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meet Horns tonight
Texas upsets Vols
Lady Horns, Arkansas win
By Tom Kehoe
SPORTS WRITER
Shelby Metcalf and his Texas Ag
gies will try to end a four-game los
ing streak tonight when they take on
Texas A&M at Texas
• What:The Texas A&M Aggies (N-
11; 1-6 in the SWT) visit the Texas
Longhorns (15-4; (i-l)in Southwest
Conference action.
• When: Tipof f is at 7:35 p.rn.
• Where:Frank Erwin Center in
Austin.
• Radio/TV:T he game can be heard
on KT AM-AM 1240 with Chuck
Cooperstein handling the play-by-
play and Duke Keith on color com
mentary.
the University of T exas at 7:35 p.m.
in the Frank Erwin Special Events
Center in Austin.
The Longhorns will be a formida
ble opponent, coining off a 96-65
win over SMU. The win kept Texas
in a tie with I CC and Arkansas for
the conference lead.
A&M stands at 8-1 1 overall and 1-
6 in Southwest Conference play
while Texas is 6-1 in the conference
and 15-4 overall under new coach
Tom Penders.
This game will be the first meet
ing between Penders and Metcalf .
Metcalf has used many lineups up
to this point in the season trying to
find the combination that will put
the Aggies in the win column.
He said tonight’s starting lineup
depends on who works best in prac
tice this week.
The Aggies continue to struggle
in SWC play despite cutting their
turnover average from 19.3 per
game (prior to the SWC slate) to 1 1.7
in SWC games. Another curious sta
tistic shows A&M having more
points from the field than four of
their SWC opponents and more re
bounds against four of their SWC
antagonists.
A disparity at the free throw line
and lapses at critical times have been
major factors in the losses.
On a brighter note, junior guard
David has apparently snapped out of
a slump in which he averaged only
2.2 points per outing alter averaging
12.8 over the season’s first 1 0 games.
In the last three games, Williams
has averaged 10.3 points with a high
of 12 points against T exas Tech last
weekend.
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Texas 69, Tennessee 67
Clarissa Davis, who wasn’t even
supposed to play, scored 38 points,
28 in the second half, to lead No. 1 1
Texas to a 69-67 victory over No. 2
Tennessee Tuesday in an intersec
tional game at Austin.
The loss dropped the Vols to 18-2
on the season. Texas improved to
13-4.
Texas officials had reported on
Monday that Davis would miss the
Tennessee game with a sprained an
kle. But she suited up and led all
scorers.
A Tennessee turnover at 0:25,
with Texas in a 68-65 lead, spoiled
the Vols’ comeback hopes.
Tennessee dominated the first
half.
Frost hit two more baskets, includ
ing a rebound jumper at the buzzer,
to help pull the Vols to a 33-25 lead
at the half.
The Lady Longhorns took their
first lead, 43-41, with 12:08 remain
ing on Davis’s jumper. Davis then
scored Texas’ next 18 points.
Gordon and Sheila Frost led the
Vols with 18 points each.
The Vols dominated the back-
boards, pulling down 54 rebounds to
Texas’ 36, hut faltered at the free-
throw line, where they hit just 3-of-
13.
Arkansas 84, Houston 82
The Arkansas Lady Razorbacks
scored the final 10 points, including
Juliet Jackson’s 10-foot fall-away
jump shot at 0:02, to defeat the
Houston Lady Cougars 84-82 in a
Southwest Conference basketball
game Tuesday night in Houston.
Arkansas improved to 12-5 for
the season and 6-2 in league play.
Houston fell to 10-8 and 4-4.
Houston led throughout the con
test and led by 12 points with 10:37
to play. But the Lady Razorbacks
outscored the Lady Cougars 27-13
the rest of the way. In overcoming
an 82-74 deficit, Arkansas shut out
Houston from the field over the fi
nal 4:01.
Arlene Brown led Houston with
19 points, and Sallie Routt added 18
points and 14 rebounds. Arkansas
was led by Shelly Wallace who scored
24 points and grabbed 14 rebounds.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Many will be
household names. Some may even
be legends. On Wednesday, many of
the NFL’s biggest stars could become
free agents when the league puts
into effect its new contract plan.
A radical departure from the old
free agency system, it is being im
posed unilaterally without a uni6n
contract and will unconditionally
free more than 600 players. Each
team will be allowed to protect just*
37 of the average of 59 on its roster.
“You’U see Super Bowl players.
Pro Bowl players, very big names,”
said l ex Schramm, president of the
Dallas Cowboys and a member of the
owners’ Management Council.
( “But there will be reasons for
them — they’ll be ba?P¥ftedical risks,
they’ll be older. A lot of them will be
getting good salaries, own homes in
the area, things like that . They won’t
want to move.”
