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Wednesday, January 31,1990 The Battalion Page 9 est, East 11-Stars [ill squads NEW YORK (AP) — Karl Ma rne, who threatened to skip the BA AH-Star Game after fans ft him off the starting team, was med as a Western Conference eserve Tuesday along with San ntonio rookie David Robinson. Also added to the Western uad were Tom Chambers and evin Johnson of Phoenix, Clyde rexler of Portland, Fat Lever of enver and Chris Mullin of golden State. Filling out the Eastern roster ivere joe Dumars and Dennis lodman of Detroit, Kevin Mc- -lale and Robert Parish of Bos on, Reggie Miller of Indiana, kotfie Pippen of Chicago and )ominique Wilkins of Adanta. Coaches in each conference tvere asked to pick two forwards, wo guards, one center and two idditiona! reserves at any posi- ion, without voting for players join their own team. Malone, ranked in the top five n scoring, rebounding and field- ioal percentage, was upset after ans failed to make him an AH- Star starter and he threatened to wycott the Feb. i 1 game in Mi ami. But after scoring a career- aigh 61 points against Milwaukee ast week, he said he would partic ipate in the game if the coaches picked him as a reserve. The West starters are guards Magic Johnson of the Los An geles Lakers and John Stockton oflitah, center Akeem Olajuwon of Houston and forwards James Worthy and A.C. Green of the Eakers. Starting for the East will be guards Michael Jordan of Chi cago and Isiah Thomas of De troit, center Patrick Ewing of New York and forwards Larry Bird of Boston and Charles Bark ley of Philadelphia. Pat Riley of the Lakers will coach the West and Chuck Daly of die Pistons will coach the East. rormer Oiler to go for House I MORGAN I OWN, W.Va. (AP) — ftrmer West Virginia and Houston ■ilers quarterback Oliver Luck said ■uesday he will run for one of the slate’s four U.S. House seats this Kar. ■ Luck, a Republican lawyer who moved from Washington, D.C., back to Morgantown in December, will seek the GOP nomination in the May jprimary to challenge U.S. Rep. Har- |ey 0. Staggers Jr. TANK MCNAMARA by Jeff Millar & Bill Hinds Houston takes UT by the horns Cougars knock off Texas AUSTIN (AP) — Byron Smith and Derrick Daniels scored 19 points each to lead a second half surge as the Houston Cougars knocked off the Texas Longhorns 102-93 Tues day night in Southwest Conference action. Houston improved to 15-6 on the year and 6-3 in conference and Texas slipped to 14-5 and 7-2 in front of 13,891 fans and a national television audience. The Longhorns lost despite the return of Travis Mays, who missed the Rice game Saturday and half of the Arkansas game Thursday after hyperextending his right index fin ger against the Hogs. The 6-2 senior guard, who leads the conference in scoring with a 24.8 average, reappeared with 25 points, with 20 of those coming in the sec ond half. Mays, who did not start and entered the contest for the first time with six minutes gone in the game, scored 20 of the Longhorns’ last 27 points. Lance Blanks had 21 for Texas af ter hitting for 16 in the first half. Locksley Collie followed with 18 — 14 in the first half — and Joey Wright chipped in 17. Houston, the top rebounding team in the conference, controlled the boards on the strength of Darrell Mickens’ 21 rebounds. Mickens’ boardwork is the top performance in the conference so far this season. The Cougars outscored Texas 55- 40 in the second half after trailing 53-47 at halftime. The Longhorns went on a 13-2 run at the midway point of the first half and constructed their biggest lead of the night 41-27. However, the Cougars outscored Texas 14-3 in the next two minutes to pull within three at 44-41 on a Carl Herrera turnaround. Houston grabbed its first lead of the evening 64-63 with 12:19 left in the game and surged ahead for good 74-73 five minutes later on a Daniels drive to the basket. The Cougars’ biggest lead of the evening came with 2:07 left on a pair of Daniels free thows to make it 92- 78. “This was a win we needed des perately,” said Houston Coach Pat Foster. “We got down by 14 in the first half and were really on the ropes. But we had some people come in who had not even played that much for us in the past and did a great job.” With Carl Herrera on the bench with four fouls early in the second half, Foster called on Mickens and he responded by a conference-high 21 rebounds, 12 of those on the de fensive end. “He was getting rebounds all over the place,” Foster said. “If he doesn’t get those, we don’t win.” Texas Coach Tom Penders thought the story of the game was his team’s poor shooting in