Wednesday, March 1,1989
The Battalion
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Johnson meets with Dallas news media
IRVING (AP) — Jimmy Johnson
[officially replaced the legendary
Tom Landry as head coach of the
I Dallas Cowboys on Tuesday and
lapologized if he caused any discom-
[fort to the only coach the Cowboys
[had for 29 years.
“I’m sorry if I hurt anyone, I apol-
iogize,” Johnson said at a standing
[room only news conference at the
| Valley Ranch headquarters. “I was in
[Dallas (on Friday before the Cow
boys were sold on Saturday) to talk
face to face with Jerry Jones.
“The fact I was seen in public ap
parently offended some people. I’d
like to sit down and visit with Tom
sometime about it. WeTl do it at a
time of his choosing.”
Jones, an Arkansas millionaire,
bought the team from H.R. “Bum”
Bright in a sale announced on Satur
day night after Johnson, the former
coach of the Miami Hurricanes, had
flown back home.
“Things happened so fast that we
didn’t mean any disrespect to any
body,” Jones said. “I have deep feel
ings for the Cowboys and coach
Landry.”
Hostile questions about Johnson’s
visit to Dallas before Landry was
axed used up almost half of the 50-
minute press conference.
Landry was told he had been fired
by Jones and club president Tex
Schramm on Saturday afternoon at
the Hills of Lakeway near Austin.
“It hurts me to say I did some
thing out of disrespect for Tom
Landry,” Johnson said. “I don’t ex
pect to replace someone like him.
But just let me do my thing and
judge me by what happens later.”
Landry said he thought his dis
missal “could have been handled
better.” He was left twisting in the
wind for almost two days after Jones
had shaken hands on a done deal
with Bright.
There was a report that Cowboys’
Media wants Landry honored
by renaming of Texas Stadium
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DALLAS (AP) — The city’s two
[major newspapers Tuesday called
Jon new Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry
[jones and the Irving City Council to
[ honor legendary coach Tom Landry
with a Texas-sized monument—one
that’s bjg enough to hold 63,855
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The Dallas Morning News and
[Mas Times Herald launched edito
rial campaigns Monday calling for
[Texas Stadium, the suburban home
| of the Cowboys since 1971, to be re-
j named in honor of the former
[coach.
Jones fired Landry Saturday
[when he purchased the team from
HR. “Bum” Bright, replacing the
only coach the Cowboys ever had
[with his former college roommate
[jimmyjohnson.
In response to a question, Jones
ion Monday said he might consider
[naming Texas Stadium after
[Landry. “I think enough of him to
doit,”Jones said, but added that the
idea hadn’t occured to him until a
reporter mentioned it.
The Morning News’ editorial
[strongly criticized the manner in
[which jones replaced Landry, call-
ling it‘‘a callous end to a glorious ca
reer.”
The Times Herald included a
[coupon on its editorial page for
jreaaers to sign and express support
lof the drive to re-name the stadium
[in honor of the man who coached
[the team for 29 years, including 20
consecutive winning seasons and five
Super Bowl appearances.
“As we pick ourselves up, dust
ourselves off and start all over again,
we will always glimpse Tom Landry
A good step toward
making amends was
suggested during Jones’
news conference Monday
— the renaming of Texas
Stadium for Tom Landry.”
— The Dallas
Morning News
watching us from the sideline,” the
Times Herald said.
“What better way to actualize this
psychological reality than to rename
Texas Stadium for him? Clint Mur
chison Jr. built the stadium, but it
was Mr. Landry and his Cowboys
who made it live.”
The editorial called on the Irving
City Council, which now manages
the stadium, to change the name and
for Jones to insist upon it.
The Times Herald also said the
Dallas City Council should proclaim
an Honor Tom Landry Day, a senti
ment echoed by Mayor Annette
Strauss.
“Here we have one of the greatest
citizens in our city, who’s made a tre
mendous contribution to Dallas and
we need to show him in some visible
way our appreciation,” she said
Tuesday.
The mayor said she’ll contact
Landry to discuss some type of offi
cial recognition of his accomplish
ments.
In Austin, the Texas House of
Representatives on Tuesday com
mended Landry in a resolution.
The Morning News editorial
noted that Landry’s firing “should
stun and infuriate people who don’t
even follow professional sports.”
