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~Perry awards Governor’s Cup for victory over Cowboys
^Personalpos*, HOUSTON (AP) — An old
â–  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
â–  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.
â–  sm. - Longtime UT followers may remember
Earl Campbell rising slowly after his runs.
â–  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
â–  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
â–  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.”
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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.”
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