Wednesday, January 27, 1988/The Battalion/Page 9
Sports
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k! health, pieces on the Super Bowl.” How overpublicized can
Hu get? Articles on people doing articles? C’mon.
ale plan-H By now the reporters of the world have hovered
aboutiti over San Diego to determine everything concerning
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Does Doug Williams resent the publicity John Elway
ts? Does Elway resent the publicity Williams gets
pxrut Elway getting attention? Does Denver linebacker
arl Mecklenburg dream in blackface?
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What brand of shampoo does Jcihn Elway use? How
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■tadiuni? How many of those ignorant-looking
Redskin “hog noses” are going to be at the game?
dial's the name of the organist’s maternal grand-
|iother?
■ Gimme a break.
■ You know, the media ought to be wholeheartedly in
favor of a college football playoff. It would give them
an excuse not to dig up 483 story angles for the Super
Bowl; the hype could be split half-and-half, with the
college and professional Big Games getting 241 , /2 slo
pes apiece.
As a sports fan, I resent the way the media harps on
ie Super Bowl like it was the Second Coming. As one
stute athlete said once, “If it’s such a big game, how
come they’re playing it again next year?”
■ And chances are the game won’t be worthy of aver
age publicity, much less the circus of attention being
given it.
If history has anything to say in the matter, the game
fill hardly be reminiscent of the Spartans vs. the Athe-
jians. More like the ground vs. Humpty Dumpty.
Admittedly, this year’s game.looks pretty close —but
Lady Ags lose
to Tech 68-64
on free throws
By Hal. L. Hammons
Assistant Sports Editor
Three Alexis Ware free throws in the final min
ute clinched a 68-64 win for Texas Tech over the
Texas A&M Lady Aggies Tuesday night at Lubbock
Municipal Coliseum.
A&M fell to 9-6 overall and 3-3 in Southwest Con
ference play. Tech is 8-9 and 2-4.
The Lady Aggies led 32-30 at halftime, but they
shot 38.2 percent in the second half while Tech shot
56 percent.
A&M led by as many as four points in the second
half but lost the lead for good at the 15:34 mark. Af
ter that the Lady Aggies only could manage a tie
twice, the last of which came with 5:15 remaining.
Tech’s Stacy Sievert gave the Red Raiders a 65-59
lead with 2:48 left in the game with a four-foot
jumper.
A&M’s Traci Thomas hit a three-point shot with
1:40 remaining, but Ware hit two free throws with
46 seconds left to give Tech a 67-62 lead.
Evelyn Sanders hit from five feet out to pull the
Lady Aggies to within three with 11 seconds left.
Wendy Jennings then fouled Ware on the inbounds
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Ware killed any A&M hopes by hitting the front
end of another one-and-one.
A&M’s Donna Roper led all scorers with 20
points. Thomas had 13 points for the Lady Aggies,
and Lisa Jordan added 13 points and 11 rebounds.
Sievert led the Red Raiders with 13 points and
eight boards, while Ware and Renna Lynch added
1 points.
A&M Coach Lynn Hickey said, “We played hard
tonight. It would have been easy to fall apart after
Sunday’s loss at Houston. We’re disappointed, but
we’re on the right track.
“The little things in the last two minutes meant
the difference between a win and a loss. I was
pleased with the intensity and effort we showed.
“It’s real important we get home and get ready
for Texas Saturday night.”
The Lady Aggies play host to the SWC-leading
Lady Longhorns Saturday at G. Rollie White Col-
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ago. Something like 38-9, wasn’t it?
After fiascos involving, in reverse order, New York
Giants/Denver, Chicago/New England and San Fransis-
co/Miami, the football establishment has pretty much
accepted the fact that Super Bowls aren’t necessarily
that super.
Only a handful of them actually have been close, and
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Rangers blame poor year
on injuries, inconsistency
By Cray Pixley
Sports Writer
Injuries and inconsistencies attrib
uted to a dismal 1987 season for the
Texas Rangers, players said Tues
day night in College Station.
Outfielder Pete Incaviglia, catcher
Geno Petralli and pitcher Bobby
Witt were in town during a four-city
promotional tour of Waco, Austin
and Temple.
The Rangers finished the 1987
season tied for sixth in the American
League West with a record of 75-87.
The team ended a disappointing 10
games behind the World Series
champion Minnesota Twins.
Injuries plagued the Rangers
throughout the season and the visit
ing players attributed the poor sea
son to an unhealthy lineup.
Petralli said at a press conference
at the Ramada Inn, “We had several
injured players — especially on the
pitching staff — and we felt a lot of
pressure to pick up the slack.”
“We struggled throughout the
season and never caught up,” he
said. “Whenever we had a chance to
gain some ground, we didn’t play
well.”
Incaviglia agreed that injuries
were a key factor in the poor season.
“Our injuries were definitely a
problem, and once we started going
downhill it was difficult to recover,”
he said.
Incaviglia missed 23 games dur
ing the 1987 season because of inju
ries.
Witt, another injury-prone player,
missed a month of the season with
shoulder problems but said he is re
cuperated and ready to begin spring
training.
Photo by Shelly Schluter
Texas Ranger Pete Incaviglia signs the shirt of Allyson Corn, 6.
Three Rangers were at Post Oak Mall on a promotional tour.
“My shoulder is 100 percent bet
ter,” he said. “I have a good training
program, and I’m not feeling any
strain on the shoulder.”
Despite recurring health prob
lems, Witt averaged an impressive
10.07 strikeouts every nine innings,
the best ratio among American
League starters.
Witt and teammate Mitch Wil
liams were the only American
League pitchers with 100 or more .
innings who had more strikeouts
than innings pitched.
“My main goal this season is to
stay healthy and to help the Rangers
win as many games as possible,” Witt
said.
Witt agreed with Incaviglia about
the changes the Rangers must make
to have a successful season.
“The key to a good season is con
sistency,” he said. “The Minnesota
Twins have it, and we need to have
it.”
The Rangers start gearing up for
the 1988 season with spring training
beginning on Feb. 21 in Port Char
lotte, Florida.
the most recent of those was Super Bowl X —Pitts
burgh 21, Dallas 17. And that was 12 years and XII
games ago.
Is a game like that worthy of all this hype? Is the me
dia leading the public on, tricking them into believing
something interesting is going on?
It must be working; the most lopsided 6ne bf thenV
all — the Bears’ mauling of the Patriots — was and is
the most-watched television program in history.
But since the other papers are all doing it, I guess
The Battalion will have to follow suit. Of course, don’t
expect the average quota of stories you’ll find in the
metropolitan papers — we can’t afford to send three
stall writers to spend two weeks in California. Al
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