Page 10
The Battalion
Monday, April2,1® Monday,/
Musburger under fire
Sports announcer let go by CBS after contract negotiations stall
DENVER (AP) — Brent Mus
burger, the primary voice of CBS
Sports during the 1980s, was fired
by the network Sunday in a move
that shocked officials at CBS and
other networks.
Because the move was announced
on April Fool’s Day and one day be-
fore the NCAA basketball
championship — which Musburger
is scheduled to broadcast — many
television officials at first dismissed it
as a joke.
66
I was surprised, but it was a great run and I have a
million memories, and I leave behind a lot of good
friends.”
—Brent Musburger,
CBS sports announcer
A worker at CBS Sports’ studios in
New York called The Associated
Press insisting the announcement
was not true, even while CBS Sports
president Neal H. Pilson was dis
cussing the move at the Final Four in
Denver.
“It is not a joke,” Pilson said. “It’s
a difficult decision. It’s never easy to
deal with individuals with whom you
have personal or business
relationships.”
Ted Shaker, executive producer
of CBS Sports, said the network be
lieved Musburger’s work load was
“too much,” but the broadcaster re
sisted attempts by CBS to.have him
cut down.
“It was a very, very difficult deci
sion for us,” Shaker said. “Brent
Musburger has been a colleague and
friend and teacher of mine for 12
years. He made a very valuable con
tribution to CBS Sports.”
“This was a sudden thing,” Jack
Buck said. “We talked about doing
this game on April 14, this game the
second week. There was no mention
of Brent not doing baseball.”
Greg Gumbel, scheduled to host
CBS’s baseball pregame show, taped
a segment with Musburger on Sun
day that is scheduled to be show on
the “CBS Morning News” on Mon
day. Gumbel said Musburger didn’t
show any signs that a move was im
minent.
“I wish we could just watch the Fi
nal Four and let it go at that without
these side stories,” said Loren Mat
thews, senior vice president for pro
gramming of ESPN.
Musburger, whose 5'/2-year con
tract expires in July, will broadcast
Monday night’s championship game
between UNLV and Duke as his fi
nal event for CBS.
personal assistant. “At this time, I’m
going to take an extended vacation,
and I’ll be working again someday,
somewhere.”
Musburger, who has been with
CBS Sports since 1975, was sched
uled to become the main voice for
CBS’ baseball coverage, which be
gins April 14. He also was in line to
be the host for the network’s cover
age of the 1992 and 1994 Winter
Olympics.
Pilson said that negotiations for a
new contract had been going on for
several months between the network
and Todd Musburger, who rep
resents his brother.
statement.
“CBS Sports announced today
that it had declined to renew Brent
Musburger’s employment
agreement, which expires within the
next few months,” the statement
said. “Brent’s final event for CBS
Sports will be the NCAA men’s
championship game on Monday,
April 2, 1990.”
Musburger is in his sixth season as
lead play-by-play man for the NCAA
basketball tournament and has been
host of “The NFL Today” since
1975. He has anchored the Masters
golf tournament, the NBA finals,
the Pan American Games and late-
night coverage of the U.S. Open ten
nis tournament.
Sills make comeback
en route to first PGA
tour victory of career
By ALAN LEI
Of The Battali
“I was surprised, but it was a great
run and I have a million memories,
and I leave behind a lot of good
friends,” Musburger said in a
statement read by Jimmy Tubbs, his
“It wasn’t right out of the blue,”
Tubbs said. “He knew for a couple
of days that things were not going
well in contract negotiations. Nego
tiations had been going on and they
just broke off.”
The first hint of the move came
when CBS spokeswoman Susan Kerr
read a terse two-paragraph
“We simply felt we wanted to give
more opportunities to some of the
younger people people who cur
rently work for us,” said Pilson, who
said CBS sports executive producer
Ted Shaker agreed with the deci
sion.
“There’s never a good time to
have to announce a decision like this.
We were asked by Brent’s represen
tative to make a decision, and that’s
what we did.”
THE WOOD
LANDS (AP) —
Tony Sills came
from six shots off
the pace to win his
first PGA tourna
ment, beating Gil
Morgan with ai
par putt on the
first playoff hole
Sunday in the In
dependent Insur
ance Agent Open.
