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Tuesday, February 26, 1988/The Battalion/Page 7 ie lube. Sports men’s tennis team rounces SWTSU 7-2 IE OF receive! By Loyd Brumfield Sport,*, Editor | The Texas A&rM men’s tennis am swamped Southwest Texas ate 7-2 Thursday at the Omar |mith Tennis Center. A&M is now 7-2 on the year ith a match against IGth-ranked rinity on tap for 1:3() today at ie Tennis Center. “We have to play our best ten- is every time we hit the courts, [ut this team is scrappy,” A&M )ach David Kent said. We were lortunate to come out with a win |day." A&M’s No. 1 player, Dean hnson, lost in singles play to IWTSU’s Mike Whittington 7-5, -6, 6-3, but the rest of the team as victorious in singles play. No. 2 seed Shaun O’Donovan- lefeated the Bobcats’ Mark Hop- ins 5-7, 7-6, 7-5; A&M’s Steve ennedy heat Brad Hamburg 6- 3 6-0, and Mike Chambers de feated Clark Woodson 3-6, 6-4, 6- 2. In other singles action, A&M’s Craig Whitteker downed Richard Robert 7-6, 6-4, and Scott Camp bell beat Don Van Ramshorst 4-6, 7-6, 6-3. In doubles play, the Aggies’ No. 1 doubles team of Kennedy and Wayne Green lost to Whit tington and Hopkins 6-4, 6-3; A&M’s Johnson and Whitteker bested Robert and Van Ramshorst 6-4, 6-1, and Cham bers and Campbell defeated Woodson and Hamburg 4-6, 7-6, 6-4. “Southwest Texas is a good team,” Kent said. “They’re going to beat some people this year.” The Aggies are 5-2 going into today’s match. Trinity is 2-1 after a loss to Texas and has two na tionally-ranked players — No. 63 Mats Malberg and No. 71 Mauri- cio .Silva — on its team. Jealousy back on SWC scene It’s back. The menace that has rocked Southwest Conference football for the past few years rears its ugly head again. Maybe it has always been there, maybe it never left. Which- ever, the jealousy monster has returned. The fin ger-point ing, name calling and accusing that keeps our confer ence in the news pages as well as the sports pages Curtis L. Culberson Sports viewpoint has started up again. The notorious Southern Method ist “pay-for-play” scandal is probably the most memorable disaster caused by this monster. It killed the SMU football program for two years. The monster had long arms then — they reached all the way to the governor’s office. Unsatisfied by the Mustang en tree, the green beast sought to quench its unsatiable apetite in Fort Worth gobbling down a few star Horned Frogs. Beef was next on the menu as the Longhorns received sanctions for violations. Exotic fare was next, namely Cou gar meat. The Cougars moved fast enough to avoid sanctions during the season but are definitely in the frying pan now. Texas Tech, currently on proba tion for recruiting, was munched, but the Baylor Bears and the Arka- nasas Razorbacks have been spared so far. The pickin’s at Rice are so slim it simply isn’t worth the beast’s efforts. And the Aggies? When the beast, came to College Station, A&M had an even bigger nemesis waiting for it. The j-monster was no match for the awsome red- tape colossus. A&M answered all al legations with a multi-volume in- house investigation report. So since half the conference is on probation, and the three-time SWC champion walks free, other athletic departments are reaching for straws to hurt the Ags. Athletic Director and Head Coach Jackie Sherrill is researching options for a new radio network for A&M sports. A&M’s sports information of fice is saying the move is primarily fi nancially motivated. Host Communications currently has a contract with the SWC to broadcast games for all nine mem ber schools. Under this contract, A&M makes about $95,000 a year — piddly com pared to LSU’s three-year contract for $2.1 million, and Nebraska’s and Oklahoma’s cool million a year. Athletic directors from around the conference are raising a stink about Sherrill plans to switch broad casters. Host plans to fight the A&M in court even though it never offi cially signed die contract extension that is currently in effect. TCU Athletic Director Frank Windegger told the Houston Chron icle the situation was unprecen- dented and shocking. Unprecendented? No other major conference in the nation has conference broadcasting agreements. Oklahoma flourishes because of contracts independent of the Big Eight. Rice Athletic Director Jerry Berndt says he understands efforts by SWC schools to make the best fi nancial deals but thinks the confer ence doesn’t always work together. “It’s like nine different schools just fighting for as much of the pie as we can get,” he says. The key word there is diffeient. A&M needs to make more money than Rice because it has a bigger ath letic department. The accusations by certain parties that Sherrill wants to leave the con ference are evidence of continuing jealousy between the schools. He is trying to raise as much money as possible for the depart ment — one of his responsibilies as athletic director. Italian skier tops elite rivals in giant slalom ortt -5:30 pm 95 >n) jrve) ■CALGARY, Alberta (AT) —Italy’s Bberto Tomba conquered a moun- |taiii and now he’s ready for the Jjrld. He won the giant slalom -tTImrsday, another red-letter day for _|thi Soviets at the Winter Olympics. |After their first day at the Games diliout a medal, the Soviets swept Be women’s 20-kilometer cross- |ountry race. Raisa Smetanina won Je bronze for her ninth medal in 4|ur Olympics — more than any ler woman ever. At Mount Allen, young Tomba Kn his duel of Alpine royalty with Biss ace Pirmin Zurbriggen and Bedish veteran Ingemar Stenmark. Tomba