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Biondi triumphs with 7th medal
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) —
iKristin Otto of East Germany and
JAmerican Matt Biondi made swim-
Iming history Sunday night as the
Jtime-honored heroes of age and ex-
Iperience looked old and tired at the
■Seoul Olympics.
Otto set an Olympic record with
Iher sixth gold medal in an upset vic-
loryin the 50-meter freestyle on the
last day of swimming.
Biondi, meanwhile, equaled the
[most medals ever won by a swimmer
[in a single Olympics with seven when
IheU.S. men’s 400-meter medley re
lay team won the gold in world-re-
[cord time.
Biondi finished the Games and his
(career as a competitive swimmer
with five straight gold and four
world records after winning a
bronze and silver.
“It’s been a tremendously long
week, and I don’t think it’s really hit
me what I’ve done this past week,”
he said. “When it does, I don’t think
I’ll be able to sleep for a couple of
days.”
Mary Slaney, in what may have
been her last, best chance to solve
the Olympic jinx, faded off the lead
to a badly beaten 10th in the wom
en’s 3,000 meters. She didn’t fall this
time, as she did at the 1984 Games
after tangling with Zola Budd. She
fell apart.
“I just couldn’t hold it,” the 30-
year-old Slaney said.
Edwin Moses, at 33 a veteran of
three Olympics, lost for only the
third time in 11 years in the 400mre-
ter hurdles. He said he felt fortunate
to finish third.
“After 12 years of Olympic pres
sure ... I consider myself lucky to be
on the victory stand,” Moses said.
Evelyn Ashford, the 1984 cham
pion but now 31, bowed to world re
cord-holder Florence Griffith
Joyner in the women’s 100. Ashford
chased her all the way to the wire,
and finished second.
“I don’t think there’s a female
now who can beat her. Maybe a man
can, I don’t know,” Ashford said.
“But I’m still around. I’m not dead.”
Chris Evert, 33-year-old winner of
18 Grand Slam tournaments but a
first-time Olympian, lost in 1 hour,
54 minutes to unheralded Raffaella
Reggi of Italy, 2-6, 6-4, 6-1, in her
third-round match. She committed
62 unforced errors, about one every
two minutes.
Eighteen-year-old gymnast Dan-
iela Silivas, the 4-foot-6 curly-haired
blonde from Romania, matched the
feat of countrywoman Nadia Co
maneci, darling of the 1976 Games,
by scoring seven perfect 10s. She
won three gold medals, giving her
six total. Phoebe Mills of Northfield,
Ill., shared the bronze in the balance
beam for America’s only gymnastics
medal of the Games.
i&M men’s tennis opens year strongly
The Texas A&rM men’s tennis team started
Iheir fall season in good form Sunday at the
[Navy National All-Conference Tournament in
[Annapolis, Md.
Shaun O’Donovan led the Aggies by finishing
[third in the No. 1 singles bracket.
O’Donovan defeated No. 2 seed Paul Mancini
[ofthe University of West Virginia in the consola-
[tion match 7-5, 6-4.
Mancini is ranked No. 67 in the country.
O’Donovan was stopped short of the Finals by
|No. 1 seed Mike Brown of the University of Ar
ansas, the 26th-ranked player in the country.
[Brown won 6-3, 6-2.
O’Donovan beat Dane Dilucia of Notre Dame
[tithe first round, who was the No. 1 player in
oys 18s last year.
A&M Coach David Kent said, “I was especially
[pleased with the play of Shaun O’Donovan. He
two wins over quality people and may have
ended our search for a No. 1 player.”
Doug Brown beat Paul Odland of Notre
Dame 6-2, 6-1 to win the No. 7 singles bracket.
He also teamed up with Wade Barsalou to beat
John Sanzari and Keith Burford of Arkansas 6-
4, 6-2 to win the No. 4 doubles.
All four A&M doubles teams reached the fi
nals.
O’Donovan and Steve Kennedy lost to second-
seeded Mike Brown and Augusto Solano of Ar
kansas 4-6, 7-5, 6-2 in No. 1 doubles after beat
ing the No. 1 seeded team earlier in the tourna
ment.
Gustavo Espinosa and Craig Whitteker fell to
Arkansas’ Donnie Wood and J.P. Mieny 6-7, 7-6,
6-4 in the No. 2 doubles final. Wood and Mieny
were the No. 1 seed.
