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1 Page 8 • The Battalion Sports Wednesday • November 22,193' Former player sues Baylor Nashville says yes to Oilers □ The city's Metro Council voted 28-9 to approve the agreement. NASHVILLE, Term. (AP) — The city’s Metro Council voted 28- 9 Tuesday night to approve a legal agreement between the mayor and the Houston Oilers’ owner to move the NFL team here. The vote extends to March the exclusive negotiating agreement between the city and the Oilers, which would have expired Satur day. The 56-page "stadium and relo cation agreement” was signed last week by Oilers owner Bud Adams and Mayor Phil Bredesen. The council’s approval was required as one of several milestones the city must meet before the deal is final. “We’re very pleased with the greater than 3-to-l vote,” said By ron Trauger, who heads the city’s negotiating team. “The real vote is now with fans, and if fans want this National Football League op portunity in Tennessee, it’s going to happen.” He was talking about football fans getting the opportunity to put their wallets where their mouths are. Over the next few days, the city will finalize its plan to sell $71 mil lion worth of permanent seat li censes, which allow buyers the life time opportunity to purchase sea son tickets at the 65,000-seat sta dium planned for the Oilers. Opponents to the Oilers’ move say they don’t want schools, side walks, the police force and other important projects to languish so taxpayers can line the pockets of Adams, who already is a million aire. In addition to a brand-new sta dium, Adams gets all the revenues from ticket sales, concessions and team paraphernalia, as well as money from the sale of luxury suites and premium club seats. “The main focus for being for this that makes any sense to me is the prestige factor — ‘Let’s make Nashville a first-class city.’ But I live in a first-class city. I do not know any National Football League cities that I would want to live in,” said Councilman Stewart Clifton. “The more basic needs of the city have to do with a first-class school system, with a first-class law enforcement agency with the kind of equipment they need, with first-class neighborhoods,” he added. Council members will have an other opportunity to keep the Oil ers out of Nashville when they vote in February on the city’s $143.6 million portion of the $292.1 mil lion financial package. □ Tyrone Davis says the school made him wrongly sit out a year. HOUSTON (AP) — Former Baylor University basketball play er Tyrone Davis is suing the school for making him sit out a year while Southwest Conference officials scrutinized his academic record, the Houston Chronicle re ported Tuesday. In the suit filed in Kansas City on Monday, Davis charges that the actions of the school’s coaches and administrators de frauded him and caused him emotional distress. The suit mentions no specific damages. Baylor and eight individuals are named in the suit, including former Baylor basketball coach Darrel Johnson, former university president Herbert Reynolds and □ The Texas Tech grad served at A&M from 1982 to 1991. Ralph Carpenter, longtime ; athletic administrator and for mer assistant athletic director ; and sports information direc- : tor at Texas A&M, passed away early Tuesday morning in Bryan after a lengthy battle with heart disease. Carpenter, a graduate of Texas Tech, served more than ! 25 years in college athletics. : He was the sports information director at Teas Tech from former football coach and athletic director Grant Teaff. Also named is James Nether- ton, the university vice president who supervised the athletic de partment during Johnson’s two years as coach. The other defendants are John son’s three assistants during the 1993-94 season — Gary Thomas, Kevin Gray and Troy Drummond — and Vinson Metcalf, a Hill Col lege coach who acted as the proc tor for three correspondence- course exams Davis took while trying to become eligible at Baylor. The lawsuit claims Metcalf and other unnamed defendants altered Davis’ answers without his knowledge. “Tyrone gave up a year of his life,” said his attorney Scott Mach. “If there’s an innocent victim in all this, it’s Tyrone.” On Tuesday, Baylor issued a statement in which it said it had n’t been served with the lawsuit. 1967-77 and handled promo tions and media relations for the Coaches All-America foot ball game. He worked one year at Texas Christian University as assistant a athletic director before coming to Texas A&M in May, 1982 as assistant ath letic director and sports infor mation director. He retired in 1991 due to medical reasons. Carpenter was named to the College Sports Information Directors of America Hall of Fame in 1982. He received nu merous publication awards and received the Press Box Merit Award from the Football “If a lawsuit has been filed, we believe it is without merit and we intend to mount a vigorous de fense,” the statement said. “Neither Mr. Davis nor his at torney has contacted Baylor since Mr. Davis left the university fol lowing the 1993-94 school year. As a result, we are surprised by the assertion that he has filed a law suit, and we have difficulty in un derstanding what may be his mo tivation and basis for doing so. It is unfortunate if Mr. Davis has chosen to resort to litigation to re solve whatever grievance he feels he may have with Baylor.” Davis transferred to Baylor from State Fair Community Col lege in Sedalia, Mo., in 1993. He sat out the 1993-94 season at Bay lor’s direction while officials exam ined the correspondence-course credit he and three other Bears re cruits had received from South eastern College of the Assemblies of God in Lakeland, Fla. Writers Association of America for having one of the top press box operations in the nation at Texas Tech, Mississippi and Texas A&M. He assisted the NCAA with its media operations at the Fi nal Four Basketball Champi onships for many years. Several of Carpenter’s assis tants moved on to become sports information directors and one of his pupils, Bob Con- dron, is the associate director of public information and me dia relations at the United States Olympic Committee. Carpenter is survived by his wife, Lois, and their two sons, Clark and Chip. Former SID Carpenter dies at 63 Tcu Continued from Page 5 lot of faith it “I think that any team prefen playing at home and in front(j their home crowd,” Sullivan sait “Fve heard people talking aboi. the Aggies’ weak offense all sei son, but when I look at guys lili McElroy and Pullig — they® getting the job done I guess people want them to score every time they get theii hands on the ball. They are good team. Their defense does a good job of stooping their ponents.” Sullivan has his team and knows that with another showing like they played against Texas, an up set could be in the works. “A&M is bigger and faster, no question about that,” Sullivan said. “They've showed a tremen dous effort this season, and I fee! strongly about them. We'll need some big plays, but I think this team is capable of doing it.” A win against the Aggies is how the Horned Frogs are hop ing to end their final showing js( in the SWC. Their loss againsi m Texas dropped their record to P^' 3-3 in the SWC arid 6-4 overall dropping them out of the league race and damaging their hopes for a bowl bid. TCU holds the longest current losing streak in the SWC coming at the hands of the Aggies. The Frogs have lost 22 consecutive games against A&M. The Iasi time that TCU won against the Aggies was in 1972 at Kyle Field. The Frogs started the sea son winning five of their first six game. 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