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rap-up
U.S. Olympic
Festival kicks off
SAN ANTONIO (AP) - The
U.S. Olympic Festival, a 10-day
event that was six years in the
making for the city of San Anto
nio, got under way with a salute
to the amateur athletes taking
part.
Bruce Hornsby and former
Olympians Kristi Yamaguchi and
Pablo Morales helped kick off the
festival at Friday night's opening
ceremony.
Hornsby sang five songs while
local youths demonstrated the 37
sports being played at the festival.
Yamaguchi took the festival torch
from Morales, skated around both
ice rinks inside the Alamodome,
then handed it back to Morales.
“This is a day this city's been
waiting on for about six years,"
Bob Coleman, chairman of the lo
cal organizing committee, said
earlier in the day.
Teaff undecided
! on leaving Baylor
HOUSTON (AP) - Baylor ath
letic director Grant Teaff says he'll
decide soon whether to leave the
school after more than two
decades to head the American
Football Coaches Association, ac
cording to published reports.
lean told the Houston Chroni
cle and The Houston Post in Satur
day's editions that he has been of-
; fered the post and plans an Aug. 2
| news conference to announce his
1 decision.
“I have until Aug. 1 to make up
my mind," Teaff said. "They
haven't contacted anyone else or
talked to anyone else."
The AFCA, a 6,000-member or
ganization, is located in Orlando,
Fla., but would move to Waco if
Teaff were to accept the job. For-
. mer Louisiana State coach Charlie
McClendon announced he was
I stepping down as head of the
group.
Staubach predicts
Cowboy repeat
FORT SMITH, Ark. (AP) -
Hall-of-Fame quarterback Roger
Staubach said he knows who will
be the next Super Bowl champs.
"The Cowboys will win the Su
per Bowl again this year," the for
mer Dallas player told about 450
members of the Fellowship of
Christian Athletes here Friday.
''They'll play the Kansas City
Chiefs, and Joe Montana wifi
throw an incomplete pass on the
last play of the game."
Staubach, who was inducted
into the Pro Football Hall of Fame
in 1985, led the Cowboys to five
Super Bowls, including victories in
1972 and 1978.
Staubach, who lives in Dallas
and owns and runs a real estate
business, said he was happy to see
the Cowboys lift themselves from a
slump in the past few years to
world-champion status last year.
U.S. Swimming Long Course Championships start today
A&M swimmers to
compete in Austin
By MARK SMITH
The Battalion
Members of the Texas A&M swim
team are traveling to Austin under the
auspices of the Aggie Swim Club this
week to participate in the U.S. Swimming
Long Course Championships.
“We've got a number of our swimmers
going to the tournament," Mel Nash,
head swimming coach for A&M, said.
"But a lot of our swimmers are also going
to the meet with clubs from their home
towns."
There are 13 members from the Aggie
Swim Club involved in the tournament,
which runs from toady through Saturday.
They are participating in a variety of
events, which.include the men's and
women's 50-meter free style, men's 100-
meter free style, women's 200-meter indi
vidual medley, women's 100-meter breast
stroke, the 400 and 800-meter free style
relay and the 400-meter medley relay.
"This is the most exciting meet of the
year, next to the conference meet,"
Brandy Anderson, junior swimmer in the
400 and 800 relay, said.
Robert Fleming, swimmer in the 50
and 100 free styles, said, "This is my
fourth year going to the Senior nationals,
so for me it's just kind of another one of
those deals. But, it should be fun to see
all of the young guys who are going for
the first time."
Both swimmers agree that it should be
a good meet for the club.
"This is what we've been training for,"
Anderson said. "This should be a real
good meet."
Fleming said, "Everything is looking
good. We have a lot more people and
more relays than last year. It should be a
terrific meet for some of our guys that
have good times now."
Nash said, "We've got some people
with individual chances to win. Some of
our men's relay team who placed sixth
and seventh at last years tournament are
back home, though."
With 40 to 60 people involved in each
event a good placing would be anywhere
in the top 16, Nash said.
