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Page 8
The Battalion
Thursday^ April 1,1953
Robinson puts in 17 as Spurs
are dominated by Utah 93-85
Testaverde
will back up
Kosar again
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
SALT LAKE CITY - Coach
Jerry Sloan said the Utah Jazz
played an entire game of his kind
of defense.
"We came out a lot more phys
ical than we did the other night (a
114-101 loss to Denver Monday)/'
said Sloan, known for his hard-
nosed, all-out defensive style as
an All-Star guard with the Chica
go Bulls in the late 1960s and ear
ly 1970s.
The result was a 93-85 victory
over San Antonio on Wednesday
night that tightened the Midwest
Division race.
"We tried hard defensively,
and we aren't going to win unless
we do; it's as simple as that,'' the
coach said of Utah's fourth win in
its last five games.
Karl Malone, who led Utah
with 31 points and 14 rebounds,
also credited improved offensive
concentration.
"It was definitely execution,"
he said. "It has to make us feel
good to beat teams like this."
The win pulled Utah
within three games of the
Spurs, who trail division
leading Houston by a
game after the loss.
"It was a tough game,
but a good game," San
Antonio coach John Lucas said.
"We just couldn't gel it done ...
we didn't execute in the fourth
quarter when we had a chance to
win, but we are growing."
Jeff Malone scored 20 points
for the Jazz, while Jay Humphries
had 15. John Stockton added 12
points and nine assists.
David Robinson had 17 points
and 12 rebounds for thp Sours,
who clinched a playoff spot Tues
day night by beating Seattle 99-97.
Dale Ellis scored 14 points and
Sean Elliott 13 for San Antonio,
which split its season series with
Utah 3-3.
The Spurs were plagued by
poor shooting, hitting just 41 per
cent. Utah connected on 50 per
cent of its shots and also enjoyed a
54-38 rebounding advantage.
Trailing 69-68 early in the
fourth quarts, the Jazz unleashed
a 16-2 run to put the game away.
Stockton, had seven points during
the spurt, which put Utah ahead
84-71 with 5:12 to play.
The Spurs got within four
points on Antoine Carr's corner
jump shot with 1:33 remaining,
but a reverse layin by Mark Eaton
arid Karl Malone's jumper ended
the threat.
Trailing by four at halftime, the
Spurs had reeled off 10 of the
third quarter's first 12 points.
Robinson started the surge with a
dunk and capped it with a 15-
footer to give San Antonio a 56-52
lead.
The Jazz refused to fold! Three
jumpers by Jeff Malone keyed a
14-3 run that restored Utah's lead
to seven points.
The Spurs countered with a 10-
2 run — with Vinny Del Negro
getting nine of those points
that spanned the end of the third
and beginning of the fourth quar
ters.
Del Negro's 19-footer gave San
Antonio its last lead before Utah's
big rally-
Riding Karl Malone's 10 points,
Utah won the first quarter 25-21
and then took a six-point lead ear
ly in the second period on Jeff
then I'll wait the rest of the sea-
NBA Roundup
Malone's fallaway 14-footer.
San Antonio fought back on
consecutive layins by Avery John
son, knotting the score at 32, but
the Jazz closed out the half with a
9-5 run.
Karl Malone — who had 17
points in the first half — ducked
under Robinson's defense to hit
an off-balance 19-footer at the
horn for a 50-46 advantage.
Olajuwon has played with a
bandage on the finger since he in
jured it Feb. 2 against Indiana and
it was reinjured at Tuesday's
practice when he tried to block a
shot by Matt Bullard.
"I think I'm going to have the
surgery, it's a matter of when,"
Olajuwon said. "I’d hate to see
the finger this wav the rest of my
life. Yesterday was very bad be
cause I injured two more fingers."
The Rockets already have
clinched a playoff berth but they
are battling with the San Antonio
Spurs for first place in the Mid
west Division and Olajuwon is
having one of his best seasons, av
eraging 25 points, 13 rebounds
and four blocked shots per game.
"If I can wait on surgery I
will," Olajuwon said. "But I'd
hate to have a finger like this all
my life. I'm going to have
surgery. It's a question of when.
"1 need to find out if I’m risk
ing permanent damage to the fin
ger by continuing to play. And if 1
am. I'll have to make a decision."
Rockets coach Rudy
Tomjanovich said the de
cision was a medical one.
"I think he's doing the
right thing if he's con
cerned about it," Tom
janovich said. "I think its a pre
cautionary thing. We have some
time here.
"Always in medical situations,
its the doctors and how the play
ers feel."
The Rockets play Milwaukee
Thursday night at The Summitt.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Dallas Mavericks
Houston Rockets
HOUSTON - Houston Rock
ets center Hakeem Olajuwon par
ticipated in Wednesday's practice
without any added problems after
he reinjured the middle finger on
his right hand in practice a day
earlier.
