Page 6 • Friday, March 12, 1999
Sports
DiMaggio
laid to rest
Friends, family
share memories
of Yankee star
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — His
brother’s words inside the church
and the crowd’s emotional farewell
outside perfectly captured the two
sides of Joe DiMaggio — the quiet,
dignified, reclusive man, and the
Joltin’ Joe who
stirred fans’ pas
sions.
Dominic
DiMaggio, the last
of the three sons of
Italian immigrants
who played in the
major leagues,
spoke little about
baseball in his
brief eulogy Thursday and more
about his brother’s quest for privacy,
his love of children and the one sig
nificant hollow in his life.
To fill that void, Dominic said, Joe
DiMaggio dedicated his life away
from baseball to helping children,
privately and publicly, including the
establishment of a children’s wing to
a hospital in Hollywood, Fla.
About 80 family members and
friends, along with baseball com
missioner Bud Selig, attended the fu
neral Mass for the Yankee Clipper,
who died Monday at his Florida
home at the age of 84. The ma
hogany casket, set before the ornate
marble altar under a golden dome,
remained closed.
There were no baseball memen
tos, nothing to suggest the enormity
of DiMaggio’s impact on the game
and American culture.
DIMAGGIO
Aggie softbaliers split doubleheader against UTSA
MIKE FUENTES Tm BATfAijoN
A&M freshman catcher Lisa Klam slides safely into home during the Aggies’ game against Butler University Saturday at the Aggie
Softball Complex. The Aggies split a doubleheader against the University of Texas-San Antonio Roadrunners Thursday at UTSA. A&M
dropped the first game, 3-2, but came back to win the second contest, 7-6.
Making a move
Marbury-to-New Jersey deal
highlights NBA trade deadline
AP — Stephen Marbury, one of
the most talented young point
guards in the NBA, was dealt to the
New Jersey Nets in a three-team,
eight-player swap Thursday, hours
before the league’s trading deadline.
Three other minor deals were
made: the Vancouver Grizzlies
sent Sam Mack to Houston for
Rodrick Rhodes, the New York
Knicks acquired the rights to Mir-
sad Turkcan from Philadelphia for
a first-round pick and the Cleve
land Cavaliers sent Vitaly
Potapenko to Boston for Andrew
DeClercq and a No. 1 pick.
By far the biggest deal of the day
sent Marbury back home to the
New York metropolitan area to
play for the Nets, owners of the
worst record in the Eastern Con
ference.
New Jersey got Marbury after
Miami, which was considering
trading Tim Hardaway and P.J.
Brown, backed out of a compli
cated four-team deal. The Associ
ated Press learned.
Marbury moved to the Nets
along with guard Chris Carr and
forward Bill Curley. The Wolves
got guard Terrell Brandon from
Milwaukee and forward Brian
Evans and two draft choices from
the Nets, including a first-
rounder, and New Jersey sent
Sam Cassell and Chris Gatling to
the Bucks, who also got Paul
Grant from the Wolves.
“We were kind of forced into
it,” Timberwolves owner Glen
Taylor said of the trade.
The proposed deal involving
Miami also would have included
Milwaukee, Minnesota and Van
couver, but the Heat pulled out in
mid-afternoon.
A source closely involved in
the trade talks, as well as a league
official with knowledge of the dis
cussions, said Miami was consid
ering sending Hardaway to the
Bucks and Brown to the Grizzlies.
Marbury would have gone to the
Heat, the Wolves would have got
ten Brandon and a No. 1 pick and
the Grizzlies would have acquired
a No. 1 pick along with Brown.
“I think the Miami discussions
were an exploratory thing,” agent
David Falk, who represents Mar
bury, said. “When I spoke to
Rockets trade
guard Rhodes
HOUSTON (AP) — The
Houston Rockets, looking for
outside shooting punch, traded
former No. 1 pick Rodrick
Rhodes to the Vancouver Griz
zlies for former Rockets guard-
forward Sam Mack Thursday
night.
Mack, who spent two sea
sons with the Rockets, shot 40
percent from 3-point range for
the Grizzlies last season. So far
this season, he’s hitting at a 39.9
percent clip and has started 15
games for the Grizzlies.
“Sam is a player who has
been here and knows our system
and fits our system,” Rockets
coach Rudy Tomjanovich said.