Under the old plan, players of
fered a contract by another team
could move only alter their team
waived its right of first refusal. The
new team would also have to com
pensate the old one with draft
choices.
Only two players in 10 years
moved under that system, most re
cently, linebacker Wilber Marshall of
Chicago, who signed a $6 million,
five-year contract last year with
Washington. He joined the Redskins
after the Bears declined to match the
offer and Chicago got two first-
round draft picks in return.
Parts of that system remain in ef
fect — protected players whose con
tracts have expired still would be
subject to first refusal, and teams
signing them would have to part
with draft choices. The rest, under
contract or not, will be free until
April 1 to go elsewhere without com
pensation.
Although few teams have identi
fied unprotected players, the con
sensus is that most will protect
younger players with potential while
leaving older, more established play
ers unprotected. The older ones
have less incentive to move; high sal
aries, or injury problems that make
them unattractive to prospective bid
ders.
The Chicago Bears, for example,
have already said they will not pro
tect three starters from their 1986
Super Bowl champions, including
31-year-old linebacker Otis Wilson
and cornerback Mike Richardson,
28. Wilson, coming off reconstruc
tive knee surgery, vowed to return to
haunt the Bears.
The New York Giants will proba
bly leave unprotected 29-year-old
nose tackle Jim Burt, who has a his
tory of back problems, and starting
guard Billy Aid, also 29.
Others likely to be set free include
quarterback Danny White and de
fensive tackje Raqdy White of Dal
las; running back Tony Dorsett, de
fensive end Rulon Jones and
cornerback Mark Haynes of Denver.
running back Ottis Anderson of
1 the Giants; defensive end Bruce
Clark and nose tackle Tony Elliott of
'New Orleans and center Dwight Ste-
iphenson of the Miami Dolphins)
Magic leads
Lakers past
Houston
HOUSTON (AP) — Magic
Johnson recorded his NBA-lead
ing 11th triple-double and Mi
chael Cooper sparked a third-
quarter scoring run Tuesday
night to lead the Los Angeles
Lakers to a 125-114 win over the
Houston Rockets.
Johnson had 17 points, 11 re
bounds and 10 assists for his
fourth triple-double' in his past
eight games.
A.C. Green led the Lakers with
24 points, followed by James
Worthy with 23 and Cooper with
16. T he win is the Lakers’ ninth
in their last 10 games.
Sleepy Floyd led Houston with
37 points, a season high for him.
Akeem Olajuwon followed with
25 points and 11 rebounds.
Los Angeles outscored Hous
ton 24-6 to open the third quar
ter, with Cooper scoring eight of
his 11 third-quarter points, as the
Lakers opened an 87-67 lead with
5:34 lef t in the period.
A 3-point shot by Cooper and a
basket by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
gave the Lakers a 92-71 lead be
fore Houston narrowed its deficit
98-84 going into the fourth quar
ter.
The Lakers led by as much as
24 points, and Houston was never
closer than 11 in the fourth quar
ter.
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The NBA All-Star game is going to be played
Feb. 11 in I louston and with it brings the hall wax
point in the 1988-89 NBA season.
This is the time when teams that are serious
about contending for the championship in June
take stock and get ready for the home stretch.
This year the teams that are preparing for the
title run just might surprise you.
Usually you could count on the Boston Celtics
or the Los Angeles Lakers to lie leading the wax
with the other right on the leader's tail. Boston
and Los Angeles have won all but one title in the
eighties. T his year may be different. Parity has
struck the NBA and done so with a vengeance.
Boston (a team everyone loves to hate) has
fallen on hard times. How hard? Boston is
playing below .500 and has been for most of the
season. Boston (20-21) has lost seven games at
the Garden so f ar this year.
Time was when Boston at home meant a xx in.
guaranteed. Things are so bad at home that even
the Indiana Pacers (1 1-30) beat the Celtics at
home. For Boston’s sake and its fans, Larrv Bird
can't get better fast enough.
With Boston in the dumps, Los Angeles
should be running away with the league and on
their way to their third staright NBA title, right?
Wrong.
T he Lakers are not in as bad as shape as the
Celtics but, they do have problems. At 29-13 the
Lakers own the second best record in the league.
Stan
Golaboff
Sports Writer
However, the Lakers, who own the best home
record in the league, can’t seem to win on the
road. Last year the L.akers were 15-7 on the road
at this point. T his year they are 1 1-12. T heir last
road victory before Sunday’s thrashing of Dallas
was on Dec. 13. Despite this fact they are still
near the top.
So who is on top at the halfway point?
Is it Detroit? The Pistons did knock the Celtic s
out of the playoffs last year. They took the
Lakers to seven games in the Finals. I hex hav e
everyone back from that team and were picked
by many to vx in it all.
The Pistons aren’t even on top of their
division. Detroit is four games out of first,
although they do own the third-best record in
basketball at 27-13.
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