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Thursday, August 9,1990
Sports Editor
Clay Rasmussen
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| AUSTIN (AP) — The noisy
neighbors are leaving, but they will
be missed.
. . j By week’s end, the sounds of foot-
wil1 die away at St. Edward’s
niversity. And even though some
ho live near the school were appre-
nsive about having a pro football
am on campus, now they can’t wait
for the Dallas Cowboys to return
|ext summer.
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i activities, and c« uce( j an unexpected financial
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iduding a church that made thou-
inds of dollars from its parking lot.
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e attended as a (re barged $2 or $3 per car to park in
le church lot, and up to LOG fans
”ach morning have done so.
“It was just great to have them
cross the street,” said church secre-
iry Brenda Smith.
“This has been a dream come true
nr me,” said David Koch, a Cowboys
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fan and resident of the area. “I’ll be
glad to have them back.”
Neighbor Lawrence Lewis echoed
Koch’s enthusiasm about the football
team’s training camp, held in Austin
for the First time this year.
“I want them back,” Lewis said. “I
had no problems at all.”
Some residents said they greeted
news that the Cowboys would be
practicing at St. Edward’s with trepi
dation after hearing thousands of
fans also were expected. But the fans
were well-behaved, and city and uni
versity authorities kept the traffic sit
uation well in hand.
Things have been calm since prac
tice opened July 19. The Cowboys
will hold their last practice Thurs
day, then leave town to play their
first exhibition game.
“We were kind of worried at
first,” Koch said. “But things just
carried on as normal. I just thought
it was run very professionally.”.
One woman who lives across the
street from the practice field said she
expected problems as well, but said,
“Fans didn’t even block our drive
way. I thought that was very cour
teous.”
Armando Martinez, who is selling
football souvenirs at a booth across
from the camp, said business has
been outstanding. “I wish they’d just
stay here,” Martinez said.
Not everyone, however, did so
well.
“I expected more sales than we
got,” said Michael Jacks, manager of
a sports souvenir shop. “It’s not what
you would expect in this situation.”
Motel manager Bob Haynes said
he had anticipated hanging out a
“No Vacancy” sign during the entire
training camp, but it didn’t work out
that way.
“I personally don’t think it has”
lived up to expectations, he said.
“We really didn’t see anything until
last week.”
Haynes said the hotel was full all
last week, and said this week also has
seen a large turnout, possibly fans
trying to catch the final days of the
team’s stay in Austin.
John Lucas, vice president for en
rollment and student services at St.
Edward’s, said the Cowboys have
drawn close to 100,000 people at
their practices, and he expects more
in 1991.
“It was a success that exceeded
our expectations — and we had pre
tty high expectations,” Lucas said.
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Present and former Texas
tennis players will highlight
e Gary Stevenson Quality CMC
Open tennis tournament
that gets underway at 8 a.m, Fri
day.
Former A&M standout Shaun
O’Donovan is the No. 1 seed in
the Championship Men’s Division
and junior Doug Brown from
Deer Park is the No. 3 seed.
O’Donovan and Brown will play
together in the doubles competi
tion and they enter the tourna
ment as the No. 1 seeded team.
Lady Aggies also enter the
tournament with top seeds.
Senior Cindy Churchwell from
Houston is the No. 1 seed in the
Championship Women's Divi
sion. Churchwell and Tammi
Agassi, a senior from Las Vegas,
Nevada, hold the top s6ed in dou
bles competition.
ACC shuns Gamecocks,
SEC interested in merger
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina’s chances of rejoining the Atlan
tic Coast Conference appear to be slim, but the school may soon move a step
closer to joining the Southeastern Conference, a newspaper reported
Wednesday.
The Charlotte Observer, citing unnamed sources, reported the Game
cocks apparently have little chance to rejoin the ACC. South Carolina with
drew from the conference following the 1970-71 season.
“I’m afraid they just don’t have the six votes necessary to get back in,” an
unidentified athletic official at an ACC school told the newspaper.
South Carolina is a member of the Metro Conference for all sports ex
cept football. But the school wants to join an all-sports conference and is
considering a variety of options, including the SEC, ACC and an expanded
Metro Conference that would include 16 schools and football.
On Friday, the school’s board of trustees is expected to give its interim
president power to accept a possible conference offer.
“There has been discussion of a proposal to give the president authority
to make the commitment, to respond to an offer to join an all-sports confer
ence,” interim president Arthur K. Smith said.
“I think it’s a proposal that somebody intends to bring up at the (trust
ees) meeting Friday,” he said Tuesday.
Smith said South Carolina has not received a formal invitation to join the
SEC.
“We’re still in the exchange of information stage; they’re sending infor
mation to us on league bylaws and revenue sharing and so on,” he said.
“We’re very receptive to the SEC; we’re very interested in them. But at this
point, we want to keep all of our options open.”
Dallas defensive back Bill Bates signs auto- camp. Bates is unsure of his future with the Cow-
graphs as the Cowboys pack up their Austin boys, but insists he’ll play in any capacity.
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Rose surrenders to federal officials
MARION, Ill. (AP) — Pete Rose
became a prisoner on Wednesday
when he turned himself in to federal
officials to begin a five-month sen
tence for cheating on his income
taxes.
