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Associated Press
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Texas A&M on its
By David Winder
The Battalion
The 1996 Olympics might not be in the
Brazos Valley next summer, but residents of
Bryan-College Station will still be able to
share in the Olympic spirit.
The Atlanta Committee for the Olympic
Games (ACOG) announced Monday that
Bryan-College Station has been officially
named to the U.S. Olympic Torch Relay
route. The Olympic Flame is expected to
pass through Bryan-College Station May
21, 1996.
“We’re very pleased to be on the route be
cause it is not something we applied for,”
College Station Public Relations and Mar
keting Manager Peggy Calliham said. “The
route goes all over the United States, cover
ing a large number of cities. I think it sig
nals that Bryan-College Station is making a
name for itself.”
The 1996 Olympic Torch Relay will start
in Los Angeles on April 27 and end in At
lanta 84 days later on July 19, the day of the
Opening Ceremony for the Games of the
XXVI Olympiad.
The relay will cover more than 15,000
miles, traveling through 42 states and the
District of Columbia. The torch will also visit
Ft. Worth, Dallas, Waco, Houston, Beau
mont and Orange while in Texas.
“Our objective is to bring the flame as
close to as many Americans as possible,”
ACOG Spokesperson David Emanuel said.
“We’re trying to bring the flame within
a two-hour drive of 90 percent of the
U.S. population.”
Besides being carried by runners, the
flame will make its way across the country
by train, steamboat, packet boat, pony ex
press, oar boat and trolley.
The torch’s exact path through Bryan-Col-
B-CS
will pass by
ic Games in Atlanta.
lege Station has not been decided because of
conflicts with construction.
“The route will go through Bryan, Texas
A&M and College Station, but we’re not sure
how because Texas Avenue will be under ma
jor construction then,” Joe Brown, the public
information officer for the city of Bryan said.
“We’re going to choose the route that affords
everybody the best view to see it.”
Over 10,000 torchbearers will carry the
Olympic Flame on its trek across the nation.
Torchbearers will be community members
sponsored by The United Way, along with
citizens selected in a Coca-Cola consumer
program and up to 1,000 Olympians.
The individuals sponsored by The United
Way will be designated “Community He
roes.” The ACOG and each host city will
choose torchbearers who reflect the spirit of
“giving to the community.” The program will
begin Fall 1995.
“They want the community heroes to be
people like your teachers to the guy who
pumps your gas,” Brown said. “They don’t
want university presidents and mayors.
They want average citizens.”
Bryan-College Station is expected to re
ceive between 10-15 Torchbearer slots. Each
of the participants will run approximately
one kilometer (.62 miles) of the path.
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Associated Press
Hatchell says TySOIl tO fight Nov. 4
awesome’
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP)
— Two of the six bids received
by the fledgling Big 12 Con
ference for the site of a pro
posed football championship
game were “awesome,” confer
ence commissioner Steve
Hatchell said Tuesday.
The bids make it more
likely the playoff game will
be held once the league, be
ing formed by the assimila
tion of four Southwest Con
ference schools into the Big
Eight, begins play after this
season, Hatchell said at a
meeting of the Great Plains
Region of Associated Press
Sports Editors.
Hatchell characterized two
of the bids as not very good
and said two other bidders
would submit revised bids.
Hatchell declined to identi
fy the “awesome” bids, but the
front-runners are believed to
be Dallas and St. Louis.
Bids also have been made
by Kansas City, San Anto
nio and Houston. Dallas
submitted two bids for sepa
rate stadiums.
The new conference will
be split into two divisions
for football, and the pro
posed championship game
will be played between divi
sional winners.
Chief executive officers of
the 12 schools have not given
formal approval to the cham-
See BiG 1 2, Page 4
□ An opponent was not
named for the former
champ's second fight.
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Mike
Tyson will fight again Nov. 4 in
Las Vegas, his manager said
Tuesday, the same night Riddick
Bowe and Evander Holyfield are
scheduled to meet in another big
heavyweight fight just across
the Las Vegas Strip.
Setting up what could be a
heavyweight battle between
competing fights, Tyson manag
er John Horne said the former
champion would fight an oppo
nent to be named at the MGM
Grand hotel-casino.
The pay-per-view event would
go directly against the Bowe-
Holyfield rubber match, which
will be announced Wednesday in
New York. That fight will be
held a block away in an outdoor
arena at Caesars Palace.
“Mike Tyson has his dates;
they can move their dates,”
Horne said. “Bowe-Holyfield is a
good attraction, but right now
the biggest attraction is what
Mike Tyson does.”
Bowe’s manager. Rock New
man, however, said there was
no comparison between the
two fights.
“They’re attempting to serve
the people dog biscuits,” New
man said. “We’re serving filet
mignon on Nov. 4.”
Newman charged promoter
Don King and Home with try
ing to bluff their way into the
date, with no opponent and
no assurance that Tyson will
win his Aug. 19 fight against
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“This is' another pimp, hustler
move by the King-Home camp,”
Newman said. “On one hand
they want you to spend $50 to
watch on pay-per-view and
$1,500 in person to see Tyson
fight what is reported to be a
competitive match against Mc
Neeley. On the other hand,
they’re telling you the outcome
is already decided.”
Marc Ratner, executive direc
tor of the Nevada State Athletic
Commission, said he received a
request for the date from New
man on July 14 and two days
later received a request from
King for the
same date.
Ratner said
the commis
sion’s policy
would be to al
low both
fights to go on.
