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Thursday, September 3,1992
Baseball owners
to discuss fate of
commissioner
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK - Baseball own
ers will gather Thursday after
noon at an airport hotel outside
Chicago to discuss Fay Vincent,
but it s still unclear if they will
pressure him to quit as commis
sioner or attempt to fire him.
It appeared Wednesday that
representatives of all 28 teams
would attend the special meeting,
called by the league presidents
last week over Vincent's objec
tion. The commissioner will not
attend because he says the Major
League Agreement prohibits dis
cussion of the terms and duties of
the incumbent.
"I really don't expect that he
will be fired on Thursday,"
Chicago White Sox owner Jerry
Reinsdorf said. "I just don't know
what's going to happen. We have
a lot of things to talk about."
It appeared 13 or 14 teams
were against Vincent and that 10-
12 were supporting him. The
views of the San Diego Padres
and Detroit Tigers were unclear.
"I know that there's a majority
that's not going to be behind
him," Philadelphia Phillies owner
Bill Giles said. "How many, I
don't know."
Because the Major League
Agreement doesn't have a mecha
nism for firing a commissioner, it
also was unclear what options
were available to the disenchant
ed owners. An attempted firing
would lead to a court fight that
could tie up baseball's adminis
tration for a lengthy time.
The anti-Vincent group, by
many accounts, is led by Reins
dorf, Bud Selig of the Milwaukee
Brewers, Stanton Cook of the
Chicago Cubs and Peter O'Malley
of the Los Angeles Dodgers.
"Doesn't the board of directors
fire its chairman or its president if
it's not satisfied that the chairman
or the president is (not) doing
what the board of directors wants
done?" Reinsdorf asked. "These
franchises are owned by the own
ers, so to speak, and the commis
sioner is the employee of the
owners. And if the commissioner
is not doing a good job for the
owners, then he ought to be dis
missed."
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Continued From Page 9
Last season, the Tigers came
into College Station to play the
Aggies in Kyle Field, a stadium
where they nave only won ONE
game in the history of the series,
that coming in 1987. They lost
again, receiving a 45-7 thrashing
at the hands of Slocum's troops.
The Aggies haven't won in
"Death Valley" since 1975.
Although they came at differ
ent points of the season, both
teams also had a major tragedy
to deal with. The Aggies had to
handle the death of place-kicker
James Glenn a year ago. This
season, the Tigers suffered
through Hurricane Andrew
with the rest of the Gulf coast.
, R.C. Slocum wenTtocollege
in Louisiana, while Hallman is a
graduate of A&M.
O.K., maybe that's stretching
the similarities a bit.
If we keep this up, the inex
perienced Tigers will be South
eastern Conference champions
with a 10-1 record and playing
in the Sugar Bowl in no time.
That, my friends, is where
the likenesses end.
Sure, LSU has some great
freshman backs, much like the
Aggies had Greg Hill and Rod
ney Thomas last season. And
one of those, Robert Toomer,
had 7,868 yards in his high
school career, which is almost
comparable to Thomas' incredi
ble career mark of 8,441 in his
career at Groveton High School.
But that won't be enough for
the Tigers to follow in the Ag
gies footsteps. The biggest dif
ference in the two teams: De
fensive talent.
As young as the Aggies were
last season, they did return their
two best defensive players, All-
American cornerback Kevin
Smith and Quentin Coryatt,
who was easily the best, and
most overlooked, linebacker in
the nation last season.
Hallman, however, lost the
majority of his secondary.
Starters Corey Raymond,
Wayne Williams and Robby
Green have all graduated, and
the Tigers have had to move
tailback Vincent Fuller to the
secondary to fill the void.
And, on an inexperienced
team, a strong defense is often
what can keep you in the win
column. As long as the other
team doesn't score, the offense
has time to work out the bugs.
So, don't look for a 45-7 LSU
win this weekend. Although
the "Curse of Death Valley"
should have been lifted two
years ago, the gap between the
Aggies and the Tigers is proba
bly greater than it's ever been.
That is, as long as the Aggie
"D" keeps the crowd quiet. It's
tough to win a game of 11
against 80,140.
Hallman
Continued From Page 9
line, linebackers and quarter
backs.
