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The Battalion Tuesday November 28, 1995 At a Glance Sports Briefs Sega Football Contest to be held tonight Bullwinkle's Bar and Grill will host the College Football USA96 Campus VideoGame Championship tonight beginning at 6:30 p.m. Registration for the contest, which involves playing EA Sports College Football USA 96 on the Sega Genesis, will begin at 5:30 p.m., with the first 12 teams being automatically registered. Teams are made up of two stu dents, each player will play one half of a game. Four additional teams will be registered by competing with each other for yardage on a four-down set. Teams will be seeded by com peting in a four to score competition at registration. All students who participate will receive free T-shirts, and the winner of the contest will face the winner of the Austin-based contest before the A&M-UT game on Saturday. King's legal troubles hold up next Tyson fight ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Promoter Don King's legal troubles remain a stumbling block to a planned Dec. 1 6 match between Mike Tyson and Buster Mathis Jr. Representatives of Donald J. Trump, a realtor and casino opera tor, were negotiating with New Jer sey gaming authorities, but there was no resolution, officials said Monday. King and his Don King Produc tions were banned from doing busi ness with New Jersey casinos last year because of a wire fraud indict ment against King. His trial ended in a mistrial, but the ban remains in place. Trump said last week he was seeking to hold the Tyson-Mathis ( fight in the Convention Hall here. It originally was set for Nov. 4 in Las Vegas, but was called off after Tyson broke his right thumb while spar ring Upcoming Events Lady Aggie Volleyball The Texas A&M Volleyball Team will host a second-round NCAA Tournament game Sunday at G. Rol- lie White Coliseum at 3 p.m. The Lady Aggies will face the winner of Wednesday's match between Hofs- tra and South Carolina. A&M Men's Basketball The Men's Basketball Team be gins its regular season tonight with a non-conference game against Mary- land-Baltimore County. The game begins at 7 p.m. at G. Rollie White Coliseum. Texas A&M Football The Aggie Football Team plays for the final Southwest Conference Championship and a shot at the Sugar Bowl Saturday at 2:30 p.m. at Kyle Field against the University of Texas. The No. 16 Aggies enter the game 8-2 overall and 5-1 in the SWC. The No. 9 Longhorns are 8-1- 1 overall and a flawless 6-0 in con ference play. The winner of the game will square off with No. 8 Florida State in the Sugar Bowl Dec. 31 in New Orleans' Superdome. NFL Football Sunday: Oilers at Steelers Cowboys at Redskins Dramatic ending just what Slocum wants □ The A&M Head Coach said the A&M-UT matchup is a fit ting end to the SWC. Staff and Wire Reports Everything is on the line this week for the Texas A&M football team. Ag gie Head Football Coach R.C. Slocum says he would not have it any other way. “I think it’s fitting for these two schools (A&M and the University of Texas) that are tied so close to each other are competing for the final Southwest Conference Champi onship,” Slocum said. “I’m delighted that both teams have good records. It wouldn’t be as meaningful if one or the other didn’t have a good team. It just wouldn’t be fair to the legacy of the conference.” The Longhorns enter the game 6-0 in the conference, while the Aggies stand at 5-1. A win by A&M would force a tie for the conference crown, a tie A&M would win based on that vic tory. In the new bowl system, the winner of the SWC will play against No. 9 Florida State in the Sugar Bowl Dec. 31, while the loser will play in San Antonio’s Alamo Bowl Dec. 28 against No. 18 Michigan. But the postseason is not on the minds of the Aggies right now, only the Texas game matters. Slocum said he is pleased that Longhorn starting quarterback James Brown is expected to play, so the two teams will both be at full strength. “One of Texas’ problems early was that they lost (defensive end) Tony Brackens,” Slocum said. “But they have him back and they’ll have Brown back too. So they’ll have their key players on the field. And it looks like we will too." The best part of A&M’s 38-6 whip ping of Texas Christian University Saturday in Fort Worth was the con tinued improvement of the Aggies’ of fense. Quarterback Corey Pullig enjoyed his finest performance since the Tulsa game, completing 24-of-36 passes for 253 yards and one touchdown. Slocum said Pullig’s marked im provement began in against a tough Rice defense in