Caesars
World execu
tive Rich Rose
said the
Bowe-Holy-
field fight
would go on
as scheduled. It will be tele
vised on TVKO, Time Warner’s
pay-per-view arm.
It will be the third fight
between Bowe and Holyfield,
whose two previous title fights
were major pay-per-view
attractions.
The battle over the Nov. 4
date is important to Las Vegas
casinos because it comes at a
time when the hotels are not
filled with conventions or holi
day visitors, as they are much of
the rest of the year.
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Tyson
Seahawks' Odomes to
miss entire season
Reds' Viola successful in
first minor-league start
'Air' McNair lands at
Oilers' training camp
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Steve Mc
Nair arrived at the Houston Oilers
training camp Tuesday and signed a
$28.4 million contract, then dashed off
to join his team as the highest-paid
Houston player.
The soft-spoken 22-year-old from
Alcorn State, who finished third in the
1994 Heisman Trophy voting, said
he's ready for the NFL.
“I'm going to be a leader as I was at
Alcorn," he said. "A leader is a leader
no matter what category he's in."
Oilers owner Bud Adams wasted
no time complimenting McNair's
speed, agility and powerful arm. Mc
Nair is “probably the finest natural
athlete to play the position of quarter
back," he said.
Two Pirates injured in
outfield collision
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Pittsburgh Pi
rates outfielders Jacob Brumfield and
Dave Clark were driven off the field in
an ambulance after colliding violently
as Brumfield made a spectacular catch
Tuesday against Atlanta.
As the two raced into the right-cen
ter field gap to run down Jeff Blauser's
fifth-inning drive, Brumfield, the center
fielder, stuck out his glove to make the
catch. Just then Clark, running at full
speed, plowed into him.
Clark smacked face-first into the
padded outfield fence, knocking him
unconscious. Brumfield's head struck
Clark's left shoulder before snapping
backward and striking the rubberized
warning track.
As Pirates players and trainers ran
onto the field, Clark lay motionless for
nearly 10 minutes before an ambu
lance crew immobilized his head in a
steel harness.
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KIRKLAND, Wash. (AP) — Seattle
Seahawks cornerback Nate Odomes
will be lost for a second straight sea
son after having reconstructive
surgery on his right knee for the sec
ond time in 1 3 months.
Odomes tore the anterior cruciate
ligament in his right knee during prac
tice Sunday. It was the same ligament
he tore while playing in a pickup bas
ketball game last June in Georgia, forc
ing him to miss the 1 994 season.
At first, the latest injury appeared to
be minor. The knee swelled badly, so
doctors Monday performed explorato
ry arthroscopic surgery. After discover
ing the extent of the damage, team
doctor Pierce Scranton then performed
reconstructive surgery at Providence
Hospital in Seattle.
Rodeo cowboys planning
unionization
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Rodeo
cowboys, the epitome of Western indi
viduality, are talking about unionizing.
About 100 cowboys competing at
the Cheyenne Frontier Days Rodeo
met Tuesday night to discuss forming a
Professional Rodeo Players Associa
tion, starting a mailing list and collect
ing $50 dues.
Proponents see it as a way to get a
bigger share of gate receipts, health
and retirement benefits and an avenue
for airing grievances.
"This is not going to happen by im
maculate conception," said R.G. Ke-
kich, a 57-year-old Gilbert, Ariz., steer
wrestler leading the move to organize.
“It's not going to happen unless we
fight for it."
Jeff Klaus, a Denver labor attorney
who has represented athletes, said a
decision could be made in about two
weeks about what the group would do.
“It's just the business of sports in
the 20th Century," he said. “We'll
ask the question of where is the mon
ey coming from and where is the
money going."
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Frank Vio
la, trying to get back to the majors after
elbow surgery, pitched six hitless in
nings Tuesday night for Cincinnati's
Triple-A affiliate in Indianapolis.
Viola, who struck out six and
walked one, got the win in a 2-1 victo
ry over New Orleans. He threw 81
pitches, 47 for strikes.
Viola, 35, used an escape clause in
his minor-league contract with Toronto
to leave for the Reds. The former Cy
Young Award winner agreed to a con
tract Tuesday with Indianapolis.
Viola had told Reds general manag
er Jim Bowden that he's still got it.
“When Frank Viola tells me on the
phone, 'Jim, I can still pitch,' that's a
critical part of it," Bowden said.
Bowden and manager Davey John
son had planned to drive to Indianapo
lis to watch Viola pitch Tuesday.
Viola, recovering from surgery last
year to replace an elbow ligament,
agreed to a minor-league contact with
Toronto in April. He had been on a re
habilitation assignment with the Blue
Jays' Class A team in Dunedin, Fla.,
going 0-1 in three starts.
Abilene Christian pitcher
wins Arthur Ashe Award
ABILENE, Texas (AP) — Abilene
Christian's Robby Scott has won the
1995 Arthur Ashe Collegiate Award,
the school announced Tuesday.
Scott led coach Ron Elston's team
to the 1995 Lone Star Conference
championship in men's tennis at the
April league tournament in Portales,
N.M. He is from Lee High School
in Tyler.
Scott's award from the Intercolle
giate Tennis Association and Tennis
magazine for men's tennis in NCAA
Division II is named for the late ten
nis star.
Ashe, the first black male to win a
U.S. Open and Wimbledon and a
global advocate for civil rights, died of
AIDS in 1993.
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