The Battalion
THURSDAY
April 11, 1996
Sports
Page 9
GLANCE
Plan proposed to
dome Cotton Bowl
DALLAS (AP) — As much as Dal
las considers itself a major player on
the pro sports scene, it's really out
of the loop. The Cowboys play in
Irving, the Rangers in Arlington and
the Mavericks and Stars may be sub
urb-bound.
When the Cotton Bowl was left
out of the rotation to host the col
lege football national championship
game last year, several local busi
nessmen decided it was time for
Dallas to do something big.
They knew all about the stadi
ums going up around the country
and figured their city needed one,
too. Considering the $200 million to
$300 million price tag, the group
came up with a cheaper idea: Why
not put a dome on the Cotton Bowl?
The idea finally took off Wednes
day with the announcement that
Coca-Cola has donated $500,000 to
figure out whether it can be done.
Holmes: Two more
fights and I'm through
NEW YORK (AP) — Former world
heavyweight champion Larry
Holmes, unable to get his dream bout
with another former champ, George
Foreman, will fight twice more and
retire, he said Wednesday.
The 46-year-old Holmes has a
fight against Quin Navarre April 16
at Bay St. Louis, Miss., on USA Net
work. He said he would fight once
after that and quit after fighting 70
times in his career.
"I've been messing around while
everybody gets my hopes up and
then I get let down," Holmes said.
"Everybody is saying, 'George will
fight you,' and then it never happens.
"It would have been one historic
fight, two guys of the ages, the
geezers of Caesars, or whatever you
want to call it," Holmes said on a
conference call. "I thought it would
be good for George and me."
SCORES ROUNDUP
NL
St. Louis 4, Montreal 1
San Francisco 11, Houston 5
Philadelphia 7, Pittsburgh 6
Colorado 10, Chicago 9
New York at Cincinnati (n)
Atlanta at Los Angeles (n)
Florida at San Diego (n)
NBA
Washington 122, Boston 108
Orlando 116, Cleveland 104
Miami 116, Charlotte 95
Detroit 92, Philadelphia 76
L.A. Lakers 111, Minnesota 90
Utah 103, Phoenix 79
San Antonio 105, Vancouver 82
Seattle 108, Sacramento 89
NHL
Washington 4, New York Rangers 1
Buffalo 5, Ottawa 2
Tampa Bay 2, Florida 1
New York Islanders 6, Pittsburgh 2
Philadelphia 5, New Jersey 1
Detroit 5, Winnipeg 2
Anaheim at Colorado
Dallas 4, Edmonton 2
San Jose at Los Angeles
AL
Minnesota at Boston, ppd., snow
Detroit 7, Seattle 3
California 2, Toronto 1
OlympicAspirations
Texas A&M senior Joe Wilmoth is one of eight choreographers for
the opening ceremonies of the 1996 Olympic Summer Games.
By Lisa Nance
The Battalion
or most
people, a chance to
participate in the
Olympics
is a
dream that is
never obtained.
For Texas
A&M senior Joe
Wilmoth, that
dream is becom
ing a reality.
This summer, while most stu
dents are taking classes to get
ahead, Wilmoth will be in Atlanta,
Ga., choreographing the opening
ceremonies for the 1996 Summer
Olympic Games.
Wilmoth is one of eight main
choreographers who was chosen from
the National Cheerleader Association
by the Olympic Committee to put to
gether and perform in the opening cere
monies which will be watched by four bil
lion people worldwide.
Wilmoth, who is in his sixth year with the
NCA, said that he is still overwhelmed at the
opportunity.
“I remember in 1984 when Mary Lou Retton
won the gold medal,” Wilmoth said. “I remember
where I was sitting, I remember what I was do
ing, I remember that feeling. I’ve been in gymnas
tics since I was six and watching the Olympics and
watching competitions; I was always like I will do
that someday.
“Then I graduated from high school and got really
burnt out so I quit, and then I thought, well, I’ll go
watch the Olympics someday, I never dreamed I’d be a
part of it in the opening ceremonies.”
While the world will be tuning in to the opening cere
monies, Wilmoth is no stranger to performing in front of
crowds.
In his six years with the NCA, he has performed in the
1993 St. Patrick’s Day Parade in Dublin, Ireland, partic
ipated in the Cotton Bowl Halftime shows the two years
that the Aggies went, performed at the Aloha Bowl in ’94
and ’95 and in the Hula Bowl this year.
The NCA has been in operation since 1940 and was the
first cl^erleader/gymnastics company in the country to pro
fessionally focus on coaching the sports of cheerleading and
gymnastics.
The organization has over 800 people on staff and is re
sponsible for summer camps all over the nation. Its mem
bers coach over 150,000 every summer.
