Friday, April 1, 1988/The Battalion/Page 9
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Sports
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Anthony
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(OTshould I say victim) Michael
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prearing a tuxedo lev these gala
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mmm 4was plain and devoid of style —
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and shoes he enters the ring
wearing. No tassled socks. No silk
lobe with a silly nickname
embroidered on the back. When he
■nbs through the ropes he’s not
■ying a game. He’s going to war —
ngjp£- aserious business.
Imolojjjrhe second boxer was at one time
the golden boy of the sport. He had
style and a smile to go along with
grace and a pretty face. He was so
sweet the media gave Ray Leonard
the nickname Sugar.
Leonard won the gold medal for
the U.S. and was a great
welterweight champion. He retired
when his eyesight was threatened
while he was still young, rich,
successful and on top.
The public would miss him, but
they respected him for not
threatening his health and trying to
hang on.
dec
Office boxing telecasts, Sugar
disappeared from the public’s eye.
That must’ve bothered Leonard,
because he brushed away five years
of rust to take on Marvelous Marvin
Hagler, the world’s undisputed
middleweight champ.
Leonard danced with Hagler for
15 rounds and shocked the nation
when he walked away with Hagler’s
belt. Sugar sweetened his image
once again when he returned to
retirement saying no one was left in
the middleweight ranks to challenge
him.
However, Leonard recently made
some comments which may tarnish
his golden image. He told former
welterweight champion Donald
Curry that he did Curry a favor by
fighting Hagler because Hagler
would’ve destroyed him.
Now all of this may be true. No
one is trying to suggest that Curry’s
abilities are on the same level as
Hagler’s or Leonard’s. The fact is
they aren’t. And that’s where the
problem lies.
The public doesn’t mind when its
champions brag at the expense of an
opponent as long as the opponent is
a worthy one. And in this case,
Curry is not worthy of all the
attention given to him by Leonard.
Think about it this way: How
would it look if Magic Johnson
taunted Craig Ehlo, or if the New
York Yankees teased the Seattle
Mariners, or if the Texas A&M
football team publicly ridiculed the
Rice Owls. It just wouldn’t look
good.
So how do we expect our
champions to act? That’s where
Tyson comes back into view.
Although no one in the
heavyweight division is on Tyson’s
superior level, he has faced some
challenges in Tyrell Biggs, Larry
Holmes and Mike Weaver.
And even though no one in his
division can compare with Tyson, he
has given each opponent the utmost
respect. He’s trained hard for each
fight and it’s showed.
And frankly, the public likes that.
This man’s on a mission to be the
best there ever was and he’s not
letting anyone or anything,
including meaningless small talk and
boasting, get in his way.
It’s a lesson Sugar Ray could take
to heart.
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19-hit attack paces Astros to win
JaSSIMMEE, Fla. (AP) — The
Houston Astros scored five first-in
ning runs and had seven doubles
and 19 hits en route to a 13-2 exhibi-
ion victory over the Philadelphia
jllies Thursday.
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■ staff, was rocked for 1 1 hits and
10 runs in two and two-thirds in-
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Glenn Davis lead the way for the
Astros with three hits and four RBIs,
including a double and his second
home run in as many days.
Bill Doran drove in three runs
with two hits and Billy Hatcher had
three hits and scored three runs.
Danny Darwin, 1-1, allowed four
hits over six innings for the win.
Philadelphia’s Juan Samuel
doubled and then scored on Phil
Bradley’s sacrifice fly in the first.
Von Hayes walked and stole second
and later scored on Darren Daul-
ton’s double in the fourth.
The Astros are 15-14 this spring
while the Phillies are 12-16. Hous-
tontros open the season next week at
home in the Astrodome against the
San Diego Padres.
SENIOR
WEEKEND 1988
Senior Bash
Friday, April 15, .8 p^m.- ^
Texas Hall of'-Fame, $5/couple
Featuring Mel issaJPrescott
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lit
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Saturday, April 16, 9 p.m.
MSC and Rudder Exhibit Hall, $35/couple
Featuring Michael, Michael and the Maxx
Ed Gerlach Orchestra
The Senior Weekend Package at $65/couple,
includes all three events. Tickets are on sale
at Rudder Box Office at 845-1234.
All tickets are presale.
Jeffcoat pitches Rangers
to 2-0 shutout of Red Sox
WINTER HAVEN, Fla. (AP)
— Mike Jeffcoat allowed only one
hit for four innings and De-
Wayne Vaughn just four the rest
of the way as the Texas Rangers
edged Boston 2-0 Thursday,
handing the Red Sox their first
shutout of the exhibition season.
Competing with Vaughn for
the No. 5 starting spot with the
Rangers, Jeffcoat surrendered
just a line double into the left-
field corner by Jim Rice in the
second inning.
A left-hander who spent a cou
ple of years with Cleveland and
most of 1987 at Oklahoma City,
Jeffcoat struck out three and
walked two.
Vaughn, a right-hander who
has won a job as a non-roster
pitcher in training, was nicked for
two-out singles by Rich Gedman
and Spike Owen before retiring
Brady Anderson on a pop-up to
end the fifth.
With one out in the sixth,
Wade Boggs singled to right and
took second on a wild pitch. Rice
grounded a single to right, but
Ruben Sierra saved the shutout
by throwing a one-hop strike to
catcher Mike Stanley to get Boggs
trying to score.
Right-hander Dennis “Oil
Can” Boyd took his first loss in
four decisions. Boyd pitched
seven innings in his sixth and fi
nal Florida appearance.
He allowed six hits, struck out
two and walked four before Mike
Smithson and Lee Smith each
hurled one hitless inning.
A&M sluggers
face Raiders
in SWC play
Southwest Conference play re
sumes in full for the Texas A&M
baseball team this weekend as it
takes on Texas Tech tonight at 7 and
Saturday in a doubleheader sched
uled for 2 p.m.
The Aggies, 30-7 and 2-1 in the
SWC, are tied with Tech for second
place in the conference.
The Red Raiders enter the series
with the SWC’s top batting average
at .342. A&M is batting .303.
Randy Pryor, 2-3, will start Fri
day’s game for A&M, while Sean
Snedeker, 4-0, will pitch in Satur
day’s first game. A&M’s starter for
the third game has not been deter
mined.
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