the sec ond half. “The ball just wouldn’t drop for us,” said Penders. Phillips’ daughter robbed at Bowl NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Two men in a stolen car bungled an attempt to rob two Super Bowl visitors from Massachusetts, snatched the purse of the daughter of former Saints coach Bum Phillips, then fell out with each other and ensured their capture, police said. Leon Reddicks, 19, and Eicon Commadore, 20, were booked with armed robbery, two counts of attempted murder and possession of a stolen car. Police said the car was stolen Saturday night. On Sunday, Bruce Potter, 33, and his brother David, 35, both of Danver, Mass., were waiting for a cab after the Super Bowl. Bruce Potter said Commadore and Reddicks drove up and offered them a ride, then headed toward a housing project, instead of the French Quarter. The brothers realized “something bad was about to happen,” so they jumped from the car when it slowed down and ran toward the French Quarter. Commadore got out of the car and shot at them, one shot grazing Bruce Potter’s stomach. Potter said. His wound did not require treatment. The brothers hailed a cab and reported the incident to police. Shortly afterward, two men pulled a gun on Susan Reech of Houston and took her purse containing about $300. She is the daughter of Bum Phillips. Her 16-year- old son chased the fleeing car for about two blocks, but the men escaped. Police said Commadore tried to appropriate all of the stolen money, but Reddicks pointed a gun at him and took it all himself. As the men drove past the 1st District Police Station, where the Potters had reported the assault on them, Commadore jumped from the car and reported to po lice that he had just been robbed. Commadore jumped into a police cruiser, and they set off in pursuit of the car. Meanwhile, officers Dwight Rousseve and Gustave Bethea heard the broadcast describing the car, spotted it, chased it over a winding course through city streets, and apprehended Reddicks. Commadore drove up with the second police cruiser and tried to excuse himself on the basis of a prior ap pointment, but Reddicks pointed him out as his accom plice, the officers said. In addition to being booked in connection with the assaults on the Potters and Mrs. Reech, Reddicks was booked with the armed robbery of Commadore. NCAA to clarify ruling on UNLV bill payments LAS VEGAS (AP) — The NCAA will be asked to clarify an issue Thursday that is nagging the UNLV basketball team and could affect college coaches and athletic directors across the coun try. The question: To what degree are universities responsible for seeing that bills of student ath letes are paid? Nine UNLV players have been suspended for one game for fail ing to pay incidental charges at hotels where the team stayed on the road last season. Charges range from $7.51 for one athlete to less than $100 in combined bills for another. Most charges to tal less than $50 per student, uni versity officials say. The Runnin’ Rebels, under the NCAA microscope since a cele brated battle with Coach Jerry Tarkanian 13 years ago, thought it was on solid ground. Not so, according to the NCAA. If the latest NCAA edict holds, many coaches could be facing the same question. “To our knowledge, this is the first time the NCAA has held in stitutions accountable for such charges by student athletes,” said UNLV athletic director Brad Ro- thermel. “The institutions may have the responsibility of making sure the student athletes pay their own bills,” Janet Justus, head of the el- igiblity department of the NCAA, said in a telephone interview Tuesday. Justus ruled last week that the nine players, including three starters, must sit out one game each for failing to pay the inci dental charges. UNLV routinely notifies hotels where the players stay that the university will be responsible only for the room cost and team meals. “We’ve always told the hotels that no incidental charges could be or would be paid by the institu tion,” Rothermel said. “We told the hotels not to permit these kinds of charges to occur.” Rothermel said hotels were in structed to shut off the phones of the players so they could not make long distance calls. Despite the written notices, some athletes were able to make calls and charge them to their room. Oth ers consumed snacks in mini-bars found in their rooms. Strawberry (Continued from page 7) | Strawberry batted .225 last season jr- 158th in the National League. His 29 homers were sixth best in the league but he drove in just 77 runs Ind struck out 105 times in 476 at- bats. And that comes off a dismal sec ond half of 