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Page 8 • Wednesday, September 9, 1998
Sports
Youth movement dominates Texas A&M
T he Texas A&M Men’s and Women’s Cross
Country Teams started their seasons on the
right foot Saturday with a handful of strong
performances.
Youth is King
Even if the runners can’t put it all together this
year, most have a few more years to do so. On the
men’s side, there are no runners slated to use their
final year of eligibility after this fall. The women
will lose only senior Marisa TUzzi, who led the
track team last spring with a 4-minute, 35-second
1500-meter run.
Of the 33 runners on the two teams, 15 are
freshmen and nine are sophomores. The new
comers are not only young, but also talented. On
Saturday, freshmen Melissa Gulli, Sarah Doyle
and Kristy Bonn finished with three of the seven
fastest splits on the women’s team. Gulli had the
fastest split of the day with an 11-minute, 33-sec
ond two-mile time.
On the men’s side, freshman Brandon Beasley
led the team with the fastest two-man, four-mile
relay with a time of 19:49. His first two-mile leg
also was the fastest on the team at 9:43.
Redshirting
In a move expected to help the men put
their best possible team together, seniors
Scott Lengefeld and Stephen Erath have de
cided to
redshirt
their se
nior sea
sons to
run next
year.
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top run
ner the
past two seasons; Erath also has been a con
sistent scorer for the Aggies.
Unlike other sports, distance runners can im
prove significantly by redshirting late in their col
legiate careers. The move will give both Lenge
feld and Erath an extra year to develop as runners
while the younger runners gain experience.
Lengefeld and Erath competed as unattached
runners at the Cougar Classic in Houston Satur
day. Lengefeld, who posted a 9:27 two-mile split,
came back ten minutes later to run his next two-
mile leg in 9:26. Next year, Lengefeld and Erath
will pair up with the runners who emerge from
this year’s squad.
Young Coach, Fast Coach
Since graduating from college in 1996, new
coach Dave Hartman has had tremendous sue-
cross country roster
cess. He coached the University of Texas-San
Antonio’s men’s team to the Southland Confer
ence Championship and a berth at the NCAA
Cross Country Meet, where the team placed
20th. Hartman was named the 1997 Southland
Conference Cross Country Coach of the Year for
his work at UTSA.
Hartman has several prior connections to his
men’s team. Junior transfer Carl Stewart was
coached by Hartman at UTSA last year. Perhaps
the strangest connection, however, is the one with
Scott Lengefeld.
As a freshman in 1995, Lengefeld was running
at his first home meet at the Texas A&M Univer
sity golf course. Up ahead, already showing A&M
runners how to run, was Hartman. Hartman fin
ished the 5.1-mile loop in 23 minutes, 36 seconds,
winning the race and setting a course record.
Runners of the Week
This week’s outstanding runners both com
peted in their first collegiate race.
Freshmen Melissa Gulli and Brandon Beasley
take home the award for leading their respec
tive teams at the University of Houston Cougar
Classic Saturday.
Tom Kennedy is a senior kinesiology major.
Senior Stacy Sykora helped the Aggies to a 3-1 re
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NFL chooses Lerner as Browns owner
CHICAGO (AP) — NFL owners
on TUesday picked Alfred Lerner to
be the owner of the new Cleveland
Browns, handing him the task of
bringing one of the league’s signa
ture franchises back to life.
Lerner, who helped Art Modell
move the original Browns to Balti
more, paid $530 million for the
new team with $54 million going to
stadium costs. It is the most ex
pensive pro sports team in U.S. his
tory, surpassing the $350 million
Rupert Murdoch paid for the Los
Angeles Dodgers earlier this year.
Owners met for nearly five
hours TUesday and took four bal
lots before Lerner, who teamed
with former San Francisco 49ers
president Carmen Policy, eliminat
ed Larry and Charles Dolan, who
were teamed with Hall of Fame
coach Don Shula.
Lerner, 65, becomes the fourth
owner in Browns history.
The NFL expansion committee
met for about 90 minutes before all
the owners met and considered of
fers from Lerner, the Dolans and
New York real estate magnate
Howard Milstein. The committee
unanimously endorsed the Lerner-
Policy team, and the final vote
among the 30 owners was unani
mous with one abstention — Oak
land’s Al Davis.
The unanimous vote followed
a motion by Modell to make the
decision unanimous, commis
sioner Paul Tagliabue said.
Dolan’s bid was $500 million with
the stadium money factored in,
and Milstein’s was “substantially
less,’’ Tagliabue said.
Lerner’s price also surpassed the
previous record of $140 million for
an expansion team, set by Carolina
and Jacksonville in 1993.
The new Browns begin play
next season in a $280 million, foot
ball-only stadium on the same spot
where the old Cleveland Stadium
stood. The new owner gets mil
lions in revenue from luxury boxes
and club seats, plus the sale of
41,000 personal seat licenses.
It has yet to be decided when
the Browns get money from the
league’s $18.6 billion TV contract.
But some experts doubt the
Browns can be a money-making
venture at such a high price. Cleve
land Indians owner Richard Jacobs
and Cleveland toy manufacturer
Thomas Murdough dropped out of
the bidding, saying a profit could
not be made if the price went above
$450 million.
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Computing Toolbox
Computing News at Texas A&M
by Computing and Information Services
Welcome back Aggies!
There are lots of things to
take care of during the first
part of the semester. In the
rush, don’t forget about
the computing resources
available through Computing
and Information Services.
Before accessing TAMU
computing services, students
need to CLAIM accounts at
any open access lab. Help
Desk staff can help students
CLAIM accounts and set up
e-mail addresses. You can
also set up an e-mail alias
via the Electronic Directory
Service, at www.tamu.edu/
Phonebook.
Computer labs are located
throughout campus, and
many, including the new
Student Computing Facility,
are open 24 hours a day
during the week. The locations
of the labs can be found at
www.tamu.edu/map.
To connect from off-campus,
students need to obtain the
TAMUNet software package.
Available at open access labs,
TAMUNet can be downloaded
for free or purchased for $10.
Computing help is available
24 hours a day by calling Help
Desk Central at 845-8300.
For more information, visit
the Student Computing
Information Page at
www.tamu.edu/scip.
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