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The Lady Aggies, 9-5 over all
and 3-2 in the Southwest Confer
ence, lost to the Cougars 87-66
Sunday. The Red Raiders are 7-9
and 1-4 in conference play.
Tech is coming off a 75-64 loss
to Southern Methodist Saturday
in Dallas. A&M hasn’t beaten
Tech since 1980, when the Lady
Aggies won 66-64 in Lubbock.
Guard Donna Roper, who had
14 points against Houston, all in
the second half, is A&M’s top
scorer with an 18.1 average. For
ward Evelyn Sanders is next with
13.6 points a game, and center
Lisa Jordon has a 10.4 scoring av
erage and 8.9 rebounds a game.
Tech is led by sophomore for
ward Reena Lynch with 15.3
points per game and 8.8 re
bounds, and guard Alexis Ware,
who averages 11 points per game.
“The last thing we want to do is
dwell on the loss to Houston,”
A&M Coach Lynn Hickey said.
“We’ve only got one day to get re
ady for Texas Tech. They’re a
young team with good size.”
The Lady Aggies will return
home after tonight’s game to face
Texas Saturday at 7:30 p.m. at G.
Rollie White Coliseum. A&M will
then face Texas Christian here
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By Curtis L. Culberson
Assistant Sports Editor
The Texas A&M football team ap-
ars to have added another weapon
jo its offensive arsenal.
Houston Worthing High School
ullback Robert Wilson passed up of-
at Nebraska, Georgia, Colorado
nd USC and verbally commited to
ttend A&M to become the latest ad-
ition to an elite Aggie backfield.
Wilson said in a Houston Chroni-
le story that he wanted to play big-
ime college football and be close to
home with his grandparents, Jose-
hine and Roscoe Williams, who
aised him.
Near the top of everyone’s list of
his year’s best high school recruits,
6-foot-1, 235-pound Worthing
roduct will join tne running back
rew the Aggies acquired last year
by halfback Darren Lewis (5-11,
05) and fullback Randy Simmons
5-2,215).
“They told me I would ^o behind
att Gurley and Randy Simmons,”
ilson told the Chronicle. “With all
hese top backs, it’s really going to
ielp A&M. Whoever is in the game
led
is going to produce. If he doesn’t,
then the guy behind him will be
cause he is just as good or even bet
ter.”
Wilson said the facilities and the
offensive line attracted him to A&M.
“That (offensive line) is the main
thing that will attract any good
back,” he said in the Chronicle inter-
Houston Lee High School’s
Clarke Flowers (6-5, 252) will proba
bly become the latest member of that
attractive offensive line. Flowers
commited to Houston weeks ago but
changed his mind and committed to
A&M Sunday.
Defensive back Derrick Frazier,
from Houston Clements, also had a
change of heart and broke his pre
vious commitment with Nebraska to
join the Aggies.
The 6-foot 175-pound Frazier is
considered by many to be one of the
nation’s best.
All commitments are oral
agreements and don’t become final
until the players sign national letter
of intents on or after Feb. 10.
Home court is where the heart
and the wins are for hoopsters
Ever wonder what the most powerful weapon
in modern basketball is?
The three-point shot? The fast break? ‘Magic’
Johnson?
Nope, it’s the home court.
Today, it’s almost impossible
to lose at home if you have a
halfway decent team, especially
in the pro ranks. On the other
hand, you have to have an ab
solutely fabulous team like the
Los Angeles Lakers to win con
sistently on the road.
Of all 23 teams in the NBA,
only five have winning records
on the road. They are: the
Lakers (13-6), the Boston Cel
tics (12-8) the Dallas Mavericks
(11-9), the Atlanta Hawks (12-
10) and the Detroit Pistons (9-
8).
All of the above are shoe-ins for playoff spots
and one of them will most assuredly come away
with the championship. Other teams considered
to be in the title hunt include the Houston Rock
ets (8-13 on the road), the Chicago Bulls (8-9),
the Seattle SuperSonics (6-14) and the Milwau
kee Bucks (5-11).
