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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
TAMPA, Fla.— Warren Sapp
blew kisses to the crowd, and
coach Jon Gruden received the
key to the city as an estimated
100,000 people lined the streets
of downtown Tampa on Tuesday
to celebrate the Buccaneers’
Super Bowl victory.
Fans clad in the team’s red
and pewter colors waved ban
ners and chanted “Defense!”
and “Tampa Bay!” as the
Buccaneers rode in convertibles
and pickup trucks in a parade in
their honor.
“This is about you Tampa, I
love you,” running back Mike
Alstott told the crowd.
Tampa Mayor Dick Greco,
flanked by mayors from
Clearwater and St. Petersburg,
presented Gruden the key to the
city and said Tampa owed him
“a million thanks.”
Tampa Bay won its first
Super Bowl title Sunday, beat
ing the Oakland Raiders 48-21
in San Diego.
“I was raised in San Diego,
but my hometown is Tampa,”
safety John Lynch said. “I’ve
been here 10 years and I’ve
waited a long time to do this, so
help me out — We’re No. 1!
We’re No. 1!”
Sapp added: “Thank you
from the bottom of my heart.”
Some of the loudest cheers
were for defensive coordinator
Monte Kiffin, who received per
mission to speak to the San
Francisco 49ers about their
vacant head coaching job.
Kiffin is the man responsible
for building the Bucs into the
NFL’s No. 1-ranked defense,
which dominated the Raiders.
Fans chanted “Stay, Monte,
stay!” as the 62-year-old Kiffin
made his way to the front of the
dais. He made no mention of
plans for the future.
“You’re the greatest fans in
the world,” Kiffin said. “We
love ya. Let’s come back.”
Long-suffering Bucs sup
porters waited 27 years for a
championship. The frustration
turned into elation Monday as
they rushed to stores across the
region to buy anything com
memorating the Super Bowl tri
umph.
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parade route wore clothes
emblazoned with the Super
Bowl XXXVII logo.
On Monday night, a crowd of
about 65,000 filled chilly
Raymond James Stadium with
camera flashes and deafening
noise as the Bucs arrived home
from San Diego.
“It’s our time,” Duane Jones,
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of the Bucs. “It’s our season,
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Three freshmen players should
see playing time this season,
while a fourth, Jill Weynand, will
be sidelined by an ACL injury.
First-year player Kristin Gunter
could make a quick impact, hav
ing progressed nicely during the
early practice schedule.
“(Kristin) has made a lot of
progress in terms of hitting and
possibly being able to produce in
our batting order, but I think all
r I three freshmen will be able to see
\ time,” Evans said.
The Aggies will work to elevate
themselves in a highly competitive
conference that includes the likes
ofTexas, Oklahoma, Nebraska and
Baylor among others. The
Longhorns won the Big 12 a sea
son ago with a record of 17-1 in
conference play. Evans and A&M
finished last season even in the Big
12 at 9-9 while posting a 40-18
mark overall.
A strong series of practices
have Evans and her team thinking
i optimistically about this season’s
I team on both sides of the ball.
'7am pleased with the progress
that we are making on the field,”
Evans said. “We have a real posi
tive environment, and everybody
is working really hard. We are all
anticipating the season opener.”
The Aggies first action will be
a double-header against Stephen
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SAN ANTONIO — Boxer Tony Ayala Jr.
was freed Tuesday after state prosecutors
dropped their effort to send him back to
prison, saying defense lawyers had severely
damaged the credibility of a teenage girl who
accused him of having sex with her.
The Bexar County District Attorney’s
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Ayala, a 39-year-old middleweight, had
been in custody since early December after he
was accused of twice having sex with the 14-
year-old girl in November. He had denied the
statutory rape allegation.
“You know the saying, The truth will set
you free,”’ said an elated Tony Ayala Sr. after
state District Judge Maria Teresa Herr ordered
his son freed from jail.
“When you’re facing these kinds of ramifi
cations — 10 years in prison, with so little of
your boxing career left and maybe you’ll be
able to fight for a title — obviously it’s a great
relief for Tony Ayala,” said Jimmy Parks, his
lead attorney.
The 14-year-old girl spent most of Monday
on the witness stand, calmly testifying that she
aggressively pursued Ayala sexually after
meeting him at his training gym, and that she
eventually was able to seduce him.
She said that the pair had sex once in the
backseat of the boxer’s car in early November
and again in his parents’ house in San Antonio
during Thanksgiving week.
But under intense cross-examination, the
eighth-grader from suburban San Antonio
conceded that she had told several different
versions of her story about sex with Ayala to
police, her friends and other people.