Sills and Mor-
E an finished regu-
ition play with
12-under par 204 •
totals, 12 shots under par, for the
rain-shortened 54-hole event, one
shot ahead of a group of six, who
finished at 205.
Sills and Morgan returned to the
par-4, 428-yard 10th hole and both
made the green in two shots.
Morgan’s first putt went five feet
past the hole and he missed the re
turn shot for a bogey. Sills’ firstp
:cfb
for a birdie missecTby two feet hi:
sank the par putt.
There were as many as sixplavei
tied for the lead at 11 under]
one point in the final nine holesk
fore David Peoples, Morgan,
and Seve Ballesteros upped thelei;|
to 12 under.
Peoples, trying to win his first tel
event, dropped out of contentij
with bogeys on Nos. 11 and 12.
Ballesteros went 12 under at Jit)
16 but he bogeyed No. 17 aitj
missed a 20-foot birdie putt
inches on the final hole that woiff
have allowed him to join the played
WACO-
ball team ve
tory when it f
The Aggi (
west Comer
and neither!
ries this seas
Texas Tech,
)t by Rh
Ballesteros finished withal
under par 68 and Peoples fir
with a final round 72, both for2!|
totals, one shot behind the leaders
rgan
eles
Nissan Los Angeles Open this yen j
and Sills to battle for the title.
Musburger has been reported to
earn between $1.6 million and $2
million per year from CBS. Pilson
said he would not describe the nego
tiations as “a squabble over money,”
but would not talk about the matters
of dispute in the talks.
Tarpley powers Mavs
Chang upends
Grabb, grabs
Volvo tourney
CHICAGO (AP) — Michael
(Tang’s respect for Jim Grabb’s
powerful serve paid off Sunday
with a victory in the final of the
Volvo Chicago tennis tourna
ment, his first title in nearly a
year.
The second-seeded Chang
fought off Grabb’s blazing service
throughout the otie hour, 54-
minute match, finally breaking
the former Stanford All-Ameri
can’s serve in the final game of
the match. He pulled off a 7-6 (7-
4), 1-6,6-4 triumph.
Aggie tennis team beats Georgia Tech,
routs Texas Tech to better SWC mark
By VINCE SNYDER
Of The Battalion Staff
The Texas A&M men’s tennis
team defeated two tech schools this
past weekend, despite the absence of
A&M coach David Kent on Friday.
Kent spent last week on jury duty
and turned over the reins to assistant
coach Tim Drain for Friday’s match
against Georgia Tech at the Omar
Smith Tennis Center.
A&M experienced no noticeable
change as they beat GT 6-3.
Kent was back for Saturday’s
game against Southwest Conference
opponent Texas Tech, and the win
ning ways continued for A&M with
an 8-1 victory.
Four Aggies were winners in the
singles match play against Georgia
Tech, while two A&M players were
defeated. A&M’s Steve Kennedy and
Scott Phillips won their matches in
two sets, while Shaun O’ Donovan
and Gustavo Espinosa had to go
three sets for their wins.
Three doubles matches were
played with A&M taking two out of
the three. O’Donovan/Brown writ
two sets to claim their prize, while Zi-
sette/Kennedy went three sets for
the victory.
“Once again our depth showed
up,” Assistant Goach Drain said.
“And we had good play from the
good play
five and six positions.”
With the return of Coach Kent,
the Aggies jumped out to a 6-0 run
over Texas Tech sweeping all the
singles matches. In the three doubles
matches A&M once again held their
ground by capturing two of the
three matches.
O’Donovan/Brown went three sets
while Zisette/Kennedy only needed
two sets to defeat Tech’s players.
“Texas Tech is a great team to
beat,” Kent said. “They beat us last
year so we wanted this one badly.”
DALLAS (AP) — Roy Tarpley
had 24 points and 25 rebounds and
led a second-quarter charge that car
ried the Dallas Mavericks past the
Milwaukee Bucks, 86-72 Sunday
night.
Tarpley had seven field goals —
three on tip-ins — and eight re
bounds in tne second period as the
Mavericks turned a 22-18 deficit into
a 48-35 halftime lead, the fewest
points they have allowed in a first
half this season.
