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u ; »fcen pushed back to a two-
/ lournament on Friday and
urilay. The team will leave
Hus for Albuquerque on
Hesday.
. A&M football head coach
2. Slocum also cancelled foot-
I Bract ice Tuesday.
“I felt this was the appropri-
iourse of action to take
fifth-busiest
ice led Tuevi
uch lost two
esday’s
regarding today’s events,”
Slocum said.
In addition, all Tuesday and
most Wednesday soccer and vol
leyball non-conference competi
tions at all Big 12 schools have
been postponed.
Conference officials noted
that every attempt will be made
to reschedule the Wednesday
league volleyball matches.
Big 12 Commissioner Kevin
Weiberg has been in consulta
tion with the athletic directors
of the 12 members of the con
ference, as well as university
officials about security con
cerns at upcoming Big 12
events and about possible trans
portation problems.
Thursday and Friday non
conference contests in all sports
are pending and will be played at
the discretion of Big 12 schools
and non-league opponents.
Thursday's Texas Tech at
Texas-El Paso football game has
been postponed, and the sched-
A&M SPORTS POSTPONEMENTS
The Texas A&M volleyball team's
match against the Oklahoma
Sooners Wednesday will be
rescheduled for a later date.
The Texas A&M women's golf
team's tournament has been
pushed back to a two-day
tournament on Friday and
Saturday. The team will leave
by bus for the Dick McGuire
Invitational in Albuquerque,
N.M., Wednesday.
A&M football head coach R.C.
Slocum canceled football
practice Tuesday.
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ule for the other nine football
games involving Big 12 teams is
pending for Saturday.
“We are in the process of
contacting the Big 12 board of
directors, other conference com
missioners, directors of athlet
ics, the NCAA and other gov
erning bodies about the status of
competition and other practical
travel and security issues,”
Weiberg said.
In addition, two Thursday
night college football games were
postponed, and suspension of this
week’s schedule of Division I
games is being considered.
The Atlantic Coast
Conference announced the post
ponement of all athletic events
through Thursday, including
Penn State at Virginia and Ohio
at North Carolina State.
Earlier Tuesday, the com
missioners from all the I-A
conferences, including the
ACC, Big East, Big Ten, Big
12, Pac-10 and Southeastern,
discussed their options for
staging this weekend’s games
in a conference call hours after
the attacks.
“We’re going to monitor and
carefully evaluate everything,
and definitely make a decision
tomorrow (Wednesday) on our
weekend football games,” said
Big East commissioner Mike
Tranghese, speaking only for his
own league’s games.
He added, “The commis
sioners will be talking to their
institutions on conference calls,
and then we will talk again and
make a collective decision.”
Two other games are sched
uled for Thursday night — Texas
Tech at Texas-El Paso and
Kentucky Wesleyan at Tennessee-
Martin. Colorado State is at
UNLV on Friday night.
In Division I, there are I 16
games scheduled Thursday
through Saturday, including
three major matchups in the
state of Florida — No. 13
Washington at No. 1 Miami, No.
8 Tennessee at No. 2 Florida and
No. 10 Georgia Tech at No. 6
Florida State.
The final decision on whether
to play, though, could rest with
the federal government, not the
commissioners. The government
most likely will determine if
teams can travel by air and if it is
safe for large crowds to gather at
stadiums nationwide.
“It may be out of our hands,”
Tranghese said. “There are a lot
of issues, emotional ones. Kids
flying, playing in large venues
with a lot of people and if the
government says do something,
we do it.”
NCAA president Cedric
Dempsey said the NCAA
would cooperate with any
executive orders issued by
President Bush.
“The games themselves are
insignificant in the face of what
has happened today,” Dempsey
said. “Our focus is entirely on
the safety of student-athletes,
athletics personnel and fans.
We urge schools to make sound
decisions about proceeding
with contests today and in the
coming days.”
Many schools canceled prac
tice Tuesday, including UCLA,
which is scheduled to play host
to Arizona State in the Rose
Bowl on Saturday.
“1 met with the team and it
was a very emotional meeting,”
said Bruins coach Bob Toledo.
“The team was sensitive to the
feelings of the people who have
suffered a great loss.”
“After listening to comments
from several members of the
team, I decided that regardless
of whether or not we play the
game Saturday, today should be
a day for us to reflect on things
other than football.”
Pro sports
put on hold
NEW YORK (AP) — Major league baseball postponed its
entire schedule of 15 games Tuesday night following terrorist
attacks in New York and Washington, and other sports also called
off their events.
Aside from work stoppages, it was the first time since D-Day
in |Q44 that baseball wiped out a whole day of regular-season
play.
The NFL, criticized for playing after President Kennedy’s
assassination in 1963, said it was not sure what it would do with
this weekend’s schedule. College football commissioners were
considering postponing the weekend’s entire schedule of games,
with a decision expected as early as Wednesday. Race tracks
around the nation called off their cards.
Baseball commissioner Bud Selig said he and his wife were in
New York last week, and “we went to the World Trade Centers
because I hadn't been there in a while. Now to believe that they
don’t exist anymore.”
Yankee Stadium, perhaps the building that most symbolizes
American sports, was evacuated within 90 minutes of the first
attacks on the World Trade Center.
The Chicago White Sox arrived in New York hours before the
attacks for the start of their series against the Yankees.
The NFL was unsure what it would do.
The PGA Tour canceled Thursday’s starts of the World Golf
Championship and two other tournaments.
Commissioner Tim Finchem said the American Express
Championship in St. Louis, featuring Tiger Woods and top players
from tours around the world, would begin Friday with 36 holes.
The Senior Tour will remain on schedule, with a 54-hole event
that starts Friday in North Carolina.
The Thoroughbred Racing Association canceled all its cards
Tuesday, shuttering tracks at Delaware Park in Stanton, Del;
Finger Lakes in Farmington, N.J.; the Meadowlands in East
Rutherford, N.J.; Philadelphia Park in Bensalem Pa., and Prairie
Meadows in Altoona, Iowa.
Cards also were wiped out at Great Lake Downs in Muskegon,
Mich.; Fairplex in Pomona, Calif, and Moutaineer Park in Chester,
W.Va.
The Swiss-based International Olympic Committee expressed
a “profound sense of shock and disbelief” at the attacks.
IOC president Jacques Rogge expressed “deepest sympathy”
to the families of the victims and sent letters of condolence to
President Bush, the U.S. Olympic Committee and the Salt Lake
City Organizing Committee.
NASCAR also was monitoring the situation before making any
decision on Sunday’s New Hampshire 300, spokesman John Griffin
said. The Indy Racing League said it will decide Wednesday on the
status of Sunday’s Chevy 5(X) at Texas Motor Speedway.
See Sl’ORTS on page 10.
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