was the man. Stenmark was Susi another old man. And Zurbrig gen was an also-ran. [“Oh, my God, 1 did it!" Tomba id. “I am the strongest in the ‘wbrld.” |Zurbriggen was third, behind sil- r medalist Hubert Strolz of Aus- trja, the Alpine combined champion. It was a day of short sleeves, short fts and short programs, and an- ei rivalry was heating up on ice. jDebi Thomas of Sah Jose, Galif., took a slim lead over world cham pion Katarina Witt of East Germany going into the women’s figure skat ing short program Thursday night. Thomas said she took hope for victory from Brian Boitano’s gold. “Brian and I won the worlds to gether in 1986,” she said, “then we both lost together last year. Now that he won again, I know there is hope.” The medal will be decided Satur day night in a freestyle program, which both will skate to “Carmen.” The Soviets’ cross-country sweep gave them a leading 25 medals, in cluding nine golds, to 17 for East Germany, which has seven golds. The Soviets have won 13 of the 21 cross-country medals offered at the Games, including five gold and five silver. The 36-year-old Smetanina fin ished third to Tamara Tikhonova’s gold, and she now has three golds, five silvers and one bronze in an Olympic career that began in 1976 at Innsbruck, Austria. Her ninth medal put her ahead of countrywo man Galina Kulakova, who also was a cross-country skier. “She was my idol,” Smetanina said. “I wanted to have one more medal than Kulakova. These are my last Olympics.” The United States, with only four medals overall, beat Switzerland 8-4 for seventh place in hockey. With their victory, the Americans finished the same place they did in 1984. After Switzerland scored the first goal of the game, America scored five in a row, including two on power plays. Kevin Miller’s goal gave America a 5-1 lead after two periods. Thursday night, the Soviets beat Canada 5-0, eliminating the host na tion and birthplace of the game from any chance to win a gold or sil ver medal. The day’s Alpine gold belonged to Tomba, who arrived in Calgary this week with the admonition, I am very cool.” He completed the two runs in 2 minutes, 6.37 seconds, 1.04 seconds ahead of Strolz and 2.02 ahead of two-time World Cup champion Zur briggen, whose dream of an unprec edented five Alpine golds has pro duced only one gold, in the downhill. The 31-year-old Stenmark was 30tlDt$fter the first run and didn’t bother to finish the second. seven of 15 World Cup races he en tered this season And trails Zurbrig gen by just six points in the World Cup overall standings at the Olym pic break. He has dominated like no skier since Stenmark won 45 giant slalom races — four times more than any other skier in history — and three World Cup championships in the late 1970s. Stenmark was a double gold med alist in 1980 but ineligible because of professionalism in 1984. So, how did it feel to get back to the Olympics? “Right now, it doesn’t feel so good,” Stenmark said. Virtually eliminated before com petition begins is the U.S. four-man bobsled team. The sweep by the Soviet women was the first for any country in Nor dic events here. Tikhonova wofi with a time of 55:53.6, giving her three medals but her first gold. She was 19.2 seconds ahead of Anfissa Rezt- The 21-year-old Tomba has won sova. Night ball at Wrigley gets OK from council CHICAGO (AP) — The City Council, signaling an end to a 72- year-tradition of daytime-only baseball at Wrigley Field, voted late Thursday to lift the ban on night games at the only major league baseball park without lights. The vote was 29-19 in favor of lights. The Chicago Cubs’ owners have asked to play a handful of night games each year at Wrigley and, after years of trying to di minish political and community opposition, they apparently will get the chance this season, bar ring a ban by the state legislature or courts. During debate, Alderman Ber nard Hansen, whose ward in cludes Wrigley Field, said, “Is this an ordinance of need, or this an ordinance of greed? The Chicago Cubs ownqpj by the Tribune Co. “The Tribune says if it doesn’t get lights, the Cubs will move — the big threat. However, the Chi cago Cubs have become the most profitable arm of the Tribune Co. So it’s a matter of greed not a matter of need.” But Alderman William Henry, who supports lights, said, “The real deal is with revenue. No one has talked about the millions of dollars the sports team generate. Do you know we can generate $45 million to $50 million from the 1990 All-Star Game? No one talks about that. I believe this or dinance is right.” At the team’s Mesa, Ariz., training camp, Pitcher Rick Sut cliffe said, “I think the night games will give us a chance to rest up during the day after coming off long road trips. “A lot of times we don’t get home from road trips till 2 or 3 in the morning, and only get about four hours of sleep before head ing back out to the ball park,” he said. m Direct from Lynchburg, Tennessee it's the Hometown Homecoming featuring MR. JACK DANIEL’S ORIGINAL SILVER CORNET BAND GOLF TOURNAMENT The perfect Activity For Your Organization Available Dates Going Fast-Call Today 823-0126 Bryan us he | p you plan your tournament. 823-0126 * yGolf Course 206 W. Villa Maria Bryan Managed by OOLF COAPWWION American Golf Corporation e>>- c 0 j AU-You-Can-Eat ^MEXICAN $ 5 9s FIESTA (5PM-9PM) litichiladus. (ifetf. Chicken or Cheese). Tacos. “Tamales. Safi Tacos.Tlitrritns. (Href 6: Heart). Spanish Hice.hefhcd hearts. 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