“He got some valuable experi
ence at Vancouver and played a
lot of minutes. ”
Rhodes played only 33 min
utes in three games for the
Rockets this season after re
turning from the injury list
March 2. Rhodes missed the
first 14 games of the season af
ter having surgery to repair a
torn tendon in his right pectoral
muscle.
coach Riley, I told him Stephen
really wanted to go home to the
New York area. I don’t know ex
actly which players Miami was
considering trading.”
Taylor said the Wolves offered
Marbury the maximum deal under
the NBA’s new labor contract, six
years for $71 million, and were told
Marbury would not accept it and
would leave Minnesota when he
became a free agent this summer.
The Bucks also were faced
with the prospect of losing Bran
don as a free agent and getting
nothing in return.
“I’m extremely appreciative of
Glen Taylor and (Bucks owner)
Herb Kohl for allowing us to as
sist them in getting this very com
plicated deal done,” Falk said.
“The deadline was 6 p.m., and at
6:01, if they hadn’t been traded,
those players would no longer
A&M Baseball Team to face
Texas Tech in 3-game series
Aggies continue five-game road trip versus No. 18 Red Raiders
BY JEFF SCHMIDT
The Battalion
The third-ranked Texas A&M
Baseball Team (16-3, 6-0) will
travel to Lubbock for a three-
game series against 18th-ranked
Texas Tech University beginning
at 7 p.m. Friday. The Red
Raiders will be the fourth
ranked team A&M will face so
far this season.
Sunday’s game starts at 1
p.m. and will be televised by
Fox Sports Southwest.
Junior righthand pitcher
Chance Caple will start game one
while junior lefthander Casey Pos
sum and sophomore righthander
Chris Russ will start games two
and three, respectively.
The A&M-Tech series is pos
sibly the most marquee series in
the Big 12 Conference, as the
two teams have won three of
the four Big 12 Championships.
A&M is coming off of an 8-7
win over the University of
Houston at Cougar Field Friday.
The Aggies had played 10 of
their last 12 games at home,
winning all 10, but are not as
strong on the road as evidenced
by their 3-3 road record.
Tech has won 11 of its last 12
contests.
A&M dominates the all-time
series, 72-37, and won three of
five last season with one of the
losses coming in the Big 12
Tournament championship
game.
The Aggies enter the Tech se
ries having won four straight,
including a sweep of Iowa State
University last weekend.
A&M’s offense is paced by
senior first baseman John
Scheschuk who leads the team
with a .455 batting average.
Sophomore rightfielder Day-
lan Holt and senior outfielder
Steven Truitt continue their
strong hitting, smashing nine
and eight home runs, respec
tively. Holt is a former
Louisville Slugger National
Player of the Week.
Caple and Possum, a return
ing All-American from Waco,
have both struck-out 44 batters
this season and have four wins.
Russ leads the team with a
1.29 earned run average.
MIKE FUENTES/rHF. Battalion
Aggie second baseman Sean Heaney goes for the double play dur
ing Sunday’s game against the Iowa State University Cyclones at
Olsen Field. The Aggies will face No. 18 Texas Tech University Fri
day in Lubbock for the first game in a three-game weekend series.
Texas A&M Baseball
vs. Texas Tech University
(March 12-14)
Game 1 (Friday):
Texas A&M - Chance Caple (4-1)
Texas Tech -Shane Wright (4-1)
Game 2 (Saturday):
Texas A&M - Casey Possum (4-2)
Texas Tech - Kevin Tracey (4-1)
Game 3 (Sunday):
Texas A&M - Chris Russ (4-0)
Texas Tech -Brad Ralston (4-0)
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SPORTS IN BRIEF
Women’s Golfli
head to Louisi
The Texas A&M Women's
plans for spring break'
gies to Baton Rouge, La.,wtier
play in the Louisiana State
Classic at Fairwood CountryD:
Of the 18 teams compel
are ranked. No. 2 Duke anc
Auburn, pace the field, whicti
eludes Big 12 opponent Tei
University.
A&M is coming off its ste|
ing of the season, a fourtfvpla:
at its own tournament, the G'j
Morial on the weekend of Feb. 22
tournament, freshman Annai
took her first collegiate title b>
Anna Becker, who finished
the tournament last year, place:
Jonsson leads the Aggies will
average, on pace to break the?;
record of 77.58 set in 1981-82
Becker is second on thete?
77.33 average and Marta Os;
with a 78.67 average.
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Softball — Championships Unive
Bank of Hawaii Invitational,He 3id.
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