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5 PORTS
Soccer fan
takes losing
too seriously
MARK
SMITH
Sports Editor
w
hen is a game not a game?
When the cost of winning
or losing means a human
life.
Of course I’m talking about the
murder of Andres Escobar, the
Colombian soccer player who
scored an own-goal during Colom
bia’s 2-1 loss to the United States.
For his mistake, Escobar received a
reported 12 bullets from close
range.
The world of sports is an emo-
tionally-intense ride, full of ups
and downs. When your team wins,
you feel great. When you
lose...well, things aren’t so rosy.
There must be some difference
in philosophies when the rest of the
world thinks of the World Cup.
Newspapers in Europe openly edi
torialize about matches in their
headlines. Some criticize the
coaches, which led one columnist
from Miami to remark that their
paper had never printed the head
line, “You stink, Shula!”
Surely there are times in all
sports’ fans lives when they look at
a player and wish, maybe just a lit
tle bit, that he or she takes a fall
and can’t play anymore. You know,
nothing that would end his career.
Just something to keep him or her
out of the game, so the home team
would win.
But, how many would lay in
wait for that one particular player
and gun him down?
Escobar supposedly was a popu
lar player in Colombia. He wrote
articles for El Tiempo and was
quoted as saying before the World
Cup that, “Our success lies in our
sense of togetherness.”
Kind of ironic, huh?
The ferocity of the attack might
have something to do with the op
ponent the Colombians were play
ing. The United States has, in past
yeans, had the reputation as an
easy team to beat. The win against
the Colombians was Americas first
World Cup win in 44 years.
Just as a comparison, it would
be like the Dallas Cowboys (before
free agency) losing to the Indi
anapolis Colts. A couple of fans see
Emmitt Smith in a bar. Smith
fumbled the ball away, allowing
the Colts to score the game win
ning touchdown.
The fans, upset by Smith’s error,
decide to make it where he can’t
fumble the ball anymore. Of
Please see Smith/Page 4
Lady Aggies’ hire head coach
Candi Harvey to lead women's basketball team
The Texas A&M women’s basketball
team ended its search for a head bas
ketball coach Saturday by hiring Candi
Harvey.
Harvey was the former coach of the
Tulane Green Wave.
A&M Athletic Di
rector Wally Groff
said he was pleased
by Harvey’s selection
and thought she
would do well in the
A&M program.
“I believe she will
do an outstanding
job,” he said.
“She inherits a
solid program here
at Texas A&M and I
believe she will help us continue to
strive for excellence.”
In her tenure at Tulane, Harvey
amassed a record of 46-68, beginning
with a 6-22 mark in 1990-91 and finish
ing the 1993-94 season 17-14 with a bid
to the Women’s NIT post-season tour
nament.
The 1994 NIT appearance was Tu-
lane’s first ever.
Harvey said she was excited by the
chance to come to A&M.
“Texas A&M is an ideal academic
and athletic institution,” she said.
“This is a wonderful opportunity
Harvey
for me.”
She was also
quick to praise
the Lady Aggies’
departing head
coach Lynn Hick
ey, who was pro
moted to Senior
Associate Athletic
Director in April.
“Coach (Lynn)
Hickey has done a
tremendous job
and she has quali
ty ladies in the
program,” Harvey
said.
One of Harvey’s
first actions as
head coach was to
hire Kristy Sims
as an assistant.
Sims, who
served under Harvey for two years at
Tulane, comes from Stephen F. Austin
where she helped coordinate recruiting,
academics and promotions.
“Kristy is an outstanding coach and
I’m pleased to name her as one of my
assistant coaches,” Harvey said.
Before her time as head coach, Har
vey served for six years as the top as
sistant to Gary Blair at Stephen F.
Austin University.
Harvey's Record
Year
Record (post season)
Head Coach:
1990-91
6-22
(4 years all at
1991-92
9-19
Tulane)
1992-93
14-13
1993-94
17-14 (WNIT)
Totals:
46-68 (.404)
Assistant Coach:
1984-85
3-24
(6 years all at SFA)
1985-86
16-12
1986-87
25-6 (WNIT)
1987-88
29-5 (NCAA 2nd round)
1988-89
30-4 (NCAA Sweet 16)
1989-90
28-3 (NCAA Sweet 1 6)
Totals:
131-54 (.708)
During that time she focused on re
cruiting and academic counseling for
the Ladyjacks.
In those six years, SFA won three
Southland Conference Championships,
appeared in three straight NCAA post
season tournaments and finished
ranked in the Top 20 for those three
years.
-From Staff and Wire Reports
Five Astros chosen as All-Stars
, HOUSTON (AP) — After baseball
fans didn’t vote any Houston players to
this year’s All-Star game, Philadelphia
manager Jim Fregosi selected a club-
record five of them for next weekend’s
game.
