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Wednesday, November 28, 1990
Patriots fined $72,500 for alleged
harassment of Boston Herald writer
NEW YORK (AP) — The alleged sexual harassment
of reporter Lisa Olson will cost three players a total of
$22,500 and the New England Patriots $50,000.
Zeke Mowatt was fined $12,500 Tuesday, while Mi
chael Timpson and Robert Perryman were each fined
$5,000 for their roles in a locker room incident involv
ing Olson, of the Boston Herald.
The Patriots were fined $25,000 because they “never
vigorously sought the facts abouj: what had happened,”
NFL commissioner Paul Tagliabue wrote in a letter to
Patriots owner Victor Kiam.
In addition to the team fine, the Patriots were or
dered to pay $25,000 for counseling on how to deal
with the media.
Tagliabue levied the fines after receiving a 60-page
report on the incident by special counsel Phillip Hey-
mann of the Harvard Law School. Tagliabue concluded
that “a serious incident occurred on Sept. 17 while Ms.
Lisa Olson of the Boston Herald was interviewing cor-
nerback Maurice Hurst in the Patriots’ locker room.
The incident involved misconduct of certain Patriots’
players that was degrading to Ms. Olson.
“Professor Heymann’s report is thorough and bal
anced,” Tagliabue said. “It treats the entire episode on
a factual basis, not with speculation, rumor or rhetoric.”
The report, in which 91 people were interviewed,
some more than once, also said, “Lisa Olson on three
occasions presented the investigators with a clear and
consistent account of sexual harassment. ... The Patriots
pointed out to us that various accounts written by Olson
or attributed to her by other reporters were exagger
ated and not entirely consistent.
“On the other hand, it was obvious to us that players
were extremely reluctant to speak frankly about their
own activities and those of some of their teammates.
Their accounts of the incident of Sept. 17 were also of
ten inconsistent with the accounts provided by others
present in the locker room that day.
“Still, direct conflicts remain between the account of
Lisa Olson and the accounts of the Patriots ... some of
these conflicts have proved unresolvable.”
“My satisfaction with the investigation and subse
quent sanctions is surpassed only by my wish the disgra
ceful incident had never occurred in the first place,” Ol
son said. “It was not my choice to have this matter
decided in a public forum, and it is unfortunate that Pa
triot management forced this to happen by not dealing
with the guilty persons swiftly and decisively.”
Olson has been reassigned to the Boston Celtics’ beat.
Paper reports
coach given
over $15,000
from boosters
FORT WORTH (AP) — Former
Odessa Permian football coach Gary
Gaines received at least $15,000 in
cash from boosters after both the
1988 and 1989 seasons, apparently
in violation of state rules, a booster
club member said.
The Fort Worth Star-Telegram
reported Wednesday that the largely
secretive practice had gone on for at
least a decade, with the size of the
cash payments determined largely
by how far Permian advanced in the
state football playoffs, according to
the booster, who was not identified.
The cash was in addition to
Gaines’ 1989 salary of $51,300.
Gaines, who left Permian after the
1989 state championship and now is
an assistant coach at Texas Tech
University in Lubbock, was away
from his office on a recruiting trip
Tuesday and could not be reached
for comment.
Permian, last year’s top-rated
schoolboy team in the nation, was
banned from defending its title this
year because coaches violated rules
by holding off-season practices too
early in the year.
Hallman hired
by Louisiana St.
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) —
Curley Hallman, who led South
ern Mississippi to two bowl games
in three years, was hired Tuesday
as Louisiana State’s head football
coach.
“I’m happy. I’m excited. I hope
to coach for a long, long time. I
hope I can retire at this univer
sity,” Hallman said during a news
conference.
The LSU Athletics Council
unanimously approved Hal
lman’s hiring after a closed meet
ing with him, athletic director Joe
Dean and LSU chancellor Wil
liam “Bud” Davis.
Hallman, 43, will receive a five-
year contract paying him $85,000
a year, Dean said. The hiring still
must be approved by the LSU
Board of Supervisors, but mem
bers have said they will go along
with Hallman.
