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sent the 14th and 18th picks in this
year’s draft and reserve center Bill
Wennington to the Sacramento
Kings for veteran forward Rodney
McCray.
Dallas also received a second
round pick — the 49th overall —and
a second-round pick in 1991.
The move for McCray came just
five days after Dallas sent the No. 9
pick to the Denver Nuggets for All-
Star guard Fat Lever, an eight-year
veteran.
“If you think we could have got
ten players at the 14th and 18th pick
that could help this team the way
Rodney McCray can, you’re crazy,”
Rick Sund, the Mavericks vice presi
dent of basketball operations, said
Wednesday.
“Picking up Fat Lever and Rod
ney have made us a better team to
day than we were at the end of last
season. That’s all we could ask for,”
he said.
After spending two years in Sacra
mento, which finished last season
with a 23-59 record, McCray said he
was happy to be back on a winning
team.
“This team is a contender,” Mc
Cray said. “Dallas is one of the top
echelon teams in the league. And
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Scott Shippey, a junior environmental design ma- early Wednesday morning. Shippey is a member
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Becker beat Wally Masur 6-7, 6-2,
,6-2 in a second-round match.
Graf, the women’s top seed, raced
ough a 6-3, 6-0 victory over
redith McGrath in 44 minutes, al-
ing the 19-year-old former Stan
ford star only six points in the final
set.
Monica Seles, No. 3, took the cue
from the champs and beat Camille
Benjamin 6-3, 7-5. Zina Garrison,
No. 5, crushed Cecilia Dahlman 6-2,
6-1, and Helena Sukova, No. 10,
won the last three games of her
match against Nicole Jagerman to
win 6-4, 4-6, 7-5.
Jennifer Capriati, No. 12, the
youngest seed in Grand Slam history
and youngest player to reach Wimb
ledon’s third round, beat Julie Ha-
lard of France 6-2, 7-6.
Capriati breezed along until she
served for the match at 5-3 and was
broken.
“I think I lost my concentration,”
she said. “I just didn’t close it out.”
Capriati won the tie-breaker 7-2
and set up a third-round match
against 26-year-old Californian Ro
bin White.
“I didn’t have to make so many
changes (in) my game,” she said.
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looking forward to playing along
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can’t wait to get this thing going.”
The Rockets are looking for fewer
nail-biters and more raised victory
fists in 1990-91.
They showed their interest in
guards by interviewing several pros
pects prior to the draft including
Texas’ Travis Mays and Oregon
State’s Gary Payton.
The Rockets were to start the re
grouping process in Wednesday’s
NBA draft, looking for a guard to
operate an offense whose center of
attraction is Akeem Olajuwon.
The Rockets have the No. 12 se
lection in the first round.
Last season was filled with ups
and downs and improved somewhat
Midwest Moves
DALLAS MAVERICKS: Acquired Dever Nugget guard Fat Lever for
the No.9 pick this year and the Detroit Piston’s 1991 draft pick. The
Mavericks also acquired Rodney McCray from the Sacramento Kings
for their 14th, 18th picks and reserve center Bill Wennington.
SAN ANTONIO SPURS: Standing pat.
HOUSTON ROCKETS: Have the No. 12 selection in the first round.
The Rockets have shown an interest in a guard to compliment center
Akeem Olajuwon, possibly in University of Texas standout Travis Mays
or Oregon State’s Gary Payton.
with the addition of guard Vernon
Maxwell from the San Antonio
Spurs.
The Rockets slipped into the play
offs on the final clay of the season
with a 100-88 victory over Utah cou
pled with a last-second 124-122
Golden State victory over Seattle.
Chaney started the off-season
with a nucleus and Olajuwon, for
wards Otis Thorpe and Buck John
son and guards Maxwell and Sleepy
Floyd.
A&M former players help community
By DOUGLAS PILS
Of The Battalion Staff
Success after a collegiate athlethic
career can be measured in different
ways.
