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The Battalion
Page 11
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world champions and ai§lv.b with a
( Chance to repeat to . go back to
] .George Steinbrenner’s dog and
jQ.pbny show? Okay, maybe it’s just a
dog show.
nc J|t But, ultimately the answer is
pntoney. Maybe he feels one winner’s
.((. ring is enough and that he’d better
get the huge money (because he’s al-
|- ready making the big money) while
he can.
nC j And Henderson, along with Mark
Langston, are franchise-type play-
r ers, the type you’d trade Herschel
s Walker for. You may not blame
them for striking out, seeking and
Tfaiaking new fortunes.
But what about those other 88
who don’t quite measure up to one-
i man-gang status?
Take Rick Leach of the Rangers.
,# ii The only notable things he did
last season were pull a disappearing
11 act for a few days and get busted
3 ' with some marijuana in his luggage.
1 Oh, and he got knocked out when he
[ ran into the outfield wall. Maybe
n these events were related.
|| That’s it. And now he’s a free
j agent. If I were him I’d be hoping
the Rangers would just re-sign me.
j If I were the Rangers, I’d Just Say
No.
But Rickey, Rick and the Rangers
! may not have to worry about any of
1 this.
The agreement between the play
ers and owners runs out before the
J 1 next season begins. If that deadline
. is missed, who’s playing for whom
1 will be irrelevant.
Mark Macon ready
for strong support
When Mark Macon was a
freshman, Temple soared to the
top of the college basketball polls
and a gaudy 32-2 record with the
6-foot-5 guard grabbing honors
in a season that ended one game
short of the Final Four.
As a sophomore, Macon was
hounded defensively and could
only shoot and watch as the Owls
dropped to 18-12 and an NIT
bid.
It looks as if those things will
change for the Temple junior.
The Owls, ranked 15th in the
preseason poll, have the height
and talent to draw some of the at
tention Macon faced last season.
“It’s still just Mark Macon, and
I don’t think we were frustrated
last year and I don’t think any
body on my team would say they
were,” he said. “It’s just my team
coming in with a different cast of
players and we’re going to try to
play our best every game.”
Macon averaged 18.3 points
last season and handed out 115
assists, but his shooting percent
age dropped from .454 as a fresh
man to last season’s .407.
Macon’s only frontline help last
season came from 7-0 Duane
Causwell. He was second in the
nation in blocked shots and aver
aged 11.3 points and 8.9 re
bounds. But when Causwell was
in foul trouble, the size of the
team dropped dramatically.
It won’t this season, with the
addition of Prop 48 sophomores
7-0 Donald Hodge, 6-11 Chris
Lovelace and 6-9 Mark Strick
land.
“It’s been different in practice
but not that much,” Macon said
of the new pro-size frontline.
“Size can help you make up for a
lot, but it may also hamper you.”
Lack of height will hurt Rutg
ers and West Virginia in the At
lantic 10 race with Temple.
Rutgers has four starters back
from last season’s team which
caught the country’s attention
with an emotional ride to the
NCAA tournament. West Vir
ginia lost three players from an
offense that was balanced and
had been together for three sea-
The Atlantic 10 has two new
coaches, with Seton Hall assistant
John Carroll taking over at Du-
quesne and former Gannon head
coach Tom Chapman moving to
St. Bonaventure.
Maybe no coach can expect as
big a turnaround this season as
George Washington’s John Kues-
ter. His team went 1-27 last sea
son, matching the NCAA mark
for losses in a season.
Pitt poised
for post-season
bowl action
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Pitt is all
but assured of going to its second
bowl in six years, but hold the cele
bration.
The Panthers are happy they’ll
have their day in the Sun, or what
used to be called the Sun Bowl, but
they realize that the John Hancock
Bowl on Dec. 30 won’t be the same as
appearing in a big-buck bowl like the
Sugar or Fiesta two days later.
Pittsburgh’s worst back-to-back
losses in 19 years — 45-7 to Notre
Dame and 24-3 to Miami — cost the
Panthers (5-2-1) any chance of
reaching their season-long goal to
play in a New Year’s Day bowl game.
“We haven’t won a game in a
month,” safety Dan Crossman said.
“We haven’t played a good game in a
long time.”
The El Paso-based bowl came
close to extending an invitation last
season to the Panthers, only to be
persuaded by CBS-TV officials to in
vite Army to play Alabama.
Pitt, apparently discouraged after
being snubbed by the Sun and Gator
bowls, went on to lose its final two
games and finish 6-5.
John Hancock Bowl officials said
Pitt’s invitation isn’t contingent upon
the Panthers beating East Carolina
on Saturday or rival Penn State on
Nov. 25, the day invitations officially
can be extended.
Pitt has three games remaining,
including a Dec. 2 game in Dublin,
Ireland, against Rutgers, and con
ceivably could finish 5-5-1.
Even if that happens, Fulmer said
the John Hancock Bowl won’t recon
sider its decision.
“I would never make Mike (Gottf
ried, the Panthers’ coach) an offer
and then take it back,” Fulmer said.
“Mike is a good friend of mine and I
have a lot of respect for him and his
program.”
Pitt will collect $900,000 for ap
pearing in the John Hancock Bowl.
The Panthers’ likely opponent is
the Southwest Conference run-
nerup, perhaps Texas A&M (7-2) or
Arkansas (8-1).
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