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University Press • Friday, November 5,1999 • Page 5
Howland, Sharp lead Cards
to 18th in NMSU tourney
Senior Janell Howland and
freshman Helen Sharp each
improved on their first round
scores and the Lady Cardinals
moved up to 18th place after the
second round of the Diet Coke-
Roadrunner Invitational golf
tournament.
The event, hosted by New
Mexico State University, was
held at the par-72, 6,117-yard
University Golf Course in Las
Cruces, NM, on Tuesday.
Howland, who shot an
opening round of 80, followed
up with a 79 to tie for 50th place.
Sharp shot an 81 on Monday,
followed by a 80 on Tuesday to
give her a tie for 61st place.
Oklahoma State moved
from fifth place*to first after
shooting a tournament best 293
on Tuesday for a total of 596.
New Mexico was second at
598, followed by New Mexico
State at 599, first-round leader
Washington at 604 and Texas
Tech with 613.
Jordan Lintz of Wyoming
was the individual leader after
two rounds at two-under-par.
Freshman Jacque tied for
81st for the Lady Cardinals with
rounds of 81 and 84. Sophomore
Catrin Joyce had rounds of 84
and 83 to tie for 90th place and
freshman Amber Cruse was
107th with two 91-shot rounds.
Vrsportsbriefs
Recreational sports
Intramural flag football final standings
Field I; ROTC
Big Games
26
GameBreakers
0
Highwayman
20
Wreckers
13
Field 2: women’s gym
MSU
13
Sigma Epsilon
7
ATO
8
Pikes
7
Bailers
15
Scrubs
7
This week in recreational sports
The deadline to sign up for the rec sports swim meet is
Monday. For more information, go to 106 McDonald Gym or call
880-8331.
Cards to play free scrimmage
The Lamar men’s basketball team will hold a Red/White
scrimmage on Saturday in the Montagne Center.
This event will begin at noon, one hour before the Central vs.
West Brook high school football game in Cardinal Stadium.
The scrimmage is free to the public and will feature two 15-
minute halves under game conditions.
The UP sports department wants to hear from your sport.
Press release forms are available for organization reporters in
the UP office, 200 Setzer Student Center. Information may be
sent to P.O. Box 10055, Beaumont 77710, or by fax to 880-
8735.
‘Sweet’
Farewell
Bethel College stu-
dents, from left, Matt
Saville, Chris Harouff,
and Seth Doty, pause
for a moment in front of
a makeshift shrine to
Chicago Bears great
Walter Payton on
Tuesday, outside
Soldier Field in
Chicago. Chicagoans
remembered Payton,
who died Monday of
liver cancer, with flow-
ers, cards, candles and
photographs outside
the stadium.
Houston voters reject arena proposal
HOUSTON (AP) — Voters
Tuesday rejected a proposal to
use tax money to build a $160 mil-
lion downtown Houston sports
arena.
The issue lost 178,343, or 55
percent, to 147,352, or 45 percent.
“When voters read the facts
they came our way, because they
know it’s a bad deal and they
know they have time to get a bet-
ter deal for an arena, and that’s
exactly what we’re going to do,”
said Harris County Tax Assessor-
Collector Paul Bettencourt, a
leading opponent of the proposal.
Houston Rockets owner Les
Alexander has said his National
Basketball Association team
needs a new arena, with more rev-
enue-generating luxury boxes and
club seats, to remain competitive
in a league filled with new build-
ings.
Alexander did not threaten to
move the team if the issue failed,
but arena backers such as popular
former mayor Bob Lanier repeat-
edly warned voters the team’s
departure was a possibility.
Opponents said the ballot
issue was hastily thrown together
and placed too much of the cost
burden on taxpayers. They also
contended Alexander, not the
city, should be made to buy the
land in downtown Houston.
The Rockets, who in their
season opener failed to sell out
Tuesday night for the first time
after 148 consecutive regular-sea-
son games, have a lease to contin-
ue playing at the Compaq Center
southwest of downtown until
November 2003.
The arena issue was seen as a
test of Mayor Lee Brown’s influ-
ence after his first two-year term.
He easily won his own re-election
Tuesday against token opposition
and focused most of his energy on
the arena.
“There was a lot of disinfor-
mation. The arena is a good deal
for the city,” said Brown, who
resisted conceding defeat late into
the night.
Proposal detractor Francisco
Soto appeared amused by
Brown’s comments: “I don’t know
who thought it was a good deal. It
certainly wasn’t the voters of
Harris County.”
Pro-arena forces were expect-
ed to raise more than $2 million,
outspending the opposition by a
wide margin.
The arena question was
assembled Sept. 1 after Brown
intervened in stalled negotiations
between the Rockets and the
Harris County-Houston Sports
Authority.
Brown agreed to have the city buy
Alexander’s preferred, site for at
least $25 million. Alexander con-
sented to build a $45 million park-
ing garage and spend $10 million
in arena concession build-outs.
Alexander and the Sports
Authority would split the cost of
designing and building the arena,
though Alexander would have to
pay $1.1 million a year for capital
expenditures.
All ticket, concession, tempo-
rary advertising and naming rights
revenues would go to Alexander
for events involving his teams: the
Rockets, the WNBA’s Comets
and the ThunderBears arena foot-
ball franchise.
Additionally, a possible .10
percent ticket tax on non-
Alexander events — such as the
circus, concerts and the Aeros
minor league hockey team —
would go to the sports authority.
Tax revenue from tickets to
events involving Alexander-
owned teams would be rebated to
the Florida millionaire.
It was likely the recently
refurbished Compaq Center,
known as The Summit for most of
its 25 years, would be tom down.
The sports authority is
financed by existing taxes on hotel
rooms and cars rented in Harris
County. The same revenue was
used to help finance a downtown
retractable-roof baseball park set
to open next April and an
Astrodome-area convertible-top
stadium for the city’s NFL expan-
sion team.
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