Monday,]. |*iday, July 2, 2001 exas Mark Passwaters The Battalion t v of Pierre t cated in Paris] i the Univers: in Portugal, with Scott, ill he honontl s'ohel laureate hun Detine,]! historian, ah the RoyaJMtj .vards will be.. tra >r *k Ce flAll 2S NBA teams went to York Cdty Wednesday for eo * " • thi 2001 draft. While two Texas 11 t®uns stayed fairly silent in the citv that never sleeps, one made . v . a whole lot of noise. .he i Phonal1-j ie j j ()USton Rockets came im ‘ f-ncdc draft with the 13th, (-S, and increjiith and 23rd picks in the first ons. round, which they used on Ari- d FBI statistic®na forward Richardjeffer- ! 17,000 atter« n ) Stanford forward Jason purchases nBollins and Pepperdine guard r investigate Bnmdon Armstrong. Then l ^“■ev stunned the crowd at the peop e werec(* eat . er o j.* ^vi ac Jison Square Barden by trading all three to ft said moreiBg New Jersey Nets for the irs would berByenth pick overall, local fa- eople who givivirite Eddie Griffin of Seton i»n when tnBall. guns or applv:B Griffin, a 6-foot-9-inch for- in that thevir B ar( ^ averaged 17.8 points and | ineone else, i) moved tod governmend kground ree ?. ho tn’ to be returns icies can go ft fraudulent tv listalcen apprc: ft said the eef onds after hand injury He the Brti ios helpedi # j convicted is andothu ?rous indivic SAN francisco (ap) — from bum (After taking a day off to nurse a 60silv violO' B ™ sec l fight wrist, Barry Bonds f .1 [ . ,sunk his hands into wet cement )r them or -outside Pacific Bell Park near Hng pW!^ where his 500th career home ideauat t-un splashed into San Francisco M Bay. J ' A bayside monument was un- — 1° n l e iled Sunday in honor of J. .Attorne 1 .^ g onc ] s> t he Giants’ left fielder ' who became the 17 th member Bf baseball’s 500-home run club ould destw) ( 0n April 17. le business^)* The bronze plaque on the generated instd walkway just feet away from Mc- ays now albmovey Cove was completed as pilation. Bonds added his signature and rats and gun . : handprints, ticized the pro? ying it playsi® le NationalRil- which oppose me, and will f mpossible to- tase transaction abuse. t said auditing! eal time” usin : , t did not spec" er checks wo. “I feel like a kid,” Bonds said. « Thinking about when you're a kid, dreaming of the major leagues, you don't think of suc cess like that.” — Barry Bonds Giant's leftfielder Bonds, who leads the major leagues with 39 home runs, was I TA I It n, &amm m RUBEN DELUNA/The Battalion 10.8 rebounds per game in his only college season. His 133 blocked shots — 4.43 per game — were second in the nation. In addition, the Rockets were able to trade for the rights to Maryland forward Terrence Morris, a pre-season All-Amer ican. Morris, a 6-foot-9-inch senior, averaged 12.2 points and 7.7 rebounds per game this sea son, but his offensive output has decreased each of the past four years. “This is as big as any draft we’ve had in the history of the franchise,” head coach Rudy Tomjanovich said Friday at a press conference at Houston’s Westside Tennis club. “I woke up this morning and hoped it was real and not a dream.” Tbmjanovich said drat Griffin was the top player on their draft list, which flattered its newest acquisition. “It makes me feel real good to know that if they had drafted first, they would have taken me,” Griffin said. “That excites me.” The San Antonio Spurs had one first round pick, the 28th overall. They used that pick to select Tony Parker, a 19-year- old point guard from PSG Rac ing in Paris. Their two second round picks were spent on Robertas Javtokas from Lithua nia and Brian Bacey, a senior from Oregon. Parker, who rejected a schol arship from UCLA to turn pro in Europe is “a very good ball handler and very quick,” said Spurs assistant coach Joe Prunty. “His strength isn’t going to be there yet, but he has a grasp of the situation.” Javtokas, a 6-foot-10-inch power forward, is “a solid pick at 56,” said Prunty. “He’s a solid big man and will run the floor a little bit for you.” Bacey, a 6-foot-7-inch shoot ing guard, “shot the ball pretty well,” Prunty said. “For the last pick in the draft, maybe this is the team for him.” The Dallas Mavericks had only two picks in the second round of the draft, the 44th and 54th overall. The 44th pick was used on senior Kyle Hill, a 6- foot-2-inch shooting guard from Eastern Illinois, while the 54th became Kenny Satterfield, a 6-foot-2-inch sophomore point guard from Cincinnati. Coach Don Nelson and the Mavericks staff were unavailable for comment on Hill (23.8 points, 4.0 assists per game) and Satterfield (14.4 points, 4.9 as sists per game). Director of development retires John Crow, only Aggie to win the Heisman Trophy, leaves the Athletic