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Monday • July 18, 1994
Sumo silicone
ban turns
heads in Japan
CHRIS S.
COBB
I thought Americans went too far
concerning sports. Flipping
through the newspaper, I could
not believe one of the articles that I
read. Let me give you some back
ground so you know what I am talk
ing about.
In Japan, sumo wrestling is the
number one sport. The best athletes
in the sport are equivalent to famous
movie stars here in America.
These fat men who hit one anoth
er with their huge bellies earn big
money and marry the most beautiful
women in Japan - not a bad job.
Let the spectator beware
Not to be over-critical of the sport,
it is wrestling and the people who
seem to get hurt the most in the
sport are the spectators in the front
row watching these matches. Their
rings do not have ropes to keep the
wrestlers on the stage-like ring and
they sometimes fall and crush the
sumo-goers watching the match.
The athletes who want to get into
the sport of sumo wrestling must
take a physical examination to see if
they meet the physical requirements.
One of the requirements is that the
wrestlers weigh 165 pounds. Another
is that they must be 5 feet 6 inches.
This is where it gets good.
When some of the wrestlers don’t
make the height requirement, they
have done certain things to make the
required height. One method that
was recently banned and has re
ceived attention lately is getting sili
cone implants in the head.
Yes, this is the same material that
is used in breast implants. After
passing the physical, the wrestlers
then undergo another procedure to
have the implants removed.
The sumo-wrestling officials
turned their heads, so to speak, when
dealing with this issue until just re
cently. One wrestler had six inches
of silicone implanted in his head so
he would meet the height require
ment.
The Coneheads return
The officials are now banning the
implants after hearing about this
sumo-conehead. They fear the im
plants will leak, like some breast im
plants.
This is the strangest performance-
altering procedure that I have ever
heard of. Athletes in America have
taken drugs to make them stronger,
but how many of them have had a
plastic-like substance surgically
placed underneath their skin? None
that I can remember.
Americans fear that there will be
an economic war in which the United
States will lose. We have fallen be
hind in the technology race with
Japan, but I don’t think American
athletes will try to match this con
cept.
Can you imagine how American
athletes would use silicone implants?
Every player in the NBA would be
six inches taller by having implants
in the soles of their feet.
Football players would have more
room to block if they use silicone in
jections in their arms and shoulders.
Let’s hope this doesn’t catch on in
our country. Can you imagine the
places where bodybuilders would get
the injections?
SPORTS
MU
Page 3
Waiting on the Big 12
There’s work left for new conference
By Brian Coats
The Battalion
Last February, the Big 8 Conference
invited Texas A&M, Baylor, Texas Tech
and Texas to join the league, ending the
80-year-old Southwest Conference.
Now it is July, and the initial excite
ment of change has died down. Now
the work begins.
The athletic directors of all the
Part one of three
schools in the recently named Big 12
have had three meetings (in Kansas
City, Mo. and Dallas) to start hammer
ing out the details of the new confer
ence. Wally Groff, A&M’s athletic di
rector, said it is a good thing there are
two years left before league-play be
gins.
“There are still hundreds of unan
swered questions,” he said.
Groff said in addition to the number
of issues facing the athletic directors,
there is another problem. The plans
the athletic directors are laying out at
the meetings are unofficial recommen
dations.
“There is no official governing body
like a council of the presidents or facul
ty group for the Big 12 yet,” he said. “At
this point, we are making these recom
mendations, but we don’t know who we
are making them to. I guess to the
world. Right now, we (the athletic di
rectors) are the governing body.”
Plans for the league are being ham
sharing, scheduling and sport by sport
issues. Lynn Hickey, the senior associ
ate athletic director, is A&M’s repre
sentative on the team.
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mered out almost daily, even though
the next athletic director’s meeting is
not until August, Groff said. He said a
six-person transition team has been
named to work on issues like revenue
Hickey said she was amazed at how
much work is needed to start the new
league.
“There is a tremendous amount of
work to get done,” she said. “When I
first went into the meetings, I thought
we could get softball started next year.
Now I see there are too many things to
work out for that to happen.”
However, one part of the new con
ference that has been worked out is a
television contract, possibly the most
exciting and most lucrative part of the
new conference.
For $100 million, ABC and Liberty
Sports, which owns HSE, will televise
Big 12 football games, starting with the
1996 season.
Groff said he could not be happier
with the arrangement.
