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Sportswriter
W hy is it women athletes
have to be attractive to be
the spokesperson or official
endorser of a product?
Look around the advertising
world and it’s very obvious the
same does not hold true for men.
Mike Tyson, Larry Byrd and Evan-
der Holyfield are living proof.
One could argue that these men
are outstanding in their fields and
their name recognition alone can
sell a product. It could also be ar
gued that women athletes just
don’t have the same name recogni
tion because fewer people watch
women’s sports.
Well, I would love to hear from
anyone that has never heard the
name Martina Navratilova.
Navratilova has 55 Grand Slam
wins including a record nine Wim
bledon Championships. And on
Saturday Navratilova was the old
est female ever to play in the finals
at Wimbledon.
Talk about being outstanding in
your field. Talk about notoriety.
And yet, Navratilova has never
been offered a product endorsement
outside of tennis equipment.
Women athletes seen in con
sumer product advertising are al
ways cute and bubbly. Navratilova
is not cute and bubbly. They also
display the appropriate amount of
femininity. Navratilova is not fem
inine.
In fact, she’s admittedly gay.
Not that that could possibly have
anything to do with overlooking
this outstanding female athlete for
promotional campaigns. Everyone
knows how widely accepted a gay
lifestyle is.
Chris Evert, Mary Lou Retton
and Nancy Kerrigan cannot hold a
candle to Navratilova’s athletic
prowess or her legacy, but they all
fijl the necessary requirements to
sell a product. And they have be
come the darlings of the female
athlete endorsement world because
of it.
Today’s advertising seems to in
dicate that the average man is
threatened by a talented woman
athlete who isn’t attractive enough
to fantasize about.
This is evidenced in everything
from beer to shoe commercials por
traying modelesque women in ath
letic roles or dressed in skimpy uni
forms. Beauty sells where women
are concerned.
Please see Parten/Page 4
Lady Aggies’ coach arrives
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Harvey meets the
press as A&M's
new head coach
By Mark Smith
The Battalion
The past couple of days have held a
number of firsts for Candi Harvey.
Saturday was the first time she as
sumed the head coaching position of
Texas A&M University. She met the
players she will coach next season for
the first time on Monday and Tuesday
she held her first press conference as
the Lady Aggies’ coach in the Koldus
building.
“I’m incredibly excited to be here,”
Harvey said. “This fulfills all my hopes
and dreams of having the opportunity to
come back to Texas.”
Harvey has spent most of her coach
ing career in Texas. For four years she
was head coach at Robert E. Lee High
School in Tyler. She then served as an
assistant coach at Stephen F. Austin
University for six years.
She said having that experience in
the state helped her get the job.
“I think having Texas ties was impor
tant,” she said.
Harvey’s last coaching job was the
head coach of the Tulane Green Wave.
She served as coach for four years, turn
ing around the Tulane program.
As the Tulane coach she had a 46-68
record. Although it is not a winning
record, Harvey said she had to build the
Tulane program from the ground up.
“One of my comments when I got to
Tulane was that the cupboard wasn’t
bare, it wasn’t even built yet,” she said.
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A&M’s new head women’s basketball coach Candi Harvey meets the press for
the first time Tuesday in the athletic department conference room.
“But, in my last two years we put to
gether back-to-back winning seasons.”
Athletic Director Wally Groff said he
was not concerned with Harvey’s num
bers at Tulane.
“She [Harvey] has proved she can
take a program to the next level,” Groff
said.
Leaving Tulane was hard, Harvey
said, but she felt the job at A&M repre
sented her future.
“No matter how painful it was to
leave, I never had a doubt that this is
where I’m supposed to be,” she said. “A
team is like a family. I left my family
there to join another one.”
Harvey said she doesn’t subscribe to
any particular style of basketball, but
lets the ability of the players determine
what type of game she plays.
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Buster” Douglas
hospitalized with
diabetic coma
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — For
mer heavyweight champion James
“Buster” Douglas was reportedly
hospitalized Tuesday in a diabetic
coma.
WBNS-TV, quoting a relative it
did not identify, said Douglas, 34,
was in poor condition Tuesday after
noon at Grant Medical Center.
