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jesday • July 26,19) » out Tuesday • July 26, 1994 ^ PORTS Pardee just happy to be with Houston Former Aegie All-American fullback P 8 led Oilers through trials in 1993-94 Stew Milne/THF. Bahaui ; phase provides the iside parking garage. ? faith, elist layed trial Monday u lias residents who saj to them when he dil •acy, fraud and intea londay, but the judgj for a continuance unj ed her mother, Marj fter the suit was filed, t prevented her fra dd. “She heard Rober n refused to go.” le a Dallas couple am lost custody of thei aid help return loney and even fool move her condition, se and a plot to de it, prayer is on trial >m. “They’ve taken ying to take prayer By William Harrison The Battalion SAN ANTONIO - There he stood in the 100 degree Texas heat, looking for all the world like a changed man from last season, yet also very much the same. If ever the “Hope Springs Eternal” movement needed a poster boy, look no further than Houston Oilers head coach Jack Pardee. Pardee, a Class of ‘56 A&M gradu ate, smiled and joked before the media at the Oilers’ 35th training camp. He discussed the problems his team need ed to face before the season’s begin ning, as he was seemingly oblivious to the problems the team had hopefully put in the past. He seemed happy just to be there. “I can’t tell you how pleasant it is to have players who want to work,” Pardee said. “We’ve got a lot of young players on our team. They all want a chance to compete.” “If you work you’ve got a chance, if you don’t work you have none.” Ridiculed last season as a detached, hands-off coach during a horrendous 1-4 start, Pardee’s steady approach would later be praised. Pardee coached the Oilers through arguably more trial and tragedy than has ever been experienced by any other team. Eventually the team would rise above the critics to finish 12-4. But, after last season’s signature incidents - "Baby-gate,” defensive tackle Jeff Aim’s suicide, the Buddy- and-Kevin coordinator wars and a dis appointing playoff loss to Kansas City at the Astrodome — many off-season problems would erupt as well. With the new salary cap structure, the top-heavy bevy of Oilers’ talent proved impossible to sign. So out the door went Houston six-time All-Pro Please see Pardee/Page 4 William Harrison/THE Battalion Houston Oilers’ head coach Jack Pardee (standing) talks with defensive end Mike Teeter (right) during the Oilers’ training camp at Trinity University in San Anotonio. Richardson should be Oilers’ No. 2 MARK SMITH Sports Editor O ver the past few seasons, Hous ton Oilers fans have been treat ed to the abilities and drive of one of A&M’s most popular football players. They have fallen for the six-foot-one product of Baton Rouge, even shouting “Buck-y! Buck-y! Buck-y!” whenever they think that he will come into the game. He is, of course, John Powell Richardson, better known to A&M football fans as Bucky. William Harrison/THE Battalion Houston Oilers’ offensive coordinator Kevin Gilbride (left) talks with quarter backs Bucky Richardson (middle) and Sean Salisbury (right) Friday. Richardson was the 1991 South west Conference Player of the Year in his senior year at A&M. That year he was one of the finalists for the Doak Walker Award which goes to the na tion’s top college quarterback. More importantly, Richardson has been impressive every time he has stepped on the playing field. Those of you who watched the Oilers 1993 pre season saw some of the heroics that he Please see Richardson/Page 4 3 4-year-old wear Celtic BOSTON (AP) — Teams rarely base a long rebuilding process on a 34- year-bld player, even if that player is the still spectacular Dominique Wilkins. The Boston Celtics, winners of 16 NBA titles, are coming off their worst season in 15 years. “My goal ... is to win another cham pionship. Seventeen is on its way,’’ M.L. Carr, the chief of basketball oper ations, said Monday . “I want that to be sooner than later. I really am driven to put a championship quality team on the floor.” Last Friday, the Celtics signed Wilkins, a free agent forward, to a three-year contract. Chances are slim that Wilkins, the ninth leading scorer in NBA history, will win a title with the Celtics in that period. “Who said I’m only going to play two or three years?” he said, at a news conference in the team’s offices. “It Page 3 Keenan not blue over fine, two- month suspension ST. LOUIS (AP) — Mike Keenan, cleared by the NHL to become coach and general manager of the Blues, re turned to St. Louis on Monday, sound ing not at all like a man who had just been fined 8500,000 and suspended for two months without pay. “I feel fantastic,” he said. After eight hours of talks Sunday in New York at the office of NHL com missioner Gary Bettman, a settlement was reached in the dispute involving Keenan, his former team, the New York Rangers, and his new one, the St. Louis Blues. Bettman suspended Keenan for 60 days beginning Monday, fined him Si00,000, and ordered him to return four-fifths of his $500,000 signing bonus with the Rangers, whom he coached last season to their first Stan ley Cup title in 54 years. The Blues were fined S250,000, the league maximum. The Detroit Red Wings, who tried to hire Keenan before he agreed to terms with the Blues, were fined 825,000. Wilkins to green in ‘94 might be longer than that. This is the truth. I feel better ... than I ever felt. “What is 34 supposed to feel like?” he added. “I ask a lot of young guys that and they say, ‘how can you still run like that at 34?’ I say, T’m sup posed to slow down because I hit a cer tain age?’ It doesn't make any sense.” He brings the Celtics veteran lead ership they haven't had since Larry Bird retired after the 1991-92 season. He brings them a scorer who can be counted on down the stretch that they haven’t had since Reggie Lewis died, after the 1992-93 season. “I bring leadership,” Wilkins said. “I bring a lot of attention because teams are going to double team me so that's going to create a lot of opportu nities for other guys. We won’t have a problem scoring.” They did last year when their high est scorer, Dee Brown, averaged only 15.5 points per game. In 12 seasons. 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