the Aggies’ 17-10 win three weeks ago. “If you took from the second half of Rice to now, you’d say we have gotten significantly better throughout that period,” Slocum said. “Corey was near ly perfect in the second half against Rice.” Another key to the offense’s change of performance has been the emer gence of junior wide receiver Albert Connell as the big-play receiver the Aggies’ have desperately searched for for several seasons. “He(Connell) is playing with more and more confidence,” Slocum said. “That’s the way those good ones do. They get to the point where they think they are going to catch everything. “I think he can jump, but he can also time it. You see some of those guys in basketball that can jump, but they never get a re bound. It’s knowing when to jump.” Senior linebacker Reggie Brown said the TCU win was a major springboard for A&M’s confidence and that it should carry over into the preparations for the Texas matchup on Saturday. “We came out and showed we’re still a pretty good A&M team," Brown said. "This win is a major step for this football team.” Although the Aggies have enjoyed a great deal of recent success against the Longhorns — having won 10 of the last 11 meetings — Slocum said the streak has not been easy to accom plish, and will be even more difficult to continue this year. “The games have been competitive every year,” Slocum said. “I think if you go on out there and walk through the games, then you could make that statement. But those games have been hard-fought and could have gone ei ther way. “I’d say we’ve been fortunate as much as anything else.” The 2:30 kickoff is expected to draw the largest crowd ever at Kyle Field — besting the mark of 78, 753 set against Texas on Thanksgiving Day in 1987. Stew Milne, The Battalion Texas A&M junior running back Iceland McElroy picks his way through the Texas Christ ian defense Saturday in the Aggies' 38-6 win. "The games have been competitive every year." C. Slocum A&M Football Coach The Big Game can even turn brother against brother Y ou don’t know him, but you wouldn’t like him.I’m speaking of my older brother, Marc. He’s out in L.A. somewhere drinking too much wine, reading too much poetry or doing too much of whatever it is liberal freaks do. Combine this with the fact that he attended the University of Texas, and his last name be come his only redeeming quality. Don’t get me wrong, I love the guy (on Thanksgiving, Christ mas, and for a couple of hours on his birthday). But he’s just the one guy in the world that can re ally piss me off. He possesses this talent through natural abili ty as an older brother and through his relentless allegiance to his Texas Longhorns, though he’s forgotten that he was en rolled at t.u. just long enough to flunk out of his first semester. But aggravation is aggravation, and big brother is a master. Case in point: After the tragic A&M loss to Colorado earlier this season, I get a collect call from Marc. Why I accepted the charges, I’ll never know. Any way, he doesn’t say a word to me but just goes into this irritating, Betty Rubble-like laugh. He in terrupted his cackling only to re peat the final score, 29-21. I hung up the phone and threw it off the balcony. Two weeks later, after the A&M loss to Tech, I get another collect call. This time the opera tor says Inga is on the other line, so I accepted out of obvious cu riosity. All I got from Inga was, “Aggies suck! ‘Homs rule! Aggies suck! Homs rule! I hung up the phone and went out to buy a handgun and a case of special, sibling-killing sil ver bullets. Obviously I wasn’t too sur prised when I got another collect call from Marc this weekend. My roommate accepted the charges, so I was forced to actually have a conversation with him. The fol lowing is an excerpt of this intel lectual discussion. Take notice of my brother’s attempts to shake down my Aggie confidence going into this Saturday’s showdown between the Aggies and the Longhorns. Also notice my cool, eloquent responses. Him: “Hey, you stupid Aggie putz! How ya’ doin’?” Me: “You in jail again? Man, how many times I gotta tell to quit hittin’ me up for money!” Him: “Nah. Nah. Did you see the ‘Homs whoop up on Baylor Thanksgiving night?” Me: “Yeah, yeah, it was beau tiful. We beat TCU Saturday. I don’t suppose you got the game out there, did you?” Him: “Wow! TCU. Big freakin’ deal. You could play for them!” Me: CENSORED Him: “So, you nervous about the game on Saturday? You know the ‘Homs are No. 9 in the country? You know they’re undefeated in the Southwest Conference? You know all they have to do to