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SPORTS
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THE BATTALION
pday, September 7
A&M’s Thrasher out for at least 3 wed
By Blaine Dionne and
Jason Lincoln
The Battalion
Texas A&M forward Nicky
Thrasher was ready to lead the Aggie
soccer team into the Top 10. Thrash
er, one of the Big 12’s leading offen
sive threats for the past three seasons,
would not get the chance to do it with
her scoring. Instead, she had to be in
tent to watch it from the bench as
A&M defeated
first No. 7 Hartford
and then No. 17
Harvard.
What first ap
peared to be a
bruised calf suf
fered early in
A&M's game
against Hartford
was later determined to be a broken
fibula.
THRASHER
“Well, she's out for a while," said
A&M coach G. Guerrieri. “We'll
have to see how she does.”
The injury will sideline Thrasher
for at least three weeks and probably
most of the season. It marks the sixth
A&M player lost to injury for an ex
tended part of the season. A&M's in
jury woes have seen four torn ACLs
and a foot injury prior to this injury.
In 1999, Thrasher scored 21 goals
and added 10 assists, in 1998, she
was the offensive M VPofthe
tournament.
Those injuries have takes
some of A&M'
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After months of speculation, franchise has identity
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HOUSTON (AP) — A not-
too-well-kept secret was revealed
Wednesday when Houston owner
Bob McNair announced that the
nickname of the NFL’s 32nd fran
chise will be the Texans.
The name won out over the
Stallions and Apollos.
“Are you ready for some foot
ball?” McNair shouted to a down
town crowd estimated at 16,000
which turned out to learn the
team’s name, logo and colors.
The colors for the team that
will begin play in 2002 will be
battle red, steel blue and liberty
white with a bull’s head logo that
includes a Texas Lone Star on
one side.
“We're so excited about the re
turn of the NFL to Houston,” Mc
Nair said. “We don’t want to be
stereotyped as cowboys. We are
proud of our past, but we don’t
want to be bound by it.”
Looking out over a stretch of
downtown Texas Avenue that was
turned into a football field, com
plete with goal posts, NFL com-
I rooted for the
Oilers, and now
I II be rooting for
the Texans."
— Chris Lockeridge
Houston football fan
missioner Paul Tagliabue revealed
the team name and logo on a large
screen.
“With teamwork you can
achieve the impossible,” Tagli
abue said. “Not many years ago,
you thought ‘it’s not going to hap
pen,’ but it did happen, and you
can be proud of yourselves. You
made it happen.”
McNair paid $700 million for
the franchise in a lengthy battle
with Los Angeles, a favored place
for the NFL because of the size of
its media market. But Los Ange
les never presented a unified plan,
and McNair won the team.
The crowd that showed up on
a steamy afternoon reacted posi
tively to the new name. Several
spectators grabbed their cell
phones to spread the word.
“Yeah, it's the Texans,” one man
shouted into his phone.
Another fan. Chris Lockeridge.
beamed beneath his hard hat which
bore a sign with the year 2(X)2 and
a question mark attached.
“I rooted for the Oilers, and
now I'll be rooting for the Tex
ans,” Lockeridge said.
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veterans from the ‘98 squad.
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home-field advantage.
Sophomore Heather Ragsdale.
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Week, said the matchup with the Gfoselywatcbec
and the Seminoles could play into
gies' advantage.
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going to be a lot more like ours.
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said. “We have talent that's always waiting to
play.The more players we use, the harder it is for
an opponent to stop.”
That proved exactly the case as A&M was able
to control the match despite never scoring more
than four points in a row. In the first two matches,
the Aggies were drawn out to 15-11 and 15-9 wins.
But when the new faces came on the court, the
Cougars did not know who they needed to stop, re
sulting in a 10 point win.
“This year it feels like we're really deep and we
all play really well together,” A&M setter Jenna
Moscovic said. “Consistent passing enables us to
do a lot on the floor with any position.”
Texas A&M volleyball is no longer a team dom
inated by its front lineup. This year's team looks to
win through its varied offensive threats from both
the starters and on the bench . A fact that they hope
will get them through an entire season fresh for an
other NCAA run.
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