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The Battalion
Thursday, FebruaryS,
Rockets’ center seeing highs, lows
Building the perfect NBA big man combines Olajuwon, Robinson
MIAMI (AP) — The big man is
the center of attention again in the
NBA.
Call him Patrick Akeem Robin
son.
He blocks a shot on the defensive
end.
He runs the length of the floor,
outrunning players a foot shorter.
He leaps for the return pass,
ducking his head to avoid the rim,
then turns and reverse-slams as bod
ies scatter.
The perfect center.
In his component parts, he’s Pat
rick Ewing, Akeem Olajuwon and
David Robinson, the three young
centers who will join 36-year-old
Robert Parish at Sunday’s NBA All-
Star Game.
The decade of the ’80s featured
Julius Erving, Larry Bird, Magic
Johnson and Michael Jordan, and
while all but Erving are still around,
pleasing crowds and winning games,
the ’90s might belong to the three
big guys.
Patrick’s the strongest and Akeem is
a little ahead if you take strength
and quickness together.”
Asked which center he would
want if he was starting a franchise,
Seikaly said, “I’d flip a coin and close
my eyes.”
The three centers have the ability
to overwhelm an NBA game with
their presence.
Olajuwon: 32 points, 24 rebounds
10 blocks against Orlando on Dec.
17; 24 points, 21 rebounds, 12
blocks against Utah on Nov. 11.
Ewing: 44 points, 24 rebounds at
Golden State on Nov. 29; 44 points,
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22 rebounds, 7 blocks against
Los Angeles Clippers on Jan. 7.
Robinson: 27 points, 15 rebounds,
11 blocks Feb. 2 at Charlotte; 33
E oints, 21 rebounds, 5 blocks the fol-
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lowing night against Chicago.
Akeem may consider trade
HOUSTON (AP) — Houston
center Akeem Olajuwon’s
thoughts about asking for a trade
if the team doesn’t improve have
not been a distraction to the team,
Rockets coach Don Chaney said
Wednesday.
Oiajmvon told The Houston
Post he may never reach his full
■ tential with the Rockets and
s considered asking for a trade
if management doesn’t upgrade
its playing personnel.
“I’m not concerned with
Akeem’s attitude at all,” Chaney
said. “He comes to play every
are their personal thoughts. If it
bothers the team in practice or
I ei forman ce. I would address it.
ut these guys came to play to
day. They are no different from
three games ago.”
Robinson, now a 7-footer, was
only 6-foot-7 coming out of high
school in Manassas, Va. Influenced
by his petty officer father, he went to
the Naval Academy and grew to his
present size while retaining his
small-forward quickness.
NEW YORK (AP) — The College
Football Association, trying to plug a
huge hole in its television package
left by the defection of Notre Dame,
rallied its members Wednesday as
schools denounced the greed of the
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Fighting Irish.
The CFA, formed in 1977 to ne-
After two years of relative inactiv
ity on active duty in the Navy, he’s al
ready reached admiral status in the
NBA. His coach, Larry Brown, is
convinced that Robinson’s modest
beginnings and lack of experience
translates to awesome potential for
improvement.
“If David puts in the time like
Magic and Bird, he’ll be the best,”
Brown said.
Former UT player keeping quiet
AUSTIN (AP) — A former Uni
versity of Texas football player,
whose name police say was found on
betting sheets and was reported to
UT atiiletic officials last year, won’t
comment on the incident, his lawyer
says.
“He is not going to make any
statement,” said lawyer Michael Or-
sak, representing former Longhorn
center Tal Elliott.
“There will be no comment. Not
at all. Not any tonight or tomorrow,
or ever. He has nothing more to say
about anything and will say noth
ing,” Orsak told The Daily Texan.
Elliott’s name surfaced this week
in the wake of allegations in the Aus
tin American-Statesman that as
many as 20 UT football players may
have bet on college and pro games.
Gambling on college games is con
sidered a serious violation of Na
tional Collegiate Athletic Association
rules. The school is not liable to an
NCAA penalty unless it is deter
mined that school officials knew of
the betting and didn’t report it.
Meanwhile, the American-States
man reported Wednesday that al
though vice police told UT coach
David McWilliams in November that
a number of his players were sus
pected of gambling, university offi
cials investigated only Elliott.
UT officials said they investigated
only Elliott, who has been identified
by several team members as the foot
ball team’s bookie, because they had
no evidence implicating other ath
letes, the newspaper reported.
Elliott’s name appeared fre
quently on betting slips confiscated
last fall during the arrest of three
Austin men on gambling charges,
police said. Elliott wasn’t charged.
“I told Coach McWilliams I
doubted very seriously that Tal was
making $200 and $225 bets on his
own with just his own money,” said
Senior Sgt. Byron “Bubba” Cates.
“Tal was the only one dumb
enough to put his name on the (bet
ting) lists. I told them I was sure the
players were
through Tal. They
nitely look into it,”’ Cates said.