Dallas went on to win for the
ninth time in 11 games and extend
the Bucks’ losing streak to three —all
of them without leading scorer Ricky
Pierce, who injured his right hand
last Wednesday.
The Bucks also were missing Al
vin Robertson, who served a one-
game suspension for a flagrant-foul
ejection at San Antonio Saturday.
Pierce and Robertson together aver
age 37.7 points and 15 rebounds per
game.
With both out, the Bucks were
held to their lowest scoring output of
the season, surpassing their previous
low of 79 in a loss to Detroit on Nov.
GATHRIGHT AWARDS
AND
BUCK WEIRUS
SPIRIT AWARDS
ANNOUNCEMENT
AND
PRESENTATION
9:00 A.M.
SUNDAY, APRILS
RUDDER AUDITORIUM
All applicants should attend!
Link up with a leader,
come to DSC’s Career Day,
April 7th, 9am to 2pm
E ven with our sophisticated technology, people play the leading role in DSC’s
success. College grads put their education to work by really contributing to
projects while learning new technologies.
What can DSC do for you? We’re a rapidly growing midsize company,
recognizing and rewarding those who excel. Opportunities for advancement are
great and ever-changing technology promises exciting new challenges at every turn.
People make us different. If you are visiting Dallas on Saturday (April 7th) and
haven’t had the oppportunity to meet with us previously, take this first step toward
a different sort of technical career. We are currently seeking majors in:
Computer Science
Computer Engineering
Electrical Engineering
(with a Computer Science minor)
Plano Parkway
For additional information call 519-6578. If you miss us at the Career Day, or if you
are a Mechanical or Industrial Engineering Major, please submit your resume or let
ter of interest with background history to: DSC Communications Corporation, Attn:
MPG/A&M, MS 110, 1000 Coit Road, Plano, TX 75075. All applicants must be
eligible to work full time in the United States.
DSC Communications
Corporation
An Equal Opportunity Employer, m/f/h/v.
swept ny mu
That, all cl
The Bear
Aggies 7-6
again
in S
A&M wonS
Bears hatin’
season sene:
19 in a rowt
span.
With the
SWC
19. The Bucks’club-record lowisl.l
scored at Chicago in 1975.
Fred Roberts led the Bucks mill
13 points.
Milwaukee outrebounded Dalai
17-10 in the first quarter to leadl [
four points.
At that point, Dallas coach I
Adubato subbed Bill Wenningtoil
and rookie Randy White for staitet!|
James Donaldson and Herb
liams. Wennington responded ml
four rebounds and eight pointsi
the second period.
Back-to-back follow shots by Tai l
pley lifted nut Dallas ahead 2
After a steal by AnthonyJones,Tar |
pley hit a 19-footer, and his tip-in
ana fastbreak dunk late intheqiui
ter gave the Mavericks a 42-33adj
vantage.
Milwaukee made only one
goal — a 3-pointer by Brad Lohaij
— in the first nine minutes of thept
riod and shot 3-for-l 1 in thequartti
Tarpley had 14 rebounds in llitj
first half alone, seven offensive aini|
seven defensive.
4-2 in
Baylor impt
Baylor st;
jersey was s 1
robbed the
the nightc
hander hek
and faced
minimum.
The Beai
turning thr
ing several
A&M co
Baylor did
Aggiesjust
“Some o
but that’s t
“We’re no’
when we g'
up three et
“I think
to be a dog
Trey W
Aggies’ o
doubled t
picked up
A&M si
loss — giv
nings —tt
Baylor
third on tl
five more
and two ei
It was
Sunday’s i
Rich R
shutout i
and the A
The Aj
but that
Glenn N<
the fifth i
Chad 1
gle into
John Wo
and dro\
for a do
was Woo
and his f
“I pkn
Nevill, a
ball,” Wt
and was
A&M
sixth. C
liams, D
set the
Trey Wi
Despi
the Bea
bottom
the firsi
struck o
But 1
and Rc
the pa:
m
UI
each
locke
that:
Tl
race
“A
bly
Brer
the I
B.
suit
staxa
nat'i
1
ers
ga«
guii
th<e
off>
Wet *
did
lor^
acl:
hac
th^a
W<
der:
in
ov>^