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Wednesday, July 11,1990
Sports Editor
Clay Rasmussen
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A&M basketball
uffers setbacks
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h. Cat
Aggies lose
star center
By DOUGLAS PILS
Brent Of The Battalion Staff
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iSeml' The Texas A&M men’s basketball
it stall r team suffered a serious setback to its
ebuilding program Tuesday when
it was announced that starting center
avid Harris would be leaving the
&M basketball program.
Harris failed to meet NCAA aca-
|emic requirements.
A&M head coach Kermit Davis
Jr., who is out of town recruiting,
■vas unavailable for comment.
at g Davis told the Dallas Morning
| News that Harris missed some tutor-
[ ing sessions and the Aggies were try-
al 8 ing to find him a spot at an NAIA or
|i Division II school.
Harris, who was the SWC’s lead-
mg shot blocker last season, was
slated to be the big man in the paint
for the Aggies next year. Now, with
is departure, the team is left with-
ut a legitimate center.
Hams averaged 10.9 points and
^.8 rebounds for the Aggies last sea-
Ifyou son. He led the Southwest Confer
ence with an average of 3.5 blocks.
| The addition of three new for-
ards may help alleviate that prob-
,em.
Maurice Sanders, a 6-6, 230
S itoound forward from Marshall Uni-
■tersity, Shedrick Anderson from
elgado Junior College and An-
bony Ware from Central Florida
faction
center
bnaJd,
tublish
Wpis
ire run
1
Community College have said they
will transfer to A&M. ,
Coming from another Division I
school, Sanders is the biggest addi
tion to the team. He will be able to
play immediately because Marshall is
currently on NCAA probation.
“He’s a solid guy who will help us
with our inside defense,” Davis said.
“He will probably play power for
ward for us.”
“Coach Davis told me that I will be
playing forward,” Sanders said. “I’ll
be there playing hard every night. I
like to bang around and mix it up in
the paint going for rebounds.”
Sanders, who averaged 8.1 points
and 6.5 rebounds while starting in
25 of Marshall’s 28 games, has one
year of eligibility left. He comes to
A&M in the wake of some trouble of
his own.
Sanders and two Marshall team
mates were recently kicked out of
school for a year for disruptive be
havior.
Sanders was arrested in April for
allegedly hitting a woman but
charges were later dropped. The
university would not say if the inci
dent had anything to do with their
decision.
The Aggies will need all the help
they can muster in their 1990-91
campaign. After a tumultous year
that saw A&M go through two
coaches, the Aggies hope Davis can
give some stability to a shaky pro
gram.
Without a true big man on the
roster, Coach Davis will need steady
play from his forwards and Sanders
said he hopes to fill that need.
Battalion file photo
Texas A&M center David Harris, named to the SWC All-New-
comer team, is leaving A&M because of academic problems.
itching drives A1 past NL, 2-0
avenoii;
‘It was;
unity i:
users *
CHICAGO (AP) — In the year of
he no-hitter, not even rain could
Sampen American League pitching
at the All-Star game.
ontaim- The Nationals were held to re-
;, whid; cord-low two hits and Julio Franco
only as| followed a 68-minute rain delay with
ivenonig two-run double in the seventh
italeml Tuesday night that led the Ameri-
finpliiBans to a 2-0 victory, .their third
traight and fourth in five years.
Never before had "an All-Star
:eam been held below three hits until
Bob Welch, Dave Stieb, Bret Saber-
agen, Bobby Thigpen, Chuck Fin-
VVortlley and Dennis Eckersley combined
blood t0 it. giving the Americans their
to their longest winning streak since 1946-
M9. It was the Americans’ first shut-
pout since 1946.
• The good pitching was helped by
||bad weather. Intermittent showers
delayed the start of the game for 17
minutes, and a 16 mph wind blowing
in from center fiela knocked down
every fly ball. Franco’s double off
Rob Dibble came three pitches after
play had resumed in the seventh.
