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Super Bowl XXXI it 1 nott Packers continue NFC domination with 35-21 win over Patriots a yom l g aates NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The treen Bay Packers finally have a Dresent to go with their past. The 35-21 Super Bowl victory bver the New England Patriots on Sunday hardly brought back mem- ories ofVince Lombardi’s grind-it- out champions of the ’60s. I Not that Lombardi would have ecognized the way this team won. There were no pulling guards, none of his classic power sweeps. Rather, it was Brett Favre finding the duckwalking Andre Rison for a 54-yard touchdown on the Packers’ second offensive play, then throw ing an 81-yard TD pass to Antonio Freeman in the first minute of the second quarter to put Green Bay ahead for good. And it was Howard scoring on a 99-yard kickoff return, then striking an abbreviated Heisman pose in the end zone, a dagger in the heart of the Patriots, who had closed to 27-21. Howard, the first special teams player ever to win MVR finished with a record 244 return yards. Not bad for someone who was considered an other Heisman Trophy bust before joining the Packers this season. “Through all the adversity and the trials and tribulations, I’ve always had confidence in myself,” he said. The win was the 13th straight for an NFC team and kept Bill Parcells, who had two of those 13 with the Gi ants in 1986 and 1990, from becom ing the first coach to win a Super Bowl with two different franchises. “I’m disappointed, because I do think we had a chance there for a moment,” said Parcells, rumored to be leaving the Patriots. “We played hard, we just cracked a little bit under pressure.” The Packers won the trophy named for their storied coach. It was Lombardi’s teams that won the first two Super Bowls. “Vince Lombardi had a wonderful legacy for tire rest of us. Now we’re just trying to do our part, and we hope we can do it for a long time to come,” Packers coach Mike Holmgren said. There was, of course, time for sentiment. The team that wanted to win one for Reggie White did it and he con tributed — getting two straight sacks of Drew Bledsoe after Howard’s re turn, and a third late in the game. That ensured that the Patriots wouldn’t strike back at the Pack ers the way Howard had struck AP Photo Patriots quarterback Drew Bledsoe fakes the handoff to running back Curtis Martin during their 28-3 playoff victory against the Steelers. back at them. But Howard took the kickoff, burst up the middle and went nearly un touched to tlie end zone — only Ha- son Graham got a hand on him. Parcells didn’t hesitate when asked the game’s turning point. “Desmond Howard. The kickoff return,” he said. “I thought we might have had them rocking just a little bit, 27-21. But he made the big play and I credit him for it.” Favre ends difficult season with world championship NEW ORLEANS (AP) — When Brett Favre took the Green Bay Packers to their Super Bowl cham pionship on Sunday, it was a victo ry for every country kid in cutoffs and T-shirt who ever threw a rock in a pond and dreamed about be ing an NFL quarterback. Favre’s pond was just 50 miles or so away from the Superdome, in a Mississippi mapdot called Kiln, a place deep in Bayou country where he . grew up the son of a \ high school coach 'V and blessed with a rocket right arm. The arm alone wasn’t quite enough to carry Favre to his champi onship. He needed the courage to survive a roller coaster year that be gan with 46 days in a rehabilitation program after he became addicted to pain killers. It continued with the death of his best friend in a van-train accident in which his brother was im plicated, and the involvement of his sister in a drive-by shooting. And it ended in the glare of the Super Bowl, with Favre doing pretty much what he wanted against New England. On the second play from scrim mage, he threw a 54-yard touch down pass to Andre Rison, who was so wide open he strutted into the end zone. Coach Mike Holmgren had said his quarterback could al ways change plays. “But it’d better work,” the coach cautioned. Favre made sure it did. When Drew Bled soe brought the Patri ots back for a 14-10 lead, Favre merely hooked up with Antonio Free man for an 81-yard TD, the longest TD pass play in Super Bowl history. Then he punctuated another dri ve by running wide, bowling over the end zone pylon and scoring a TD. In the first half, he had put his stamp on the biggest game of the season. After Desmond Howard’s 99- See Favre, Page 9 and Aggies snap eight-game losing