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IPO RTS 3B HE BATTALION Wednesday, September 24, 2002 lexans get Cup, extend Glenn contract •ess (pnce ~Perry awards Governor’s Cup for victory over Cowboys ^Personalpos*, HOUSTON (AP) — An old ■ Texas football tradition was Rekindled Tuesday as the ’ ' 0 ear1 :' joyernor’s Cup was presented to -Hbe Idouston Texans for their sur- jrise victory earlier this month LP WANTE" )ver t * lc Dallas Cowboys. “Regardless of what happens Great exp, -, he rest of the season, this [victo- ' '’s*Ka s. -y] Is going to make for a suc- ' . ;esslul season," Gov. Rick Perry ’ a ‘d as he gave the cup to Bob McNair, owner Houston’s ■ National Football League expan- 1 sionj team. wSmnn . H’he silver-metallic trophy, on which the results of each game • , v.'ii will be engraved, will stay with the I- .ms until it’s next up for grab in 2(X)6. That’s when the ’ ■ y > teanis will meet at Texas . Stadium, unless Cowboys owner , p , Jern Jones has a new playground for his team by then. In a brief ceremony at Reliant Stadium, where Houston beat Dallas 19-10 in the season open er Sept. 8, Perry also presented a set of spurs stamped with the governor’s seal, to be given to coach Dorn Capers. “Tm sure he can find good use for these spurs,” McNair quipped. Perry replied: “They’ll work on some Eagles this weekend,” referring to Houston’s upcoming trip to Philadelphia. The Governor’s Cup once was awarded to the winner of the annual preseason game between the Houston Oilers and Cowboys, but was discontinued once the Oilers left for Tennessee before the 1997 season. Dallas claimed the cup in 1996 by beating the Oilers 24-19 in an exhibition game played in Florida. The Cowboys owned an 18-13 edge over the Oilers in pre season games when the teams were both in Texas. The Cowboys came into the season with playoff aspirations while the Texans hoped just to a win a few games this autumn. But in the opener, the Texans shocked Dallas and became the first expansion team in 41 years to win its first game. Both teams now stand at 1-2 after suffering blowout losses Sunday. Earlier this month, Dallas Mayor Laura Miller conducted city business for a day wearing a Texans hat and jersey, honor ing a pregame bet with Houston counterpart Lee Brown. Texans extend Glenn’s contract HOUSTON (AP) — The Houston Texans have extended the contract of comerback Aaron Glenn, the former Texas A&M star plucked from the New York Jets in the spring expansion draft, the team announced Tuesday. Glenn, in his ninth NFL sea son, made the Pro Bowl in 1997 and 1998 with New York. He leads the Texans with two interceptions and five passes defensed this year. Terms of the deal were not made available. Glenn was in the final year of a contract he had signed with the Jets which carried over to the Texans when he was selected in the expansion draft. The Jets took Glenn in the first round of the 1994 NFL draft after his career at A&M, where he was twice an All- American selection. Glenn grew up in Houston suburb of Humble. Glenn was honored in the Texas A&M Athletic Hall of Fame in 2000. ^ Benson carrying load for Longhorns ~isec ccois AUSTIN (AP) — Cedric Benson 21 v almost always looks tired. ^Kvery time he’s tackled — usually after a TORCYQi five or six-yard gain — the Texas running back slowly picks himself off the ground and walks back to the third-ranked Longhorns’ huddle. Hlrhen. just when it looks like Benson’s gassed, he gets the ball again and smashes through the line for another first down. ■ sm. - Longtime UT followers may remember Earl Campbell rising slowly after his runs. ■ Texas coach Mack Brown compares Benson’s act with another, more-recent dread locked Longhorn. “He’s like Ricky (Williams),” Brown MUSIC said. “He gets up every play like he’s dead. He gets up so slow, walks back the • > ' huddle and runs for four or five yards.” PETS Vvhl le Chris Simms and the receivers are the razzle-dazzle of the Texas offense, • Benson is the blue-collar workhorse who wwwr grinds out the yardage and wears defenses down. Benson is fifth in the nation at 139 yards per game despite a paltry 49 yards in the season opener against North Texas. He ■ i- a carried 68 times for 368 yards the past two ' : weeks in victories over North Carolina and Houston. L ESTAi: Against the Cougars, the 205-pound sophomore touched the ball on 41 of the . roughly 50 snaps he was on the field. He caught four passes for 33 yards and had a career-high 37 carries for 160 yards ■ and a touchdown. He was just eight carries 4bdrm-ie' short of the school record set by Hodges Mitchell in 2000. It was a surprisingly high load for a game Texas won 41-1 1, but backups Ivan Williams and Selvin Young fumbled when they took Benson’s place. So it was back to the main man to milk the clock with a big lead. “I was actually tired from handing the ball off,” Simms said. “You run real hard four steps to hand the ball off and carry your fake out. I felt like I was just doing that