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Page 2 BRIAN COATS Sportswriter By Brian Coats The Battauon Texas A&M is known throughout the country, or at least the state, for it’s tradi tions. One of the more famous traditions is “Howdy.” Howdy is one of the first traditions prospective students notice about A&M. Walking across campus, I get a kick out of greeting freshmen that are here for their summer confer ences with “howdy.” Those freshmen probably think everyone on campus is this strange. It is only later, when we be come cynical seniors, do we re alize that “everyone” is more like one in twenty. Just another cynical senior I am one of those cynical se niors. In the hustle and bustle of summer school, I forget about friendliness and tradi tions. However, one group of people is giving me a strong re minder that this school might still be the worlds’ friendliest. Coaches, athletic adminis trators and basically everyone in the Athletic Department are among some of the most coop erative and helpful people I have met at Texas A&M. Even though they are extreme ly busy, they go out of their way to talk to you. Camp coaches show spirit For example, take Cathy McDonald, an assistant bas ketball coach, or Jay Holmes, an assistant swimming coach. While I was covering the camps they put on for kids during the summer, both of them went out of their way to explain their camp to me, an swer questions and pull out campers for interviews. Even more familiar A&M coaches, such as baseball coach Mark Johnson, seem to have this “friendliness” thing. John son and I played phone tag for over a week, yet we eventually got a hold of each other when he called me to answer some questions about one of his players. South is hard man to find Dave South has to be one of the busier people on campus. I tried for two weeks to track him down. When I finally did, we had a hour-long interview. If you ever see South on cam pus, shake his hand and tell him job-well-done. He de serves it. For that matter, so do all the coaches and athletic ad ministrators. What stands out the most is how these coaches show-off A&M. Every camp that I have Please see Coaches/Page 6 SPORTS Monday • June 27,15 A&M athletic dept, shows Aggie Spirit The voice of Texas A&M sports South's duties include more than radio By Brian Coats The Battalion One of Texas A&M best-kept secrets is a person many can readily recognize—or, at least, rec ognize his voice. That voice be longs to Dave South. South’s familiar call of Aggie football, basketball and baseball games is a longstanding tradition at a school which reveres tradi tion. The secret is that there is much more to the man behind the microphone than just his voice. There is a love for imagi nation, a commitment to hard work and a devotion to Texas A&M and college athletics. A quick scan of South’s office reveals much about him. There are pictures of family and signed sports memorabilia on the walls, inspirational books on his desk and three chairs welcoming visi tors and guests. South said he loves working in radio. He said radio is more fun than television because people can use their imagination. He also said radio brings back many memories for him. “I did not have a TV till I was about 10 years old,” he said. “I used to turn the set down when baseball games were on and do play-by-play when I was a kid.” South said when he is on the radio, there are no editing ses sions. He said the “live” nature of radio adds to its excitement. “When you are on-air, it’s all The Battalion The voice of Texas A&M sports Dave South holds the headsets he uses to broadcast his radio shows. right there,” he said. “ Whatever you said is going to go.” As much as South enjoys radio and broadcasting, his main re sponsibility is to handle sales to corporate sponsors for the Athlet ic Department. His official title is the Assistant Athletic Director for Marketing. “I bring in the clients,” he said. “They sponsor everything from ticket backs to television shows. It is my job to get these sponsorships.” South said sales take up 90 percent of his time, and that he does it year round. He said he enjoys it more than anything else. “I love selling—I love to get in the chase,” he said. South, who received a degree in History from Midwestern Uni versity in Wichita Falls, said as a youth he had no idea he would be going into sales. He said he al ways thought he would be doing broadcasting. “I started doing broadcasting when I was a sophomore in high school. Around 1977 or ‘78, I fell in love with sales,” he said. “I have been lucky to be able to combine the two.” Broadcasting a football game is a week-long process for South, beginning the Sunday before a game. South said he learns the numbers of all the players, as well as interesting facts, figures and notes to use throughout the game. On game-day, South ar rives four hours early to prepare his pregame feature and get him