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Sports
The Battalion
Page 3
Bowls dash
NCAA football
playoff hopes
Their days were numbered, so
everyone thought.
The bowl system was a dinosaur,
and like the great reptiles that died out
65 million years ago, so too would the
college bowl games become extinct.
Depending on polls to determine the
national champion was too
unpredictable, many argued, and
others longed for the increased
revenue an extended playoff season
would bring.
The last straw seemed to come
when the Internal Revenue Service
announced it might start taxing
corporate sponsorship of bowls.
Without the money from big business,
all but a few of the biggest bowls
would curl up and die, and no one
doubted a sanctioned playoff would
replace them.
Fortunately (or unfortunately,
depending on your opinion of bowls),
a good number of the big boys have
noticed this fact, and have taken steps
to head the dreaded playoffs off at the
proverbial pass.
The three grandaddy bowls
(excluding the inbred Kosebowl) have
amazingly chunked aside their
enormous egos, and have all but
clinched a deal to set up a New Year's
day playoff on their own terms.
The bowls involved, the Cotton,
Sugar and Orange, each host the
champion team of the Southwest,
Southeast, and Big Eight conferences,
respectively. Schools from these three
conferences usually make up over half
of the nation's top 20, an impressive
ratio. However, the new proposal
would match the highest ranked
conference champs with the highest
ranked teams from the ACC and Big
East conferences, as well as Notre
Dame.
This alliance-to-end-all-alliances
gives the three bowls over two thirds
of the nationally ranked teams from
which to choose their matchups. More
than half of the country's television
markets are included in the alliance,
allowing the bowls to dictate the terms
of broadcast contr acts.
To hedge all bets, a fourth bowl,
probably either the Fiesta or Citrus,
will be added before all is said and
done to offer two at-large berths,
effectively covering any national
championship scenario.
Imagine four bowls, each
showcasing top ten matchups. Even
with the IRS taxing corporate
sponsors, the revenue generated
would easily exceed the amount
needed to keep the bowls afloat.
The matchups will be better, the
payoffs greater, and there will be little
doubt over who the national
champion is.
There will be a playoff, but it will be
held in the bowls, on New Year's Day.
Members of the Texas A&M Sailing club practice on Bryan Utilities Lake. The team recently placed second in national competition, beating out
12 other teams from across the nation, and is looking foreward to building on that success in the coming year.
Sailing club makes waves
By David Leahy
The Battalion
The Texas A&M Sailing team's season
finished in April, but their excitement at
placing second in the nationals has con
tinued, building enthusiasm for next
year.
The A&M Sailing team finished second
only to the host, perennial powerhouse
Tulane University. The nationals were
held at the Southern Yacht Club in New
Orleans on April 20-21. A total of 14
teams competed in the event.
Two-man fleets were used in the event
and 7 Aggies participated (the team con
sists of 25 people). The team included
team captain Chris Junge, Tammie Bilan-
cich, David Hiebert, Christy Hanle, Larry
Wise, Mark Zuteck, and Brian Walker.
Although the A&M Sailing team prac
tices at the Bryan Utilities Lake, competi
tion from their district helped prepare
them for the nationals. A&M's district is
part of the Southeast Intercollegiate Sail
ing Association, which includes the uni
versities Of Kansas, Oklahoma and
Texas, as well as teams from Alabama,
Louisiana and West Florida.
On their way to their confrontation
against Tulane, the A&M Sailing team
defeated Spring Hill (Alabama), Baylor
University, the University of Texas,
Southwest Texas State, West Florida, and
the University of North Texas.
Sailing club member Chris Junge said
Twins upbeat despite end of 15 game win streak
oint
15-
battling Oakland for first place
BALTIMORE (AP) — One loss isn't about to
the Minnesota Twins, especially after their club
game winning streak has them battli
in the AL West.
The Twins' streak, which ended with a 6-5 loss to Balti
more on Monday night, rocketed them into the AL West lead
entering Tuesday's game at Memorial Stadium. The Twins
were in fifth place before the streak, two games under .500.
"We enjoyed ourselves during the streak," Kirby Puckett
said. "It's over, but we're still proud. Most of all we're in the
pennant race. We have nothing to hang our heads about."
The streak was the longest in the majors this year and
eighth longest in AL history. But it had to end sometime.
"It was inevitable," Puckett said. "It's like living and dy
ing. We're all going to die one day, we just don't know when.
We didn't know when we were going to lose, and we hoped it
would be later than sooner, but today was just the day for it to
hajmen."
