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The Battalion
SPORTS
Tuesday, February 28,1989
Register quits after
17 years with Ags
Jones admits bungling of Landry firing
Cowboys’ new owner says Johnson was only candidate for job
FROM STAFF & WIRE REPORTS
Texas A&M Head Football Coach
R.C. Slocum lost an experienced as
sistant Monday when Defensive Line
Coach Paul Register ended a long
career at A&M by retiring.
Greg Mattison, a defensive inte
rior line coach at Navy the past two
years, was named to replace Register
on the A&M staff.
Slocum expressed mixed feelings
about Register’s departure and is
happy he will stay on in another ca
pacity.
“It is with mixed emotions that I
make this announcement,” Slocum
said. “We’re certainly going to miss
Paul because he has been a close,
personal friend and an outstanding
coach and recruiter for Texas A&M.
He has coached long enough to re
tire and that is what he wants to do.
“However, I have asked him to
stay on with our program and l am
pleased that he will continue to serve
in another capacity.”
A press release did not describe
what Register’s new job will be.
Register was known as an excel
lent recruiter. He was responsible
for recruiting in the Houston area.
Mattison, a former defensive
coordinator at Western Michigan, is
a 197 l graduate of the University of
Wisconsin at LaCrosse where he was
a four-year letterman as an offensive
guard while also gaining four letters
in wrestling.
He has coached at the University
of Illinois, Cornell and Northwest
ern prior to his stint at the Naval
Academy.
“Since we are losing Paul, we’re
pleased to replace him with an indi
vidual who has an outstanding repu
tation in the coaching ranks.”
Register had been a member of
the A&M staff since 1971 when he
came to join the staff as an assistant
to Emory Bellard.
He previously was the head coach
at Hurst Bell High School and was
head coach at Spring Branch High
School from 1964 to 1970.
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) —
New Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry
Jones acknowledged Monday, “1
didn’t do a very good job” dismissing
Coach Tom Landry, but reiterated
that he never considered anyone but
the University of Miami’s Jimmy
Johnson for the job.
Jones said he was sensitive to the
feelings of Landry, the only head
coach in the Cowboys’ 29-year his
tory, and felt inadequate when he
and team president Tex Schramm
flew to Austin Saturday to break the
news.
“I do want to assure everyone that
is interested in the Cowboys and cer
tainly interested in Coach Landry —
Coach Landry saw my baby blue eyes
as quickly as humanly possible under
the circumstances,” Jones, a million
aire oil and gas executive from Little
Rock, told a news conference.
Jones said he respected Landry.
On Saturday, when the sale was an
nounced, Jones said he would have
graded himself an “F” for his part of
the conversation.
“I resent the way that it was han
dled, too,” Jones said Monday.
“I was so sensitive to his feelings, 1
was so sensitive to the speculation,”
Jones said. “It did mean everything
to me for Coach Landry to hear
what I had to say in the manner I
had to say it as quickly as possible,
and that was done. We made every
effort in the world. Frankly, Coach
Landry would have known about it a
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second after Tex Schramm would
have known about it if we could have
gotten to him.”
Landry told The Associated Press
Sunday, “No one had to tell me. I
would have had to be pretty stupid
not to know when they got on the
airplane to come see me. They could
have saved the trip because all they
did was tell me I was fired.”
“I couldn’t have done it any bet
ter,” Jones said.
Jones said it was important to him
to have Johnson, his former room
mate at Arkansas and teammate on
the Razorbacks’ unbeaten 1964 foot
ball team, at his side in running the
Cowboys.
“My business background is such
that I’m not afraid of something
new. What is important to me,
though, because I’m going to be in
that dark hole, I want somebody fa
miliar standing there with me help
ing walk down that ole’ black tun
nel,” Jones said. “I wanted him
(Johnson) bumping around as we
walked down that darkness down
there, trying to build our football
team.
“We will win, we must win, win
ning is what it’s all about,” Jones
said.
He and Johnson have discussed
dreams of running a professional
team for years, Jones said.
Jones said Johnson will not own
part of the team.
“Someone upstairs has given me
my time,” Jones said. “They’ve
pitched the ball to me and I’m ready
to run with it.”
He declined again to give the pri-
cetag, which has been reported
around $140 million. He said he had
no plahs to reveal the price, and that
seller H.R. “Bum” Bright agreed
with that position.
He said Johnson will answer ques
tions about coaching staff and other
matters during a news conference in
Dallas on Tuesday.
Asked about Schramm’s future,
Jones said, “Tex, of course, is as im
portant to the Dallas Cowboys as
Tom Landry. You really can’t say
one without the other.” He com
pared Schramm to Barnum and Bai
ley for his accomplishments in build
ing the Cowboys into a major
enterprise. “He created America’s
team,” Jones said.
In response to a question, Jones
said he might consider naming
Texas Stadium after Landry. “I
think enough of him to do it,” Jones
said, but added that the idea hadn’t
occurred to him until a reporter
mentioned it.
Don’t turn and run; violence in sports is an issue to discuss
Opinions about the sport of boxing are as
opposed to each other as two fighters in the
rin g'
Some see fighting as entertaining and t he
essence of one-on-one competition. Others
cannot stand to even think of two men
beating each other to the point of blood
loss.
