1995
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Sports
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The Bati align
After 33 years and three na-
ional championships, the'
exas A&M Powerlifting Team
ss still working to be recog
nized on campus. But under the
new leadership of president
Dean Yamada and vice-presi
dent Thomas Conlon, the team
now spends its time working
with the weight of student in
volvement.
“We’re starting to get some
support from student activities,”
Conlon, who also serves as the
team’s head coach, said. “We’re
now in the process of moving
under Recreational Sports.”
Yamada and Conlon took
over the team last year and
have spent most of their time
trying to improve it. They im
mediately held elections for of
ficers and started recruiting for
the team.
“We went around to different
high schools all over the state,”
Conlon said. “Powerlifting is
more popular in high school
than it is in college. We talked
to the powerlifting and football
teams and told them what we
were planning to do.”
The recruiting paid off as the
team’s roster improved from
seven to 28 members.
“I got involved in powerlifting
in high school and did very
well,” freshman Curtis Young
said. “I wanted to powerlift in
college. I went to look at
Louisiana Tech, they have a
real good program over there.
“Then, (Yamada and Conlon)
showed me that Texas A&M
was coming along. I’m glad I
chose to come here.”
The powerlifting team is also
pleased with Young’s decision.
In the two meets Texas A&M
has entered this year, Young
has won both in his weight
class.
In powerlifting meets, each
individual competes in the
squat, bench press and dead
lift. The totals of the three
events are then added up for
the individual’s score. Individu
als compete only in their weight
divisions.
“I run all the practices,” Con
lon said. “I work with the guys
on their techniques and forms.
Also, a lot of the guys on the
team have never lifted before
and joined the team to get
physical fit. So I give them
powerlifting training and nutri
tional tips. We have five prac
tices a week.”
Those practices paid off on
Nov. 4 when the team brought
home the Texas Powerlifting
Championship. It was the first
time the team had won the title
in ten years.
The team’s next meet will be
in Austin at the Longhorn Invi
tational on Dec. 2, the same
day the Aggies and Longhorns
are scheduled to meet on Kyle
Maryland governor
OKs Browns’ move
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ing B □ Delegate Robert Fla-
r a e n nagan thinks that the
fter state is giving away too
much in the deal.
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) —
I Despite worries that Mary-
| land is offering too much to
lure the Cleveland Browns,
Gov. Parris Glendening and
the state Board of Public
Works today gave formal ap
proval to a deal aimed at get
ting the NFL team for Balti
more.
Signing off on an agree
ment reached be
tween the Maryland
Stadium Authority
and Browns owner'
Art Modell on Oct.
27, the three-member'
oversight board,
which is chaired by
Glendening, unani
mously approved the
deal.
If the league’s other club
owners go along with the
move at meeting in January,
today’s action by the state
means a 30-year lease with
the Browns will immediately
be put into effect.
The decision came amid
rumblings that the state is
giving away too much to bring
the Browns to Baltimore and
committing money Maryland
doesn’t have for a $200 mil
lion stadium to be built in the
shadow of Camden Yards,
where the Baltimore Orioles
play.
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“They’re breaking the bank
on this one,” said delegate
Robert Flanagan, who sits on
the state’s House Appropria
tions Committee.
Flanagan told the board
prior to its vote that he has
serious reservations whether
the state lottery games ear
marked to retire stadium
bonds will bring in enough
each year to cover the costs.
He said those games have
brought in only about $20
million a year in recent years.
The stadium project will re
quire as much as $35 million
a year to cover debts.
The Stadium Authority
deal also gives
the Browns a
rent-free lease,
as well as up to
$75 million on
the sale of per
sonal seat licens
es, which give the
holder a right to
buy a season-
ticket.
The state would also
allow the Browns to keep all
proceeds from parking and
concessions and split with the
team any money brought in
through stadium events other
than football games.
Glendening called criticism
of the deal “erroneous,” say
ing the economic benefits will
far outweigh the costs.
“These are complicated is
sues,” said the Democratic
governor. “We’re going to re
ceive some political questions,
particularly some partisan po
litical questions.”
Photo Courtesy of Thomas Conlon, The Battalion
Members of the Texas A&M Powerlifting Team pose with their trophies
that they won at the 1995 State Championships in Seguin on Nov. 4.
Field.
“Hopefully, we will be able to
kick butt at two places at the
same time,” Conlon said.
But the meet that Conlon
cannot wait for is the national
championship in March at Ft.
Hood.
Last year, the Aggies placed
fourth in .the nation. Texas
A&M has won the national title
in powerlifting in 1975, 1977
and 1983.
“Powerlifting was really pop
ular at A&M during the 70s,”
Conlon said. “It kind of died off
during the 80s. This year is the
best chance we have had in 15
years of winning a national
championship.”
Nashville Mayor
meets with Adams
□ Mayor Bredesen went
to Houston to discuss
the details of the deal
with Bud Adams.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) —
Mayor Phil Bredesen flew to
Houston this morning to talk
with Houston Oilers owner Bud
Adams about the details of a 50-
page agreement to move the
NFL team to Tennessee.
“He had a lengthy conversa
tion on the phone with Mr.
Adams last night and decided
he’d fly out to Houston this
morning,” mayor’s
spokeswoman Tam
Gordon said.
Neither she nor
Oilers spokesman
Dave Pearson knew
the details of the
conversation, or
what the mayor
would discuss with
him today.
“They’re obviously reviewing
the project agreement,” Pearson
said today. “Whether it will be
formally executed I can’t tell
you.”
Adams postponed Monday’s
scheduled signing of the docu
ment, which lays out details of
the city’s $292 million plan to re
locate the Oilers and build them
a stadium.
Bredesen, who flew with ne
gotiators Byron Trauger and
Dennis Bottorff, was expected to
return to Nashville this after
noon.
The day before, Bredesen
shopped in Memphis for support
of his plan to woo the Oilers.
“I’m not trying to say it’s just
as good for Memphis as it is for
Nashville ... I genuinely believe
it’s very good for the state of
Tennessee and for the other
cities in the state of Tennessee,”
Bredesen said Tuesday.
“And certainly, as the other
major city in the state of Ten
nessee, I think Memphis stands
to benefit.”
His proposal would bring the
Oilers to Nashville in 1998. The
team has two years left on its
stadium deal in Houston, but
might be able to get out of it ear
ly, he said.
“If the team comes
early, and I think
there’s a chance they
would want to, their
preference would be
to try to find some
place to play (in
Memphis),” he said.
No agreement will
be final, he said, until
the Oilers sign a
lease on a Nashville stadium.
That could take place next
March.
“There are lots of ways for
both parties to get out between
now and the time the formal
lease is signed,” he said.
The proposal, including a new
stadium, would cost more than
$290 million.
It would be funded primarily
through a bond issue and the
sale of luxury seats and the
rights to buy season tickets. The
city council in Nashville and the
state Legislature must give their
approval.
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