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By Anthony Andro
The Battalion
It should come as no surprise
lat Jeff Granger's favorite pro-
issional athlete is Bo Jackson.
Like the multi-talented Jack-
on, Granger plays both football
ind baseball.
Granger, a freshman from
tangeneld, doubles as a start-
itcher for the Texas A&M
aseball team during the spring
ind a quarterback for the football
tarn in he fall.
They're both difficult," Gran-
jer said. "Physically, I'd say
[aseball is harder because you
lave to do a lot of running.
But, in football you take a lot
punishment when the game
itarts."
He was redshirted last fall, but
may figure into the Aggie quar-
srbacking plans in the future.
Bud this weekend. Granger
and his teammates will open
fteir 1991 Southwest Conference
schedule by hosting the Arkan
sas Razorbacks. The 17th-ranked
Aggies will face the 21 st-ranked
Hogs in a 7 p.m. game Friday at
Olsen Field before closing the se
ries with a 2 p.m. doubleheader.
Arkansas, the defending SWC
champion, comes into the week
end with a
Mentally, Granger has to
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>are himself differently for
"In baseball, the mental pre
paration is real important to a
pitcher because if you don't
think you can
win, you
won't," he
said.
He has
pitched well,
striking out a
team-high 45
batters in 29
innings. The
young left
hander has a
3-1 record
and a 3.41
ERA.
One of
those wins
was a
one-hitter
against Ari
zona last
weekend.
"It's a 1
21-9 overall
record and a
1-2 SWC
mark after
playing Rice
two weeks
ago.A&M is
23-9 after
sweeping a
double-
header from
the Univer
sity of Texas-
Arlington
Tuesday 5-2,
7-5.
Junior
pitcher Ron
nie Allen (4-
1, 2.48 ERA)
is slated to
start tonight
for the Ag
gies. Granger and junior Jason
Hutchins (3-1, 2.61) will take
the mound Saturday.
A&M freshman Jeff Granger was
a two-sport star at Orangefield
High School last year.
ways good to throw a one-hitter
against a team like Arizona," he
said. "I was feeling good and
ig strikes with my de
fense behind me."
Granger said he is happy with
his performance this year.
"I feel I am doing a pretty
good job," Granger said. "But, it
can always be better."
A&M baseball coach Mark
Johnson has pitched the fresh
man in big games against Loui
siana State and Arizona.
"It's always good to be put in
situations like that," Granger
said. "In those games, you really
test your mental qualities be
cause you never know what you
can and can't do."
Because he is always involved
in sports, it is hard for Granger
to concentrate on the books.
"Doing two sports is a lot dif
ferent because you miss a lot of
class and the extra time you have
to study is taken up by the other
sport," Granger said. "It's a lot
harder than I originally expected
but you can do it."
But, Granger is no stranger to
the added pressure of playing
multiple sports.
"Ever since junior high, I
Reserved seats sold out
Although all reserved seat tickets for this weekends' three-
game series against No. 21 Arkansas are sold out, general ad
mission seats are still available.
General admission tickets go on sale at the Olsen Field ticket
booth two hours prior to game time each day. The gates will
open this evening at 5 p.m. and Saturday at noon.
A&M students will be admitted with their valid I.D. if they
have an all-sports option to the general admission student sec
tions in the upper deck on a first-come first-serve basis.
General admission tickets will be sold to the general public
and A&M students without a season ticket option on a first-
come first-served basis. Ticket purchasers must enter the sta
dium immediately to be guaranteed admission.
Ticket prices for adults and students (without all-sports op
tion) $3. Cnildren high school age and under get in for $2.
played five sports," Granger
said.
He played football, baseball,
basketball, ran track and cross
country.
But, Granger said his favorite
sport is baseball.
"I've played baseball since I
was real little," he said. "Striking
someone out or hitting a homer
affects me more than football."
Granger should know a little
about both. He ended his high
school career at Orangefield
High School with a 16-1 pitching
record and a 42-game hitting
streak, and was named All-State
quarterback.
With spring football practice
starting April 1, Granger said
missing it will affect him.
"I'm missing the experience,
but right now I'm in a starting
role with this team," he said. "I'll
be able to catch up this summer
when I come here for summer
school."
In the wake of Jackson's ca
reer-threatening injury. Granger
is not wonying about being hurt
on the football field.
"I try not to think about it," he
said. "If I don't think about it,
hopefully it won't happen."
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Tagliabue promises NFL will avoid politics infuture r defends rules
KOHALA, Hawaii (AP) —NFL com
missioner Paul Tagliabue said Thurs
day that he expects that the league will
be more aware in the future of "politi
cal clouds" in selecting Super Bowl
sites.
"One lesson we've learned is to be
more conservative," Taglilabue said in
news conference wrapping up this
week's league meetings. "If you see a
political cloud on the horizon with a
potential Super Bowl city, maybe you
table the presentation of that city."
It was the closest Tagliabue has come
to saying that the league made a mis
take when it awarded the 1993 game to
Tempe, Ariz., despite Arizona's lack of
a holiday honoring Martin Luther King
Jr-
After Arizona voters turned down a
paid King holiday last November,
owners moved the game to Pasadena.
They also awarded the 1996 game to
Phoenix on a contingency basis.
"I don't think the policy I'm talking
about would have changed what we
did last March toward Phoenix," Tagli
labue said.
On other matters:
— Tagliabue defended the tougher
policy against demonstrations in both
the end zone and sidelines, one that
presumably will end the "Ickey
Shuffle" by Cincinnati's Ickey Woods.
"The coaches all felt that those kinds of
demonstrations aren't professional,"
he said. "What about an offensive line
man who pushes a defender all over
the field, then gives ups a sack in the
59th minute then watches the guy do a
sack dance?"
— Tagliabue there was no progress
on reaching a collective bargaining
agreement with the NFL Players Asso
ciation. He said there are no plans to
end the draft, which according to the
last negoatiated contract, ends after
1992. "I think the draft as constituted is
perfectly legal," he said.
— He said he thought the one-week
hiatus between the championship
games and Super Bowl worked well
this year. There will be a two-week
break before next year's game in Min
neapolis. The league goes back to a
one-week break for the 1993 and 1994
games.
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