Department Mark Passwaters The Battalion Few players in the history of Texas A&M football have made more of a na tional impact on their sport than John David Crow. Crow, the only Aggie to win the Heisman Trophy and the first overall pick in the 1958 NFL Draft, re tired Friday from his position as direc tor of development for athletics. Dur ing his final day of work, Crow shared some of his recollections from his life at A&M with The Battalion. Crow said his Heisman victory was “not a big part of me when I was in school and after. It’s gotten to be a lot bigger deal recently. Now, it makes it fun to sit back and talk about it and be associated with such great athletes.” Crow found out he was the winner of the 1957 Heisman when New York’s Downtown Athletic Club called then- University President Dr. Harrington during the winter break. Harrington called Crow’s mother, who informed him that he had won “some kind of tro phy” after returning from an evening out with his friends. “She knew it had to be something big, because they were flying all of us up to New York to get it,” Crow said. Crow credits his former coach, Paul “Bear” Bryant with his winning the Heis man. “Two weeks before the season end ed, he told The Houston Chronicle ’v yVLick- ey Herscowitz that if I didn’t win the Heisman Trophy, they ought to stop giv ing it. And Coach Bryant didn’t brag about his players — ever.” Crow said that Bryant actually de serves a great amount of credit for all of the success he has enjoyed in his life, on and off the field. “His coaching techniques were a product of hard knocks,” Crow said. “He pushed you hard on the practice field, and he pushed me farther than I ever thought I could go. That helped me not only in football, but in every thing else in life.” Crow recalled the A&M and Alaba ma coach as being “very tough, but very fair and very just. He would shed a tear as quickly as spout an obscenity.” As protective as Crow is of his former coach’s legacy, he has few good words to say about author Jim Dent or his book, Junction Boys, a book about the 1954 Aggie football team that won the Southwest Conference. “He made Bear sound like Hitler; I didn’t much like that part of the book,” he said. “Ajrd naming names of guys who were 18, 19 years old going to the Chicken Ranch now that they’re 64, 65 with three girls? I’m going to like that kind of book?” “About the only thing he got right was me being on the oth er side of the street across from Sbisa when the two busses (filled with play ers) rolled out,” Crow said. “Ten days later, about half a bus-full came back.” “There was nothing in the papers or on TV about this, so looking at these guys when they came back was a real eye opener,” Crow said. After eight years in the NFL and sev eral years as an assistant coach under Bryant at Alabama, Crow returned to A&M in 1983 at the request of then- football coach Jackie Sherrill. He spent 18 years working in the A&M Athletic Department, starting as associate ath letic director. He became athletic di rector in the wake of Sherrill’s firing and the imposing of NCAA sanctions on the football program in the late 1980s, be fore moving to his current position. “I’m thankful for the school keeping me around for 18 years, and I hope I gave something back,” Crow said. After 22 years of involvement with A&M, Crow says he is most proud of the quality of the type of student that went to Texas A&M, both then and now. “There isn’t much difference in the attitude of the students,” he said. “The happiness, the helpfulness, it’s all amaz ing to me. That’s what makes us unique.” THE CHOW FILE 1957 Heisman Trophy winner - only winner in Aggie history Inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1976 1st pick in the 1958 NFL Draft by the St. Louis Cardinals Spent 11 years as a player in the NFL (Cardinals. 49ers) Head Football Coach, Northeast Louisiana University, 1975-80 Served as Assistant Athletic Director, Athletic Director and Director of Development for Athletics at A&M (1983 - 2001) RUBEN DELUNA/The Battalion Wimbledon shows no surprises WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — The player with the most engaging personality at Wimbledon can be dull to watch, and he knows it. Goran Ivanisevic wins admirers with his wit and wins matches by relying on his brutish serve, an ap proach that is effective but mind-numbing for specta tors, especially on grass. Greg Rusedski’s play ing style is much the same, which likely means lots of short points, short games and long sets in their fourth-round showdown Monday. “Me and my friend Greg,” said Ivanisevic with a chuckle. “Going to be another beau tiful match to watch. Very, very exciting — 15-love, 30-love, 40-love, game; 