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Friday
January 26, 1996
Sports
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sports
GLANCE
Baseball fans want
pros in 2000 Olympics
ATLANTA (AP) — On the day
when Atlanta organizers unveiled
the baseball schedule for the 1996
Olympics, most of the talk centered
on finding a way to get the major
leaguers involved in time for the
2000 Games in Sydney.
Baseball boosters are worried
their sport could be dropped from
the Olympic program unless they
secure the best players like basket
ball and hockey.
Tech, Texas square off
in SWC showdown
LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) — Former
national champions Texas Tech and
Texas, each with 5-0 records and
leading the Southwest Conference,
will collide Saturday in a super’
showdown for women's basketball.
The 5 p.m. tip-off is a sellout at
the 8,174-seat Lubbock Municipal
Coliseum, where the No. 9 Lady
Raiders have won 23 straight.
"Their inside game gives me a
headache just thinking about it,”
said Texas coach Jody Conradt.
"The pressure's probably more
on us than them," Tech coach Mar
sha Sharp said.
Both teams already beat South
ern Methodist — the coaches' pre
season favorite to win the SWC —
and together lead the conference
pack, where everyone else has lost
at least twice.
Sharp said the Lady Raiders (15-
2 overall) grew more confident after
beating SMU 86-73 Wednesday in
Dallas. Sophomore post Alicia
Thompson scored a career-high 30
points and senior post Michi Atkins
finished with 20.
"They're pretty fired up,"
Sharp said. "They really have
been excited about their ability to
I win on the road.”
The Lady Longhorns (10-5 over
all) beat Baylor 82-71 Wednesday in
Waco. But Conradt said the status of
two starters was uncertain for Tech:
senior forward Erica Routt, injured
by an elbow to the head, and junior
guard Angie Jo Ogletree, recovering
from a deep thigh bruise.
"We'll have to play well," Con
radt said. "We'll have to have extra
ordinary defensive effort, and we
have to have everybody healthy."
In other league games Saturday,
Baylor plays at Houston and SMU
plays at Texas Christian, both at 7 p.m.
No one has controlled SWC
women's basketball quite like the
Lady Longhorns, who won the first
eight conference titles en route to
the national championship in 1986.
SCORES ROUNDUP
NBA
Bullets 1 20, Rockets 85
Grizzlies 106, Raptors 101
Pistons 93, Mavericks 92
UPCOMING EVENTS
Men's Basketball
The Aggies will travel to Fort
Worth on Wednesday to play the
Texas Christian Horned Frogs in a
SWC game at 7:30 p.m.
Women's Basketball
The Lady Aggies will travel to
Fort Worth on Tuesday to play the
Lady Frogs in a SWC game begin
ning at 7 p.m.
Super Bowl XXX: Old rivals, new age
□ Buffalo Bills head
coach Marv Levy gives
his analysis of the
upcoming game.
Editor’s Note: Marv Levy’s
Buffalo Bills lost to Dallas in
the 1993 and 1994 Super
Bowls and were beaten by the
Pittsburgh Steelers in this sea
son’s playoffs. This is his
analysis of how Sunday’s Su
per Bowl will go. He also will
provide a postgame analysis.
Levy has coached the Bills
since 1986.
TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) — Pick
ing the winner of this year’s
Super Bowl is easy.
Being right? That’s another story.
Like almost everyone else, I
feel the Dallas Cowboys will
prevail. But it won’t be by as
comfortable a margin as the
oddsmakers predict.
The Steelers, like the Cow
boys, are potent, sound and
productive on offense, defense
and special teams.
They truly are the strongest
team in the AFC this year,
just as I believe Dallas is the
strongest in the NFC.
For the non-partisan fan (is
there such a creature?), this is
the best matchup the NFL
could have offered.
The biggest advantage for
the Cowboys lies in their ex
tremely well-balanced offense.
The combination of Troy
Aikman, Emmitt Smith,
Michael Irvin, Jay Novacek,
an overpowering up-front five
and perfect-fit fullback Daryl
Johnston keeps excruciating
game-long pressure on the
best of defenses.
It is a unit that has no
equal in this year’s NFL.
Yes, Pittsburgh’s defense is
very difficult to solve. The bril
liantly crafted “zone-dog”
schemes are capable of wreak
ing panic and pain on an of
fense without incurring the
big-play risks that afflict most
heavy blitz teams.
The Steelers have a great
corps of linebackers in Greg
Lloyd, Kevin Greene, Levon
Kirkland and Chad Brown.
Their secondary profits from
heavy pressure from the pass
rush. They play with confi
dence and elan.
The Dallas offense, howev
er, has qualities which should
allow it to cope with the Steel
ers’ defensive strengths.
The Cowboys’ ability to run
and effect football’s best run-
action passing game, gives
them a unique advantage in
countering Pittsburgh’s defen
sive strengths.
The Steelers’ offense strikes
quite a contrast, not just with
Dallas but with Pittsburgh’s
own recent style.
Their offensive approach
has always been sound and
well-balanced.
But this season, they have be
come much more daring. They
have discovered and utiliized the
electrifying talents of what was
AP Photo
Pittsburgh's John Stallworth sails over Cowboy Cliff Harris to haul in
a Terry Bradshaw pass during Super Bowl X in Miami in 1976.
