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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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