15-love, 30-love, 40-love, game.” So far Wimbledon has been skimpy on drama. Dominant serves — by Ivanisevic, Rusedski, Pete Sampras and even young Americans Andy Roddick and Taylor Dent — renewed complaints that watching men play on grass is only slightly more exciting than watching it grow. And there were fewer surprises than rain delays in the first week, partly because of a new seeding system designed to spread the top players throughout the draw and protect them from early upsets. Top-seeded Marti na Hingis lost to Virginia Ruano Pascual on the opening day, but that was the only shocker in the first week. The payoff for fans comes in the second half of the fortnight, with the Williams sis ters, Jennifer Capriati, Lindsay Davenport, Sampras, Andre Agassi, Patrick Rafter and Marat Safin still in the hunt. Ivanisevic’s resurgence follows an 18- month slump that dropped him out of the top 100. At 29, the Croat known for his shaky syntax and near-misses at Wimbledon is mounting a bid to reach the final for the fourth time. He looked like the Goran of old Friday, belting 41 aces to end Roddick’s Wimble don debut. During one stretch, Ivanisevic won 24 consecutive service points, and Rod dick got a return into play on only three of those points. Dull tennis, but impressive. Wrenching losses in three finals make Ivanisevic a sympathetic figure at Wimble don, but crowd support Monday is uncer tain because the Canadian-born Rusedski claims British citizenship. “That’s going to be tough,” Ivanisevic said. “It’s going to be all the crowd behind him on that match because it’s an Englishman.” Ever since changing his nationality in 1995, Rusedski has been touted as a threat to become the first British man to win Wimbledon since Fred Perry in 1936. Like Ivanisevic, Rusedski is a left-hander with .a thunderous serve that makes him especially dangerous on grass. IVANISEVIC Sports in Brief Greg Biffle wins third NASCAR event of season WEST ALLIS, Wis. (AP) — Rookie Greg Biffle held on over the final 15 laps Sunday to win his third NASCAR Busch series event of the sea son, the GNC Live Well 250 at The Milwaukee Mile. Biffle all but clinched the victory when Mike Skinner ran out of gas with two laps re maining. Wisconsin native Matt Kenseth finished second and Kevin Grubb third. Kevin Harvick led for 1 65 laps and still remains the Busch point leader after fin ishing fourth. He took the pole Friday with a track-record qualifying run of 122.74 mph. Biffle, who drove a Ford, previously won the Pepsi 300 on April 14 in Gladeville, Tenn., and the Nazareth 200 on May 20 in Pennsylvania. US loses to Mexico in qualifying World Cup round MEXICO CITY (AP) — The United States lost for the first time in the final round of World Cup qualifying, look ing disorganized Sunday in a 1 -0 defeat to a remade Mex ican team. The United States (4-1-1) still leads qualifying in the North and Central American and Caribbean region and probably needs one more win to ensure a fourth con secutive trip to soccer's pre mier tournament. But the Americans, 0-21-1 in Mexico, played their worst game of the year and rarely moved the ball near the Mex ican goal. It has never won a game in Mexico. Mexico, fifth at 2-3-1, came out aggressively, domi nating play from the outset. The Americans played back, waiting for Mexico to tire itself out and U.S. players kicked the ball out of bounds to slow down the Mexican attacks. But in the 15th minute, the Mexican strategy paid off when Alberto Garcia Aspe de livered a free kick that Jared Borgetti headed past goal keeper Kasey Keller. Astros defeat Brewers MILWAUKEE (AP) — Wade Miller scattered seven hits over seven innings Sunday to lead the Houston Astros over the Milwaukee Brewers 6-1. Miller (10-3), who pitched a three-hitter .at Milwaukee on April 11, struck out eight and walked two. He is now walked three and struck out 31 in three starts, all victories, against Aiil- waukee this season. Miller did not have much of a lineup to face Sunday because Devon White (quadriceps), Ge off Jenkins (hand) and Jeffrey Hammonds (shoulder) were sidelined and Jeromy Burnitz, the Brewers’ leader in home runs and RBIs, had the after noon off. The Brewers lost for just the second time in 14 day games at Miller Park and dropped to 2-7 against Houston this season. Brewers right-hander Paul Rigdon (3-5) left after 2 2/3 in/ nings when he aggravated his strained right elbow. He was making his second start sinefe coming off the 15-day disabled list last week.. Rigdon allowed four runs, all in the third inning, on six hits, including a three-mn double to Moises Alou. After walking th£ next batter, Rigdon threw a ball to Vinny Castilla and was re moved, trailing 4-0.