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Adrian O’Hanlon III: Replacing the Lone Star

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DeLoss “Darth” Dodds, Texas ath-letic director, said in a statement Fri-day that the rivalry is postponed until at least 2018 because the Longhorn’s nonconference schedule is full.

Now that the Lone Star Show-down is on hold until 2019, Aggie fans wonder which team(s) will serve as the knockoff of the longest-played intra-state rivalry in the nation.

Simply replacing the Texas game with another heated matchup is an impossible task. The Twelfth Man yells, hisses and cusses loudest against the school that has belittled A&M’s progress on and off the field for 117 years and then some.

Here’s my wish list of filler rivalries until the Showdown’s return:

No. 1 Oklahoma/Oklahoma StateEither team works as both have

good football pedigrees and are tearing through the 2011 season ranked in the top-10.

Oklahoma football is synonymous with winning after seven national championships. The Sooners are na-tional contenders and bring in top-10 recruiting classes each year.

Who wouldn’t want to compete with that each season?

OSU is to OU what A&M is to t.u.: a little state school trying to step out of the shadow of big brother.

The Pokes have flourished under

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Austin Meek: Aggies punctuate conference dispute

W ith less than two minutes remaining on the clock, the entire student

section of the fourth-largest crowd in Kyle Field history began chanting in

unison: “S-E-C! S-E-C! S-E-C!”

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Midnight hoopsMidnight Madness at Texas A&M ignites basketball season. Aggies of all types welcomed the season with The Spirit of Aggieland last Saturday at 12 a.m. Catch video of the event at thebatt.com.

Sweet victory What was the most impressive aspect of Texas A&M’s 55-28 win against Baylor on Saturday? Was it A&M’s combined 266 rushing yards, the Tannehill-Swope connection, or the defense’s fi ve sacks? Weigh in at thebatt.com.

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Junior receiver Ryan Swope catches a 68-yard touchdown pass from senior quarterback Ryan Tannehill. Swope caught 11 passes for 206 yards and a school record four touchdowns against Baylor on Saturday.

Writing for this newspaper has its perks —scarfing down pasta salad while watching the game in an air conditioned press box is one of them — but it’s moments like those when I wish I were standing in the student section.

The sound simply pounded through the entire stadium, reverberating off the walls loud enough for television viewers to hear.

Winning at Kyle is always a treat and con-ference games only up that ante. But didn’t Saturday feel like something more than a win

over a team we’ve handled three years in a row?

This game will always stick in my mind because of the way the Aggies won it. In a battle of top-25 teams, No. 21 beat No. 20 — actually, “beat down” would be a better description — by 27, a margin almost greater than the number of points the Bears put on the scoreboard themselves.

The thing I’ll always remember is the way the Aggies thoroughly dominated Baylor.

For the first time this year, Ryan Tannehill showed off his arm strength, throwing for 415 yards, good for 16.6 yards per completion. The bubble screen — a staple of A&M’s aerial attack most of the season — hardly made an appearance. Tannehill connected on two 68-yard bombs to Ryan Swope and a 47-yarder to Uzoma Nwachukwu.

“You’re gonna have a few chances a game [to make big plays],” Tannehill said. “You’ve

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For recyclers, a ‘Dream’ comes true

A Redbox-sized, robo-recycling ma-chine — dubbed the “Dream Machine” — hums and flashes outside classrooms 113 and 114 in Wehner Building.

The Dream Machine recycling initiative is a PepsiCo Inc. and Waste Management effort, offering rewards for each plastic or aluminum waste item recycled.

“Only 12 percent of public spaces are equipped with recycling receptacles — in-dicating a clear need for greater public ac-cess to recycle bins,” said Tiffany McBride, regional marketing manager for Pepsi.

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Students welcome autumn with pumpkin patch

It is Aggie Habitat for Humanity’s biggest fundraiser of the year, an annual community event for Covenant Presbyterian Church, and a chance for students to add a fall flavor to their abodes. It’s the great pumpkin — the great pumpkin patch, that is.

