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Page 8 The Battalion Thursday, January 31,1991 CORRECTION An advertisement for Tutors Unlimited that appeared in The Battalion on Friday, Jan. 25, should have said "Tutors Unlimited is NOT connected with or sponsored by either the TAMU Chemistry or Physics Depts." McGuf fey's Culpepper Plaza (next to Radio Shack) 696-1152 Tube Neck J. Crew Sweater $19." regularly $48 100% Cotton - Black, Blue, Green, Chamois Other J. Crew J. Crew Jeans $ 14. 99 J. Crew Polo Shirts $11." J. Crew Shirts $19." J. Crew Cotton Trouser $ 19. 99 J. Crew Jersey Top $22." J. Crew Shorts $ 14. " Men’s and Women's New England Catalogue Fashions... at 1/2 price MSC Variety Show You Oughta Be in Pictures' Applications To Audition Are Available In The SPO.Room Z16 NSC Dae Feb. 8, 1991 LADIES AND LORDS! 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Walsh Culverhouse said in a statement released by the Bucca neers that both he and Bucs ad ministrator Phil Krueger had dis cussed the job opening with Walsh, who led the 49ers to three Super Bowl championships be fore retiring after the 1988 sea son. “Bill told us that he feels that to continue these discussions would not be fair to his on-going relationship with NBC,” Cul verhouse said. “We feel we have learned a great deal from these conversations, and we appreciate Bill’s advice and counsel.” The statement added that the Bucs hope to name their new coach within a week. Culverhouse is also expected to talk with former Philadelphia Ea gles coach Buddy Ryan about the opening, and Krueger said per mission had been obtained to in terview New York Giants de fensive coordinator Bill Belichick. Although Walsh reportedly had already recommended Los Angeles Raiders assistant Mike White for the position, published reports Wednesday indicated Tampa Bay was willing to spend a lot of money to persuade him to return to football TANK frFNAMAHA by Jeff Millar & Bill Hinds I UKEP WM&NJ TOM 5£A\J&K VJfifr TMf?OWllJO AT MV WFAP 111 leu art mi ce: tot th: pe coi nc asi be SWC Hoops Horns, Owls, Frogs post wins La ha SUj Wi N Associated Press Texas stomped SMU 96-80, Rice ran past Baylor 102-96 and TCU outscored Texas Tech 72-66 in a full night of Southwest Conference ac tion. Dexter Cambridge came off the bench Wednesday to score a career- high 26 points as Texas won its sixth straight SWC game. Cambridge sparked the Long horns in the first half, scoring 15 points. During one three-mintute stretch, the 6-7 junior from the Ba hamas scored 13 straight points as Texas (13-5, 7-1) jumped to a 35-23 advantage with 4:18 left before in termission. The Longhorns converted 4-of-8 3-point attempts in the first half, but only 2-of-10 in the second. Cam bridge was 11-of-18 from the floor, including two 3-pointers. Before Wednesday, the Mustangs (9-10, 4-4) had won six of their last seven games. Tim Mason led the Mustangs with 21 points on 9-of-12 shooting from the field. Mike Wilson followed with 17 and Chad Allen 13 as SMU lost to Texas for the sixth straight time. Cambridge hit a jumper from 23- feet away that pro video Texas with its biggest lead of the game, 64-40 with 13:29 remaining. However, SMU outscored the Longhorns 24- 10 over the next seven minutes to pull within 10, 74-64. Joey Wright scored 18 second half points for a total of 24, while Teyon McCoy tallied 14 and Locksley Collie 13 for Texas. Dana Hardy and Marvin Moore scored 23 and 18 points respectively to lead Rice over Baylor. The 102 points were the most scored by Rice (8-10, 3-5) this sea son. David Wesley led Baylor (9-8, 3-6) with a season-high 35 points. The game seesawed back and forth in a first half which featured three ties and nine lead changes. The Bears grabbed a 51-45 halftime lead behind Wesley’s 17 points, 9 of which came on 3-pointers. The Owls outscored Baylor 29-14 in the first 10:22 of the second half, including a 17-4 run paced by Hardy, who had eight points, includ ing two three-point field goals. In the second half, the Owls scored 13 straight field goals and took the lead for good with 11:29 left in the game at 68-65 on a three- point field goal by reserve guard Sam Campbell. Rice set a school record by making 10-of-13 attempts from 3-point range. Chase Maag and Brent Scott fin ished the game with 18 points for Rice. Forward Kelvin Chalmers added 17 for Baylor. The victory was Coach Moe Iba’s 199th career win. TCU (13-5, 5-3) held an 18 point lead, 54-36, early in the second half but had to regroup as the Red Raid ers rallied to pull to within two points on Bryant Moore’s 3-pointer with 3:12 left in the game. sea 1 jou bei i tioi enc ele fre yea: 7 nev port that fant S< Soul City Stri{ D ther visio late, nica of cc I exar able repc lowe Unorthodox play suits Spurs’ guard SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Rod Strickland was run ning down the lane and out of options. This is nothing new. Rod Strickland lives for this sort of on-the-brink excitement, even if his coach doesn’t. Looming to Strickland’s immediate