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LAS VEGAS (AP) — The heavy
weight championship is on the line
ind nowhere to be seen are Iron
like’s scowling face or his promot-
r's wind-blown hairdo.
James “Buster” Douglas will risk
joxing’s most prestigious title
igainst unbeaten Evander Holyfield
12-round bout Thursday night
mtdoors at The Mirage.
The fight carries a $28.1 million
lurse, one of the biggest in boxing
listory, with Douglas earning $19.9
nillion and Holyfield $8.2 million.
The only thing bigger than Doug-
purse in this fight is Douglas
limself. The champion officially
veighed-in Wednesday at a whop-
iing246 pounds, lA'/a pounds more
han he weighed when he beat Mike
Tyson. Holyfield weighed 208.
It will be Douglas’ first defense of
he title since that shocking 10th-
ound knockout of Tyson on Feb. 11
it Tokyo.
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And while Tyson and promoter
Don King, dominant figures on the
heavyweight scene for years, are out
of sight, they have not been out of
mind.
It seems Douglas has been asked
about a rematch with Tyson almost
as many times as he’s been asked
about fighting Holyfield.
King appears to have informed
everyone within reach of a tele
phone that boxing’s governing bod
ies insist Thursday’s winner must
fight Tyson next. Promoter Dan
Duva, however, says Holyfield will
fight George Foreman next — win
or lose against Douglas.
Permian attorneys
add player to lawsuit
ODESSA (AP) Attorneys for
the Odessa Permian High School
football staff have added an
anonymous football player to a
list of plaintiffs suing for re
instatement of the team in this
year’s playoffs.
Attorney T. Gerald Treece
said the “John Doe” player was
added to the lawsuit to help illus
trate the “irreparable harm” the
Panther players would receive if
denied a playoff opportunity.
The Ector County Indepen
dent School District and its super
intendent, Gene Buinger, were
added Monday as defendants to
the Permian High School football
coaches’ lawsuit against the Uni
versity Interscholastic League.
“We hope to’ show tTirough
him, a senior member of the Per
mian football team, how these
players’ chances of receiving col
lege scholarships will be damaged
without the exposure and extra
scouting that comes through an
appearance in the playoffs,”
Treece said.
The original lawsuit was filed
Sept. 28 in an effort to restore
Permian’s playoff eligibility this
season and also to have UIL pe
nalties against Panthers coaches
Tam Hollingshead, Myron
Schneider, Larry Morris and
Nate Hearne lifted.
The case is expected to be
heard in 261st District Court in
Ausdn beginning at 9 a.m. Fri
day, The Odessa American re
ported Thursday.
The UIL ruled last month that
Permian, the defending Class 5A
champion, was ineligible for this
year’s playoffs because the school
violated rules by holding orga
nized practices before Aug. 20.
The Panthers were the top-
ranked schoolboy team in the
country last year.
The anonymous player joins
Hollingshead, Schneider, Morris,
Hearne and eight other PHS
football staff members as co
plaintiffs.
Defendants now include the
UIL, executive director Bailey
Marshall, executive committee
chairman Bob Caster, Buinger
and ECISD.
In a prepared statement Tues
day, Buinger said, “The plaintiffs
claim that the ECISD superinten
dent ‘erroneously interpreted the
vague UIL rules’ and that the
UIL (executive committee) used
these findings to render their
punishment.”
“All future action will be han
dled by the school district’s attor
neys,” Buinger said. “Due to the
nature of this pending litigation,
neither the superintendent nor
the (ECISD) board of trustees will
have future comment concerning
this matter.”
Mike Atkins, an attorney for
the district, said he was not sur
prised by the plaintiffs’ 32-page
amendment late Monday.
“This was expected in that the
attorney for the Permian coaches
had said that, if the school district
chose not to participate in the
suit, that they probably would
add the district as a defendant,”
Atkins said. “As to why they’re
doing so. I’d really rather not
speculate on that. That’s up to the
attorney who filed the amend
ment to decide.”
That attorney is Treece, who
said Tuesday he felt the vague
ness of the UIL rules that led to
the UIL state executive commit
tee’s Sept. 20 decisions left
Buinger as much in the dark as
they did the coaches involved.
Holyfield was a 7-5 favorite,
which would make Douglas the 11th
heavyweight champion to be an un
derdog in a title defense.
Tyson, in Atlantic City, N.J.,
training for a fight Dec. 8 against
Alex Stewart, looks at the fight as an
elimination bout for the right to
fight him.
It is, however, an intriguing mat
chup built around the elements of
size and psyche.
