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' V * S I I SPORTS 2000 THE BATTALION Pag~ divers ( 5 people that ha ■>liow were won on ren. 1 of appealing to* lephone number for a quiz nly 12 percent of the hots has been 17 percent, ABC been six blacks among the I 'ach program begins will r a million dollars, bite males are moretrivia-c uttons because tf# play mi contestants are given reqai push-button phone, eecutive producer, has said! asked on music, filmandl ia bulls an edge. er eggr ’'Fans react to Ryan’s heart bypass surgery r AUSTIN (AP) — A sign outside an Austin restaurant summed up the attitude of many as news circulated of Hall of Fame pitcher Nolan Ryan’s emergency heart surgery: ■‘Don’t worry Nolan. You have the heart of a champion. Get well soon.” ’A Ryan, 53, was in stable condition Monday after undergoing two hours of emergency double bypass heart surgery Sunday afternoon at the Austin I lean Bkt The Ballpark in Arlington — home of the Texas Rangers, the last team Ryan pitched for — fans will have a chance ■ign 7-foot ■ -foot get- n to decorate, wel cards ie theme of thio; dujing a \ bercast on the three-game retan Rodney v hojne series Thai Could. A: against the her Ham Pone. Boston Red Son n. children anc:*"It seems oeneral Jane! Re to j be some- Hig the Ians \er me ’Cuban ov, Elia “The doctors told us he has the heart of a 30-year-old. We feel confident that he is going to recover fully.” — Reid Ryan Nolan Ryan's son adina I ing the Elian case, Reno* when pressed to comme Reno quietly replied, “f ic kids right now." really respond to,’ team spokesman John Blake said. The team will send the cards to Ryan when he gets out of the hospital in a week, he said. ■ Blake said the team set up similar cards when Ryan retired from the ball- clubin 1993. ■ Ryan and his wife, Ruth, were in the ■stin suburb of Round Rock to watch the Round Rock Express, a minor league baseball team owned by Ryan, his son Reid Ryan and Houston businessman Don Sanders. ■ “The doctors told us he has the heart of a 30-year-old,” Reid Ryan said. “We feel confident that he is going to recover Hilly.” ■ J.J. Gottsch, director of public rela tions for the minor league team, said “thousands” of people had called, mailed letters or sent emails wishing Ryan well. Ryan has asked people to make con tributions to the Nolan Ryan Foundation in Alvin rather than send flowers. “There is just not enough room in the hospital,” Gottsch said. A telephone call to the foundation was not immediately returned Monday. Austin surgeon Mark Felger, who performed the two-hour operation to by pass an arterial blockage, was scheduled to appear with Reid Ryan at a news con ference Monday evening. Ryan reported chest pains and breath ing trouble Sunday morning while he and his wife strolled through the Dell Diamond, the Express’ new $2.5-mil lion stadium. She drove him to the Round Rock Medical Cen ter. Doctors there referred Ryan to the Austin Heart Hospital, where the surgery was per- formed at 3 p.m. Blood tests and an electrocardiogram showed Ryan did not have a heart attack, officials said. The surgery was required to bypass a blocked artery leading to the former pitcher’s heart, doctors said. Ryan was a first-ballot Hall of Famer in January 1999. He holds or shares 48 major league, American League or Na tional League records. He is baseball’s career leader in strikeouts with 5,714 and no-hitters with seven. Ryan is tied for 11 th with Don Sutton for career victories with 324. Ryan's played 27 seasons in the ma jors, more than any other player. He played with the New York Mets, Cali fornia Angels, Houston Astros and Texas Rangers before retiring in 1993. Ags hit road for conference games A&M softball team heads to Waco, Austin to take on Bears, Longhorns ,, f K* iff fTTP \s*i* „ . ISr | r *jgl / L M * ' ■i BY BREE HOLZ The Battalion PATRIC SCHNEIDER/The Battalion [ A&M senior first baseman.Angie Long stretches to catch the ball against the University of Missouri Tigers April 15 at the Aggie Softball Complex. After having its six-game winning streak snapped on Saturday, the Texas A&M softball team heads to Waco to take on the Baylor University Bears in a dou bleheader beginning at 5 p.m. The games were originally scheduled for April 12, but were rained out. Wednesday, the Aggies travel to Austin to take on the University of Texas at 6 p.m. at Red and Charlie McCombs Field. The game will be televised on Col lege Sports Southwest. The Aggies remain in fourth place in the Big 12 Conference with a 5-6 record and a 26-16 record overall. A&M dropped two games to the Uni versity of Nebraska in a doubleheader at the Aggie Softball Complex Saturday, both by the score of 2-0. Husker pitchers Leigh Ann Walker and Jenny Voss spoiled Senior Day by pitching complete game shutouts against the Aggies. Baylor currently sits in last place in the conference and holds a 2-10 league record. A&M defeated Baylor last year, 9-3, in the first round of the Big 12 tournament. The Bears dropped two games over the weekend to conference leader and Big 12 defending champion. University of Oklahoma. Baylor lost 6-0 Saturday, and 8-1 Sunday. “Baylor has two really good hitters who are perfonning well for them in confer ence,” said A&M softball coach Jo Evans. “They pretty much rely on those two play ers to make big plays offensively.” Evans said the Aggies have always had problems when playing Baylor. “They always get really pumped up when they play us,” she said. “We know we can’t take them lightly, even though they’ve only won two conference games.” The Longhorns are in third place with a 11 -3 conference record. The last time A&M and UT met was on March 29, when the Longhorns pounded the Aggies 8-0 in College Station. “That loss is fresh on our minds,” Evans said. “We did not play up to our potential the last time we played them. To be successful, we need to maintain our focus on the game, and not get caught up in the rivalry.” UT swept No. 22 Oklahoma State Uni versity over the weekend, 3-2 and 9-1, ex tending its winning streak to six games. “We’re going to approach the Texas game like every other game,” Evans said. “We know that they are good, so we’ve really got to be focused and ready to play. “It’s going to be tough playing in Austin, and we’ve got to be physically and mentally prepared.” Evans said the two losses to Nebras- | ka over the weekend have not shaken the * Aggies’ confidence. “Nebraska pitched well and we strug- j gled a bit,” she said. “But we’re re- ■ grouping and we’ve got to take one game at a time.” Texas A&M Golf Course Fundamentals of Golf | Two hours of instruction for $20 Come by the Golf Course to register I Ji i - Learn the basics of full swings, putting and chipping. Classes take place Saturday mornings J and one evening a week. For more information call 845-1723.
