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present during the
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expelled rights ob-
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r bombing
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group Hezbollah.
lednesday • July 20, 1994
Page 3
Major league
players need
to grow up
CONSTANCE
PARTEN
Sportswriter
River Piate
a de Mayo
ENOS
?ES
W ith the possibility of a base
ball strike growing closer
daily, it seems these men
“play” for a living because they are
too immature to work.
Granted, baseball players do work
very hard. With as many games as
they play, they certainly deserve the
minimum $109,000 salary they re
ceive. After all, baseball is big busi
ness, and all the money can’t go to
the owners.
However, you don’t see orchestras
striking for pay increases, and the
American Actors Guild hasn’t had a
strike in decades. And orchestras
and movies both make phenomenal
amounts of money. And music,
movies and sports all fall under the
same heading: entertainment
But baseball has had eight
strikes interrupting the season for
the last 22 years.
This record shows not only the
players’ inability to maturely accept
their positions as jobs, but also
shows the greed running rampant in
today’s sports world. And this is not
limited to players. Owners and
managers are caught up in the mon
ey game as well.
In fact, if baseball owners have
their way, an estimated $1.5 million
dollars will be transferred to owners
under a new salary cap proposal.
Salary arbitration for players will
also be abolished. Although arbitra
tion has been misused in recent
years, it’s dissolve wall leave players
at the mercy of the owners.
So how can all of this be resolved
in a capitalistic society where some
one has to get rich? Here are some
suggestions:
Go to a pure free agent system. If
the players aren’t happy, they can
leave. Owners will also be freed
from a minimum salary require
ment.
Dissolve the unions. This wall do
Please see Strike/Page 4
SPORTS
A&Mjoins conference with numerous sports titles
Big Eight schools rich in tradition
By Brian Coats
The Battalion
Texas A&M is joining one of the
most respected and successful confer
ences in the country.
The Big Eight has a history of na
tional success and is steeped in tradi
tion.
The Big Eight was founded on Jan
uary 12, 1907, when Kansas, Missouri,
Part three of three
Nebraska, Iowa and Washington Uni
versity of St. Louis met to form what
was then known as the Missouri Val
ley Intercollegiate Athletic Associa
tion.
There were many changes through
out the next 50 years, as various
schools left the fold, including Wash-
"The geograpic differences in the Big Eight
adds to the interest. Schools play each other
that have fans from totally different back
grounds."
- R. C. Slocum, A&M head
football coach
ington and Iowa. With the addition of
Oklahoma, Kansas State and Iowa
State, six state schools formed the Big
Six in 1928. In 1947, Colorado joined,
upping the conference to the Big Sev
en. In 1957 Oklahoma State was
added to form the Big Eight.
Texas A&M, Texas, Texas Tech and
Baylor will join in 1996 to form the
Big 12.
The Big Eight, which is the oldest
organization composed entirely of
state institutions, has won at least one
NCAA title or football championship
in 23 of the past 25 years. Member
schools of the league have won 165 na-
Campers get a kick out of soccer camp
A&M coach Guerrieri
'happy' with turn-out
By Mark Smith
The Battalion
Even though the World Cup is over,
soccer is still alive with the in Ag-
gieland with the Texas A&M Soccer
Camp.
The second session of the camp got
underway on Sunday, as the Brazilians
and Italians fought for the Cup in
Pasadena, Calif.
Camp director and A&M head coach
Gerald “G” Guerrieri said he was
pleased with the camp turn-out after
A&M’s inaugural soccer season.
“We’re real happy with the camp,” he
said. “This is a good size for it.”
By the end of July, A&M will have
been visited by over 400 soccer campers.
During their week here they are ex
posed to A&M’s style of play.
“It’s good for the kids to come in and
see our style of training and utilize our
facilities,” Guerrieri said.
The campers are not the only ones to
take away something new from the
camp.
Some of the coaches that act as coun
selors benefit from the drills Guerrieri
uses. ^
“We have speed and agility training
Please see Soccer/Page 4
Stew Milne/Tut Battalion
Texas A&M midfielder Kimery Duda (left)- looks to cross the ball to a camp mem
ber, while Nathan Donnelly, age 12, tries to prevent her from scoring.
tional titles.
A&M Football Coach R.C. Slocum,
who formerly coached in the Big Eight
at Kansas State, said the Big Eight is
an old league with much tradition.
“The league has been playing for a
long time,” he said. “There are some
outstanding academic schools up
there.”
Slocum said the Big Eight is more
diverse than the Southwest Confer
ence.
“The geographic differences in the
Big Eight add to the interest,” he said.
“Schools play each other that have
fans from totally different back
grounds.”
Oklahoma is the school students at
Texas A&M probably know the most
Please see Big Eight/Page 4
Spurs trade draft
selection Curley
to re-sign Elliott
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — The San
Antonio Spurs re-acquired forward
Sean Elliott on Tuesday when they
sent the rights to first-round draft
pick Bill Curley and a 1997 second-
round draft pick to the Detroit Pis
tons.
Hie Spurs dealt Elliott to the Pis
tons last year for fiery forward Den
nis Rodman, who led the NBA in re
bounding at 17.3 per game. The Pis
tons later tried to trade Elliott to the
Houston Rockets for Robert Horry,
but the deal was called off when El
liott failed a physical because of a
kidney injury.
Elliott, a restricted free agent, was
expected to sign a multiyear deal
with the Spurs beginning at about
$1.35 million and allowing him to be
come an unrestricted free agent next
season, according to Tuesday’s San
Antonio Express-News.
Elliott played in 73 games last sea
son and averaged 12.1 points. He has
a 14.3 scoring average for his five sea
sons in the NBA.
The 6-foot-9 Curley was the 22nd
overall pick in the June draft after
finishing second on Boston College’s
career scoring list with 2,102 points
and second in rebounding with 996.
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