right was 7-foot Benoit Benjamin. Directly ahead was 6-10 Charles Smith. There was no place for Strickland to go, no way out. Out of options, out of control. Or so it seemed. As the San Antonio Spurs’ point guard barreled to ward the basket and into trouble in the form of the Los Angeles Clippers’ big men, he suddenly faked a pass to David Robinson, standing off to one side. The feint moved Smith and Benjamin just enough to create a sliver of an opening. That was all Strickland needed. With his left hand, he kissed a soft underhanded lob high off the glass for two points. “I had no idea what he was going to do,” Bob Bass, the Spurs’ vice president of basketball operations, said later. “And I’ll bet you anything he didn’t know what he was going to do, either. That, in essence, is the intoxicating excitement that surrounds Rodney Strickland. In his first full year as an NBA starter, Strickland has blossomed into arguably the second-most valuable Spur behind only Robinson. He’s done it with an effective ka mikaze flair that bewilders and bedevils many, not the least of whom is Coach Larry Brown. Strickland sees his role as a relatively simple one. “With the talent here,” he said, “I don’t nave to do a whole lot of anything except get the ball to the right people.” But the way the DePaul product goes about doing it is anything but simple. Therein lies the reason for Brown’s struggle to come to grips with not so much what Strickland does, but how he does it. Brown, a perfectionist who believes success comes when everyone is in the right place at the right time on the court, has had to throw out his basketball Bible to accomodate Strickland’s free-wheeling freelancing. “It’s tough,” Brown said. “I’ve always had point guards who were really fundamentally sound. Some times I just cringe at some of the things Rod does, and I don’t want to curtail what he does best. “He’s going to take chances, but if you tie him down so much that it prohibits him from being creative, you take a great part of his game away from him. You have to be real careful.” What Strickland does best is make things happen, and usually it’s for the good. But there are those other moments when Strickland goes over the brink. “With the type of game I play, with my creativity, sometimes there are going to be mistakes,” he acknowl edges. Like in Portland last May 19. In San Antonio, they refer to it simply as "The Pass.” No other description is necessary. It came with the Spurs and Blazers tied at 103 with 30 seconds left in overtime of the seventh game of their Western Confer ence semifinals. Standing in the key with his back to the basket, Strickland threw a blind, two-handed, over-the-head pass. He expected Sean Elliott to be cutting toward the basket, but Elliott was frozen in disbelief as the ball went straight to Portland’s Jerome Kersey. Clyde Drexler took an outlet pass from Kersey for a layup and was fouled by Strickland in the process. Officials called it a breakaway foul, giving Portland the ball back after Drexler’s two free throws. The Blazers won 108-105 as Strickland’s perfor mance — 18 points, eight assists and seven rebounds — was all but forgotten. Strickland spent the offseason in his native New York, playing on the playgrounds and honing his jump shot and foul shooting at Men’s Gym in the Bronx, home of his club team, the New York City Gauchos. The work paid off. Strickland’s field-goal and free- throw percentage has improved dramatically, and he’s increased his average assists per game from 8.3 to 8.7. “I’m really happy with how I’ve gotten better. And the thing is, I’ve still got a lot of room to improve,” he said. “I’m not the player I’m going to be someday.” College HOF adds ex-Heisman tary New with Aral bom theii T and the \ NEW YORK (AP) — Heisman Trophy winners Steve Owens and Pat Sullivan were among 12 players and three coaches named to the col lege football Hall of Fame on Wednesday. Owens won the 1969 Heisman as a running back at Oklahoma, while Sullivan won the 1971 award as a quarterback at Auburn. Also voted i^ito the Hall of Fame were receive/ fcred Biletnikoff of Florida State’, 'running backs Ed Ma- rinaro of Cornell and L. Parker Hall of Mississippi, defensive back Kenny Easley of UCLA, end Hub Bechtol of Texas and linemen Alex Karras of Iowa, Bobby Bell of Minnesota, George Savitsky of Pennsylvania, Janies Still wagon of Ohio State and Wayne Meylan of Nebraska. The three former coaches elected to the Hall were Dave Maurer of Wittenberg, Tommy Prothro of Or egon State and UCLA and Allyn Mc- Keen of Memphis State and Missis sippi State. The new members will be in ducted into the Hall of Fame at the National Football Foundation's awards winner Dec. 10 in New York. The foundation sponsors the Hall of Fame. Owens, Sullivan and Savitsky at tended Wednesday’s announcement ceremony. “I’m very honored and flattered," said Owens, who played seven sea sons with the Detroit Lions before a knee injury ended his football ca reer. H K. 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