Southern Illinois University Carbondale OpenSIUC July 1992 Daily Egyptian 1992 7-29-1992 The aiD ly Egyptian, July 29, 1992 Daily Egyptian Staff Follow this and additional works at: https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/de_July1992 Volume 77, Issue 184 Recommended Citation , . "The aiD ly Egyptian, July 29, 1992." (Jul 1992). This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Daily Egyptian 1992 at OpenSIUC. It has been accepted for inclusion in July 1992 by an authorized administrator of OpenSIUC. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Page 12 _ July~. !992 Sports Heating up Temperature rises at Olympic Games as U.S. athletes bring home more gold BARCELONA, Spain (UPn - There was Eva lS - failed 10 make il 10 the end of the plenty of heal 10 go around 31 the Olympics pool firsL Evans, the winner of three gold Tuesday and no( aU of il came from tho; Slm medals in Seoul four years ago. was edged Ihal relenllessly baked Ihe Spanish by German Dagmar Hase after leading fo,' landscape. Ibe firsl 350 meters of the 400-met'<r Some of il came from the pressure thai is freestyle. built inlO the world's largest sporting event "I gave it my best shoe," said Evans. who an" as the long. hOI day progre,ssed, \bal cried lhruugbout her post-race news pressure was applied mosI noIiceabIy 10 the conference. UComing ioto my second Americans. Olympics is the icing on the cake. I've sliD Well before noon Tuesday, I,mpentures gee the world record, I've got my gold medal on the clay court surface al the Olympic from Seoul and oow I've gut a silver." tennis complex reached 116 degrees. lbrte­ Biondi, after reaching leading 31 the tum in lime Wimbledom champion Boris Bccl<er the IIJO..IMer lia::style sprint, faded 10 fifth and Norwegian Ouistian Ruud, the 312dl­ in a race won by Alexandre Popov of the ranked [byer in the world, were exposed 10 Unified Team. Biondi was tJying fQr the the elements for four hours and 50 minutes seventh gold medal of his, Olympic career before Becker survived with a five-set and his ninth overall. victory. It nwI<ed the only time in Olympic history "It was an ..paience ," said BccI<e<, who other than the Y"'" of the American buycotl applauded the ncar capacity crowd at ti".c in 1980 thai the United States has been shut tennis stadium for sitting in the steamy OIl! of the medals in the lOO-rncIer freestyle. coOO;tions 10 watch him play. The pressure was also felt by Ihe The symbolic heal, meanwhile, appeared America?s women gymnasts, who entered in many other places. the finaI.round of exercises in second place America's two big swimming gold medal hopes for the day - Man Bioodi and Janet _ OL YIIPICS, page 11 Saluki gridders to get Nebraska QB transfer By Jay Reed and 10 louchdowns, Jones rushed 50 ,imes SportsWriter for 453 yards and 10 louchdowns, and he gradU3led from Rogers as the ninth leading Matt Jones, a quarterback from the passer in Hoosier high school history with University of Nebraska, has decided to 5;297 yards and 46 touchdown, He also was trnnsfer to the SaJuki football program. a member of USA Tnday's Top 100 high SaJuki head football coach Bob Smith said school football list. he is anxious to see Jones compete for the While at Neb<aslca. Jones was the st:lJIing Dawgs when he hccomes eligible in the faU junior varsity quarterback. his freshman of 1993. season completing 40 of 74 passes ror 734 "According to his high school SlatS and his yards and three touchdowns. bul had eighl early progress at Neb<aska. he bas a chance interceptions for the junior Huskers. Ue to fill the p<lSition for us in 1993," he said. rushed 50 times for 141 yards and two "We are very glad to have him, but the man touchdowns. of the hour is Seou Gabbert. .. Jones. redshirted last season, would have Gabhcn is the starting SaJuki signal caJler been a, tlti".!.ycar sophomore quarterbacIc for going into the upcoming season, aa:ording 10 the Canhuskers this year. Pinball wizard Smith. Jones was the leading passer at Ne!nska's Smith said starting SIUC tailback AoIhooy Spring Game in April completing. \3 of 22 Mayur Patel of Carbondale plays "The Getaway" located In the pool !'my, a Michigan City (Ind.), Rogers High passes for 163 y.rds with no inten:epIions room of the Student Center. Patel, a freshman In pre-medlclne, was School tcam:nate of Jooes, told him about including a S9-yanI touchdown bomb. playing the game T~ morning and u_11y playa the game eight SlUe. SmiIb said Joocs' docision 10 leave the run times a day. During Jooes' senioo' scasoo 1II Rogers be completed 120 of 244 passes for 1,510ymls _JONES,~11 Saluki senior trains hard for spot Chicago pulls 18-hit attack on 1994 Olympic bobsled squad to destroy Pittsburgh 11{-1 By Nann Smyth developed when two sl<eleton sleds Domestic Bobsled Team and the CHICAGo (UP!) - Steve the last nine g~e~ for the SportsWriter were tied together. 