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Guerrieri to coach camp
in Dallas
Texas A&M Head Soccer Coach G.
Guerrieri, along with his coaching staff
and A&M players will participate in a
one-day youth clinic Saturday at
Greenhill School in Dallas.
The clinic's proceeds will benefit
the Ross Stewart Scholarship fund at
Texas A&M. Additional staff members
include Greenhill head coach Dick
Hall and coaches from the North
Texas Express Soccer Club.
A&M swimming and
diving teams split up
Senior Associate Athletic Director
Lynn Hickey announced Wednesday
that the A&M swimming and diving
teams will separate into men's and
women's programs beginning next
year.
"We're excited to announce this
commitment to the swimming and div
ing program," Hickey said. "We will
have full-time coaches on each staff
and because of that, we'll be able to
step into our new facility in a first-class
situation."
Mel Nash, current swimming coach
will stay on as men's swimming coach,
and Kevin Wright will continue on as
diving coach of both the men's and the
women's teams. A national search has
begun for candidates to fill the job of
women's swimming coach.
A&M will open the 1995-96 season
on Oct. 6 with a dual meet against
Rice in Houston. The A&M men will
open the new pool at the Student
Recreational Center Natatorium on
Nov. 3 against future Big 12 opponent
Nebraska.
Hunter leads Astros to 9-
5 win over Phillies
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Brian
Hunter, promoted from the minors a
day earlier, hit a tiebreaking, two-
run triple in the eighth inning
Wednesday night that sent the
Houston Astros over the Philadel
phia Phillies 9-5.
Craig Biggio had four hits, in
cluding two doubles, and tied a
Houston record by scoring four
runs. The Astros won their sixth
straight road game, making them
14-7 on the road while just 7-15 at
home.
Rockets
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no exception. Mario Elie, an NBA jour
neyman and former CBA player, added
22 points and Robert Horry, playing out
of position at power forward, 21.
“They say they have no power for
ward, they have no this and that,” Magic
point guard Anfernee Hardaway said.
“All they’ve got is a bunch of guys who
play really well together.”
The Rockets pulled away in the final
period from the Magic, whose youth and
inexperience overshadowed their consid
erable talent in this series.
“We never recovered from the first
game. When they got going, we couldn’t
get back,” O’Neal said. “It’s a real disap
pointment, but we’ll learn from it.”
“We didn’t give up at all. I’m a young
player. I’ll be in this position many
times. We just have to remember this
feeling, and work harder next season.”
O’Neal, who had 25 points and 12 re
bounds, held his own against Olajuwon,
a player he’s tried to emulate. But Olaju
won was usually quicker to the ball, and
his fluid moves along the baseline were unstoppable,
even in the face of a double team.
Leading by one at the end of the third quarter,
Houston got two big 3-pointers from Elie early in the
fourth, and Olajuwon scored six straight points to
stretch the lead to 101-89 with 3:16 to play.
“We lost, very simple,” said Hardaway, who had
25 points. “They were the better team.”
It was the first sweep since 1989, when Detroit
blanked the Lakers, and made Houston the fourth
team in the last rune years to win back-to-back titles.
They won just 47 regular-season games, making
them a sixth seed in the power-packed Western Con
ference. To get here, they upset Utah, Phoenix and
San Antonio, each with at least 59 wins and each
with the home-court advantage.
All three teams were considered to have legiti
mate shots at winning it all. Not Houston, though.
Not only were the Rockets the lowest seed ever
to win the title, they also won an NBA record
nine times on the road along the way, including
seven straight.
“Don’t ever underestimate the heart of a champi
on,” Tomjanovich said.
Underestimating the Rockets might have been
just the problem for the Magic, who never recovered
from a 120-118 overtime loss in Game 1. Their sea
son ended the way their last one did, with a sweep.
“We’ll use it as an inspiration for next year,” Mag
ic coach Brian Hill said. “They had the answers for
everything we threw at them.”
Last year it was at the hands of Indiana in the
first round. After winning 57 games and the Atlantic
Division title, the Magic entered the playoffs without
having even won a postseason game but beat Boston,
Chicago and Indiana.
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GAME 1: Houston 120
Orlando 118
GAME 2: Houston 117
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GAME 3: Houston 106
Orlando 103
GAME 4: Houston 113
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AP Photo
Hakeem Olajuwon was named MVP of the Finals.
NBAs lockout danger rt
Here’s one
piece of advice
for Kenny Smith:
Watch how hard
you celebrate
tonight. Enjoy
yourself, but be
ready to get
down to serious
business.
Smith, who has reason to cele
brate, needs to make sure he can
get up early tomorrow because
he and the rest of NBA players’
union colleagues get together
with the owners to hammer out
their differences and put togeth
er the new collective bargaining
agreement — that wonderful mas
ter plan that allows the players
and owners to play nice for the
next few years.
The last contract actually ex
pired before the 1994-95 season,
but both sides decided to impose
a one-year moratorium and go on
with the season under the ex
pired pact.
The sides are supposedly far
apart. The owners want a rook
ie salary cap to stop paying un
proven players salaries that
closely resemble the distance
between Earth and the Sun.
The players want more of the
NBA pie than the 53 percent
slice they already get. They also
want to dismantle the draft, re
stricted free agency and the
salary cap, all of which may
start a bidding war that could
make today’s NBA salaries look
like chump change.
The owners contend that giv
ing the players any more money
would cut too much out of the
owners’ profits. They want to
keep the current salary cap, but
close the loophole that allows
teams to resign their own free
agents without it counting
against the cap.
And now the league is mutter
ing the two dirtiest words in the
language of sports —
work stoppage.
Yes, that’s right, league offi
cials have mentioned a lockout if
they cannot reach an agreement
with the players before next sea
son. Is it;
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months af.
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sides have
what a stc
would do to their sport.Ba
has been shell-shockedbyi
ited fans that have lefttb
parks silent.
“We’ve seen what happ.
a league when that hap;
Hakeem Olajuwon toldrep
“Everybody loses.”
So why would ThePt
That Be in pro basketball
to jeopardize all they baa
time when the NBA’s pop;
has exploded worldwide?!
early 1980s, the NBAwasi
brink of hearing its deaths
and no one heard a peepi
money.
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lion corporation with pop;
at an all-time peak, andew
wants t heir fair share.
Maybe the NBA hasp
too big for its billion-:
britches, and the fans may
because of it. Everyoner-|j
more, more, more, and? ,
just not enough, enough.-:
to go around, even witht
ketball’s new mother lode: y
from merchandising and
rate sponsorships.
Players want highers:
owners want more profits
one has to lose, and it will; L-
bly be the fans.
So basketball fans hoi:
breath to see which way It
gaining coin lands. If head
er heads, that is, prevail
fans are rewarded with hi
a^ usual. But if it comes:
— an interesting metapt:
sidering what will happe:
fans — then they will get:
ness at all.
Kenny, just make
you’re up bright ande
Your team proved that:
world class. Let’s hope
league does the same.
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