It can be measured in touch
downs, points per game or how
much money an athlete makes.
Or, as in the case cf former A&M
athletes Gerald Carter and Lisa Jor
dan, what an athlete contributes to a
community after its last cheers fade
away.
Carter and Jordan are giving back
to Bryan-College Station by provid
ing positive role models for the chil
dren of Brazos County.
Both are at the Boys’ Club of Bra
zos County, working mainly with un
derprivileged children from the
Bryan area.
Carter, a graduate of Bryan High
School, played football for A&M in
1978-79 as a wide receiver. From
there he went on to play eight years
for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
Carter said getting involved with
the Club was not something he had
planned on doing.
“I wasn’t even looking for a job
when they called me,” he said. “I feel
it was an act of God that put me here
with these kids.”
Carter, who has three children of
his own, said he had done some
work with the Boys’ Club in Florida
while with the Buccaneers and felt it
was his duty to the kids to continue
to help out.
“These days kids need a good role
model to show them the difference
between right and wrong,” Carter
said. “I have to do as I say to make
sure the kids will learn to respect
what I have to say.
“Most of these kids come from
one-parent homes, so basically they
come here to get out the house,” he
said.
“We want to provide an environ
ment where they can come here and
feel good about themselves.”
Carter coordinates the boys activ
ities which include organized foot
ball and basketball teams and a track
team.
After being on the job for a year.
Carter said the most rewarding part
of the job is taking a problem child
and making him sociable.
“It’s neat to see a tough kid come
in here and to watch him change,”
he said. “It’s important to catch
those kind before they fall into the
danger zone.
“You have to let them know that
everyone is not against them and
eventually win them over,” he said.
“If we stay with a kid like that, we
“I
It’s neat to see a tough
kid come in here and to
watch him change.”
— Gerald Carter,
Boy’s Club
will eventually make him a friendly
person.”
Young boys are not the only ones
running around the complex at 900
West W.J. Bryan Pkwy. anymore.
Young girls are now part of the pro
gram at the center and Jordan was
chosen to be in charge of the new
program.
Jordan, who came to A&M from
Talmage, Calif., played basketball
for the Lady Aggies from 1985-89
and graduated in May with a degree
in secondary education.
With her degree, Jordan said she
was looking forward to getting into
coaching, but A&M Lady Aggie
head coach Lynn Hickey told her of
the opening at the Club and she’s
been there sin^e.
“Overall I’r.i enjoying the experi-
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ence,” Jordan said. “Some days are
good, but some days get kind of hec
tic. The best thing is getting to know
all the kids and watching them make
progress in their learning.”
Jordan said the program is flexi
ble around what the girls want to do.
They can play volleyball, softball,
swim or just about anything. This
week, two members of the Lady Ag
gie basketball team came to the club
to show the girls some tips.
Eventually Jordan wants to coach
on a junior high, high school or col
lege level, but believes that in teach
ing the children, she is also learning.
“Doing this is building a good
foundation for what I want to do lat
er,” Jordan said. “If I can create
some spark of interest in anything
that makes them feel good, then I’m
doing a good job.”
Jordan’s best advice to kids?
“I tell them never give up and al
ways work hard,” she said. “If you
don’t succeed at something the first
time keep trying.”
The new program is coming along
great, Jordan said.
“The guys at first had a ‘this is my
turf attitude but now everyone
seems to be getting along quite well,”
she said. “With the renovations we’re
making things are going pretty
good.”
The Club is getting a new com
puter lab that will have about ten
work stations. Its library and the
gym are getting facelifts as well.
Carter said, “Everything is being
done to accommadate the kids.
We’re all here to make sure these
kids stay off the streets and out of
trouble.
“We’re also here to make sure
they have fun and that’s kind of fun
for us too.”
Neither Carter nor Jordan are
doing their job for the money. They
are doing their job so that others
may succeed in life the way they
have.
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