Only the worst pro teams have losing records
Loyd
Brumfield
at home and are located in cities where fan sup-
f >ort has waned after years of frustration. Only
our teams have losing records at home: the Los
Angeles Clippers (8-11), Golden State (6-10),
Sacramento (10-T1), and New Jersey (8-14).
Teams that struggle on the road can be virtual
powerhouses at home. Seattle has a home record
of 18-2 and just had it’s home court winning
streak snapped at 17 by, you guessed it, the
Lakers.
The Portland Trailblazers have a 15-3 home
record coupled with a 7-11 road slate. Atlanta
has a 17-1 record at home. The Washington Bul
lets are 6-0 at home since Coach Wes Unseld took
over.
The Celtics lost only one home game last year,
but it didn’t happen on the parquet floor of the
Boston Garden; it happened in Hartford, Conn.,
in what was technically a home game for Boston.
The 1985-86 Rockets only lost two home games,
three if you count Game Four of the NBA
Championship series against Boston.
But home success rarely is equaled on the
road. The Nets have lost 17 straight road games
and the Philadelphia 76ers have lost seven in a
row.
The home court can help college teams, as
well. Indiana won 17 home games in a row until
they were defeated by Michigan Sunday. Kansas
currently owns the longest home court winning
streak at 55, and several top 20 teams appear un
beatable at home.
Closer to home, Texas A&M is undefeated at
home this year, and it’s a safe bet the Aggies
wouldn’t have beaten Arkansas or Southern
Methodist if they had played them on the road
earlier in the year, and it’s an equally safe as
sumption that A&M would have beaten Houston
Sunday if the game had been played here at G.
Rollie White Coliseum instead of in Houston’s
Hofheinz Pavilion.
Playing at home helps teams of many different
sports, but its effect is more pronounced in
sports events where the crowd is closer to the ac
tion, as in hockey or basketball, and it is least
helpful in sports played in wide-open areas, like
football and baseball.
Nevertheless, it clearly better to be the home
team in any situation. The home crowd was prob
ably the difference in the A&M football team’s
wins over both Arkansas and Texas, and teams
like Louisiana State, Michigan and Arkansas are
experts at using the home field to their advan
tage.
Loyd Brumfield is a senior journalism major
and sports editor for The Battalion.
Pitt’s ‘Ironhead’ says he will skip last year
PITTSBURGH (AP) — All-
American running back Craig “Iron-
head” Heyward said Monday that he
would skip his last year at the Uni
versity of Pittsburgh to play in the
NFL next season.
“I plan to petition the NFL,” Hey
ward told Pittsburgh television sta
tions Monday.
“My reasons for doing that (are)
being a father and coming from a
family of eight — you know, a low-
income family — so I think the deci
sion that I’m going to make is the de
cision for me,” Heyward told WPXI-
TV.
Heyward said he has not signed a
contract with any agent, although he
said he had met with agent Bruce Al
len of Phoenix, and “a lot of other
agents.”
Heyward said Pitt Coach Mike
Gottfried did not know of his deci
sion despite a meeting with him only
hours earlier.
“His decision was to persuade me
to come back and to finish the edu
cational part of it and I had my mind
made up I wanted to turn pro and
he had a somewhat hesitant reaction
to it,” Heyward said.
“I can’t say I’m surprised, but I
am disappointed,” Gottfried said im
mediately after Heyward’s an
nouncement.
The 6-foot, 280-pound Heyward,
a redshirt junior, cannot be selected
in the regular NFL draft in April be
cause he has college eligibility re
maining and has not graduated, but
could petition for a supplemental
draft should he sign with an agent
and forfeit his remaining eligibility.
