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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.
See Freshmen, Page 10
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