Sports
Tuesday, February 1,1994
The Battalion
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Basketball
at A&M:
fantastic
H o w
'bout
them
Cowboys!
No, wait.
How
'bout them
Aggies!
Yeah,
that's better.
You thought
I was going
to write
about those
f o o t b a 1 1
players,
didn't you?
Ha, ha.
No, not me.
Mark
Smith
Asst, sports
editor
I was so sick of the Cow
boys and Bills by Sunday, I
could barely watch the game.
Instead, I'm going to write
about some of the part-time in
habitants of G. Rollie White
Coliseum.
You know, the ones who are
leading the Southwest Confer
ence with an 11-5 record. It's
not the women, either, even
though they are dominating
the conference, too.
No, I'm talking about the
A&M men's basketball team.
A&M finished sixth in the
SWC last year, and, when they
were picked to finish second in
the conference this year behind
the University of Texas, I ad
mittedly raised an eyebrow.
"Well, maybe they'll finish
third or fourth," I thought.
"But, not second."
Head coach Tony Barone
and his crew have definitely
given me something else to
think about.
With tenacious play and an
unselfish attitude, the Aggies
have already matched last sea
son's Conference win total at
five, and surpassed the overall
1992-93 win total of 10.
One difference this season
has with last season is the
comeback wins A&M is com-
piling.
The Aggies' comeback hero
ics have delighted fans, espe-
See Aggies/ Page 9
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Hard-working forward
basis of Aggie success
By Jose de Jesus Ortiz
The Battalion
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Manj Macmanus/ The Battalion
Tony McGinnis drives during the Siena game.
Point guard David Edwards
and forward Joe Wilbert may get
the publicity for Texas A&M's
basketball team, but both said
guard Tony McGinnis is a key
reason the Aggies (11-5, 5-0) are
atop the Southwest Conference.
McGinnis said he does not
mind not getting publicity as
long as the Aggies realize he will
do whatever it takes for A&M to
be successful.
After all, his mother Ellen
McGinnis, who raised him after
being divorced with his father
Leon, is the main reason he plays
basketball.
"She sacrificed many things
for us," Tony McGinnis said.
"There have been times when I
have gotten down and felt like
quitting, but knowing what my
mother has done for me has kept
me going.
"If she had to get an extra job
to supply us with what we want
ed, she did it. My work ethic is
mirrored after her. She is such a
hard worker."
Tony McGinnis averages
about 33 minutes and 10 points a
game, but Wilbert said the Ag
gies depend on him for hard
work that does not necessarily
show up as statistics.
"Tony is the centerpiece of
our defense," Wilbert said. "He
usually covers the other team's
best offensive player.
"When Tony speaks every
body on our team listens."
Tony McGinnis said he wants
to be heard, but added that the
most important message he gives
is the one sent off the court to his
three younger siblings and the
children that look up to him back
home in Alabama.
"I want them to see that I can
succeed," he said. "Back home, I
used to visit the Boys Club and
was like a role model to those
kids. I felt like if I quit, what
will save the kids trying to make
it in the community?
"So 1 just keep working hard.
It is not really for myself, it is for
the people that look up to me."
He said he tries to call back
home to Alabama to keep in
touch with his brothers, Cedric,
Frederick and Reginald. Cedric
See McGinnis/ Page 9
Track team
trips during
Sooner meet
By Stewart Doreen
The Battalion
Groff: Aggie-Longhorn traditions
would be lost in Thanksgiving change
By Nick Georgandis
The Battalion
Tradition will be the victim if the South
west Conference reschedules the annual
Thanksgiving Day football game between
Texas A&M and the University of Texas in
1994, A&M athletic director Wally Groff said
Monday.
The SWC, in association with UT, has spec
ulated on switching games around so that the
UT-Baylor match-up would fall on Thanksgiv
ing day.
Groff said he thinks that while the new
line-up would be good for the conference
overall, it would hurt the long history of the
Aggie-Longhorn duel.
"I think the conference has taken this initia
tive to try to maximize funds and television
exposure for the conference schools," Groff
said. "I don't disagree with what they're try
ing to do.
"I just don't like them stepping in on tradi
tion."
The UT-Baylor game would be placed on
Thanksgiving so that UT and the conference
Would not be penalized for A&M's probation
clause that states the football fcam Cannot ap
pear on television next season. i
The game is scheduled to be played on
Nov. 24 at Memorial Stadium in Austin, but,
as Groff explained, the schedule has not been
finalized yet.
"The future schedules have already been
laid out, but we have to renegotiate every two
years," Groff said. "Last year was the second
year of the two-year contract, so in the next
few months all the teams in the conference
have to renegotiate their schedules."
Since 1935, the UT game has been the last
game o f the Aggies' season every year except
for 1988 when the Aggies played the "Hurri
cane Bowl" against Alabama the week after
Thanksgiving.
1 ■ Groff also expressed concerns for the future
of the student-related events that surround
the Thanksgiving game.
"There are so many things, such as Bonfire,
that are associated with the Texas game,"
Groff said. "Seeing as how Bonfire prepara
tion takes several months, it would not be fair
to move the game to mid-October or even ear
ly November."
The Texas A&M men'sa:
women's track and field teai
found things a little tougher!
weekend when they traveled
Oklahoma for the Sooner
Relays.
A&M competed with 18 tea:
that included top teams from
Southwest Conference and the
Eight Conference.
A&M coach Abe Browns:
the meet brought togetherma
quality teams.
"This meet showed ale
strength and character/' Bn
said. "What used to be a wann-j
has now be come a meetiv
quality."
Brown added that A&M's
suits showed improvements:-
the team could be used ask
ing blocks for the season.
• For the second straightw«
Anjanette Kirkland ran an
from the field in the women's:
meter hurdles. Her first-pl;
time of 7.89 qualified provisior,
ly for the NCAA indoor meet
"I hit my goal by goingm
7.9," Kirkland said. "Butns
want to automatically qualih:
the NCAAs."
•Kendrick Smith took sect
place in the men's triplejai
with a mark of 49-10 1/2. Se
also placed third in the longp
at 23-4 3/4.
"This week I was pretty co;.:
tent," Smith said. "I feel with;
good jump I could go much::
ther."
• Curt Young and LarryWi
made the finals of the 55-ik:
hurdles.
•Lydia Herrera earned as:
in the finals of the women'ss:
put with a season high toss oh
1/2.
• Mark Mullins cleared
in the pole vault for the sot
straight weejk.
A&M coach Ted Nelson sa
he is optimistic about the Agg
track season.
"We had some people whoc
well," Nelson said. "We had sc:
things that, because of the qua!
of the meet, didn't show up."
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