Texas and Seattle had lengthy w inning streaks earlier this
season. Once beaten, both teams immediately went into
tailspins. Puckett, however, shrugged off the possibility the
same thing might happen to Minnesota.
"They're Seattle and Texas, we're the Twins. Who cares
what they did?" he said. "We're playing good baseball right
now and I don't see any reason for it to stop."
Certainly, the Twins didn't put any pressure on them
selves during the streak. As game-time approached on Mon
day, most of the players in the clubhouse were watching the
U.S. Open on TV.
"We were pretty low-key about it," Kent Hrbek said. "We
were watching the golf match more than getting ready to
play. But that's the way we've been doing it the whole
stretch."
When Baltimore rallied to score three runs in the ninth,
Minnesota was saddled with its first loss in June. Last year,
the Twins brought a 28-19 record into June — and proceeded
to fall out of contention by losing 21 of 28 games.
This season it's been a jolly June, and one loss won't
change all that.
"You're going to lose a game sooner or later. You don't
play in the big leagues and keep winning day after day," said
pitcher Allan Anderson.
The Twins did just that for longer than any team in the ma
jors since Kansas City won 16 straight in 1977. Now the streak
is just a sweet memory.
"It was fun. It's always fun to win," Puckett said. "I never
played on a team that won 15 in a row. I'm proud of what we
did. Now, we have to come out and start all over again."
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even though sailing is physically taxing,
it is not all physical exertion.
"Sailing is very mental in college," he
said. "There's a lot of mind games out
there, such as where to go and the fastest
way to get there. You're always having to
deal with the wind."
Despite the intense work involved,
Junge said sailing is still entertaining.
"We had a lot of fun at the nationals,"
he said. "The winds ranged from 0 to 25
miles per hour, and we got to compete
against a lot of great competition.
"We know a Tot of the other opponents
and we all had a great time," Junge said..
"The fastest four people there (at the na
tionals) were working their way toward
the 1992 Summer Olympics."
Japan wins
'98 Winter
Olympics
TOKYO (AP) — When it comes to
bringing home big international events,
Japan is quickly becoming the nation to
beat.
Salt Lake City found that out over the
weekend as the International Olympic
Committee snubbed that city's bid for the
1998 Winter Games in favor of Nagano,
Japan.
The mayor and governor of Nagano re
turned home Tuesday to a hero's wel
come. Nearly 2,000 people greeted them
at Nagano's train station and then
watched as they were paraded to city hall
led by a police band.
"We have a lot of work ahead of us,"
said Terumasa Aoki, of Nagano's Olym
pic Bidding Committee. "For the people
of Nagano, this is the fulfilment of a 50-
year-old dream."
But even before the thrill of victory has
worn off, some Japanese already are
looking ahead to the next item on their
shopping list: soccer's World Cup.
"It's hard to compare the Olympics
and the World Cup, but it was very reas
suring to see Nagano win," said Kuniomi
Sakai, deputy head of the Japan World
Cup Candidate Committee, set up just
last week.
"Like Nagano, I think geography will
be an advantage for us," he said. One of
Nagano's main pitches to the IOC was
the fact that no Winter Games had been
held in Asia since 1972. Asia never has
been host to a World Cup.
In 1964, Japan became the first Asian
host for an Olympics, and the event be
came a symbol of the nation's resurgence
from the humiliation of defeat in World
War II.
Just eight years later, the northern Jap
anese city of Sapporo was host to the
Winter Games, again becoming the first
in Asia.
Today, Japan, with its rich economy
and seemingly endless supply of fans for
just about any sport, has become one of
the world's premier hosts. Some exam
ples:
—This summer, Tokyo will stage the
World Championships of Track and
Field, a prestigious event that, like the
Olympics, is held only once every four
years.
—The Toyota Cup, which decides the
year's top soccer cluo and is arguably sec
ond in importance only to the World
Cup, has been played in Tokyo since
1980.
—To sellout crowds, the NBA played
its first regular season game outside of
North America in Tokyo last November.
NFL teams square off at the Tokyo Dome
each year, also before tens of thousands
of screaming fans, even though very few
Japanese actually have played American
football.
—Mike Tyson chose to fight in Tokyo
twice, though he might not come again
since it was here that he lost his heavy
weight boxing crown to James "Buster"
Douglas last year.
—Each year Japanese fans jam stadi
ums to watch Virginia Slims tennis, U.S.
college basketball and Formula One auto
racing, not to mention the cult-like sup
port for sumo wrestling and baseball, Ja
pan's national sports.
"This is an excellent way of exchang
ing culture, and of contributing to inter
national peace," Nagano's Aoki said of
the plethora of events held in Japan.
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