The Battalion
SPORTS 10
Wednesday, January 31,1990
Sports Editor Richard Tijerina 845-268$
Alan
Lehmann
Spons Writer
Pro Bowl just
turning into a
big Pro Hype
Poet's just scrap the Pro
Bowl. Without the football’s top talent,
what good is it?
Like baseball’s All-Star Game, the
Pro Bowl is supposed to be a showcase
for the best players in the game.
Everybody wins. The fans get to see
the league’s best and the players are
honored by their peers by being selected
to play.
It works well for baseball, providing a
mid-season break for the players and
fantasy matchups for the fans. Where
else can you see Mike Scott face Jose
Canseco?
However, the Pro Bowl is a failure in
that regard. At least six of the NFL’s top
athletes — including four of the top
quarterbacks — won’t play in Sunday’s
game: Joe Montana, John Elway, Don
Majkowski, Boomer Esiason, John
Taylor and Karl Mecklenberg.
Why?
After the 55-10 Super-drubbing last
Sunday, AFC players should be hot for
revenge and NFC players should try to
continue their post-season dominance.
But, that’s not the case. In fact,
Esiason stated a month ago that he
wouldn’t play in the Pro Bowl because
of poor blocking. Mecklenberg and
Taylor are injured, Montana and Elway
claim injuries and Majkowski listed
personal reasons.
Hey, can you blame them? Football is
a rough game, much more so than
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Ags maul hapless Red Raiders
Milton scores 25
as Thornton wins
for second time
FROM STAFF & WIRE REPORTS
Tony Milton scored 25 points for Texas
A&M as the Aggies stifled a Texas Tech
SWC Standings
Team
Arkansas
Texas
Houston
A*#
Rice
SWC Record
9-0
7-2
6-3
4-4
4-4
3-6
3-5
SMU
Texas Tech s results °‘ 9
Baytor 86. SMU 63; Texas ASM 101, Texas Tech 85; Arkan
sas 70, Rice 66;
Saturday s schedule
SMU at TCU. noon (Raycom); Baylpr at A&M. 7:30 p m,; Mis-
souri-Kansss City at Rice, 7:35 p.m.;
comeback attempt Wednesday night and
won 101-85, sending Tech to its 10th-
straight defeat.
A&M improved to 1 1-1 1 overall and 4-4
in the Southwest Conference.
The Red Raiders equaled a school record
for consecutive losses in dropping to 5-14
overall and 0-9 in the conference.
Texas Tech opened the second half
down, 56-35.
The Raiders narrowed the Aggies’ lead
to 10 points four times, but couldn’t come
closer.
Will Flemons blocked seven shots, a sin
gle-game record for Tech.
Freddie Ricks scored 23 points for the
Aggies, and Lynn Suber and Daren Rhea
each scored 19.
Derex Butts led the Raiders with 14
points. Flemons scored 14, Steve Miles
scored 12, and J.D. Sanders and Cleveland
Phelps added 11 each.
A&M slowly pulled away the rest of the
First half.
After intermission, Texas Tech began
shooting better, improving its Field goal
percentage from 35 percent in the First half
to 45 percent in the second half.
A&M, which shot 50 percent in the First
half, shot just 35 percent in the second half.
Texas Tech Finished with 54 rebounds,
and 37 of those were in the second half.
Battalion file photo
A&M junior guard Lynn Suber, shown here pulling down a rebound
against Arkansas, scored 19 points Wednesday night as the Aggies
pounded Texas Tech, 101-85 in Lubbock. A&M meets Baylor Saturday.
“A&M came out and hit the buckets
early, and did a good job defensively
against us, to jump out to that big lead
early,” Tech coach Gerald Myers said.
“We had to play catch-up after that, and
we scrambled around and got back into it a
little.”
A&M interim coach John Thornton, who
owns a 2-1 record since Shelby Metcalf left
Jan. 22, said: “The thing that encouraged
me the most was that when things weren’t
going our way in the second half, our guys
pulled together and no one started pointing
fingers.
“Then we came back and made the plays
and put it away.”
Myers said he was disappointed that the
Raiders were flat at the beginning.
“In the second half we got after it a little
better, but we were scrambling from be
hind,” Myers said.
Cowboys to use
draft picks from
Walker trade
DALLAS (AP) — The Dallas Cowboys
Wednesday exercised their rights to
eight draft picks in the Herscnel Wal
trade anti offered the Minnesota Vile
two mid-round picks for linebackers Jo
Solomon, Davicl Howard and cornerl).
Issiac Holt.
Coach Jimmy Johnson also annouo
that veterans Ed “Too Tall” Jones, Even
Walls and Tom Rafferty will be left unp
tected when the roster of 37 protectedpt
ers is sent to the NFL office on Thursdai
“We have exercised our rights in
Minnesota trade for Walker andthebal
in their court,” Johnson said. “TheViki
have until noon Thursday to decide or
lomon, Holt, and Howard will becomef
agents.”
Dallas now has Minnesota’s first-roj
pick for the upcoming draft, first-rouj
picks in 1991 and 1992, three secorl
round picks, one third-round choice an:|
sixth-round selection.
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1 he trade with the Vikings stipulatl
that Holt, Solomon, and Howard musil
released by Feb. 1 in order for the Cowkl
to receive all the draft choices fromthell
kings. !
The Cowboys plan to leave those plaiti
unprotected unless they hear fromthell
kings when they send the list to New V i
on Thursday. |
“We’ve done our deal with the Vikinfl
Johnson said. “We’d love to have all ilil
players because they are quality butweail
love to have the draft picks.” j
The Cowboys lost their first-round
by taking quarterback Steve Walsh imtK
supplemental draft last year. B
Walsh is on the trading block. “Seveil
teams have expressed interest and wel
had discussions but nothing concral
Johnson said. |
The trading season begins on Monday |
Johnson said not protecting Walls, aci'j
net bac k, Jones, a defensive end, and R.j
ferty, a center, didn’t mean that hedoe j
want them back. The players have urj
April 1 to test their value on the freeagej
market.
Johnson had a run-in with Walls dunij
the Cowboys’ 1-15 season but Johnsons:
SAL
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NflRCOM
• Star Fleet Battles
• Battle Tech
• Axis and Allies
• Squad Leader & ASL
• Civilization
One Shots/Demo Board Games
• Supremacy
• Diplomacy
• Kingmaker
• Nuclear Monopoly
• Harpoon
Dealer's Room
(including the following Dealers)
• Abilene Books & Comics
• BCS Books & Comics
• Eigth Dimension Com ics
• Starships and Dragons
• LSW Distributors
• Starbase 21
• #14 Productions
• AD&D individual
• AD&D novice
• Robotech
• Call of Cthulhu
• Champions
One Shots/Demo Role Playing
• Chivaliy and Sorcery
• Dragonquest
• City State of the
Invincible Overlord
• AD&D
• Space 1889
Miniatures
• Naval (World War I)
• Napoleonic (15mm)
Midnight Gaming
• Suburban Slasher
• Nuclear War
• Head to Head AD&D
TEXAS OLDEST WARGAMING CONVENTION
FEBIJARY 2-4, 1990
Registration begins
Friday, Feb 2 at 3:00pm on
MSC 2nd Floor
Admission is $11.00 at the door
For more information
Call 845-1515
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