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Everyone at the Plasma Center, from those behind the front counter to the phlebotomists to the supervisors, have made great efforts to insure that each donor feels hygienically safe, as well as keeping the atmosphere light. Like most, I started coming to the Plasma Center for monetary reasons, but I soon developed acquaintances that appealed to me almost as much as the original need for money, enabling me to look forward to each donation, not only for my wallet s sake but also to see my friends. Like I commented to some one recently, talking to people at the Plasma Center was like getting mail from a far-off friend that you don’t get to do much with, but who you can talk to as often as you write. Lor those acquaintances and for your continual services. I would like to thank all of those I’ve come to know and appreciate over the past three years - Emily, and Tracy, Heath, and Marty, Ada and Josie, etc... more I can’t remember or those who have gone on to better things. So, as I graduate from this great University, I bid you all a fond farewell and strong commendations on such a successful blend of quality medical practice and friendly service. Thank you all and have a great sum mer. Thanks, C.E BiologicalS THE PLASMA CENTER 700 E. University Dr. 268-6050 4223 Wellborn Rd. 846-8855 The Battalion ports Monday Former UT golfer wins coveted British Open TROON, Scotland (AP) — Jesper Parnevik knew the score this time. And it told him that Justin Leonard was the British Open champion. Leonard, the only contender to mount a charge on Sunday at Royal Troon, closed with a 65 to win the 126th Open championship at 12-under-par 272. Parnevik, who had as much as a four-stroke advan tage on the final day, lost the lead for good when Leonard, playing in the group ahead of him, made a birdie on No. 17. “I came up to 17 and watched his birdie and the air kind of went out of my sails for good,” Parnevik said. Parnevik followed with a bogey on No. 17 to fall two behind and the tournament was over. It was his second crushing disappointment in the British Open. He lost the 1994 championship just 10 miles down the coast at Turnberry when he failed to look at the scoreboard on the final hole and gambled when he did not need to. “This one hurts a lot more than Turnberry,” Parnevik said. “I think the pressure was too much. It was a strug gle all day.” As Parnevik walked up the 18th fairway to a thun derous ovation from the packed bleachers, the in escapable truth was written in the black letters on the Photograph: Associated Press Justin Leonard kisses his trophy after he won the 126th British Open Sunday. giant yellow scoreboard: He was second once; Leonard’s closing round was one of thebestint 0 jor championship history, ranking with the67by Faldo in the 1996 Masters, the 64 by Greg Normanini 1993 British Open and the 63 by Jolinny Miller in 1973 U.S. Open. All of them shot scores no one else could comens on the final day. So did Leonard. Of the 16 players started the day under par, Leonard was theonlyonsj shoot a round in the 60s. “Just to be able to come through with thetoum ment on the line, that’s the kind of confidenceII' able to take away from here,” Leonard said. Only Jim Barnes in 1925 was able to come from! strokes back on the final day to win the British Ope Later, as Leonard brushed back tears when heJ! awarded the silver claret jug that goes to the winner: scoreboard carried the message: “Well done, JustinSi you at Royal Birkdale in 1998.” Leonard, the fifth consecutive American to Troon, starting with Arnold Palmer in 1962,wasapii ture of calm on the course. “Because all day I was behind, and most of the behind by two or three strokes,” Leonard said. “I wanted to go out aggressively and avoid makingaca pie of mistakes on the back nine.” He followed that plan perfectly. Needing only to two-putt on the final hole, Leonai stroked his 30-footer gently toward the hole andp; out a big sigh and rolled his eyes as it nestled withinlaj in distance. “That last putt I was just praying that I could two-puit Leonard said. “It was surprising how calm I stayed.'' A final bogey on No. 18 put Parnevik at 275, tiedraC Darren Clarke of Northern Ireland. Jim Furyb fourth with a 279 and Padraig Harrington of Ireland! ished at 280. Tiger Woods stumbled once again, making a tripl bogey on the par-3 eighth hole in shooting a 74 to! [j ish 12 strokes back. Woods, who started the day eight stroke behiii made a bit of a run with two early birdies, butlostaif hope when he made a triple bogey 6 on the 126-j Postage Stamp hole when it took him two shots togt out of the bunker. Big numbers did Woods in at RoyalTroon. HehadM triple bogeys and a quadruple bogey in the tournamed Leonard won with a hot putter that helped himgeisii 1 birdies on the front nine to get back in the hunt. He then; closed with a series of great putts to blow past Parnevi “Making those putts on 15,16 and 17,” Leonardsaii searching for words to describe the feeling. "TheMe just opened up for me today.” Leonard made a 12-footer to save par on the “That was the tournament right there,” Leonard sail He followed it with a 15-footer for birdie on thenai hole and then the 35-foot birdie putt on No. 17. Leonard has bright future ahea< TROON, Scotland (AP) — The night before the final of the 1992 U.S. Amateur, Jim Litke AP Commentary Nancy Leonard hemmed a new pair of pants for her son and tried to imagine how a break through win would change his life. Imagine what the future holds for Justin Leonard now. Someone