The girl also acknowledged that she had
falsely accused her stepfather of sexually
molesting her for four years. She told Parks
that she made up that story because she was
mad at her stepfather.
On Tuesday, the judge asked the girl at one
point if she knew what perjury was, and when
she said she didn’t, the hearing was stopped. A
lawyer was later appointed to make sure the
girl’s legal interests were protected.
Michael Bernard, Bexar County’s first assis
tant prosecutor, said he still believed the girl,
but given her weakened credibility, it didn’t
make sense to continue with the hearing. He
also said the girl’s lawyer advised her to not
continue with her testimony.
He said the state was obligated to investi
gate the girl’s allegation and to try to corrobo
rate it, “and then you follow your instinct.”
Ayala’s burglary trial in 2001 bore several
key similarities to this week’s hearing.
He had been charged with breaking into the
San Antonio home in December 2000 with
intent to commit rape, but the charge was
reduced in a plea deal after Parks hurt the
credibility of the case’s key witness by
exploiting a number of discrepancies between
her testimony and her statements to police.
Ayala previously served 16 years in a New
Jersey prison after being convicted in 1983
of raping a schoolteacher. At the time of that
conviction, he was considered a rising mid
dleweight prospect.
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The idea was to test her con
siderable skills against the best
men in her sport, the chance of a
lifetime for a woman at the top
of her game.
A public relations gimmick?
Ann Meyers never saw herself
that way.
“1 wouldn’t have played if I
didn’t think I could make it,”
Meyers said, reflecting on her
historic NBA tryout in 1979 with
the Indiana Pacers. “That’s how
much I believed in myself. It was
n’t to prove a point.”
Meyers never played in the
NBA. She didn’t make it past a
three-day camp for rookies. She
still thinks former Pacers coach
Slick Leonard had made up his
mind about her before she even
stepped onto the court.
That’s why Meyers doesn’t
want Annika Sorenstam to play a
PGA Tour event.
She wants her to play several.
Sorenstam, who wins more
often than Tiger Woods, is still
deciding whether to accept any of
the seven offers from PGA Tour
events that poured in after the 32-
year-old Swede said she would
take a sponsor’s exemption “in a
heartbeat.”
“I would love to play,” she
said. “I have nothing to lose. It’s
a great challenge.”
There are a few catches.
Sorenstam would only con
sider tournaments where she has
a fighting chance, on courses that
put a premium on accuracy over
power. She hits the ball about
265 yards, which would have
ranked her 196th on the PGA
Tour last year.
I have no problem
with a tournament
giving her an
exemption.
— David Duval
PGA Professional Golfer
It can’t conflict with any
weeks where she is defending
champion — 11 — or the major
championships or Solheim Cup.
There goes four months out of
the schedule.
The real problem might be
the public relations battle.
“The most difficult thing
wasn’t playing the game,”
Meyers said. “It was all the neg
ativity, so many people who were
against it.”
One of the more valid argu
ments is that if Sorenstam real
ly wants to measure herself
against the men, why not
Monday qualify? That’s what
13-year-old Michelle Wie did
in Honolulu, shooting a 73 to
fall six shots short of getting
into the Sony Open.
One of the weaker arguments
is that Sorenstam would take a
spot away from someone else
more deserving.
Sponsor exemptions were
designed for tournaments to fill
out the field or generate interest
for their community.
“I have no problem with a
tournament giving her an exemp
tion,” David Duval said. “They
have no obligation to give those
to anyone except the people they
see fit.”
Another argument: If
Sorenstam can play on the PGA
Tour, why can’t men play on the
LPGA Tour?
Simple.
The PGA Tour is not for men.
It’s for the best players, who hap
pen to be men.
“Annika is not going to render
the PGA Tour obsolete,” LPGA
Tour commissioner Ty Votaw
said. “There is the potential that
men could do that to the LPGA.
She would be at a disadvantage
against the men, yet she still
wants to do it. The only reason
men would want to do it (play the
LPGA) is to take advantage of a
physiological differential.”
Duval has competed against
Sorenstam twice in the last two
years, the “Battle at Bighorn”
two years ago and an 18-hole
exhibition in Mexico last month.
His impression?
“I wish I could hit the ball that
straight,” Duval said. “It’s
impressive.”
What kind of scores
Sorenstam might post is anyone’s
guess.
Power puts her at an extreme
disadvantage, not only off the tee
but coming into the green. She
likely would be hitting 5-iron and
7-wood when others have a 7-
iron or an 8-iron in their hands.
“Why not test your abilities?”
Meyers said. “Any athlete, any
human ... you always want to see
what you can do against the best.
She’s just challenging herself.
She wants to know what she’s
capable of doing.”
It wouldn’t hurt to find out.
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