streak, win first conference game A&M cages Wildcats, 76-67 By Matt Mitchell The Battalion When a team has lost eight straight games, is winless in conference play, and has a bench as shallow as Rudder Fountain, it either lays down, or circles its wagons and fights. It seems there is still plenty of fight left in the Texas A&M Men’s fp I Basketball Team. ^ | The Aggies rode a spectacular second-half ef- •11 ,1'fort by sophomore forward Calvin Davis and fill VM c * utc ^ footing by freshman guard Jerald Brown. jT /A truck-load of grit and determination helped k j ► tiieAggies outlast Kansas State, 76-67, in front of V 0 ^,393 at G. Rollie White Saturday afternoon. Despite dressing only eight players, the Ag- !gies managed to avoid foul trouble and kept Ithegame close in the first half. Sophomore forward Shanne Jones carried the Aggies of fensively, scoring 12 of the Aggies 28 first-half oints. Brown also had nine points in the first alf, all on three-pointers, but the Wildcats led k halftime, 34-28. "We went into the first half with the idea to iurvive,” A&M Head Coach Tony Barone said. It was going to be ugly, it was going to be jlasty, it was not going to be pleasing to the lye, but we wanted to have a chance to win in me second half.” With foul trouble less of a concern in the sec- |nd half, the Aggies took it inside with a Oil!!! vengeance, and Davis led the attack. The wiry forward baffled K-State defenders with a wide ar ray of shots and moves as he scored 21 second- half points and finished the game with a career- high 15 rebounds. Davis’ inspired play drew the Wildcat zone de fense inside, leaving the Aggies’ deadly shooters wide open on the perimeter. “If you don’t get the ball to the inside, it limits the wings on the outside,” Brown said. “In the second half, we kept getting the ball on the in side and pounding away. They had to clamp down on the inside, and that left us wide open.” The Aggies charged back to tie the game and take the lead at 45-44 on a senior guard Tracey Anderson’s three-pointer, but they could not put much distance between them selves and the Wildcats. Neither team could take a large lead, and the game was tied at 51 apiece with 8:34 to go. That is when the Aggie defense shut down the Wildcat offense, and K-State had no an swer for the inside-outside game of the Ag gies. The Aggies made their free throws (13-of- 16 in the second half) to pull away for the win. The Wildcats had not played zone much this season, which Barone said left the Aggies unpre pared to attack it. See Aggies, Page 10 Stew Milne, The Battalion Freshman Shanne Jones grabs a rebound in the second half against Kansas State University. Freshmen give fans glimpse of future By Chris Ferrell The Battalion Trailing Kansas State 34-28 at the half, Texas A&M Men’s Basket ball Head Coach Tony Barone pulled out his crystal ball and gave the Aggie faithful a glimpse into the future of the A&M bas ketball program. With the trio of sophomore for ward Calvin Davis and freshmen guards Jerald Brown and Brian Barone leading the charge, the Ag gies (7-9, 1-5) picked up their first conference win of the season with a 76-67 win over the Kansas State Wildcats (7-9,0-6) at G. Rollie White Coliseum Saturday. Davis coupled a career-high 15 rebounds with a team-high 21 points (all in the second half) to help spark the Aggies. “They played right behind me, and I was able to maneuver and shoot over a couple of them,” Davis said. “They put a smaller man on me, so it helped a little bit.” Davis played all 20 minutes of the second half despite a cut over his right eye he received in the first half. Davis required stitches at halftime. “I’m gonna give Calvin a lot of credit,” Barone said. “I’m gonna tell you right now, Calvin is not Mike Tyson when it comes to tak ing a cut, and he stepped in there and got some stitches at halftime and really played a heck of a sec ond half. I was totally impressed with his toughness.” Davis’ emergence as a scoring threat on the inside (after the Ag gies managed just four points in the paint in the first half) helped clear the way for his teammates to step up. “Calvin was killing them in the second half,” senior guard Tracey Anderson said. “In the second half, they had to get down on Calvin and that left it open for Jerald and he was knocking them (three-point baskets) down.” Fifteen of Brown’s 17 points came from beyond the three-point arc, including three down the stretch. He also had a career high four assists and two blocks. 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