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iThursday • October 12, 1995
Sports
Page 13 • The Battalion
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Aggies’ new strategy:Win
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[By Nick Georgandis
[The Batiai.ion
In three stunning weeks, the
[attitude of the Texas A&M Foot
ball Team has gone from “aim
|high” to “do or die.”
Three weeks ago, the team
Iwas ranked No. 3 in the nation
jand was preparing for a grudge
latch in Boulder with No. 8
Colorado.
Since then, the Aggies have
blummeted 19 spots in The As
sociated Press Poll and are at
tempting to get back into the
Southwest Conference race.
“Right now, all we’re thinking
[about is winning a ballgame,”
junior tailback Leeland McElroy
said. “It’s been three weeks
since we’ve done that, and it’s
lot a good feeling.”
The Aggies’ game against
Southern Methodist University
Saturday at Kyle Field presents
i&M with two opportunities,
hrst, the team can snap its two-
jame losing streak — the Ag
gies’ longest since 1988.
Second, A&M can gain re
venge against the Mustangs
from last year’s 21-21 tie — the
only blemish on A&M’s 10-0-1
record in 1994.
Senior cornerback Ray Mick-
ens said the team has placed the
loss to Texas Tech out of mind
and is confident in playing well
for the season.
“The loss last week is behind
us,” Mickens said. “We haven’t
been playing A&M football late
ly-”
In each of A&M’s two losses,
the offensive unit has been criti
cized for putting points on the
board, while the defense was
forced to spend large amounts of
time on the field.
“I see inconsistency (in our of
fense),” A&M Head Football
Coach R.C. Slocum said. “The
thing that has affected us is our
execution has not been as con
sistent as it needs to be.”
Plenty of blame for the of
fense’s woes in the 14-7 loss to
the Red Raiders last Saturday
was placed squarely on senior
quarterback Corey Pullig.
Although Pullig threw three
interceptions — including the
Robyn Calloway Thf. Battalion
Texas Tech quarterback Zebbie Letbridge avoids a sack by Texas
A&M cornerback Ray Mickens during Saturday's game at Lubbock.
game-winner returned by Tech’s
Zach Thomas for a touchdown —
McElroy said it is unfair to
blame one person for the loss.
“I don’t think all the blame
should go on one individual,”
McElroy said. “If we weren’t in
that situation to begin with, no
one would get blamed. That last
mistake is magnified a lot of the
time.”
McElroy himself is under
scrutiny this week after sprain
ing his left ankle in the third
quarter Saturday.
“I didn’t practice yesterday
(Monday),” McElroy said.
“There’s some swelling there,
but if I’m at all able to play, I
will be out there.”
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sure players.
Producers insure actors un-
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Those were lessons a jury
earned Wednesday as testi-
aony began in King’s insur
ance fraud trial.
The trial’s first witness,
iuzanne Elizabeth Whalen,
orovided the jury in federal
ourt in Manhattan with a
crash course about the insur
ance industry.
The jurors may need the
knowledge to decide
whether the promoter
altered a boxer’s con
tract to cheat Lloyd’s
of London of $350,000
after a bout was can
celed.
Whalen testified
that as president of
Hanleigh Companies,
an insurance broker
age in Oradell, N.J.
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surance for King for
fights including a De
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hurt himself, and a 1991 fight
between Julio Cesar Chavez
and Harold Brazier.
The Chavez fight
was canceled after the
boxer, now the WBC
super lightweight
champion, cut his face
while sparring.
Prosecutors said
King submitted a pho
ny contract to get
Lloyd’s of London to
pay $350,000 for
training fees that
were never paid to
Chavez.
King’s lawyers say
the promoter had given the
boxer more than $700,000 in
advances and was making a
legitimate claim.
Whalen testified the con
tracts she arranged for King
with Lloyd’s of London were
among many she did over the
years for the promoter. She
said the premiums King had
paid exceeded $1 million.
The testimony by Whalen
was meant by prosecutors to
produce a foundation from
which they hope to show King
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King is most well known for
his dealings with Tyson, who
recently began his comeback
against Peter McNeeley, an
won a 89-second decision.
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