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egan last July at the Canadian
when he was stuck at No. 20, an
sing 4,061 points behind leader
Sampras.
gassi won that tournament,
|hing off a sensational stretch
g which he won six more events in
iext eight months, including two
d Slams — the U.S. Open and
alian Open.
n Monday, Agassi got the payoff,
ng past Sampras to claim the
1 ranking on the ATP computer
e first time in his career. He
mes just the 12th player in the
ar history of men’s computer
ings to hold No. 1 and ends
Ipras’ 82-week grip on the top
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some reared to play
same r
said. lOUSTON (AP) — A Houston
cats team doctor on Monday
"ared Hakeem Olajuwon and
n Maxwell ‘‘medically safe’’ to
n to action Tuesday night
st Dallas, but said neither was
to full strength.
am physician James Muntz said
test blood tests showed the two
ot yet fully recovered from iron-
lency anemia.
They are medically safe, but the
Its of their blood tests indicate
er of them are at full strength,"
Rockets spokeswoman Rose
zak.
he club said whether Olajuwon or
well return for Tuesday’s home
s against the Mavericks is up to
i and depends on how they feel
rehand. Both practiced with the
Monday.
ouston also plays at home
•sday against Portland and
pay against Sacramento.
fexler named NBA
ayer of the Week
NEW YORK (AP) — Houston’s
de Drexler, whose 31.8-point
ng average was the highest in the
last week, was selected as the
i of the Week on Monday.
Irexler, who took up the Rockets’
ing slack in the absence of ailing
ter Hakeem Olajuwon, also
aged 8.3 rebounds, 4.5 assists
2.5 steals in four games. He shot
from the field (43-for-80) and .744
the foul line (32-for-43).
□ Since arriving at
A&M, Jim Lawler has
instructed six All-
American pitchers.
By Robert Rodriguez
The Battalion
In the era of aluminum bats,
pitching at the collegiate level
is of great importance. For the
Texas A&M baseball pitching
staff, this responsibility rides
on the arms of pitching coach
Jim Lawler.
Lawler has also served as the
assistant coach and the recruit
ing coordinator for the Aggies
since 1985. A former head coach
at University of Texas-El Paso,
Lawler said the A&M opportu
nity was too good to pass up.
“I felt the assistant job at
Texas A&M was better than the
head job I had at the time,”
Lawler said. “I thought there
was a better chance to get into a
good program at the time and it
has proven that to be very true.”
What Lawler has done for the
pitching staffs at A&M has been
nothing short of spectacular.
Since he has been the pitching
coach, A&M has had six All-
American pitchers and three
pitchers selected in the first
round of the major league base
ball amateur draft.
In three of the last four
years, the Aggie pitching staff
has had a combined earned run
average of less than four runs a
See Lawler, Page 10
Roger Hsieh/THF
Pitching coach Jim Lawler watches the action during one
weekend’s games against Dallas Baptist.
Rodney Dangerfields of baseball
Robert
Rodriguez
Sportswriter
W ith the baseball season
two weeks away, the talk
has been about the return
of the major league players and
the free agents. Little has been
said though about the replace
ment players.
Some will ask why should we
care about the replacement play
ers since they were a bunch of jok
ers trying to play the American pastime. I was
thinking that same thought until last weekend.
While in Garland last weekend, I saw a friend
of mine who I have not seen since the baseball
strike began. Javan Reagans, was a “scab” for
the Pittsburgh Pirates organization and was giv
en his release papers when the strike was over.
He told me about all the looks he would get
from fans because he was a replacement player.
The countless jeers from the
coaching staff because they want
ed to get rid of the “scabs” and the
feelings of being back on the base
ball diamond.
Reagans was not just a bum
who got off the couch one night
and decided to tryout for a base
ball team. He was drafted by the
Montreal Expos in the mid 1980s
out of Dallas Baptist University and has fond
memories of teeing off on Aggie pitchers at Olsen
Field. He reached as far as the Class AAA level
before being released by the Expos.
He was working various jobs before being con
tacted by the Pirates when the strike happened.
When the strike ended, the Pirates said they
See Scabs, Page 1 0
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□ Despite replacing an
All-American, transfer
Kendall Richards is
putting up impressive
statistics.
By Kristina Buffin
The Battalion
Kendall Richards has some
pretty big shoes to fill.
Richards, a junior transfer
from the University of California
at Berkeley, has the unenviable
task of replacing All-American
shortstop Jennifer McFalls this
Berkeley and opted to transfer
to Texas A&M.
“I was looking for a change,”
Richards said. “My coach in my
summer league was very pro-
A&M. It’s a new environment
and new mentality, a complete
opposite of Berkeley.”
The adjustment from Cali
fornia to Texas has been part of
the struggle for Richards dur
ing the season.
“In a transition there will al
ways be a slow start,” Brock
said. “She did well in California
(last weekend). She has made
the adjustment from Oregon
(her home state) and is continu-
season.
“She is playing
exactly how she was
when I first saw her
play in Bakersfield,”
Texas A&M softball
coach Bob Brock
said. “She is a pow
erful hitter and a
good defensive play
er. It is hard to fol-
low an All-American
but she is doing fine.”
After two seasons playing for
the Golden Bears, Richards de
cided that she did not want to
continue her college career at
"It's a new environment and
new mentality, a complete op
posite of Berkeley."
—Junior Kendall Richards
ing to do well.”
Richards is leading the Lady
Aggies with a .404 batting aver-
See Richards, Page 10
Loss to Warriors doesn’t
help Mavericks’ chances
□ Dallas falls 2 1/2
games back for the last
playoff spot.
DALLAS (AP) — Latrell
Sprewell scored 30 points and
Chris Mullin added 26, half of
them in the third quarter, as the
Golden State Warriors hurt the
Dallas Mavericks’ playoff
chances with a 123-112 decision
Monday night.
Dallas fell 2 1/2 games behind
the Denver Nuggets in the race
for the eighth and final Western
Conference playoff spot. Denver
took sole possession of eighth
place with a 114-107 victory over
Minnesota.
Jamal Mashburn had 29
points and Pop eye Jones added
21 to pace the Mavericks, who
won eight of their previous 11
and five of their last six at home
to move into playoff contention.
Dallas’ Lorenzo Williams con
tributed 14 points and a career-
high 19 rebounds.
Clifford Rozier had 20 points
and 12 rebounds for the Warriors.
Mashburn connected on 3-
pointers on three consecutive pos
sessions and Jones added a 3-
pointer the next time Dallas had
the ball, moving the Mavericks to
115-104 with 3:30 to play. That
was as close as the they got.
The Warriors shot 67 percent
and hit seven 3-pointers in the
third quarter, three by Mullin,
to build a 93-80 lead entering
the final quarter. Mullin’s 5-for-
6 shooting in the third quarter
led the Warriors, who were 7-
for-10 from 3-point range.
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