Several other Southwest Conference
schools are sending their swimmers to
the meet. Members from the University
of Texas will be racing with Texas Aquat
ics, and Southern Methodist University
swimmers will compete with the Dallas
Mustang Swim Club.
"This is the most exciting
meet of the year, next to
the conference meet." 1 :
-Brandy Anderson, junior
swimmer in the 400
and 800 relay
The swimmers will be racing for more
than just pride, however. The meet, held
at the Texas Swim Center, is doubling as
the Pan-Pacific Selection Meet, which
means that some of the swimmers will be
selected to compete in the Pan-Pacific
games.
Earnhardt takes checkered flag at Talladega
the associated press Racers, fans, family pay respects to Allison
TALLADEGA, Ala. — On a day fans
came to honor the late Davey Allison,
Dale Earnhardt won the DieHard 500 on
Sunday in a race marked by a critical in
jury to journeyman driver Stanley Smith.
Earnhardt beat Ernie Irvan by about
six inches in a photo finish. But the dra
matic doings of the race gave way to
more heartache in the stock car communi
ty following this year's deaths of Allison
and Alan Kulwicki.
By the time Earnhardt crossed the fin
ish line on a steamy day at Talladega Su
perspeedway, Smith lay in the trauma
unit of a Birmingham hospital with a
head injury suffered during a seven-car
crash just before the halfway point in the
188-lap race.
David Smitherman, a spokesman for
Carraway Methodist Medical Center, said
the 43-year-old driver was in "very criti
cal" condition. He has a fractured skull
and some paralysis on his right side. Doc
tors were trying to locate bleeding in his
brain.
It was a melancholy day for the esti
mated 100,000 spectators who sat in the
100-degree heat to watch the race and pay
their respects to Allison, who died on July
13 of injuries sustained in a helicopter
crash the previous day on the Talladega
infield.
They sat through an 80-minute red flag
delay after the car driven by longtime fa
vorite Neil Bonnett, racing for the first
time in more than three years, flew
through the air and damaged some fenc
ing. Bonnett came away with only a
bruised right arm. The fencing had to be
repaired.
The green flag was waved on lap 140
and stayed out the rest of the way, allow
ing the lead draft to pull away from the
rest of the field.
Earnhardt, who won $487,315 for his
58th career victory, averaged 153.857
mph.
Earnhardt, a five-time Winston Cup
champion who leads the 1993 point chase,
took the lead from Kyle Petty on lap 185
and barely managed to hold off the
charge by Irvan, who won this race a year
ago.
It was the second straight victory for
Earnhardt, who now has six victories for
the season and six on the 2.66-mile Tal
ladega oval, including five in the July
race. Mark Martin finished third, fol
lowed by Petty and Dale Jarrett in the
last-lap scramble.
Donnie Allison, Davey's uncle and a
former Winston Cup star, drove a replica
of Davey's No. 28 Ford Thunderbird
around the track to the cheers of the
standing spectators.
After that, the leaders averaged more
than 190 mph before the first caution flag
finally slowed the field on lap 55.
Robby Gordon, an Indy-car series reg
ular, lost control in the tri-oval in front of
the pits and hit the outside wall hard.
But, after the rest of the field drove past,
he was able to drive the car off the track
before climbing out.
Then tragedy struck on lap 70. Jimmy
Horton's car hit the wall, rolled along it
and finally over it and down the 30-foot
earthen banking onto a perimeter road,
where it stopped right-side-up. Horton
was not injured, but Smith, from the
Birmingham suburb of Chelsea, had to be
removed from his battered car and was
taken away on a stretcher.
The crash also included rookies Ritchie
Petty and Loy Allen, teammates Harry
Gant and Rick Mast and Kenny Wallace.
Nobody else was injured.
Racism still exists in sports,
panel says at NABJ meeting
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
HOUSTON — The Rev. Jesse Jackson
says the Dallas Cowboys — with 40 black
players on their Super Bowl roster and
three blacks in their
front office — typify
the racism remaining
in professional sports.