“In a society where there is still a
sometimes naive belief that great
performance and loyal service will
be rewarded, the callous dismissal of
the Dallas Cowboys coach stings like
the snap of a wet towel,” the News
said.
“A few winning seasons probably
will ease the pain of the current tran
sition,” the editorial continued. “But
Mr. Jones can speed up the healing
process by acknowledging the lack of
respect he has shown for one of pro
football’s most respected coaches
and making a public apology.
“A good step toward making
amends was suggested during Mr.
Jones’ news conference Monday —
the renaming of Texas Stadium for
Tom Landry. That would be a fit
ting tribute for someone whose
name always will be linked with the
Dallas Cowboys.”
player personnel director Gil Brandt
had talked to Johnson Thursday
about the transaction. But Johnson
disputed that, saying, “I haven’t
talked to Gil Brandt in two weeks.”
Jones took the media for task for
banging on the Landry issue.
“I’d hate to put Tom Landry
through what I’ve been through
‘over this,” said Jones, who was
standing near Johnson during the
press conference. “I’m wrong and
there was no right way. I visited with
Tex about the sale then got to Tom
as soon as I could.”
Jones added, “Tom Landry and
Tex Schramm are bigger than
money, bigger than life.”
Jones also said that the sale with
Bright was final.
Asked how he could win some of
the disenchanted Dallas fans, John
son said, “I hope they are as excited
as I am. We need your help. I don’t
claim to have all the answers but I
want to take them to the Super Bowl.
I know they have such a great love
for their team that they were upset. I
knew what I was going to do would
be controversial.”
Johnson, who arrived for his first
press conference 10 minutes late,
said he had not decided on what as
sistant coaches he would be bringing
with him from Miami or which Cow
boys’ assistants would be retained.
“WeTl say something about that
next week,” Johnson said. “We also
will be evaluating the players on the
team and have no announcements
about them yet.”
Johnson said he will field a Dallas
team that is “aggressive on both sides
of the ball. We want to press the
game on offense and press the game
on defense with an attacking style.”
He said the Cowboys will run a 4-3
defense with some 3-4 sprinkled in
as a changeup.
Johnson said former Miami assis
tant David Shula “is a brilliant coach
and an excellent offensive strategist.
He’ll do a great job.”
At one point during the heated
questioning, Johnson said, “This
thing has been a grind.”
He said he still hasn’t signed a
contract with Jones.
“I just told him 1 didn’t want to
take a pay cut,” Johnson said. “Pay is
not an issue. I’ve got the job I
dreamed about all my life. I told the
team that I’d never leave Miami un
less I had a chance like this.”
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AUSTIN (AP) — The winningest
[football coach in Southwest Confer
ence history and a former Heisman
Trophy winner urged the Legis-
eon Tuesday to enact a bill that
would make it a felony crime to offer
jirospective college recruits illegal
Inducements, such as cars or money.
Darrell Royal, who retired as Uni-
jtersity of Texas head football coach
fin 1976, predicted that the first con
viction would end cheating in college
athletics.
Earl Campbell, a tailback who won
the Heisman in 1977, said when he
was being recruited “it sure was hard
to turn down an Eldorado and that
white Corvette” to attend the Uni
versity of Texas.
Campbell said he “wouldn’t dare”
name the school that offered the
Lady Aggies host SWT
in doubleheader tonight
By Stan Golaboff
SPORTS WRITER
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Texas A&M’s softball team will
play its home opener today at
6.p.m. at the Lady Aggie Softball
complex against Southwest Texas
State. It is the first game of a dou
bleheader.
A&M is on a five-game win
streak after winning the Loui-
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• What:Texas A&M’s Lady Aggie
softball team (5-2) hosts Southwest
Texas State (2-0) for a double-
header.
• Where:Lady Aggie Softball Com-
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• When:6 p.m.
siana Classic last weekend. A&M
is 5-2 for the year.
This is the twelfth meeting be
tween the two schools and A&M
has never lost to SWT. Last year
A&M swept four games from
SWT. SWT Head Coach Pam
Wuestenberg will be looking for
her first win against A&M as she
brings in her team, which is 2-0
on the year.
A&M Head Coach Bob Brock
started the year with a new infield
and then changed it before the
Louisiana tournament. The new
infield has Carrie Heightley play
ing first, Michelle Mayfield at
third and Renee Blaha at short
stop. Heightley had been at short
stop, Mayfield was at first and
Blaha was at third.