win the conference and go to the Sugar Bowl is beat Texas A&M? You worried, little brother?” Me: “Nope. The game’s at Kyle Field. The last time your boys one at Kyle Field was way back in ‘83. I was in the third grade, and you were a freshman in high school who still wet his bed.” Him: “First of all, you know I don’t like to talk about that bladder problem I had. And Kyle Field? Kyle Field this, pal! Kyle Field ain’t gonna slow down James Brown at quarter back. Kyle Field ain’t gonna stop our bad boy tailbacks Ricky Williams and Shon Mitchell. Kyle Field ain’t gonna stop Mike Adams from running through your secondary. No way A&M can stop that kind of offensive explosiveness.” Me: “We have the number one defense in the nation. Brandon Mitchell? Keith Mitchell? Larry See Leone, Page 8 UT’s Brown will start □The quarterback sprained his left ankle during the Longhorns' win over TCU. AUSTIN (AP) — Texas coach John Mackovic said Monday that he is preparing his ninth- ranked Longhorns to face No. 16 Texas A&M Saturday with sophomore quarterback James Brown in the lineup. Mackovic said Brown, who sprained his left ankle late in a 27-19 victory against Texas Christian on Nov. 18 and missed the Longhorns’ Thanks giving night triumph over Bay lor, will resume practicing with the team on Tuesday. “He’s feeling better,” Mack ovic said. “We will just have to take it on a day-to-day basis with an eye on his being able to play. If James can go out and move around on Tuesday, we will build our offensive scheme for him.” Brown is 12-1-1 as a starter and leads the Southwest Con ference in pass efficiency and total offense. With the 81st and final SWC championship on the line when Texas (9-1-1, 6-0 SWC) travels to College Station to meet the Aggies (8-2, 5-1), the Longhorns said they would need Brown's big-game experience. “Going into that hostile envi ronment, it’s going to take everything we’ve got, and that includes James Brown and his ability to scramble,” said Texas linebacker Tyson King. "As a defensive player, you hate a quarterback who can scramble. I would take a passer who could throw like crazy all day long. James has got moves that make him hard to tackle as a runner.” Mackovic said the Longhorns match up better with A&M this year than in any of his' three previous seasons as coach at Texas. “We match up size- and speed-wise better than we have in the past,” Mackovic said. “They are still one of the fastest teams in the country.” King, a junior from El Cam- po, agreed. “This is the first time since I’ve been here where I can say we match up great against the Aggies,” King said. “In the past, we’ve had to hope they would make turnovers or mess up for us to have a chance. This time, we can say if we play our game and don’t make mistakes, we can go out and win. Our confidence is high.” Players said it was fitting that Texas and A&M — the two winningest programs in the history of the SWC — were playing for the title on the league’s final weekend. The conference is disbanding after this year. Texas and A&M will join the Big 12 Conference in 1996. The winner of Saturday’s game likely will go to the Sugar Bowl in New Orleans on Dec. 31 to face Florida State. The loser will go to the Alamo Bowl in San Antonio Dec. 28 against Michigan. 2SDi Student Counseling elp£ine, firmrrmt fite Ijau a aood listener? Da yau tike to help others? fire you a responsible and committed person? (DVotunteen Heeded® to begin service in the Spring Semester. Required training will be Monday, January 8 through Saturday, January 13 *** INTERVIEWING NOW *** Applications available Room 104 Henderson Hall. *** Application DEADLINE is FRIDAY, DECEMBER I*** For further information call Ms. Susan Vavra at 845-4427 ext. 133. Texas A&M University has a strong institutional commitment to the principle of diversity in all areas. In that spirit, admission to Texas A&M University and arty of its sponsored programs is open to all qualified individuals without regard to any subgroup, class or stereotype. An invitation to all students: The Board of Regents of The Texas A&M University System invites you to an Open House at tlie Regent’s Annex (located on the West side of the MSC, across from Cain Hall) 6 - 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, November 29, 1995 Refreshments will he served. Aggies, if you need a place to store your stuff call or come by Longmire Self Storage Temperature Controlled 10% OFF first month’s rent with this coupon CALL Today: 69T2186 3400 Longmire Dr. NLF 9-5:30 p.m. at Rock Prairie SAT 10-1 p.m. Aggie Owned and Operated