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FOOTBALL
Cowboys release
running back Warren
IRVING —Chris Warren’s
surly days with the Dallas
Cowboys are over.
Warren was released
Wednesday, three days after
being benched early in a 27-7
loss to Tampa Bay.
..Warren was pulled after drop-
ping the first two passes thrown
to him, the second of which was
snagged by comerback Brian
Krilly and returned for a touch-
down. Warretj then exchanged
words with joaches and spent the
redt of the game sulking on the
bench.
'The Cowboys decided they
could no longer tolerate his lack-
adaisical effort and reticent reac-
tion, both of which have hap-
pened before during his three
seasons in Dallas. .~
“We don’t ever make a deci-
sion based on a tumble, an inter-
ception or any of those things,”
cjoach Dave Campo said. “I think
the big picture is that we need to
l|ead forward with guys I can
count on from week to week.”
At 4-9, the Cowboys had noth-
ing to gain by playing an 11-year
veteran whose contract expires
after this season. Instead, his play-
ing time the final three weeks
wall go to rookie Michael Wiley.
■ . — The Associated Press
Area Calendar
:'i ' Today
* X Basketball
Sterling boys at Outback Tourney,
TBA
Sterling girls at Clear Creek
idkney, TBA.
Pasadena Tourney:
> Hi|l girls vs. Houston Lamar
hillips Field House, 4 p.m.
i girls vs. New Caney at Phillips
$$d House, 5:30 p.m.
BJA girls at Houston St. Pius,
6?B0p.m.
B$A boys at Greater Houston
Ornament, TBA.
Cfeby boys at Stafford
■pjrnament, TBA.
Bgrbers Hill boys at Gatesville
Tournament, TBA.
Cfiyton, Anahuac boys at
Qtpngefield Tournament, TBA.
■ *«♦ '.
On Television
•Z College basketball
isjnsas at Wake Forest, 6 p.m:,
ESPN.
£ Golf
Sfenior Match Play, noon, ESPN.*
SVGC EMC World Cup, 2 p.m., USA.
} Hockey
Minnesota at Chicago, 7 p.m., ESPN2.
Dallas at Los Angeles, 8:30 p.m.,
F8N.
Z Pro basketball
Npw York at San Antonio, 7 p.m.,
TNT-
‘ Rodeo
NationalTinais, 11 p.m., ESPN2.*
f s ‘—taped event
Area lifter ninth atAmerican Open Weightlifting Competition
By G. MICHAEL GRAHAM
Staff writer
BAYTOWN—Team Houston
weightlifter Matthew Jay, a
senior at Barbers Hill High
School, recently finished ninth at
the American Open
Weightlifting Competition in
Buffalo, N.Y.
“For a 17-year-old that was the
youngest in the competition by
three years, that’s quite an
accomplishment,” Team
Houston weightlifting coach Tim
Swords said of Jay who compet-
ed in the 85-kilogram (187
pound) class.
Baytown.
boxer set
for fight in
Houston
By G. MICHAEL GRAHAM
Staff writer
BAYTOWN — Baytown’s
Calvin Green will be back in
action Friday as part of a boxing
card that begins at 7:30 p.m.
He will battle Mauricio
Rodriguez (10-9, six knockouts)
at the Houston International
Ballroom, 14035 South Main
Street in Houston.
Green (13-0-1) hopes a victo-
ry will lead to a nationally tele-
vised fight Jan. 5 on ESPN2,
“It’s a tune-up fight but things
can go wrong in a tune-up fight
so we’re training just as hard for
this one as we are any other
fight,” said James Green, the
father and head trainer of Calvin
Green. “We haven’t been on tele-
vision in a long time, so we’re
looking forward to the opportu-
nity”
Calvin Green had been in a
six-fight contract with Don
Turner Inc. — the trainer of for-
mer heavyweight champion
Evander Holyfield—but decid-
ed to cancel it because fights
were continuously canceled.
“We spent a week in Hawaii,
and the opponent backed out so
we had no fight,” James Green
said. We’d fight every month if
we could but We can’t find peo-
ple who will fight Calvin.”
Calvin Green hopes the Jan. 5
fight will earn him a new con-
tract.
