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Aggie baseball team to face Cowboys in Stillwater
Thursday, May 17, 2012
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The eighth-ranked Texas A&M baseball team will conclude regular-season play with a pivotal three-game Big 12 series at Oklahoma State.
Game 1 will be at 6:30 p.m. Thursday with Game 2 at 6:30 p.m. Friday and Game 3 at 1 p.m. S ...
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Aggie RoundupThursday, May 17, 2012
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BASEBALL
Six Aggies earn Academic All-Big 12 honors: Texas A&M’s Kyle Martin, Troy Stein, Ross Stripling and Estevan Uriegas made the Academic All-Big 12 first team, while Denny Clement and Scott Arthur made the second te ...
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Wednesday, May 16, 2012
In the late 1960s, R.C. Slocum was a new college graduate roaming the sidelines at Lake Charles High School in Louisiana. Back then, Slocum didn’t envision himself making the leap to the college game and having success.
“I had no idea,&r ...
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Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Texas A&M capped a perfect week of nonconference play with a 5-1 victory over Texas State on Tuesday.
Daniel Mengden (2-3) gave up only one run in seven innings of pitching, walking none on the way to leading the Aggies to their fourth victory i ...
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Wednesday, May 16, 2012
GOLF
Aggie men aim for NCAA Championships: The Big 12 Champion Texas A&M golf team looks to earn its fifth straight trip to the NCAA Championships when the Aggies compete in the NCAA Bowling Green Regional. Action is Thursday through Saturd ...
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Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Join David Harris every Tuesday at 1 p.m. for a live chat about Aggie sports with Aubrey Bloom of Gigem247.
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Tuesday, May 15, 2012
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Texas A&M senior right-hander Ross Stripling is one of Collegiate Baseball’s National Players of the Week and Big 12 Pitcher of the Week for his no-hitter against San Diego State on Saturday at Olsen Field, the 11th in th ...
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Tuesday, May 15, 2012
BASEBALL
Aggies host Texas State: The sixth-ranked Texas A&M baseball team will play its final home game of the regular season when the Aggies host Texas State at 6:35 p.m. Tuesday.
A&M is 37-14 overall and 28-10 at Olsen Field at Blue Bell P ...
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Monday, May 14, 2012
Texas A&M's Matt Juengel wanted it to be a Senior Day he would remember.
He won't be alone as the members of the senior class took it upon themselves to complete a sweep of San Diego State with a 4-2 victory on Sunday at Olsen Field at Blue Bell ...
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Monday, May 14, 2012
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MANHATTAN, Kan. -- The Texas A&M men's track team repeated as BIg 12 champs by scoring 150 points, besting Texas which had 131. The A&M women, though, had their string of five straight league championships end in the school ...
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Monday, May 14, 2012
Eagle staff reportLOS ANGELES-- The top-ranked men's tennis team and three-time defending NCAA champion USC Trojans held serve at home as USC defeated Texas A&M 4-0 in the second round of the NCAA Championships held at Marks Tennis Stadium."They ...
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A&M softball team earns No. 8 seed in NCAA tournamentMonday, May 14, 2012
The Texas A&M softball team battled through adversity this season to earn a No. 8 seed for the 64-team NCAA Division I Softball Tournament, getting the good news in a fitting way.A&M watched Sunday night's Selection Show Special on ESPNU at t ...
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Sunday, May 13, 2012
Senior Ross Stripling was supposed to walk across the stage at Reed Arena on Saturday.
He made history across the street instead.
Stripling threw Texas A&M's first no-hitter since 2004, missing a perfect game by one pitch while leading the eight ...
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Sunday, May 13, 2012
Eagle Staff ReportSTATE COLLEGE, Pa. -- Texas A&M's Katerina Ruzickova won the individual title, and the No. 12 Aggie women's golf team tied for second at the NCAA East Regional at Penn State's Blue Course on Saturday.A&M matched its best reg ...
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A&M's road to SEC has been bumpySunday, May 13, 2012
The Texas A&M athletics department has suffered through its share of disappointments since joining the Southeastern Conference. There's been blown leads in games, shattered seasons, injuries and sickness. And Tuesday the Aggies lost their athlet ...
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Sunday, May 13, 2012
GOLF
Aggie men hand out team awards: The Texas A&M men's golf team named junior Cameron Peck the team MVP and senior Geoff Shaw the squad's most improved player Friday at the Aggies' annual awards ceremony at Traditions Club.
Peck earned the MVP ...
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Saturday, May 12, 2012
Eagle Staff ReportTexas A&M's Ross Stripling threw a no-hitter Saturday, leading the Aggies past San Diego State 1-0 at Olsen Field at Blue Bell Park.Stripling struck out seven and walked one to improve to 9-2 this season.
