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ilies only to Jt no charge. ■ il insertions a; The Battalion ursday • November 20, 1997 PORTS The howdown ITED Ve have Ful [lions availalu noses. Flexj 700-Ur* KEEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — Forget about that acle at Indianapolis. The Green Bay Pack- are pumped up to face their tormentors the las Cowboys. We always said it would be different if we got m at Lambeau Field,” wide receiver Antonio leman said. “This Sunday, they’ll be here.” he team, the city, the state — heck, fans all Joss the country— have been waiting for this ne since the schedule came out. ■ Apply* )nS SW.PV and evenn (able sctiedii |nt workers wn fiedule Slat 371. or Sales Reps rips and erti CLE (Today!! 1-S I be 18yrs. bogs. Mart) Ids puppies 1 $250 Pleas* lie). 6.5 feet, leryl al 8T- day pari-pme - f-shirts proclaiming “The Showdown in Title- m” are everywhere. So are tickets, if you're ling to cough up $400, the price of two pieces lewly issued Packers stock. . It’s going to be a special kind of excitement,” eman said. “Everybody that’s a football fan be watching this game.” The Cowboys have beaten the Packers seven ight times since 1993 — all at Texas Stadium including three times in the playoffs. The men with the stars on their helmets are iking just their second trip to Lambeau Field ce Bart Starr beat them in the fabled “Ice wl” 30 years ago, and it is their first visit to en Bay since Oct. 8,1989. know is the whole world’s been looking ward to this game,” free safety Eugene said. “This is the game to see who’s America’s an,” strong safety LeRoy Butler, who never hid frustration when Carolina beat the Cowboys reach the NFC championship at Lambeau in wary, said. Tight end Mark Chmura said the Cowboys represent unfinished business. “I think a lot of people look at last year and, you know, we beat everybody but Dallas,” he said. Even rookies who have never lost to the hat ed Cowboys are well aware of the importance of this game, even with back-to-back trips to divi sion co-leaders Minnesota and Tampa Bay fol lowing Sunday’s showdown. Top draft pick Ross Verba of Iowa was pulled aside by guard Aaron Taylor and quarterback Brett Favre. “Brett came up to me earlier this week and said, ‘This is bigger than the lowa-Iowa State game,”’Verba recounted. “So I really don’t need to be told that much more.” “It’s been nuts,” kicker Ryan Longwell, an un drafted free agent, said. “When they picked me up here in early July, the second I stepped off that plane, they started talking about Nov. 23. “And now it’s here, so we’re excited.” The game has been circled on both team’s cal endars for a long, long time. “But it has a different flavor than what everybody predicted,” Cowboys coach Barry Switzer said. Because the Cowboys stumbled early, falling to 4-5 before winning their last two, and Green Bay (8-3) was riding high until Sunday, when it scored 38 points and still lost to the worst team in the NFL. “It’s almost comical how people view these in Titletown games,” Packers coach Mike Holmgren said. ‘At the beginning of the year, they were printing up T- shirts, hats, all that stuff. Then, all of a sudden, both teams are not 11-0 and everyone’s in a panic.” But that should not diminish Sunday’s game, added Holmgren, 0-7 against the Cowboys and 66-27 against the rest of the NFL. “Two real fine football teams with a little his tory to it. It doesn’t get any better,” he said. “The fact that we get to play them up here, that’s a great thing for our fans, it really is. “There should be no luster at all taken away from the game because the records aren’t ... watch where they are at the end of the season in the NFC East. I trust we’re going to be there in the NFC Central at the end. This is going to be a great game.” And there’s a mission. “This is a perfect opportunity for redemp tion,” Robinson said Wednesday in a jovial lock er room that featured four stink bombs. Holmgren hopes to have nose tackle Gilbert Brown (ankle), defensive end Reggie White (back) and receiver Robert Brooks (rib) available for the Cowboys, although none of them practiced Wednesday and Brown was walking around with a special ankle boot fol lowing treatments. “A game of this magnitude?” Holmgren said. “Against an opponent like this? With all that’s at stake? You’d really have to dead not to play this game.” 4ajor League Baseball’s rendition if musical chairs not expected to slow ollowing Tuesday’s expansion draft, some big names are on the move PHOENIX (AP) — This kind of lion belongs to brokers on Wall I- i ] W/D, bus 196-8399. w/agS lee t> not teams trying to get to JieWorld Series. l00/mo. plus llh already J (oommalss 1)3-0052. frcudeo Hj" | 8416. Tiear' campui n house, 19033. ptiTieifeS |le Sara, ' Ith.lit 1695-8578. nesler. 