asked the 25-year-old Texan to do that moments after he coolly finished off Royal Troon’s tough final holes to become the British Open champion. Leonard is no wild-and-crazy guy, but the pic ture he kept coming back to was the party his friends were throwing at the Royal Oaks club in,Dallas that very moment without him. “The men’s locker room will be crazy,” he said. “I hope somebody videotaped it for me.” After a moment’s reflection, though, Leonard was not so sure he actually wanted to watch it. This is the same guy who had a hard time living down his selection by Cosmpolitan magazine last year as one of the world’s 25 most eligible bachelors. “I keep thinking how big my club bill is going to be,” he said, “after every thing is broken and all the champagne that’s going to be poured.” Typical Leonard. He is way too modest. He gets asked about breaking through to the highest level of his profession and all he can talk about is the guys he plays a regular Nassau with bust ing a couple of lockers. But there is no missing this point: In the same way a win at the U.S. Amateur earned Leonard a spot near the front of the emerging class of great young players, win ning a major confirms it. A break through win like the British Open separates him from the crowd packed with potential and names like Phil Mickelson, David Duval and Jim Furyk. Most important, it establishes him as a legitimate rival for the two best players his genera tion has so far produced — 21 -year- old Masters champion Tiger Woods and 27-year-old U.S. Open champi on Ernie Els. “I don’t feel like I play harder or practice harder because of those two. But maybe going in there to day, having seen Tiger and Ernie do it, I thought it was OK to go out and win a tournament like this even be ing the age I am. “Maybe,” Leonard said, “that was in the back of my mind somewhere.” If so, it was apparently back there for some time. Not so you would know it by watching him swing. Leonard has one of those horri bly flat, “hit-the-ball-before-it- moves” maneuvers made necessary by the high winds in Texas and made famous by the movie Tin Cup. And he can be very touchy about defending it. “The reason you don’t see every body swing this way,” Leonard said earlier this weekend, when a British reporter asked about his “unique” swing, “is because no one else out there is 5-foot-9,157 pounds, with a 10-C shoe and thinks exactly the way I do.” The swing may LOOK like it was slapped together on the practice range five minutes before his tee time. But Leonard has been work ing on it his entire life. His sister, Kelly, has proof. She often tells sto ries about how he fashioned par-5 holes at the beach and played them with sticks while the other kids were building sand castles. And how, the moment their parents walked out the door, he would start chipping his way across the house, using the dining room, a few steps up, as an elevated green. All that practicing paid off Sun day. Leonard started the day in third place, trailing leader - Jesper Parnevik by five strokes and Darren Clarke by three. He ran off six birdies in the eight holes onto front to get himself into thelourna- ment and made three pullsa(/Vos. 15-17 to win it. But the really tough part was in the middle. ^ The back nine at RoyalTroonbe- gins with four par-4s 01438,463,431 and 465 yards, and the short-hitting Leonard is as traditional about his J equipment as anybody gets. Hi grew up playing with persimmoi c)| woods and forged blade irons £ came out on tour that way. But after getting beat up by to A winds of the British Isles in thid la l previous Open tries (missed W IJS | cuts; tied for 58th), he switched! iCe L a metal-headed, graphite-shato driver. It made a difference,but! Ins j was nol what helped him nan gate t he hardest stretch of boll on the course. “The longer hitters can carrytl u bunkers or bounce overthemi " me, they’re still kind of in play,"! u said. “But I never thought there« q too much golf course. I thoughts m week long that the guys who wots do well would be the ones with if re | strongest mental outlook.” Top finishers, monies won and \ scores • Justin Leonard, $418,875 69-66-72-65 272 4 Darren Clarke, $251,325 67-66-71-71 275 9 Jesper Parnevik, $251,325 70-66-66-73 275 • Jim Furyk, $150,795 67-72-70-70 279-5 IK) Stephen Ames, $ 104 7 1 9 7 4 6 9 6 6 71 280 -iflb: 9 Padraig Harrington, $104,719 75-69-69-67 280 • Pete O'Malley, $68,137 73 70-70-68 281 • Eduardo Romero, $68,137 74-68-67-72 281 • Fred Couples, $68,137 69-68-70-74 281 9 Robert Allenby, $40,715 76-68-66-72 . 282 Lions reach deal with Sanders UNIVERSITY CENTER, Mich. (AP) — Barry Sanders agreed to a five-year contract with the De troit Lions on Sunday and will report to camp on Monday, the team announced. The team did not disclose the financial terms of the contract, but said it includes an option for a sixth year. Sanders had reportedly been close to signing a contract that would pay him on average between $5.3 million and $5.5 million per season, making him the league’s highest-paid running back! “This was obviously a complicated deal, and we glad we could iron out the final details,” saidCf# Schmidt, the Lions executive vice president and ^ operating officer. “Barry’s been an important pla) f! for this team for the past eight seasons. And withto deal, we’re delighted that Lions fans will have the of portunity to watch Barry for years to come.” T lri Sanders won the NFL rushing title last season vP 1,553 yards, becoming the first back in leaguehistorfl, rush for 1,500 yards or better in three straight season*