Thursday • April 6, 1995
The Battalion • Pagfe 7
SPORTS
Woods youngest golfer
to play in US Open
AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — It’s
impossible to turn around at the
Masters without tripping over
tradition. The Augusta National Golf
Club is simply hip-deep in history,
wading in milestones and awash with
wonderous accomplishments.
And like with any institution,
change comes reluctantly and
progress is measured more in inches
than yards.
All of that will be evident Thursday
when play starts at the 59th Masters.
Tiger Woods, the 19-year-old U.S.
Amateur champion, makes his debut
20 years after Lee Elder broke the
color line at the Masters. Arnold
Palmer plays here for the 40th
consecutive year.
And Nick Price tries to become the
first player since Jack Nicklaus in
1971-72 to win three consecutive
major championships and join only
Nicklaus and Ben Hogan has having
held three major titles simulaneously
since the Masters became a major.
Modano injured in Stars’
tie with Vancouver
VANCOUVER, British Columbia
(AP) — The Dallas Stars may be
without scoring star Mike Modano for
an extended period after he
apparently suffered tendon damage in
his right leg.
Modano was hurt in the second
period of a 2-2 overtime tie against the
Vancouver Canucks on Tuesday night.
One unconfirmed report indicated
Modano seriously hurt his right
leg when slashed by Vancouver’s
Pavel Bure.
He continued playing after the
slash, but crashed into the boards
when dumped by backchecking
Canucks winger Tim Hunter, who
drew a hooking minor.
"Mike twisted his ankle and
couldn’t skate on it for the rest of the
game,” said Dallas coach Bob
Gainey. "It was the same ankle he
hurt before.
"It might be a different problem
this time, I don’t know for sure.”
Olajuwon, Maxwell
grounded by anemia
HOUSTON (AP) — The Houston
Rockets team doctor recommended
Wednesday that Hakeem Olajuwon
and Vernon Maxwell miss the three
remaining games of the team’s
road trip because of their iron-
defiCiency anemia.
‘They’re each up the equivalent of 2
1/2 units of blood from the iron
(supplements) but they’re still low,” Dr.
Jim Muntz said.
The two players, who already have
missed four games, have been
practicing and are nearly at full speed.
“If they went back and played in the
next day or two, they’d probably feel
some ill effects,” the doctor said.
Muntz believed the pair would be
ready for the next Houston home
game, Tuesday against Dallas.
Bulls cut down Nets,
Jordan scores 37
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP)
— Michael Jordan, shaking off a 2-of-
13 first half, scored 30 of his 37 points
after halftime Wednesday night to
lead the Chicago Bulls to their fifth
straight win, 108-101 over the New
Jersey Nets.
The loss was the fifth in a row and
ninth in 10 games for the Nets, who
played Chicago tough despite being
without injured starters Derrick
Coleman and Chris Morris.
New Jersey actually had several
chances to tie the game in the final five
minutes, but it couldn’t make the big
shots or stop Jordan.
Jordan scored 30 of the Bulls’ 54
second-half points, 15 of their 23 points
in the final quarter and seven of their
final nine. He finished 13-of-31 from the
field and added 11 rebounds.
Bench contributions make
Spurs best in West
AP photo
Boston Celtics’ Rick Fox gets screened out by San Antonio Spurs’ J.R. Reid as Spurs’ Sean Elliot dri
ves past earlier this season. The Spurs currently have the best record in the NBA.
□ San Antonio is
9-0 since Dennis
Rodman's
shoulder injury.
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Win
ners of 12 straight and owners
of the league’s best record, the
San Antonio Spurs want
to make one thing perfectly
clear: there’s more to this team
than David Robinson and Den
nis Rodman.
Yes, Robinson is putting up
MVP-type numbers and Rod
man’s rebounding keeps the
Spurs from being just another
Western Conference finesse
team. But their climb up the
NBA standings has been fueled
by an assortment of oft-injured
veterans and other players who
have spent their careers being
overlooked and underestimated.
