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Left: Junior pitcher Linsey Sisk and the No. 23 Aggies take on UT Arlington in its home opener at 2:30 p.m. today at the Aggie Softball Complex. Right: Texas A&M Associate Head Coach Andy Sawyers returns to Aggieland after two years at Kansas State.

Sisk handles adversity

Hope springs eternal

Nearly three years ago, Texas A&M pitcher Lindsey Sisk had it all. After being recruited around the na-tion, the Murrieta, Calif. native chose to attend national powerhouse Arizo-na to try and help win the program’s ninth Women’s College World Se-ries. Sisk played two seasons with Ari-zona and struck out 14 batters in her last game of the 2009 season against Stanford in the Super Regional round of the Women’s College World Se-ries. Her stellar performance would be her last in an Arizona uniform, as she would file paperwork to transfer later that year. Sisk had gone from having everything to not even hav-ing a place to play the game she loved.

“I decided to leave because I want-ed to be able to hit and play other parts of the field when I wasn’t pitch-ing,” Sisk said. “Another part was it’s hard to describe. It just wasn’t the right fit.”

Sisk grew up horseback riding and practicing gymnastics. She cried at the age of 10 when her father forced her to join a softball team to be part of a team sport. By the time Sisk was 14, she had already won a national cham-pionship with her travel team and her freshman year of high school, she re-

ceived her first recruiting letter from the University of Florida.

“I was very focused and I had one thing on my mind,” Sisk said. “I wanted to be the best, so I put all my effort and energy into school and softball and I think it really paid off for me.”

Sisk was a four-year honor stu-dent with a GPA above 4.0 and was a member of the 2006-2007 gold medal-winning U.S. Junior National Team. Her efforts in both school and softball were taking her places and be-fore she knew it, she was at Arizona playing for one of the top teams in the nation.

“I learned a lot being at Arizona. Pitching for one of the best teams and one of the best coaches, I defi-nitely would not take those two years back,” Sisk said.

During Sisk’s sophomore season in 2009 she had begun second-guess-ing Arizona, despite her successes. Shortly after her strong performance against Stanford in that Super Re-gional game, she notified Arizona Head Coach Mike Candrea that she wanted to transfer out of the program.

“It was a little tough, after that Stanford game I was like ‘hmm maybe I should stay,’ but ultimately I

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2011 baseball/softball previewTexas A&M vs. UT Arlington Texas A&M vs. Le Moyne2:30 p.m. today, Aggie Softball Complex 6:35 p.m. today, Olsen Field

Saw-Dog returns to A&M

The great Yogi Berra once said, “There are some people who, if they don’t already know, you can’t tell ‘em.” The hall of fame catcher may not be a master of the English language, but his words still somehow ring true when it comes to “the Aggie spirit that can ne’er be told”; “from the outside looking in, you can’t understand it, and from the inside looking out, you can’t explain it.”

Anything done twice in Aggieland is considered a tradition, but the crowd inside the friendly confines of Olsen Field is arguably the best display of this ideal anywhere on campus.

When the far-off sound of a train whistle is heard, thousands of hands take to the air; their fingers up in cor-respondence to the number of engines they guess will soon rumble down the tracks past the right field wall. Oc-casionally the conductor will pull his whistle to the tune of Hullaballoo, and it will be met with a resounding “Whoop!”

Down on the field, when the blis-tering third strike of John Stilson hits the pocket of Kevin Gonzalez’s mitt with a solid thunk, the stadium echoes with the theme song of the The Rifle-man; the fans getting to their feet to

fire off their hand rifles and exclaim with the tune that “it makes [them] feel so good.”

“The Raggies,” as the die-hard fans that frequent Olsen are called, incessantly yell the opposing pitcher’s name in an effort to distract, and chant “ball five” at the top of their lungs if he throws four balls in a row — and will continue the count until a strike is managed. They scream at the visitor’s first base coach if he dares to step a toe out of his designated box, and when the opposing coach makes a visit to the mound to talk to his pitcher, every-one in the stands soon requests that he “pinch his butt.” If it is obliged with the socially acceptable “get ‘er done” butt slap prevalent in male sports, the coach is then chastised as a “dirty old man” on his return trip to the dugout.

