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Title IX keeps men’s programs
Law should be reformed for fairness
Page 3 * Wednesday, June 25, 2003
off the field
DALLAS SHIPP
W hen someone is applying for a job, his
sex, race, religion or age should not
determine whether he gets it. This is a
productive civil rights law. However, there is
one law in the United States that should be
adjusted.
Title IX of the Education Amendments of
1972 says that men and women should be treat
ed equally in all aspects of education, an idea
that sounds profound. However, in the world of
college athletics, it is not fair.
Universities are required by Title IX to offer
the same amount of athletic scholarships to
women as they do to men, which seems fair
until the budgets of an athletic department are
examined.
More than 90 percent of the Texas A&M
Athletics Department’s revenue comes from
football. Each home football game at Kyle Field
brings in between $3 and $4 million. This rev
enue provides the money needed to run other
sports that lose money for the Athletic
Department such as basketball, tennis, volley
ball and baseball among others.
Without this revenue, some men’s sports and
all women’s sports would not survive. Men’s
sports are punished for making the money that
supports the other varsity sports.
The football team takes up almost 90 scholar
ships from men’s sports,forcing the athletic
department to have varsity equestrian and
archery teams for women and keeping it from
having sports such as men’s soccer, which is the
number one growing sport in America for youth
and the number one sport in the world.
A&M isn’t the only school that can’t afford to
add this sport. None of the universities associat
ed with the Big 12 Conference have men’s soc
cer, and SMU is the only Division 1A school
that has a program in the state of Texas.
Schools that do have the program in other
regions of the nation had to cut other men’s
sports such as baseball. This is not fair to young
men who could not get a scholarship to play a
sport that they have loved since they were a
child, while women are given scholarships that
are paid for predominantly by football.
Iowa State was forced to cut its baseball pro
gram due to a lack of funds in the budget. To get
rid of a women’s sport to reduce the amount of
spending, the school had to cut baseball as well
to keep the scholarship quota even. This should
not happen in college athletics.
As unfair as this seems, there is a relatively
simple solution. Write an amendment to this law
and reduce the amount of scholarships that count
against men’s sports. If schools were able
to count 60 to 70 percent of the football scholar
ships against the men, enough scholarships
could be used to create another men’s varsity
sport.
This solution does not take money away from
women and allows the men’s sports to add
another program such as soccer or rugby.
Title IX was designed with a noble cause, to
create a fair educational environment for men
and women. However, in trying to be fair, it has
discriminated against men in athletics. An
amendment should be passed allowing male
sports to create more athletic programs.
Equality is not always measured dollar for
dollar; this law is unfair and should be altered to
create a fair compromise between male and
female athletics.
RUBEN DELUNA • THE BATTALION
Barry Bonds becomes first in history
with 500 homers and 500 stolen bases
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By Greg Beacham
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
SAN FRANCISCO — For just a moment,
the muscle-bound slugger was a wiry, speedy
kid again. Barry Bonds checked out Eric
Gagne’s deliberate delivery, saw an opening
and sprinted to second base, stealing the bag
without a throw.
The educated crowd at
Pacific Bell Park on
Monday night immediately
rose in cheers. The San
Francisco die-hards had
stuck around in the chill
until the 11th inning, hop
ing for just such a moment.
Only then did Bonds
realize his latest feat: He bonds
had just become the first
player in baseball history to steal 500 bases
and hit 500 homers.
“I think it’s great, something I hope is
going to be around a long time,” said Bonds,
who claimed he wasn’t aware of it. “You
never know.”
But if Bonds spent any time contemplating
his milestones, he’d see the true magic of his
latest achievement: There might not be anoth
er member of the 500-500 club in his lifetime.
With the stolen base mired in irrelevance
during this homer-happy era, most experts
believe Bonds’ 500 homers and 500 steals
could stand for decades as an unmatchable
feat.
“It’s something that will be very difficult
to accomplish, especially since people don’t
run very much any more,” Giants manager
Felipe Alou said. “There might be another
time, another era of baseball where that will
come back — but you’ve also got to play for
a long, long time.”
The statistics prove Bonds has more versa
tility than any player of his generation, and
perhaps anyone in history. There’s no other
player with even 400 homers and 400 steals;
Bonds’ godfather, Willie Mays, had just 338
steals along with his 660 homers, while
Bonds’ father, Bobby, hit 332 homers and
stole 461 bases.