Brown left Kansas after winning
the national championship with a
team led by the 1988 No. 1 draft
choice in order to coach a team with
the 1987 No. 1, Robinson.
“I wouldn’t have come to San An
tonio had David not been in their
plans,” Brown said. “The whole rea
son for coming to the Spurs was Da
vid. He has a chance to be
anybody.”
lance to be as good as
gotiate TV rights separate from the
NCAA, messaged its 64 members
not to follow Notre Dame’s lead. At
the same time, CFA executive direc
tor Chuck Neinas set up a confer
ence call Wednesday afternoon, pre
sumably for the same purpose.
“The CFA is re-negotiating with
ABC and ESPN,” Arkansas athletic
director Frank Broyles said. “We’ll
see what the money is without Notre
Dame.”
On Monday, NBC-TV and Notre
Dame announced that they had
signed a five-year, $30 million deal
to televise six nome games a year be
ginning in 1991, removing the
Fighting Irish from the CFA’s TV
package.
The CFA and ABC agreed to a
five-year, $210 million deal last Jan
uary, and ESPN has a five-year,
$110 million contract with the CFA
that begins in 1991.
Steve Bornstein, ESPN executive
vice president and the No. 2 man at
the cable network, said he still was
hopeful Notre Dame would be in
cluded in the CFA package.
“Hopeful, but I’m not sure
reasonable to expect,” Born!
said. “We’re talking to evenljj
right now, but our primary coJ
sations have been with the
We negotiated a deal last falltl
eluded all 64 members of the
and, frankly, we think we havea
with all 64 teams.”
Bornstein said the network
not ruled out legal action againsi
CFA, Notre Dame or NBC.
not giving up any of our options,
said, “and that’s one of the
we’re exploring.”
“They said they were doing it
their fans and alumni,” Rudy D;
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Houston, said, “but I don’t t|
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have to be replaced, and Texas may
get a skilled coach this time.
That would prove disastrous,
becuase McWilliams has consistantly
proven that he can’t beat anybody
except Arkansas and Oklahoma.
Two years ago, Texas’ near-losses to
teams like Rice and North Texas
could be attributed to the poor talent
left behind by former coach Fred
Akers.
However, even after two banner
recruiting years, Texas still had a
losing record last year, brinj^
McWilliams three-year coacl
record at Texas to 16-18.
The knock against McWilliams is
that he hasn’t been able to win the
big games.
What about Oklahoma and
Arkansas?
They were grudge matches where
the Longhorns needed no
encouragement to get up for the
game .
Last year, McWilliams was
heralded as a great recruiter, but
R.C. Slocum easily out-recruited
him.
If you like beating Texas, pray
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they keep McWilliams.
Because Texas is not on
received. However, any NCAA
(penalties, such as loss of
scholorships, would surely make
Texas easier to beat.
UT officials told the American-
Statesman that they didn’t recall be
ing told by police that athletes other
than EllioYt could be involved in bet-
ting.
School officials said their investi
gation in November was confined
, solely to Elliott, a walk-on deep snap
per on the UT football team who
quit the team for “personal reasons”
in early November.
Elliott placed as much as $225 in
his total weekly bets and bet on
Southwest Conference football
games, said Lt. Jerry Slatton, vice
section commander of the Austin
Police Department Organized Crime
Division. Slatton said the police had
no evidence of Elliott betting on
meeting with Cates but does not re
call the specific conversation. McWil
liams, who was out of town recruit
ing, was unavailable for comment.
Husband: good caddies hard to find
HONOLULU, Hawaii (AP) — Long-term
relationships between golfers and caddies are rare
on the PGA Tour.
Caddies who make the tour constantly grouse
about being cut loose. Some golfers fire more often
than others.
Brian Tennyson’s wife, Jeanne, used to caddy for
her husband. Until, he fired her.
She’s still Mrs. Tennyson and is with her husband
this week at the Hawaiian Open.
The firing took place during the 1987 U.S. Open,
Brian’s rookie year on the PGA Tour. He laughed
when he told the story.
“On Friday, I was grinding away to make the cut.
On about the 16th, I needed to par in to make it. I
bogeyed the hole and I hit a bad tee shot on the 17th.
“She’s glaring at me. She says, ‘you’re choking;
you’re choking.’ So I fired her.
“It was just a case of being too close, of her know ^sor’s offi<
ing what’s going on in my mind and me knowing
what’s going on in hers,” Tennyson said.
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1987.
He played 10 tournaments on the Asian tour in
1987 and won the Indian and Philippine Opens.
And he has shown steady projgress since joining
the American circuit. He won $189,345 last year
and, with a runner-up spot at the Bob Hone and a
fifth-place finish in Arizona, he’s collected 512* ”
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charges that Tarpley was driving
basketball
criminal court and on
court.
Jay Ethington, who is represent
ing Tarpley, Wednesday successfully
Judge Mike Schwille set a June 25
trial date for Tarpley, who was ar
rested in mid-November on a north
Dallas freeway and charged with
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