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new special
events center
BRIAN
COATS
Sportswriter
In July the State Coordinating
Board for Higher Education is going
to approve Texas A&M University’s
request to build a special events cen
ter. After years of being teased, it is
going to happen. It is finally A&M’s
year. All the pieces of the puzzle are
in place. It is a no-lose situation.
They are going to approve it be
cause there are many politicians
who are running for re-election this
year. There are many Aggies in
Texas. There are many Aggies who
vote in Texas.
If the Board does not approve the
center, there will be many irritated
Aggies who vote in Texas. If the ir
ritated Aggies who vote in Texas do
not get their center, some of those
elected officials who did not support
the center may not be elected offi
cials after November.
The last time the center came up
for a vote, it was not an election
year. This time it is.
They are going to approve it be
cause the center they are voting on
is not the same one they voted on in
1990. The main difference is the
cost. The first center, the one voted
down, was going to cost somewhere
in the neighborhood of S50 million.
The new one is going to cost $35 mil
lion.
In 1990, the A&M Board of Re
gents sent a 16,OOO-seat stadium to
the board, much like the Frank Er
win Center in Austin. Last spring,
the regents approved a scaled-down,
modified center. The new center will
have about 12,500 seats. Head bas
ketball coach Tony Barone thought
Please see Center/Page 6
1994 Stanley Cup Playoffs - Game 7
Rangers break curse, take Stanley Cup
1 8,200 on hand to see
New York win, 3-2
NEW YORK (AP) — Fifty-four
years of waiting, 54 years of wanting,
are over. The New York Rangers are
Stanley Cup champions at last.
The Rangers capped an extraordi
nary championship series by beating
the Vancouver Canucks 3-2 Tuesday
night in Game 7.
As the tense final seconds ticked off
the clock at Madison Square Garden,
where the home team had never before
hoisted the most famous trophy in
team sports, 18,200 raucous fans re
leased more than five decades of pent-
up passion.
Fireworks exploded, smoke filled
the arena, everyone wearing white jer
seys hugged, and fans exchanged high-
fives and screamed as rock music
blared from the Garden audio system.
The announcement that Rangers
defenseman Brian Leetch won the
Conn Smythe Trophy as playoff MVP
AP Photo
New York Rangers Alex Kovalev (27) scores on one foot against Vancouver
Canucks goaltender Kirk McLean during game 3 of the Stanley Cup Playoffs.
was barely audible over the triple-dig
it-decibel celebration of the end of
hockey’s cruelest curse.
Finally, 4,232 games after last win
ning Lord Stanley’s cup in 1940, the
Rangers tasted sweet success again.
Gooaal!
Jennie Mayer/THE Battalion
A&M sophomore goalie Sunny McConnell (left) fires a shot to one of the
campers of the first session of Texas A&M Soccer Camp.
Wichita Falls CBA hoops
sold to Chicago investors
WICHITA FALLS, Texas (AP) —
The board of directors of the Continen
tal Basketball Association have ap
proved the sale of the Wichita Falls
Texans to a group of investors from
Chicago club officials say.
“On the recommendation of thp
commissioner (Mark Lamping), the
board approved the sale for $800,000
to a group ... named Major Broadcast
ing,” Texans owner Lanham Lyne said
Monday.
Lyne said he has heard that the
new owners will move the team to the
Rosemont Horizon, “although that’s
not a definite. If not, I think they’re
looking at an arena near Oakbrook,
Ill., on the west side of Chicago.”
“Their main deal is syndicated radio
programming,” Lyne said of the new
ownership.
Astros top Giants
7-4, Rangers fall
to Mariners 7-5
Astros 7, Giants 4
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — It’s
practically been a formula this sea
son: Bryan Hickerson is on the
mound, Jeff Bagwell hits a homer.
Bagwell hit his third homer of the
season off the San Francisco Giants
pitcher Tuesday, capping a day on
which the Houston first baseman
drove in three runs to increase his
league-leading total to 62.
He had four hits and three runs
led the Astros to a 7-4 victory over
San Francisco on Tuesday.
“Bagwell sure has my number this
year,” said Hickerson, who gave up a
solo shot to Bagwell in the seventh.
“You don’t need to ask me anymore
about him, because I don’t want to
hear about it.”
This season, Bagwell is being
tough on the Giants in general, hit
ting .647 in four games, but he’s al
ways been particularly hard on Hick
erson.
Bagwell is 9-for-l2 lifetime with
four homers off the left-hander.
Rangers 5, Mariners 7
ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Ken
Griffey Jr. hit two home runs, in
creasing his major league-leading to
tal to 28 and lifting the Seattle
Mariners over the Texas Rangers 7-6
in 13 innings Tuesday night.
Griffey hit a 429-foot drive into
the upper deck in right field with two
outs in the 13th off Dan Smith (1-2).
He led off the seventh inning with a
404-foot homer to right.
Griffey, who hit a grand slam and
drove in a career-high six runs Mon
day night, went 4-for-7.
He also made an excellent play in
center field, throwing out Ivan Ro
driguez from his knees as Rodriguez
tried to stretch a single into a dou
ble.
Goose Gossage (2-0) pitched two
innings. He ended the game by get
ting Junior Ortiz on a grounder with
the bases loaded.
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