Some don't think boxing qualifies as a
sport, calling it stupid or ridiculous. Others
say that boxing requires stamina that not
even the elite athletes of other sports
possess.
Some are convinced boxing takes no
thought — it’s purely physical. Others
challenge that if a boxer isn’t smart in the*
ring, he has no chance of succeeding.
There have been boxers and specific
Fights over the years that could prove all of
the above points. Boxers are different —
from everyone else and from each other. So
it’s hard to say “for-certains” about am part
of the sport.
So I’lljust jump right in and say what I
think.
For one thing, I think it’s a shame that
fighters have to make! Such great boasts
about their ability. No telling where that
started. But I know that Muhammad Ali
had a big impact on how fighters express
themselves.
Sunday 1 watched a show on the first
matchup of Sonny Liston and Ali. Liston,
the champion, was a huge “brawler” that
looked invincible. Ali was a much narrower
self-proclaimed pretty-boy without a
scratch on his face.
Before the fight in the 1960s, which was
a title bout, Ali constantly tore into Liston
verbally. He boasted of how he was going to
destroy Liston in the ring.
Then it was showtime and everything Ali
said came true, to everyone’s disbelief—
except Ali.
He danced around the ring claiming he
was the greatest fighter ever and that there
wasn’t a scratch on his face.
Today we have George Foreman back in
the ring as a Christian making money for
charity. And then there’s the current
“greatest fighter ever,” Mike Tyson. Tyson
seems to be just in it for himself.
So what can you say about boxing. It is
such an individual sport (or non-sport) that
it is hard to compare with anything else.
But some things that can be looked at are
the attitudes and personalities of the
fighters and everyone else involved in the
sport.
I suspect that most boxers learn to fight
in the streets before they ever climb into a
ring.
As a whole, fighters seem to grow up in
ghettos or economically poor areas. And it
seems like they carry a lot of aggression into
the ring.
Most of these boxers seem to be angry
kids making some statement about society.
In the early going of a boxer’s career, a
fighter who gets in the ring without an
aggressive attitude is at a disadvantage
from the opening bell. So it seems clear that
a boxer should be tunneling his wrath at the
other man in the ring.
But this other guy in the ring is probably
from the same background, so what is a guy
trying to prove by beating up a compadre?
They’re beating up someone who’s trying to
get out of the same mess -— poverty, crime,
violence. Violence— there’s a key word.
Here we are again at this unresolved
issue of violence. It’s obvious, isn’t it?
Boxing is just a bunch of mad men angrily
beating on other mad men — which leads to
more beating. It’s an insatiable diet of
violence.
But then how can we explain someone
like Foreman? He doesn’t seem like the
violent type anymore — he’s obviously had
a life-changing experience. But he still
beats on guys, and rather effectively, too.
Help me here. I’m trying to understand
this sport. It’s confusing, isn’t it?
We’ve got guys pounding on each other,
other guys promoting them, a couple more
telling the world about it and everyone else
enjoying the whole production.
Of course the easiest thing to do is to
avoid the issue and simpliy enjoy,watching
guys aggressively beat on eacn other.
But that’s not going to work much
longer. Avoiding things, including violence
in sports, has become too much of a trend
in this country — and we’re all finding out
that avoidance only creates more issues to
avoid.
It was several years ago that a few
fighters were killed in the ring. It scared a
lot of people then, but now the deaths are
forgotten by most. Or at least they aren’t
important enough anymore to hinder a fan
enjoyably watching a title bout.
Boxing pays more to contestants than
any sport. There’s a good chance that
money has a lot to do with the sport
remaining so strong.
But the money is not the real problem
either. It gets back to people again. If
there’s money involved, it’s a good chance
there is greed right with it.
Now we’re confronted with the fact that
it’s not only the boxers who have an
insatiable appetite — it’s everyone. Fans
want to see the action (violence), promoters
want their names mentioned and so forth.
We’re all a part of it.
We are allowing questionable happenings
to go on without asking questions. We need
to face up to things that are easier to put
aside. Boxing is just one of them.
MAJOU GUKSTS :
Writer Guest George R. R. Martin
producer of Beauty And The Beast (CBS)
Special Guest Octavio Butler
Hugo Award winner in 1984 and 1986
Media Guest Richard Arnold
official STAR TREK archivist
Comic Book Guest Chris Claremont
writer for the X-Men
Artist Guest Real Musgrave
official Texas Renaissance Festival Artist
Toastmaster Kerry O'Quinn
editor of STARLOG magazine
nWlpNAL ;
C. Dean Andersson (Asa Drake) , Barbara Bartholomew ,
P. D. Breeding-Black, Lillian Stewart Carl , Carole Nelson Douglas ,
Sam Douglas, Brad Foster, Danny & Jude Gillies , Steve Gould ,
Rory Harper, Vicki Ann Heydron , Katherine Eliska Kimbriel , Joe Lansdale ,
Ardath Mayhar , Laura Mixon , Warren Norwood, Doug Potter,
Gregor Punchtaz, Nina Romberg , Lewis Shiner, Howard Waldrop
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