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WHEN * Wednesdays, Beginning February 7, 1990 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm WHERE * The Sandstone Room at The Sandstone Center 4201 Texas Ave. South, College Station For additional information, please call (409) 690-3030 A Community Service Provided By: THE ANDSTONE CENTER 4201 Texas Avenue South, College Station It's Bigger, It's Better, It's Back The Giant Hamburger under a buck now f* OLD FASHIONED ^ L HAMBPROERS.J the best hamburgers and a whole lot more Bryan (Across from Wal-Mart) College Station ( On S. W. Pkwy) Page 8 Friday, February 2, GOT ' ;£ FIS tYING b l IY HO SWC baseball season begins DALLAS (AP) — Although Texas battled Wichita State for the 1989 NCAA baseball championship less than seven months ago, Southwest Conference teams swing back into 1990 baseball activity on Friday to begin the 76th season of league com petition. Texas Tech and Rice get off first. The Red Raiders host New Mex ico of the Western Athletic Confer ence at 2 p.m. Friday while Rice trav els to Tempe, Ariz., to tangle with Arizona State in a 5:30 p.m. CST en counter. SWC round-robin play doesn’t be gin until March 16, the contests prior to conference play have a strong bearing on possible NCAA at- large invitations and national pres- tige. Arkansas is the last SWC team to open its baseball schedule. The Ra- zorbacks open two weeks from Fri day. Arkansas, which tied Texas A&M for the SWC baseball title last year, have a solid pitching nucleus return ing from last year’s 51-16 unit, which tied for fifth in the NCAA World Se- Pre-season ratings in a couple of publications — “Collegiate Baseball” and “Baseball America” exude confi dence that SWC teams can play up to the potential demonstratea by a na tion’s best record of 244-61 (.800 winning percentage) against all out side opposition last season. One publication rates Texas sec ond, Arkansas ninth and Texas A&M 15th nationally while the other selects Texas second, Arkansas 13th and the Aggies 24th in its initial 1990 survey. Besides some outstanding non conference opponents in single games, SWC teams are involved in multi-team tournaments such as the fexas A&M Aggie Invitational (Iowa State, Washington State, St. John’s, N.Y.) on Nar. 10-13, the Best of the West tournament at Fresno, Calif. (Arkansas, Maine, San Diego State, Fresno State, Kentucky, George Washington, and Gonzaga), on Mar. 12-17, the Florida Citrus Bowl Classic (Houston, Central Flor ida, Long Beach State, and Illinois) at Orlando, Fla., on Feb. 16-19, the Shreveport (La.) Dixie Classic (TCU, Auburn, Oklahoma State, Sam Houston State, and Illinois State) on Mar. 16-18, and the Louisiana Clas sic in Lafayette (Texas Tech, South western Louisiana and UT-Arling- ton) on Mar. 9-11. But possibly the season’s most sig nificant pre-NCAA tourney occurs on May 17-19 in Austin as Texas hosts the SWC tournament to deter mine the post-season qualifier. Thornton (Continued from page 6) going. That’ll help getting us back to where we’re supposed to be and where we want to be. The other thing is being more visible, I think — just going out and promoting our selves. class, junior class, then mixed in with as many quality junior college play ers as you need them. You’re the first head basketball coach A&M has known in 27 years. What would you tell the students who don’t know you? at a time. I know that’s a coach’s cliche and every coach uses it, but why not? We’ve got eight games left, let’s just play them and have fun with it. Would you support the building of a new facility to replace G. Rollie White Coliseum? “Either way, I have mixed emo tions. It really wouldn’t matter to me one way or the other. If they want to renovate G. Rollie, that’s fine. It’s been a great home court advantage in the past, but it’s the people —not the gym. We’ve got to get people in there and enjoying it again.” Coach Metcalf used to rely heav ily on junior college transfers. What would your recruiting philos ophy be? “I’d want to build it from the very beginning — mix it with predomi nantly freshman players, redshirt the ones you want to mature and ju nior college athletes who are ready to play. I believe in junior college players, but I also believe in the program that’s based on the continuation of a good freshman class, sophomore “The message I want to convey to them is I want them to enjoy basket ball the way it is. I want them to come and see the games, and make basketball more of their college ex perience because it’s fun. And there are some people who just can’t stand basketball, and that’s fine. But there’s a lot of people who are borderline, so why not go to a game? Get involved in it, have fun. I hat’s what we’re going to try and sell. That’s what athletics needs to be At the end of the year when we get to the SWC Tournament, let’s just see what happens. They have confidence. They know that on a given night, they can play real good.” Pokes, Vikes finalize picks| in Walker d< IRVING, Texas (AP) -Tk Dallas Cowboys and the Minne sota Vikings wrapped up (ht Herschel Walker trade on Thun day with a deal that gives theV kings three draft, picks and allow the Cowboys to keep three vetet ans who played for them during the 1989 season. Cornerback Issiac Holt, and linebackers Jesse Solomon and David Howard will remain Cow boys, and the Vikings will gel third-round picks in 1990 and 1991 and a 1 Oth-round pick in 1990. ( 0 I he Cowboys originally re-Jpe T peived eight draf they traded their picks star running feme a back to the Vikings in the middle of the season. The Vikings had until 5 p.m Thursday to accept a deal witk Dallas or the Cowboys would have put the three players on the plan B unprotected list. Cowboys coach Jimmy John son, who is in Indianapolis eval uating the talent in a combine, said, “Naturally we are happyto he able to keep the three played Bops t because we feel they can be gre; contributors this season.” The NFL will release the listol unprotected players on Friday UK' It mill ary tr |rfew 'shes i Repn lerbaij ks Fri R iga ' ofllatvi; spe pie’s khail immu t G Id the titled t A&M hosts UI< Your next two games are against opponents you’ve already beaten on the road. Are you hoping that the team can sweep those two, then catch some luck and get hot for the SWC Tournament? in key Friday Sight be swimming meet aid tens |r, me )ealing i anyway. At 4-4, A&M is in the middle of the pack in the conference race. The second half of the SWC sched ule starts Saturday. What’s your outlook for the rest of the season? “We’d love it. We’d love to. But we can’t overlook the teams we beat on the road. Baylor is streaking right now as well. Nobody is head and shoulders above anybody else right now. We’re all there together. “Right now, we’re .500 at the mid point, but we still have our best bas ketball ahead of us. I can’t predict how many games we’re going to win, but I think we’re capable of beating anybody on a given night. We’re just going to play one game They’re crucial games for us, but at the same time I don’t want people to think they’re live-and-die for us because they’re not. Let’s just play and see what hap pens. We both have something rid ing on the games. We want to im prove, they want to improve. They’ll be battles.” Before You Lose Another Hair Come hear the lecture on hair loss Terry Jones, M.D., Dermatologist February 6,1990 7:00 PM Joe H. Reynolds Medical Building, Room 162 * Free Treatment For 30 Students * or call 1-800-626-1000 Upjohn Co. © Jiptest t Texas A&M hates to lose toTesBAt nig in any sport. That includes swffft' tru< ming. 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