For at least one game, Wrigley
I Field, known as a hitters’ park, was a
pjitchers’ paradise. And once again,
| after an OK afternoon in Chicago,
playing at night turned out to be a
bad idea.
The first night game ever sched-
Roger Craig said he
was going to manage like
it’s the seventh game of the
World Series”
—Jack Armstrong,
NL Starting Pitcher
uled for Wrigley Field in 1988 was
rained out, and some traditionalists
said it was revenge for putting in
lights and tampering with the old
ballpark. The first night game this
season also was washed away; rain
won’t be a problem at next year’s All-
Star game, at Toronto’s SkyDome.
Managers Tony La Russa of the
AL and Roger Craig of the NL both
said before it began that this was
more than an exhibition, and they
each played it that way. Intentional
walks, pitchouts, stolen bases and
even a brushback to Jose Canseco
marked the game as Craig made the
right moves, but got the same result
as in last year’s World Series against
La Russa.
The AL, the league of no-hitters
this year, also turned out to have the
best hitters. Five of the six no-hitters
in the majors have been in the
American, although the only pitcher
on the AL roster with one — Randy
Johnson — did not pitch.
Will Clark’s line-drive single to
center field with two outs in the first
and Len Dykstra’s leadoff single in
the ninth was all the Nationals could
muster. They had only two other
runners, walks to pinch-hitter Tony
Gwynn in the third and Barry Bonds
in the eighth, a span of 16 batters.
The Americans managed only
seven hits off a record nine pitchers,
and it was enough.
Jeff Brantley, who retired Cecil
Fielder on a fly ball with the bases
loaded to end the sixth, gave up sin
gles to Sandy Alomar, who slid into
first base to beat shortstop Shawon
Dunston’s long throw, and Lance
Parrish to start the seventh.
With the rain coming down
harder, the umpires stopped the
game. When it resumed, Dibble re
lieved and Franco hit an 0-2 pitch up
the right-center field alley.
Franco later was thrown out at the
E late by right fielder Darryl Straw-
erry, trying to score on Canseco’s
fly ball. And in the eighth, Franco
flied out to Strawberry with the
bases loaded to end the inning, but
he already had done enough dam
age.
Lawmakers try
to legislate
conference unity
AUSTIN (AP) — Two San An
gelo lawmakers say they plan to
sponsor a bill in the 1991 Legis
lature that would force public
schools that bolt the Southwest
Conference for another confer
ence without SWC approval to
forfeit half of their television and
radio revenue to the state trea
sury forever.
The penalty would apply to the
University of Texas at Austin,
Texas A&M University, Texas
Tech University and the Univer
sity of Houston.
Sen. Bill Sims and Rep. Robert
Junell, both Texas Tech grad
uates, were upset by reports that
several SWC schools are consid
ering joining other conferences,
the Austin American-Statesman
reported Tuesday .
"The people of the state fi
nance these schools, if not their
athletics programs,” said Junell,
43, a former football lineoacker
at Texas Tech. “We have a stake
in this. If Arkansas wants to go, I
hope the door doesn’t slap them
on the rear on the way out.
Cowboys’ coach demands
^ result, requires workouts
0
* ? IRVING, Texas (AP) — Time off
shouldn’t really be time off, believes
Cowboys coach Jimmy Johnson.
So he is pleased with his team’s in
creased dedication in off-season
training.
“All of the players have gone
through extensive off-season pro
grams,”
When Johnson first took over the
team before the 1-15 season of 1989,
he wondered where the players were
in the off-season.
