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Sports Editor
I magine, if you will, a situation.
You are in the living room of
your parents’ house sitting on
the couch. Your hands are sweat
ing and you laugh nervously over
some joke your father says.
The doorbell rings. You get up
and open the door. Three men in
expensive looking Italian suits are
there. You usher them in and have
them sit down.
You chat with them for a mo
ment about little things, the weath
er, the NBA finals.
Eventually you get down to busi
ness.
One looks at you and says, “We’ll
pay you $750,000 to come play
baseball for our minor league team.
We think you’ve got talent and
we’re willing to pay for it.”
You’re only 18 years old. You’ve
lived at home all your life. You’ve
got a scholarship to one of the
biggest universities in the country.
What would you do, take the
money or go to school?
Well, this might be something
like what Mark Farris went
through. He just graduated from
Angleton High School and he has
seen more money than I probably
will in my entire lifetime.
In our society, education is
everything. We forget that life isn’t
all books and learning. Some of the
greatest knowledge comes from ex
perience.
Farris has a chance to see what
professional baseball is like. That
is an opportunity that few people
ever get to enjoy. Even more fortu
nate for him, he gets paid an ample
amount of money to do it. Some
people would do it for free.
Perhaps the only drawback to
the situation is the effect on A&M’s
quarterback depth. The only quar
terbacks A&M has are junior Corey
Pullig, who started all 12 games
last season, senior Steve Emerson,
who was switched to linebacker
and then back to quarterback, ^nd
Stormy Case, who is a walk-on and
serves mainly as the holder for the
placekicker.
Head football coach R.C. Slocum
thought Farris had a chance to
Please see Farris/Page 4
Farris teams up with Pirates
Big bucks lure A&M
quarterback prospect
to bat for Pittsburgh
By Dave Winder
Special to the Battalion
After working out for more than 20
Major League Baseball scouts this
spring, Angleton’s Mark Farris still ex
pected to compete for Texas A&M’s
backup quarterback position.
Then he was drafted in the first
round of the MLB 1994 Amatuer draft
by the Pittsburgh Pirates and offered a
five-year contract estimated a $1 mil
lion with a team record $820,000 sign
ing bonus. A clause in his contract en
sures eight semesters of college tuition,
paid for by the Pirates.
After thinking it over, Farris decided
he could not pass up the money.
“It was a tough decision to make,”
Farris said. “Because A&M never real
ly put any pressure on me. Coach
(R.C.) Slocum told me whatever hap
pened we would still be friends and he
wanted me to do what was best for me.”
Slocum, head football coach, said he
was happy for Farris, but was worried
about his team’s depth at quarterback.
“It’s fortunate for him, but unfortu
nate for us,” Slocum said. “This leaves
us critically short. My hope' was that
Mark Farris would come in and chal
lenge for the quarterback position.”
Slocum said he understood Farris’
decision, however.
“If someone offered me three-quar
ters of a million to play baseball I’d
probably have to consider it too,”
Slocum said.
Jokingly, he added, “If they play
baseball, I’m not even going to fool with
them anymore.”
Farris said the mass exodus of Aggie
coaches had nothing to do with his deci
sion to play baseball.
“Coach (Gary) Kubiak and I were
pretty close, but his leaving did not af
fect my decision at all,” Farris said.
“Coach Slocum was still there, which
still made the decision pretty hard.”
Kubiak was A&M’s quarterbacks
coach, but left to pursue a career with
the San Francisco 49ers.
Farris, one of the state’s top football
prospects, threw for over 1,700 yards
and 21 touchdowns last fall. But his
.484 batting average, three homeruns,
20 RBIs and 13 stolen bases were just
as impressive.
Farris will report to the Pirates Class
A team in Welland, Ontario, where he
will most likely play third base.
Jose Luis de Juan/THE Battalion
World Cup not sold on Dallas
DALLAS (AP) — Dallas hasn’t
scored many points with national
World Cup organizers, who say the
city has caused the most problems of
the nine U.S. sites for this summer’s
tournament.
World Cup and the city have spent
months battling over security fences,
police overtime pay and contracts.
“There are more problems getting
things done here than in any other
city,” World Cup USA 1994 president
Alan Rothenberg told The Dallas
Morning News in Sunday’s editions.
