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For More Information Call: —Scott Lardie - Rush Chairman 764-7882 —Kyle Buchanan - President 846-3462 HOUSE# 846-3462 TAMU Skins, Broncos say being ‘Super’ losers will help SAN DIEGO (AP) — To a man, the Denver Broncos claim that losing the Super Bowl last year gives them the motivation that will carry them to victory on Sunday. Almost to a man, the Washington Redskins are telling them: “Hey, wait a minute. We’re losers, too.” As Sunday’s Super Bowl between the only two teams this decade to reach the NFL title game two years in a row drew a day nearer, a subtle game of onedownsmanship was going on. Each team was trying to claim it is the bigger loser. It’s almost as if to win a Super Bowl, you have to lose one first. “I certainly remember both our Super Bowls,” said Washington Coach Joe Gibbs, whose team beat Miami 27-17 in 1983, then was routed 38-9 by the Los Angeles Raiders the next year. “The first one was one of the great experiences of my life. But I also had a bitter, bitter experience the next year when we lost. You’d think it would have been enough to he here, but it wasn’t.” That was the general tenor of the debate over which team feels worse about its loss. The Broncos were beaten 39-20 to the New York Giants a year ago. They claimed that the aftermath of that defeat — Coach Dan Reeves uses the word “haunted” to describe his feelings — has given them an un quenchable thirst that can be slaked only by victory on Sunday. “Everybody but one team ends the season unhappy,” Reeves said. “But the unhappiest team of all is the one that loses the Super Bowl.” The Redskins buy that argument. But they don’t buy the corollary — that because the Broncos lost last year, they have more motivation. “There was nothing worse than that,” said linebacker Neal Olkewicz, one of 13 Redskins left from the 1983 winner and one of 18 who played in the 1984 loss. “I’d rather lose in the conference championship and not get to the Su per Bowl than to lose in the Super Bowl. It leaves you with an empty feeling.” The great debate even enters into a friendly dispute between Washing ton linebacker Mel Kaufman and Denver strong safety Dennis Smia who went to high school to and remain close f riends. “We talked the other day,andi cussed being in the Super Bmvli losing,” Kauf man said Wednesday,! “He said, ‘At least you wonontj them. Give me a chance towino this time.’ ” Wednesday, meanwhile, was I day that both teams began buildup for the game, with teams resuming workouts afterc ing T uesday off in accordance J their regular-season routines. Included in the Washind workout was starting wide reed* Art Monk, who missed the last!) weeks with a knee injury andi missed the 1983 Super Bowl will foot injury. However, Ricky Sanders, whoi| placed him, is expected to ahead of Monk, who holds thes gle-season NFL reception record! 106, set in 1984. Denver injured wide read Vance Johnson missed theAFCii f ;ame with a groin injury. But( )an Reeves said he expected himl play, if not start. Mav goes from bench to the court to oblivion DALLAS (AP) — Despite an el egant north Dallas home and a $245,000-a-year contract, these are difficult times for Bill Wennington of the Dallas Mavericks, a 7-foot for- • ward who went from towel-waver as a rookie, to role player last season, and this year to the forgotten man under the system of new coach John MacLeod. The popular third-year player ap pears headed next summer for a Na tional Basketball Association expan sion team, if he is not traded by then. Passed in pre-season by 7-2 center Uwe Blab and now the fourth-string power forward, the former center for St. John’s has played even less than rookie guards Jim Farmer and Steve Alford. As of mid-January, Wennington had played one minute since Dec. 9 and had averaged 4.8 minutes a game after averaging 10 in his first two seasons. “It’s like putting a kid in a candy store and saying, ‘Look, but don’t touch,’” Wennington said. “You talk to people and they say that when it comes down to it, I’m getting paid. That’s not enough. Making the league is one thing, but there are those of us who love basketball and want to play.” Wennington has handled the situ ation with dignity, saying he does not want to “rock the boat.” Despite deep-down feelings, he did not go off the deep end when the Maver icks nixed a possible trade in Decem ber with the New York Knicks, one that would have sent him back home with swingman Detlef Schrempf for center Bill Cartwright. But Wennington is realistic. He knows that at this rate, he will be one of the four Mavericks left unpro tected for the expansion draft next summer. Dallas can lose only one player. With veteran guard Brad Da vis unexpected to join another team and with 7-footers in demand, Wen nington all but has his plane ticket to Charlotte, N.C., or Miami. “I can’t think that far ahead (to the expansion draft). Maybe tomor row, tops. Things like the New York trade get you upset for nothing. “I feel I can play in this league an other eight years, at least. It’s hard to look out there and see that some one’s not playing well. I think, ‘Hey, I could be in there.’ But if 1 get put in for a .minute, 1 don’t care what happens. If I get put in witli four other guys who sat the bench the whole game. I’m just going to try not to look bad. There’s not much you can do.” The situation has become so bad, in fact, that Wennington works out at local gyms after each team prac tice. That generally is frowned upon by the organization, for fear of in jury or overexertion, but the team’s front office has sympathized. “I like Bill as a person and as a forward,” MacLeod said. “Bill was a very popular guy here and 1 know that. 1 sympathize. I appreciate the way he’s handled things. He played a lot last year. Dick (Motta) went with him and I’m using Uwe. It’s nothing against Bill.” Uwe Blab, drafted by Dallas one spot (17th overall) after Wennington in the 1985 first round, averaged 5.3 minutes last season and is averaging 11.1 now. Wennington had those minutes under Motta as the ninth man in a fairly regular rotation. But in training camp, starting cen ter Janies Donaldson was out with a sore hamstring and Wennington was out with a groin pull. Blab started all but one pre-season game and showed a newfound coordination on offense. MacLeod then moved Wenning ton to forward. Lowe lifts Red Raiders past Aggies LUBBOCK (AP) - Sopkl more Wes Lowe scored a carmf high 28 points Wednesday power Texas Tech past Ten A&M 72-61 in SouthwestConfel ence basketball action Wednei day. Lowe, whose previous carefl lnsfo \s .is 27 points last Satui 11 against Southern Methodfil scored 14 of his points in thefircl half to help the Raiders fashio»!| 33-3 1 lead at intermission. Lowe was busy early in thesttl ond half, scoring six points ast)| Red Raiders outscored A&M2lI to build a 54-37 advantage wi!l 9:06 remaining to play. The Aggies, who fell to4-2it| ( onIcreiK < pi.iv and 12-8 overa| chipped away at the deficit anil came within nine points thref| times but could get no closer. The Raiders are now 8-9 3-3. Joining Lowe in double figure for Tech was Sean Gay with 1 points and Greg Crowe with ill Lowe and Crowe also shartf game-high rebounding honor! with eight each. Donald Thompson was high! point man for the Aggies with lt| and Darryl McDonald added 13 McDonald, who hit only fw[ of 12 field goal attempts turned the ball over six times,"«[ baffled by the Aggies poorsho»j ing. “We didn’t play together asl team,” he said. “I don’t what the problem was. I'vel starting slow the past fewganrtS and I can’t explain it. We havei get hungry again.” A&M head coach Shelby calf was equally disappointed it his team’s second-straight loss. May Graduates M.E., Chem. E., I and M.B.A.’s with technical undergraduate degrees: Permanent and Summer Engineers What does an engineer do in MANUFACTURING MANAGEMENT? FIND OUT! PROCTER & GAMBLE will be hosting an open house Thurs. Jan. 28, 7 p.m. MSC Room 226 Interview dates Feb. 17 & 18