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The Battalion
Monday, January 22,
Dorsett gets wisl
Former Cowboys star enjoyin.
final pro days in Super Bowl ^
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DENVER (AP) — After 12 sea
sons of uncommon effort and one of
extraordinary patience, the career of
Anthony Drew Dorsett draws to a
close where it began.
Tony Dorsett finds delicious irony
in the fact that his last game — al
though as a non-playing member of
the Denver Broncos — will be in the
Super Bowl in New Orleans, where
maybe it would be all right,
found out later that ligaments^ 1
no nerve endings.
“It was Aug. 3. I knew the*!*?,
was a wash.” And as an aging 11 0
ning back hoping for one mortr”’ !'
son, the ligament tear represecEF
career-ending injury. R s
“It would have been eas) ;|;??. M
discouraged,” he said. “But h i;. •
hard in rehabilitating the h*- 8111
worked it back in shape. I nevejH D l , ;l
up. 1 didn’t want to be a cripplef*'
He now sees the injury as
coup
thing of a blessing in disguise, e ( ‘j
helped me to prepare towalhHP i
Football has taken up moretha.'t-'
of my life. It will be somethirf^ ns
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Gaston named
Coach of Year
for Jays’season
HOUSTON — Cito Gaston,
who took over a losing Toronto
Blue Jays team in May and man
aged them to the American
League Eastern Division
championship, is the Texas Pro
fessional Coach of the Year for
1989.
He took over in May with the
Blue Jays near the bottom of the
AL East with a 12-24 record and
guided them to a 77-49 record
thereafter. The Blue Jays won the
division by two games over the
Baltimore Orioles. They lost to
the Oakland Athletics in the play
offs.
Hogs, Longhorns squaring off
SWC basketball action heats up this week
The Arkansas Razorbacks and Texas Longhorns,
both unblemished in Southwest Conference basketball
play, finally will have their long-awaited showdown
Thursday night in Fayetteville.
The Hogs (6-0) and ’Horns (5-0) meet on national
television (ESPN) at 6:30 p.m. in the first of two meet
ings within a two-week period. They play again at 1
p.m. Sunday Feb. 4 in Austin in yet another nationally
televised matchup (ABC).
The 12th-ranked Hogs moved a half-game ahead of
Texas on Saturday with a solid 100-84 over Texas A&M
University in College Station, traditionally a difficult
place for Arkansas to play.
In other games, surprising Rice earned its fourth
consecutive league triumph, a 58-55 overtime verdict
against Southern Methodist; Texas Christian upset
Houston 89-73 in Fort Worth, and Baylor snapped a
15-game conference losing streak with a 58-50 victory
over Texas Tech.
Before it takes on Texas, the Razorbacks have a
toughie on Monday night when the Houston Cougars
come calling. In another game that evening, the ’Horns
have to travel to Lubbock to take on Texas Tech, win
less in league play.
On Wednesday night, SMU is at Houston, Rice is at
Texas A&M, and Texas Tech is at TCU.
On Saturday, A&M is at Houston, Rice is at Texas,
Texas Tech is at SMU and TCU is at Baylor. Arkansas
is at Alabama-Birmingham in a non-conference game.
For Arkansas coach Nolan Richardson, it was a big
victory in a G. Rollie White Coliseum. He got two tech
nical fouls in the first half.
“Coach Richardson told us he hasn’t won here in
more than two years,” said Arkansas center Oliver
Miller. “We did this one for the coach. When he got his
second technical foul in the game, we remembered him
telling us Tiis week how much he wanted to win here. It
really got us pumped up.”
Dorsetfs Dallas Cowboys beat the
Broncos in his rookie season for his
lone Super Bowl ring.
“To end up where I started ...
what a great ending this would have
been to my career,” Dorsett said. “I
wouldn’t miss this one. This is my
last hurrah.”
Dorsett, 35, leaves the game as the
No. 2 all-time rusher in NFL history
with 12,739 yards, trailing only Wal
ter Payton at 16,726.
He leaves it not as a still-vibrant
running threat but as a player reha
bilitating from major knee surgery
last August.
But he leaves it with no regrets,
and with an eye toward a career in
broadcasting.
Dorsett sounds about 98 percent
sure his playing days are over.
“Never say never,” he says. “The
odds of me being able to play again
are not insurmountable. But I don’t
foresee me playing any more foot
ball. I’ll be 36 in three months. I
don’t want to put my body through
this any more. I’ve enjoyed it. I think
it’s time to move on.”
This wasn’t the way he wanted to
go out.
While running a simple pass pat
tern in training camp, Dorsett plan
ted his left knee and it gave way.
Dorsett had been hit thousands of
times during his career with no se
rious repercussions. This time there
was no contact.
“It just crumbled like a piece of
spaghetti,” he said. “I knew it was
pretty serious. The funny thing is,
the pain went away and I thought
miss.
Asked to evaluate his careei
said, laughing, “It’s one I can
with. To be a running backi:;
NFL at 183 pounds and whent^
see some of the hits theydishi
this league, sometimes I wondtt
1 played this long. I’m thesecot
time leading rusher, and 11
would play only five years
leaf through the pages of the
book some day, 1 can smile
what I’ve done.”
Dorsett already has madesoi
quiries into a future career in
casting. “I want to get involved
broadcaster in radio or TV,"he
“I’ll try to prepare myself dify
There are three networks out
which might have some interest’
After eight 1,000-yard
and 77 rushing touchdowns,
followed record-setting
mances at Pitt that earned
Heisman T rophy in 1976, he
it won’t be easy to cut histiesit
°I
game.
He said he “felt butterflies"
ing the Broncos’ 37-21 victor|
Cleveland in the.™
Championship game last Sundil
was thinking I wish I had jtin
more opportunity. 1 wanted i
out there."
He likes the Broncos' clu
against the San Francisco 49i
the Super Bowl.
"f \ c cm it i hr Ircling this tear /
give San Francisco all itcanhar;
he said. “This team has depdil
more balanced, with abetter!
of run and pass, and it has a I
defense than the last two tin
played in the Super Bowl.
“(Quarterback) John Elwavj
presses me so much. He's like Rcj
Staubach in having that imeik
competitive drive. ] ohn has the s.m
aura about him that Roter had. ■
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