AP Photo
Dallas Cowboy stars Deion Sanders and Michael Irvin show off their matching derbies at the press confer
ence following the NFC Championship Game.
once a relatively unknown corps
of receivers.
Ernie Mills, Yancey Thigpen,
Andre Hastings and Kordell
Stewart have all become big-
play contributors. You need big
plays to win big games.
' The emergence of Neil O’Don
nell as a premier quarterback
has been a vital component in
this birth of a new offense.
The Steelers have become
swashbuckling and exciting. I
see parallels to what occurred
to us with the Buffalo Bills
when we first came riding out
of the tundra with our no-hud
dle offense a few years ago.
Such changes, however, are
not without a price and not
without some risks.
The Steelers’ running game
isn’t as integral as it once was.
But that, I acknowledge, is a
nitpicking observation. What
they have done has been in
strumental in getting them
into the Super Bowl.
In a championship game,
you may sorely miss not being
able to run effectively. But
without the bold changes the
Steelers made early this sea
son, they probably wouldn’t be
here to find out. Give Bill
Cowher and his coaching staff
credit — they deserve it.
The question is whether
Dallas can stop them.
The key to that is whether
the Cowboys are successful in
taking away time and room
from O’Donnell so that Pitts
burgh cannot efficiently exe
cute its passing game.
If Leon Lett, Chad Hen
nings and others can keep O’
Donnell from stepping up and
delivering on rhythm, I believe
Dallas will have taken its own
necessary key step in thwart
ing Pittsburgh’s offensive
weaponary.
Do I believe they’ll be able
to do that?
I’ll keep it simple: Yes.
How about the kicking game?
I dislike giving this vital
area such short shrift, but I
will get right to the point.
Both teams are well drilled
and have very capable specialists.
Neither team has employed
a heart-stopping gamebreaker
as a return man, although I
believe Dallas is more danger
ous — very dangerous if Deion
Sanders handles returns.
Pittsburgh coverage units
are outstanding, but they take
some chances which could
leave them vulnerable to a big
play. I like the spirit with
which both teams play.
These are two very well-
coached teams.
I refer not only to head coaches
Bill Cowher and Barry Switzer,
but to their staffs as well.
Bill rallied a team that was
floundering early.
Barry has overcome the
losses of outstanding coordina
tors Dave Wannstedt and Norv
Turner.
He has
done it by
being
himself.
Has any
coach
ever tak
en a job
where the only acceptable out
come is winning the Super
Bowl?
One advantage Pittsburgh
might enjoy is Dallas’ role as
an overwhelming favorite.
Almost everybody who has
an opinion — including me —
is picking the Cowboys to win.
Overconfidence has been re
sponsible for more upsets than
fumbles and interceptions.
Overconfidence comes from be
lieving that the “experts” de
termine who will win.
That said, I feel Dallas has a
stronger team, one that can
keep the pressure on in a hard-
fought, well-played game.
I predict Dallas will win 28-23.
"The biggest advantage for the Cowboys lies
in their extremely well-balanced offense."
— Marv Levy
Buffalo Bills Head Coach
NBC to
employ
‘Deion-cam’
Sunday
□ Commercial time for
the game costs an aver
age of $1.2 million per
30 seconds.
(AP) Call it the Deion-cam.
It’s one of the little jewels of
technology that NBC will use
to track one of the NFL’s most
bejeweled performers Sunday
when it does its 14th Super
Bowl.
But while NBC will place
an emphasis on Deion
Sanders, network executives
stress that this is not a game
of toys and trinkets to them.
“I’m going to cover the
game from the standpoint of
basics,” NBC game director
John Gonzalez said. “You
start with the same basic cam
eras and the
additional fa
cilities will be
mostly for
isolation.”
In a game
of this magni
tude, produc
er John
Faratzis said,
the cardinal
rule is: “You
don’t want to
miss any
thing.”
Faratzis said that with the
Dallas Cowboys meeting the
Pittsburgh Steelers, NBC ex
pects big ratings.
The network, which has
sold 58 commercial units for a
record average of $1.2 million
per 30 seconds.
Sanders
Super Bowl XXX
Pittsburgh Steelers vs. Dallas Cowboys
Sunday, Jan. 28 in Tempe, AZ
Super Bowl XXX
Nick
Tom
Lisa
Stephanie
Philip
Nicole
David
Kristina
wes Jody Consensus
Georgandis
Day
Nance
Christopher
Leone
Smith
Winder
Buffin
Swift Holley
The Winner
Oilers
Steelers
Cowboys
Cowboys Cowboys Cowboys Cowboys
Cowboys
Cowboys Cowboys Dallas: The Boys are
Back in Town
The Score
34-31
23-21
24-7
34-17
34-13
42-31
54-17
24-14
35-24 28-17 37-17: Big suprise, a rout
by the NFC
The MVP
Mike
Barry
Deion
Deion
Mark
Emmitt
Jimmy
Emmitt
Emmitt Emmitt Smith: But you gotta love
Renfro
Switzer
Sanders
Sanders Tuninei
Smith
Johnson
Smith
Smith Smith the Switzer joke
Batt SPORTS presents The Super Bowl Picks