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CROOME: Rice makes habit of getting in A&M's way

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 06:05:00 GMT

HOUSTON -- The banner highlighting Rice's accolades over the past 13 years stretches the length of the batting cages at Reckling Park. It's hard to miss. There aren't many gaps in the sequence of numbers that underline the three headers -- the ...

CROOME: A&M pitching doesn't deliver

Sun, 08 Jun 2008 06:05:00 GMT

HOUSTON -- Six free passes, five runs. There were more storylines to Saturday's Game 1 of the Super Regional between Rice and Texas A&M at Reckling Park, but for A&M's head coach, who is also a former pitching coach, none were more promi ...

Rice's righties vs. A&M's bats? We'll find out

Sat, 07 Jun 2008 06:27:00 GMT

Few words come from a coach who is asked to compare two opposing teams to each other, especially when one team is in the backyard and the other just down the street. And the few that come out usually amount to a politically correct response that most ...

CROOME: Postseason will be barometer for Aggies

Wed, 21 May 2008 02:12:00 GMT

"The glory is more glorious, but the time you spend in 'baseball hell' is hotter, too." That from Texas Longhorn coach Augie Garrido, known to many who follow college baseball as the Zen Master, the game's equivalent to Los Angeles Lakers coach ...

CROOME: Jones, Kirk left mark at A&M

Mon, 24 Mar 2008 02:10:00 GMT

ANAHEIM, Calif. -- Joseph Jones stopped at the edge of the Honda Center court, turned slowly and waited for Dominique Kirk, the last Aggie to leave after Texas A&M's heartbreaking 51-49 loss to No. 1 seed UCLA in the second round of the NCAA Tour ...

CROOME: Turgeon doesn't like Aggies' draw in Big 12 tourney

Wed, 12 Mar 2008 02:14:00 GMT

The Texas A&M men's basketball team may have lucked out on their Big 12 tournament draw. Iowa State and Kansas State were 3-9 combined over the final three weeks of the season. The Aggies open with the Cyclones on Thursday in Kansas City, Mo ...

Sloan's dunk showed Aggie attitude is back

Fri, 07 Mar 2008 06:20:00 GMT

Texas A&M men's basketball coach Mark Turgeon was signaling for his point guard Donald Sloan to dribble out the final seconds of the Aggies' 71-57 victory over Baylor late Wednesday night in Waco. Sloan never saw the signal. Instead of killi ...

CROOME: Turgeon proud that Ags didn't suffer letdown

Tue, 05 Feb 2008 02:11:00 GMT

Texas A&M coach Mark Turgeon was proud of his team for what they overcame in their victory against the Oklahoma Sooners on Saturday. First, the Aggies avoided the letdown after a big win against rival Texas. Kansas State was unable to do the ...

CROOME: Davis' emergence big for A&M

Sat, 26 Jan 2008 02:11:00 GMT

If anything good came out of Texas A&M's agonizing five-overtime loss to Baylor, it was sophomore forward Bryan Davis' breakout game that can only pay dividends for the Aggies down the road. Davis, getting his second consecutive start, had ...

Aggies showed improvement in 5OT loss, just not enough to beat Bears

Fri, 25 Jan 2008 02:15:00 GMT

Mark Turgeon opened his weekly press conference on Monday with a state-of-the-union statement. "Even though the sun isn't out today," the A&M men's basketball team coach said, "it still comes up. And this isn't the end of the world." We ...

Aggies had tough night in Lubbock

Fri, 18 Jan 2008 02:12:00 GMT

LUBBOCK -- Joseph Jones stomped out after the postgame press conference. He wasn't pouting. He wasn't putting on a show. He was just mad. Mad that he and his teammates had just put on their worst display of basketball arguably since the d ...

CROOME: Road games key to Aggies' Big 12 title hopes

Wed, 16 Jan 2008 02:11:00 GMT

It's difficult to say the road has been unkind to the Texas A&M men's basketball team. They haven't been on it enough. One loss in one true road game to a ranked team does not qualify as having trouble away from home. But that's a ...

CROOME: A&M can't capitalize on hot start

Sun, 30 Dec 2007 04:06:00 GMT

It was put on a platter for Texas A&M. But it's been famine, not feast, for the Aggies come bowl time over the past two decades. The Aggies have found a way to lose 10 of their last 12 bowl games. It's a trend that has to be frustratin ...

CROOME: Turgeon ready to ramp up Aggies

Wed, 19 Dec 2007 02:13:00 GMT

Mark Turgeon says he's a compassionate guy. He also has a good memory. That combination may have had something to do with the Aggies letting off the pedal in Sunday's 64-37 victory over Arkansas-Pine Bluff in which No. 14 Texas A&M (9-1) sc ...

Special seniors look for special ending

Fri, 23 Nov 2007 02:12:00 GMT

Texas A&M head football coach Dennis Franchione didn't get through many press conferences this season without saying, "I like this team." He never made it clear whether that meant he liked the players on this team or this team's potential on ...

Turgeon has good start recruiting at A&M

Wed, 21 Nov 2007 02:48:00 GMT

A top 15 ranking and a berth in this week's preseason NIT semifinals in New York are proof the Texas A&M men's basketball program is making headway outside the Texas state borders. The 2008 recruiting class validates that point as ...

Croome: A&M was so close in many ways

Sun, 11 Nov 2007 02:11:00 GMT

For a brief moment Saturday, everything was going just as it had been scripted when the season kicked off for the Texas A&M football team. The defense was bending but not breaking, and the offense was controlling the line of scrimmage, allow ...

Aggies drop ball again on national TV stage

Sun, 04 Nov 2007 01:13:00 GMT

The Texas A&M football program has gone full circle in five years. Sure, 42-14 is not exactly 77-0, but it might as well be for the Aggies, who were playing for a share of the Big 12 South lead only to find themselves on the short end of su ...

North, not the South, is Big 12 Conference's best division

Sat, 03 Nov 2007 02:23:00 GMT

At next year's Big 12 football media days, all the North Division coaches -- including the new one at Nebraska -- should get together and devise a plan to repeatedly ask the reporters one question. "Why do you think the North caught up with ...

Ags in danger of syndication

Sun, 28 Oct 2007 03:13:00 GMT

The Texas A&M football team has jumped the shark. The saying, made popular by jumptheshark.com, is reserved for the precise moment a popular TV program loses momentum and begins its slow descent into syndication. It comes from an episode of ...

KU football takes spotlight over basketball

Sat, 27 Oct 2007 02:13:00 GMT

"Basketball." That was the response from Texas A&M tight end and former power forward Martellus Bennett when asked if he expected Kansas to visit College Station ranked in the Top 10 before the season started. The response, which was meant w ...

Victory is a good step for A&M

Sun, 21 Oct 2007 02:31:00 GMT

Who says Dennis Franchione can't win a bowl game? Billed as the "Buyout Bowl" by outsiders, it was an important one for the insiders, namely Texas A&M's Franchione and Nebraska's Bill Callahan. And considering fans felt the need to name it - ...

A&M wants to keep Nebraksa's defense sans Blackshirts

Sat, 20 Oct 2007 02:12:00 GMT

It was almost as if the Oklahoma State players were jumping up and down alongside coach Mike Gundy with their arms flailing, begging to be put into the game so they could be part of the onslaught against the "Blackshirts" of Nebraska last week. Cowbo ...