“I don’t see anybody ever doing it,” said
Giants outfielder Jose Cruz Jr., who once had
a 30-30 season. “It’s unbelievable. To get 500
of each would take a really special player who
was on a team that let him run all the time for
a lot of years. It’s hard to imagine.”
Such an achievement might require the
next candidate to transform his game and his
body the same way Bonds did. These days,
Bonds bears only a facial resemblance to the
slim contact hitter who once stole 52 bases in
a season for the Pittsburgh Pirates.
The next potential 500-500 man also will
need the freedom to run — a rare quantity in
today’s game. Bonds’ formidable talent
makes him pretty much above direction from
his managers.
“I believe Barry has had the green light
500 times,” Alou said with a grin. “He was on
his own (on the 500th steal). He’s always on
his own.”
Longevity will be another determining fac
tor. Bobby Bonds had 30 homers and 30 steals
during five different seasons, but he only
played 14 years in the majors.
Barry had five 30-30 seasons between
1990 and 1997, but base-stealing has become
a novelty for the 18-year veteran. With a
chronically sore back, he detests running any
where these days, let alone to second base
ahead of a throw.
“I think it’s a huge accomplishment,”
Bonds said earlier in the season. “Most of the
time it’s usually one or the other — home runs
or stolen bases. To be able to do both of them
is pretty special.”
So who are the candidates for 500-500?
Not counting Rickey Henderson, who’s still
soldiering on in Newark, baseball’s active
steals leader is Kenny Lofton, Bonds’ friend
and teammate last season. •
Lofton has 522 stolen bases, but he’s also
SPORTS IN BRIEF
522 homers behind Bonds, who has 633.
The next seven active players on the career
steals list are Roberto Alomar, Delino
DeShields, Eric Young, Marquis Grissom,
Chuck Knoblauch, Craig Biggio and Barry
Larkin — and none has even an outside shot
at 400 homers, let alone 500.
Ken Griffey Jr. has never stolen more than
24 bases in a season, while Larry Walker has
stolen 220 bases — but only 40 in the last four
seasons. Ichiro Suzuki already has stolen 105
bases in 2 1/2 major-league seasons, but he
doesn’t have the power stroke.
Here’s another measure of just how hard it
is: Jose Canseco, once lauded for the majors’
first 40-40 season in 1988, finished his career
with 462 homers and just 200 steals.
The best candidates are years away from
contention. Montreal’s Vladimir Guerrero,
usually considered the most likely to achieve
Bonds’ blend of power and speed, has 217
homers and 119 stolen bases midway through
his seventh full major league season.
“When I managed Vladimir, I knew he
would have a chance,” Alou said of the 27-
year-old. “We won’t know if he has a shot for
a long time, though.”
Alex Rodriguez probably has the best shot
of all. With 316 homers and 167 steals in his
eighth full season, the Texas shortstop — who
will turn 28 next month — is primed to make
a run with continued good health.
Bonds, who turns 39 on July 24, hasn’t
paid much attention to the historical achieve
ments looming for him this season, and with
good reason. His father is fighting lung can
cer, and the struggle is painful for both father
and son.
Bobby Bonds visited the locker room
before Monday night’s game, chatting with
Mays and Willie McCovey in clubhouse man
ager Mike Murphy’s office — but by the 11th
inning, Barry was on his own.
“My dad probably wasn’t here to see it,”
Bonds said “He hasn’t stayed a whole game
for a long time.”
Holyfield not done
yet at age of 40
By Hal Bock
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK —At age 40,
Evander Holyfield is making
a personal declaration of
independence, a statement
that he won’t let his career be
controlled by promoters.
So when Don King
demanded future options as
Holyfield’s price for a fight
with WBA champ Roy Jones
Jr., the four-time heavy
weight champion turned else
where, tak
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IBF
HOLYFIELD
Rangers trade two-
time MVP Juan
Gonzalez to Expos
NEW YORK (AP) - The Montreal
Expos reached agreement
Tuesday night to acquire two-time
AL MVP Juan Gonzalez from Texas
- provided the Rangers' slugger
waives his no-trade clause and
approves the deal.
Texas manager Buck Showalter
confirmed a deal was in place to
move Gonzalez, but did not iden
tify the other club. But two base
ball sources, speaking on the con
dition of anonymity, told The
Associated Press that the team
was Montreal.
