Wednesday, September 19, 2001
Sports

Sports marketing aims to pass last year’s record
By Jill Sutton
Staff Reporter

The sports marketing department said football season ticket sales for the 2001 season are on track to match last season’s record-breaking sales.
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Volley Frogs defeat UNT, King breaks career double-double record
By Jessica Sanders
Skiff Staff

After winning the first two games against the North Texas Mean Green Tuesday, the volleyball team almost let victory slip away by dropping the next two games.
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Sports Briefs
Women’s soccer defeated by Baylor

Lettermen’s Hall of Fame to induct five new members

Big 12 will not change championship game
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After missing out on playing one of their toughest non-conference foes, the Horned Frogs will be able to play their weakest non-conference opponent versus Northwestern State (La.) 6 p.m. Saturday at Amon Carter Stadium. The Frogs have one game until the start of conference play and will need it to work out kinks in the passing game, which is averaging just 113.7 yards a game. Saturday’s game will also be the Frogs’ first home game of the season.

Today in sports history

1988 — U.S. diver Greg Louganis struck and injured his head on the board in a preliminary round of springboard diving at the Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. Days later, however, Louganis won the gold medal in springboard diving.

1999 — On a warm September afternoon at Wrigley Field, Chicago, Sammy Sosa hit the 60 home-run mark for the second year in row, setting himself above all others in baseball’s history books. “A lot of people said at the beginning of the year it would be impossible to hit 60 two years in a row,” Sosa said. “Here I am.”