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AUSTIN (AP) — Tom Pen
ders, basketball coach at the Uni
versity of Rhode Island for the
last two seasons, Wednesday was
named head coach at the Univer
sity of Texas.
“We got the best coach,” said
UT Athletic Director DeLoss
Dodds, who had interviewed sev
eral coaches since firing Bob
Weltlich on March 14.
Dodds told a news conference
he was impressed with Penders,
whose team made the Sweet 16 in
this year’s NCAA basketball tour
nament.
“The coach, in my mind, is one
of the top coaches in the United
States,” Dodds said. “We talked to
a lot of coaches . . . There was
great interest in this job.”
Penders said recruiting for
next season would begin immedi
ately.
“I’ve already made a couple
phone calls,” he said.
“There are a couple of pros
pects that might consider the
University of Texas. When I look
at this facility and some of the tra
dition behind it. . . This is a beau
tiful campus, it’s a beautiful city . .
If I can’t sell this, then I should
get out of this,” Penders said.
He said he had talked with
Rutgers as well as Texas.
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Emphasizing that he enjoyed
his job at Rhode Island, Penders
said he hadn’t been looking for a
newjob.
However, he said Texas pre
sented an oppeartunity he
couldn’t resist.
Saying “the job finds you,” the
coach said he first was ap
proached by Texas athletics offi
cials over the weekend during the
NCAA’s Final Four tournament
in Kansas City.
“I was (surprised),” he said. “I
don’t know if I’m a household
name down here.”
Penders said he had met with
the Texas team and would meet
with the coaching staff.
“We have a ways to go. We
have a building situation,” he
said.
“We will improve next year.
We will play exciting ball, enter
taining basketball. And I think
before too long, winning basket
ball.”
Penders was hired in October
1986 as Rhode Island’s head bas
ketball coach and compiled a 48-
17 record in two seasons, leading
the team to the East regional
semifinals in this year’s NCAA
tournament.
Rhode Island lost to Duke, the
regional champion, by a 73-72
score, finishing the year with a
28-7 record.
NHL play brings end to overkill
Sports seasons come and sports
seasons go.
I am happy to say goodbye to the
college basketball season that has
stayed around far too long.
One of
our own as
sistant sports
editors is a
self-con-
fessed bas
ketball jun
kie. He was
in a channel-
switching
frenzy to get
the most
basketball
crammed
into his day.
During
the NCAA
playoffs, basketball seemed to be on
every station every day, at every
hour.
I’m definitely suffering from bas
ketball overkill. My hand is sprained
from changing the television stations
Cray
Pixley
Sports viewpoint
in hopes of finding something other
than basketball.
There were even ladies’ basketball
games — some relief from the men’s
scene.
There is no reason why I should
be pleased with the way the college
basketball season ended.
The Aggies failed to do anything,
and I lost money on the Kansas and
Oklahoma game.
Guess what? There is still profes
sional basketball — that’s swell!
More suffering.
I know there will be justice in the
world only if the Boston Celtics lose.
There is some joy in the form of
major league baseball.
As soon as the Final Four was
over, fans and sports writers
switched their fascination to base
ball. We have all cooed over the new
turf in the Astrodome.
We are equally thrilled to see Billy
Martin with the New York Yankees.
If there is one thing to count on ev
ery baseball season, it’s that Martin
will be manager at a new ball club or
with the Yankees.
My struggling team, the Texas
Rangers, even had Martin for a time.
So college basketball is over and
the major leagues are gearing up,
but there is another sport heading
toward that final confrontation —
hockey.
Yes, this is a promotional spot for
the NHL Playoffs.
Basketball is gone from ESPN and
the Stanley Cup playoffs started
Tuesday.
ESPN will televise every playoff
game, and it’s a good thing.
Hockey had been lost in the
shuffle of all the basketball games
during the past month.
There are new and old facets to
the NHL Playoffs.
The New Jersey Devils are in the
playoffs for the first time since mov
ing to New Jersey.
