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Crowe's days numbered after loss to Citadel
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - All
around Razorback Stadium,
Arkansas football fans were com
plaining. They were stung by a 10-
3 loss to The Citadel.
Fire Crowe, they said.
Upstairs, on the fourth floor of
the pressbox. Jack Crowe looked
like a man in trouble. But he still
prepared for his television show.
And he was talking with his co
host about changes he wanted to
make in the future.
There was no inkling that he
would be out of work one game
deep into a new five-year contract.
Saturday night, athletic direc
tor Frank Broyles met with some
of the Arkansas hierarchy. The
subject was Crowe and the foot
ball program.
The meeting resumed at 7:30
a.m. Sunday and continued until
noon. Associate AD Wilson
Matthews was present. So was se
nior associate AD Terry Don
Phillips, associate AD Bill Gray
and Razorback Foundation presi
dent Chuck Dicus.
"We discussed the options that
we had to play for the rest of the
season,” Broyles said. "I think the
primary focus ... was if we were
going to make a decision, whether
it be in the middle of the season or
at the end of the season, then the
program would be much better
off if we made it now to let the
new coach have a full season to
accomplish his goals. We were ei
ther going to make it now or at
the end of the season."
Arkansas was 3-8 in 1990 and
some people wanted Crowe's
scalp before the 1991 season end
ed, the Razorbacks' last in the
Southwest Conference before
starting play this season in the
Southeastern Conference.
The hard core didn't want to
hear that Arkansas was 5-2 before
quarterback Jason Allen tore up
his knee. After three straight loss
es, there was talk that Crowe
would be canned if the Razor-
backs didn't handle Rice. They
did, 20-0, and wound up in the In
dependence Bowl against Geor
gia.
Still, there were grumblings.
Arkansas hired Greg Davis as
offensive coordinator and
switched to the one-back offense
with promises of pro-type passing
and excitement.
More than once, the Arkansas
offense was mentioned in the
same breath with that of the
Washington Redskins.
During the summer, Broyles
said the Razorbacks were in the
offense of the 21st century.
On Saturday, against a Divi
sion I-AA opponent, the Razor-
backs made 287 yards. They com
pleted 11 of 23 passes and their
wide receivers caught one ball.
Early Sunday afternoon.
Broyles and Crowe talked.
At a news conference with re
porters, he handled questions
without giving a clue that his
tenure was over. Afterward, the
announcement was crafted — the
company line was that Crowe had
stepped down.
Crowe said it in 65 words;
Broyles in 52.
"It is obvious the program is
not where we want it to be and
not where it should be," Crowe
said in his one-paragraph state
ment. "It is in the best interests of
all concerned that the head coach
ing responsibility be turned over
to someone else."
"Jack Crowe and I have dis
cussed tlie status of the football
program during his tenure as
head coach and I agree with his
assessment," Broyles said in his
statement.
A couple of hours later, Broyles
introduced Joe Kines as interim
head coach.
Sabatini ousted by Fernandez in U.S. Open quarters
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NEW YORK - Mary Joe Fer
nandez, taught a painful lesson
she never forgot in a U.S. Open
loss to Gabriela Sabatini two years
ago, reversed roles Tuesday and
charged into the semifinals.
Fernandez, seeded No. 7, upset
the fourth-seeded Sabatini 6-2, 1-
6, 6-4 with the
same net-rush
ing, aggressive
style that Sabati
ni used to win
the 1990 Open.
Fernandez
rushed the net,
risking winners,
forcing the ac
tion and Sabati
ni staying back.
Fernandez took
the lead at the
critical moment and kept it, 7-5, 5-
7,6-3 after leading the first set 4-1,
40-15.
Fernandez broke Sabatini at
love in the final game of the third
set, on the attack all the way to the
last point — a backhand approach
that Sabatini drove long.
The 21-year-old Fernandez,
runner-up to Monica Seles in the
s "i y'V
Fernandez
Australian Open this year,
reached the Open semis for only
the second time in eight years.
Sabatini had not lost any other
Grand Slam event before the semi
finals this year.
"I'm taking advantage of it
now. I'm playing aggressively,"
Fernandez said. "This was a
tough match. Even the first, it
looked like I was winning it easy,
but it wasn't that easy.
"She's definitely been a great
example for me."
Fernandez's reward for win
ning is a match against Seles, the
defending champion and No. 1
seed, a 6-1, 6-2 winner over Patri
cia Hy.
Stefan Edberg, the defending
men's champion and No. 2 seed,
got all he could handle from No.
15 Richard Krajiceck before win
ning 6-4, 6-7 (6-8), 6-3, 3-6, 6-4 to
reach the quarterfinals.
"When you push yourself for
four hours, you always feel a lot
better the next day, even if you
are sore," Edberg said. "You are
really feeling that you are hitting
the ball well. I am sure that is go
ing to be the case tomorrow. You
need those, because it is not the
same thing practicing for four
hours. Playing a match like this, it
is like 20, 30 hours of practice."
In another fourth-round match,
Wayne Ferreira beat Emilio
Sanchez 6-2, 6-4, 2-6, 6-4.
Edberg blew a chance to wrap
up the match early when he slop
pily slapped two volleys into the
net at the end of the tie-breaker,
and he looked like a loser when
he fell behind 1-3 in the fifth set.
"To be down
a break in the
fifth set, it was
not good
news," Edberg
said. "But
somehow I
managed to get
back in the
match. I fought
the way
through."
And he had
a little help
from Krajicek, who let one ball
float by that virtually cost him the
match.
