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Table tennis tries to serve notice

Sport takes off at Texas Wesleyan

By PAUL BOURGEOIS

Fort Worth Star-Telegram

Sunday, January 6, 2002

Fort Worth, Texas -- Table tennis may be the second most popular sport in the world, but let's face facts: We're not IN the world. We're in Texas, and in Texas, football rules -- real football, not soccer.

But Texas Wesleyan University in Fort Worth has bravely taken the lead and is the first university in North Texas to field (or to "table") a varsity table-tennis squad.

Coach Christian Lillieroos said he knows that he's in an uphill battle. Not as a coach. That's easy. The battle is to sell table tennis as a real sport that people might want to see and ...

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