There are no yell leaders showing the crowd when to hump it or start a cheer; but no matter, as Aggie baseball fans have come up with a tradition for all scenarios or events that could ever occur in this oldest of pastimes. New Associate Head Coach Andy Sawyers knows this all too well.

Sawyers is no stranger to Aggieland, having served as a volunteer assistant coach for the 2008 season that was marked by a Big 12 Championship

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Once high school opponents and now college teammates, junior pitcher — and preseason All-American — John Stilson and sophomore pitcher Michael Wacha are hoping to lead the No. 8 Aggies to a fifth consecu-tive appearance in the NCAA Tournament.

Stilson and Wacha both lived in the Pleasant Grove High School district, and Stil-son would have been a Hawk if he had not transferred to Texas High, a 4A school larger than Pleasant Grove. Texas High had just hired a new head coach — Glen Welch — whom the Stilsons had known for 25 years.

“I decided the best move was for me to go play with him,” Stilson said. “He coached my cousins when they were in

school and he knew my dad re-ally well.”

The decision paid off. While playing shortstop, not pitch-ing, he led Texas High to the area round of the playoffs three times and was named district defensive player of the year at the end of his senior season. Al-though it was a larger school, Texas High constantly battled Wacha’s 3-A Pleasant Grove team for the title of “best team in Texarkana.”

“We always played summer league together,” Wacha said. “But during the season we were always playing against each oth-er as enemies.”

“You always picked up a newspaper if you knew Stilson or Wacha were pitching,” said Drew Langford, a junior agri-

business major and a classmate of Wacha’s at Pleasant Grove. “The whole town was follow-ing them.”

The 6 foot 6 inch Wacha exploded onto the scene his junior year at Pleasant Grove, going 16-3 as he pitched his team to the state champion-ship. In his last high school season, Wacha earned first-team all-state and district MVP honors. After committing to Texas A&M during the fall of his senior year, he began try-ing to convince Stilson, at this time pitching for Texarkana College, to travel south with him to College Station.

Stilson’s visit to Olsen Field took place during a nail biter against Texas, and he realized immediately afterward that he wanted to be an Aggie.

“I knew from then on this was the place I needed to be and that’s why I decided to come here,” Stilson said.

Together, Stilson and Wacha lead a core of pitchers that many pundits believe can take the Aggies all the way to the Col-lege World Series. But these hurlers didn’t use the offseason to rest on their laurels — they worked endlessly, reexamin-

ing every facet of their games in an attempt to be even better in 2011.

“I’ve been trying to get healthy and stay healthy, be-cause I seem to have had a problem with that in the past,” Stilson said. “That and just getting stronger. If I can get

stronger, hopefully I can throw harder and be able to throw more strikes as well.”

Once enemies, now friends, Wacha and Stilson both firmly believe that the Aggies have what it takes to make it to the national stage in Omaha this June.

“Our pitching staff will be great this year if we just keep on throwing strikes and com-peting up there on the mound,” Wacha said. “We have a lot of speed that will cause some hav-oc out on the bases, so if we just mesh at the right time I think we’ll be going pretty far.”

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Ranked No. 8 by Collegiate Baseball, No. 13 by the USA Today/ESPN Coaches’ Poll and No. 21 by Baseball America, the national media can’t make its mind up about this Texas A&M baseball team. Aggie Head Coach Rob Childress doesn’t seem bothered by it.

“I really don’t care where the rankings are at this point,” Childress said. “It doesn’t mat-ter what people think at this point in the season, it’s where you finish.”

Last season, the Aggies fin-ished with a 10-3 loss in the NCAA Regional finals to Mi-ami. The Hurricanes eventual-ly fell prey to the Florida Gators in the Super Regional.

“We’ve been doing every-thing we possibly can to get into the best shape and to find the best possible way for us to win since we lost to Miami last year,” said junior pitcher John Stilson, who led the na-tion with a 0.80 ERA in 2010. “That’s when it started, the next day. We were already thinking about, ‘what can we do to get better? What can we do to help the team improve overall?’”