Krajicek was serving at 30-40,
up a break at 3-2 in the fifth set,
when he boomed a serve to Ed-
berg's backhand. Edberg leaped
almost horizontally to the court,
stretching his racket and body as
far as possible, and softly popped
a windblown return. Krajicek had
Sabatini
Davis
Continued from Page 9
people who love the game.
Earlier in this century, base
ball was faced with an image
problem and hired their first
commissioner to solve it.
In the 1919 World Series, a su
perior baseball team, the Chicago
White Sox, lost to the lesser
Cincinnati Red Legs to the de
light of many gamblers and the
dismay of baseball insiders who
spread the rumor that the Sox
had intentionally thrown the se
ries for money.
The next year saw a messy
and well-publicized trial that
found the eight accused players,
which included potential Hall of
Fame outfielder "Shoeless" Joe
Jackson, innocent of accepting
bribes.
But once again payoffs were
rumored, this time to jurors.
Baseball had a full blown cri
sis on its Jiands and was rapidly
losing fans. In desperation, the
owners turned to a federal court
judge, Kenesaw Mountain Lan
dis, to clean up the game.
Landis conducted his own in
vestigation into the "Black Sox"
scandal and acting "in the best
interests of baseball," Landis
banished the eight players from
the game for life.
The American public took no
tice and the image of the game
drastically improved as fans re
turned to ballparks in throngs
with the confidence that games
were not "fixed".
For 24 years until his death in
November of 1944, Landis was
the steward over baseball's Gold
en Age which saw names like
Ruth, Gehrig, Young and Horns
by grace lineup charts.
And with an iron hand, Lan
dis saw to it that there were no
scandals.
Seven commissioners have
now come and gone since Landis
ruled the game. Each one doing
some things right, and others
wrong, but none wielding the
kind of power that Landis de
manded and received.
Today's baseball owners don't
desire a higher conscience in the
commissioner's office any longer.
They want someone who will let
them make a buck any way it can
be had.
Vincent naively expected that
fans and the game they love
were more important than billion
dollar television contracts and
lockouts, and ran his office ac
cordingly.
He finally decided to how out
gracefully after a scathing vote of
no-confidence last week and ear
lier promises that he would fin
ish his term whether he was
wanted or not.
In his final statement before
resigning he said that he was
avoiding a lengthy and acrimo
nious court battle "in the best in
terests of baseball".
Pay attention to anyone who
uses that phrase ever again. The
owners are at this moment out
looking for a "yes" man.
September 7,1992 could have
been the last time you ever heard
the phrase, "in the best interests
of baseball," uttered by someone
who meant it.
Lady Aggies Offense
Continued from Page 9
placed second in the University
of Texas-Arlington Asics Tourna
ment, upsetiing 20th-ranked
Georgia in the process.
The Bobcats (3-1) won the
Southland Conference champi
onship and the conference tour
nament, which earned them a
trip to the NCAA tournament.
This year, the Bobcats have
been picked to repeat as confer
ence champions by a poll of the
league's coaches. The Bobcats
only loss this season came at the
hands of the nationally-ranked
University of Texas squad.
Givens hopes that his team
will draw more fans this season,
and promises that they won't be
left wanting.
"Just come one time, and I
guarantee you that they won't be
disappointed because our players
will give it all, and they will
leave it all on the floor," Givens
said.
"We have great ambassadors
for Texas A&M, on the court as
athletes, in the classroom as stu
dents and in the community as
people."
Continued from Page 9
"He was a leader on the offen
sive line, and one of the linemen
is going to have to step up and
take his spot. He was our senior
on the line, and he really motivat
ed the team."
A&M offensive coordinator
Bob Toledo said losing Ellisor
would be tough on the team, but
he felt the time the reserves
gained during the starter's ab
sence in spring practice would
help the Aggies get through this
time.
"Any time you lose a quality
player like Ellisor, you obviously
lose some quality, that's why he's
the starter, and the other guy is
the backup," Toledo said. "The
thing that will help us is that
when John, Dexter (Wesley) and
(Tyler) Harrison missed spring
practice because of injuries, it
gave a lot of those young kids a
chance to practice.
"They picked up some quality
experience practicing against a
pretty good defense, which will
really help."
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come in behind his serve but he
had plenty of time to backpedal
and put the ball away with an
overhead. Instead, thinking it was
going long, he let it drift over his
head and watched dumbfounded
as it landed 6 inches in from the
corner.
That break-point was all the
encouragement Edberg needed.
He held at love to go ahead 4-3,
and after an exchange of services,
Edberg holding off two break
points, he watched Krajicek make
another crucial mistake — an easy
forehand volley into the net at
match point.
Canseco HRs;
Rangers take
Red Sox, 6-1
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
ARLINGTON — Jose Canseco
hit his first home run for Texas
and Kevin Brown won his 19th
game as tlie Rangers beat the
Boston Red Sox 6-1 Tuesday night.
Canseco, playing his fifth game
since being traded from Oakland
to Texas, hit a two-run shot in the
seventh inning. It was his 23rd
homer of the season. Dean Palmer
also hit a two-run homer for the
Rangers, his 24th.
Brown (19-8) became the sec
ond American League pitcher to
reach 19 victories this season.
Chicago's Jack McDowell won liis
20th game earlier Tuesday.
Brown, a winner in his last
three starts, yielded five hits and
struck out seven before Kenny
Rogers pitched the ninth.
The only run off Brown came in
the sixth.
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