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Tee-ball gives
reminder of
sports’
CONSTANCE
PARTEN
Sportswriter
nature
O nce upon a time there was a
sportswriter who had a
dream. And in that dream
Michael Jordan played tee-ball.
Michael wasn’t your average
tee-ball player. He was much
taller than all of the six-year-olds
around him, and the pre-pubes-
cent uniform didn’t fit his hulking
frame. But Michael didn’t care
what he looked like.
He didn’t even care if some of
the little kids could hit the ball
farther than he could. He wanted
to play a game that was fun. And
basketball just wasn’t fun any
more.
The sportswriter awoke sweat
ing - contemplating the prover
bial messages of the dream.
Where did these strange images
come from? After several mo
ments, the answers came.
My neighbors play tee-ball.
They are six and seven years old,
and they don’t think Michael Jor
dan would ever play on their tee-
ball team. They do think he could
hit the ball farther than anyone
they know though.
But even if he could, it wouldn’t
matter, because in tee-ball there
is no score, no winner, and every
one gets to play. They told me
this after my stupid question
“Who won?”
i After that, they invited me to
attend one of their games.
I The following week my butt
j was glued to my seat (literally -I
sat in gum) watching those kids
whack that tiny ball and then
stand there until they finally
l clued in that they were supposed
to run. Then they would start to
ward the pitchers mound, confus-
I ing it with first base.
If tee-ball were a movie it
would be a slapstick comedy. The
entertainment value is priceless,
but the athletic prowess is ques-
D.dipnable. But teerball doqs instill
in the kids a sense of fairness and
fun. Competition doesn’t even en
ter into it.
In professional sports however,
competition is everything. Play
ers fight, coaches throw things,
and one team’s fans hate the other
team’s fans (of course, this never
happens on the collegiate level).
Winning is everything, and break
ing rules to do so is all too com
mon.
It seems we have lost sight of
the simple enjoyment of watching
or participating in sporting
events. Teams are not armies,
and opponents are not enemies.
Players are not heroes, just men
and women with strength and
dedication. And if you are a fan,
then you readily admit you are a
fanatic.
Relax. You’re not a bad person.
Please see Tee-ball/Page 4
Canucks meet Rangers in Stanley Cup final
NEW YORK (AP) — Two teams: one
apparently cursed, the other seemingly
blessed. One game. One prize.
The curtain rises on the grand finale
of hockey’s ultimate show Tuesday night.
It’s Game 7 of the Stanley Cup finals.
“It’s going to be the pinnacle of a lot of
careers,” said Craig MacTavish, whose
New York Rangers will be trying to skate
around their hellish history — as well as
the Vancouver Canucks — at Madison
Square Garden. “If we get beat, it’s going
to be one of the most disappointing things
ever to happen.”
For the New York fans, too. They have
waited 54 years for the Curse to end.
A Ranger fans’ worst nightmare:
Tie game. Pavel Bure on a breakaway.
Mike Richter deked to the ice. The shot.
The score. Tears and silence. Twenty sec
onds to play.
Official time of the goal — 19:40.
Only in New York. 1940. Only at
Madison Square Garden, where the home
team has never hoisted the Stanley Cup.
1940. Only for the Rangers ... the jinxed,
hexed, cursed New York Rangers. 1940.
“If we tried to take on 54 years, the
burden, the Curse,
no one can do that,”
Rangers captain
Mark Messier said.
“We respect the
Rangers’ past and
all the things that
have happened
since 1940, but it’s
all too much. If we
let it creep in, it
would have de
stroyed us a long
time ago.”
At least the
Rangers have won
three NHL titles.
None since ... what
year was that
again? ... but
they’ve won them.
The Canucks?
Twenty-four seasons and never a serious
bid. A team called the Millionaires won
1994
Stanley Cup
Playoffs
Game 7
Who: New York
Rangers vs.
Vancouver
Canucks
When: Tonight at
7:08 p.m.
Where: Madison
Square Garden, '
New York
the Stanley Cup in 1915, two years before
the NHL was formed, and that’s it for
Vancouver’s proud hockey
tradition.
This year’s Canucks
have had a magical ride to
Tuesday’s one-game show
down.
After finishing the reg
ular season with the
league’s 14th-best record,
they fell behind 3-1 in
their opening series
against the Calgary
Flames. They pulled off
three straight overtime
victories to become only
the 12th team ever to rally
from such a deficit.