“The community really enjoys the pump-kin patch,” said Elly Espinoza, senior ento-mology major and director of special events of Aggie Habitat. “You will see older ladies asking for someone to help them as they try to roll around these huge pumpkins. Sometimes people come and take family pictures there. It’s really pretty and welcoming.”

Located at 220 Rock Prairie Road in Col-lege Station, at Covenant Presbyterian Church,

the patch attracts both community members and churchgoers alike. Hailey Minter, director of special events of Ag-gie Habitat and junior human resources de-velopment major, said it is convenient that the congregation of the Covenant Presbyterian Church walks past the patch when entering and exiting service.

“They use a big cor-ner lot by the church for the patch — it’s nice to see it go to such good use,” said Steve Mar-tindale, Covenant Presbyterian member. “We

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nation&worldU.S. present in UgandaUgandan President Yoweri Museveni said Sunday that U.S. military “personnel” being sent to Uganda to help fi ght the rebel group the Lord’s Resistance Army will not participate in actual fi ghting. Museveni told a news conference it was wrong to say that the U.S. was sending troops to fi ght the LRA and its brutal leader Joseph Kony. “Better to call them U.S. personnel, not troops,” Museveni said. The Americans will help gather intelligence, he said. “When you call them troops you are saying that they are coming to fi ght on our behalf,” Museveni said. “We shall never have troops coming to fi ght for us. I cannot accept foreign troops to come and fi ght for me. We have the capacity to fi ght our wars.”

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LAS VEGAS — Indianapolis 500 winner Dan Wheldon died Sunday at Las Vegas Motor Speedway after his car became ensnarled in a fiery 15-car pileup on Lap 13, flew over another vehicle and landed in a catch fence just outside turn 2.

The 33-year-old racer was a two-time India-napolis 500 winner, including this year’s race. Three other drivers, including championship con-tender Will Power, were hurt in the pileup.

“One minute you’re joking around at driver intros. The next, Dan’s gone,” said Dario Franchitti, whose wife, actress

Ashley Judd, had to bring him a box of tissues. “I lost, we lost, a good friend. Everybody in the IndyCar series considered him a friend. He was such a good guy. He was a charmer.”

The race was only minutes old when Whel-don, who started at the back of the 34-car field and was in position for a $5 million payday if he

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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama has shored up support from mid-level donors in some of the most economically dis-traught areas of the U.S., even as his Republi-can challengers have made jobs a central issue heading into next year’s election.

An Associated Press analysis of Obama’s fundraising since April found his supporters opened their wallets more often this election cycle in places with the worst unemployment rates. That’s compared with the same period four years ago, just months before the country was thrust into a major recession.

The new numbers suggest Republican can-didates will have to make a harder sell on the gravity of the nation’s 9.1 percent unemploy-ment rate, an issue that has bedeviled Obama throughout his term. Republicans in Congress have opposed the White House on specifics,

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Republican contenders raised a total of roughly $52 million, with Texas Gov. Rick Perry and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney taking the lead in drawing support from across the country.

The AP’s analysis found not only a broad-ening of support for Obama but also a wide appeal for top Republican contenders Rom-ney and Perry.

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just gotta have the guys who can make the plays and today we did that.”

Tannehill would go on to tie a school record with six scoring strikes, four of which ended up in Swope’s sticky hands. The running game produced 266 yards, and the rush defense contained the vaunted Baylor ground game to a meager 50 yards.

Yes, they did allow Rob-ert Griffin III to set a new benchmark for passing yards in a game (430), the third time this season an opposing quarterback has rewritten his school’s record books against A&M. But when the defense allows only 1.6 yards per carry and your opponent is playing from behind, natu-rally they’ll take to the air.

