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A 1" I Minor-league franchises in baseball and hockey are making it big in merchandising because they're creative and they've put the fun back in being a fan. SportFolio, back page Houston 6, N.Y. Mets 0 St. Louis 2, Philadelphia 1 Atlanta 4, Florida 2 Cleveland 7, Texas 3 Seattle 14, Milwaukee 4 American League C4 National League C5 Major-league stats C6 Sunday, August 3, 1S97 Golf C12 Li Scoreboard C14-15 ouyIHuaLI) tage Of Longhorns Due to size, Cowboys draft few players from UT Tha chosen few Here are the Texas Longhoms who have been drafted by the Cowboys. Realigning baseball won't save its spirit Ky8 he sport formerly known as 1 1 baseball which has intro-U duced designated hitters, wild cards, smaller stadiums and inter-league play now offers us realignment If the game changes any more, you won't even recognize it Some don't recognize it now.

The way Houston Astros President Tal Smith sees itthose, regular-season NBA games between the Houston Rockets and Dallas Mavericks have raised little fuss and have hardly been celebrated in song or Dallas home, only six Longhorns have worn the helmet with the star. Only three UT players who were drafted by the Cowboys made the roster. By comparison, Rice has had eight picks. Houston and Oregon can claim seven Cowboys. Wouldn't it make sense that the state's biggest university one of college football's undeniable giants, would have a direct pipeline to Texas Stadium? "We don't sit down and say certain players are from Texas, Texas or 1 DonTalbert 2 Robert Moses TE 1962 3 Tommy Lucas TE 1963 4 Scott Appleton DT 1964 5 Bryan Chester 1986 6 Chris Duliban LB 1986 7 Everett Gay WR 1987 8 Jeff Ward 1987 made team Ato's See Horns, C9 mm Brickyard 400 is won on gas mileage; Bobby Labonte 2nd By Gary Long The Miami Herald INDIANAPOLIS A teen-ager from Chesapeake, traveled to Indianapolis to win a national go-cart championship in 1971 and took advantage of the visit to tour world-famous Indianapolis Motor Speedway Because his career later took him into the South and stock car racing, he spent most of his career figuring he'd never race at Indy But Ricky Rudd, with graying temples but a still-boyish grin at ggfflife fit? 7 Ricky Rudd XJ j- L.V, ft ft ft 4 By Rick Canto American-Statesman Staff The legacy of Texas Longhorns and Dallas Cowboys runs as deep as the Guadalupe River on a cool spring day Bobby Layne and Roger Staubach.

Bevo and Crazy Ray Burnt orange and the hole in the roof. The Longhorns and Cowboys have so much football tradition and so little in common. Jeff Ward is the answer to an intriguing trivia question: Who is the last Long-horn to be drafted by the Cowboys? Motive: World Austin loses in playoffs to team it dominated all season By Steve Habel American-Statesman Correspondent This was not the same San Antonio soccer team the Austin Lone Stars had seen before. The Pumas had nine new faces, many more experienced and quicker than the ones they replaced. The other difference was the result the top-seeded Lone Stars, who had beaten No.

4 seed San Antonio all four times in the regular season, lost 4-2 Saturday at House Park in the first round of the USISL Division 3 South Central playoffs, ending their season on a depressing note. "We knew that this type of situation was probably going to happen, and given that scenario we had a hard time preparing for this game," Austin Coach Wolfgang Suhnholz said. "We may have been a step off some of their new players and that hesitation may have cost us in the early going. From that point on, we were playing uphill." San Antonio advances to the fi vs. Oak! WHEN: 7 p.m.

today 1 WHERE: Texas Stadium Irving TICKETS: sold out TVS TNT That was 10 years ago. "If you want to discuss the Longhorns who played for Dallas, it's going to be a very short story," said Bill Little, University of Texas assistant athletic director. In the 38 years the Cowboys have called Record 4 1 1 2 4 Kevin Virobik-AdamsFor AA- San Antonio Puma Balta Sanchez, left, heads ball while Austin's Kerwin Johnson looks on. Stars (13-9) and a crowd of 1,506 with two goals in a two-minute span of the first half for a 2-0 lead. print beyond the next day's fish wrapper.

The Cowboys and Oilers, at one time of Houston, have played countless NFL exhibition games and in the BCHIS regular season for something called the Governor's Cup. Given that as a backdrop, will the Lone Star State go bonkers if baseball's latest brainstorm results in 16 games a season between the Astros and Texas Rangers? Will such drastic scheduling give birth to a ferocious rivalry? Probably not. History forms rivalries. And realignment thumbs its nose at history. Under the proposed full-scale realignment, 14 teams would change leagues.