Unfortunately for the Ag-gies, other teams in the Big 12 have improved in the offseason as well. Oklahoma was picked in the preseason Big 12 poll to win the conference with 78 first place votes. Texas had 76 and A&M had 63 first place votes.

“Texas has the winningest coach in our sport and he does an amazing job year in and year

out,” Childress said. “I think you could pick Texas first and Oklahoma second, but after that it’s who can be the most consistent week in and week out over the course of a nine-week season.”

Sophomore pitcher Michael Wacha thinks that Baylor is fly-ing under the radar but poised for a possible breakout season.

“I’m kind of worried about Baylor,” Wacha said. “They had a lot of young people last year. They returned eight out of their nine guys. They were all real young last year so they have a lot of experience com-ing up.”

Childress also expects stiff competition from a few out-of-state rivals.

“Kansas State is another one that I would say would be at the top,” Childress said. “They’ve got a lot of people back. And you know, Nebraska has an aw-ful lot of talent. A lot of talent back, so I would think those are some teams really look to make some waves this year.”

A significant offseason rule change could really shake up the Big 12 standings this season. All NCAA teams must now hit with BBCOR (Batted Ball Co-efficient Of Restitution) certi-fied bats, which is a shift from the aluminum or composite bats that have been utilized for years. Basically, a BBCOR bat will absorb more of the ball’s energy than an aluminum one, resulting in slower hit balls that will improve player safety.

While a bat change may not seem significant, know-

ing that hits will be slower and harder to come by alters the way a manager calls the game. Coaches around the nation are playing “small ball,” stretching singles into doubles and fre-quently stealing.

“We’re built for it [small ball],” Childress said. “That’s the offense we want to run and have for the last five years. Hit-ting a home run is nice and it’s all fine and good, but we want to put pressure on you from the word go.”

The Aggies begin their quest for a national title Friday night against Le Moyne, and Stilson isn’t shy about making some bold predictions.

“Our realistic goal is to win the national championship,” Stilson said. “We’re going to win the Big 12 and we’re go-ing to win it outright. And then we’re going to go in as a top-8 seed and win the national championship. That’s my real-istic goal.”

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Sophomore pitcher Michael Wacha looks to lead the Aggies to a fifth consecutive NCAA Tournament.

Junior pitcher John Stilson is a preseason All-American as the Aggies begin play tonight at Olsen Field.

Aggies gear up for Big 12 Preseason Big 12 standings Rank Team Points1. Oklahoma 782. Texas 763. Texas A&M 634. Baylor 575. Kansas State 496. Oklahoma State 377. Texas Tech 318. Nebraska 229. Kansas 2010. Missouri 17

and a second-straight appearance in an NCAA Super Regional. But it was early in the season, while performing his duties as a first base coach in a series against McNeese State, that he inadver-tently started a tradition of his own.

Section 203 of Olsen Field sits above the visi-tor’s dugout along the first base line; a place the heart of “the Raggies” calls home in the spring. Tradition dictates that when the first base coach runs out to his box, they yell “Give ‘em hell” fol-lowed by the nickname bestowed on the coach. However, the privilege of a proper nickname isn’t granted until the coach is ejected for the first time. Until then, he is only referred to as “new guy.” Sawyers was unaware.

“I thought they were calling me ‘new guy’ because they didn’t know my name. So, I wrote a ball that said ‘Give ‘em Hell 203’ and then signed it ‘Saw Dog,’” Sawyers said. “I threw it up there, they liked it and they asked for it again, so I start-ed putting messages on [the balls] and that’s what kind of started the whole thing.”

Just like that, the Saw Dog became a fan favor-ite, his followers adopting the moniker “Saw Pup-pies” and catching every ball with scribbled-out quips and Chuck Norris jokes he tossed their way.

Sawyer’s time in Aggieland was short lived though, as he set off for Kansas State the follow-ing year for an assistant coaching position. Dur-ing his two seasons in Manhattan, the Wildcats led the Big 12 in both batting average and stolen bases. His aggressive coaching style garnered 149 steals in 2009, which ranked second in the nation.

But in early January, the departure of former A&M Associate Head Coach Matt Deggs, who left to focus on his family and health, shook up the 2011 season. Head Coach Rob Childress, who previously worked alongside Sawyers dur-ing his days at Nebraska, soon came calling.

