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Plus, the NBA is financially
backing the league and Richard
Luker, executive director of the
ESPN Chilton Sports Poll, said
women’s basketball is drawing a
50-to-60 percent interest rating.
That is pretty huge.
Many skeptics of the league
claim that women’s basketball will
not draw interest because the
games are not as physical and as
fast-paced as the men’s version.
However, the interest ratings
prove this statement false.
Additionally, the women’s game is
progressively becoming not only
more physical but fast paced.
While women may not be able to
dunk, many pure basketball fans
are not interested in seeing only a
slam dunk fest. These women epit
omize the true spirit of basketball,
layups, no-look passes, jump shots
and good, plain defense.
What is great about women’s
basketball is that these women are
not in the league for the money or
notoriety, they simply love the
game and wish to continue playing
beyond college. Cline, who played
at Old Dominion University, has
waited since the early 1980s to
play in a national league. She is
now 38-years-old and has been
looking forward to this day since
she first proposed the idea to
David Stern in 1984.
“Every day I walk out to prac
tice, I have a big smile on my .
face,” Lieberman-Cline said.
This is what athletics is supposed
to be about, the pure enjoyment of
the sport. It is not about the con
tract you have or how much notori
ety you gain, it is all about the love
of the game. Maybe the men should
sit down and watch a game and see
what they are missing and see what
they have forgotten.
This Saturday, take a chance
and sit down and watch a game.
After all, if fans give the league a
chance it will only survive.
Longtime
caddie dies
(AP) — Jeff “Squeeky”
Medlen, the wiry man with
the high-pitched voice who
carried Nick Price’s bag to
victory in the British Open
and two PGA
Championships, died less
than a year after being diag
nosed with leukemia. He
was 43.
Medlen died Monday
night at his home in Ohio,
representatives for Price
said Tuesday.
“Squeek was more than a
friend to me,” Price said in a
statement. “He was a part of
my family. He was a huge
part of my success and I will
always be grateful for his loy
alty and devotion.”
Players and fellow caddies
showed their support for
Medlen during his illness by
wearing green ribbons con
taining ihe word “Squeeky.”
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Wednesday - June 18,
Interleague play
will take a while
to get used to
M ajor League
Baseball’s
most recent
debate featuring its
traditionalists and
innovators material
ized on the field last
week as the first-ever
regular season inter
league game was
played at The Ballpark
in Arlington, between
the San Francisco Giants and
Texas Rangers. This game
marked the end of a century-
long format that only allowed
such meetings in the World
Series in October.
In 1994, baseball made a
transition of equal notoriety
when its four divisions were
realigned into six, and two
playoff teams were added in
each league. I was leading the
charge of the silent majority
pleading with the Great
Game’s brain trust not to make
these ill-fated decisions. I con
sider myself a traditionalist
and hated to see the unique
ness of my
first
Sportswriter
Jeremy Furtick
Senior journalism major
with a winning record
while Texas has to
face the Major
League’s second-
ranked pitching staff
(Los Angeles Dodgers)
and its best offensive
team (Colorado
Rockies)? Not to men
tion the teams in
American and
National League West
Divisions play 16
interleague games while every
one else has 15.
If I’m not too busy in
November, I might call up act
ing-commissioner Bud Selig
and offer my services as the
schedule maker. But first,
before I unveil my masterpiece,
I have to say my piece about
realignment.
Why are the Atlanta Braves
in the NL East, for example,
and Tampa Bay being proposed
as the new NL West member?
They don’t exactly fit those geo
graphic regions. Wouldn’t the
owners like to see a more
geographically-
friendly align
ment? If
love
be sacri
ficed for the conformi
ty with the postseason formats
of the other major sports for
the sake of revenue.
But now I have to stand up,
swallow my pride and admit, well,
I love the new system. It has
added a new dimension of excite
ment to our National Pastime and
created some memorable best-of-
five playoff series while still
achieving its main purpose —
revenue. I saw this interleague
play concept as the same animal
when it was announced last year,
but I approached it with a differ
ent attitude.
I was looking forward to last
Thursday’s historic game for
months. I absolutely couldn’t
wait to see Barry Bonds in a real
game instead of the 1995 Home
Run Contest. Then, two days
later, the San Diego Padres
came to town. Ken Caminiti vs.
Juan Gonzalez, Tony Gwynn hit
ting at The Ballpark, two playoff
teams that got the opportunity
to play out their World Series
dreams from last season — this
was awesome. The real stuff that
makes baseball great.
It seems the rest of the coun
try shared my anticipation and
early acceptance of this radical
addition to baseball.
Attendance at the opening
games of each interleague
series this weekend shattered
the 1997 average MLB atten
dance, increasing it by an
incredible 43 percent. Every
game eclipsed average num
bers for this season, headlined
by the Boston Red Sox’s visit to
Shea Stadium in New York. The
Mets were drawing an average
about 19,000 fans per game and
saw 45,000 pass through the
turnstiles Friday, an increase of
136 percent.
After everything was said and
dohq, Darryl Hamilton stepped
into die batter’s box against
DarrinX)liver and laced a single
into cenhsrfield. Suddenly this
circus took on the look of a reg
ular season game; a game that
could ultimately keep one of
these teams out of the postsea
son. I’m afraid my jubilation
over interleague play was pre
mature. After careful examina
tion of the evidence presented
to me by the commissioner-less
baseball front office, I have
come to the conclusion that this
idea may ruin baseball.
