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IRVING (AP) — Whatever quality the Dal
las Cowboys lack on their defensive line,
they hope to make up for it with a group of
young backups.
Dallas will go into the season opener against
Washington on Sunday with nine defensive line
men, including five
tackles. That
not include
best tackle,
Lett, who is sus
pended indefinitely.
The Cowboys of
ten have gone with
eight defensive line
man. When they
have kept nine, the extra player usually has
been an end.
Lett's absence is the main reason Dallas
needs help inside. It is not easy replacing a 6-
foot-6, 295-pound veteran who’s made the Pro
Bowl his last two full seasons.
Alonzo Spellman will start in Lett’s place, but
he is still learning tackle after playing end most
his life. He also faces the challenge of trying to
come back from a year out of the NFL.
"It’s coming along well, but I’ve still got
things to work on,” Spellman, who will proba
bly be a backup at end and tackle when Lett re
turns, said. “It’s all about repetitions — the
more you see it, the more you get used to it."
Chad Hennings is the other starting defen
sive tackle. The starting ends are Kavika
Pittman and Greg Ellis.
The four starting linemen have played a
combined 16 years in the NFL. There are only
18 games of experience among backup ends
Ebenezer Ekuban and Peppi Zellner and re
serve tackles Nathan Davis, Michael Myers
and Brandon Noble.
“We have a lot of youth with speed and
quickness and older guys with strength and
know-how,” Pittman, who is playing with a
bulky cast on his right hand while recovering
from surgery to repair two bones broken on the
first day of training camp, said.
Without Lett, Hennings is the only link to the
dominating line led by Charles Haley that helped
Dallas win three Super Bowls in four seasons.
The current edition can not live up to that
standard, but it can be better than last year’s
unit, which was near the bottom of the NFL
with 34 sacks. That inability to get to quar
terbacks was part of the reason the Cowboys
were in the bottom third of the league in pass
defense last season.
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welcomed the NBA champion San Antonio Spurs
to the White House yesterday,
telling the team that politics is
like basketball.
“You get ahead, you get be
hind,” Clinton, a self-described
“basketball fanatic,” said.
“Normally, you don’t know
whether you are going to win un
til it’s right before the end the
game,” he said
In June, the Spurs won the NBA championship,
their first, in a 4-1 series over the New York Knicks.
Clinton extended a special welcome to forward
Sean Elliott, who underwent a kidney transplant
last month. Teammates were also motivated by El
liott’s quick comeback.
Elliott “is an inspiration to a lot of people who have
kidney transplants, especially if he can come back for
training camp,” team captain Avery Johnson said.
The Spurs took a 35-minute tour of the White
House before the event in the East Room, which was
attended by friends and family, the president and four
members of the Texas congressional delegation.
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WACO (AP) — Tommie Frazier always
knew he would become a football coach. But
first, he had to pass a test.
By choice, the former Nebraska Corn-
huskers’ star quarterback spent the past two
years avoiding the game he
once dominated. He worked in
the Nebraska governor’s pub
lic information office for six
months and then landed a
marketing job with a Lincoln,
Neb., telephone company.
Frazier would not even con
sider coaching until he could
prove to himself that he no
longer wanted to play.
“I wanted to be able to sit
down, enjoy a game on TV and
not feel the urge to play,” he
said. "I wanted to get that desire out of my
system first.”
Now, nearly four years after leading Ne
braska in back-to-back perfect seasons, Fra
zier said he has done exactly that. He starts
this season as Baylor’s running backs coach.
Although he still looks fit enough to suit
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