He replaces fourth-year coach
Mike Archer, who resigned effec
tive at the end of the season after
reports that he was about to be
fired.
Aggie men’s basketball
hosts tough OU squad
By SCOTT WUDEL
Of The Battalion Staff
Tonight will be a game of firsts
for the Texas A&M men’s basket
ball program.
Kermit Davis Jr. will make his
first official home debut as the
Aggies’ new head coach.
The Oklahoma Sooners will
make their first-ever appearance
on the floor of G. Rome White
Coliseum.
The Sooners are also the first
nationally-ranked non-Southwest
Conference team to appear in
College Station since the Col
iseum opened in 1954.
And if things work out right
for the Aggies, it will be the first
A&M victory over OU in five
tries.
A&M (1-1) faces 18th-ranked
Oklahoma (2-1) tonight at 7:30
p.m. The game is televised re
gionally by Home Sports Enter
tainment.
The last time the Aggies met
the Sooners on the court was in
1988, when OU blew out A&M,
128-80. The Aggies haven’t come
closer than 13 points since it be
gan the four game series in 1960.
And a lot of skeptics aren’t ex
pecting things to change this
year.
Those who have formed an
opinion of tonight’s game are ex
pecting the Sooners to hit the
floor running and roll over the
young Aggies. But Davis says
even if the Aggies come out on
the short end of a lopsided
scoreboard, they still will benefit
from playing the nationally-
ranked opponent.
“Every game we go into we try
to give our guys a chance to win
the game,” Davis said. “I don’t
care who we play, we try to pre
pare the same way.
“We look to try to get ourselves
better, and really not put a lot of
emphasis on the outcome or the
score.”
Davis says the game will simu
late playing in front of a big
crowd against strong physical ath
letes, like what the Aggies will
have to face later in the season
against SWC opponents.
Billy Tubbs, who is in his elev
enth year as coach at Oklahoma,
has compiled a 259-84 record.
During that time, the Sooners
have won four Big Eight Confer
ence titles, advanced to the
NCAA Tournament nine times,
and posted nine straight 20-win
seasons.
OU finished the 1990 regular
season ranked at the top of the
national polls, but fell to North
Carolina in the NCAA Tourna
ment.
This year the Sooners’ only loss
came to third-ranked Arkansas.
Tubbs will face his second SWC
opponent shorthanded on play
ers.
OU began the season without
two of its top returning players in
Damon Patterson and Smokey
McCovery. Injuries hit the team
just two games into the season,
Tubbs lost Bryan Sallier, a center
who averaged 14 points, and
guard Terry Evans, who aver
aged 7.5 points and nine assists in
two games.
Davis’ team is trying to bring a
lot of new faces together as it be
gins the season. Brooks Thomp
son and Lynn Suber are the only
returning starters from last year’s
14-17 team. Thompson is averag
ing 10.5 points in A&M’s first two
games, and Suber, a probable
starter, has posted a 16.5 scoring
average.
The Aggies’ biggest surprise so
far may be junior college transfer
Isaac Brown, who scored 27
points against Sam Houston State
last weekend.
Davis said the team is moti
vated to play its powerhouse op
ponent.
“Anytime you play at home,
and you bring in a Top 20 team
into your place, it makes the guys
adrenaline flow a little harder,
and there is a little more nervous
ness,” he said.
No matter what the outcome is,
the coach says fans will appreciate
attending the game.
“The main thing you have to
look at tonight is the atmosphere,
and how much fun it is to come to
the games,” he said.
“I know this place used to be
filled up with 7000 people mak
ing noise.”
Davis guarantees that fans will
see guys playing hard with a lot of
enthusiasm and discipline.
And he says he’s not concerned
with points, or Oklahoma’s ability
to run up the score.
“We’re just worried about our
own team,” he says. “Whether
(Tubbs) wants to play his first five
guys for 40 minutes, that doesn’t
bother me. He’s got to do what’s
best for his team.”
Learning from a team of Okla
homa’s standing may be what’s
best for the Aggies.
Off Campus Aggies
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Wednesday, November 28
in 103 Zachry at 7 p.m.
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