Monday, February 19,1990
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By DENNEH. FREEMAN
Of The Associated Press
The Arkansas Razorbacks, after
being “Iba-ized” in two consecutive
defeats that severely damaged their
national ranking, have an easy road
to the Southwest Conference regular
season basketball championship.
The Razorbacks got back on track
for a repeat title on Saturday with a
77-46 victory over Southern Meth
odist fashioned with a fullcourt press
that panicked the Mustangs into a
season-high 28 turnovers.
Arkansas coach Nolan Richardson
tried a zone defense that didn’t work
on Wednesday night in an 81-79 loss
to Moe Iba and the Texas Christian
Horned Frogs. He decided to press
the Mustangs and it paid off in a
rout.
“After having all those barnburn
ers, it’s nice to come home for a
game like this,” Richardson said.
On Saturday a week ago the Hogs
suffered their first league loss to
coach Gene Iba and the Baylor
Bears.
Arkansas has a 12-2 league ledger
with only two conference games left,
Texas A&M on Wednesday and Rice
on March 3, both in friendly Barn
hill Fieldhouse in Fayetteville.
Arkansas will be even more im
portant in coming weeks.
Richardson has indicated sus-
E ended forward Ron Huery will be
ack against Texas A&M on
Wednesday night. Huery missed the
last two games after being sus
pended by Richardson for breaking
unspecified team rules.
Both Texas and Houston still
have outside chances to catch the
Hogs.
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by Jeff Millar & Bill Hinds
Montana named Player of Year
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and came up with a big road victory
over Texas A&M, 79-73, Sunday.
The Cougars, 9-3, downed Baylor
83-77 on Saturday to capture tneir
seventh consecutive victory, longest
streak since 1983-84.
Baylor coach Iba said “their de
fense was the best I have evei*seen a
University of Houston basketball
team play. It’s the quickness they
have. We have not played against
quicker inside people.
In the other league game, TCU
moved into sole possession of fourth
place with a 67-55 victory over the
Rice Owls. Rice shot a season low 31
percent from the field.
Texas Tech went outside the con
ference but lost its 14th consecutive
game by falling 65-56 to Arkansas
State. The Red Raiders fell to 5-18 in
their lost season.
Besides the imporiilnt Arkansas-
Texas A&M game on Wednesday,
Houston will play host to TCU, Rice
is at SMU, and Texas Tech is at Bay
lor as coach Gerald Myers’ crew
seeks its first league victory of the
year after 12 defeats.
Joe Montana, who had the best
season of any quarterback in NFL
history in leading the San Francisco
49ers to their fourth Super Bowl vic
tory, has been named The Asso
ciated Press’ male athlete of the year
for 1989.
Montana began the year by cap
ping a 92-yard drive with a 10-yard
touchdown pass to John Taylor with
34 seconds left to beat Cincinnati for
the 49ers’ third Super Bowl. Then,
during the 1989 regular season, he
threw 26 touchdown passes and had
only eight interceptions in leading
San Francisco to a 14-2 record.
And although it didn’t count in
the balloting because it occurred in
1990, he threw five TD passes in the
55-10 Super Bowl win over Denver
that made the 49ers the first team in
a decade to repeat as NFL cham
pions and the second ever to win
four Super Bowls.
Montana, 33, won the honors in a
three-way race with Bo Jackson, who
plays both baseball and football, and
cyclist Greg LeMond. He is only the
third NFL player to win the award in
the 49 years it has been given. The
others were George Blanda in 1970
and O.J. Simpson in 1973.
He had 36 first-place votes in the
national balloting by sports writers
and editors and 253 points. Jackson
received 33 first-place votes and 228
points. Jackson hit .256 with 32
home runs, 105 RBI and 26 stolen
bases for baseball’s Kansas City Roy-
Joe Montana
als, then gained 950 yards in 173
carries, a 5.5 average, in 11 games
with football’s Los Angeles Raiders.
LeMond, who won his second
Tour de France after recovering
from gunshot wounds sustained in a
hunting accident, was third with 26
first-place votes and 218 points.
Completing the top 10, in order,
were baseball’s Nolan Ryan, hockey’s
Wayne Gretzky, pro basketball’s
Magic Johnson, college basketball’s
Chris Jackson, and three Bay Area
baseball players, Kevin Mitchell,
Rickey Henderson and Will Clark.
But Montana, whose Super Bowl
MVP award was his third in four ap
pearances, had an outstanding sea
son. *—~
Three years after a career-threat
ening disc operation on his back, he
set an NFL record with a quar
terback rating of 112.4. His comple
tion percentage of 70.2 made him
only the third player in league his
tory to complete more than 70 per
cent of his passes — Ken Anderson
and Sammy Baugh were the others.
Montana, a third-round draft
choice in 1979, won his first NFL
MVP Award." He was also named Of
fensive Player of the Year.