Is it fair that the powerhouse
Cleveland Indians and Chicago
White Sox, both of whom the
Rangers could be competing in
a Wild Card chase with, don’t
play a single interleague game
against a National League team
teams
are playing games more often
in their own time zones, there
would be more prime time TV
games in the home teams’
cities. That translates into bet
ter TV contracts and more
advertising revenue, right? Plus,
it would simply make more
sense, and I wouldn’t have to
stay up until 2 a.m. to watch a
crucial Rangers game on the
West Coast in September.
After realigning the leagues
to my specs, the rest is simple.
Each team plays 30 interleague
games, one two-game series
per non-league team. This way
interleague play stays fresh.
You don’t get to see every year
in your hometown, so atten
dance at those games will be
higher than average. Plus the
World Series will include two
teams that have seen each
other the same number of
times as they have every other
non-league team. Thus, fair
ness prevails.
Each team would then play
all non-division foes eight
times, splitting the four-game
series home and away. This
season’s two-game series are
ridiculous. Too often teams
stroll into town and face the
No. 4 and No. 5 starters and
leave town with the two aces
waiting for the next opponent.
In a four-game series the best
team will prevail, or there will
at least be a split. Leave the
two-game series to interleague
games where match-ups aren’t
very relevant anyway.
And finally, division games
are obviously the most impor
tant games played. They
decide, or should, who goes to
the playoffs and who goes
home. So play more of them.
Each team should play 13
games against its four division
rivals. Even though some
teams play more than 13
games against division foes
now, it is the only way to
include a fair interleague
schedule while putting more
emphasis on division play. It’s
either this, throw out inter
league play completely, or play
a biased schedule.
It will probably take base
ball fans until October to real
ize the difficulty,, or lack there
of, of each team’s interleague
schedule had a huge hand in
determining the outcome of
the regular season standings.
Until then MLB will go on cap
italizing on the novelty of
interleague play as if they cre
ated multi-million dollar exhi
bition games.
Sports
Briefly
Ags finish 30th in
Sears Director's Cu|||
Texas A&M University finishe
the year in 30th place in the Seal 1!
Director’s Cup which determinj
the top universities in terms
sports each year.
The Aggies began the spring!
54th place before jumping up 2
places based on the performancf
of the baseball, men’s af J
women’s golf, men’s and women
tennis and men’s and women
track teams. These tean
advanced to the NCAA playoffs
their respective sports.
Stanford, with a record s!
national championships, was
overall Division I champion
record 1,084.5 points in thefi
year history of the award. Tl il
1996-97 title marked the thi
straight year for Stanford to tali
home the trophy.
The Aggies finished 16th intf
1995-96 standings, the highestS
ish for A&M.
Houston loses out
on hockey bid
HOUSTON (AP) — Houston wa
passed over Tuesday in its bid fora
NHL expansion franchise, but til
owner of the city's minor-league hoci
ey team says he is not giving up.
Aeros owner Chuck Watson, wl
bid for an expansion team with!) \
business partner Bob McNair, sa,
their efforts to bring major-leagtK
hockey to Houston will depend oni
November referendum. Mayor Bol
Lanier is seeking voter approvalfo
a new arena for the NBA Houstoi
Rockets and an NHL franchise,
“If the city doesn’t support a ne»
arena, it is like saying the Rockets
can leave in 2003 and that ttie)
aren’t interested in hockey or bas
ketball in Houston,” Watson said,
The NHL on Tuesday tentative!
approved expanding to Nashvillj
Tenn.; Atlanta; Columbus, Ohio
and Minneapolis-St. Paul in the net
four years. Houston and Oklahom
City lost out.
Wide receiver Monl
retires from NFL
WASHINGTON (AP) — Quietly,A
Monk went about becoming one
the best wide receivers in NFL 111
tory. Just as quietly, he retired
Tuesday, more than a year aft|'
catching his final pass.
Monk, who failed to sign with
NFL team last season, played iH
seasons with the Washington
Redskins, and one each with tlU;
New York Jets in 1994 and tti
Philadelphia Eagles in 1995.
“I had a good career, a gi
time and it’s time to move on<
do other things,” the 39-year-
receiver said. “I felt like I cou :in
have performed (last year), it
just the opportunities weren’tthejfii]
Things just weren’t the same."
Monk, who set several
records that have since been br
ken, still has one — catching
least one pass in 183 consecutiij
games. His last reception camel i(: ]
Dec. 12, 1995 — a 36-yarder frd , f
Rodney Peete in a 20-14 loss toll |
Chicago Bears at Soldier Field, (jf
Sampras avoids
hitters in dra\# tic
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WIMBLEDON, England (AP)
There are few big servers in Pe!
Sampras’ way as he seeks his fool
Wimbledon title in five years,
there is another Swede in his pal
Tuesday’s draw presented
top seed with a favorable bracki
but a potentially tricky first-roon
match against Mikael Tillstrom
the Ail England Club, with the
nament to start Monday.
On the women’s side, top-secy
ed Martina Hingis, 16,
become the youngest Wimble® >
singles champion of the centuf e . n !
She faces a field that will be wii
injured Steffi Graf, but two intrij
tests could await en route to
semifinals — Jennifer Capriati
Lindsay Davenport.
big
tli l ler
# ir th
Blue Jays release
outfielder Sierra
TORONTO (AP) — The Ru®
Sierra experiment has ended fortf As
Toronto Blue Jays. N
The Blue Jays released tlffol
much-traveled outfielder on Mo
and recalled infielder Tomas f
from Triple-A Syracuse.
The 31-year-old Sierra hit jit
.208 with one homer andfi^n.
RBIs in 14 games for Toronto.! Th
signed a minor-league contrsHoy
with Syracuse on May H ^
was called up by the Blue Jay s() 'tie]
May 23.