“It was a very tough decision [to leave Kansas State]. But when [Childress] called, and there was chance for me to come back and work with him, it was kind of a dream come true,” Sawyers said. “I think we’re going to win national champion-ships here. While the timing isn’t what you draw up, the chance to come back here, at this time in Aggie baseball was just too good to pass up.”

Hired only a month before opening day, the adjustment period has had to be set at a break-neck pace.

“It’s exciting in that it’s almost been like a big league spring training. I got a month, and then we go play. I think coach [Justin] Seely and coach Deggs did a great job in recruiting these guys. The athleticism is really high, we can really run, and it’s just a matter of how quickly we can get on the same page,” Sawyers said.

As for the difference in coaching styles be-tween Deggs and Sawyers, the Aggie faithful shouldn’t expect to notice any drastic changes.

“Everybody who works here believes in an up- tempo, pressure-type offense. Those principles will not change,” Sawyers said. “At the same time, I’m my own person, and I’m going to teach things differently with different verbiage and teaching points. But, the culture of aggression, the culture of wanting to run the bases, and the culture of looking for extra bases — those things are already installed in our players; they’re programmed.”

The biggest change the fans might notice is the angle from which Sawyers will now be watch-ing the game at, as he moves across the field to run the Aggie offense as the third base coach. He hasn’t forgotten about his Saw Puppies though.

“I am thinking about throwing the ball across the diamond the first game of the season. I may kill somebody doing it, but I may try.”

Today, Aggie baseball is back. Olsen Magic is back. The Saw Dog is back. And in the words of Yogi Berra, “it’s like déjà vu all over again.”

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The first ball Sawyers threw up into the stands was signed “Give ‘Em Hell 203.”

Little star power has emerged from Tex-arkana, Texas, outside of 2010 Heisman candidate LaMichael James and ‘90s pop

sensation Selena, “the Mexican Madonna.” So when two hurlers from rival schools started piling up wins and strikeouts at historic rates, everyone in town took notice.

Stilson led the country in 2010 with a 0.80 earned run average.

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knew that I needed to leave and find a new place,” Sisk said. “[A&M Head Coach Jo Ev-ans] said they were of course interested and that she wanted a leader on the mound and that she knew I could be that.”

The Aggies were more than interested in Sisk. They were in need of a pitcher and contacted her as soon as they received the release that she would be transferring.

“We talked to her about making a visit and she was looking at a lot of other schools as well,” said associate head coach Mary Jo Firnbach. “We are happy that she made A&M her choice.”

After sending transcripts and submitting an application, like it was senior year in high school all over again, Sisk could officially call Aggieland home. But her journey to becoming an Aggie on the field for the 2010 season was not over. Sisk was cutting an avocado during the 2010 Su-per Bowl, days before the 2010 season, and cut herself in the finger. The cut required surgery to attach a tendon together in the hand. After one attempted surgery came another and at that point, Sisk would be ruled out for the season.

“I knew my season was over after it didn’t attach the second time,” Sisk said. “We were trying to get me back in four or five weeks but I was released too soon and it detached again and I was done for the rest of the season. So the ACL was just a little extra.”

The ACL Sisk was talking about was torn running bases during practice while rehabbing from the tendon injury. It has to be the only case in sports history where a torn ACL was the second-worst injury in the span of a month or two.

“It was a big loss, for both sides of it. Lindsey was really raring to go and was ready to get her opportunity, her shot, at being an Aggie and being in a different environment than Arizona,” Firnbach said.

After a season of watching and rehabbing, Sisk learned to appreciate the game she loved even more than she did before. For the first time, she could evaluate things she did on the field by watching her teammates from the dugout rather than on the field.

Now, in 2011 as a fourth-year college stu-dent, a second-year Aggie and a first-year Texas A&M softball starter, Sisk will take the mound 100 percent and anxious to lead her team to victory. Sisk does not regret her two years at Arizona but knows she is “better off” here at

Texas A&M.“We’re looking for her on the mound to be

a leader and take this team under her wing and be real competitive,” Firnbach said. “We know when push comes to shove, bases loaded, two outs and she needs to throw that one pitch to get somebody out, that she’s got the confidence to do that because we definitely have the confi-dence in her to do that and get us out of jams.”

