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Wednesday, January 9, 1990
The Battalion
Sports Editor
Alan Lehmann
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Another Touchdown
PHELAN M. EBENHACK/The Battalion
Aggie quarterback Bucky Richardson runs for a touchdown in
A&M’s 65-14 victory over BYU in the Holiday Bowl. The Ags fin
ished the season 9-3-1, ranked 15th in the final AP poll.
Rangers’ Russell happy
to be healthy once again
ARLINGTON (AP) — Texas
Rangers reliever Jeff Russell is using
the team’s annual pitchers minicamp
to put to rest questions about his
right elbow and his work habits.
Russell has shown no effects from
the elbow surgery that forced him to
miss more than half of the 1990 sea
son.
“It’s good to get out here again,”
he said. “It’s good to see the guys,
kid around with everybody.”
Before his surgery, Russell led the
clubhouse in practical jokes.
In airports, he and Bobby Witt
were notorious for tying a string to a
dollar bill, dropping it in a crowded
concourse, then jerking the string
when someone reached for the bill.
He was always a threat to run you
over with a remote-control car.
But these days Russell seems to
work out more and laugh less.
“It seems like he’s taken a little bit
of a leadership role this winter,”
Rangers manager Bobby Valentine
told the Dallas Times-Herald. “He’s
really going about his work in a pro
fessional way.”
Russell, 29, saved a club-record 38
games for the Rangers in 1989. He
was rewarded with a three-year, $4.5
million contract.
But last year, a slow start was tra
ced to bone chips in his elbow, and
Johnson named
NFL’s best coach
NEW YORK (AP) — Jimmy John
son, having guided the Dallas Cow
boys to a six-game improvement and
into playoff contention this season,
won NFL Coach of the Year honors
on Tuesday.
Johnson, in his second year with
the Cowboys after an illustrious ca
reer as a college coach, got 18‘/a
votes from 80 sports writers and
broadcasters in balloting conducted
by The Associated Press. He edged
Art Shell of the Raiders by 2‘/a votes.
“That’s very nice, and I’m truly
honored,” Johnson said. “I think the
voters looked at the entire year and
the improvement we had made over
last year.”
In 1989, the Cowboys were 1-15,
the worst team in the NFL and in
franchise history. It was a rude de
but as a pro coach for Johnson, who
won the national title in 1987 at the
University of Miami.
“We were a ragtag team a year
ago,” Johnson said. “It really gives
me a good feeling, it really takes the
edge off the way that we finished, to
get this (award).”
This season, Dallas was 7-7 and
needed a victory in either of its final
two games to make the playoffs as a
wild card. But quarterback Troy
Aikman was injured and the Cow
boys couldn’t recover, losing out to
New Orleans on the last weekend of
the season.
Still, it was a remarkable turn
around for the Cowboys.
“I think it helps our credibility,”
said Johnson, who was a college tea
mmate at Arkansas of Cowboys
owner Jerry Jones. When Jones
bought the Cowboys after the 1988
season, he immediately summoned
Johnson to coach the team. John
son’s quick rebuilding in Dallas has
helped smooth his and Jones’ images
after the firing of Hall of Fame
coach Tom Landry.
Shell helped restore the winning
tradition in Los Angeles. The Raid
ers returned to the playoffs for the
first time in five years as their for
mer star tackle and 1989 inductee
into the Hall of Fame guided them
to a 12-4 record. Since he took over
for Mike Shanahan after four games
in 1989, the Raiders are 19-9.
Santiago’s charges dropj
he underwent his second surgery in
four years on May 30.
He didn’t return as soon as ex
pected and his save total dropped to
10. The surgery “was worse than I
thought it was,” Russell said. “They
did a lot more to it than my first one.
There was a lot more bone taken
out, a lot more shaved away.”
Russell and Valentine had dis
agreements over his rehabilitation
schedule, but they seemed to settle
them while Russell made seven ap
pearances in September, earning
two saves and showing his old fast
ball.
“That let me go on with my life,”
he said. “I didn’t have to walk
around all winter and worry.”
Russell’s good health wasn’t the
only encouraging sign at the mini
camp. The entire group seems fit,
including rehab projects Jose Guz
man (rotator cuff), Kevin Brown (el
bow), Mike Jeffcoat (back) and Robb
Nen (elbow).
“All the surprises were on the up
side,” Valentine said. “It seems like
the guys are a little more geared up
than they have been in the past.”
Russell and Witt have lifted
weights together all winter. Russell is
happy with the results and wants to
put them to use.
SAN DIEGO (AP) — Prosecutors
say they’ve decided not to pursue
misdemeanor charges of driving
while intoxicated and obstructing a
police officer against San Diego
Padres catcher Benito Santiago.