A&M’s Chris Brown and Matt Zisette lost to
second-seeded Johan Dysholm and Cha Hoon
Im of Arkansas 3-6, 7-6, 6-4 in the No. 3 doubles
match.
Whitteker finished sixth in No. 2 singles, los
ing in the final match to Brian Kalbas of Notre
Dame 1-6, 6-4, 6-3.
Zisette finished fourth in No. 3 single play,
dropping his last game to Wake Forest’s Mike
Dillworth 6-4, 6-3.
Espinosa, the No. 2 seed in the fifth singles
bracket, lost to No. 1 seeded Dysholm 3-6, 6-3, 6-
4 to finish second.
Chris Brown lost in the final to Cha 6-0, 6-4 to
take second in No. 6 singles.
Barsalou and Kennedy had their last games
rained out.
The team has no action scheduled until the
ITCA Qualifying Tournament Oct. 7-9 in Fort
Worth.
Joyners dominate
U.S. Olympic team
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) —This
way too confusing.
If you’ve been following the
lympics at all, you probably think
here are some 50 competitors,
toadies and others who have Joyner
tomewhere in their names.
There’s Jackie Joyner-Kersee.
here’s Florence Griffith Joyner,
here’s A1 Joyner.
It would seem that as long as you
row a Joyner somewhere in there,
iou’ve got an Olympic competitor.
And if it’s hard foV the folks at
, imagine what it’s like for the
or reporter.
Not only does the poor reporter
ave to keep all the multiple names
itraight, but he has to do all this ex-
:ra typing.
It makes one yearn for simpler
mes, when names were simpler,
ike 1980, when the champion pole
aulter from Poland was Wladyslaw
ozakiewics.
But we all must accept the fact
hat the Seoul Olympics are the Hy-
hen Olympics. And to deal with
hat fact, we offer a simple glossary
fjoyner track and field terms.
Rip it out of your newspaper and
[keep it handy. There’s still another
few days of Olympic fun to go.
JACKIE JOYNER-KERSEE —
he gold medal winner and world’s
ecord holder in the women’s hep-
athlon and arguably one of the best
oman athletes of all times. She is
jthe sister of Olympic gold medalist
[Aljoyner.
Which makes her the sister-in-law
f Florence Griffith Joyner, the
odd record sprinter who wears all
[those flashy running togs.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee is, of course,
[married to A1 Kersee, who is also her
:oach. Kersee used to be Florence
[Griffith Joyner’s coac’ , too. But now
Al joyner is Florenc j Griffith Joyn-
[er’scoach. And her husband.
Easy so far?
ALJOYNER — Brother of Jackie
oyner-Kersee and husband of Flor-
mce Grif fith Joyner (see above).
Aljoyner won the gold medal for
the triple jump in the 1984 Olym
pics. He failed to make this year’s
[team, but he came anyway as his
wife’s coach and trainer.
FLORENGE GRI FFITH
OYNER — The world record
[holder in the woman’s 100 meters
and the winner of the silver medal in
the woman’s 200 meters at the Los
Angeles Games.
She’s the one with the flashy togs
and the long fingernails. She broke
two Olympic records in her 100-me-
ter heats on Saturday and may walk
away from the Olympics with three
gold medals.
She also is (take a deep breath) sis
ter-in-law of Jackie, wife of A1 and
the former protegee of Bob Kersee
(see below).
BOB KERSEE — Husband and
coach of Jackie, former coach of
Florence, and he’s probably had a
few beers with AT
Kersee was a former track star at
Cal State-Northridge and he coaches
a number of other names in the
track world.
EVELYN ASHFORD — One of
the top sprinters in U.S. history and
winner of the gold in the 100 meters
in 1984. She doesn’t have that much
of a Joyner connection but she is
sometimes confused with (see be
low).
ASHFORD-SIMPSON — The
musical duo of Nick Ashford and
Valerie Simpson. They’ve had a cou
ple of hit records, but as far as the
record books go, they don’t seem to
hold a standing in any major track
and field events.
VALERIE BRISCO — Here’s an
other Valerie and she used to have
three names: Valerie Brisco Hooks.
