Sports
Tuesday, March 9,1993
The Battalion
Page 7
Searching for
a prize lunker
can be futile
F ishing
through
the chan
nels, the cable
box mysterious
ly locks on
Home Sports
Entertainment.
Honey Hole
Magazine is be
ing shown and
the host is
catching fish
like it is going
out of style.
Every time
he casts, a fish
is caught and
reeled in to the
surface. He calmly explains how he
caught the fish and on what bait. A
thought arises that this looks so
easy.
Of course, he wouldn't use an
editing machine to make it look like
he caught a fish with every cast,
would he?
The phone rings, jolting me out of
pondering one of life's eternal ques
tions.
"Son, let's go fishing this week
end," a familiar voice says. "I will
come down Sunday and we can go
out to Gibbons Creek and see what's
flopping."
"Fine," comes the reply. "I was
just thinking how exciting it would
be to catch a bass every time my line
hits the water, just like on Honey
Hole."
The deal is signed, hermetically
sealed and delivered. Plans are
carved in stone to have a good time.
Nothing can derail the memory
train. I will now have some fish sto
ries to tell of my own.
But there is one small problem.
See Plumer/Page 8
MICHAEL
PLUMER
Assistant Sports
Editor
A&M's homestand ends with ISU
DARRIN HILL/The Battalion
A&M's Rob Trimble applies a taq on a baserunner in a game at an 1 1 -game hitting streak, leads the Aggies into their home
Olsen Field earlier this season. Trimble, who is in the midst of series with Illinois State, which starts today at 7 p.m.
'Birds limp into
three-game series
By DAVID WINDER
The Battalion
The winless Illinois State Redbirds
may just be the answer for Texas A&M to I
start another elongated winning streak.
After losing their first game against
the University of Maine on Saturday, the
Aggies quickly rebounded to take the i
next two from the Black Bears last week
end. The 0-6 Redbirds come to Olsen
Field tonight at 7:00, with a double-head
er scheduled for Wednesday at 5 p.m.
Just what the doctor ordered for a team
about to embark on an eight game road
trip.
"I really don't know anything about
Illinois State," A&M coach Mark Johnson
said. "They were going to be passing
through and they wondered if we want
ed some games, so we put them on the
schedule."
Illinois State might want to reconsider
that thought, because the Aggies' offense
See ISU/Page 8
Slocum discusses Texas A&M's winter of discontent at student meeting
By MICHAEL PLUMER
The Battalion
A report in the March 5th edition of
The Houston Post quoted Texas A&M
head football coach as saying running
back Greg Hill will miss "some games to
start the season."
Slocum said Monday night, however,
that he was misquoted.
"That is not right," Slocum said after a
speech to the the 12th Man Student Foun
dation. "All I said was that a few players
would miss a couple of games. I never
specifically named players."
Hill, wide receiver Percy Singleton,
and offensive linemen James Brooks and
Darius Smith were suspended before the
Cotton Bowl because they received mon
ey for work not done on a summer job.
Slocum said that he was not sure when
the NCAA's report on the players will be
released and the questions on their eligi
bility for the 1993 football season are an
swered.
"I have not talked to them (the NCAA)
about when the findings will be re
leased," Slocum said. "That is handled
by our enforcement staff, and they did a
thorough job of investigating the matter
fully, so our part is done. We are now
awaiting the NCAA to handle their end.
"I don't know when that will come
about or what the punishments will be."
If the NCAA does not level any pun
ishments, there will be institutional disci
pline forthcoming, Slocum said.
"We will take some form of action on
those guys, but what it is has not been de
cided yet," he said. "It is still too early to
tell what is going to happen, but right
now those guys are eligible to compete in
spring practice."
The Dallas Morning News originally
broke the story about improper payments
to the four players by Warren Gilbert, an
A&M alumnus. Gilbert owns 30 apart
ment complexes in Dallas, which receive
federal funds from Housing and Urban
Development.
Slocum pointed out that some of the
fac^s of the situation that came under
scrutiny because of the article were misin
terpreted.
"First of all, it seems like the author of
the story has had a vendetta against A&M *
since 1988," Slocum said during his »
speech. "When he first started investigat- -
ing, a secretary told him that a coach had *
told the players to call about jobs. That is '
totally legal.
"Schools around the country handle J
their summer job program the same we '■
do. Coach (and recruiting coordinator) ;•
Tim Cassidy sets the jobs up, and then he '
tells the kids who to call when they get '
home. The problem was the program '
was handled poorly on Gilbert's end.
"It was a lack of judgment on his part." /
See Slocum/Page 8
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