Fregosi, the National League’s coach
for the July 12 All-Star game,
picked his reserves on Sunday.
They included first baseman Jeff
Bagwell, second baseman Craig Biggio,
third baseman Ken Caminiti and
pitchers Doug Drabek and John
Hudek.
The Astros, who had four All-Stars
in 1979 and 1986, will have more play
ers at the game, which will be played
in Pittsburgh, than any other team.
“It’s about time we started getting'
some recognition,” Astros manager
Terry Collins skid. “We are all elated
and very excited. They are all very de
serving.”
All of them are first-time picks ex
cept Biggio, who went in 1991 at catch
er and 1992 at second. He’s the only
player to achieve that All-Star double.
Bagwell’s .352 batting average is
second in the NL. He’s first in runs
(71), runs batted in (77), total bases
(204), slugging percentage (.711) and
extra-base hits (49).
“It’s exciting, being the first time
and everything,” said Drabek, who had
won Cy Young Award but never been
an All-Star until Sunday.
“I had a lot of help getting there,
everybody playing behind me. I feel
very fortunate,” he said.
Drabek, who won the Cy Young
while playing for Pittsburgh in 1990,
has rebounded from his 9-18 record
last year, his first season with Hous
ton. He didn’t plan to make the All-
Star team.
“I just wanted to come back and
pitch the way I had before last year,”
Drabek said.
Drabek is fourth in the league in
earned run average (2.83), third in vic
tories (10-5), second in innings pitched
(127) and tied for the league lead in
shutouts (two) and complete games
(five).
He is seventh in strikeouts (97), and
had a 1 seven-game winning streak from
April 10 to May 24. :
Biggio marked his third selection to
the All-Star team by going 4-for-5 at
the plate Sunday and driving in three
runs.
“A lot of hard work that you put into
the season pays off in this one game,”
he said.
Caminiti also was surprised to
make the team.
“This is the best I’ve done in a first
half,” said Caminiti, who is hitting
.292 with 16 home runs and 55 RBIs.
“I don’t think I had All-Star years
before. So this is a gift. Fm very happy
with it.”
The Associated Press
Houston Astros’ Jeff Bagwell was fifth in
the All-Star voting for first baseman.
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Wimbledon
officials want
slower game
Softer balls considered
to increase rallies
WIMBLEDON, England (AP) —
Softer balls, fuzzier balls, any kind of
balls that might put more rallies back
into men’s tennis on grass are under
consideration by Wimbledon and Inter
national Tennis Federation officials.
A frantic cry arose at Wimbledon,
along with a lot of harrumphing and
hand-wringing, in the aftermath of
Pete Sampras’ slam-bang final victory
over Goran Ivanisevic.
One British wag commented Mon
day that “the Wimbledon concourses
resembled the Commons’ corridors,
when a Government is in the throes of
a crisis of confidence. They buzzed with
heated assertions that Something Must
Be Done.”
If Jeremy Bates, England’s patron
saint of lost tennis causes, had won the
same match the same way, no one in
Britain would have been talking about
changing anything. Instead, he would
have been knighted immediately and
toasted in the House of Commons as
well as in the House of Lords.
But Sampras, an American, and
Ivanisevic, a Croatian, are seen as
threats to the integrity of the game at
this bastion of tradition, even though
grass courts have always produced a
faster brand of men’s tennis with few
long rallies. When there is hot weather
and no rain, as happened this past
week, the courts dry out and become
even faster.
Ripping up the lawns in favor of ce
ment or clay is unthinkable. Forcing
players to abandon their giant graphite
rackets for old-fashioned wooden ones
is unacceptable to racket manufactur
ers and the ITF.
So all the talk is turning to the balls.
“Broadening the specifications would
allow Wimbledon to use softer balls,
and that could slow things down,” said
Bill Babcock, the ITF’s Grand Slam ad
ministrator. “You can forget about of
fering Wimbledon the chance to bring
in other rule changes. That would
mean turning the tournament into
something of a freak show.”
Wimbledon referee Alan Mills wor
ried about the effects on different play
ers of changing the balls just for grass.
“You have to., consider whether it’s
right to penalize one type of player,”
Mills said. “But it’s a serious point, and
if the ITF decide to allow a certain tol
erance over ball pressure, we would ob
viously consider the possibilities.”
Sampras suggested perhaps bring
ing out new balls less often during a
match.
One problem with changing the balls
is whether they would be altered for
both men and women. The current
balls are just right for the women, most
of whom still play from the baseline.
Slowing them down would create a dif
ferent kind of boredom.
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