She dropped the Hooks sometime
after she won gold medals for the
200 meters, 400 meters anti 400-me
ter relay in Los Angeles. She is here
to compete again.
MARY DECKER SLANEY —The
United State’s premier long-distance
runner over the past decade. She is
married to Richard Slaney, a former
Olympic discus thrower.
There is no apparent relationship
to the Joyner cabal here, other than
the fact she has three names and
runs.
THE CHARLES SMITHS —
There are two of them on the U.S.
men’s basketball team. One is
Charles E. Smith. The other is
Charles D. Smith.It’s still hard to re
member which is which. And any
way, we don’t want to confuse you.
The Battalion
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Applications are available in Room 216 RDMC and are due no
later than 5 p.m.Wed.,Sept.28.
Aggies
(Continued from page 11)
OSU finished their drive with
Sanders scoring his second touch
down of the day, a four-yard run
that gave the Cowboys a 24-7 lead
with 14:55 remaining in the half.
It got even worse.
On the Aggies next possession,
Larry Horton fumbled on a five-
yard pass from Osgood.
The Cowboys scored on the next
play, with Dykes diving for the
touchdown pass from Gundy.
“We were still in the game,” Sher
rill said. “It was just one of those
things where you just have to come
back out and play. We played the
third quarter extremely well, we
moved the football well.”
The second half started off
brighter for the Aggies, when Os
good hit receiver Gary Oliver on an
8-yard touchdown pass, completing
an 80 yard drive.
They also completed the two-
point conversion on a pass from Os
good to Harris, giving them a little
hope to get back in the game.
But that was all that A&M would
muster, as turnovers once again
stopped strong offensive drives.
Osgood, from his own 41-yard
line, heaved a 45-yard bomb to 5-8
Hammons
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moratorium imposed on the papers
and stations of the region on viola
tions garbage.
The Hurricanes don’t really have
a better program. They just have a
better working relationship with the
media in Florida than A&M has with
the media in Texas. That’s all.
Everybody knows the stomach-felt
hatred the Miami Herald has for in
vestigative journalism. With the
hands-off approach taken by the lo
cal media, of course they can keep
the talent rolling in. And consia-
ering the token resistance they re
ceive in their part of the country
from such perennial pansies as the U
of Florida and Florida State, it’s no
wonder they win all the time!
That could just as easily be Texas
A&M at the top of the polls. All it
would have taken is a couple of blue-
chip players — a quarterback here, a
lineman there — who would have
come to A&M if it weren’t for the
NCAA butt-inskis. The Ags could
easily be 4-0-1 now, with the lone
Cornelius Patterson that put the Ag
gies on the OSU 14,
Freshman running back Robert
Wilson ran the ball to the 4, but
again the Aggies were stopped short
of a score. Osgood fumbled on sec
ond and goal, stopping a touchdown
that might have changed the mo
mentum of the game.
OSU punted alter three downs,
and the Aggies started over again at
their own 48.
With the Aggies moving down-
field at the Cowboy 32, Osgood
lofted a short pass to Lewis. But
OSU strong safety Rod Smith inter
cepted and ran it 73 yards for a
touchdown — his sixth interception
of his career and his third for TDs.
What else could go wrong?, Aggie
fans wondered.
A punt return for another OSU
touchdown? Why not? Everything
else had happened.
Sanders returned the next punt
for a 61-yards touchdown on the last
play of the third quarter.
The fourth quarter was filled with
substitutes, with Lance Pavlas, who
ended the game three of ten for 52
yards.
Bucky Richardson did not play,
except to hold for extra points.
blemish on our record being a tie
with Hurricane Gilbert.
So this now-enlightened journalist
offers this earnest plea to all the as
piring writers and editors in the
reading audience, or even some full-
fledged reporter at a newspaper or
TV station somewhere:
Can the investigative approach.
Lose the hidden microphones. Quit
asking the tough questions, and start
being satisfied with “No comment”
answers.
Sacrifice a little journalistic excel
lence for the greater good of South
west Conference football.
Let’s just consider our priorities.
Should we try to tell people what ev
eryone already knows — that schools
cheat from time to time? Or should
we protect our schools’ reputations
like every other media group does?
(Thanks again to our letter-writer
for that info.)
Sacrifice those ethics for the good
of the good old SWC. It is your duty,
after all.
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