Much has been made about the
size advantage the 6-foot-4 Douglas,
30, holds over the 28-year-old Holy-
field, a former light heavyweight
(175 pounds) and cruiserweight
(190) champion.
Douglas’ weight, however, seems
much too high and could be a defi
nite negative as he attempts to retain
the title against the 6-2‘/a Holyfield.
Only two heavyweight champions,
Primo Camera and Jess Willard,
have been both taller and heavier for
title defenses than Douglas.
San Antonio
keeping hopes
up for Olympics
PHOENIX (AP) — Phoenix’s
hopes of hosting the 1994-95 Olym
pic Festival have vanished, but San
Antonio officials still can keep their
fingers crossed, the Maricopa
County Sports Authority said
Wednesday.
Phoenix will be among several cit
ies dropped from consideration for
the festival by the United States
Olympic Committee, the agency said
in a prepared statement.
The festival helps amateur ath
letes prepare for international com
petitions.
“Sure we are disappointed, but we
knew we were a long shot when we
submitted our initial proposal,” said
Lamar Whitmer, chairman of the
committee that was established to
promote sports in the county.
Debate.
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rector of finance Wally Groff,
Bryan-College Station would lose
$25 million if the University were to
lose the football program:
Internally, A&M athletics bring in
$11.1 million per year in gross rec
eipts, concession and sales, and me
dia contracts, Bass said. No tax
money is used in the program be
cause it is self-supporting.
But Sharrick said that out of the
14 sports the University gives schol
arships, football is the only one to
have a positive impact. Sharrick pre
sented figures from GrofFs office
showing $4.5 million budgeted to
football, which brings in $6.1 mil
lion. The other two top-grossing
sports, men’s basketball and base
ball, cost substantially more than
they earn.
“It does not seem feasible to give
an allowance or stipend to all varsity
athletes when only one out of 14 has
a positive economic impact.”
example.
The Cowboys had struggled
through three quarters of the game,
not giving fans much to get excited
about.
But those who stayed with it were
pleasantly surprised. Tampa Bay be
gan to drive down the field and use
up the clock.
The radio play-by-play guys were
calling the action, explaining that
the game was all but over with eight
minutes left to play.
Tampa Bay quarterback Vinny
Testaverde dropped back to pass.
He looked to the sidelines and threw
to what he thought was a wide-open
receiver. Those listening to the play
call were still resting comfortably in
their chairs, reading the newspaper
or doing some other activity.
All of a sudden the tone of the an
nouncer’s voice changed. The call
tvent something like this:
“Testaverde back to pass. Looks
right, throws ... intercepted! Isaac
Holt steps in front of the pass. He’s
to midfield ... to the 40 ... the 35 ...
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into the second game. Michalke’s
booming serves gave A&M the early
advantage, serving four aces in her
first five attempts of the match.
“I was pretty excited about that, it
felt good,” Michalke said. “Some
times its on, sometimes its not. To
night it was on.”
Her spikes also pushed the Lady
Jacks to the backline and threw the
SFA defense off track. The kills al
most got too easy as they started to
land out and give SFA points. But
the Lady Aggies settled down and
concentrated on executing their
play.
The Aggies rolled off 13 straight
points to take a 13-2 lead in the final
game. A&M held off a short Lady
Jack rally and finished the quick
match.
the 30 ... the 25 ... the 20 ... he’s got
one man to beat! To the 10 ... five ...
touchdown!”
A lot of Cowboy fans were proba
bly on their feet. But when they sat
back down they tried to picture in
their mind what had transpired.
Later, with 28 seconds to play,
Troy Aikman found Michael Irvin
in the end zone for the winning
touchdown, again leaving fans try
ing to form an image of the play in
their mind and tuned to their TV to
see if fantasy was anywhere close to
reality.
Radio to the sports fan is what the
Great Gatsby is to the bookworm. It
inspires the imagination, and the
need for us to be able to see more. It
could be thought of as a form of en
tertainment that stimulats the brain
to conceive of the unknown.
Football and base ball are good
sports for radio listenership.It’s not
too hard to follow a baserunner
around his assigned path, or listen to
the centerfielder go back, back,
back, for a long fly ball.
Basketball with no video accompa
niment is always stimulating.Trying
to picture in your mind the events
that are taking place can leave your
head spinning. But just hearing the
commentator shout with exultation,
“It’s good!” is enough to run a chill
up the spine, and win the heart of a
fan who couldn’t see the game on
the tube.
Whatever the game, radio can be
an entirely exciting preference to
the video phenomenon of today.
Tune in for more details.
Scott Wudel is a senior journalism
major and a sports writer for The
Battalion. His column appears on
Thursdays.
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