Heyward said he was a “little frus
trated” with the way the university
handled a recent incident in which
Heyward was involved in an alterca
tion with a campus policeman;
“It all boiled down that I’ve had
enough of Pittsburgh and it’s time
for me to move on,” Heyward said.
Heyward’s decision came hours
after Gottfried suspended him for
failing to attend classes this semes
ter.
“There are people on the team
who haven’t been to class, yet I’m the
topic of everyone’s stories,” Hey
ward told KDKA-TV. He did not
name, the players.
Gottfried said Heyward denied
during the meeting that he flew to
Washington, D.C., last weekend to
meet with Allen, but the Pitt coach
accused Allen of actively recruiting
the nation’s second-leading rusher.
“I would have thought the son of
(former NFL coach) George Allen
would have had a bit more integ
rity,” Gottfried said at a news confer
ence, which Heyward did not attend.
“These agents stalk players like
vultures .... They are leeches and
bloodsuckers who sell out the long
term advantages of an education for
the short-term gains of quick
money,” he said. “When they’re
done with the kids, they get rid of
them.”
Gottfried said he has notified the
NCAA and the FBI that Heyward
has had contact with an agent. A
Chicago-based federal grand jury is
probing the relationship between
college athletes and pro agents and
may return indictments.
Heyward, who rushed for 1,655
yards last fall, is on term to graduate
after the 1988 season and has done
well in school, Gottfried said, but has
not attended winter semester classes
that began Jan. 6.
He will not be reinstated until he
returns to school and resumes work
ing on his degree, although he ap
parently has not violated NCAA eli
gibility rules, Gottfried said.
“It’s all up to him,” Gottfried said.
National Agri-Marketing Association
Presents
the seventh annual
CARL STEVENS
Professional Development
and Selling Seminar
January 29-31,1988
115 Kleberg Center
Texas A&M University
CAMPUS
INTERVIEWS
If in your mind's eye
The Seminar
The Carl Stevens Professional Development and Selling
Seminar is a 16-hour lecture seminar comprised of a se
ries of intensive sessions emphasizing personal devel
opment and involvement. It is an opportunity for students
to build and enhance communication and selling skills—
skills that are essential to entering and progressing in to
day s business world.
The ability to sell yourself and express your ideas is
seldom learned in the college classroom. Texas A&M
students now have the opportunity to participate in the
Stevens seminar, which will be conducted January 29
through January 31,1988.
SCHEDULE
Friday, January 29
noon-1 - Registration
2-6 p.m. - Introduction and Concepts
Saturday, January 30
8 a.m.- 5 p.m. - Steps to Selling
Sunday, January 31
Sunday, January 27 1-4:30 p.m. -Seven minute pre
sentations plus lecture on memorization, interviewing
techniques, resumes etc.
'All sessions will meet in 115 Kleburg
COST
$5 preregistration fee (remaining $35 at door) or
$40 in advance
or $45 at the door
The Carl Stevens Selling Seminar
Registration Form
(please print)
Name
School Mailing Address.
Major or Department
Phone
Zip-
Classification-
Check one:
_$5 preregistration fee (remaining $35 at door)
_$40 in advance
_$45 at the door
Make checks payable to NAMA.
(fee includes 100 page workbook)
Please deliver to:
Dr. Howard Hesby
Rm. 129 Kleberg Center
845-5328
CARL STEVENS
Professional Development
and Selling Seminar
Securing your college investment by strengthening
interpersonal skills essential to entering and progressing
in today’s business and professional world.
...you see yourself excelling with a
company of far vision
...with a world organization that
brings into sharp focus the
challenges of the 21st century
...then you belong at Amoco.
Amoco Oil Company, Texas City
Refinery will be recruiting on your
campus for summer employment
on February 10. We will be
interviewing for Chemical,
Mechanical and Civil Engineering
disciplines. Please contact your
Career Placement Office to
schedule an interview.
Amoco Oil Company
Texas City Refinery
The Direction of 21st Century Achievement
An Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/H/V