The fourth down stop at the start of the fourth quarter with the score at 41-28 was the biggest play of the Aggies’ season thus far. A Baylor touchdown would’ve brought the Bears within six, and one more BU score would set the Aggies up for

their third single-digit loss to a ranked opponent this year. But when it mattered most, although they’d been bullied all day long, the secondary rose to the occasion

On third-and-goal from the four, safety Trent Hunter and defensive lineman Ben Bass teamed up to stuff Ter-rance Ganaway for no gain on a halfback dive. The very next play, on a season-de-fining fourth down, Hunter once again catalyzed the play, hurrying Griffin into a bad throw that sailed over the hands of his tight end Jordan Najvar. Any expectations Baylor had of sneaking a win in Kyle Field landed incom-plete, just like that pass.

Starting four yards out of A&M’s own end zone, Tan-nehill engineered a 96-yard scoring drive featuring a big third down completion to Jeff Fuller and punctuated by Nwachukwu’s first touch-down grab of the season. The Bears would not score for the remainder of the game and the Aggies tagged on an extra touchdown the next drive, just for good measure.

While the SEC chant after the outcome was decided

was fun and appropriate, I’ve realized that the media and the fans care a lot more about the move than the team does. The coaches and players are inundated with SEC questions at every press conference with reporters wondering if they’re excited about traveling to Tusca-loosa, if they have family in Louisiana, or how they think the conference switch affects recruiting.

“That’s next year,” junior linebacker Sean Porter said. “We’re all really focused on this year. We want to stick around and win the Big 12.”

They proved it Saturday. This team is locked-in unlike any time before, with the sting of those two losses sepa-rating A&M from a perfect record propelling them onward.

Three games into its Big 12 farewell tour, the Aggies sit 2-1. They’re set on leaving this conference with a bang and Saturday’s ultimate Battle of the Brazos was only the first act.

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After beating A&M 30-29 at Kyle earlier this season, Gundy degraded the locker room with his… whatever that was (youtube “Mike Gundy Dance” to see what I mean) but he knows how to make things interesting against the Ags. Gundy is 4-3 against A&M in his six years at OSU, but only two of those games were settled by more than five points.

The problem: The Sooners and Cowboys annually play each other around Turkey Day. This year’s “Bedlam” game is in December but the last time the two played outside of Thanksgiving week was 2004.

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A&M has a deceptively intense rivalry with the bayou bengals. The Tigers lead the series at 27-20-3, winning the last meeting 41-24 in the 2010 Cotton Bowl.

Tension thickens as the two share a recruiting pipeline in the Houston area. Although A&M leveled the playing field by joining the Southeastern Conference, the two schools will still compete for the same talented athletes.

The problem: LSU regu-larly plays Arkansas the day before Thanksgiving, so it’s a no-go.

It’s cool though because A&M and LSU will play each other every year as a part of SEC East Division play.

No. 3 BaylorThis may seem overblown

after the 55-28 shellacking Saturday, but Baylor is a ster-ling candidate for a noncon-ference, Turkey Day rivalry.

There is an established ha-tred between the two schools; separated by 90 miles and a conference alignment dispute. When A&M announced its

plans to leave the Big 12, Baylor threatened to sue because it would destroy the integrity of college football in the state of Texas.

Which school official (A&M or BU) wouldn’t want to capitalize on the hate dished out by both sides after that mess?

School officials argued through the media. Shirts surfaced on both schools’ campuses mocking each other through the whole process. The infamous “Thou Shalt Not Covet Thy Neighbor’s Conference Deal” billboard emerged in Waco.

And besides all that, the two play some pretty good football.

Receiving votes: Texas Tech, TCU and Boise State.

Tech is too trashy. TCU is too uppity. Boise’s blue turf won’t entice the Twelfth Man to make the 1,753 mile drive every other fall.

Receiving NO’s: Notre Dame, USC and Houston.

Too cold. Too shady. Too Keenum.

Adrian O’Hanlon III is a senior

agricultural communication and

journalism major and sports

editor at The Battalion.