This season, with George Seifert
the head coach in place of Bill
Walsh, who had tutored Montana to
stardom, Montana got more inde
pendence. He worked with Mike
Holmgren, the new offensive coor
dinator, to modify a few pass pat
terns, eliminating from the playbook
a medium-deep pass over the middle
that had resulted in many of his in
terceptions.
“I think the change helped,” he
said. “Nothing against Bill, but
things are more relaxed.”
He also has been unfailingly mod
est, constantly crediting everyone
from Seifert, Walsh and Holmgren
to his family for his success.
“I’ve been lucky,” said the man,
who during the 1989 season had hip,
rib and knee bruises that caused him
to miss three games. “Except for the
back. I’ve played without serious in-
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“A lot of credit for my success
goes to my teammates. We have a
great offense and defense and it
makes my job easier.’
Hogs win track championship in easy fashion
FORT WORTH (AP) — The ease
with which the Arkansas Razorbacks
won their 10th consecutive South
west Corifefehce men’s Indoor
Track and Field championship sur
prised even their toughest critic,
head coach John McDonnell, who
admitted “it was a lot easier that I
thought it would be.”
“I figured Baylor would be a lot
closer than they were but the guys
just didn’t give them a chance to get
close,” McDonnell said of Saturday’s
victory.
Arkansas rolled up 60 points with
1-2-3-4-5 finishes in the mile and
3000 meter run behind uncatchable
Reuben Reina.
The Texas Lady Longhorns won
their sixth consecutive women’s title
even without high-scoring Carlette
Guidry, who withdrew because of a
knee injury.
The Lady Longhorns didn’t need
her 30-point potential with Tina
Hall’s victories m both the mile and
3000 meters, Kellie Roberts’ victory
in the 800 meters, and Sandie Rich
ards’ gold medal in the 400 meters.
Texas scored 127 points to 93 for
Rice, 66 for Houston, and 60 for
Baylor.
Game
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ahead, 74-71, with 1:48 left.
The Longhorns didn’t look back.
Ricks fouled out with one minute
left as he went up to block Blanks’
shot attempt from the right side. It
was an apparent block, but officials
said Ricks had too much body con
tact with Blanks.
1 “I got all ball,” Ricks said. “I know
I got all ball. If you look at the in
stant replay, you’d see I got all ball.
In fact, if anything, he pushed off on
me.”
Ricks was charged with guarding
Blanks down the stretch. But after
he fouled out, no one was left to de
fend the hot-shooting senior.
Milton scored A&M’s last points
of the game on a whirling, twist-
around shot in the middle of the
I key. The Aggies had a faint hope
with 22 seconds left and down, 76-
73. But Thompson was called for a
reaching in foul on Blanks, and Mil-
ton missed a three-pointer.
“We played up and down the
whole game,” Rhea said. “There
were times when we couldn’t get the
baskets we should have. We couldn’t
capitalize on their mistakes and in
the end, we just let it get away.”
Thornton was impressed with the
way the Aggies stayed with the
Longhorns during the game. With
four games left in the regular sea
son, A&M may be starting the kind
of streak of inspired play it needs to
prepare for the SWC Tournament
in March.
“There were obvious times today
for the guys could’ve folded on us,”
Thornton said. “These guys don’t
know how to quit, and they believe
they can do anything. I’m anxious
for tournament time to come.
“I’ll go home tonight and think of
things I could’ve done differently.
We just didn’t make the shots. A lot
of basketball is played on adrenaline
and emotion. When these guys get
juiced up, they’re a good team.”
Douglas, Holy field
to fight in September
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) —
Evander Holyfield will meet heavy
weight champion James “Buster”
Douglas in the fall, forcing Mike Ty
son to wait a year for a rematch with
the man who took his title, Douglas’
manager said Sunday.
Holyfield, the top-ranked chal
lenger, and Douglas will fight in
September under an agreement
manager John Johnson said he
reached Saturday with Holyfield’s
manager, Dan Duva.
“Right now, we’re planning for
Holyfield in September,” Johnson
said. “It looks like (a rematch with)
Tyson will be next February.”
Johnson said financial terms for
the Holyfield fight have not been fi
nalized, but said Douglas would earn
“many times the $1.3 million” he was
paid for his lOth-round knockout
over Tyson at Tokyo on Feb. 10.
In an interview on NBC-TV Sun
day, Johnson said one factor in the
decision to fight Holyfield was the
lack of respect Tyson and promoter
Don King showed toward Douglas
after their fight.
“Don King had tried, and for a
very short time, successfully kept
James Douglas from being the
heavyweight champion of the
world,” Johnson said. “James Doug
las didn’t get the true glory and all
the things he should have gotten af
ter that fight because of Don King’s
actions.
“We’re going to go with James
Douglas’ wishes not to have anything
to do with Don King, and I agree
with that, but we’re going to be more
than fair with Don King.”
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