Baseball Hall of Famer
receives liver transplant
DALLAS (AP) — Mickey Mantle
early this morning underwent a liver
transplant that doctors said was need
ed to save his life, hospital officials
said.
A liver donor was found late
Wednesday and once tests showed it
was compatible with the 63-year-old
Hall of Famer, surgery began around
4 a.m., said Jennifer Jones, a spokes
woman at Baylor University Medical
Center.
Mantle's liver has been deteriorat
ing because of a small malignant tu
mor, years of alcohol abuse and a
long dormant hepatitis C infection,
doctors said.
Marlins record first-ever
series win against Astros
HOUSTON (AP) — Greg Colbrunn
hit a three-run homer in the first inning
and John Burkett ended a four-game
losing streak with six strong innings,
leading Florida to a 8-3 victory
Wednesday and the Marlins' first series
win ever over the Astros.
Burkett (4-5) didn't allow a base
runner until he walked Craig Biggio to
start the fourth inning and after Dave
Magadan hit into a double play, Jeff
Bagwell got the first hit, a solo homer
over the left field fence.
UT fans upset at lack of
tickets for Notre Dame
AUSTIN (AP) — A limited number
of tickets provided to Texas for the Long
horns' game at Notre Dame this Septem
ber has some school faithful upset about
who will get to go to the game.
Notre Dame is providing 5,000
tickets to UT, and there is at least
three times as many Longhorns' sup
porters trying to get tickets. The game
is Sept. 23 at South Bend, Ind., and
most of the seats provided to UT are
in the end zone.
A policy developed by the athletic
department and approved by school ad
ministrators gives priority to those alum
ni who have contributed the most mon
ey to the Longhorn Foundation over the
past year.
A number of people have called into
radio shows complaining that the policy
caters to the wealthiest alums and ig
nores longtime supporters who have
given smaller amounts.
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Eight players join 12th Man
File Photo
The 1995 12th Man Kickoff Team is comprised of eight walk-ons. The
Aggies' kickoff squad has not given up a touchdown since 1990.
□ The squad was cho
sen from a field of 160
this spring.
By Lee Wright
The Battalion
On the final day of Texas
A&M’s spring football practice,
eight players learned they
would be returning to the team
for the fall.
They were not high school
blue-chippers courted by several
schools across the country.
In fact, the players were not
even guaranteed the chance of
playing more than once or twice
a year.
So, why were these eight men
so thrilled to make the cut?
They had just become mem
bers of the 1995 A&M 12th Man
Kickoff Team.
The 1995 Texas A&M 12th
Man players are: Kip Amedo,
Garret Carrey, Spencer Earl,
Thomas Little, James Muniz,
Ben Puig, Shawn Reynolds and
Jeff Rogers.
The Kickoff Team was start
ed in 1993 by former A&M head
coach Jackie Sherrill, who used
an group of walk-ons as the
kickoff coverage team. That year
they allowed opponents only
13.1 yards per return.
tradition
In 1990, head coach R.C.
Slocum changed the team so
that one walk-on player repre
sented the entire squad. In the
five seasons since the change,
the Aggies are yet to give up a
kickoff return for a touchdown.
Amedo said part of the thrill
is not knowing when a Kickoff
Team player will go into a game.
“I don’t know which game or
which actual kickoff I will have
the opportunity to play in,”
Amedo said. “As far as I know,
the process is totally random,
unless the coaches have a spe
cial list of our kickoff duties.
But we don’t know which game
or games we will have the op
portunity to play in.”
The eight 12th Man players be
gan early in the semester as walk-
on prospects for the football team.
In a walk-on class of approximate
ly 160 men, the athletes were test
ed in such categories as the 40-
yard dash time, the vertical leap
and the 20-yard shuttle.
After the initial cut before
spring break, approximately 20
walk-ons were left. Fifteen
tried out for the 12th Man
team.
The coaches began to test
these athletes on their overall
ability to play football. On the
last day of spring training prac
tice, eight players learned they
were chosen.
Rockets shock Magic in OT thriller
□ Olajuwon's tip-in puts
the Rockets up 1 -0 in the
NBA Finals.