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Saturday, May 12, 2012
Michael Wacha might want to go west this postseason.
Texas A&M's 6-foot-6 right-hander pitched 22 2/3 innings in his three games against West Coast teams before giving up a run, finally surrendering one in the eighth inning on Friday in the eigh ...
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Saturday, May 12, 2012
Eagle Staff ReportTexas A&M won an internet vote to have ESPN film its next College GameDay commercial in Aggieland, ESPN announced Friday.Aggie fans logged in 225,803 votes to edge out Nebraska's 222,972 for the right to get ESPN's college footb ...
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Saturday, May 12, 2012
GOLF
A&M's Ruzickova stays in lead at NCAA East Regional: STATE COLLEGE, Pa. -- Texas A&M sophomore Katerina Ruzickova held on to the individual lead and helped the Aggie women's golf team remain in fourth place in the team standings after Fr ...
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Saturday, May 12, 2012
Eagle Staff ReportANN ARBOR, Mich. -- The 19th-ranked Texas A&M women's tennis team opened the NCAA tournament with a 4-1 victory over LSU on Friday at the Varsity Tennis Center, advancing to the second round for the first time since 2009.A&M ...
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Friday, May 11, 2012
John Lewis has come a long way from the days of playing in his neighbor's backyard in Birmingham, Ala.
Lewis was home schooled, and to fulfill his physical education credit he took 90-minute tennis lessons once a week on a court adjacent to his hous ...
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Friday, May 11, 2012
The eighth-ranked Aggies pushed the batting cages back, tucked away all the gear and headed directly to the far side of the visitor's dugout to roll the tarp across the infield.
Texas A&M (34-14) got in its final warmup for its weekend series wi ...
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Friday, May 11, 2012
GOLF
Ruzickova takes early lead at NCAA regional: STATE COLLEGE, Pa. -- Texas A&M's Katerina Ruzickova opened with a 5-under 67 Thursday to lead the 12th-ranked Aggies into a fourth-place tie after the first round of the NCAA Women's Golf East Re ...
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Aggie RoundupFriday, May 11, 2012
GOLFRuzickova takes early lead at NCAA regional: STATE COLLEGE, Pa. -- Texas A&M's Katerina Ruzickova opened with a 5-under 67 Thursday to lead the 12th-ranked Aggies into a fourth-place tie after the first round of the NCAA Women's Golf East Reg ...
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Thursday, May 10, 2012
LSU transfer Mary Michael Maggio's career at Texas A&M didn't get off on the best foot.
In fact, she may have put that foot in her mouth.
Maggio posted rounds of 79, 79 and 80 in A&M's 'Mo'Morial Tournament and was none too happy about the r ...
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Thursday, May 10, 2012
Texas A&M needs to find the right person to replace Bill Byrne, but the two most important people in determining how successful the athletics department will be in the transition into the Southeastern Conference are already on campus. That's foo ...
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Thursday, May 10, 2012
The Texas A&M track and field team has a target on its backs entering the Big 12 Outdoor Championships set to start Friday.
That's nothing new for the defending national champion Aggies, who swept last year's Big 12 meet en route to winning t ...
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Thursday, May 10, 2012
Eagle Staff ReportFormer Texas A&M cornerback Terrence Frederick, who was drafted in the seventh round by the Pittsburgh Steelers, signed a four-year contract with the team Wednesday."The Steelers' coaching staff views Frederick as a special team ...
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Thursday, May 10, 2012
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These days, it's pretty rare for a talented high school football player to fly "under the radar." Between the availability of online video, message boards that give everyone and their mom a platform to be heard and the number of ...
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SEC transition, facility upgrades will be top priorities for new ADWednesday, May 09, 2012
Texas A&M wants Bill Byrne's successor on campus by the start of the fall semester.
A&M president R. Bowen Loftin said they're looking for an athletic director who will lead the department into the Southeastern Conference with the best possi ...
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A&M coaches say Byrne gave them tools to winWednesday, May 09, 2012
In sports, the term players' coach is often thrown around to describe those who've had continued success.
On Tuesday the expression went up the ladder one rung to coaches' athletic director.
That was the sentiment of the Texas A&M coaches about ...
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Sherrill, Sherman say shortcomings in football overshadowed Byrne's other successesWednesday, May 09, 2012
"Building champions" echoed across the Texas A&M campus for nearly a decade when Bill Byrne ran the university's athletics department.
It could be seen from the practice courts that made Reed Arena among the most impressive basketball facilities ...
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Bowen, college ADs weigh in on Bill Byrne's tenure at A&MWednesday, May 09, 2012
Here's what the college athletics community is saying about outgoing Texas A&M athletics director Bill Byrne:
"Bill Byrne did some very good things while he was athletics director at Nebraska. He made significant improvements in facilities for s ...