“To (get a new contract), I’d
better look good,” Calvin Green
said. “I also need to be in my best
shape, and I’m going to be in my
best shape.”
James Green said a December
fight will'teep his son in top
condition during the holiday sea-
See GREEN on Page 2B
“He’s completely dedicated to
the sport. He has a lot of oppor-
tunities ahead of him if he con-
tinues to work hard, which he
will do. He has that type of atti-
tude,” Swords said.
Jay lifted 252.5 kilos (555.5
pounds) in the combed clean-
and-jerk and snatch lifts. In the
clean-and-jerk, lifters pull the
weight to their chest and and then
it over their head. In the snatch,
the weight is lifted over the head
in one motion.
“I did exactly what I wanted to
do,” Jay said. “I wanted to lift
252.5 to get on the (weightlift-
ing) Super Squad and I got that.”
Oscar Chaplin III lifted 352.5
kilograms (775,5 pounds) to win
the competition. Jay said Chaplin
recently went to the Syndney
2000 Summer Olympics.
Prior to the competition, Jay
won silver medals at the Junior
Olympics in 1998 and 1999 in
addition to taking fourth in 2000.
He also finished third at the
junior nationals in 1999 and fifth
there in 2000.
To focus on weightlifting, Jay
decided not to go out for football
this year where he would have
been a starting defensive line-
man. He said he has no regrets
about his decision not to play on
the district-champion Barbers
Hill football team.
“(My teammates) didn’t
understand I had a chance for a
weightlifting scholarship and
none for football,” the 5-foot-9
Jay said. “I couldn’t take a
chance of getting hurt. But dur-
ing the playoffs, I missed (foot-
ball).”
Jay was the only Team
Houston member to attend the
Buffalo competition. .He trains
nearly 3 1/2 hours a day, five
See JAY on Page 2B
Matthey Jay lifts 147.5 kg at the
American Open on Dec. 2
Rangers shooting lights out
By JASON BARFIELD
Sports coordinator
BAYTOWN —The Sterling
Rangers finished the fall golf
season strong, earning third in
one tournament. Two golfers
won tournaments during the
season.
Sterling junior Chad
Dempsay won his first tourna-
ment at the Conroe Oakridge
Invitational on Nov. 27, carding
a 76 over the 18 holes to lead
the team to a third-place finish.
“It felt great,” Dempsay
said. “It was a varsity tourna-
ment, and I didn’t know if a
76 would win. After I fin-
ished the first nine holes, I
had a 37, and I was just hop-
ing I could'shoot good on the
back nine.”
Teammate Craig King fin-
ished only three strokes back
witR a 79. Dustin Moyer shot
an 84 and Brandon Boaz fin-
ished with an 86.
The Sterling freshman golfers
finished fourth place at the Texas
City Invitational in a freshmen-
Onfy tournament. Once again,
the Rangers had a golfer card his
first career victory.
Derek Jones shot a 77 for a
share of the title. However, he
lost the .playoff hole.
“I was pretty nervous on the
playoff,” Jones said. “I had a
feeling that I had a shot at the
top score. People on the course
were telling me my score
might win since it was a fresh-
man tournament, After the first
five holes I was feeling good,
and then I parred seven in a
row after that.”
Dustin Schubert shot an 86,
Jared Wilson a 103 and Tre
Windemiller a 110 for the
freshman team.
The Rangers junior varsity
team also has had an impres-
sive showing this fall. The
Rangers finished third out of
24 teams at the Brazoswood
JV Invitational held at Freeport
Golf Course.
Matt Brackett led the.
Ftooto by Alison Ashworth
Chad Dempsay practices putting while Derek Jones watches. Both Dempsay and Jones won tourna-
ments this fall for the Rangers'golf team.
Rangers with a 79, only two
strokes behind the medalist.
The Rangers also got per-
sonal best scores from John
Holtz with an 81 and Byron
Davis with an 83.
Tuesday, the JV team partic-
ipated in the Channel view
Invitational, The Sterling
golfers finished eighth out of
20 teams. Jesse Manley led the
team with a 76 for seventh
place. Rob Calloway shot an
81, Ryan Conley, Brackett and
Davis shot 87, 88 and 89,
respectively.
