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Baseball not
the grand old
‘game’ today
BRIAN
COATS
Sportswriter
W hat do baseball cards and
loyalty have in common? A
lot, when it comes to base
ball. They both provide key proof
that baseball is no longer a game. It
is now a business.
When I was 10 or 11, I collected
baseball cards. Back then, there
was only two or three baseball-card
companies. There was not “super-ul
tra-upper-deck, prime-sport, mag
netic-photo” cards of Nolan Ryan
wearing a tuxedo throwing a foot
ball.
I never thought about the fact
that some of my cards could be valu
able or that I could get rich off base
ball cards. I collected them because
I liked baseball and I looked up to
many players. It was a hobby.
Card collecting means money
Now, it seems like there is only
one reason kids collect baseball
cards. To make money. Kids do not
collect cards because they think
players are great, they collect cards
because Beckett magazine says the
cards they have are worth lots of
money.
Millions of 8-year-olds are bud
ding entrepreneurs because they
know a Frank Thomas rookie card is
worth more than a Barry Bonds
rookie card. Nowadays, when kids
sing “Take me out to the ballgame”
they do so because they know they
might get Ken Griffey Jr. to auto
graph all 17 copies of their “Fleer Ul-
tra-Modern-In-Your-Face” card,
thereby increasing it’s value by four
million percent. Baseball card col
lecting is a business.
Baseball is big business
In the same way that card-collect
ing is no longer a hobby for kids,
baseball is no longer a hobby for the
players. In that light one could say
that kids are truly emulating their
“heroes.”
For proof that baseball is more of
a business for the players than a
game, look at Wade Boggs. One of
the fiercest rivalries in sports is the
New York Yankees-Boston Red Sox.
Boggs, after playing over a decade
for Boston, became a Yankee. All
because of money.
Could you imagine Bucky
Richardson playing for A&M for
three years and then transferring to
Texas? For Boston fans, Bogg’s
move was along those same lines.
Paul Moliter, Barry Bonds and
Dave Winfield are three more on a
huge list of players who have no loy
alty because so many dollar signs
are put in their face. Gone are the
days when players like Carl Yas-
trzemski and George Brett would
rather take a pay-cut than go to an
other team. Loyalty no longer ex
ists.
A strike is about to be called in
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SPORTS
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A&M leads way in gender equity
Female athletes average more per scholarship than male athletes
Constance Parten
The Battalion
Despite the tarnished image that
the Texas A&M Athltetic Department
has endured in recent years, a positive
point can be made.
A&M is a national leader in athletic
scholarship funding for women, and
has been since the mid 1980’s.
Women received more funding per
participant in the 1993-94 school year
than did their male counterparts ac
cording to an A&M Athletic Depart
ment analysis.
In the 1993-94 school year, women
athletes received an average $4,193
scholarship per semester while men re
ceived $4,069.
A&M has not increased the level of
female athletes participating in varsity
sports, so they increased the scholar
ship amounts in order to even out the
distribution.
This rise in funding is due to an ef
fort by the university to institute the
gender equity provisions outlined in
Title IX of the Department of Educa
tion’s nondiscrimination policy.
Title IX was ammended in 1972,
but has only recently become an issue
on the collegiate level.
Title IX requires all institutions re
ceiving or benefitting from federal fi
nancial assistance to maintain a bal
ance in funding for men and women on
all levels.
The only problem for most universi
ties under the ammendment has come
from iniquities in athletic funding.
Last July, the University of Texas
faced a Title IX lawsuit. Seven female
students filed suit to increase partici
pation and scholarships in women’s
varsity athletics.
Lead plaintiff Rachel Sanders
agreed to file suit because she really
wanted to play varsity soccer. Sanders
and the
other
plaintiffs
were all
involved in
intramural
sports at
UT.
“It’s
hard to
fight
something
your try
ing to be a
part of,”
head basketball coach Jody Conradt
was not upset by the suit.
“We were already a leader in wom
en’s athletics,” Conradt said. “This
caused us to rethink, refocus and re
evaluate our women’s program.”
The lawsuit was the first attempt
at an across-the-board expansion of
women’s athletic opportunities at a
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ty.
Lynn
Hickey,
Senior As-
s o c i a t e
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director for womens sports ^ ai ^ A &]y|
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t r a t o r s
"We've never had a
problem with getting fair
funding for the women's
programs here."
Sanders said.
Title IX suggests the ratio of male to
female athletes should roughly equal
the ratio of enrolled students. UT’s
student body is 47 percent female, but
only 23 percent of athletic scholarships
were given to women.
The university agreed to three stip
ulations in the settlement which will
allow for a higher female participation
ratio, more scholarship funding (up 23
to 44 percent), and earlier implementa
tion of varsity soccer and softball
teams.
UT Women’s Athletic Director and
have always, been very proactive con
cerning the progress of women’s athlet
ics.
“We’ve never had a problem with
getting fair funding for the women’s
programs here,” Hickey said.