1993 National Skeleton Bobsled Buechele hit a d!>Uble, triple PnIes, who now lead the Cubs The skeleton sled measures 3 Team." and solo IIomcr Tuesday, and in the Nalional League East by 'me 1994 Winter Olympics in feet in length and 16 inches wide, Martinez finished 2151 out of 28 Sammy Sosa bad three hits, 4 1-2 games. Lillehammer, Norw~y , seem a long and weighs fl'011170 to 115 pounds competitors. Afte) four beats he including an RBI double, to Otic?.go, which has won siA way away, but for S!lJC senior depcndir;g on the slider's body p<lSted a combined time of 24.52 puwer an 18-hit anack in the of it' last seven games, tota1ed Terry Manincz who is competing weighL The bonom or the sled is • seconds. Chicago Cubs' II-I win over oint, exIra-base bits, including a for a spot on the Olympic Bobsled flat steel pan thai is used 10 present The 28 competitors hurled the FillSburgb Pinres. pa;,' of doubles by Roy Sanchez. lC.iffi. the training alre:Jdy has the slider's nation, sran number theRlSClves face first, inches from Mike Morgan, 9-4, blanl<ed The II nms were a season high. begun. and sponsors. the concrete down the steep pu5h the Pirates on five hits over Buechele, acquired from Martinez. who is from Denver, The slider wears a downhill ski track, which is designed to seven imings, SIriJcing out three Pir.sbwgh July II for pilCher Just ret urned from a training helmet with a chin guard, a rubber simulate the start of an ier; covend and WIIIting one. Morgan DOW Danny JacKson, bit bis first progrnm for the U.S. Bobsled and • .lit and sprinters spikes for the·50 bobsled track. is 8-1 with a 1.34 ERA in 15 homer for \be Cubs with one Skeleton Federation. Martinez meter sprint at the top of the hill. Karian Devlin, public relatiom career starts at Wrigley Field, out in the seventh off reliever compeled al the Lake Placid The slider jumps on the sled head director for "'" U.S. Bobsled and giving up just 16 camcd nms in Steve CooIee, opening an 8-U facility from July 16 10 July 19. fIrSt and rides the track tJying to Skeleton Federation, said Martinez 1m 2-3 imings. lead Skeleton sliding was the world's obtain the fastest time. , I"" rormed well for his first time on Randy Tomlin, 1(}'7, took the Uccbele went 3 for 5, Dying first sli ding sport and was Tbe s led looks like the a sl<eleton 31 Lake Placid. loss, failing in his seventh out to left in the thin! inning, developed in the late ISOOs in SI. childhood sled the "Aexible A yer" The Skeleton Push attempllO win his 11th game of and just missed an infield single Moritz, Switzerland. Skeleton which is made OUI of wood planks Ownpionships is a lWo-part evern. the season. He now has lost his in the eighth, which would have appeared in lhe 1928 and 1948 and attached Ie rwo rails. Each individual is admittistered a Lost four decisions. On Tuesday. completed the cycle. Olympic Games, "This was my first time on a six-item physical before the heats be gave up nine hits over four After Buechele's homer, The spun faded from popularity skeleton and more or less was a are run. The physical consists of a innings until a resurgence started in Europe learning experience," Martinez TIle loss was the seventh in _ CUSS, page 11 in the 1970 s, Bobs leds were said, "My goal is to make the U.S. _ B08..<;LED, ~ 11 ... ,.,. :::·.·, .. .. .... t., .•.•••• Daily Egyptian Southern Illinois University at Carovild ale Wednesday. July 29, 1992, Vol. 77. No. 184. 12 Pages Bush bolsters military power in guH WASH t NGTON (UPI) - near future. Pr('sidenl Bush met Wilh " I think it's pretty predictable congressional leaders and top aides it's probably going to happen. but early Tuesday as he bolstered U.S. Weapon inspectors C0nduct search in Iraq we don't know when." Dole ~d. military power in a>e Persian Gulf United Press International Agency said jubilant residents. Saddam's fight "against the " ' I doesn't hr ve to happen . if and set the stlige for another Thousrndc.