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Tuesday, March way. atioi Marino considers playing for Vikings Burbank Airport runway, stemut in a street, narrowly missinga jm Las Vegas touched down Wm. J Gastello S HotoenVII n flying 737s since i 18,000 flying hours ail southwest in 1988, Kell SPORTS uesday. THE BATTALION Page 7 A&M women start Big 12 tourney MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — At least jneteam in the NFL doesn't think Dan Vlarino is washed up. Dennis Green is trying to lure the league's career passing leader to Min nesota, where he would become the Vikings' eighth starter in eight sea sons. Marino turns 39 his year and has ipent his entire 17- year career in Mia- . He is consider ing an oiler from the Vikings but also considering retirement. The Vikings feature receivers Cris Carter and Randy Moss, but they also lost Pro Bowl offensive linemen Ran dall McDaniel and JetTChristy to rival Tampa Bay. Marino was offered Minnesota's starting quarterback job last week in talks with Green, two sources close to Marino and speaking on condition of anonymity confirmed Monday. MARINO Marino, who has never won a championship, most likely will decide by the end of the week, one of the sources said. The offer was first reported Sunday night by ESPN and Fox Sports Net, cit ing unidentified sources. “I’m just flabbergasted,” Dolphins president Eddie Jones said. “1 have no idea about Dan Marino and any report about him going anyplace. I know nothing about where Dan’s head is at or what he plans to do.” Green didn't return phone calls from The Associated Press on Monday. Last week, he told his stall’ not to dis cuss the team’s quarterback situation in light of heavy criticism of his declara tion that Daunte Culpepper, his top draft pick last year, would enter camp as the projected starter. The Vikings haven’t offered Jeff George a contract even though he went 9-3 alter coming oil'the bench last sea son to replace Randall Cunningham, who was demoted 5 1/2 games into his new S28 million contract. Sports in Brief liccr, whowasreleasedai ^pfcfjgg tT3V6l tO i at a hospital, has b«: ith west since 1996 and la QQ0 No. 3 Cougars peri ence, Kel leher said. ° may be a total loss.K.i off of being swept by the the most serious acdtn ? T rankec ! Bears. „. ., lie Texas A&M baseball team hits y ^’ nfl i He road once again to play a na- isted the 108,000-poniii j ona ||y ran ^ ec j opponent. street today and moved! y he Aggies head to Houston operty. :oface the third-ranked Univer- 's front emergencydoo! sity of Houston Cougars at 7 when passengers tried to p.m. Tuesday, light have been damad A&M (9-10, 3-3 Big 12) was e went through the fern* > we Pt in a conference series for the irst time since 1996 when Rice Jniversity swept the Aggies. It was he first sweep of A&M by Baylor ince 1991. The Cougars (12-6) lost two of • p :o siege three games against the University of Illinois this past weekend. Last season the Aggies and Cougars split a pair of games, with A&M winning 8-7 in Houston, while the Cougars returned the favor by beating the Ag gies 15-5 in Col lege Station. On the mound for the Aggies is freshman pitcher Zach Dixon who is 0-1 on the season with a 1.86 ERA. Pitching for the Cougars will be Robert Dieudonne who is 1-1 with a 1.93 ERA this season. DIXON BY REECE FLOOD The Battalion The Texas A&M women’s basketball team ended its regular season with a record of 11 -15, 3-13 in Big 12. But the Aggies are hoping this is just the begin ning as they play in the first round of the Big 12 Tournament Tuesday at 8:20 in Kansas City, Mo. The Aggies will face the University of Texas Longhorns (18-11,9-7 Big 12) in the first round of the tournament. This will be the third meeting be tween the two teams this season. The Longhorns won the two earlier games by scores of 82-54 and 76-67. Having played the Longhorns twice already, the Aggies have an idea of what to expect. In what has been the case, tonight’s contest is sure to feature a great match up between A&M’s junior forward Jaynet- ta Saunders and Texas’ senior guard Ed- wina Brown. “It will be a great match up,” A&M coach Peggie Gillom said. “I think they thought they stopped Jaynetta (in the last game) by putting Edwina on her. I don’t think that was the case. 1 think the case was, we didn’t give Jaynetta the ball.” Saunders and Brown traded baskets and blocked shots in the two previous contests, and each player is a valuable weapon for their respective team. Saunders averaged a team high 15.7 points per game and earned 7 rebounds a game this season, while Brown lead her team with 21.4 points per game and 8.2 rebounds a game. Saunders is looking forward to play ing her Longhorn counterpart. “She’s a great player and a good de fender, and I’m just looking forward to playing with one of the best players in the Big 12,” Saunders said. Brown may be thinking the same thing about Saunders, who has quickly made a name for herself in her first sea son with the Aggies. Saunders was named Big 12 Rookie of the Week five times this season and earned third-team All Big 12 honors. Senior forward Prissy Sharpe was J confidential.” hat using force against til lity” in which “they won! i the briefing book that FB lobbying her on April i leader David Koresha compound burned, he and one of the agency e best strategy would ban ompound into a prison ami ; in the custody of the Unit i the FBI and is now a lx dquarters viewed this of d them to ‘lose face’ ort stated. ed that the sect considereJ ‘light back to the death' id. ING 8:00PM VIOOTHIE i-l 0:00pm M-F m-10:00pm Sat m-10:00pm Sun ;er center CEST PARKWAY 96-5464 ESIGNERS 3NISTS C ARTISTS WRITERS S iat matter to pens. arnalism field, irience. 4cDonald, RETHINKING THE WAR ON *%£&**% ii#'*' •* '31 3 & ■ ..a. r DRUGS Come hear Dr. Alan Robison from the Drug Policy Forum of Texas speak about the social and economic costs associated with the modem war on drugs. The presentation will be followed by a question and answer session where audience members are encouraged to express their opinions and concerns. Presented by MSC Current Issues Awareness Tuesday, March 7,2000 at 7 pm in Rudder Theater & Persons with disabilities please call 845-1515 to inform us of your special needs. We request notification three working days prior to the event to enable us to assist you to the best of our ability A&M freshman forward Meg Banahan looks to pass the ball against Feb. 26 at Reed Arena in the Aggies’ 76-67 loss to the Longhorns, also recognized by the conference, being named to the honorable mention All-Big 12 list. Sharpe averaged 12.7 points and 8.6 rebounds this season, and needs just three boards to break the all-time school record of 911. Sharpe feels confident in her team’s chances in the tournament. “We just have to be focused,” Sharpe ?. ai , ‘ An ybody can win the toumament toumtmem v SeaS ° n - And ifyou win the nament). ThaUs^he ^ NCAA ’ S (t0ur ' joy of having the toumament. It gives you one last chance to prove that you can beat them. Us not having the season that we wanted, this will be a great opportunity for us to go in and win.” Six other teams will play today as well. Kansas State University will take on Oklahoma State University at noon. University of Nebraska will face Baylor University at 2:20 p.m., and University of Missouri will tip off against Universi ty of Colorado at 6 p.m. The four teams receiving byes in the SALLIE TURNER/Thk Battalio the University of Texas Longhorns first round are Iowa State University, University of Texas Tech, Oklahoma University and University of Kansas. The winner of the A&M-Texas game will face Oklahoma tomorrow at 8:20 p.m. Gillom hopes her team will be able to respond to the challenge of this first 8aI “This^is it,'^Gillom said. “Do you want the season to be over? You have to ask yourself that question, and 1 d right now.’