self prepared for the game. During the actual game, South said he likes to make listeners feel as if they are at the stadium. “I like to paint a picture of what is going on down on the field,” he said. The work South puts in for a game does not end after it is over. “After games, I’ll get tapes Please see South/Page 6 Sampras prepares for ‘anonymous’ Vacek WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — Pete Sampras knows what you’re thinking. After marching through Jared Palmer, Richey Reneberg and Chuck Adams — none ranked higher than No. 35 — in the first week at Wim bledon, he draws anonymous Daniel Vacek to start the fourth round Monday. More easy pickings for the defending champion and No. 1 seed? No way, Sampras said after completing a rain-delayed 6-1, 6-2, 6-4 victory over Adams on Saturday. “You probably never heard of him but he’s extremely danger ous,’’ Sampras said of Vacek . 1 ’ve played him before. I’m playing a guy who hit 30 aces. A couple of swings of the bat and you could be out. I’m going to have to be ready.” Vacek, ranked No. 51, owns a heavyweight serve that has produced 63 aces in three matches here. Sampras, whose fastest measured serve in the first week reached 128 mph, has 61 aces so far. What’s interest ing is that their ace production seems headed in opposite directions. Vacek opened with 1 against Gerard Solves. Then he had 21 against Mark Woodforde be fore turning heads with a 31- ace match against Yevgeny Kafelnikov. Sampras went from 25 against Palmer to 26 against Reneberg to just 10 against Adams. After the traditional day off Sunday, Wimbledon has a full fourth-round schedule Mon day. Nine-time champion Marti na Navratilova, centerpiece of the women’s draw after the elimination of No. 1 Steffi Graf, continues her farewell tournament, facing Helena Sukova. U.S. probably’ in round two of World Cup 1 -0 loss to Romania leaves questions of U.S. advancing for first time in 64 years PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — The United States is in the second round of the World Cup — probably. The Americans will have to wait awhile to find out, perhaps until the end of the first round. They made things difficult Sunday by losing 1-0 to Romania, which won Group A. Switzerland, despite falling 2-0 to Colom bia, wound up second in the group with a better goal differential (plus-1 to 0) than the United States. So now the waiting game begins, with a myriad of possibilities where the Ameri cans don’t move on. Suffice to say that un less four of five unusual scenarios occur in the other groups, the U.S. team will get to the second round for the first time in 64 years. But it might take until Thursday before it knows. “We definitely wanted to get a point,” said U.S. defender Alexi Lalas. “We have a very good chance of going to the second round.” If they advance, they will go to either Stanford, Calif., or Chicago. Chances are good they will play either Brazil or Ger many, two of the favorites. “We don’t care who we play,” Lalas added. “We’ll still be in our country, the last time I checked.” Dan Petrescu scored in the 18th minute as the U.S. defense was caught overloaded to one side of the field and goalie Tony Me- ola left too much room between himself and the goalpost. The Americans pressed for the tying goal, but it never came, disappointing a flag-waving, U-S-A chanting crowd of 93,869 at the Rose Bowl. “My frank opinion is both teams were fighting to win today,” Romanian coach Anghel lordanescu said. “The United States national team was and is a very dif ficult opponent, but we succeeded in impos ing our will with our technical skills and our ball possession.” World Cup Standings Group A Teams W L T Pts, x-Romania 2 10 6 x-Switzerland 1114 United States 1114 Colombia 12 0 3 Group B Teams W L T Pts, x-Brazil 2 0 0 6: Cameroon 10 14 Sweden 0 111 Russia 0 2 0 0 Group C Teams W L T Pts, Germany 10 14 Spain rsi O o South Korea 0 0 2 2! Bolivia 0 111 Group D Teams W L T Pts. x-Argentina 2 0 0 6 Nigeria 10 0 3 Bulgaria 110 3: Greece 0 2 0 0 Group E Teams W L T Pts, Ireland 110 3 Norway 110 3 Italy 110 3 Mexico 1 1 0 3| Group F Teams W L T Pis, x-Belgium 2 0 0 6 The Netherlands 110 3 Saudi Arabia 110 3 Morocco 0 2 0 x-team automatically qualifies for round2 Sunday's Scores Romania 1, United States 0 Colombia 2, Switzerland 0 Bulgaria 4, Greece 0 Monday's Games at Chicago Bolivia vs. Spain, 4:05 p.m. at Dallas Germany vs. South Korea, 4:0: p.m. Astros’ Bagwell baseball s ‘best unknown player HOUSTON (AP) — Jeff Baf well is quickly becoming basebai l’s best un known player. He hit three home runs Friday night — two in one inning to tie a major- league record — in leading the Houston Astros to a 16-4 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers. But he remaic only fifth among Nation!- League first basemen in votiffi for the All-Star team. 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