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SPORTS
Spelling: Is it
a new sport
or a pastime?
CONSTANCE
PARTEN
Sportswriter
S pelling is not a sport. Well,
maybe it is. After all, fishing
is a sport.
And watching an 11-year-old girl
spell mellifluence is much more en
tertaining than watching a 40-year-
old, beer-bellied guy talk about
teasing innocent fish with a piece of
smelly, dead stuff on a string.
For some viewers, spelling could
be a refreshing diversion from a lot
of the sports programming avail
able today.
The issue of spelling as a sport
arose recently when ESPN tele
vised the National Spelling Cham
pionship.
There could only be three possi
ble reasons for ESPN’s exciting cov
erage of this event;
• Desperation for any event to
take up air space during this sum
mer’s lull in sports activities
(maybe the Batt will sponsor a
spelling bee),
• ESPN is expanding its format
to include more than just tradition
al sports interests.
• Or spelling really is a sport.
Webster’s Dictionary defines a
sport as “an active pastime; diver
sion; recreation.” For many
spelling buffs it could be just this.
Imagine the thrill of being in the fi
nal round. You and one other com
petitor Eire left.
Your opponent has just mis
spelled Battalion. You approach
the microphone confidently and
your word resounds through the au
ditorium; supercalafragil istieexpi -
alidocious.
You’re pumped! You’ve been
over and over this word, but you
feign confusion; a little stammer
just to throw your opponent off.
“C-c-could you give me the root,
please?”
“Supercal afragy. ”
“Could you give me the defini
tion?”
“To kill Mary Poppins expedi
tiously.”
Then, slowly, you begin to spell
the word, knowing your victory is
clinched.
Beats the heck outta
“Shooooweee! That there’s the
biggest durn bluetailed, bug-eyed
catfish I ever seen,” doesn’t it?
That raises another point. How
did these fishing guys get on televi
sion anyway? Nevermind. That’s
another column entirely. The point
is, ESPN can air whatever they
want because a sport is anything
an individual wants it to be.
Dog shows, chess tournaments,
hair weavings and, yes, spelling
bees can all be seen on the new im
proved Entertainment Sports FYo-
gramming Network.
Maybe they should change the
name to Entertaining Social Pas
time Network.
Fishing will be included.
Eastern Conference Finals
Knicks finally in Finals
AP file photo
New York Knicks Anthony Mason and Anthony Bonner look for the ball with the
New Jersey Nets’ Derrick Coleman. The Knicks took the Nets in the first round, 3-0.
Ewing drives New York
to 94-90 victory over
Indiana and date with
Houston in NBA Finals
NEW YORK (AP) — Patrick Ewing,
intent on getting the New York Knicks
into the NBA Finals for the first time in
his career, played a career game to get
them there Sunday night.
Ewing’s rebound dunk put New York
ahead with 26 seconds left, and they ad
vanced to the championship round
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For box score, see Page 4
against Houston with a 94-90 victory
over Indiana. Ewing finished with 24
points, 22 rebounds and 11 offensive re
bounds.
The Knicks’ 4-3 victory in the East
ern Conference Finals was built on ef
fort, especially by Ewing, who appeared
to win the game by sheer force of will.
New York had 28 offensive rebounds -
two short of the NBA playoff record -
and they out-rebounded the Pacers 51-
29.
John Starks scored 17 points and
Derek Harper scored 16 for the Knicks.
Reggie Miller, the hero of Indiana’s
Game 5 victory with 25 fourth-quarter
points, finished with 25 points while By
ron Scott had 17.
The championship round begins
Wednesday night at Houston.
The Knicks, holding Indiana to 28
percent shooting in the third quarter,
rallied after trailing by 12 late in the pe
riod.
Derrick McKey’s 3-pointer that was
released with one second left on the shot
clock gave Indiana a 74-69 lead with
10:38 remaining.
A layup by Anthony Mason, a 3-
pointer by Harper and a layup by Harp
er after a court-length pass by Ewing
gave New York a slim 76-74 edge.
New York made it 85-80 with consec
utive layups by Starks and Mason, but
the Pacers kept up the pressure with 3-
pointers by Miller and McKey, closing
Indiana to an 87-86 deficit.
