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Monday, August 28,1989
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NEW YORK (AP) Eight would be
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If Lendl reaches the
ampionship match, he will tie the
tournament record of eight consec
utive final appearances by Bill Til-
len from 1918-25. But Lendl won’t
be satisfied unless he wins the Grand
Slam event, which begins a two-week
un Monday at the National Tennis
enter.
“Winning is always my goal at the
pen,” Lendl said. “I’ve been sec
ond enough times.”
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■rom 1982-84, Lendl won the tour-
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Jear, Mats Wilander beat him in the
Binal and took over the No. 1-rank-
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ment,” he said Sunday after beating
Mikael Pernfors in the final of a
warmup event in Jericho, N.Y. “I
just hope I’m not at my peak yet.”
Defending women’s champion
Steffi Graf plays the opening match
on center court against Etsuko
Inoue of Japan. The other top
women, including four-time cham
pion Martina Navratilova and six
time winner Chris Evert, are sched
uled to play their first matches on
Tuesday.
Evert opens against Bettina Fulco
of Argentina, while Navratilova
meets qualifier Ei Tida of Japan.
The Open will be the last major
tournament for Evert, who is re
tiring at the end of the season. She
has won more U.S. Open singles
matches (97) than any other player.
“A couple of friends recently told
me they didn’t even want me to play
the Open,” Evert says in the current
Sports Illustrated. “They wanted to
remember me by that final wave on
Centre Court after I lost to Steffi in
the semis at Wimbledon.”
Slocum show to debut
The Texas A&M Football
Show with R.C. Slocum will make
its debut Monday night from
Kyle Field in conjunctionwith
A&M’s All-University Night.
The show will air from 6:30-
7:30 p.m. and will be carried on
cable by Home Sports Entertain
ment in Texas, Oklahoma, Loui
siana, New Mexico and Arkansas.
The show will be aired in Bryan-
College Station on Ch. 25.
Starting next Sunday from 9-
10 p.m. a new one-hour presenta
tion will treat A&M fans to a new
dimension in football shows as
they will be able to call in their
questions to Slocum during the
show at (800) 826-8792.
In addition, the live show will
be carried in Phoenix on the Di
mension Cable System, in San
Antonio on Sports Cable 37 and
in Wichita Falls on K35VO. The
show will be delayed one hour in
Lafayette, La. on KAVN, Ch. 15
and in San Angelo on KIDY, Ch.
6. The show will be delayed one-
half hour here locally on KBTX,
Ch. 3; in Victoria on KAVU, Ch.
25; and in Houston on KCCF,
Ch. 7. Check your local listings
for additional information con
cerning the new show.
The show’s host will be Duke
Frye, the new voice of the Texas
Aggies.
FROM STAFF & WIRE REPORTS
Texas A&M found itself on the
outside looking in as it was not in
cluded in the Associated Press Top
25 preseason college football poll re
leased Saturday.
But with a little luck and hard
work, the Aggies could find them
selves in the top 20 as early as the
first or second week of the season.
A&M plays its first two games
against two prominent football
teams: seventh-ranked Louisiana
State University at Kyle Field on Sat
urday, and at Washington Univer
sity on Sept. 9.
Arkansas, the defending South
west Conference champion, is
ranked No. 10 and Houston, who is
ineligible this season for the SWC
crown or post-season play because of
NCAA probation, is ranked No. 21.
The Aggies just missed being
ranked, as they finished with 162
points. Ohio State nailed down the
last spot with 200'/2 points. Georgia
followed with 181, then came the
Aggies. Washington was right be
hind A&M with 128.
Other SWC schools receiving
votes were Texas with 66 points and
Baylor with 32 points.
Michigan coach Bo Schembechler
has won more games than any other
active coach and has the fifth-high-
est total (224) in NCAA Division I
history. Flowever, he has never won
a natinal championship.
Michigan received 23 first-place
votes and 1,439 points to edge de
fending national champion Notre
Dame. The Fighting Irish, who visit
Ann Arbor on Sept. 16, were ranked
No. 1 on 20 ballots and received
1,378 points.
Other teams receiving first-place
votes were Nebraska (10), Miami (4),
Southern California (1) and Florida
State (2).
The AP is expanding its rankings
from 20 to 25 teams this season.
Sixty sports writers and spottscasters
vote in the weekly poll, which awards
25 points for first place, 24 for sec
ond and so on.
Although most of Michigan’s
starters return from last year’s 9-2-1
Rose Bowl champion team, Schem
bechler is downplaying talk of a na
tional title.
“I don’t care about all that,”
Schembechler said. “We’re going to
try to have a year like last year. We
had a lot of heartaches, but we had a
lot of fun, too.”
AP Top 25 Poll
Team
1. Michigan
2. Notre Dame
3. Nebraska
4. Miami, Fla.
5. USC
6. Florida State
7. LSU
8. Auburn
9. UCLA
10. Arkansas
11. Penn State
12. Clemson
13. Syracuse
14. Colorado
15. Oklahoma
16. Alabama
17. West Virginia
18. Arizona
19. BYU
20. Pittsburgh
21. Houston
22. Illinois
23. Iowa
24. N.C. State
25. Ohio State
Asked if the preseason ranking
puts more pressure on his team,
Schembechler said “being No. 1
doesn’t bother me. The writers
probably like us or they wouldn’t
nave voted that way. Of course, we
may or may not be that good.”
Two of Michigan’s top three quar
terbacks were recently declared inel
igible, but the Wolverines still have
senior Michael Taylor, who started
the first nine games last season be
fore breaking his collarbone.
This is the second time Michigan
has been ranked No. 1 in the AP
preseason poll, which started in
1950. The Wolverines also were the
top pick in 1981, but they lost their
opener to Wisconsin, went 9-3 and
finished 12th in the final rankings.
The only time Michigan finished
first in the final AP poll was 1948.
Since Schembechler became coach in
1969, the Wolverines’ best final
ranking was No. 2 in 1985.
Notre Dame, which has won eight
national championships, opens its
season Thursday night against Vir
ginia in the Kickoff Classic. The
Fighting Irish have lost several key
players because of injuries, academ
ics and disciplinary problems, but
plenty of talent returns from last
year’s undefeated team.
This year’s preseason Top 25 in
cludes 16 teams from last season’s fi
nal Top Twenty. The newcomers
are Penn State, Colorado, Arizona,
Brigham Young, Pittsburgh, Illinois,
Iowa, North Carolina State and
Ohio State.
A total of 54 teams received votes.
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