“We are happy to be home,”
Brock said. “We’re glad to be on a
winning streak and we hope to
carry it through the weekend
during our tournament.”
A&M depended on the arm of
freshman pitcher Dana Mitchell
to win in Louisiana and Mitchell
will be the starter for today’s
opener.
“Dana made great progress
this weekend,” Brock said.
Mitchell (5-2) pitched a no-hit
shoutout against Southern Missis
sippi in the semifinals in Loui
siana.
Brock is looking for more of
fensive output in today’s twinbill.
“We are getting some hitting
and scoring from people we
didn’t expect it from and those
who aren’t hitting are making
good contact with the ball,” Brock
said. “They keep hitting the ball
straight at people, but it will
The Senate Criminal Justice Com
mittee quickly approved a bill, voting
6-0, that sponsor Bob Glasgow, D-
Stephenville, said would cover stu
dent-athletes, parents and alumni —
not only in Texas but across the na
tion.
“We think the law would apply
equally,” Glasgow told a news con
ference. “If somebody, a university,
from Florida or Michigan or Ohio
State or California came into Texas
and violated this Penal Code, we
think those people are subject to
prosecution also.”
A majority of SWC schools have
been penalized by the NCAA in re
cent years for alleged violations, and
Texas blue-chip football recruits
have responded by leaving the state
in record numbers.
“We look like the biggest bunch of
thugs, gangsters ... of all time,”
Royal told the committee.
The bill by Glasgow, and nine
other legislators, would make it a
misdemeanor — punishable by up to
one year in jail — for a person to in
tentionally or knowingly solicit, ac
cept, or agree to accept an illegal in
ducement to attend a particular
college.
Glasgow said in many cases par
ents are trying to negotiate benefits
for their children who play sports.
“The day of the student-athlete
and his parents asking a college,
‘What do you have to offer?’ must
end,” Glasgow said.
Royal said he could go on any col
lege campus in the nation and deter
mine if student-athletes were getting
improper payments.
“I’d check their rides and rags,”
Royal testified. “If they’re driving
BMWs and wearing cashmere sweat
ers, it doesn’t take a genius to know
what’s going on.”
In a provision of the bill directed
at alumni, those offering illegal re
cruiting benefits would be subject to
a maximum penalty of 10 years in
prison.
Glasgow said the law is needed be
cause the only sanction by the Na
tional Collegiate Athletic Association
is to place a school on probation,
which penalizes honest athletes as
well as the school for possibly the
acts of a few.
Royal said without subpoena
power, NCAA investigations now
“can reach a certain stage, up to the
financing of cars at banks for in
stance, and the bank simply tells you
to get out of their bank, and there’s
nothing the NCAA can do about
that.”
David Berst, NCAA assistant ex
ecutive director, has said the bill
would “actually undermine our ef
fectiveness” by creating new issues,
“including the involvement of legal
counsel and Fifth Amendment
rights.”
“My reaction to that is a little bit of
jealousy,” Glasgow responded. “I
think it’s absolutely untrue” that the
measure would interfere with
NCAA investigations.
Campbell, a black who was re
cruited by Royal, recalled making a
statement to Royal as an 18-year-old
high school student in Tyler, Texas,
— “that my people have sold them
selves long enough, and I’m not for
sale.”
Royal himself said alumni had
pressured him to buy players when
he was coaching. “I would have to
say I was asked to join the pack. I can
tell you that I never did, regardless
of where I coached.”
Royal was head coach at Missis
sippi State, Washington and, for 20
years, at Texas, where his record was
167-47-5. His teams w r on national
football championships in 1963 and
1969.
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courage to speak after a Soviet commission rebu
ried the bones and erected a memorial in May-
blaming the Nazis for the killing. On the spot
where Soviet government trucks once dripped
blood on the forest floor, the monument carved
the official version in granite.
“When they put up this monument, I became
ashamed that they were blaming this on the
wrong people,” Kukovenko, 74, said in an inter
view.
“My father may be buried there,” Kukovenko’s
wife, Halyna, said. “My father was a collective
farmer, and they killed him for nothing,” she
sobbed.
Western historians estimate 20 million Soviets
were killed under Stalin, particularly during the
Great Purge of the late 1930s.
But it was only in 1987 the Soviet government,
as part of the reforms instituted under President
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