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This may seem a
little sudden, but
Chris Osgood is the
best man for the
startingjob against
the Oklahoma State
Cowboys this
Saturday.
Each week for the
past two years, Aggie
fans have wondered
who will be the
starting quarterback
for the upcoming
game.
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Miller
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Could it be Craig
Stump, Bucky
Richardson, or Lance Pavlas?
The usual reply from Coach Jackie Sherrill
is,“We’ll name a starter on game day.”
Well, now that Craig Stump has graduated
the choices are now Richardson, Pavlas, and
Osgood.
Last year’s star Richardson has been less
than impressive this year and hasn’t shown
that offensive spark of the 1987 season.
Pavlas has let all the hype he had out of
high schoool go down the drain.
There’s only one more choice.
He’s been the big secret in Aggieland for
the last year and a half, and he’s not such a
secret anymore.
His name is Chris Osgood, a junior transfer
from the University of Mississippi.
Opponents of Ole Miss know who he is, and
Aggie fans caught their first glimpse three
weeks ago in Baton Rouge, La.
After the Aggies struggled so terribly,
Osgood made his debut (coming in the game
20 points behind) and seemingly added
enough life to the A&M offense to earn Texas
A&M Player of the Week.
Playing in only the second half, he rushed
for 18 yards and was 8-of-15 for 110 yards
and one interception.
The odds are in Osgood’s favor.
He has one more year of experience than
Richardson or Pavlas and has been a starting
quarterback at a Division I-A school.
Sure, Richardson did some great things last
year, leading the Aggies to their third
consecutive Cotton Bowl, but he hasn’t shown
any promising performances this year. (He
went out after the sixth play at LSU.)
Osgood sat out an entire year and
seemingly returned to good form when he
was given the position.
This will be the third game of the year and
next week is the conference
opener.Something must be established
offensively.
Using all three quarterbacks can work, but
the Aggies need a leader on both sides of the
ball instead of one on defense and three on
offense.
Linebacker John Roper is clearly the leader
of one of the toughest defenses in the nation.
The offense needs the same leadership.
Osgood seemed to stay calm during the
little time we saw him play, and he’s had two
years of experiencing pressure to deal with it.
Another edge that Osgood displays is his
ability to run and pass, rather than one or the
other.
Richardson is clearly the best runner, while
Pavlas is the passer.
A good quarterback has to do a little of
both.
Some quarterbacks make up their lack of
speed with passing accuracy, but Pavlas hasn’t
been exactly outstanding in that category,
sending his first pass of the season into the
hands of LSU linebacker Ron Sancho for a
touchdown.
Richardson’s passing has been better this
year, but is still far behind both Osgood and
Pavlas.
Rumor has it that OsgoocJ was to start last
week against Alabama, but since the game was
cancelled, we’ll just have to wait until
Saturday, as always.
Lewis vs. Johnson
culminates today
Biondi, Evans highlight Thursday
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) —Matt
Biondi and Janet Evans planted a
solid gold exclamation mark at the
end of a day marked by violence, dis
grace and drug scandal at the Seoul
Olympics on Thursday.
Biondi and Evans each won their
second swimming gold medals. Bi
ondi won the 100-meter freestyle for
his fourth medal, and he is almost
certain to win three more. Evans,
slackjawed and shaking her head
when she saw the clock, cut a huge
1.6 seconds from her own world re
cord in the 400-meter freestyle.
“I couldn’t believe it,” she said. “I
wasjust amazed.”
Amazing was an apt adjective, too,
for the conduct of South Korean
boxing officials, who attacked a ref
eree and punched him after a close
decision went against one of their
boxers. Five Koreans were banned
from the Games.
“It was very disgraceful behavior,”
said Shin Hyon-ung, director gen
eral of the Seoul organizing commit
tee’s international press department.
A Bulgarian weightlifter, mean
while, was stripped of his gold medal
and banned from the Olympics for
two years when he tested positive for
a diuretic that helped him lose
weight. An Australian modern pen-
thathlete was also sent home after
high levels of caffeine showed in his
test.
And there could be more. The In
ternational Olympic Committee said
it expected about 15 positive drug
tests among the 10,000 athletes here.