The hospital refused comment
and hosiptal spokeswoman Karen
Waldbillig said the family asked
that no information be released.
Other relatives told the station
Douglas was taken to the hospital
Monday and had slipped in and out
of a coma since then. They said
Tuesday afternoon that his condi
tion was improving.
It was not known whether Dou
glas previously had been diagnosed
as a diabetic or which form of the
disease he might have. In some cas
es, if diabetes goes untreated, the
victim may go into a diabetic coma,
which can lead to death.
Douglas’ father, Bill Douglas,
could not be reached for comment. A
man who answered the phone at
Bill Douglas’ home Tuesday morn
ing identified himself as a friend of
the family and said he knew nothing
of Douglas’ condition. He would not
confirm that Douglas was in the
hospital. There was no answer at
the home Tuesday afternoon.
Messages seeking comment from
the fighter’s business manager,
Lawrence Nallie, were not returned.
Douglas, a native of Columbus,
was the heavyweight champion for
only eight months.
A&M athletics rank No. 24 in Sears Cup
Cups' inaugural year sees A&M, Texas
as only Southwest Conference schools
1993-94 Sears Directors' Cup Final Standings
By Brian Coats
The Battalion
Chalk up another national top 25
finish for Texas A&M. The overall
athletic department finished 24th in
the final standings of the inaugural
National Association of Collegiate Di
rectors of Athletics (NACDA) 1993-94
Sears Directors’ Cup.
The Cup ranks overall athletic de
partments based on the finishes of ten
men’s sports and ten women’s sports,
plus two wild card sports.
A&M scored 454.5 points, one-half-
of-a-point ahead of Florida State.
North Carolina won the cup with
806.5 total points.
A&M’s football team, which fin
ished ninth in the nation, collected 55
points, the most of any sport. Wom
en’s basketball, softball and men’s ten
nis each scored 52.5 points.
Women’s volleyball, men’s indoor
track and outdoor track and field,
men’s golf and the men’s and women’s
swim teams also contributed points.
All of these sports placed on the na
tional level.
A&M Athletic Director Wally Groff
said the Cup is a good indicator of the
overall strength.of.the.A.&M,athletic,
department, particularly the women’s
programs.
“We were 24 because of the success
of the women,” he said.
Lynn Hickey, the senior associate
athletic director, appreciated Groff’s
belief.
“That was nice of him to say,” she
said. “We were really fortunate that
all our women’s teams stepped up a
notch this year.”
The Pac-10 led the nation with six
schools ranked. A&M and the Univer
sity of Texas, which finished seventh,
were the only Southwest Conference
schools represented. Four future Big
School
Points
School
Points
North Carolina
806.5
Minnesota
553.0
Stanford
786.5
Alabama
552.5
UCLA
779.5
Clemson
546.5
Florida
768.0
California
535.5
Penn St.
756.0
Nebraska
524.5
Arizona
710.0
Virginia
513.0
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697.5
Oklahoma
499.0
Southern Cal
677.0
Georgia
495.5
Michigan
656.0
Brigham Young
488.0
Arizona St.
603.0
Ohio St.
483.5
Notre Dame
595.0
Texas A&M
454.5
Wisconsin
565.0
Florida St.
454.0
Tennessee
560.0
12 schools made the list-A&M, Texas,
Nebraska and Oklahoma.
Groff said A&M coaches and stu
dent-athletes should feel especially
proud because A&M has fewer inter
collegiate sports than some of the oth
er schools on the list.
“The Cup takes into account 22
sports” he said. “Some schools had all
22, and we only had 19. It’s a credit to
the hard work of our coaches and stu
dent-athletes.”
SUMMER ’94
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M/W, July 25, 27
6- 10pm
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COMPUTERS
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Mon. July 11
7- 9pm
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7-9pm
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Video Camera Meth
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Wines of America
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Sat. July 9, 16, 23, 30
2-4pm
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Basics of Investing
Tues. July 5, 12, 19, 26, Aug 2
7:30-9pm
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Mon. July 11, 18, 25, Aug 2
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6-8pm
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