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By Hal L. Hammons
Sports Editor
The Texas A&M offense, to put it
bluntly, wasn’t very good Saturday.
But one bright spot showed up in
the second half.
Chris Osgood came out of the
locker room after halftime as the
A&M starting quarterback and pro
ceeded to move the team — some
thing Bucky Richardson and Lance
Pavlas had not been able to do in the
first half.
He rushed for 14 yards on his first
carry and, after missing on his first
three passes, went 8-for-12 and 110
yards.
But more than anything else, he
settled the offense down. Richard
son and Pavlas had looked extremely
flustered by the Louisiana State de
fense, with All-America linebacker
Ron Sancho being the main terror
ist.
Osgood had seen this team be
fore, though, under similar circum
stances. Richardson and Pavlas had
seen the Tigers play; Pavlas had
taken the field against them last year
at Kyle Field.
But Osgood had seen this team
many times in the University of Mis
sissippi’s service. And he was ready.
No, he didn’t lead the Aggies to
any points, although one drive al
most certainly would have yielded a
field goal had not Head Coach
Jackie Sherrill opted to go for the
touchdown on fourth and goal from
the two yard line.
But he may have shown the A&M
coaches a way to establish some con
tinuity in the offensive backfield.
Osgood was not satisfied with his
showing, though.
“Offensively we didn’t move the
ball as well as we should have,” he
said after the game. “We turned the
ball over way too many times. We
couldn’t move the ball in the air or
gave life to Ags at LSU
Photo by Dean Saito
A&M quarterback Chris Osgood rolls out on an second half and took the team on its only penetra-
option against LSU. Osgood played the entire tion inside LSU’s 40 yard line.
on the ground.
“I was displeased with my outing.
After sitting out for a whole year, I
think I should have done better.”
But not all of it was his fault. He
credited much of A&M’s difficulty to
circumstances.
“It was mostly misfortunes. A
fumble here, an interception there.
We beat ourselves mostly, but I can’t
take anything away from LSU.”
He threw one interception, but
that was toward the end of the game
when hope was nil.
That hope was lost on the two
yard line.
“After we weren’t able to punch it
in, we lost a lot of momentum offen
sively and defensively,” he said.
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Wimbledon has long-standing tradition of rain
By Cray Pixley
Assistant Sports Editor
Tennis and rain go hand in hand.
The U.S. Open was rained out Sunday and
play resumed on a clear but windy Monday.
Wimbledon without at least one day washed
out is not Wimbledon. Play must be halted one
day or people will begin to worry that they are at
the wrong tournament.
This past Wimbledon, the men’s final was de
layed and those spectators at the gates and those
watching at home waited breathlessly for the im
pending outcome.
Who would win?
The rain.
The players and the world had to wait an en
tire day for the crowning of the new champion.
It was a tough wait for avid tennis fans, but
then Wimbledon is all about waiting — and scan
dal of course.
Non-ticketholders must trek out to Wimble
don and line up with a few thousand others in
hopes of getting through the gates for a
thrilling, if not soggy, day of matches.
Regardless of the weather, the lines of people
are waiting. Some arrive in the early, dark morn
ing hours to await the late morning to early af
ternoon start of play.
Tickets to this coveted event can be had if one
has the time and the patience to wait. The early
matches are the ones to hit because as Wimble
don gets into full swing, the harder the competi-
An American sports writer in London
Second part of a five-part series
tion for tickets.
At times it seems that obtaining a ticket is as
hard as winning the championship.
Both the U.K. and the U.S. have a love affair
with Wimbledon. People who don’t even like
tennis take time to watch the matches.
.From the opening day to the final set, the cov
erage was both in-depth and shallow. There was
coverage of the play, the antics and the gossip.
The match of Wimbledon 1988 was the clash
of former champion Boris Becker and the then-
defending champion Pat Cash.
The match was controversial for the open an
tagonism between the two opponents.
Becker and Cash marched onto the court as if
they were already enemies. As the match pro
gressed it was apparent that this statement was
grounded in truth.
The play heated up and so did the Becker-
Cash tempers.
Becker was joking his way through the match
in a way that was clearly annoying to Cash who
struggled to put games on the board. As Cash
became frustrated, insults began to fly between
the two.
The match was not a good showing in man
ners for either of the players.
The defending champion eventually fizzled
out to Becker and then stormed off the court to
blast Becker’s behavior in a post-match press
conference.
Cash, wearing a red mop wig in imitation of
Becker’s coiffure, stated that the West German
had rudely insulted his family and interfered
(????) with play.
Insults do not win a match.
This was a breath of John McEnroe-type scan
dal.
Two champions in a battle and Cash de
throned.
Wimbledon didn’t enjoy this, but it was the
most interesting of the competitors’ antics.
Not much else happened the entire fortnight
to get fans and the media lathered up.
Becker was unable to regain the title even
though he dispathed Cash.
Ivan Lendl failed to win yet again, and a new
champion was ushered in.
Stefan Edberg, the Swedish icicle, took his
throne quietly and happily rode off into the driz
zly sunset with his newly won title.
Another Wimbledon was complete and the
fans could go home.
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Tyson knocked out in car accident Sunday
NEW YORK (AP) — Heavy
weight champion Mike Tyson, who
has avoided injury in the ring, was
knocked out in a car wreck that left
him with minor head and chest
wounds, according to friends and
relatives.
The wreck occurred about 11:20
a.m. Sunday near his training camp
in Greene County, and Tyson was
brought to Manhattan where he was
hospitalized overnight at Columbia
Presbyterian Medical Center, offi
cials said.
Dr. Carolyn Britton, assistant pro
fessor of neurology at the medical
center, said Tyson was being kept
there for observation and diagnostic
tests and that his condition was
“quite stable.”
“He suffered minor trauma to the
head and the chest wall,” Britton
said. “He’s neurologically normal.”
Britton said Tyson, who was recu
perating from a broken bone in his
right hand suffered in a street fight
two weeks ago with heavyweight
Mitch Green, was brought to Colum
bia after his car skidded off a slipp
ery road.
Dan Klores, a spokesman for Ty
son, said Tyson’s car was the only ve
hicle involved and no one else was
present.
Camille Ewald, a family friend
whom Tyson has been close to since
he started training in Catskill eight
years ago, said Tyson’s wife, actress
Robin Givens, and his mother-in-
law, Ruth Roper, wanted Tyson
taken to Columbia Presbyterian be
cause they know the doctors there.
A state police trooper said the ac
cident had not been reported to any
police agency and was not under in
vestigation.
Givens was in the back of the am
bulance with Tyson as he was being
transferred to New York and she
tried to put a sheet over the windows
to keep camera crews from photo
graphing her husband.
A few moments later, Tyson was
wheeled into the hospital on a
stretcher with a sheet over his body
and a towel over his face.
As cameramen pressed forward
Givens pushed them back, shouting
“Give him a break.”
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