Athletic funding for women was al
ready fairly consistent with enrollment
when Hickey arrived at A&M ten years
ago.
In 1983 A&M’s female student popu
lation was 38.35 percent of enrollment.
The scholarship funding for women
that same year was 30.35 percent.
In the 1993-94 school year 42.27
percent of the student population was
female. Athletic scholarships made
available for women totalled 39.8 per
cent.
“The administrators have not been
concerned about meeting quotas, they
just knew this was the right thing to
do,” Hickey said.
The major argument from opponents
of funding so heavily for women’s ath
letics has been revenue.
Women’s athletics brought in
$96,328 last year, less than 10 percent
of total athletic revenues, Hickey said.
She is hopeful these numbers will in
crease though.
“After a few more years of doing
well we may be able to bring in more
people to watch the games,” Hickey
said. “But right now there is a general
lack of support for all athletics. We’ve
seen a drop in attendance over the last
few years even for men’s sports.”
But the athletics program at A&M
is still very comfortable, including the
women. They are well funded and
have some of the nation’s top talents,
playing and coaching.
Assistant Athletic Director John
Thornton said A&M is leading the soon
to be Big 12 Conference in women’s
athletics.
“We are sponsoring more sports and
have full funding for all the women’s
varsity teams through the 12th Man
Foundation,” Thornton said. “We are
going to bring the conference wide fig
ures [Big 12] for women’s athletics way
up.”
Part one of a three part series
AN OVERVIEW OF SPORTS MEDICINE
By Mark Smith
The Battalion
When one talks about sports medi
cine many people imagine so-called
“jock-docs” who charge exorbitant prices
to heal the maledictions of injured ath
letes.
What people not familiar with this
field do not understand is the entire
scope that the term sports medicine cov
ers. Sports medicine involves specialists
at every stage of athletic endeavor, from
nutritionists to orthopedic surgeons.
Among the different occupations that
could fall into the overall category of
sports medicine are exercise physiolo
gists, biomechanicists, nutritionists,
trainers, physical therapists and ortho
pedic surgeons. Each of these different
occupations has a distinct niche to fill
the world of sports medicine. The fol
lowing is a brief description of the major
occupations in the field.
• Exercise Physiology - The Ameri
can College of Sports Medicine defines
exercise physiology as “the science
which deals with the study of muscular
activity and the associated functional re
sponses and adaptations.” Exercise
physiologists, therefore, perform re
search to investigate muscle response to
particular exercises and sporting sce
narios.
• Biomechanics - Dr. Stephen Gor
don, the director of musculoskeletal re
search for the National Institute of
Health, described the job of a biome-
chanicist.
“Basically, biomechanics is the use of
the principles of biomechanical engi
neering applied to physiology,” Gordon
said.
Biomechanicists design and develop
new training tools and better equipment
to optomize athletic
exertion.
These in-
clued new
designs of-
running
shoes and
the solid wheel
for bicyclists.
• Sports Psycholo
gy - Dr. Nicholas
W. Dobrovolsky
in the Student
Counseling
Center at Texas
A&M Universi
ty works
with some
of the
A&M ath
letes. He
said the
area of
sports psy
chology has been
developed because of the specialized
needs of athletes.
“We work with students and amateur
and professional athletes,” Dobrovolsky
said. “They have concerns that are un
like those of other people. In their field,
there is a constant demand for perfor
mance.
• Nutrition - Because the body is es
sentially a machine, it is important to
study the “fuel” that it uses. Nutrition
ists study nutrient intake and how best
to prescribe a diet that is most con
ducive for sports
activities.
• Athletic
Training -
Trainers on
athletic teams
function as
physical thera
pists, rehabilita
tion specialists and
communicators from
doctors to coaches.
Karl Kapchins-
ki, the head ath
letic trainer for
the A&M athletic
department, de
scribed his job
for the Ag
gies.
“The offi
cial job de
scription is
that I take
care of the
treatment, care
and rehabilitation of all of A&M’s ath
letes,” he said. “We also serve as a me-
diary between the doctors and the play
ers.”
• Orthopedics - Whenever injuries
occur to athletes an orthopedic surgeon
is usually consulted to evaluate the seri
ousness of the injury and recommend a
course of action.
Occasionally the injury can be healed
without the need for surgery, but many
times it can not. An orthopedic surgeon
is then used to repair the damage done.
• Physical Therapy - Physical thera
pists are employed to monitor an ath
lete’s recovery from surgery or to help
an athlete to recover from an injury that
does not require surgery.
In order to do that they structure a
regimen of exercises and activities to
help strengthen the area that was in
jured.
Although not a complete list of the oc
cupations involved with sports medicine,
the above descriptions do reflect some of
the main branches of the sports medi
cine tree.
Gordon said there is not one part of
the sports medicine field that is more
important than the others.
“I don’t know that you can attribute
the increase in athletic ability to one
specific thing,” Gordon said. “It’s all of
those things.”