Getting herself out of jams seems to be Lind-sey Sisk’s forte. She’s finally found a home, and for the first time since high school, she is content where she is. It hasn’t been easy, and she’s seen more than her fair share of highs and lows, but when asked about many of her conflicts, Sisk seems to believe one thing has led her to becom-ing an Aggie.

“Everything happens for a reason,” Sisk said.

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Many of the athletic pro-grams at Texas A&M are on the verge of being national contenders year in and year out. For the A&M softball team, winning is not a dream or goal, but an expectation.

Head Coach Jo Evans has led the Aggies to eight-straight NCAA Tournament appear-ances, advancing to the Wom-en’s College World Series in 2008. Despite an early exit in the NCAA Tournament’s Regional round to Louisiana-Lafayette last season, there is still a strong scent of confidence in the air.

“I think it was a great year but I feel like it ended too soon for us,” Evans said. “We want to build on every year, and we want to build on last year. I think we have the leaders and the personnel to do that.”

The success Evans has had has allowed her to recruit prized athletes out of high school and add depth to the roster. This year, seven incoming freshmen will look to add to the already strong and experienced roster. Players like freshman infielder Emily Albus have to understand their role on a team with such great depth.

“I don’t know if I’ll be play-ing one day or another, but my role for that day, whether I’m playing or not, is to be the best, at that role on the team,” Albus said.

Albus and her teammates sense the team chemistry com-ing together early in the season as the team competed last week-end in the Kajikawa Classic in Tempe, Ariz. The team went 2-3 in five games at the tourna-ment but found places in their game that needed improvement.

“We need to gain some team chemistry and play the game

with a little more fire in our belly. I think that’s something that’s lacking,” Evans said. “We need to get used to each other and get great leadership.”

Evans will be relying on that

senior leadership that has led so many of her teams in the past. This year’s senior leaders have something that those did not have. These seniors were fresh-men in 2008 when the Aggies went to the Women’s College World Series. That leadership will be beneficial to how this relatively inexperienced team performs this year.

“This is a team that has a lot of players that have experience. Our senior class went to the World Series as freshmen and we have a couple of transfers that have played in the World Series,” Evans said. “We have a freshmen class that four of them played in the national champi-onship game of their respective

league. So they all have a lot of experience on that level, but we have to bring it all together.”

One of those leaders will be senior pitcher and first baseman Rhi Kliesing, who was an All-

Big 12 First Team play-er and was second on the team with 11 home runs on the season.

“Coach Evans has said that this is the team with the best talent she’s ever had since she’s been here, which has been 14 or 15 years, so for her to say that gives us confi-dence,” Kliesing said. “Our team chemistry is really awesome, we all love each other and get along so that can take us a long way.”

This year’s Aggie softball team has all the pieces of the puzzle to be a championship team, but it’s so early

in the season they are looking for the glue to hold that puzzle togeth-er permanently. If Evans, or any of her players, has

anything to say about it, this team will be in the Women’s College World Series in June.

From the inexperienced: “I believe that we will go all the way. We are going to get our stuff together and we are going to play as a team and I think we can go all the way,” Albus said.

All the way to the veteran se-niors: “Once we get it all figured out, we are going to be unstop-pable. I think we are going to win a national championship,” Kliesing said.

This team believes that it could be a special spring.

“It’s not going to be a surprise to me if we win a regional or a super regional and move on to the World Series,” Evans said.

Lofty goals for experienced teamSean LesterThe Battalion

Evans leads another talented team with continued support

A winning A winning traditiontradition

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Players with experience like sophomore pitcher Mel Dumezich (above) will play an important role on this Aggie

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A&M Head Coach Jo Evans, who has been at A&M since 1996, said this 2011 team is her most talented yet.

Entering her 15th season coaching one of A&M’s most tradition-filled sports, Aggie softball Head Coach Jo Evans spearheaded the renaissance of a once stagnant Aggie program. It is now one of the nation’s elite and achieved the feat with a winning philosophy — one of passion, fun, toughness and fanatical support.