Consecutive jumpers by Ewing and
Miller made it 89-88 before a miss by
Rik Smits and a 24-second violation by
New York gave the Pacers the ball with
47 seconds left.
The Knicks then left Dale Davis wide
open under the basket, and Haywoode
Workman found him for an easy layup
and a 90-89 edge.
Ewing, who also had seven assists,
then put the Knicks ahead for good with
his rebound dunk. Miller’s next shot
missed the rim, and Davis failed to con
trol the rebound.
Miller’s hard foul on Starks was
called a flagrant foul, giving him two
free throws and possession to New York.
Starks made one of the free throws, but
the Pacers had to foul him again, and he
made both to seal the victory.
AdrAf golfer
eliminated
from NCAAs
By Constance Parten
The Battalion
A&M golfer Anthony Rodriguez
was eliminated after the second round
of the NCAA Men’s Golf
Championship in McKinney last
week. He missed qualifying for the
finals by four shots, shooting a
combined score of 142, just one over
par.
Rodriguez qualified as an individ
ual for the tournament after tying for
eighth place at the Central Regional
Tournament in Oklahoma City in
May.
He shot an even par 72 on the first
round, and opened the second round
of play very strongly with a birdie on
the first hole.
Rodriguez finished the front nine
even par. Several bogeys and a pesky
water hazard on the back nine put
him at two over par by the 17th hole,
denying Rodriguez a chance at the fi
nals.
“Anthony had some serious mental
mistakes,” head coach Bob Ellis said,
“but he kept his head and made some
excellent shots.”
University of Texas senior Justin
Leonard won the tournament, shoot
ing fifteen under par for a combined
score of 271 in four rounds.
The former Texas state high school
champion from Lake Highlands is the
first Longhorn to win the NCAA golf
title since 1973.
The victory gives him his 10th col
legiate title; a dossier that includes
one U.S. Amateur, two Western Ama
teur, and four Southwest conference
titles.
As a team, Texas took second place
in the tournament behind Stanford.
The Longhorns missed their shot at
first because of a weak showing on the
final back nine.
“That kind of leaves a bad taste in
my mouth,” Leonard told Dallas
Morning News reporters Saturday.
The Longhorns started the final
day of the tournament at 11 under
par in sixth place. Texas shot 10 un
der par on the front nine to pull with
in one shot of tournament leader
Stanford.
But on the back nine, Texas had a
rash of double and triple bogeys.
Stanford finished 23 under par and
Texas followed at 19 under par to
take second place.
French Open
Sanchez-Vicario, Bruguera make their day in the clay
PARIS (AP)-Mary Pierce seemed to
have everything going for her: mo
mentum, homecourt advantage and a
new happy-go-lucky attitude.
But on the day Spain celebrated a
historic double at Roland Garros,
Pierce was soundly beaten 6-4, 6-4 on
Sunday by Arantxa Sanchez Vicario on
the clay in the final of the French
Open.
“I was tense,” said Pierce, playing in
her first Grand Slam final. “I wanted
to win too much. I was taking every
thing too seriously. Up until now, I
have just been enjoying myself,
but today I was too nervous.”
While the 19-year-old Pierce
failed in her bid to become the
first French woman to win the
championship in 27 years,
Sanchez and Sergi Bruguera
became the first Spaniards to
sweep the titles at a Grand Slam
event.
As King Juan Carlos and Queen
Sofia of Spain looked on, Bruguera de
fended his men’s title by downing
countryman Alberto Berasategui 6-3,
7-5, 2-6, 6-1 in an uninspiring
match between one-dimension
al clay-court players.
Pierce couldn’t cope with
Sanchez Vicario, the 1989
French Open champion who
is probably the quickest and
best defensive player in the
grass.
The women’s match provided a per
fect contrast of styles: the tall, blond,
angular Pierce, hitting for winners at
every opportunity and the short, dark,
Sanchez Vicario, running everything
down, floating back lobs, mixing up the
pace. The attacker vs. the counter
puncher.
Pierce hurt herself by committing
51 unforced errors, compared to 30 for
Sanchez Vicario.
“She gets a lot of balls back,” Pierce
said. “She also fights a lot. She never
gives you any free points. She doesn’t
attack very much, but when she has
her chances, she will attack.”
“I think she handled all the circum
stances and situations better than I
did.”
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