For further exploration and for easy
analysis, the various types of profes
sions involved in sports medicine will be
divided into those people who help an
athlete prepare for competition and
those that help that athlete return to ac
tion after an injury.
Part Two of this series, which will ap
pear tomorrow, will talk about “Building
an Athlete” and Part Three, which will
appear Wednesday, will talk about
“Healing the wounds.”
Sales for football tickets UP Bulgaria stuns Germany
-T Sweden needs penalty kicks to finish Romania
A&M's 100th year, no TV cause increase, officials say
By Brian Coats
The Battalion
If preseason ticket sales are any in
dication, the crowds are going to be big
ger at Kyle Field this fall. Sales for the
1994 Texas A&M football season are up
this year from the same time last year,
said Jim Kotch, the athletic ticket man
ager at A&M.
“We are about 1,000 season tickets
above last year, and 2,400 above two
years ago when we had the same sched
ule as we do this year,” he said.
Kotch said the Athletic Department
has been pushing ticket sales harder
than past years because this is the
100th year of A&M football and be
cause no games will be televised this
year.
He said the Athletic Department,
which controls faculty/staff, general
public and student tickets, has sent out
approximately 180,000 ticket applica
tions.
“We sent out letters to priority ticket
holders in April, we put applications in
the Texas Aggie Magazine and we sent
out 113,000 letters to former students
who do not receive the Texas Aggie,”
Kotch said. “We also sent out 46,000
letters to new and returning students.”
In June, the Athletic Department
teamed up with financial institutions
and local radio stations for a promotion
on ticket sales. Kotch said another pro
motion is planned right before the sea
son starts.
The 12th Man Foundation, which
controls about 85 percent of the second
and third decks on the west side of
Kyle Field, is also pushing ticket sales
harder, James Peterson, the president
elect of the foundation, said.
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“We had a full-scale telemarketing
campaign to prospective members
pushing our hundred-dollar Reveille
membership and our fifty-dollar Associ
ate Membership,” he said.
Peterson said 12th man member
ships are up “quite a bit” from last
year, although he is unsure on the ex
act number.
He said the foundation’s financial
contributions to the Athletic Depart
ment will also increase this year.
“We are going to donate more be
cause of a bigger year with member
ships and donations,” he said.
Kotch said the A&M’s goal is to sell
out the Oklahoma, Baylor and Texas
Tech games. The Athletic Department,
in a press release, said the Aggies are
looking to set a new season attendance
record.
Kotch added that averaging about
65,000 for A&M’s six home games will
help offset the loss of revenue due to no
television.
“Wally Groff (Texas A&M’s athletic
director) told me if we average 65, we
will break even money-wise,” he said.
Kotch said probation and no-televi-
sion are not the only reason ticket sales
are up. He has heard people say the
reason they are buying tickets this year
is because A&M is moving to the new
ly-formed Big 12 conference.
In two years, people from Dallas
and Houston won’t be able to see us un
less they come here,” he said. “They
aren’t going to be able to get tickets in
Nebraska, and we won’t be playing in
Dallas or Houston anymore.”
UNDATED <AP) - Suddenly, the
World Cup has a baffling look.
Bulgaria and Sweden are in the
semifinals, and defending champion
Germany is gone, banished by the :
Bulgarians in a stunner Sunday that
will rank as one of the great World
Cup upsets.
“I think the world will realize that
we have some very classy soccer
players in Bulgaria,” Bulgarian star
Hristo Stoitchkov said.
Very classy, indeed. Bulgaria, or
dinarily noted more for its
weightlifters than soccer players,
beat Germany 2-1 in East Ruther
ford, N.J., making every pretouma-
ment prediction look like utter non
sense.
The day’s other quarterfinal ended
with a pulsating finish, with Sweden
beating Romania 5-4 in penalty kicks
after regulation and overtime ended
2-2 in Stanford, Calif.
Swedish goalkeeper Thomas Rav-
elli made the final save, with the
penalty kicks having gone to sudden-
death. Ravelli did a triumphant cart
wheel and the Swedes bowed to the
crowd; the exhausted Romanian
players lay flat on their backs, their
hands covering their faces.
“It speaks for itself/’ Sweden
coach Tommy Svensson said. “He
was excellent during the game and
Thomas was the key to our success in
the penalty kicks.”
On Wednesday, Bulgaria will play
Italy at Giants Stadium and Brazil
will face Sweden at the Rose Bowl in
World Cup USA94
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Bulgaria 2, Germany 1
Sweden 2, Romania 2 (Penalty Kicks:
Sweden 5, Romania 4)
Pasadena, Calif. That will be a re
match for Sweden and Brazil follow
ing a 1-1 draw in the first round.
Italy and Brazil, both three-time
champions, won their semifinal
berths Saturday, although neither
had an easy time of it. Italy downed
Spain 2-1 and Brazil edged the
Netherlands 3-2.
The other three-time champion in
the field was Germany, and now the
tournament moves on without its
most dependable power. Germany
had played in the last three World
Cup title games.
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