Not only are they responsible for the camps, but the
NCA is also in charge of many professional organizations
including the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders, the Chicago
Bull Cheerleaders, the Laker Girls and the
Kansas City Chief Cheerleaders and they also host the
NCA National Championships.
Kristy Schimpf, regional director of staffing for the
NCA, said that Wilmoth is very respected in the organiza
tion.
“Joe is very highly looked up to within the company,”
Schimpf said. “We have over 1,000 staff members all over
the country, and he is the head instructor. He brings cre
ativity, he’s multi-talented and he’s a great leader. He’s ab
solutely incredible. All you have to do is mention his name
and everyone knows who he is.”
The NCA will be taking a group of 20 to
Atlanta to take part in the opening cere
monies. They are the only outside group that
will be participating. Everyone else is located
directly in Georgia.
While the Summer Games are still a little
over two months away, Wilmoth and his
group have already started working.
“I’ve been going to Dallas (NCA headquar
ters) every weekend for little things here and
there for it since December. It’s been a slow
but quick — if that makes sense — process
because it’s going to come up on us really
fast. A lot of work is going to be put into it,
lot’s of work.”
"We kind of joined forces," Wilmoth said.
"We gave them all of our ideas that we do off
and on, and they said why don’t we take that
and take it to an exotic extreme, because
America is used to cheerleading, America is
used to gymnastics, but the world is not.”
The committee has given the group of chore
ographers liberty in deciding on most aspects of
the opening ceremonies, including the costumes
that will be worn, but they were made to sign a
confidentiality report saying that they would not
disclose certain information, including this year’s
theme and performers.
“It’s like a secret until the day of the ceremony,”
Wilmoth said. “The theme is always real hush-
hush.”
Even though he couldn’t disclose this year’s
theme, Wilmoth said this year’s ceremonies will be
worth the wait.
“It’s like a competition every four years,”
Wilmoth said. “When Seoul, Korea, had their
opening ceremony, that was one of the best.
Then four years later Barcelona did everything
they could do to out do it. Now we’re going to do
everything in our power to make this the best
Olympics.
“The Olympic stadium is four football fields, so
we’ve got to fill that field up full of people and do
something so amazing so that not only will that
person sitting right there in that crowd be im
pressed, but the world will go ‘wow’ and say ‘what a
ceremony.’”
While Wilmoth is one of eight main choreogra
phers, he says he cannot take full credit for the
ceremony.
“I can’t take credit for 100 percent of it,” Wilmoth
See Ceremonies, Page 11
Tyson in trouble again: Who would have
W hile channel surfing be
tween ESPN and the
Home Sports Channel last
night, I came across something
quite amusing.
As I put the remote down to lis
ten to a short blurb of sports briefs,
the words, "Mike Tyson strikes
again’ were ceremonially an
nounced.
OK, so the words weren’t quite
like that, but that is what I got out
of it.
Maybe some people are pretty
fed up with all of Tyson’s screw-ups
and allegations, but to say the
least, I was really interested.
For those of you who are inter
ested as much as I am, I am happy
to announce that Tyson may have
just bought himself more jail time.
Still on probation 13 months af
ter serving three years in prison for
rape, Tyson has been accused by an
Indiana woman of sexual battery
in a Southside Chicago nightclub.
Even though there is substan
tial proof that he probably didn’t do
it, this allegation sure beats read
ing about Michael Irvin’s newfound
identity complex and professions
that he is drug free.
Anyway, back to Tyson.
You would think that he would
watch his every move after being
accused of rape once already.
Obviously, he forgot about the
four years of probation he is on, or
maybe the fact that he spent three
years in prison slipped his mind.
Despite the fact that the 25-
year-old woman can’t really specify
what Tyson did to her. If nothing
happened, and if he didn’t show
any interest in her, then she
wouldn’t have gone through the
trouble of filing charges.
In my opinion, Tyson needs to
find something to occupy his time a
little better. This fighting thing
once every six months is definitely
not working for him.
Yeah, the heavyweight title looks
pretty prestigious on a resume, but
there comes a time when a person
needs to lay low for a while.
I think Tyson’s time is now.
Maybe he is innocent, but he is
going to have a heck of a time try
ing to prove to everyone that he is.
Needless to say, the cards sire
stacked against him. Not only has
thought?
he already been accused of rape,
and has a police record a mile long.
His first offense dates back to
1978, when he was picked up for
purse snatching at age 12.
It seems kind of ironic that
something as trivial as that would
make a direct impact on his repu
tation, but hey, I can honestly say
that every time I think of Tyson, I
will picture a bully-like 12-year-old
kid snatching a purse from a little
old lady.
Although I can’t really say if I be
lieve he did sexually assault the girl,
I hope things work out for the best.
He has been through enough in
his 30-year-old life to deserve this.
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