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THE BATTALION
7
Tuesday, September 23, 2003
Readying for the Super Bowl
NFL officials visit Houston to see city’s preparations
By Pam Easton
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
HOUSTON — Dust covers
the floor, plaster work is yet to
be finished on some of the
walls and plastic remains over
light fixtures at Houston’s
George R. Brown Convention
Center where thousands of
football fans will gather in four
months for the NFL
Experience, a festival that
accompanies the Super Bowl.
Tiles were being laid Monday
and carpeting already in place
was protectively covered as NFL
Senior Vice President for
Special Events, Jim Steeg, point
ed toward the newly built comer
office he’ll be using as the Feb. 1
Super Bowl nears.
“At least you don’t have one
of those countdown clocks at the
airport. It scares the heck out of
you,” Steeg told Houston Mayor
Lee Brown, who joined him for
a tour of the city’s expanded
convention center, which by the
end of the year will showcase
three additional exhibit halls, six
new show offices, four new con
ference rooms and an additional
64 meeting rooms.
The center also will include a
new double-decker pedestrian
bridge leading to the soon-to-
open 1,200 room Hilton
Americas-
Houston hotel.
“You’ve got a
facility here that
is going to be
done. You’ve got
a hotel that is
going to be done
in December and
you’ve got a
can-do attitude
of the people. So
that solves all
the problems,”
Steeg said, saying he was
encouraged by the construction
progress. “Once you get the
walls up, it is amazing how
quick they can do the inside
stuff to make it all work.”
Steeg was among about 80
NFL officials in Houston
Monday to work out logistics for
the Feb. 1 game at Reliant
Stadium.
Houston is going
to put on a good
show. Youllwantto
come hack again.
— Lee Brown
Houston mayor
“Houston is going to put on a
good show. You’ll want to come
back again,” Brown confidently
told Steeg.
Steeg said while Houston
faces competition, it could be
back in the running to host
. another Super
Bowl if the
upcoming game
goes off without
a hitch.
“There are
probably a cou
ple billion dol
lars of infra
structure that
have been put in
this community
in the last three
years,” Steeg
said. “We are probably going to
put some tent companies out of
business. We normally do about
$1 million to $1.5 million in
tent business every year and we
are not going to do any this
year. I think we are in really
good shape.”
Houston combines the posi
tive features of previous Super
Bowl cities San Diego and
Texas talking to media again
By Jim Vertuno
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
AUSTIN — Texas is talking to the media again
— for now.
As promised, the No. 14 Longhorns ended their
media boycott after their 48-7 win
over Rice and were all smiles
Monday in talking about this
week’s home game with Tulane.
But more zipped lips could be
in the near future. Quarterback
Chance Mock said he’d refuse
interviews again “if it helps us
win,” and Roy Williams, the sen
ior wide receiver who led the
boycott, said he’d prefer to shut down all the talk
ing after Monday.
“I think Mondays are great,” Williams said.
“We can have media day all day Monday.”
The rest of the week, he said, “is our work time.”
Texas (2-1) typically allows player interviews
Monday through Wednesday with the coaching
staff available most of the week. Last week’s
media boycott after a 38-28 home loss to Arkansas
was the first in recent memory.
BROWN
Coach Mack Brown, who encourages his team
to talk to the media, said he didn’t have anything
to do with last week’s boycott. He said he liked the
message behind the silence.
“Their reason was right. It wasn’t a boycott of
the media as much as it was ‘We’re tired of talking
about Arkansas and we’re tired of negatives.’”
Williams called for the boycott in a practice
field huddle last Tuesday after seeing some things
he didn’t like following the Arkansas loss.
“I just didn’t think a lot of people understood
the difference between winning and losing,”
Williams said. “When we lose you’re not supposed
to be laughing, joking and having a good time. I
saw some of that and we had to get everything
straightened out. They were just young and didn’t
understand. Me being the senior leader helped
them understand.”
Williams gave up a chance to turn pro after last
season to return for one last chance at winning Big
12 and national titles.
“We’ve got to win, man. We’re in the same boat
as the Miamis, the Tennessees, Florida States and
Oklahomas — top notch,” Williams said.
“I’ve lost eight ball games,” he said. “I told
them I don’t want to lose no more. I think they
understand.”
Atlanta, Steeg said.
“San Diego we loved
because our headquarters hotel
was next to the convention cen
ter,” he said. “Atlanta was great
because we had the stadium,
which was right next to the con
vention center to do all the
things there. So you’ve got the
best of both worlds.”
Beyond the Super Bowl,
Brown said the convention cen
ter expansion, which extends
the building the size of a foot
ball field on each end, will
allow the city to expand its con
vention business.
“In the past about 450 con
ventions passed us up because
we did not have the hotel space,”
the mayor said.
The $165 million convention
center expansion will increase
its size from 1.15 million to 1.85
million square feet. The city also
plans to open a 7.5-mile rail line
between Reliant Stadium and
the convention center in January,
spruce up the city with addition
al trees and expects a number of
new bars and restaurants to open
in downtown.
SPORTS IN BRIEF
Man charged with
soliciting murder
in Bryant case
LOS ANGELES (AP) —
Prosecutors charged a Swiss
bodybuilder Monday with solici
tation of murder for allegedly
offering to kill the woman who
accused Los Angeles Lakers
star Kobe Bryant of rape.
Patrick Graber, 31, also was
charged with solicitation to dis
suade a witness, the district
attorney’s office said.
Prosecutors recommended bail
be set at $1 million.
In an appearance in Superior
Court, Graber agreed to a one-
week delay of his arraignment.
No plea was entered and he
remained in custody.
If convicted of the two
felonies, he faces up to nine
years and eight months in
prison, the district attorney’s
office said.
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