"On our offensive line, we've
got some maturity back," Hall
man said of a group led by first
team All-Southeastern Confer
ence tackle Kevin Mawae. "Our
tight end, Harold Bishop, is back
after missing last season. And
(quarterback) Chad Loup, with
his experience, is a plus.
"Defensively, at our outside
linebacker position, we've got
some depth and maturity."
Hallman softened the blow of
losing defensive backs Corey
Raymond, Wayne Williams and
Robby Green to graduation by
moving tailback Vincent Fuller to
the secondary. That move helped
shore up a position that the
Tigers' head man is still worried
about.
"In the secondary, we lost
three youngsters that played well
for us," Hallman said. "That's a
concern for us."
Both backs replacing Fuller on
offense, Robert Davis and David
Butler, are true freshmen.
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Bates relives fond
memories of RFK
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
IRVING, Texas - The Wash
ington Redskins have provided
Tom Landry's final victory, Jim
my Johnson's first triumph and
Bill Bates' fondest memories.
Bates, the safety whose decade
with the Cowboys has been de
fined by ice packs and bloodied
uniform pants, figures to start this
season the same way he started
his career as the Cowboys pre
pare to resume their rivalry with
the Redskins on Sept. 7 at Texas
Stadium.
On Sept. 5, 1983, another Mon
day night, Washington was the
opponent for Bates' first NFL
game.
"There's so many games and
things that have happened that I
will remember," he said. "The
plays still flash in my mind."
Bates was at RFK Stadium
when Landry won with the Cow
boys for the last time in 1988 and
the next season when Johnson
earned his only rookie victory.
There was a certain uneasiness,
suspicion and paranoia during
Redskins week under Landry's
direction, Bates said. While John
son is no less intense or focused.
Bates said, he appears more self-
assured.
Of course, Johnson never had
to coach against George Allen,
whom Landry suspected was re
sponsible for spying on his prac
tices.
The NFC East has more com
petitive balance these days, and
Johnson seems to consider the
Redskins just another challenger.
The closest thing to a rivalry
Johnson has had was with the
Philadelphia Eagles when Buddy
Ryan coached them.
Landry was more likely to in
tegrate new plays or personnel
matchups into his game plans
when the Cowboys played the
Redskins than Johnson has t>een.
Bates said.
"1 think Coach Landry pulled
out a few more tricks here and
there that we would save for the
Redskins — a special play or a
new blitz we hid until that partic
ular game," Bates said. "1 think
that had a lot to do with Coach
Landry's era. He knew that game
— Washington-Dallas — meant
so much to the rest of the year.
"Coach Johnson won his only
game that first year there. We've
got a lot of confidence against
them. The great thing about our
staff is they've got confidence,
and you can tell they have confi
dence against their staff and what
they're going to do."
Bates played his first pro game
against the Redskins and has been
involved in some of the most
memorable — if temporarily for
gettable — scenes from the series.
The first happened during
Bates' second season, when he
found himself in the Redskins'
huddle, his misdirection the prod
uct of a collision with John Rig
gins.
"The fourth quarter up there,
they're killing us," Bates said.
"They're running the counter trap
over and over. Riggins is getting
the ball, and I know I'm going to
meet him in the hole. 1 went run
ning in there as fast as I could and
hit him head-on, and he didn't
knock me back, and I didn't
knock him back. We both went
sideways.
"I get up shaking my head and
go into the Redskins' huddle.
They're kicking me out, wanting
to fight me. Well, I see Riggins fi
nally get up, and he's walking off
the field. I decide I'm going back
to my huddle, staying in the
game, because if he leaves and I
don't, then I got the best of that
one."
Fog aside, Bates always is cer
tain about the magnitude of the
game when the Cowboys play the
Redskins. He said he has attempt
ed to convey the importance of
those meetings and his apprecia
tion of the rivalry to younger
teammates.
"When I came in, I knew what
the rivalry was because I was a
Cowboys fan," he said. "The guys
that are coming in now, I hope
they know that it's a big deal.
"I told Larry Brown before we
played them last year, driving up
to the stadium, 'Remember this
game because there's not a better
time or a better place to be play
ing professional football than in
this stadium right here. Whether
we win or lose, remember this.'"
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