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SPORTS
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Thursday, April 5,1990
Sports Editor
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Take my word:
Rangers will take
AL West division
fjivery day people come up
to me and say, “Hey, who’s gonna win
the American League West?”
I smile and reply that the Texas
Rangers will. Then I try to ignore the
laughter.
I’m getting better at it. I’ve been
picking the Rangers to win the division
since the early 1980s (when the Rangers
usually lost 100 games), so I’m used to
skepticism.
True, I’ve been wrong every time, but
sooner of later the law of averages will
catch up to me and Texas will win the
West.
The Rangers were tantilizingly close
in 1986 — the year that the team was
loaded with rookies like Pete Incaviglia,
Ruben Sierra, Oddibe McDowell,
Bobby Witt, Jose Guzman and Edwin
Correa.
They built up my hopes, playing like
kids who didn’t know how to lose. But,
like their predecessors, they wilted in
August and finished five games behind
the Angels.
Since then, Texas hasn’t even been
close. They fell below .500 in 1987 and
suffered from miserable pitching in
1988.
Last season, the Rangers started the
season sizzling. They opened by
winning 10 of their first 11, and were 16-
4 before they faltered and were passed
by the eventual World Series champion
Oakland A’s.
Things don’t look much more
promising for the Rangers this year.
The Kansas City Royals bring back
the strongest pitching staff in the major
leagues. The Angels strengthened their
staff with Mark Langston — the best
See Lehmann/Page 14
Cason’s ban lifted
Sprinter released
from suspension,
allowed to compete
By NADJA SABAWALA
Of The Battalion Staff
Texas A&M track star Andre Cason can
breathe a little easier. The Athletics Con
gress on Wednesday decided to lift a two-
year suspension which was imposed on the
sprinter March 28.
The announcement released Cason, the
1990 NCAA 55-meter indoor champion,
from suspension imposed when he failed to
report for a December 1989 drug test.
“I’m relieved by the decision and I hope
it dispells any misconceptions which might
have resulted,” said Cason through a
statement released by the Sports Informa
tion Department.
“I’m not too thrilled about my name be
ing dragged through the mud,” he said.
“But at least now I can put it behind me and
concentrate on running.”
The suspension would not affect his col
lege eligibility, but would bar him from
competing in any TAG and lAAF-sanc-
tioned events.
Cason said that last year he notified TAG
officials that he would be enrolled at Blinn
Junior College-Brenham for the fall semes
ter. Since he did not know what his address
would be, Cason listed his previous address
at Cain Hall.
On Dec. 11, TAG, the governing body of
track and field in the United States, sent a
notification of the drug test to that same
Cain Hall address, but because of his ab
sence, the letter went unopened for three
days.
When Cason called the A&M track office
Dec. 15, he was told of the letter and he
gave permission to assistant coach Robert
Parker to open it. Upon studying the con
tents of the letter, Parker told Cason to call
TAG officials and explain his situation.
Cason contacted TAG officials imme-
diatly and was informed that he had vio
lated a 48-hour deadline and faced suspen
sion according to TAC’s drug testing policy.
Although he was denied a stay, the cir
cumstances surrounding the suspension al
lowed Cason an appeal to be reviewed by a
three-member board.
The board then reversed its earlier deci
sion, and the suspension wits lifted.
“We are very happy for Andre,” head
coach Charlie Thomas said. “I’m pleased
On the prowl...
Wolf pack hungers for
Valvano resignation,
offers compromise
Battalion file photo by J.Janner
A&M sprinter Andre Cason had his
TAG suspension for failing to appear
for a drug test lifted Wednesday.
the review board understood the circum
stances and reversed what was a highly un
fair and misleading decision.”
At the end of last year, Cason was ranked
No. 6 in the world in the 100-meter dash by
Track & Field News magazine.
Cason was the only American to receive
two gold medals at the 1989 World Univer
sity Games, and has earned All-American
honors five times at A&M.
In the NCAA Indoor Championships,
Cason set a school and Southwest Confer
ence record in the 55-meter dash. His time
of 6.04 is the fourth best ever recorded.
He also runs a length on the 400-
meter relay team which is just .02 seconds
away from qualifying for the NCAA Out
door Championships in May.
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Jim Valvano is
willing to compromise on the $500,000
buyout clause his contract requires North
Carolina State to pay if the school forces the
basketball coach’s resignation, his lawyer
said Wednesday.
“He doesn’t want to stick it to the univer
sity that’s been good to him,” attorney
Woody Webb said. “By the same token, he’s
been good to it, too.”
Though Valvano’s contract has the
$500,000 buyout clause, Webb said, “It’s
safe to say he’s willing to come off that.”
Webb said a compromise proposal would
be delivered to university attorneys, who
have told Valvano he would not be per
mitted to remain as coach.
Webb also said he thought State was soft
ening on its initial offer of a $106,000 pay
off, but he declined to give details.
Valvano’s salary is $100,035, but sneaker
contracts, product endorsements and local
TV and radio programs would make his to
tal income many times that amount.
Meanwhile, N.C. State guard Chris Cor-
chiani was still pressing for an exemption to
NCAA rules that would make it easier for
him to transfer should Valvano leave, the
^er’s attorney said.
attorney Mark Rodgers, in a telephone
interview from West Palm Beach, Fla., said
he filed an appeal Tuesday with the NCAA
Rules Interpretation Committee. A hearing
will be held by teleconference April 13.
Rodgers said it would be unfair for Cor-
chiani, who will be a senior, to sit out a year
before playing for another team as NCAA
rules specify.
“For him to transfer to another school
and sit out a year means he will have to stay
in school one more year than he’d antic
ipated,” he said. “It’s almost like a one-year
probation to the kid.”
Webb said several members of the Board
of Trustees are annoyed with reports that
the school’s attorneys have shut out Valva
no’s overtures to keep his job.
Trustee Bill Burns wrote a letter to Val
vano supporters saying the board wants to
be fair. 1 ~ ‘
“Jim Valvano’s request to Ffcmain one
more year has not been turned down. The
press does not know everything that is
going on,” Burns said.
Burns vowed to “do everything I can to
effect a resolution that, when it is all said
and done, Coach Valvano will say that it is
his choice and the university has been very
fair to him.”
Webb suggested that it would be in the
university’s best interest to keep Valvano,
particularly since other state school’s are
struggling with a statewide budget shortfall.
“From an economic standpoint, it makes
no sense,” Webb said of the buyout. “More
over, they’ll have a team that will be com
petitive and generate more revenues.”
Valvano, who has coached the Wolfpack
the last 10 years, led North Carolina State
“ I
Uim Valvano’s request to
remain one more year has not
been turned down. The press
does not know everything that is
going on.”
playc
—Bill Burns,
NC State trustee
to the NCAA championship in 1983.
Since January, however, he and the bas
ketball program have been the targets of
controversy.
State was placed on two years’ NCAA
probation last fall for violations involving
the sale of sneakers and tickets, although
Valvano was never accused of any wrong
doing.
Recently, there were allegations of point
shaving involving former Wolfpack players.
Valvano came under increased pressure
when former player Charles Shackleford,
New I
now with the
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an
school up to $1 million in postseason reve
nue.
' Jersey Nets, admitted ac
cepting loans while playing at N.C. State —
an NCAA violation that could cost the
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