Then, after relatively
easy series victories over
the Dallas Stars and
Toronto Maple Leafs, they
fell behind the Rangers,
the league’s best regular-season team,
three games to one.
Two wins later, here they are, with a
chance to become only the second team
ever to come back from 3-1 in the finals.
“It comes down to trying to focus on
the job at hand, trying to keep everything
in perspective,” Canucks center Murray
Craven said. “But it’s impossible to say
that I’m not thinking about winning it. If
there’s a guy who says that, he’s lying.”
Added defenseman Dave Babych: “We
know how we came back. And if we do
the same things, we should be successful.
They’re going to have their crowd behind
them, but we seem to play pretty well in
that building.”
Vancouver won the first and fifth
games here. The Game 5 victory let the
Canucks know they deserved to be in the
finals.
“When we were down, I thought there
was no way we could come back against
that team. They were too strong,” Geoff
Courtnall said. “I think our guys deserve
a lot of credit.”
After Tuesday’s game, there will be
only so much credit to go around.
Lady Aggie basketball rakes in recruits
1993-94 Lady Aggie Basketball
Recruits
Name
Pos.
Ht. Cl-Exp Hometown (HS/JC)
Sutton Helvey
C
6-2 Fr-HS Euless, Tx (Trinity)
Christy Lake
G
5-8 SO~TR Duncanville, Tx (DuncanvilleAA/eatherford College)
Kim Linder
F
6-0 Fr-HS Amarillo, Tx (Amarillo)
Carey Owens
G
5-8 Fr-HS Corpus Christi, Tx (King)
Angel Spinks
C
6-1 Jr-TR League City, Tx (Clear Creek/Howard College)
Coaches looking to add
balance and depth to
bench with newcomers
By Mark Smith
The Battalion
The Texas A&M women’s basketball
team enjoyed unprecedented success in
the 1993-94 season and with the re
cruiting class they landed during the
off-season, that success may very well
continue.
Their latest recruiting class was
ranked 20th in the nation by the May
1994 Blue Star Report, tied with Flori
da.
Assistant coach and recruiting coor
dinator Eileen Feeney said the group of
girls that was recruited would add
depth to the bench.
“This is another versatile group of
student-athletes which will be able to
give us quality play at key positions,”
Feeney said. “They will be able to fill
some major voids left by graduation and
complement our returning players.”
With the departure of senior center
Teri Bartlett, Feeney said one of the
main areas the coaches were looking to
add depth to was the post position.
“The biggest loss we wanted to key
on was the inside,” Feeney said.
Six-foot-one junior Angel Spinks, a
transfer from Howard College, and six-
foot-two freshman Sutton Helvey from
Trinity High School were recruited to
fill the depth in the center position.
Feeney described Spinks as a mobile
player that has three-point range and
Helvey as a defensive post player.
Another area the Lady Aggies re
cruited for is the small forward spot, va
cated by starter Beth Burkett. Feeney
thinks six-foot freshman Kim Linder
could fill the void immediately, al
though she will have to convert from
the post position she played at Amarillo
High School.
Both Feeney and assistant coach
Cathy McDonald agreed on the need to
recruit a three-point shooter for the
shooting guard position. King High
School product Carey Owens hopefully
will give the Lady Aggies that three-
point shooting threat, Feeney said.
“We brought in long range shooter
Carey Owens,” Feeney said. “She’s a
strong shooter with good range.”
A deep bench is something the Lady
Aggies also strive for.
“We tried to add quality to
our
Please see Recruits/Page 4
A&M womens
basketball camp
gets into gear
By Brian Coats
The Battalion
The Texas A&M Lady Aggie Bas
ketball Camp is an opportunity to
teach kids the game of basketball
and show off Texas A&M, Cathy Mc
Donald, an assistant coach at A&M
and camp counselor said.
The week-long, all-level camp is
for girls 10-18 years old. The
campers stay on campus in Cain
and Keathley Halls and play basket
ball at G.Rollie White Coliseum.
Campers learn basketball funda
mentals during the day and scrim
mage in game-like situations at
night. They are on the basketball
court about six hours a day.
When the girls are not playing
basketball, activities such as watch
ing films, “SWC Lady Aggie
Olympics,” a talent show and a
game night at the MSC keep them
busy. There is an award ceremony
the last morning of the camp.