Santiago says he feels vindicated
by Monday’s decision by the District
Attorney’s office to drop all charges
stemming from his Dec. 23 arrest by
Coronado police.
“This is great news because I
know I didn’t do anything wrong,”
he said.
Santiago was arrested after he
stopped his car to try to help his sis
ter, who had been stopped near the
San Diego-Coronado Bay Bridge by
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an officer who reportedly saw her
driving erratically.
The all-star catcher, who contends
he was beaten during the arrest, still
may pursue a civil suit against the
Coronado Police Department, said
his agent and attorney, Scott Boras.
“We’re continuing to evaluate the
situation and we’ll make a decision at
a later date,” Boras said.
Boras said Santiago was only try
ing to help his sister because she
doesn’t speak English when three of
ficers wrestled him to the ground
and arrested him. Eneida Santiago,
42, was released after police deter
mined she was not intoxicated.
JAY JANNER/The Battalion
Texas A&M forward Rashone Lewis could not keep the Aggies
from falling 77-72 to Texas Tech Saturday. A&M will play Texas
Christian tonight at 7 p.m. in G. Rollie White Coliseum.
Former gridders face jail
KINGSVILLE, Texas (AP) —
Two former Texas A&I University
football players and a former A&I
student convicted last year of co
caine dealing could end up in prison
because of alleged violations of pro
bation terms.
Judge J. Manuel Banales is keep
ing them in jail until a Jan. 25 proba
tion revocation hearing in the 105th
District Court in Kingsville.
Akeem’s injury serious; may require surgery
HOUSTON (AP) — Houston
Rockets coach Don Chaney took a
“circle the wagons” approach Tues
day to reports that center Akeem
Olajuwon could be lost up to two
months and require surgery for inju
ries suffered when he was elbowed
in the face last week.
“We’ve got to hold the fort until
he gets back whether it’s four weeks
or eight weeks,” Chaney said. “We
have to see where this team is and
how we compete.
“If it appears we are doing okay,
then we’ll hang in there. If it appears
we’re slipping a little bit then we may
have to take steps.”
Olajuwon was struck on the right
side of his face by Chicago center
Bill Cartwright Thursday night.
First reports indicated the 7-foot All-
Star would miss three to four weeks
and surgery likely would not be re
quired.
In a second examination, Dr. Rob
ert B. Wilkins told 01ajuw;on there
was a 50-50 chance complications
from the blow could necessitate sur
gery to prevent vision damage.
Olajuwon suffered a blowout frac
ture of the floor and medial walls of
the bone structure that houses the
right eyeball.
“He can ejqpect to be out a lot
longer than four weeks,” Wilkins
said. “It’s quite serious. We will eval
uate extensive X-rays, and I will
make a decision on whether he
needs to have surgery.
“At this point, I’d say it’s 50-50
whether surgery will be needed. But
it doesn’t appear he will have any
loss of vision.”
The surgery cannot be performed
until the swelling completely goes
away, doctors say. It could be de
layed until early next week.
A two-month absence from the
time the injury occurred would force
Olajuwon to miss 26 more games.
The Rockets’ bench united behind
a 29 points and 13 rebounds by Otis
Thorpe and Sleepy Floyd’s 22 points
off the bench to beat the Indiana
Pacers 112-99 Saturday night in
their first game without Olajuwon.
They met the Portland Trailblaz-
ers Tuesday night in The Summit,
playing against Olajuwon’s former
University of Houston teammate,
Clyde Drexler.
“First of all, I’m concerned about
his safety, having an eye injury is
never an easy thing,” Drexler said.
Court documents filed Friday al
lege that former football players
Johnny B. Eaton and Dyas Evans,
both 23, and 20-year-old Rocky
Wayne Runnels all tested positive
for use of illegal drugs last month.
The documents also allege that
the three violated various other
terms of probation, including failure
to pay fines and fees and failure to
report to probation officers, accord
ing to the Corpus Christi Caller-
Times.
Eaton, Evans and Runnels were
arrested in late April after an under
cover cocaine-dealing investigation
by the Kleberg County Sheriffs De
partment. Evans had been removed
from the A&I team before his arrest.
Eaton had been placed on indefinite
suspension.
The three are required to serve a
few weeks in jail each year as a con
dition of probation. They were in
the Kleberg County Jail on Friday
when Banales issued warrants for
their arrest in connection with the al
leged probation violations.
Eaton, a former defensive end,
was convicted July 3 of two counts of
cocaine delivery. He was sentenced
to five years’ probation on each
charge.
The motion to revoke his proba
tion alleges he failed to: report to his
You’re talking about a chance of probation officer; pay court costs
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having permanent injury to your
sight so that’s a serious thing.
“I hate not playing against him.
It’s always fun to come here and see
that smile and compete against him.”
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avoid the unlawful use of drugs, nar
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