Since Evans’ arrival at A&M in 1996, the Aggies have reached the post-season 10 times, including back-to-back trips to the Women’s College World Series in the 2007 and 2008 seasons. The return to the WCWS was the team’s first berth in 20 years and served as a strong message that A&M softball, a program with three national championships on its resume, is once again a national powerhouse.

“I come from a coaching family. My mom coached me when I was little, and my dad coached me throughout summer-ball and even our women’s team when I was in college,” Evans said. “I knew in early high school that I wanted to coach. It’s pretty easy to follow your path when you know early on what you want to do.”

A graduate of the Univer-sity of Utah, Evans began her head coaching career at Colo-rado State before ultimately returning to her alma mater. At Utah, she had tremendous success, leading the Utes to back-to-back WAC confer-ence championships and a berth in the WCWS. It’s no wonder A&M would come calling soon after.

“Initially I wasn’t really interested in [the A&M job], but they called me on the

phone and really caught my attention,” Evans said. “I was kind of hesitant and yet they piqued my interest when they started talking about the budget, facilities, conference and the student body. I got pretty excited about it so they flew me down here and it all worked out.”

It wasn’t long before Evans began cementing the founda-tion for a winning program. The materials of that founda-tion: An energy and love for the sport that can’t help but spread to every team she coaches.

“I feel really passionate about what I do and I try to create a culture of feeling that same sort of passion,” Evans said. “I think if you love what you do, it can be contagious.”

One of Evans’ most trea-sured beliefs, though, is what she feels as an obligation for the coaches to be the team’s

staunchest supporters no mat-ter the circumstances.

“It’s our job to be their big-gest fan,” said Associate Head Coach Joy Jackson. “[Evans] is very patient with the players, and she really embraces ev-eryone and their differences. She wants to create a sense of belonging so hopefully their personalities flourish out on the field.”

Evans’ players, too, have embraced the positive energy that Evans instills. They be-lieve in what she’s trying to accomplish and see her as one of their greatest influences in anything from softball to life. For senior outfielder Kelsey Spittler, an aspiring coach herself, Evans has been a tre-mendous role model.

“She not only teaches us about the game of softball but helps work us through tough off-the field situations. I aspire

to be a coach when I gradu-ate and she’s someone I really look to emulate,” Spittler said. “I’ve gained a lot of knowl-edge playing for her, and I wouldn’t trade her as a coach for anyone. She’s by far the best coach I’ve ever had.”

And with the season get-ting underway, Evans’ expec-tations, coaches and players included, will be high. This might be the most talent Ev-ans has had, but she knows the challenge that comes with having so much potential.

“We have a huge roster, but we’re very talented and it’s the most talent depth-wise I’ve ever had team, so with all that talent comes great expecta-tions,” Evans said. “Certainly the Twelfth Man and all the Aggies out there have expec-tations of winning a national championship, and we’re con-stantly aspiring to that.”

This time, though, Ev-ans might have the depth to finally get over the hump. Despite the underwhelming opening weekend, including losses to No. 14 Oregon, No. 2 Arizona and No. 20 BYU, Evans knows the potential is there for a magical run.

“It’s the first time since 2008 that we’ve been able to get excited about having the kind of depth and talent to get back to the [WCWS] and make a mark,” Evans said. “We had our opening weekend and we’ve under-achieved, so it’s a reminder to us with all this talent that we need to figure out how to put all the pieces together so we’re learning a lot — but our expectations are always to play for championships.”

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texas newsEva Longoria to be grand marshal of San Antonio’s Cavaliers River Parade“Desperate Housewives” star Eva Longoria will serve as this year’s grand marshal of the Texas Cavaliers River Parade during San Antonio’s Fiesta, the biggest event of the Alamo City’s social calendar. The Cavaliers website says about 250,000 people are expected to watch decorated barges from the banks of the San Antonio River downtown. Longoria told the San Antonio Express-News that she “applauds them

for taking the tradition and combining it with a philanthropic effort like children’s charities.” The proceeds from the parade will go to more than 40 charities, including Longoria’s own Eva’s Heroes. About 17,000 tickets are available for $10 to $25, but most spectators will watch the river fl oats for free from hotels and restaurants.

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