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Page IB
THE BATTALION
Houston
honors
Comets
HOUSTON (AP) — In what
has become an annual rite of sum
mer, Houston Comets fans ignored
oven-like heat to honor the four
time WNBA champions and im
plore star Cynthia Cooper to stick
around.
“I think I speak for everyone
here this afternoon: Please recon
sider your retirement,” Mayor Lee
Brown told Cooper on the steps of
City Hall as thousands of fans
crowded Hennann Square below.
Brown added that he intended to
push through an ordinance to make
it "illegal for Cynthia to retire.”
Cooper, named most valuable
player of the WNBA Finals after
the Comets completed a two-game
sweep Saturday of the New York
Liberty, announced earlier in the
season this was her last go-round.
Despite signs and calls by the
sun-baked throng to stay for a fifth
title run, Cooper repeated that she
was hanging up her sneakers.
“I won't be leaving town. I'll
just be changing professions,” she
said while hoisting the champi
onship trophy and waving to fans
crowding both sides of the parade
route. “I might go into broadcast
ing, or maybe coaching. Some dif
ferent things.”
Florida financier Les Alexan
der, who owns the Comets and
NBA Rocket's, held out hope
Cooper would change her mind.
“You never know,” he said.
In the tradition of the Comets’
previous championship parades
and two by the Rockets before, the
victors rode atop Houston fire
trucks preceded by marching
bands, floats and convertibles car
rying local dignitaries.
Fans stacked three and four deep
along Smith Street to greet the play
ers and coach Van Chancellor, who
said this title was the sweetest yet.
“One of the great joys of win
ning championships is the big pa
rade we get in Houston,” Chancel
lor said. “There’s a lot of kid in me
getting to do this parade today.”
Parade-goer James Russell
brought his three young sons to see
the spectacle first-hand.
“I’m more excited now than I
was for the first three of (the ti
tles),” Russell said.
Fans also cheered the area’s
other recent sports heroes, the na
tional champion Bellaire Little
League All-Stars, who fell one
game short of a world title last
weekend in a 3-2 loss to Maracai
bo, Venezuela.
Against all odds
Sports in Brief
Ticket office sets
Reed seat deadline
Dat Nguyen’s success in NFL contributed to inner strength
IRVING (AP) — If Dat Nguyen ever begins
to feel a twinge of pressure about being the start
ing middle linebacker for the Dallas Cowboys,
he has no problem quickly putting things into
perspective.
While he has overcome long odds and constant
critics who said he was too small to play in college,
much less the NFL, it does not compare to what
his parents did to bring their family from war-torn
Vietnam.
“It’s unbelievable what they did,” said Nguyen
(pronounced “Win”). “They didn't speak any Eng
lish and didn’t have any money. Now, they’re liv
ing a comfortable life and have five kids with col
lege degrees.”
It was April 1975 in the shrimping village of
Ben Da when Ho and Tam Nguyen, she four
months pregnant with Dat, their sixth child, left
their home and everything else behind. They were
fleeing the Viet Cong, the army firing countless
rounds of bullets.
Through the gunfire, the Nguyens and dozens
of others ran to a waiting boat. They then had to
survive a 10-day trip through rough seas with just
a three-day supply of rice to eat and salty sea wa
ter to drink.
After getting to safety in Thailand, the
Nguyens had to live in the boat for three more
months. They finally went with other Vietnamese
refugees to a U.S. Marine base in California and
later to a U.S. Army base in Fort Chaffee, Ark.,
where Dat was born.
“I’m not even supposed to be here, so this is a
great opportunity and this is fun,” Nguyen said.
Nguyen, who at 5-foot-ll, 231 pounds is not
the prototype for a linebacker, became the first
Vietnamese-American to play in the NFL last sea
son. Dallas drafted him in the third round follow
ing an All-American career at Texas A&M.
“There have always been obstacles for me to go
through,” Nguyen said. “They’ve been there all of
my career and I’ve been proving people wrong.”
“Obviously he didn't
have the easiest life
growing up, and that
makes him hungry to
succeed”
— Dave Campo
Cowboys coach
Nguyen first excelled in soccer and basketball
in the Texas Gulf Coast town of Rockport, where
his family settled when he was 2.
It was not until he was in high school that he be
gan to stand out on the football field. He had 188
tackles his senior year, earning a scholarship to
Texas A&M.
At A&M, Nguyen bulked up and set school
records with 51 straight starts and 517 career
tackles.
As a senior, he won the Lombardi Trophy as the
nation’s best linebacker.
Despite his still smaller-than-wanted NFL size,
the Cowboys could not ignore the fact that he kept
making play after play.
“He’s a strong individual that has a tremendous
instinct to play the game,” said Cowboys coach
Dave Campo, the defensive coordinator Nguyen’s
rookie year. “His work ethic is there because he
prepares himself.”
“Obviously he didn’t have the easiest life grow
ing up, and that makes him hungry to succeed. He
wants to play the game. I like that kind of mental
ity in a guy, and he has it.”
Campo said Nguyen was drafted to be a starter,
an opportunity he is getting for the first time in
Sunday’s opener against Philadelphia.
Randall Godfrey, whom he played behind last
season, is gone after signing a free agent contract
with Tennessee. The Cowboys let Godfrey go in
part because they believed Nguyen could become
the starter.
Nguyen made the most of his playing time as a
rookie, with 34 tackles and a team-high 18 tackles
on special teams.
