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uqust 9,1990 McCullar i T :e ’OSED TO ' TILL FINISHED DRINK, AfA. ■'he Battalion SPORTS 7 Thursday, August 9,1990 Sports Editor Clay Rasmussen 845-2688 okes break training camp om page 1) ustm reaps ancial benefits | AUSTIN (AP) — The noisy neighbors are leaving, but they will be missed. . . j By week’s end, the sounds of foot- wil1 die away at St. Edward’s niversity. And even though some ho live near the school were appre- nsive about having a pro football am on campus, now they can’t wait for the Dallas Cowboys to return |ext summer. ... . ™ The team’s presence has pro- i activities, and c« uce( j an unexpected financial lu II own expel:- ^ indfall {or some who live nearby, iduding a church that made thou- inds of dollars from its parking lot. 1 The Grace Christian Church e attended as a (re barged $2 or $3 per car to park in le church lot, and up to LOG fans ”ach morning have done so. “It was just great to have them cross the street,” said church secre- iry Brenda Smith. “This has been a dream come true nr me,” said David Koch, a Cowboys ree days are I ms and history, •n experience AJ d. ip, A&M faculty) s speak about tO)Bi ex | its, personal goalst j ^g s lley, 1990 associaiti een involved in Ft a small town, andi ;reat way to meetpt it to campus," Wool: many people up so much, 1 dead e a counselor. iOO Fish Camp con 1(30 per session, shrnen’s entranceit pay their own»; on for the avail dtions is intense, ay screeningproca \dviser Zack T. C« )() A&M students)] elor positions, e applicants are.. •iidea Fish Camp want to give sot he program as cot nd said. “Others#): rs because they wt end as freshmen itj ence Fish Camp ate.” -elor Amy Gibbon! t attend campbefo jA&M to host (tennis tourney g a counselor, to Fish Camp,"Gi ow camp would to i entering freshnE chance to help old would have help to Fish Camp.” s such a positivee; i said. “It helpedt A&M. I am exalt A&M’s future gni fan and resident of the area. “I’ll be glad to have them back.” Neighbor Lawrence Lewis echoed Koch’s enthusiasm about the football team’s training camp, held in Austin for the First time this year. “I want them back,” Lewis said. “I had no problems at all.” Some residents said they greeted news that the Cowboys would be practicing at St. Edward’s with trepi dation after hearing thousands of fans also were expected. But the fans were well-behaved, and city and uni versity authorities kept the traffic sit uation well in hand. Things have been calm since prac tice opened July 19. The Cowboys will hold their last practice Thurs day, then leave town to play their first exhibition game. “We were kind of worried at first,” Koch said. “But things just carried on as normal. I just thought it was run very professionally.”. One woman who lives across the street from the practice field said she expected problems as well, but said, “Fans didn’t even block our drive way. I thought that was very cour teous.” Armando Martinez, who is selling football souvenirs at a booth across from the camp, said business has been outstanding. “I wish they’d just stay here,” Martinez said. Not everyone, however, did so well. “I expected more sales than we got,” said Michael Jacks, manager of a sports souvenir shop. “It’s not what you would expect in this situation.” Motel manager Bob Haynes said he had anticipated hanging out a “No Vacancy” sign during the entire training camp, but it didn’t work out that way. “I personally don’t think it has” lived up to expectations, he said. “We really didn’t see anything until last week.” Haynes said the hotel was full all last week, and said this week also has seen a large turnout, possibly fans trying to catch the final days of the team’s stay in Austin. John Lucas, vice president for en rollment and student services at St. Edward’s, said the Cowboys have drawn close to 100,000 people at their practices, and he expects more in 1991. “It was a success that exceeded our expectations — and we had pre tty high expectations,” Lucas said. A\M the G.i .U'M Present and former Texas tennis players will highlight e Gary Stevenson Quality CMC Open tennis tournament that gets underway at 8 a.m, Fri day. Former A&M standout Shaun O’Donovan is the No. 1 seed in the Championship Men’s Division and junior Doug Brown from Deer Park is the No. 3 seed. O’Donovan and Brown will play together in the doubles competi tion and they enter the tourna ment as the No. 1 seeded team. Lady Aggies also enter the tournament with top seeds. Senior Cindy Churchwell from Houston is the No. 1 seed in the Championship Women's Divi sion. Churchwell and