"It only bothers me if someone
hits it," Olajuwon said after the
drill. "I try to protect it as much
as I can. Toddy it felt gobdv I just
want .to make sure that I have
time to wait (before surgery) and
DALLAS — Derek Harper was
activated from the injured list of
the Dallas Mavericks on Wednes
day after sitting out nine games
with a strained right ham
string, club officials said.
Harper, the Mavericks' leading
scorer this season at 19.2 points
per game, was not in the lineup
for Wednesday night's game
against the Seattle Sonics, but is
expected to play Friday against
the Golden State Warriors.
To make room for Harper on
the active roster, Dallas placed
Randy White on the injured list.
BEREA, Ohio - Vinny Tes
taverde, who never camedoseto
the Super Bowl with the Tampa
Bay Buccaneers, hopes to read
that goal with the Cleveland
Browns, another team that hasn't
made it.
Testaverde accepted a one-
year contract with the Browns,
with a team option for another
year.
Testaverde said Wednesday
he understood he would bea
backup to quarterback Bernie
Kosar.
"I know he'll be the starting
quarterback corning in," Tes
taverde said.
"But I think if I come in and
compete, it will make him better
and make me better, and in turn
it will make the team better,
think that's what we're all look
ing for, is for this team to be a Su
per Bowl contender."
Kosar said Wednesday he
doesn't see Testaverde as a threat
to his starting job.
"I don't think it's a competi
tive situation," Kosar said. "The
one thing coach Bill Belichick
said to me is that I won't have to
go to training camp and compete
for my job."
Testaverde, the 1987 Heisman
Trophy winner who has strug
gled through six seasons in the
NFL, said he was comfortable re
suming his role as Kosar's back
up.
He was a backup to Kosar a!
the University of Miami.
Belichick also had the Super
Bowl in mind in signing Tes
taverde. He cited Super Bowl
championship years by the New
York Giants and San Francisco
49ers in which they relied on two
quarterbacks.
"I saw that first-hand in '90
when we won the Super Bowl
with Phil (Simms) and Jeff
(Hostetler) as the quarterbacks,”
said Belichick, a former defensive
coordinator with the Giants.
Tampa Bay coach Sam Wyche
wished Testaverde well. "I'm still
a Vinny supporter. ... We think
he really came far this ygar and is
going to be a good player in the
league."
Harrison
Continued from Page 7
that someone viewed important
enough to submit for publication
in this fine paper?
Please go on.
"The question is simply, to
whom does the term "Uncover"
refer? I understand that the MSC
requests that people remove
their hats in memory of those
who died in the war, and the
sign upside the MSC states that
'all MEN remove their hats."'
"I am a bit confused."
Well so am I.
The writer, a female student,
goes on to question whether the
Uncover rules are specific to only
baseball or cowboy hat wearers,
or if they pertain to a nice stately
straw hat the writer wore to a
football celebration at the Fish
Pond.
It seems someone asked her to
- Uncover.
But - the straw hat accentuat
ed her dress.
She argues that women were
once considered fully-clothed
only with a hat atop their heads.
And, she reveals that women
when undergoing the arduous
task of wearing baseball hats,
funnel their hair through the
back of the caps.
She complains that it is very
inconvenient to undo and re-af
fix a baseball hat tunneling
arrangement every single time
someone stands us all up to
scream "beat the hell outta"
somebody.
Wait a minute. I wear my fa
vorite green cap almost every
day and my rights have been in
fringed on to the point of social
ostracism, also. If I refused to re
move my hat at football games,
everybody would probably think
I was a two-percenter, t.u. gradu
ate, or - even worse - a Bill Clin
ton voter. They might even hate
me.
1 sometimes add certain poly
mers, rubber cement, bathroom
tile spackle or Thompson's Wa
ter Seal to my hair to keep it
from becoming unruly, but most
often I simply doff one of the
eight or nine multi-colored hats I
own and forget about it for the
day.
During the thick of the school
year I wear a hat every single
day - so much so that the people
closest to me still wonder if I'm
hiding a bald spot.
It's in this same vein that I'm
going to have to stand up for the
many oppressed and easily of
fended hat-bearing, traditionally-
challenged residents of this cul
turally-lacking, coarse and crass
university.
Didn't we all learn our lessons
as kids watching countless Satur
day morning cartoons and the
"Grammar House Rock" com
mercials in between? You know,
the ones announcing the acco
lades of nouns being persons,
places or things and telling us to
be ourselves?
W'e were warned against the
hypnotic nature of peer pressure,
only to sit munching on Froot
Loops transfixed watching the
TV, and much later we still sit
transfixed drinking Bud and
watching WWF wrestling.
Are we at A&M the propo
nents of politically-correct peer
pressure behavior by insisting
we adhere to our traditions in
lieu of others? Should we be
come more stream-lined and
aerodynamic for the '90s?
Or should we reach back even
further to past traditions such as
women's hat wearing, witch
burning or leeching?
Who cares; it's a fool's column
for April 1.
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