The Spurs are 9-0 since Rod-
man separated his shoulder in a
motorcycle wreck, and on Sun
day, San Antonio beat Phoenix
in a game in which Robinson
played only 32 minutes because
of foul trouble.
“I don’t know what else we
have to do to convince people
that we're really for real and
that these guys are on a mis
sion,” Spurs coach Bob Hill said.
“But we’ll keep it up.”
What has kept the Spurs go
ing in Rodman’s absence — he
likely will be out another week
— is the play of Sean Elliott and
Terry Cummings, the first a flop
on a weak Pistons team and the
second an aging forward getting
his first significant minutes in 2
1/2 years.
Also in the mix are ninth-
year pro Chuck Person, adding
firepower off the bench, and 33-
year-old Doc Rivers, waived in
December by New York after
missing more than 11 months
with injuries.
"Everybody says we’re vul
nerable without Dennis, and we
are. We’ve known that,” said El
liott, averaging career-high 18.3
points a game in his second stint
with the Spurs. "But there are
other guys on this team.”
In fact, Elliott thinks the
veterans, aches and all, are the
Spurs’ best weapon, lending
maturity that could prove cru
cial in an NBA Finals with
youthful Orlando.
“You can knock old guys all
day,” Elliott said, "but I love
them. They have proven them
selves individually and now they
want to prove themselves on a
team. That makes our chemistry
so much better.”
Taking Rodman’s place in
the starting lineup, 34-year-
old Cummings has helped take
up the rebounding slack
and defensive duties. He also
was the only Spur to publicly
criticize the flamboyant
forward for getting hurt while
doing something forbidden by
his contract.
Despite what he saw as Rod
man's irresponsibility, Cum
mings said the Spurs would
have kept winning anyway.
“The team was getting ready
to go to the next level anyway,”
he said. “It made us get to
where we were going quicker.
We were right there before
Dennis went down.”
With Rodman back, San An
tonio is confident they can win
the title, especially if they se
cure home court advantage
throughout the playoffs. Even
finishing atop the conference
would be a first.
Any skepticism about the
Spurs’ title chances may stem
from the fact that of their 12
consecutive wins, only three —
over Seattle, the Lakers and
Phoenix — have come against
teams with winning records.
And the rest of their schedule
invites the Spurs to cruise right
into the playoffs. After next
Wednesday’s game at Phoenix,
San Antonio’s final six games
are against sub-.500 teams with
the Clippers and the Timber-
wolves among them.
There’s also the matter of get
ting past the first round, some
thing the Spurs have failed to do
in three of the last four seasons.
“We’re focused towards where
we want to be,” Robinson said.
“We feel like there’s still three or
four steps we want to make be
fore we get to the playoffs, and
we’re trying to use these games
to do that.”
Former Baylor
□ Three of Johnson's assistant
coaches were convicted for
wire and mail fraud.
WACO, Texas (AP) — A federal jury
acquitted former Baylor basketball coach
Darrel Johnson Wednesday, but convict
ed three of his assistants on various wire
fraud and mail fraud charges in connec
tion with their recruitment of five junior
college players in 1993.
The jury found that although John
son was responsible
for the Bears basket
ball program, he was
unaware of improper
help his assistants
gave to enable the re
cruits to pass classes
they needed to enroll
at Baylor University.
Johnson, who was
indicted one day after
Baylor fired him in
November, was ac
quitted of all seven
counts: four counts of wire fraud, two
counts of mail fraud and one count of
conspiracy.
His assistants, however, were found
guilty of various charges:
—Assistant coach Gary Thomas was
convicted of four counts of wire fraud
and acquitted on three counts of wire
fraud and one count of mail fraud.
—Assistant coach Troy Drummond
was convicted of three counts of mail
fraud and two counts of wire fraud and
acquitted of three counts of wire fraud.
—Assistant coach Kevin Gray was
convicted of three counts of wire fraud,
the only charges that he faced.