every play. I was in a full sweat and I hadn’t done everything.” « As an athlete and a football player, you can’t set a limit on what you’re going to do on a football field. ” Brown has never hesitated to keep hand ing off to one guy. In 1998, he called Williams’ number a school-record 361 times. If Benson keeps up his average of nearly 29 a game, he’ll pass that mark if Texas makes it to the Big 12 title game. Bring it on, said Benson, who last season set a UT freshman record with 1,053 yards rushing despite starting only seven games. “1 don’t believe in ’too much,”’ Benson said immediately after the Houston game, looking hardly any worse for the wear. “As an athlete and a football player, you can’t set a limit on what you’re going to do on a football field. You run harder when the odds are down. That makes the mind stronger and the person stronger.” Although the offensive line provided few holes in the opener, Benson some times looked a half-step slow and had trou ble shaking tackles. That all disappeared in a 52-2 1 win over the Tar Heels in which he gained 208 yards on 31 carries. Brown said Benson needed a lot of car ries in Texas’ first few games to get back into football shape. Also a talented base ball player, he spent the summer playing minor league ball in the Los Angeles Dodgers organization. Brown says he’ll back off the in the next two games against Tulane and Oklahoma State. The Longhorns will want Benson in peak shape for their Oct. 12 showdown with No. 2 Oklahoma in Dallas. Benson played only one down against Oklahoma last year in a 14-3 loss. “We want our tailback to get that many touches,” Brown said. “But we probably need somebody else to take a third of those. “He does play better at the end of the game than he does at the beginning — like most really good running backs — but we need to give him some more breaks.” Benson’s penchant for punishment dates to high school, when he almost single- handedly led Midland Lee to three consec utive Class 5A state championships. He scored five touchdowns in each title game. “He’s tough as nails,” Brown said. “He likes it.” 2 blocks Iro*■ 0.000 pel tx*'; tree!). 3 |50 i ' ! ' 979-846-5800 )MMATES spring SOT** residence *" ’’ ,0/mo es needed K>» : close to B ' r .. Is and depose - /mo. private S' On Hullariafe, oA&M_979f5 wanted. Stia 8 ; split bills. mceO- 96-1622 ^ s roommates 0 m Unive^' r $200/mo. * ■ ,11 Tropical ^ ite. Close to (VICES Mavericks host ‘B-ball 101 5 for women DALLAS (AP) — Melanie Johnson knows the difference between zone and man-to-man defenses. g|She also knows that the Dallas Mavericks led the league in scoring. And that icy cold water rather than a hot tub is the best way to get blood pumping through the legs before a game. But until Monday, she never knew much about basketball. “Now I’m going to bring (my husband) to a Mavericks game and wow him with my new knowledge,” she said, grin ning conspiratorially. “He’ll be very impressed.” Johnson was one of about 200 women who showed up at American Airlines Center Monday evening for “NBA Basketball 101 for Women,” a female-only crash course in the fundamentals of professional hoops. While some came to leam enough about the game to impress the basketball fanatics in their lives, others came because they are basketball fanatics themselves. Fifteen-year-old Lauren White, who someday hopes to be in the WNBA, came to get a glimpse of the pros. “She is a basketball enthusi ast,” said her father, Keith Meadows, one of the only men allowed to participate in the event to escort his daughter. “Deep down she wants to play basketball and we thought this would be a good opportunity to expose her to the arena, the play ers and just the environment over all.” Lauren, who played on her high school’s varsity team as a freshman, was quickly impressed with what she saw. “The locker room is awe some and everyone is so involved,” she said excitedly. “It’s not like high school where everyone is kinda, halfway involved and it’s not as serious. This is serious basketball and that’s what I love.” Lauren was in the minority — most of the attendees had a lot to learn. “I think that there’s so much interest in the game of basket ball, especially in Dallas, I think a lot of women might not understand what they’re watch ing as well as a lot of men who might be more sports fanatics,” said Mavs center Raef LaFrentz, who answered ques tions from the women in the Mavericks locker room. “Some women just want to know a lit tle bit more about referee calls or just anything about life as a basketball player.” Ann Harris, wife of Mavs assistant coach Del Harris, enlightened the women on the difference between a screen defense and a trap play. “I think this is a great idea,” Ann Harris said between groups of students. “I think it’s good that they’ll be able to bond a lit tle better and take an interest in what the husband is doing.” Petal Patch Florists September Special! 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