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THE BATTALION
moves forward in NBA drafts
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7th pick, 1st Round (from New Jersey): Eddie Griffin, forward, Seton Hall University
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5th pick, 2nd Round (from Atlanta): Terrence Morris, forward, University of Maryland
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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.