1988, when he batted |236 after hitting .301 in the first |alf. 1 “He is what he is — a pretty good ballplayer,” Cashen said. “It does not look like he’s ever going to hit for av erage. He’s going to hit some home runs. He’s an X kind of a fielder and a Y kind of a thrower. He is what he is.” NFL All-Star game losing stars rapidly HONOLULU (AP) — Scratch Joe Montana. John Elway is out, too. So are Boomer Esiason, Don Majkowski, John Taylor and Karl Mecklenburg. Some of the luster is gone from Sunday’s Pro Bowl. The anticipated rematch of Super Bowl quarterbacks Montana and El way won’t happen in the NFL’s all- star game, since both have with drawn with elbow problems. Cincinnati quarterback Esiason and Green Bay’s Don Majkowski al ready had pulled out, and Elway was supposed to replace Esiason. Of the four quarterbacks voted into the Pro Bowl by their fellow players around the league, only Warren Moon of Houston will play Sunday at Aloha Stadium. Philadelphia’s Randall Cunning ham has replaced Majkowski, who listed personal reasons for not show ing up. Dave Krieg of Seattle will fill the spot left vacant first by Esiascin, who listed rib and toe injuries, then by Elway. “The quarterbacks were hit hard this year,” said Pro Bowl coordinator Roger Goodell of the NFL. “I know Elway really wanted to play, but I understand that his elbow really swelled up the day after the Super Bowl. “I know Montana’s elbow is an on going problem; I think they were still talking about the possibility of off-season surgery,” Goodell said. “He’s a tough guy and I’m sure he would like to be here if he could.” Mecklenburg, an inside line backer for Denver, injured his left kee in the Broncos’ 55-10 loss to San Francisco in the Super Bowl and was scheduled for arthroscopic surgery. Taylor, a wide receiver for the 49ers, pulled out of the Pro Bowl with a sprained ankle. Johnny Rembert of New England will fill in for Mecklenburg, and Mark Carrier of Tampa Bay will re place Taylor. Unlike baseball, basketball and hockey, where players rarely are ab sent from the pro all-star games, the Pro Bowl often seems to be missing some of the sport’s best players. Part of that, of course, is due to the fact that more players suffer in juries in football than in other sports. The Pro Bowl also differs from other all-star games in that it is played a month after the regular season and a week after the final championship game, making the all- star game seem sort of a footnote. Other pro sports hold their all- star games near midseason. Too, the pay for the NFL star showcase game is considerably less than the players normally earn for a game — the Pro Bowl winners re ceive $10,000 each and the losers get $5,000 apiece. Strawberry’s career with the Mets has become increasingly turbulent as his statistics have tailed off. Last March, he demanded that the Mets renegotiate his contract and then walked out of camp for U/a days. He took a swing at team co-captain Keith Hernandez during a photo session before he walked out. Two weeks later, he charged To ronto pitcher Jeff Musselman dur ing an exhibition game and then tried to start a fight with Blue Jays third baseman Kelly Gruber. In August 1984, he was fined $500 for missing batting practice. He was fined another $1,500 during 1987 spring training for missing a workout and leaving camp in protest of his fine. ACU players banned ABILENE (AP) — Four of the five starters on the Abilene Christian University basketball team were kicked off the squad Tuesday for un specified disciplinary reasons. Ath letic Director Don Drennan and head coach Dee Nutt announced. Two reserves also were dismissed. Drennan and Nutt refused to elaborate on the nature of the player violations and said they would have no further comment on the situa tion. None of the six was dismissed from school. The Wildcats are 3-16 for the sea son and 1-6 in the Lone Star Confer ence. For their seven games remaining on the regular season schedule, ACU will have only five players who have seen action this season. Also available will be two transfers and two redshirts. Wood was not at his office on Tuesday. There was a busy signal on his home phone for most of the day, and later Tuesday there was no an swer. The Abilene Reporter-News said it talked with two players, who said they were unaware of any school rules they had broken. + THER THERE’S A JOB FOR YOU IN A SUMMER CAMP The American Camping Association (NY) will make your application avail, to over 300 camps in the Northeast. Exciting op portunities for college students and pro fessionals. 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