“The TV deal is finalized and a very
pleasant surprise,” he said. “We start
ed the new conference off with a bang
to land this package. It is a great situa
tion for our conference.”
Groff said the TV package is going to
bring national exposure to A&M’s foot
ball team, which has frequently been on
national TV in recent years, as well as
other programs which do not receive as
much publicity, like women’s sports.
“Liberty is going to be starting an
all-women’s sports channel,” he said.
“They are planning to use the Big 12 as
the base for that. That is unbelievable
exposure for our women’s programs.”
Groff said the negotiations to secure
the deal were long and intruiging.
Please see Big 12/Page 4
Students view World Cup Final in MSC Dorsett did not
Aggies call U.S.'s first
Cup as host a success
By Mark Smith
The Battalion
There should have been a sign in the
MSC on Sunday reading World Cup Final
2:35 - Space is Limited.
The flag room had already drawn a
crowd of students when the 160 members
of the second session of the Texas A&M
Soccer Camp filed in.
Couches were moved and chairs
arranged around the two small-screen
televisions so that everyone could catch a
glimpse of Brazil battle Italy to a shoot
out victory.
The International Student’s Associa
tion organized the World Cup viewing
and has shown all of the Cup’s matches,
except for games shown on tape delay.
A number of students watched the
games in the flag room. Among them was
Sandy Edwards, a midfielder for the
Texas A&M soccer team. Edwards said
the first World Cup to be played in the
United States was successful.
“It’s been great,” Edwards said. “I
think it’s been the most exciting World
Cup yet.”
Head soccer coach Gerald Guerrieri
said the World Cup affirms what U.S.
soccer enthusiasts have said about the ex
citement of soccer.
“People sitting and watching these
games by the best players in the world
brings credibility to what has been said
before,” Guerrieri said. “It shows people
that it is a very athletic game. That it
can bring passion.”
Another midfielder for the Aggies,
Jamie Csizmadia, agreed with Guerrieri
and said that Americans are learning
more about the soccer.
“A lot of people are watching the
games,” she said. “They’re learning more
about the sport.”
Guerrieri said it is wrong to think that
soccer will replace baseball or football in
the U.S. sports world.
“Soccer is here. It shouldn’t be thought
of as a replacement,” he said. “People
were saying in the late 70s that soccer
was growing, that it would be the sport of
the 80s. Those were foolish statements.
It’s just another form of entertainment.”
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The MSC flag room displays the semi-final game between Italy and Bulgaria as
Steve Maranz, a graduate soil and crop student, watches. Maranz wanted Brazil
Please see World Cup/Page 4 to win. Sunday they beat the Italians in the World Cup final, on penalty kicks.
always want to
carry the football
DALLAS (AP) —For many of his
11 seasons with the Dallas Cow
boys, star running back Tony
Dorsett complained because he
thought he didn’t get the ball
enough.
That’s certainly not how his ca
reer began, when he was a jittery
sixth grader playing for the Aliquip-
pa (Pa.) Termites of the Pop Warner
League.
“I was afraid to play,” Dorsett
said. ‘Then, when I played, the first
kickoff I caught, because of the fear
I had — I didn’t want to be hurt — 1
took it 75 yards for a touchdown.
“From that point on, it got better
and better.”
It’ll get even better on July 30
when Dorsett is inducted into the
Pro Football Hall of Fame in Can
ton, Ohio. Former Cowboys coach
Tom Landry will present Dorsett.
But there was a time when
Landry and Dorsett feuded, mostly
over the number of times Landry
would call Dorsett’s number.
Dorsett, the NFL’s third-leading
rusher/ thinks he’d be No. 1 if
Landry had given him the ball more
than 17.5 times per game. Landry
insisted he was only trying to pro
long Dorsett’s career.
“With 25 carries per game, I
would have retired as the all-time
leading rusher. There’s no question
in my mind,” said Dorsett, who still
racked up 12,739 yards.
He trails only Walter Payton
(16,726) and Eric Dickerson
(13,259).
Dorsett would have had 16,617
— 109 yards fewer then Payton — if
he had maintained his career 4.3-
yard average and carried as often
as Payton, who played one more
season than Dorsett.
“I was screaming for it when I
first came to the Cowboys: ‘More
carries. More carries.’ But coach
Landry thought that because of my
physical size, my career would have
been short-lived if that had hap
pened.
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