“It’s a great opportunity to be in the starting line
up,” he said. “It’s not a different approach having
the opportunity to start. I just understand what’s go
ing on and I’m trying to get better every day.”
His Jeammates describe him as a happy-go-
lucky guy, SQmeone obviously having fun — even
during (jje rigors of workouts. They also recognize
his work ethic, both on and off the field.
“Dat’s a great player, very instinctive. He
knows how to read and react,” said Pro Bowl line
backer Dexter Coakley. “Obviously he’s not the
biggest guy in the world. But just by being smart,
he’s making plays out there.”
Nguyen now has another goal: allowing his
parents, who still own and operate a restaurant and
marihe supply business in Rockport, to enjoy the
fulfillment of their American dream.
Golfers successful on lighted courses
PALM DESERT, Calif. (AP) —
The “Battle at Bighorn” might have
shed some light on the future of golf.
There was nothing at stake in
Monday’s prime-time exhibition
match, although one would not know
that from watching Sergio Garcia act
as if he had just won the Masters
when his 10-foot birdie putt fell for a
1 -up victory over Tiger Woods.
But imagine those two duking it
out with a host of others right behind
in the final round of The Players
Championship, with nearly $1.1 mil
lion in official money up for grabs on
the famed Stadium Course at the
TPC at Sawgrass.
At night.
Under the lights.
“Absolutely, I think it would
work,” said Rob Correia, senior vice
president of programming for CBS
Sports. “It’s not something you’d
dismiss outright like you would 10
years ago.”
It certainly cannot be dismissed
after Monday night, when Woods
and Garcia played the final four holes
of their match with help from 186
light fixtures that generated 603,000
watts.
There is even some precedent on
the PGA Tour.
The final round of the 1993 Dis-
“We staunchly
believe it's an out
door game, played
under natural
conditions”
— Marty Parkes
U.S. Golf Association
representative
ney Classic was 36 holes because of
weather problems, and Jeff Maggert
finished up his first tour victory un
der floodlights. Even last year at
Valderrama, lights were positioned
on the 18th green so Woods and
Miguel Angel Jimenez could com
plete their sudden-death playoff.
It can be done.
Musco Lighting of Iowa was in
charge of lighting Bighorn for the
prime-time show. That is the same
company that did the unthinkable
two years ago by installing lights at
the Daytona International Speedway
for the midsummer NASCAR races,
with stock cars traveling at speeds
close to 200 mph and not knowing
the difference between night and day.
Purists would scream “Fore!,” or
something close to it.
Imagine the sight of 65-foot high
light poles lining the fairways of
Sawgrass or Firestone or Colonial.
Oh the other hand, what would Old
Tom Morris have thought about cart
paths? Or television towers?
“I would doubt it very much,”
said Marty Parkes of the U.S. Golf
Association, when asked if the U.S.
Open would ever be played in prime
time. “We’re pretty traditional in our
approach to things. We staunchly be-
t Systems
;ht school
lieve it’s an outdoor game, played un
der natural conditions. It smacks of
yet another artificial device being
used in the game.”
Lights are artificial, just like the
range-finders players are allowed to
use in practice rounds to measure ex
act yardage.. In the strictest sense, so
are sprinklers, which make sure the
grass is green and perfect. And lawn .
mowers.
Jeff Rogers, the vice president of
development for Musco, said there
already is talk about adding lights for
a fifth hole should there be another
Tiger vs. fill-in-the-blank. How long
before the entire back nine is lit, fol
lowed by all 18 holes.
Besides, Musco already has in
stalled lights at golf courses in Tai
wan, China and Malaysia.
“I think last night spoke for itself,”
Rogers said Tuesday. “They could do
whatever they wanted. If you have
good quality and sufficient quantity
of lights, seeing the ball at night is
easier than seeing it at daytime. And
it’s easier to track.”
The deadline for Reed Arena prior
ity seats for the Aggies' 2000-20Q1,
basketball season is today.
According to a press release!
from the Texas A&M ticket office,
the priority deadline for the renew
al of Aggie basketball season tick
ets has been set for today. In order
to retain the same priority, season
ticket holders must have their pay
ments received by 4 p.m.
The deadline for former students
and others purchasing tickets
through the 12th Man Foundation
is Sept. 7th. According to A&M as
sistant ticket manager Sean Con
ner, first time ticket buyers can still
purchase tickets.
Equestrian team
informational today
The Texas A&M varsity women’s
equestrian team is holding tryouts
to complete its 2000-2001 roster.
Interested students should attend
a mandatory meeting at 7 p.m. on
Thursday in Kleberg 115 on West
Campus.
Those interested in trying out
should bring their class and work
schedules with them to the meet
ing. Previous riding experience is
not required.
Aggie to premiere
in tennis U.S. Open
Freshman Aggie tennis player
Tres Davis will play his first match in
the U.S. Open tennis tournament.
Davis, currently the nation’s No. 1
men’s doubles player, will compete
in the doubles competition with Bob
by Ginepri of Marietta, Ga.
Davis and Ginepri qualified for
the U.S. Open by winning the Unit
ed States Tennis Association’s
Boys 18s competition earlier this
month in Kalamazoo, Mich. Davis
and Ginepri defeated Davis’ A&M
teammate Ryan- Newport and his
partner, Philip King, in the finals.
Davis and Ginepri will play Pablo
Albeno of Argentina and Lucas
Arnold in their opening match.
Davis also will compete in the
singles portion of the junior section
of the tournament.
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