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Raiders will
move back to
Oakland
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — A1
Davis has decided to move the
Los Angeles Raiders back to
Oakland, where they will play
the 1995 season, leaving the na
tion’s second-largest city with
out an NFL team.
A source close to the NFL
told The Associated Press that
the move back to Oakland was
a “done deal’’ and could be
announced as early as this
afternoon.
Just two months ago, the
NFL approved the move of the
Rams from Anaheim to St.
Louis and said it was commit
ted to keeping a team in the
Los Angeles area.
“We’ve obviously had discus
sions with the Raiders in recent
days and weeks,’’ NFL
spokesman Joe Browne said to
day, “but we have not been told
A1 Davis has made a decision at
this point.”
Davis, the Raiders’ general
partner, would not confirm
the move.
“I don’t know what’s going
on, so help me God,” Davis
said. “Everyone’s doing a lot
of things. This went on two
weeks ago.”
G. Rollie’s mystique continues to baffle foe
□ The Aggie basketball team has com
piled a 324-130 record at home.
By Nick Georgandis
The Battalion
It might not have the massive scoreboard of the
Frank Erwin Center at the University of Texas or
the storied alumni of Hofheinz Pavilion at the Uni
versity of Houston, but there is something about G.
Rollie White Coliseum that keeps opponents losing
and Aggie fans cheering.
“This place is incredible,” said UT Basketball
Coach Tom Penders on Feb. 11, moments after his
nationally-ranked Longhorns had escaped with a
98-88 win at G. Rollie White after coming in as a
22-point favorite. “This building can get so loud, it’s
difficult to keep your concentration.”
With the Aggies’ record of 9-2 at home in the
1994-95 season, the men’s basketball team’s all-
time home record moved to 324-130, an exceptional
.714 winning percentage. Included in that percent
age is a 30-game winning streak at home from 1959
to 1963.
The listed capacity of the coliseum is 7,800, but
the top 10 crowds in its history shatter that mark.
The biggest crowd ever to see a game at G. Rollie
White was 8,608 in 1975 when the Aggies upset
then-Southwest Conference-rival Arkansas 62-60.
The coliseum is named for George Rollie White, a
famous Texas cattleman who graduated from A&M
in 1895, and began serving on the board of directors
for the University in 1926. White was also president
of the Commercial National Bank of Brady for sev
eral years.
See G. Rollie, Page 4
Nick RodnickiJ-ti
G. Rollie White Coliseum opened in 1954 and was the largest building on A&M's campus at the time. Since then,ti:'
basketball team has compiled a .714 winning percentage at home.
Barone preaches desire, hard work at camp
Lemieux s return will
□ More than 180
campers came to G.
Rollie White this week.
By Robin Greathouse
The Battalion
Hundreds of young men from
around the state are lacing up
their sneakers and hitting the
court this summer for the annu
al Texas A&M basketball camp.
Texas A&M Head Basketball
Coach Tony Barone said he and
his staff will work intensively
with the campers on basketball
fundamentals.
Barone said improving the
campers’ passing, shooting and
dribbling skills are not the only
objectives that he has for the
camps, however.
“The primary goal is to have
fun and give the kids the desire
to become good basketball play
ers,” Barone said.
More than 180 campers be
tween the ages of 9 and 17 com
pleted the first camp session on
Wednesday. Two more sessions
will be offered this summer —
one beginning on June 25 and
the other starting on July 23.
The campers are broken up by
age group into leagues called
NBA, NCAA, CBA and High
School. Within each league, the
teams play a 10-game tourna
ment at the end of the camp to
determine an overall champion.
The young men spend up to
seven hours on the court each day
learning skills, practicing and
playing tournament games. The
campers live in Haas and
Clements Halls for the duration
of the camp.
Camp Director and former
A&M Assistant Coach Porter
Moser said Barone adds some
thing to Barone camp that many
coaches do not. ^
“Some coaches put their names
on their camps, but let their assis
tants do all of the actual teach
ing,” said Moser. “Tony actually
gets out on the court and works
with the kids, while making sure
that they are having fun.”
Barone said the camps are
positive for the attendees and
the hosts.
“The camps are a great public
relations tool for the university,
as well as a great overall experi
ence for the kids,” Barone said.
Barone has put on a summer
camp during each of his four
years as A&M’s head coach.
He came to A&M from
Creighton University before the
1991 season.
Stew Milne, The Battalion
Several groups of campers at Tony Barone's Basketball Camp run skill drills at G. Rollie White Coliseum.
The camp ran from Sunday until Wednesday and was attended by over 1 80 young men.
hurt Penguins’ chances
F irst
Michael,
now Mario.
What’s going on?
Only months
after Michael Jor
dan ended his 1
1/2-year retire
ment and re
turned to basket
ball, Mario Lemieux announced
Tuesday his intentions to return
to hockey and the Pittsburgh
Penguins.
Lemieux has agreed to hit
the ice for 60-70 games next
season, skipping some of the
long road trips to rest his in-
jury-prone back.
Let’s hope this trend of re
tired superstars coming back
doesn’t continue. Jordan re
turned to Chicago for the last
15 games of the regular season
and the playoffs, and to every
one’s chagrin, he wasn’t the
same player.
Sure he scored 55 points
against the Knicks in his fifth
game back and was the second-
leading scorer in the playoffs,
but you could see the rust on
Jordan’s game.
When the game was on the
line, M.J. couldn’t come
through. He made bad deci
sions, tK
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to basketball, as thespor
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reer ended prematurely.
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cope with his father’s mar
Lemieux cut short his cart
cope with a bad back and
Hodgkin’s disease. Mostir
tantly, Lemieux is return:
under the same Atlas-life'
den that faced Jordan.
But Super Mario seen 1 .:
supremely confident.
“I’m not coming backMfe
an average player,” Lend:
said at a press conference:
ing his comeback. “If I car
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