“This was a very tough tour-
nament for us,” said Sterling
Coach Leighton Littlefield.
The Rangers will get back
into action when school
resumes in January after the
Christmas break. '
Contact Jason Barfield by
e-mail at jason.barfield@bay
townsun.com or by phone at
(281)425-8025.
Selection as Shriner all-star coach one more salute to Lee’s Dick Olin
I Don’t blame Lee’s Dick Olin
if he whistles “Hooray for
Hollywood” while he works. Or
maybe “California Here I
Gome.”
It’s all perfectly logical, since
the Gander commander has just
bqpn named head coach of the
T&as entry in the prestigious
Cdlifomia-Texas High School
All-Star Shrine Classic, to be
pJayed in California come the
$upimerof‘01.
; The man in chaige of Lee’s
Strategic Air Command
feplaces Randy Rogers, the for-
mer University of Texas assis-
tant, now a college recruiting
guru.
“It’s great,” said Olin, who
served as offensive coordinator
of the contest last summer. “I
didn’t know if I would be
selected, but Randy talked to all
of the assistants (from the 2000
game) and I was the one who
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showed the most interest.”
With Rogers’ backing and the
approval of the Shriners, Olin
got the job.
The game benefits Shriners
Hospitals—and therefore thou-
sands of children — throughout
North America.
“I told Randy right after the
(2000) game I wanted to come
back,” Olin recalls, “because
now I understand how it works
and I know what we have to do
to win”
And speaking of winning,
well, Texas hasn’t. Politely put,
it stands ought-for-six.
Since 1995, when Shriner
officials changed the game
from a California North-South
battle to a “Cal-Tex” confronta-
■ tion, the Texans have come
close, but we’re not talking
horseshoes here.
In 1999, the good Texas boys
lost, 28-25, on the last play of
the game, via a Hail Mary pass.
Then this past summer, they
went down by a 27-26 count on
a miraculous 53-yard field goal
with just three second left.
Yikes.
Olin hopes to reverse the ugly
trend using the same magic
potion he has sprinkled’ on
Gander teams over the past nine
years. Here you may pencil in
six playoff trips since his arrival
in 1992.
“Yeah,” Olin says of winning
the all-star bout, “we definitely
want to do that.”
Because he was just named to
lead the Texans, he has not
selected his “weapons of
choice” — (he players who will
represent the state. But you can
bet it will include the best
throwers and catchers he can
find (you may have noticed he
likes to toss die ball).
What he has done is name a
staff that he believes will give
his all-stars a better-than-even
chance to win. We firmly
believe that is the name of the
game.
/From Lee, Olin has tabbed
offensive line coach Clint Riley,
who will be joined on the go-go
side of the ball by Steve Van
Meter, Friendswood’s highly
successful coach.
Defensively, he will turn over
all stop-’em efforts to Katy
defensive
coordinator Gary Joseph.
Another Joseph, Fort Bend
Hightower’s Scott, will join
brother Gary on that side of the
ball.
The site of the game has not
yet been set, but Olin knows the
kids will sleep-over at the
University of Southern
California, and that trips to a
famous California beach and
Universal Studios are probably
on the agenda.
He knows for sure the all-stars
will visit a Shrine Hospital and
spread cheer among its patients.
“When you go through that,”
Olin says, “you really appreciate
your situation.”
He has become a major fan of
the Shriner organization and is
impressed with the excellent job
it does.
“They work with the person
and they Work with the family,”
he praised. “It’s a remarkable „
thing to see the things they can
do today.”
The coach sees another posi-
tive side.
“It makes you thankful for
what you have, but it also,!
mean, it gives you so much
hope, because they are contin-
ually doing (important)
things,” he explained. “(Like)
helping people live normal
lives, and bum victims — you
know, regenerating skin, I
mean, they just do so many
positive things.
“You come away with a great
feeling. You don’t come away
with pity or anything like that.
“You come away with a
tremendous feeling knowing
that these people are doing such
great things for people. I mean,
it’s just unreal.”
With the patients in such
superb hands, Olin will seek
Texas progress on the field.
No “California Dreamin”
there.
Jim Finley's column appears
Monday’ and Thursday. His e-mail
address is jfinleyl4@aol.com.
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