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The Battalion
Cowboys reload
with high-caliber
offense in draft
IRVING (AP) — The talent-
needy Dallas Cowboys went for of
fensive firepower in the NFL draft
on Sunday, getting gifted Florida
running back Emmitt Smith and
speedburning wide receiver Alex
Wright of Auburn in the first two
rounds.
“It wouldn’t have taken a lot for
us to be significantly better than last
year, but there will be a drastic dif
ference in the play of the Cowboys
this coming season,” said a pleased
Coach Jimmy Johnson.
Smith, who was clocked between
4.39 and 4.5 in the 40, came into the
draft as a junior and Dallas traded a
third round pick to move into Pitts
burgh’s No. 17 slot in the first round
to get him.
“He was among our top three or
four picks on the board,” Johnson
said. “He’s just a quality player. He’s
star quality. And he’s only 20 years
old. Our scouts gave him rave re
views.”
Johnson said Wright’s 4.28 speed
“will stretch defenses and really help
our offense. I’d be surprised if both
these players aren’t in the starting
lineup next year.”
Dallas traded for running back
Terrence Flagler of the San Fran
cisco 49ers earlier in the week.
“We’ve got a lot of quality in the
backfield which is where we
struggled last year,” Johnson said.
Smith said he was pleasantly sur
prised to be joining Johnson who
didn’t actively try to recruit Smith
when Johnson was the coach at the
University of Miami.
“I got a couple of letters from Mi
ami but never talked to coach John
son,” Smith said. “I’ll enjoy playing
for him. I know he’ll be a winner.”
Wright said he ran a 4.27 in cleats
on the grass for the New York Gi
ants last Friday.
“I’d say that’s pretty fast,” he said.
“I’ll love being on the same team
with Michael Irvin.”
“He’ll be faster than anybody I’ve
ever coached,” Johnson said of
Wright.
Johnson said the Cowboys tried to
trade up for defense help but no
other club would cooperate.
The Cowboys specifically wanted
linebacker James Francis of Baylor.
“We didn’t want a first round bust
and we wanted first round quality,”
Johnson said. “We tried to trade up
for defensive help with three teams.
“The defensive ability of the players
left on the board didn’t warrant a
stretch. So we went for quality offen
sive talent.”
The Cowboys couldn’t make a
trade for quarterback Steve Walsh,
who was a first rounder in the sup
plemental draft last year.
“We expect Steve to be a Dallas
Cowboy this year,” Johnson said.
Smith rushed for 1,599 yards last
year. He had a 96-yard touchdown
run at Mississippi State.
“He’s got great balance and can
break the long run,” Johnson said.
“He’s just a tremendous back.”
Scout Walt Jaworski said Smith
“will be the Tony Dorsett of the new
era of the Cowboys.
Five minutes after he picked
Smith, Johnson got a call from A1
Davis of the Los Angeles Raiders.
“Well, I see you got your guy,”
Davis said. “Congratulations.”
“I couldn’t believe he lasted past
the 10th pick,” Johnson said. “We
were very fortunate to get him.”
Johnson dipped into his Miami
connection in the third round by
taking a defensive tackle who had
played for him w'ith the Hurricanes.
The Cowboys traded New En
gland to move up to the 10th pick in
the third round to take Jimmie
Jones, a 6-4 280-pounder who
started most of his career for Miami
but lost his job to Cortez Kennedy in
1989.
Fair or foul?
A&M third baseman Travis Williams leaps for the ball hit down the
third baseline as the umpire waits to make the call in the first game
of Saturday’s double header against Texas Christian at Olsen Field
The ball was called fair and the Horned Frogs went on to win 3-1.
Pitcher earns first save, cites son’s bravery
Buccs snatch Cobb despite risks
HOUSTON (AP) — Running
back Reggie Cobb, booted off the
Tennessee football team after five
games for drug abuse last season,
was the second round pick of the
Tampa Bay Buccaneers in Sunday’s
NFL draft.
Cobb checked into the John Lucas
drug rehabilitation program on Jan.
2 and has remained in Houston
since his dismissal.
He told KRIV-TV Sunday he
didn’t know what to expect from the
draft but was happy to get a chance
to play pro football.
Cobb said his dismissal from the
team was drug-related.
“After I got kicked off the team,
pro teams were telling me I was in a
high-risk group,” Cobb said.
“I had to go for treatment and cut
down on some of the risk. I feel I did
well and have a lot of self-im
provement. I’m not the same person
I was a year ago. I’m a better per
son.”
SAN DIEGO (AP) — Tucked
away in his suitcase among the shirts
and socks, Steve Bedrosian found
the note that eased his heartache
and gave him hope.
After two tormented outings since
learning his youngest son, Cody, has
leukemia, Bedrosian registered his
first save, preserving a 6-4 San Fran
cisco Giants victory over the San
Diego Padres on Saturday.
“My wife, Tammy, has been such
a big inspiration,” Bedrosian said.
“She left me a little note in my suit
case for the road trip. I read it (Sat
urday).
“You know, she was just telling
me, ‘We’re fine here. We love you.
Go out and kick butt.’ She knows
what kind of competitor I am. She
knows my mind is on Cody. She’s
just reassuring me that things are
OK, that we’re going to beat this
thing. It’s little things like that and
her reassurance ... that has made the
difference.”
Bedrosian pitched the ninth in
ning, retiring the three batters he
faced on a groundout, pop-up and
strikeout for his 162nd career save
as Mike LaCoss earned his third vic
tory of the season.
something that weighs on his mind,
I’m sure, 24 hours a day.”
Bedrosian rejoined the Giants
April 15 for their game against San
Diego at Candlestick Park. But, ad
mittedly feeling like “a robot,” he
gave up four hits, including a game
winning homer. He was also off
6i
It’s a tough situation. It’s something that weighs on
his mind, I’m sure 24 hours a day.”
—Roger Craig,
S.F. Giants manager
It was two weeks ago, while in At
lanta for the Giants’ season opener,
that Bedrosian got the news about
Cody, 2‘/a. He returned immediately
to San Francisco to be with his fam-
ily.
“It’s a tough situation,” San Fran
cisco manager Roger Craig said. “It’s
form Wednesday, surrendering a
ninth-inning homer to the Los An
geles Dodgers’ Hubie Brooks.
“We’ve got to do everything we
can for Cody,” said Bedrosian, a Na
tional League Cy Young Award win
ner in 1987 with Philadelphia. “But
I ve got to go out there and pitch
too. It’s just something you have
overcome.”
There have been some encourag
ing developments with Cody since
the initial diagnosis. He has under
f ;one chemotherapy and was re
eased Wednesday f rom the Univer
sity of California Medical Center
San Francisco.
“The chemo is helping him
better. He’s not in the pain he was
which hurt us to see him hurting,
said Bedrosian. “He’s runninf
around now. He’s home. He's in his
own environment. He’s with his
brother (Stephen, 4), and mom
dad. You know, when he feels
ter, we feel better.”
Bedrosian said doctors are t
mistic about Cody’s survival chances
The boy has acute lymphoblastic leu
kemia, a strain of the cancer
once was almost always fatal but now
can be successfully treated most
the time.
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