Tammi Agassi, a senior from Las Vegas, Nevada, hold the top s6ed in dou bles competition. ACC shuns Gamecocks, SEC interested in merger COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina’s chances of rejoining the Atlan tic Coast Conference appear to be slim, but the school may soon move a step closer to joining the Southeastern Conference, a newspaper reported Wednesday. The Charlotte Observer, citing unnamed sources, reported the Game cocks apparently have little chance to rejoin the ACC. South Carolina with drew from the conference following the 1970-71 season. “I’m afraid they just don’t have the six votes necessary to get back in,” an unidentified athletic official at an ACC school told the newspaper. South Carolina is a member of the Metro Conference for all sports ex cept football. But the school wants to join an all-sports conference and is considering a variety of options, including the SEC, ACC and an expanded Metro Conference that would include 16 schools and football. On Friday, the school’s board of trustees is expected to give its interim president power to accept a possible conference offer. “There has been discussion of a proposal to give the president authority to make the commitment, to respond to an offer to join an all-sports confer ence,” interim president Arthur K. Smith said. “I think it’s a proposal that somebody intends to bring up at the (trust ees) meeting Friday,” he said Tuesday. Smith said South Carolina has not received a formal invitation to join the SEC. “We’re still in the exchange of information stage; they’re sending infor mation to us on league bylaws and revenue sharing and so on,” he said. “We’re very receptive to the SEC; we’re very interested in them. But at this point, we want to keep all of our options open.” Dallas defensive back Bill Bates signs auto- camp. Bates is unsure of his future with the Cow- graphs as the Cowboys pack up their Austin boys, but insists he’ll play in any capacity. Just call him 0J83206J Rose surrenders to federal officials MARION, Ill. (AP) — Pete Rose became a prisoner on Wednesday when he turned himself in to federal officials to begin a five-month sen tence for cheating on his income taxes. Rose, who had until Friday to sur render, arranged beforehand to have a federal van pick him up in this Southern Illinois town and slipped unnoticed into the mini mum-security federal prison camp a few miles away. Baseball’s all-time hits leader, prisoner 01832061, arrived around noon and was accompanied by mem bers of his family, Warden John L. Clark said. He did not specify who those family members included. The former Cincinnati Reds man ager would be fingerprinted, photo graphed and given an orientation before he joined his fellow inmates for dinner, Clark said. “Mr. Rose will have all the rights and obligations as all prisoners and will receive no special privileges,” Clark said. “We will have his term pass as uneventfully as possible for him and the other prisoners.” Clark said the prison would make a special effort to protect its famous inmate, assigning him to a job that would be out of public view and re specting his request for no inter views. Rose’s release is scheduled for Jan. 7, 1991, prison officials said, and Rose said he hoped to be home for Christmas, with time off for good behavior. But assistant warden Randy Davis said Rose must serve three months at a halfway house in Cincinnati after he leaves Marion. The 49-year-old Rose, banned from baseball a year ago for gam bling, was convicted on two counts of filing false income tax returns. He failed to report more than $350,000 in income from gambling, auto graph signing and baseball memora bilia sales. Rose was sentenced July 20 by U.S. District Judge S. Arthur Spiegel in Cincinnati. He underwent knee surgery that same day and delayed reporting to prison so he could re cover. Clark said Rose was not on crutches and that the knee w. “doing well.” He said his prison job, could depend on how long Rose was able to stand and walk. Coach R.C. Sltxii: her’s assessment entering freskit: i, who arrived will take time oi to attend the fits Spurs, Cummings agree Big Eight, SWC continue merger talks on contract extension terms i to meet their fit :arn what being V&M is really i aid. SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Veteran rward Terry Cummings and the Ian Antonio Spurs have agreed to xtend Cummings’ existing contract by four years. Team executives and Cummings announced the agreement Wednes day after weeks of sporadic negotia- ons. At one point Cummings, who has two years remaining on his cur- ent $1.7 million per