dominating
factor, they deserve to be No. 1,”
he said. “We’re the next best
game. The voters can see one
game (Fiesta Bowl) at 1:30 (p.m.,
EST), one game (Sugar) at 3:30
and one game (Orange) at 8 and
see who deserves to be No. 1.”
LSU, 9-1-1, stayed seventh
with 794 points. South Carolina,
LSU’s Gator Bowl opponent, was
the only other member of the
Top 20 in action over the week
end and its close loss to Miami
dropped the Gamecocks, 8-3,
from eighth place to ninth with
653 points.
Michigan State, 8-2-1, moved
up from ninth to eighth with 687
points and UCLA, 9-2, completed
the Top 10, just like a week ago,
with 642 points.
The Second 10 consists of Ok
lahoma State, Notre Dame, Texas
A&M, Clemson, Georgia, South
ern California, Tennessee, Iowa,
Pitt and Penn State.
Last week, it was Oklahoma
State, Notre Dame, Clemson.
Georgia, Texas A&M, Tennessee,
Southern Cal, Iowa, Pitt and
Penn State. The Top 20 consists
of the same teams as last week
with some minor shuffling of po
sitions.
The last team to go 12-0 and
fail to win the national
championship was Arizona State,
which finished second behind 11 -
1 Oklahoma in 1975.
The Syracuse Orangemen be
gan the season unranked and
didn’t crack the Top 20 until the
fifth week of the season. Then
they climbed steadily from 17th
to 13th to ninth to eighth to sixth
and finally to fourth, where they
have spent the last three weeks
behind Florida State.
“Everyone thinks Florida State
is for real and Syracuse is not for
real,” MacPherson said. “If we’re
12-0, nothing can go bad for us,
in my opinion. If we’re not 12-0
— see you later.”
“We’ve all progressed to where
we can be. The NCAA says we
can’t go any further (no playoff),
so we’ll take whatever they (the
voters) give us.”
Short, Olajuwon lift Rockets
to 106-97 victory over Kings
HOUSTON (AP) — Purvis Short,
obtained from Golden State the day
before the Season started, has been
nothing but golden for the Rockets
the past two games.
After hitting 13 of 15 shots in Sat
urday’s victory over Golden State,
Short hit seven of nine first-half
shots Tuesday night and finished
with 25 points, helping the Rockets
to a 106-97 comeback victory over
Sacramento.
“The shot is coming back,” Short
said. “I’m more comfortable because
I’m understanding the offense
more. I can get a good look at the
basket.”
The Rockets sagged at the start of
both halves and had to rally in the
fourth quarter to beat the Kings,
winless in six road games this season.
“They made some excellent de
fensive adjustments in the fourth
quarter,” Kings Coach Bill Russell
said. “By the time we figured it out,
it was too late. I called an extra
timeout to try to get the guys back in
the game.”
Spurs overcome turnovers
to squeak past Jazz 105-100
Reggie Theus led the Kings with
25 points, but he was held scoreless
in the fourth quarter.
Akeem Olajuwon scored 26 points
for the Rockets, who blew a 12-point
halftime lead. But they used a 16-0
spurt led by Olajuwon, who also fin
ished with 11 rebounds, to pull
away.
Rodney McCray’s three-point play
put the Rockets ahead for good with
6:37 to play.
Houston started slowly, then
bolted to a 59-48 halftime lead be
hind 14 points by Olajuwon. But
they blew the lead in the third quar
ter and trailed 85-78 going into the
final period.
Theus led the Kings’ third-quarter
surge with 14 points in the period.
Thorpe scored eight points in the
first four minutes of the game as the
Kings jumped to a 13-2 lead before
Olajuwon rallied the Rockets Olaju
won hit four of the next five Hous
ton baskets.
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Frank
Brickowski scored a career-high 27
points as the San Antonio Spurs de
feated the Utah Jazz 105-100 in an
NBA game Tuesday night.
With Utah leading 99-98 and
2:02 left, Brickowski hit two free
throws to give the Spurs a 100-99
lead.
After an offensive foul on Utah’s
Karl Malone, Alvin Robertson hit a
10-foot jumper, giving the Spurs a
102-99 lead.
Utah’s John Stockton was fouled
on the next possession, but only hit
one free throw.
San Antonio’s Leon Wood made a
3-pointer with three seconds left to
end the scoring.
San Antonio had built a 14-point
lead in the first quarter, but Utah
came back to’ tie the score 56-56 at
halftime.
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The tight game was even through
most of the third quarter, but after
several costly Spurs turnovers
throughout the period, the Jazz
pulled away and kept the lead until
Brickowski’s free throws late in the
game.
The contest seemed like a carbon
copy last-second finish of the teams’
Nov. 21 game, which the Spurs won
by one point.
The victory was San Antonio’s
sixth consecutive at home, while the
Jazz — leading the league in both
defense and field goal percentage
defense — fell to 1-6 on the road.
Malone had 27 points for the Jazz
and Robertson and Walter Berry
each had 17 for the Spurs.
The Spurs will face Phoenix this
Saturday while the Jazz will take on
the Houston Rockets Thursday
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