Only a handful of players, such as
Herschel Walker, Jim Jeffcoat, Steve
Folsom, Danny White, Tom Rafferty
; and occasionally Bill Bates stopped
—' by Cowboys facilities to work out.
s Vince Albritton came by to play rac-
quetball, but most players stayed
away.
pPl “I had regular conversations with
our people about why we didn’t have
five more players working out,” Johnson
nd$ said.
r The coach said he was told that
-om Ithe team didn’t have an indoor
irte- weight room and they would rather
12- work out at spas and had their own
-lall specialized programs.
t; “Everyone had excuses,” Johnson
paid. “There were even comments
from our people like, ‘These guys
ght are pros. They’re not college play-
Jin ers. You can’t make them work out.’”
I “I was catching enough flak
the about, ‘Hey, we don’t do it that way
itsu in professional football,”’ Johnson
,rk- I said. “I said, ‘Oh, OK.’ Then we
went 1-15. That’s when I said, ‘Hey,
ted - this is the way we’re going to do it.’”
)ter Johnson then enclosed the weight
on
Hogs take next step
toward SEC merger
room and had it air conditioned. He
hired Mike Woicik as new strength
and conditioning coach, began pay
ing players to work out and dangled
attendance bonuses.
It all made a dramatic difference.
That difference may be showing
up in some individual players, too.
Defensive lineman Danny Noo
nan is a shining example. He has
earned the praise of Johnson and
Woicik. Noonan has been among the
team leaders for 20-yard times. He
bench-pressed 440 pounds. And de
spite his 270-pound size, he has in
creased his vertical leap to 36 inches.
New receiver Alexander Wright
leads 40-yard times with a 4.25 while
running back Keith Jones was next
at 4.31.
Tackle Mark Tuinei was tops in
the bench press with 475 pounds,
followed by end Walter Johnson’s
460-pound effort.
Johnson said Monday that the av
erage number of players from the
team’s 84-man roster jumped from
about 6 to about 65 with more than
70 players attending some days.
“I emphasized time and time
again that the guys who are going to
make the club are going to be the
ones who work,” he said. “I think I
got my point across.”
“Buck Buchanan, who’s been with
the Cowboys a long time (16 years as
equipment manager), says he’s never
seen a team work as hard as this
group this off-season,” Johnson said.
“A guy like Buck is not going to say
something like that just because
somebody wants to hear it.”
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) —
Academic and athletic department
E ersonnel at the University of Ar
ansas are answering a list of ques
tions submitted by the Southeastern
Conference, the UA chancellor says.
The questions, received Monday,
marked the first contact between the
conference and the university since
Arkansas officials told SEC Commis
sioner Roy Kramer more than three
weeks ago that they were interested
in listening to the SEC’s expansion
ideas, UA Chancellor Dan Ferritor
said.
“It’s a pretty basic request for in
formation,” Ferritor said. “It’s
mostly questions on the governing of
the university. There are questions
concerning the Board of Trustees,
expenditure levels, admissions stan
dards. I thought it was a good solid
set of questions that anyone inter
ested in Arkansas would want to
ask.”
Ferritor said he relayed some of
the questions to members of the aca
demic staff and others were sent to
the athletic department.
The questions were basic, UA
Athletic Director Frank Broyles said.
“If you were making a self study
of our athletic department, you
would ask those questions,” Broyles
said.
“There were questions about the
general size of our budget, the size
of our coaching staffs, the number
of scholarships in all sports, our rev
enue stream, cost of all sports, ex
penditures of all sports, salaries for
all sports,” Broyles said. “They’re all
along that line. It was exactly what
we expected.”
Ferritor said the questions would
be given prompt attention. “We
hope to have it done as soon as possi
ble. We’re certainly not going to sit
on it,” he added.
Arkansas is a charter member of
the Southwest Conference and is a
long way from making a move to the
Southeastern Conference, Broyles
said last week.
“It’s not a done deal. Not any
where near a done deal,” Broyles
said of the SEC’s recent overtures to
Arkansas.
Broyles said he believes any nego
tiations with the SEC would occur
later rather than sooner because so
much is involved.
“The next move is up to the SEC,
and that is as it should be,” he said.
“When they feel they have some
thing to talk to us about, a meeting
will be set up.”
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