Please see Camp/Page 4
Straight and to the point
Aggie archer wins national championship, earns
trip to U.S. Olympic Festival in first year at A&M
By Mark Smith
The Battalion
To be the best in a particular field re
quires both natural talent and a hard
work ethic. One Texas A&M archer
meets those requirements.
Staten Holmes, a sophomore Wildlife
and Fisheries major, used his skill and
hard work with the bow to win the 1994
National Collegiate Championship and
earn a trip to the 1994 US Olympic Fes
tival in St. Louis, Missouri.
“When I came to A&M I started
training hard,” Holmes said. “In high
school I didn’t have time to train. I
know that sounds strange, but I got
here and developed a good regimen.”
Holmes’ national title comes only six
years after he began competition in
archery. From the beginning he showed
his ability with the bow.
“I got fourth place after shooting for
three months,” Holmes said. “That was
almost unheard of.”
Archery head coach Frank Thomas
said Holmes’ winning ways without the
benefit of many years of experience are
not shocking.
“There are people who have natural
Please see Holmes/Page 4
Slump, desire to see family causes
Cubs’ ironman Sandburg to retire
CHICAGO (AP) — Burned out on
his game, struggling to fight off a
slump and playing for a foundering
last-place team, Ryne Sandberg, the
best second baseman of his era, re
tired Monday.
Sandberg, a 10-time All-Star for
the Chicago Cubs and nine-time Gold
Glove winner, made his stunning an
nouncement at a news conference. He
leaves in the second year of a four-
year, $28 million contract. Under a
standard payment schedule, he would
already have received about $10.55
million from that deal.
Sandberg claimed he couldn’t ex
pect the Cubs to pay him when he
wasn’t playing the way he thought he
should.
“I didn’t have what I felt I needed
to go on the field every day, give my
very best and live up to the standards
I set for myself,” said the 34-year-old
Sandberg.
“I’m not willing, and I do not want
to just hang around. I want to be the
best player I can be.”
Sandberg said he thought before
spring training that this would be his
final season with the Cubs because he
wanted to spend more time with his
family and watch his children grow
up.
He said he felt fine physically after
Please see Sandburg/Page 4
AGGIE RING ORDERS
THE ASSOCIATION OF FORMER STUDENTS
CLAYTON W. WILLIAMS, JR. ALUMNI CENTER
DEADLINE: JUNE 15, 1994
Undergraduate Student Requirements:
1. You must be a degree seeking student and have a total of 95 credit hours reflected on the
Texas A&M University Student Information Management System. (A passed course, which is
repeated, cannot count twice as credit hours.)
2. 30 credit hours must have been completed in residence at Texas A&M University. If you did not
successfully complete one semester at Texas A&M University prior to January 1,1994, you
will need to complete a minimum of 60 credit hours in residence. (This requirement will be
waived if your degree is conferred and posted with less than 60 A&M hours.)
3. You must have a 2J2 cumulative GPR at Texas A&M University.
4. You must be in good standing with the University, including no registration or transcript
blocks for past due fees, loans, parking tickets, returned checks, etc.
Graduate Student Requirements:
If you are a August 1994 degree candidate and have never purchased an Aggie ring from a prior
degree year, you may place an order for a '94 ring after you meet the following requirements:
1. Your degree is conferred and posted on the Texas A&M University Student Information
Management System; and
2. You are in good standing with the University, including no registration or transcript
blocks for past due fees, loans, parking tickets, returned checks, etc.
If you have completed all of your degree requirements prior to Juno 10,1994, you may
request a "Letter of Completion" from the Office of Graduate Studies and present it to the
Ring Office in lieu of your degree being posted.
Procedure To Order A Ring
1. If you meet the above requirements, you must visit the Ring Office no later than
Wednesday, June 15, 1994, to complete the application for eligibility verification
(requires several days to process).
2. If your application is approved and you wish to receive your ring by September 7, 1994,
you must return and pay in full by cash, check, money order. Visa or Mastercard
no later than June 17, 1994.
Men’s 10KY-$306.00
14KY - $415.00
Women’s 10KY - $172.00
14KY - $200.00
Add $8.00 for Class of ‘93 or before. White Gold is available at an extra charge of Si 0.83.
The approximate date of the ring delivery is September 7, 1994.
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