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basketballKennedy leaves teamTexas A&M men’s basketball head coach Billy Kennedy has taken a leave of absence due to a medical condition. Kennedy will undergo a series of tests at the recommendation of his physician. Associate head coach Glynn Cyprien will manage the team until his return. Kennedy, in his fi rst year at A&M, expressed disappointment at being unable to attend Maroon Madness — the fi rst practice of the season — Saturday and that he will “be back soon.” Kennedy was hired during the summer after fi ve years as head coach at Murray State University. Texas A&M is tied with Kansas as favorites to win the Big 12 Conference championship in a pre-season vote by league head coaches. A&M is one of 12 teams nation-wide to make six straight NCAA appearances. A&M’s season tips off at 8 p.m. Nov. 9 against Liberty University at Reed Arena.

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Junior running back Christine Michael ran for 105 yards and a touchdown in A&M’s 55-28 win Saturday against Baylor.

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sportsArmstrong to compete in HawaiiLance Armstrong will compete in the XTERRA Worlds off-road triathlon. “XTERRA World Champs next wknd. I’m in! Looking fwd to racing,” the seven-time Tour de France winner tweeted Sunday, a week before the swimming, cycling and running competition in Maui. Last month in Colorado, Armstrong was fi fth in the XTERRA USA Championship, fi nishing the 1,500-meter swim, 17.7-mile mountain bike ride and 6.1-mile trail run in 2 hours, 29 minutes, 25 seconds. The Hawaii event features a 1,500-meter swim, 18.3-mile mountain bike ride that climbs more than 4,000 feet up and down the lower slopes of the West Maui Mountains, and a 6.1-mile trail run that traverses forest trails and beach sand.

SANAA, Yemen — Troops loyal to Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh and forces opposed to his rule were engaged in heavy fi ghting across much of the capital Sanaa on Monday, with rockets, mortars and heavy machine-guns being used. The fi ghting began shortly after midnight and intensifi ed around 3 a.m. local time, with the sound of explosions rocking many parts of the city. There were no overall casualty fi gures immediately available, but at least

three people were killed in the downtown encampment housing tens of thousands of protesters demanding Saleh’s ouster, according to medical offi cials. Six people were also wounded when a shell hit their house in an area in the northern part of the capital.

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Armstrong

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are tickled that we can play that small part.”The pumpkins are pre-priced by size —

ranging from large pumpkins to the small ones — priced at $2-$3.

“We are going to sell pumpkin carving kits that are cute and kid friendly,” Minter said. “A lot of times, kids will buy the small pumpkins and paint them.”

The pumpkin patch is Aggie Habitat’s big-gest fundraiser. This event funds mostly all of the materials for the house it will build at the end of the year.

Last year the group raised $14,000 from the pumpkin patch. This year, members are aim-ing for much more.

“We get pumpkin deliveries about three

times throughout the month,” Minter said. “The first delivery is about 15,000 pumpkins.”

Unloading the pumpkins takes the entire Aggie Habitat group. Before the pumpkins can be laid down, members set up palettes to put them on. To help, local businesses donate about 150 palettes each year.

“In the past [the pumpkins] have all been bought,” Espinoza said.

The community plays a large role not only in putting the pumpkin patch together, but also in keeping it going.

“A lot of elementary-school-aged kids come, so we have been going over there to get the school involved somehow or to get field trips for them to go on,” Espinoza said.

Students can purchase pumpkins Sunday through Saturday. The patch is open until, in Espinoza’s words, “it’s too dark to see the pumpkins.”

Pumpkin Continued from page 1

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PHOENIX — Authorities in Arizona arrested nearly 100 people after two separate protests in support of the Occupy Wall Street movement. The 53 arrests in Tucson and 46 in Phoenix on Saturday night came hours after peaceful protests against fi nancial institutions as part of a series of such demonstrations across the country. Police said demonstrators in each city failed to leave parks at curfew. Phoenix police said protesters marched from

a downtown rally to a park that had a posted 10:30 p.m. closing time. “As the park closing hour passed, many of the demonstrators refused to leave,” said police spokesman Sgt. Trent Crump, adding that offi cers told the protesters “to leave or be subject to arrest.” Crump said “a large group remained and refused to leave the park,” resulting in 46 arrests for criminal trespass.

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nation&world Arizona authorities arrest protesters

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