Jackson, who has
organized protests
against racial discrim
ination at stadiums
across the country,
discussed the subject
with other leaders
Saturday during the
National Association
of Black Journalists'
annual meeting in Houston.
The conversation centered on the
dearth of blacks in ownership or top
management positions with sports fran
chises.
"It's been 46 years since Jackie Robin
son broke the (color) barrier, yet the peo
ple who make the decisions — team pres
idents, general managers, personnel di
rectors, chief scouts . . . they're all white,
years later," Jackson said.
"There has been too little protest
about it. But athletes are going to have to
start taking notice because they, in fact,
can control the industry."
Jackson
Jackson was joined Saturday by oth
ers, including sociologist Harry Edwards,
the Rev. A1 Sharpton and Houston Oilers
quarterback Warren Moon, on the panel.
Moon said it's difficult for athletes to
voice their concerns without jeopardizing
their jobs.
"Power is the key to change," the vet
eran said. "Once my career is over, I
want to get into ownership and hire mi
norities into major positions, not just
community directors but power posi
tions."
Jackson, who noted the discrepancies
on National Football League teams while
attending the Super Bowl in January, sin
gled out the Cowboys on Saturday.
"We can protest that," Jackson said.
"This is a $19 billion industry. It's mostly
a private industry, but we subsidize their
stadiums. And they will respond to pres
sure."
Wisconsin law professor Linda
Greene, however, said protests have
damaged the effort to eradicate racism in
sports, adding that teams have only
made token gestures toward minorities.
"The world of sports has responded to
racism the same way other elements of
society have responded — with denial,"
Ms. Greene said. "Athletics are impor
tant, but let's not forget the big picture."
The NABJ concluded its four-day
meeting on Sunday.
On to golf ...
Archer beats Colbert
at seniors classic
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) -
George Archer shot a record-tying 8-
under-par 63 Sunday to force a playoff,
then par red the third extra hole to beat
Jim Colbert and win the Senior PGA
Tour's First of America Classic.
Archer, 53, is the first back-to-back
winner on the Senior Tour this year. He
also won last week's rain-shortened
Ameritech Senior Open.
Rain, thunder and lightning delayed
the start of the final round for 31/2
hours, but the elements didn't cool
Archer or Chi Chi Rodriguez. Both
matched Billy Casper's course record,
set in 1987, to finish at 14-under 199.
Colbert also finished at 199 after a
closing 67 on the 6,419-yard The High
lands course.
Rodriguez dropped out on the first
extra hole with a bogey, leaving Archer
and Colbert to battle for the $82,500
winner's check.
"You never know what is going to
happen in golf tournaments," said
Archer. "Crazy things happen in golf
tournaments."
On the third extra hole, the 398-yard
par-4 18th, Archer hit his tee shot un
der a tree on the left side of the fairway,
but made a daring second shot and was
able to scramble for a par.
"I had a little opening through
there," said Archer. "I'm pretty good
hitting out of the trees, though. I get in
them a lot. If you are going to get in the
trees, you've goLto learn to get out of
them."
Merten wins first
open in nine years
CARMEL, Ind. (AP) - With a dos
ing charge befitting a champion, Lauri
Merten finally won a tournament after
nine years.
And her timing couldn't have better.
She captured the U.S. Women's
Open by one stroke Sunday with
birdies on two of the last three holes.
Merten chipped from about 45 feet
for a birdie on the 404-yard 16th hole.
Then she just missed an eagle on the
400-yard closing hole when her 18-foot
chip shot stopped two feet from the
cup. The birdie gave her a 4-under-par
68 for the day and an 8-under 280 for
the tournament.
Helen Alfredsson of Sweden, who
began the round leading by two
strokes, slipped to a tie for second at
281 with a 74. She pushed a 15-foot putt
on the final hole just to the right of the
cup that would have forced an 18-hole
playoff Monday.
Donna Andrews, one of four women
to lead during the final round, shot 71
to tie Alfredsson.
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