The jury’s verdict came after a third
Johnson
coach acquitted
day of deliberations.
The NCAA has not announced the re
sults of its investigations into the re
cruiting violations of which Johnson’s
staff was accused.
Prosecutors had accused the Baylor
coaches of helping the five junior college
players make higher grades by providing
them term papers written by others and
changing grades.
The mail fraud and wire fraud
charges were filed because the U.S. mail
and telephone facsimile equipment were
used in the process.
The jury began deliberating the case
late Monday afternoon following almost
five hours of summations from attorneys
in the case.
The assistant coaches face up to five
years in prison and fines of up to
$250,000 on each of the wire fraud and
mail fraud counts.
No date was set for the trial’s
punishment phase. That will be up to
the judge.
Johnson refused to comment after the
verdicts and walked out of the courtroom
with a solemn expression.
His attorney, Jim Darnell of El Paso,
said, “The jury worked for Darrel John
son. I don’t want to say anything about
anybody else.”
Members of the jury also declined to
comment. The jury foreman, Manuel
Lopez, issued a brief statement. “None of
us wants to be bothered by the media.
Adios. Goodbye,” Lopez said on the cour
thouse steps.
Lopez then handed a reporter a
handwritten note he had signed that
stated: “Our duty as a jury was to
make a decision based upon the evi
dence presented in court. We fulfilled
that obligation.”
Streetball: I love this game!
O n Monday night,
basketball fans
from coast to
coast watched as
UCLA beat Arkansas
for the NCAA basket
ball championship.
While the college
basketball year may be
over, street court bas
ketball continues year round. On any
given Saturday around Bryan-College
Station “mini-championships” are played
as basketball enthusiasts invade the
court to “replay” the championships of
years past.
Everyone from the 13-year-old sport
ing Michael Jordan’s retired number, 23,
to the 43-year-old “weekend athlete,” is
on the court practicing their hook shots
and lay-ups while alluding defenders.
The typical player, as I discovered last
Saturday at the South wood Valley court,
comes in various shapes and sizes. Any
one has the potential to play street ball.
There are no scouts gate keeping who
captures their dreams and who does not.
Meet Rick Garcia. You know this
kind of player. He’s the one who al
ways makes the shots, but he’s just
plain lucky. He doesn’t jump much,
nor does he make many quick moves,
but somehow he makes the NBA three
or the inside shot every time he touch
es the ball. In fact, he looks like he
would make a better offensive line
man than a basketball player.
Then, there’s Bryan Baldwin. He’s
quick, and even has a few old moves
from his high school days that he dis
plays a couple of times a game. The best
part of his game is his mouth. The intim
idation factor is definitely on his side.
Phillip Strickhausen is the kind of
player everyone wants on
their team. He’s serious
and he has fun. He makes
some serious shots, too, to
keep his team in the game.
He also analyzes everyone
else’s play. He says, “Hey,
you need to shoot more,” or
“Thanks for riding my way
to the basket.”
Of course, there’s the athlete. Sean
Aguilar is the one that everyone wants
to pick for their team. Everyone assists
this player on his way to the basket. He
makes shots. When he’s off, he gets mad
at himself and his teammates. He’s the
competitor on the team.
Then, of course, there’s always a slew
of guys who just quietly play the game
and add to the score. Finally, there’s the
underrated, experienced player that al
ways has to prove themselves.
Vickie Hennings is probably the most
experienced player on the team besides
Aguilar. She shoots from the perimeter
and the inside. She has a few break
away moves for several lay-ups. She has
no problem proving herself. Twelve
points, three blocks and two steals later,
she gains enough respect to earn the la
bel ‘the Shaq’ at the end of the game.
Streetball players have the desire to
win. They use their own styles to play
the game.
And, the funny thing is that each
works in his own way. With these
players, the true spirit of competition
is displayed.
College or professional ball may
have great athletes with big hearts, but
neighborhood ball does not discrimi
nate against any type of player. Every
one wants to play. And each wants to
be a champion.
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