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uesday, September 26, 2000
Injury bug
strikes again
Torn ACL latest culprit in
2000 A&M soccer season
By Jason Lincoln
The Battalion
2000 was supposed to be the
year it all came together for the
Texas A&M soccer team and coach
G. Guerrieri. A roster loaded with
talent and strong senior leadership
had the Aggies talking about join
ing the nation’s elite teams. Then
the injuries began.
Sunday the Aggies took another
hard loss due to injury when start
ing midfielder Ashley Murray went
down with a tom ACL in her right
knee during pre-game warm-ups
for A&M’s match against Col
orado. The injury was the result of
what appeared to be a harmless
non-contact twist as Murray was
running. Now she is sidelined for
the remainder of the season.
Murray is the fifth A&M player
sidelined with the knee injury this
season. Martha Moore, Michelle
Remington, Jamie Marden and Jes
sica Hamilton all key elements in the
A&M lineup. Add Nicky Thrasher’s
broken fibula and Laci Stephen
son's foot injury and the roster is
starting to become critically thin.
“We’ve always talked about
how this was the most talented team
we've ever had,” Guerrieri said.
“Not because we thought we had a
talented group of starters, but be
cause we thought we had about 15
players who could start. With the
injuries, that's definitely being test
ed now. But thank goodness for a
deep roster.”
Despite the injuries, the Aggies
hold the No. 10 spot in the nation
and opened the conference season
2-0 over the weekend outscoring
their opponents 9-1, allowing less
than five shots on goal.
Sports
THE BATTALION
Bengals coach Coslet quits early
Resignation comes after three consecutive losses in beginning of season
CINCINNATI (AP) — Unable to
win, the Cincinnati Bengals found
themselves with a new coach Monday
with the season all of three games old.
Bruce Coslet quit as coach of the
NFL’s worst team of the past decade
and was replaced by defensive co
ordinator Dick LeBeau in the first
NFL coaching change this season.
The resignation came a day after
the Bengals lost their third game in a
row and second straight without scor
ing a point. They have been outscored
74-7 this season and have not made
the playoffs since 1990, the league’s
longest current streak.
“He’s a good teacher... he’s good
with players,” Bengals owner and
president Mike Brown said of
LeBeau. “I think he can step in now
and get our situation back on course
as quickly as anybody could.”
LeBeau, a former star comerback
for the Detroit Lions, becomes an
NFL coach for the first time at 63.
He has spent 28 years as an assistant
on other coaches’ staffs.
“There will be some changes,”
LeBeau said at a news conference. “I
think we have to look at everything.”
Coslet coached the New York Jets
from 1990-93 and became coach of
the Bengals in 1996. Under Coslet,
the Bengals were 7-9 in 1997, 3-13
in 1998 and 4-12 in 1999.
LeBeau said he was stunned by
Coslet’s decision.
“I tried to talk him out of it,” he
said. “He was not to be swayed.”
Brown, too, was surprised.
“It was hard for me because he’s a
4 7 tried to talk
[Coslet] out of it.
He was not to be
swayed”
— Dick LeBeau
New Bengals head coach
good man, a friend and a good coach,”
Brown said. “That was his call and he
made it. It's behind us now.”
Brown questions whether the Ben
gals gave Coslet the support needed.
“I think we all wonder,” he said.
“If we had better answers, maybe
we would have had success.”
Brown intends to continue to run
the team as general manager rather
than hire someone else.
“I have no plans to make that
change as I stand here today,” he said.
The Bengals’ 37-0 loss on Sun
day in Baltimore was further evi
dence of their futility on offense.
They had lost 13-0 the week before
in Jacksonville after a 24-7 loss at
home on Sept. 10.
The Bengals are under pressure
to win because taxpayers paid for
the $453 million Paul Brown Stadi
um in which the Bengals started
play this season.
Coslet, a former Bengals tight
end, had done two tours as the Ben
gals’ offensive coordinator before
becoming head coach in 1996 when
Dave Shula was fired. Coslet
brought LeBeau back to the Bengals
in 1997 for a second term as defen
sive coordinator.
LeBeau plans to have offensive
coordinator Ken Anderson, a former
Bengals quarterback, call the offen
sive plays. LeBeau plans to run the
defense with help from linebackers
coach Mark Duffner.
Defensive back Cory Hall said
the players respect LeBeau.
“Look at the defense we run,”
Hall said. “He put that package to
gether. I trust him 100 percent.”
The Bengals set an NFL record
by losing 107 games in the 1990s,
108 if the Jan. 2 loss in Jacksonville
is included.
Cincinnati’s total of seyen points
in the first three games is the lowest
for a three-game stretch since the
1978 team scored three points in
three weeks during a 4-12 season.
Sunday’s loss was the 28th in 35
games under Coslet.
“That was about as thorough a
beating as you’ll see,” Brown said af
terwatching the Bengals rush for just
four yards in the Baltimore game.
The Bengals dipped into the free-
agent market during the offseason,
signing safety Darryl Williams and
defensive linemen Tom Barndt and
Vaughn Booker. The acquisitions
have yet to produce any wins.
Former Bengals wide receiver
Carl Pickens criticized the team for
retaining Coslet as the 1999 season
ended. The Bengals released Pick
ens, their all-time leading receiver,
who now plays for Tennessee.
LeBeau has worked on the
coaching staffs of the Philadelphia
Eagles and Green Bay Packers. He
was defensive coordinator under
Sam Wyche when Cincinnati ad
vanced to the Super Bowl following
the 1988 season.
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Raducan was stripped of her all-around gymnastics gold
medal after testing positive for a banned substance. Radu
can tested positive for pseudoephedrine, a drug found in
cold medicines.
USA softball back on track: After losing three straight
games to take it to the brink of elimination, the U.S. soft-
ball team is now in the gold medal game against Japan.
Japan was one of the teams to beat the Americans dur
ing their losing streak.
TV Schedule: Tuesday, September 26, 2000
NBC:
•10 a.m. to Noon — Softball
• 7 p.m. to Midnight— Beach Volleyball, Cycling,
Weightlifting, Gymnastics, Synchronized Swimming
• 12:41 to 2:11 a.m. — Volleyball, Water Polo
MSNBC:
• 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. — Tennis, Diving, Baseball, Soccer
CNBC:
• 5 to 9 p.m. — Boxing, Soccer, Wrestling
No records were set in the
Olympic Games on Monday.
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