'ife 1764-27U uTS Lid trt it in a stunning blitz Tuesday , baseball offered its version i)|!achaotic day of heavy trading at leNewYork Stock Exchange. Only one minute after journey- fflpitcher Vaughn Eshelman was ie70th and final pick of an ex- 5 insion draft that dragged on for ten hours, the tumult started. Pedro Martinez to Boston. Nen to San Francisco. Mike sing to Colorado. General managers rushed to podium, stacking up like air- anes waiting to take off. Fred McGriff to Tampa Bay. Fs.efriTavis Fryman to Arizona. pwrrniiS The volume was startling. An- Itments i |u ncemen t s filled the Phoenix ivic Plaza. Roberto Hernandez, Kevin 1 ocker and John Flaherty to the _ vil Rays. Devon White and Har- m*# TPulliam to the Diamondbacks. In all, 13 trades and four free- |jSIilwfent signings, affecting a total of _ players. All done in a matter of iconds, it seemed. “It’s an exciting time,” Giants M Brian Sabean said. “I think it’s Aw*|iod for baseball. When a lot of big als are consummated like this, it $ Ms the sport at the forefront.” And, there may be more to come. Maybe Randy Johnson to the New )rk Yankees, Brady Anderson to the Hanta Braves or Gary Sheffield and -vin Brown to anyone. It all could happen soon Hough, now that baseball’s shop ping spree is going at full tilt. “Things were coming together and falling apart all night,” Arizona general manager Joe Garagiola Jr. said later. “This is the kind of ac tivity we used to have at the winter meetings, and fans love.” He paused to catch his breath. He was finished, for at least one day. “I think for the night, that being the operative time frame,” he said. "Tomorrow is another day.” By the time the bell struck at midnight EST, it was already time to start assessing the big winners and big losers. The two expansion teams made out nicely, especially after each finished drafting its 35 players. The World Series champion Florida jai all W* . P |us |h«' : ID# “It’s an exciting time. I think it's good for baseball. When a lot of big deals are consummated like this, it puts the sport to the forefront.” BRIAN SABEAN SF GIANTS GENERAL MANAGER Marlins and the Montreal Expos, though, did not fare so well. The Devil Rays got McGriff, a Tampa resident, from Atlanta and Stocker from Philadelphia to settle their infield, and Hernandez is a proven reliever. “It was a thrill to be involved in the situation tonight,” Devil Rays general manager Chuck LaMar said. “We had some scenario with every team during the week, or al most every team.” The Diamondbacks got Fry man from Detroit, and he will play third base next to shortstop Jay Bell, signed on Monday. White in center field gives Arizona strength up the middle. The cost-cutting Marlins, meanwhile, continued their breakup that began with the recent trade of Moises Alou to Houston. This time, Florida sent closer Nen, who is owed $14.5 million in the next three seasons, to San Francisco and traded White, due $3.5 million next year, to Arizona. Both deals were made for minor leaguers prospects. “We’re going back and we’re going to regroup in Florida,” gen eral manager Dave Dombrowski said. “‘There are still some moves to be made.” Sheffield and Brown could be the next to leave. Nen figured he was headed out of town. “It’s been a tough day,” he said. “I’d heard I was going anywhere from Toronto to Mexico.” The Expos also are looking to reduce payroll. They traded Mar tinez, the NL Cy Young winner, to Boston for young pitcher Carl Pa- vano and a player to be named and shipped second baseman Lansing to Colorado for three pitching prospects. “Obviously both of my trades were dictated by the economics of the times,” Expos general manag er Jim Beattie said.”‘We do not in tend to win next year. We intend to build to have a championship club when we move into our sta dium in 2001.” The Red Sox were delighted to get Martinez. “This is the kind of trade when you go to bed at night as a gener al manager you dream about making,” Boston CM Dan Du quette said. By the end of the night, most everyone in baseball was mar veling at what had taken place. So much movement, and so quickly. Even comedian Billy Crystal, a small investor in the Diamond- backs, was shaking his head. He was in Arizona’s “war room” earli er in the draft, watching the names fly past. 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