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Wednesday, May 09, 2012
Eagle staff reportTexas A&M junior Cristina Sanchez-Quintanar earned the Big 12's player of the year and newcomer of the year awards in women's tennis, the conference announced Tuesday. She is the first women's tennis player to sweep both awards. ...
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Wednesday, May 09, 2012
BASEBALL
A&M's Stripling named to academic team: Texas A&M senior pitcher Ross Stripling is a first-team selection to the Capital One Academic All-District Team for the second straight year, A&M announced Tuesday.
A finance major, Stripli ...
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Tuesday, May 08, 2012
Texas A&M athletic director Bill Byrne officially announced his retirement Tuesday in The Zone Club in front of coaches, staff and supporters.
"I’m here to announce retirement at director of athletics at Texas A&M,” he said ...
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Bill Byrne leaving: A&M athletic director to announce retirementTuesday, May 08, 2012
Bill Byrne gathered together dozens of the who's who within Texas A&M's athletic department for a private meeting at the Letterman's Club late Monday afternoon.
Dressed in black slacks and an Aggie golf polo of the same color, he walked out of t ...
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Cessna: Byrne's successor has big shoes to fillTuesday, May 08, 2012
Those who helped push Bill Byrne into an early retirement better hire a darn good replacement as athletic director or they'll become part of the problem, not the solution.
There's much to debate about Byrne's legacy in nine seasons at Texas A&M. ...
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Tuesday, May 08, 2012
GOLF
A&M men No. 3 seed: The Texas A&M men's golf team is seeded third for the NCAA Regional in Bowling Green, Ky., on May 17-19 at The Club at Olde Stone.
The Aggies were the Big 12's automatic qualifier by winning the Big 12 Tournament. The ...
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Monday, May 07, 2012
Texas A&M Athletic Director Bill Byrne is expected at a Tuesday press conference to divulge details about his exit plan from Aggieland.
Byrne met with coaches and other officials with the athletic department late Monday afternoon.
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Monday, May 07, 2012
David Harris will be blogging live from Tuesday's press conference in which Bill Byrne is expected to resign as Texas A&M's athletic director. The press conference begins as 12:30 p.m.
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Monday, May 07, 2012
The longest game of the season will leave the Aggies with the longest time to stew.
Texas Tech scored four runs in the 12th inning to thwart Texas A&M's late rally, ending any thoughts of an Aggie sweep, and leave Olsen Field at Blue Bell Park w ...
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Aggie softball team completes sweep of Kansas on Senior DayMonday, May 07, 2012
It was Senior Day on Sunday at the Aggie Softball Complex, and Kelsea Orsak, Lindsey Sisk and Natalie Villarreal made sure their last regularly-scheduled home game was most memorable.
The trio went 4 for 5 at the plate with three runs batted in as 1 ...
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Sunday, May 06, 2012
A day of individual milestones led to a comfortable team victory and a series win for Texas A&M on Saturday.
The ninth-ranked Aggies wavered from their norm in clubbing four home runs, while Ross Stripling was his usual self in dominating the Re ...
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May, Dumezich rip key homers to lift A&M over KUSunday, May 06, 2012
Kansas pitcher Alicia Pille twice fooled Texas A&M junior catcher Meagan May so badly in striking out that May seemed to be talking to herself as she headed back to the dugout.
May, though, got the last word with a mammoth two-run homer in the f ...
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Aggie RoundupSunday, May 06, 2012
EQUESTRIAN
Aggies hand out season awards: The national champion Texas A&M equestrian team held its annual team banquet at the Zone Club at Kyle Field on Saturday.
The Aggies won their first overall national title since 2002 and took home their fo ...
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Saturday, May 05, 2012
Texas A&M reliever Kyle Martin may want to sign his name with a backward K after Friday night.
The ninth-ranked Aggies led by a run when Martin entered the game in the top of the eighth with a Texas Tech runner on first and no outs. The 6-foot-7 ...
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Aggie softball team shuts out KansasSaturday, May 05, 2012
Seven walks didn't hurt the Kansas Jayhawks, but not walking the eighth batter did.
Texas A&M's Cassie Tysarczyk hit a two-run homer to power the 18th-ranked Aggies to a 3-0 victory Friday night at the Aggie Softball Complex.
The victory in the ...
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Aggie RoundupSaturday, May 05, 2012
SWIMMING & DIVINGAggies Medrano, Dittmer win at Mexican Olympic Trials: MONTERREY, Mex. -- Texas A&M swimmers Rita Medrano and Erica Dittmer earned gold medals at the Mexican Olympic Trials. Medrano, a four-time All-American who finished her ...
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