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) —
Once the Houston Rockets got
to overtime, their experience
and Hakeem Olajuwon were
all they needed.
Olajuwon’s tip-in of Clyde
Drexler’s miss with three-
tenths of a second remaining
in overtime Wednesday night
lifted Houston to a 120-118 vic
tory over the Orlando, Magic in
Game 1 of the NBA Finals.
Olajuwon had four of Hous
ton’s 10 points in overtime and
finished with 31, winning the
first round against Shaquille
O’Neal, who had 26 points and
16 rebounds and nearly won
the game for his young team.
But the Magic’s Nick Ander
son missed four free throws in
the last 10 seconds of regula
tion, allowing the Rockets to
send the game into overtime.
The Rockets won for the sixth
straight time on the road in the
playoffs, tying a playoff record.
That mark tied the 1991
Chicago Bulls. The Rockets
also tied a record for total
playoff road wins with eight,
the same number won by the
1981 Houston team.
Robert Horry, who blocked
Dennis Scott’s 3-point attempt
at the buzzer in regulation, hit
two 3-pointers to start the
overtime and a hook shot by
Olajuwon gave the Rockets a
118-115 lead.
After a timeout, Scott in-
bounded to O’Neal, who got the
ball back to Scott, and his 3-
pointer from the left side tied
it with 5.5 seconds to play.
Following another timeout,
Drexler took the inbounds from
Horry, drove hard to the bas
ket and put up an off-balance
layup that Olajuwon tipped in
off the glass with three-tenths
of a second remaining.
Brian Shaw inbounded
from mid-court and threw the
ball off the backboard as time
expired.
With its high score and fre
netic pace, the game was noth
ing like last year’s grind-it-out
Game 1, in which the Rockets
grappled their way to an 85-78
win over the Knicks. In that
series, neither team ever hit
100 points, the first time in
NBA history that has hap
pened.
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Thursday • June 8
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This year students are not required to renew their parking garage priviledges. PITS will be
automatically renewing students who meet the following requirements:
* are enrolled in Fall ‘95 classes no later than July 1, 1995
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Students who are not enrolled and/or are not on the housing list by July 1, 1995 will be dropped
from their parking garage assignment and access card deactivated on August 20, 1995. Student parking
permits and bus passes purchased for the fall of 1995 are valid through May 31, 1996. Students who preregister
for parking permits and bus passes before July 1, 1995, will receive them in the mail on or around August 10.
Please verify your address with the Fiscal Department.
The price of parking permits has changed from what is listed in the registration booklets due to the approval of
price changes made by the Board of Regents. The new prices listed below will be effective Fall ‘95.
Option Code Types of Permits and Prices
10 Commuter Student $75
30 Resident Student $75
09 Night Permit $35
12 Motorcycle/Moped $35
Summer Permit (Effective Summer ‘96) $55
Faculty/Staff (Reserved Lot) $100
Faculty/Staff (Reserved Number Space) $200
Garage Roof $ 180
Garage (Inside) $240
Garage (Priority) $270
Zachry Basement $270
15 Bus Pass $110*
*Students may obtain a free night permit if a bus pass is purchased.
Summer Parking Permit News:
Option Code
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Cost of Summer Parking Permits:
Bus Pass $55
Summer Student Parking $20
Motorcycle/Moped $ 11.72
Night Parking $15
*Parking permits and bus passes purchased for the summer are valid through August 27, 1995. Summer permits
are non-refundable. Bus passes are non-refundable in Summer Term II. During Summer Term I, the bus pass
refund is $27.50.
Visitor Garage Parking:
Visitor Parking per Hour $ .60 Visitor Parking per Day $4.80
*This will be effective in the 1995 Fall Term.
PARKING NEWS:
June 5-9 The university Center and South Side Parking Garages will be reserved for the 4-H Roundup
PITS encourages all permit holders to park in their designated lots.
The north side of PA 63 (Olsen Field) will be under construction until June 16, 1995, for lighting renovations.
The on-campus bus stops will be temporarily moved to the south side of the lot.
BUS NEWS:
There will not be a Yell Practice or Twelth Man bus route during the summer. Rudder, Fish Camp
and Old Army will continue to run during the summer but at a reduced amount of buses.
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