The Edmonton Oilers are battling
to save their reputation. Nobody be
lieves that the Oilers will be cham
pions for long. Critics seem ready to
hand the Stanley Cup to Calgary be
fore the playof fs really begin.
Don’t write off Gretzky and the
Oilers that quick.
The only disappointing outcome
about the playoffs is the missing
Pittsburgh Penguins.
The Penguins’ Mario Lemeiux
was a high point in the Wales Con
ference and even in the Campbell
Conference. His expertise will be
missed.
The bid for the Stanley Cup will
probably come down to a confronta
tion between Canadian teams in the
early rounds.
From the U.S., the Philadelphia
Flyers are my favorite team to take
on Calgary or Edmonton for the
Cup.
Goodbye Final Four, hello Stanley
Cup.
Mavs throttle Suns
to end losing streak
before Davis homered oil Andy
Hawkins, 0-1.
Knepper kept his shutout until
the fourth inning when 1 ony
Cwynn led off with a single to right
field, went to third on Keith More
land’s single to center. Cwynn
scored when Carmelo Martinez hit
into a double play.
The Astros added two runs in the
fourth inning on singles by Rafael
Ramirez and Doran.
DALLAS (AP) — Rolando Black
man scored a season-high 32 points
and the Dallas Mavericks broke a
four-game losing streak Wednesday
night with a 119-93 NBA victory
over the Phoenix Suns.
Dallas improved its lead in the
race for second place in the Western
Conference standings to a hall-game
over idle Denver. The Mavericks
started the game .004 ahead of the
Nuggets for the runner-up spot in
the conference behind the Los An
geles Lakers.
The Suns failed to gain ground on
San Antonio in the race for the
eighth and final Western Confer
ence playoff berth. Phoenix started
the night 3!/2 games behind the
Spurs.
Starting centers James Donaldson
of Dallas and Mark West of Phoenix
were ejected for fighting with 2:57
left in the game.
Donaldson and West had words
under the Dallas basket, then began
throwing punches. Players from
both sides rushed in and fell to the
floor in a tangled pile, but no mean
ingful blows landed.
Mark Aguirre added 21 points for
the Mavericks.
The Suns cut a 10-point halftime
deficit to 71-67 with 6:18 to play in
the third quarter. The Mavericks
outscored the Suns 19-8 the rest of
the period for a 90-75 advantage en
tering the final quarter.
Dallas scored 10 straight points
and received back-to-back 3-point
plays from Detlef Schrempf and
Blackman during its 19-8 run.
Lady Ags come back
for big win over TCU
The Texas A&M women’s ten
nis team swept the doubles
matches to gain a 5-4 comeback
victory against Texas Christian in
Wednesday’s dual match in Fort
Worth.
The 25th-ranked Lady Aggies
move to 16-5 on the season and 5-
1 in the Southwest Conference,
assuring them at least a No. 2 spot
in the SWC standings.
A&M’s No. 4 Cindy Crawford
and No. 5 Susan Williams beat
their opponents while the Lady
Aggies were defeated in the other
singles matches to find them
selves down 4-2 going into dou
blesplay.
“1 he tide starting turning in
the doubles,” A&M Coach Bobby
Kleinecke said. “A comeback like
this comes once every leap year.”
Gaye Lynne Gensler and Lisa
Keller came back from a 5-0 defi
cit in the second set to win seven
straight games and take a 7-6, 7-5
victory in their match over the
top 30 team of Rene Simpson and
Tory Pulunkett.
A&M’s Cindy Churchwell and
Derryn Haygarth defeated Mel
anie Breed and Aubrey Abbot 7-
5, 2-6, 6-0 in the No. 2 seed and
Crawford and Williams contin
ued their winning ways, slam
ming Kris Clevenger and Lidwein
Loonen in twin 6-2 sets.
A&M will face Southern Meth
odist Saturday at 1:30 p.m at the
Omar Tennis Center. A Lady Ag
gie victory could mean a share of
the conference title.
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