In addition to playing host to six
soccer matches, Dallas also is the tour
nament headquarters for world soc
cer’s governing body, World Cup refer
ees and the international television
and radio corps.
“You’re dealing with contracts and
major dollars,” said Ida Papert, the
volunteer chairwoman at the local
hooligans.
The city
agreed last week
to take down the
fence’s west side,
where the televi
sion cameras
are.
“We want to
put on the best
games we can,”
said Bill Stroube,
executive direc
tor of the Dallas
venue for World
Cup USA.
“As soccer fans, we want to show
case international soccer in Dallas, the
excitement and the passion. And we
want to bring Dallas together.”
That last objective may be the
toughest of all, officials said.
World Cup USA has major contracts
World Cup office. “There have been i}Bll f8f 1 tHe Cotton Bowl and the Automo-
some pretty ugly battles.’
World Cup complaints about Dallas :
most frequently involve the 8-foot
chain-link fence that rings most of the
* Cotton Bowl field.
Tournament officials said the fence
will block fans’ views and offend sports
enthusiasts by suggesting they are
bile and Ceritennial buildings, which
comprise the International Broadcast
Center.
The World Cup facilities are in the
middle of the Fair Park area of down
town Dallas. The City Council, park
board, landmark commission, the mu
seums on site and the Friends of Fair
Park all claim a stake in Fair Park’s
fate.
Meanwhile, World Cup has contrac
tual obligations with the Federation
Internationale de Football Association,
the governing body of world soccer.
“We have about 20 or 30 separate
entities involved,” Stroube said. “It’s
the most complex situation in the en
tire World Cup.”
Dallas is the only World Cup site
that hasn’t sold out any games. Hote
liers set aside about 300,000 room-
nights for World Cup business — that
shrank to less than 100,000. Mall and
restaurant activity also is expected to
be much lower than projected.
Nye Lavalle, the chairman of a local
sports marketing group, said the
World Cup arrogantly supposed that
the internationally popular event
could sell itself.
“They felt everybody in the United
States should just bow down and roll
over,” Lavalle said. “They really didn’t
market it or promote it.”
Dallas hasn’t done a good promotion
job either, Lavalle said.
“It’s difficult to do anything here,”
he said. “This is a very hard city in
which to garner any kind of communi
ty support for anything.”
Page 3
New York
fights for
Stanley Cup
Rangers have one game
left to shake their 54-year
curse, 'choke' collar
NEW YORK (AP) — There are no
games to look past. There may be no
parties to plan. If the New York
Rangers don’t win Tuesday, they will
be remembered forever as choke artists
supreme.
“There were opportunities, but now
they’re just missed opportunities,”
Craig MacTavish said Sunday, one day
after his Rangers lost 4-1 to the Van
couver Canucks in Game 6 of the Stan
ley Cup finals.
Game 7 will be Tuesday night at
Madison Square Garden, where the
Rangers have never celebrated hockey’s
ultimate triumph.
“We played well enough early in the
series to give us three games to do it.
We have stretched it to the third
game,” MacTavish said. “We ap
proached Game 5 like we had two more
games and that hurt us.”
Were the Rangers guilty of looking
ahead? Or, given the opportunity to fi
nally lift a 54-year curse, are they
choking?
The Rangers haven’t won the Stan
ley Cup since 1940. And coach Mike
Keenan has been making excuses for
why that spell hasn’t been broken yet
in 1994.
The Rangers had a chance to wrap
things up in Madison Square Garden
but couldn’t do it and Keenan blamed
the hype and the fans and the media.
Then they had a chance to wrap it up
in Vancouver, where they had already
won twice in the series, but they could
n’t and Keenan blamed the officials.
Keenan has complained about dis
tractions, but he is the focus of one
himself. Reports continue to surface
that he will leave the Rangers to be
come the Detroit Red Wings’ general
manager.
“It hasn’t even been a topic in the
dressing room,” Lowe said.
The main topic? Playing better than
they have the last two games.
“It’s sort of like the Super Bowl
now,” Stephane Matteau said. “If you
play one bad game, your season’s over.”
Unfortunately for the Rangers,
they’re not playing the Buffalo Bills.
They’re playing the resilient
Canucks, who already have proven
they can come back from a 3-1 series
deficit. They won the last three games
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