Yes, that would create some interest, but at what cost? Even if it produces the most heated rivalries since the Dodgers-Giants, mark it down as a serious, foolhardy mistake because it sacrifices generations of rich tradition. All. 30 teams, including next year's expansion clubs in Arizona and Tampa Bay, would be homogenized into four divisions, with 14 teams including and east of Cincinnati in the American League and 16 teams including and west of Chicago in the National league. There is even talk of removing the AL and NL designations altogether to make the moves more palatable to clubs uneasy about severing umbilical cords to history Is this baseball on hallucinogens? What hath acting badly commissioner Bud Selig wrought? Enough is enough. And realignment is too much.

After cloning divisions, adding wild cards and starting interleague play, are baseball's powers trying to realign the game or reinvent it? "Frankly, when the game was really prospering in 1994, attendance had been increasing every year until the strike," Smith said. "It's been difficult getting back to those levels, but are you going to get the fans back by having 14 teams change affiliations?" Not necessarily Those favoring the proposal say the plan will take advantage of natural geographic rivalries. The Yankees and Mets, Blue Jays and Expos would be in the Eastern Division, the Dodgers and Giants would coexist in the Western Division, and the Cubs and White Sox would live in the Central Division along with the Rangers and Astros. Smith worries that the weakest team in those matchups would fail miserably at the gate. But the Mets are already drawing poorly, worse even than the Astros, and only three NL teams have worse attendance than the Expos.

The scheme also would lessen transportation costs with fewer transcontinental flights. Time zones would be less of a factor. By lumping Arizona and Colorado with all the West Coast teams, 150 of their 162 games would start at normal times as opposed to, say, a Texas game in Seattle starting at 9:30 p.m. Central time. "When I was working for the Yankees and we had a road trip to the West Coast, we lost our (television and radio) audience for a week because of the time zone," Smith said.

"People won't stay up." Unfortunately, the realignment with a blurring of American and National League entities would all but render moot the revolu- See Bohis, Cll Michael ProbsVAP Ato Boldon of Trinidad and Tobago, right, sprints past Ibrahim Meite trains in Austin, pulled up at the end of his heat with a possible left of the Ivory Coast in their 100-meter qualifying heat at the World Track calf injury. Bailey did qualify for the semifinals, but sprinters such as and Field Championships in Athens, Greece. Donovan Bailey, who Boldon hope to break his world record of 9.84 seconds. Story, C2 40, carved his niche 4n speedway history Saturday afternoon. Driver-owner Rudd nursed his final tank of fuel, covering the final 115 miles on one 22-gallon tank, to a strategic Brickyard 400 victory before an estimated 350,000 fans.

It was worth $571,000 of a Winston Cup-record purse of $4,965 million. "I don't know what to say," Rudd said moments after he steered his orange and white Tide Ford Thun-derbird into victory lane, "This is just a shock to me." In the end, he held off the Joe Gibbs-owned Pontiac of Bobby Labonte (Corpus Christi), who also See Rudd's, Cll The first came on a perfectly executed give-and-go 18 minutes into the game by Omar Millan, who pounded a shot that goalkeeper Robert Weaver could deflect but not stop. San Antonio's second goal followed just two minutes later as Alejandro Ojeda's looping shot from 18 yards out bounced off the post and into the net. Austin eventually broke through at the 30-minute mark. Kerwin Johnson, the third-leading goal scorer in the D3 Professional League, was fouled just outside the penalty box, and the resulting direct free kick was hammered home by former Anderson High player Judd Willmann.

San Antonio stretched its lead to 3-1 seven minutes into the second half as Americo Ayala scored. The Pumas' lead grew to 4-1 five minutes later when Oscar Munoz's direct free kick curved into the upper left corner of the goal. The Lone Stars scored the final goal when former St. Edward's University player Gabe Jones volleyed home a pass from Bart Petrini with 30 minutes left to play. 4 The Lone Stars' first season as a a professional team ended on a sour note, but the team had a banner year at the gate, drawing 20,998 fans, almost double their previous high total, and had a franchise-best nine-game win strea during the season.

Ells rightful reward Austin native Willie Wells, a Negro League superstar, joins the legends in baseball's Hall of Fame today in Cooperstown, N.Y Story, Al l.tflvl leal Phil Shook admires a 30-inch redfish caught in waters off the Lower LagunaMadre, and there are plenty more where that came from. Ciitdcrs, C13 Al' nals of the South Central Division playoffs, where it will meet either Houston or Tulsa. The Pumas (9-13) stunned the Lone.