Rose, who had until Friday to sur
render, arranged beforehand to
have a federal van pick him up in
this Southern Illinois town and
slipped unnoticed into the mini
mum-security federal prison camp a
few miles away.
Baseball’s all-time hits leader,
prisoner 01832061, arrived around
noon and was accompanied by mem
bers of his family, Warden John L.
Clark said. He did not specify who
those family members included.
The former Cincinnati Reds man
ager would be fingerprinted, photo
graphed and given an orientation
before he joined his fellow inmates
for dinner, Clark said.
“Mr. Rose will have all the rights
and obligations as all prisoners and
will receive no special privileges,”
Clark said. “We will have his term
pass as uneventfully as possible for
him and the other prisoners.”
Clark said the prison would make
a special effort to protect its famous
inmate, assigning him to a job that
would be out of public view and re
specting his request for no inter
views.
Rose’s release is scheduled for
Jan. 7, 1991, prison officials said,
and Rose said he hoped to be home
for Christmas, with time off for
good behavior. But assistant warden
Randy Davis said Rose must serve
three months at a halfway house in
Cincinnati after he leaves Marion.
The 49-year-old Rose, banned
from baseball a year ago for gam
bling, was convicted on two counts of
filing false income tax returns. He
failed to report more than $350,000
in income from gambling, auto
graph signing and baseball memora
bilia sales.
Rose was sentenced July 20 by
U.S. District Judge S. Arthur Spiegel
in Cincinnati. He underwent knee
surgery that same day and delayed
reporting to prison so he could re
cover.
Clark said Rose was not on
crutches and that the knee w.
“doing well.” He said his prison job,
could depend on how long Rose was
able to stand and walk.
Coach R.C. Sltxii:
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Spurs, Cummings agree Big Eight, SWC continue merger talks
on contract extension terms
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SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Veteran
rward Terry Cummings and the
Ian Antonio Spurs have agreed to
xtend Cummings’ existing contract
by four years.
Team executives and Cummings
announced the agreement Wednes
day after weeks of sporadic negotia-
ons. At one point Cummings, who
has two years remaining on his cur-
ent $1.7 million per season con-
act, said he was considering leaving
tasketball to pursue private business
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den City, Kama! Cummings has said he would like
as in 1985. to retire in San Antonio. He said he’s
h was questioned it lookin g forward to the upcoming
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mings said. “I really love this city and
the team, and I’m looking forward
to winning a championship.”
Cummings and the Spurs report
edly agreed to a deal averaging $2.3
million over the next five years.
There also is an option for a sixth
year.
Team owner Red McCombs in a
news conference Wednesday reiter
ated that the Spurs do not renego
tiate contracts and that Cummings’
deal is an extension.
Cummings, 29, averaged 22.4
points and 8.4 rebounds last season,
his first in San Antonio. He came to
the Spurs after the 1988-89 season
in a trade that sent Alvin Robertson
and Greg Anderson to Milwaukee.
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Officials from 12
schools in the Big Eight and Southwest confer
ences met Wednesday to talk about issues facing
the two leagues and to lay the groundwork for
possible future meetings.
The closed-door meeting — the first ever be
tween the leagues — resulted in nothing con
crete, which came as no surprise to the athletic
directors and conference commissioners present.
“It was a great opportunity just to exchange
ideas and I think it was beneficial to all of us,”
said Carl James, Big Eight commissioner.
“There’s not a sense of urgency,” said Frank
Windegger, athletic director at Texas Christian.
“It was really what we thought going in —an ex
change of dialogue between conferences.”
Those in attendance touched on topics rang
ing from drug testing to the possibility of a re
gional television package in the future.
“Two things are the primary focuses on our
minds,” said Dan Gibbens of Oklahoma, chair
man of the Big Eight faculty representatives.
“One is the fact there have been some shifts in
other conference alliances and it’s recognized
that might present some additional opportuni
ties, possibilities and concerns.
The other thing is the nature of the television
— football television in particular — situation.”
He added, however, that the two leagues are
not moving toward an alliance or merger at this
time. “We’re exploring common grounds,” he
said.
Oklahoma athletic director Donnie Duncan
said the constant talk of schools jumping confer
ences or thinking about jumping is “almost ath
letic hysteria.”
“It’s senseless for rational people to get into
that mode, and we’re not in that mode,” he said.
Seven of the teams in the Big Eight were rep
resented at the d'/a-hour meeting. Five teams
from the Southwest Conference were rep
resented, although one of those without a rep
resentative was Texas. Athletic director DeLoss
Dodds was on vacation and attending his daugh
ter’s wedding, according to an assistant to Dodd
in Austin.
Talk in recent weeks has centered on forming
a Big Eight-SWC alliance to enlarge each confer
ence’s television markets, a move that could
mean more revenues.
The Big Eight, which has only Denver, St.
Louis and Kansas City as major metropolitan
areas, has one of the nation’s smallest TV mat
kets. By forming an agreement with the South
west Conference, the Big Eight could add the
large Dallas-Fort Worth and Houston markets.
The SWC also is looking to stabilize after los
ing Arkansas to the Southeastern Conference.
“I think our concern is to make the conference
stronger, both internally and from the outside,’
said SWC commissioner Fred Jacoby.
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