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■ Another semester has come and
gone.
■ The lexas A&M sports teams
made us laugh, smile and cry,
■hanks for the memories and good
lUck in all your endeavors. Here’s
the Last Annual Battalion Sports
Awards for the spring of’85.
■ America’s Team Award — For
outstanding team play. This one was
easy. Since only one A&M team won
the Southwest Conference
championship, the prize is theirs.
Kitty Holley’s Aggie women's golf
team destroyed the other SWC foes
en route to its first league title.
Bubble Yum Bubble Gum Award
B- For that winning tradition that’s
lasted a long, long time. Bob Brock’s
No. 2 ranked Aggie softball team is
going for its third NCAA title in
Imr years. Winning is a way of life
in Brock’s camp. These Ags always
make A&M look good, in and out of
uniform.
H Captain America Award — For
outstanding individual play. To ten
nis A&M ace Grant Connell, who
went undefeated in regular season
SWC play. Connell will leave A&M
to play in the Canadian amateur cir
cuit. See you at Wimbeldon, Grant.
Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur Lead
ership Award — For Coach of the
Year. To Aggie women’s basketball
Coach, Lynn Hickey, who took over a
disaster team anti led them to a win
ning record in her first year. T hen,
she went out and had one of A&M’s
best recruiting years, ever.
C MX Missile Nosedive Award —
For the biggest disappointment.
Mark Johnson’s Aggie baseball team
was expected to challenge for the
■VC championship and instead will
be sitting home watching the league
tournament next week. We’ll get’em
next year guys.
g Twelfth Man Award — For the
use of the Twejf th man (almost had
to have one of these). The women’s
soccer team was forced to make use
of this Aggie tradition when injuries
and AWOL’s hit the team.
Houdini Award — For the best
disappearing act. Aggie basketballer
Kenny Brown disappeared after the
SWC’ tournament loss to Texas
Tech. The Ags lost to New Mexico in
the NIT tourney without Brown.
We’re In The Money Award —
For those players getting rich on ath
letics. The five Aggies drafted in the
recent NFL draft and the two play
ers who signed as free agents will be
seeing green if they make a NFL
squad. You got any extra?
Avon Lady Award — For the
“makeup” call of the year. Terry
Condon’s Aggie volleyball team was
wronged last year vyhen they didn’t
make the NCAA tourney although
they were ranked 15th in the nation
anti had a 33-4 record. In the open
season, the Ags lost to Texas but
were awarded a bid to the USVBA
national tourney. The Ags leave for
New York Sunday.
Earth Shattering Award — For
the “unbreakable” athlete. To tra-
ckster Ethan Glass who consistently
high jumped his way to wins. Glass
could always be counted on not to
bend under pressure but to “break”
records.
Mr. Goodwrench Award — For
reliability. First baseman Fred Ge-
gan could always be counted on to
come up with a hit when the Aggies
needed it most.
Gold Fish Award — For out
standing play by freshmen. To base-
baller Scott Livingstone and softbal-
ler Liz Mizera. Livingstone and
Mizera broke all kinds of records on
their way to outstanding years. Hey
guys, you’re sophomores now.
Reality Award — For the out
standing seniors who will now face
the real world.'Golfer Patricia Gon
zales, who won the SWC
championship. Baseballer Rob
Swain, who will more than likely go
pro after just two years of outstand
ing play at A&M. Distance runner
Arturo Barrios, who ran his way to
NCAA qualifying times. The five
A&M women swimmers who made
All-American. To pitcher Yvette Lo
pez, who overcame injuries last sea
son to win games this season.
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turned down a contract to play for the Chi
cago White Sox in 1984, will probably ac
cept a professional offer in July.
House bill
sets agent
guidelines
Committee sends bill
to House for passage
Associated Press
AUSTIN — A House committee
has approved a bill that would pro
vide a civil penalty of up to $10,000
for sports agents who do not follow
guidelines set up by NCAA-affil
iated Texas college coaches for con
tacts with athletes.
The bill also would require sports
agents dealing with Texas athletes to
register annually with the secretary
of state’s office and post a $100,000
surety bond. Filing of contracts, fee
schedules and client lists with the
state also would be required.
The version of the agent bill ap
proved by the House Business and
Commerce Committee last week al
lows coaches to limit to 10 days the
period in which registered agents
can contact senior athletes from
NCAA institutions who haven’t yet
played their last intercollegiate con
test.
Berlanga said he and lobbyist
Rusty Kelley, former University of
Texas and current Detroit Lion
tackle Doug English and Messer for
mulated the bill.
Regulating when agents can con
tact athletes was inspired by UT
football coach Fred Akers, who told
the committee at a hearing in early
April of agents who “wined and
dined” several of his players three
days before the Oklahoma-Texas
game.
The bill would also require that all
travel and entertainment expendi
tures incurred by an agent in re
cruiting a client be reported an
nually to the secretary of state’s
office.
Unlike California agent legislation
— the only current such law — the
$10,000 civil penalty would go to the
state, not the athlete involved.
Otherwise, athletes could file false
charges or try to lure agents into
making illegal contacts in order to
collect the money, Berlanga said.
The bill would make it illegal to
offer to an athlete anything of value
beyond reasonable entertainment
and transportation expenses to and
from the agent’s office.