season con- act, said he was considering leaving tasketball to pursue private business -year-old son,Joi(| Ulterests - den City, Kama! Cummings has said he would like as in 1985. to retire in San Antonio. He said he’s h was questioned it lookin g forward to the upcoming iegan searchingfe €ason and * s g* ad tf* 6 agreement n and around Be ^ as reached. out 70 miles soutl “We g ot a lot taken care of,” Cum- ren horities apparenlltl il the May I t the indictment tey Johnny Acti.it ng investigation. >rera would facee njection. ig at noon. Call ig at 8:30 pm leral meeting at ition. eyball games al or more informa- at 5:30 p.m. al anned pregnancy For information, r at 5:30 p.m. at >r more informa- meet at 6 p.m. al 5-1741. ) at noon. Call ?eecZ McDonald. We publish the so. What’s Up is vissions are run y will run. If you mings said. “I really love this city and the team, and I’m looking forward to winning a championship.” Cummings and the Spurs report edly agreed to a deal averaging $2.3 million over the next five years. There also is an option for a sixth year. Team owner Red McCombs in a news conference Wednesday reiter ated that the Spurs do not renego tiate contracts and that Cummings’ deal is an extension. Cummings, 29, averaged 22.4 points and 8.4 rebounds last season, his first in San Antonio. He came to the Spurs after the 1988-89 season in a trade that sent Alvin Robertson and Greg Anderson to Milwaukee. OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Officials from 12 schools in the Big Eight and Southwest confer ences met Wednesday to talk about issues facing the two leagues and to lay the groundwork for possible future meetings. The closed-door meeting — the first ever be tween the leagues — resulted in nothing con crete, which came as no surprise to the athletic directors and conference commissioners present. “It was a great opportunity just to exchange ideas and I think it was beneficial to all of us,” said Carl James, Big Eight commissioner. “There’s not a sense of urgency,” said Frank Windegger, athletic director at Texas Christian. “It was really what we thought going in —an ex change of dialogue between conferences.” Those in attendance touched on topics rang ing from drug testing to the possibility of a re gional television package in the future. “Two things are the primary focuses on our minds,” said Dan Gibbens of Oklahoma, chair man of the Big Eight faculty representatives. “One is the fact there have been some shifts in other conference alliances and it’s recognized that might present some additional opportuni ties, possibilities and concerns. The other thing is the nature of the television — football television in particular — situation.” He added, however, that the two leagues are not moving toward an alliance or merger at this time. “We’re exploring common grounds,” he said. Oklahoma athletic director Donnie Duncan said the constant talk of schools jumping confer ences or thinking about jumping is “almost ath letic hysteria.” “It’s senseless for rational people to get into that mode, and we’re not in that mode,” he said. Seven of the teams in the Big Eight were rep resented at the d'/a-hour meeting. Five teams from the Southwest Conference were rep resented, although one of those without a rep resentative was Texas. Athletic director DeLoss Dodds was on vacation and attending his daugh ter’s wedding, according to an assistant to Dodd in Austin. Talk in recent weeks has centered on forming a Big Eight-SWC alliance to enlarge each confer ence’s television markets, a move that could mean more revenues. The Big Eight, which has only Denver, St. Louis and Kansas City as major metropolitan areas, has one of the nation’s smallest TV mat kets. By forming an agreement with the South west Conference, the Big Eight could add the large Dallas-Fort Worth and Houston markets. The SWC also is looking to stabilize after los ing Arkansas to the Southeastern Conference. “I think our concern is to make the conference stronger, both internally and from the outside,’ said SWC commissioner Fred Jacoby. SUPERCUTS The Nation’s #1 Hair Styling Salon Now open in Culpepper Plaza! Supercut - $8 • Students & Professors with I.D.-$7 • Children 13 and under-$6 Introductory Offer for Texas A&M Students & Faculty Bennigan’s Texas Ave. Supercuts l Safeway $2.00 off Harvey Rd. A Regular $8.00 Supercut with this coupon Expires Aug. 25,1990 Mon.-Fri. 9-9 Sat. 9-8 Sun. 10-6 CALL 696-1155 1519 S. Texas (Between Bennigans and Cowhop Junction) - Culpepper Plaza fn MERIDIAN You deserve the best... And we’ve got it! 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