After six days of Games, the
medal standings looked like this: So
viet Union 28 medals, 14 gold; East
Germany 19, 6 gold; United States
13,5 gold.
The golds by Biondi and Evans,
and a silver by Chris Jacobs in Bion-
di’s event, gave a needed lift to a
swimming team considered one of
the best in the world, yet a winner of
only five of a possible 27 medals in
nine events before Thursday.
Biondi, of Moraga, Calif., had a
time of 48.63, missing his own world
record by .21 seconds but breaking
the Olympic mark of 49.04 he set
earlier in the day during qualifying
heats. With four medals, he is on
track to become only the second man
to win seven medals in a Summer
Olympics. Mark Spitz won seven in
1972, all gold.
Jacobs, of Livingston, N.J., was
second in 49-08.
Evans, of Placentia, Calif., who
also won the 400 individual medley,
won the 400 freestyle in 4:03.85.
Her old world mark was 4:05.45.
Heike Friedrich of East Germany,
who won the silver in 4:05.94, was
just as amazed about the time as
Evans.
“I didn’t think Janet was capable
See Olympics, page 8
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The
100-meter dash offers Carl Lewis a
double chance at Olympic distinc
tion.
The headline event on Day 7 —
Saturday in Seoul, today in the
United States — carries with it the
chance at earning the title, “the
world’s fastest man” for Lewis, and is
the first step of his quadruple gold
chase.
The final of the 100-meter dash is
expected to offer a matchup be
tween Lewis and Canadian Ben
Johnson, the world’s two fastest
sprinters.
“It’s good for track and field just
like Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier
were good for boxing,” Lewis said.
“I feel what we’re doing is focusing
attention on our sport and advanc
ing our sport.”
The 100-meter dash will also be
the first step for Lewis in his quest to
repeat his four gold medal perfor
mance of 1984 — a feat duplicating
the efforts of Jesse Owens in the
1936 Olympics.
“I just want to run each step one
at a time,” Lewis said. “The 100 me
ters is a big event for me. I’ll put 110
percent into that. Then comes the
200, the long jump and the relay.
That’s the way I’m going to go into
this. I’m not going to anticipate.”
The triple jump will also be con
tested. American Willie Banks, wb£>
won the event four years ago, is
again the favorite.
The women’s heptathlon moves
into its second day. American Jackie
Joyner-Kersee, the only heptathlete
to surpass 7,000 points — she has
done it four times — has said she will
aiming to break her world record.
Mary T. Meagher, an Olympic
triple-gold medalist in 1984, will be
gin her attempt to duplicate that feat
in the women’s 100-meter butterfly
— tonight in Seoul, today in the
United States — a day of five swim
ming finals, the first three track and
field medal events, and the first ap
pearances of Lewis and Edwin
Moses.
Meagher, who will turn 24 next
month, is the oldest member of the
U.S. women’s swim team. She has
held world records in the women’s
100- and 200-meter butterfly for
more than seven years.
The native of Louisville, Ky., took
some time of from training last year
and has found the road back to the
Olympics a difficult one.
“I’m excited to be here,” Meagher
said. “I’m hungry. ... I really want
to win.
“Getting myself to work out this
year was harder than it’s ever been.”
Matt Biondi will be seeking his
second relay gold as part of the U.S.
4x100-meter freestyle relay team on
tonight’s swimming card. The other
three will be the men’s 400-meter
freestyle, the men’s 200-meter
breaststroke, and the women’s 100-
meter breaststroke.
The native of Moraga, Calif., who
is shooting for seven medals in seven
events, won his first gold of the
Games in the men’s 4x200-meter
freestyle. He was looking for his
fourth medal of the Games in the
men’s 100-meter freestyle tonight.
The U.S. men’s basketball team
concludes its preliminary play
against Egypt Saturday (tonight in
the United States). The Americans
have already clinched a berth in
Monday’s quarterfinals.
Men’s gymnastics moves to gold-
medal competitions Saturday in each
of the six apparatus. Another gold
medal will be awarded in the men’s
air pistol.
When Roy Jones steps into the
ring tonight (today in the United
States) for a 156-pound bout against
Mtendere Makalamba of Malawi,
only three American boxers will be
left waiting to make their first ap
pearance of the Games — Andrew
Maynard, Ray Mercer and Riddick
Rowe.
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