Gonzalez has 72 hours to accept
or reject the trade. His window of
decision begins at 10 a.m. EOT
Wednesday. The outfielder was
not in Texas' lineup for Tuesday
night's game at home against
Oakland.
"We obviously put a lot of
importance into the no-trade pro
vision we negotiated a year and a
half ago. I'm not in a position yet
to say what Juan's decision will
be," said his attorney, Jeff Moorad.
Gonzalez refused repeated
requests for comment in the club
house before the game against
Oakland.
"We could have gone under the
radar, but we wanted to be up
front and give Juan the time he's
earned by his contract situation,"
Showalter said. "We could have
used him tonight, but we won't."
Gonzalez, who missed seven of
11 games before Sunday because
of a tender right elbow and then a
tight left groin, is hitting .286 with
18 homers and 50 RBIs.
Showalter wouldn't say if other
players from the Texas organiza
tion would be involved in the
trade if Gonzalez approves it.
The surprising Expos are in thick
of the NL wild-card chase. Their 6-
4 victory Tuesday over Pittsburgh
made them 43-34, leaving them
among several clubs in the race
for a postseason spot.
Montreal general manager
Omar Minaya is very familiar with
Gonzalez.
Minaya is credited with helping
develop Gonzalez for the Rangers
in the mid-1980s, when he
coached the Gulf Coast Rangers
for three years.
Rangers first baseman Rafael
Palmeiro spoke to Gonzalez, but
said his teammate and close
friend didn't indicate what he
would do.
"He said he wants to look at all
of this options. He's not going to
jump to any conclusions,"
Palmeiro said.
The Rangers went into Tuesday
night's game with an eight-game
losing streak, the longest in the
majors. They are 27-47 and 22
games behind AL West-leader
Seattle, having finished last in the
division the past three seasons.
"There's a certain message sent
when one of your star players is
traded," Palmeiro said. "But we're
not losing because of a lack of
effort. We're preparing the same
way. We're just not getting results."
cruiser-
weight
champ
James
Toney.
The
fight, which
will be broadcast on
Showtime pay-per-view, does
not have a site yet and won’t
do much for Holyfield’s goal
of holding boxing’s most
glamorous title again. But it
will maintain his free agent
status.
“I did say that I would
only fight for belts,”
Holyfield said Tuesday.
“They try to take advantage
of my goal, the heavyweight
championship. They don’t
want to pay me and they want
to tie me into a long-term
contract.”
Holyfield wouldn’t agree
to that, even though he knows
that at his age his opportuni
ties at title^ights may be
dwindling.
“I’ll wait in line and I’ll
get a chance,” he said. “I’ll be
the champ, maybe not as
quickly as I want to be. I may
not get it when I want to, but
I will get it.”
If that happens, he doesn’t
want to be beholden to any
one, least of all King, who
wanted control of Holyfield’s
future as an insurance policy.
“I don’t feel I should have
to sign long term for a title
fight,” Holyfield said. “I’d
love to fight Roy Jones. The
most important thing, though,
is that I get treated fair. I’m
not going to let somebody
abuse me. I don’t have to be
abused. I will not be taken
advantage of.”
According to Jim Thomas,
Holyfield’s longtime adviser,
the former champ was offered
$8 million to fight Jones, who
would have received $16 mil
lion. “That’s $24 million out
of a $44 million net based on
1.2 million pay-per-view
buys,” he said. “That leaves
another $20 million. Where
does that go?”
Thomas said Holyfield
would get less for fighting
Toney but that the payday
was fair.
“Evander has consistently
fought the toughest guy avail
able,” Thomas said. “Roy
Jones’ promoters made him
unavailable. James Toney
was available.”
Holyfield wants to leave
boxing as the undisputed
heavyweight champion. “It
means when all is said and
done, you’re remembered by
the last thing you did,” he
said. “I want to get all three
belts and then I’ll retire.”
The quest could be com
plicated. Holyfield lost a bid
for the IBF title to Chris Byrd
last December. Lennox Lewis
owns the WBC title and,
according to Thomas, has no
great desire to fight Holyfield
a third time. Jones holds the
WBA crown and with King in
charge of his first defense,
Holyfield’s prospects for that
fight seem slim.
For Toney, the IBF cruis-
erweight champion, the
Holyfield fight means a shot
at a high-profile opponent.
“It will be a pleasure to
figh* n great champion like
Evander Holyfield,” he said.
“I’ve always wanted to fight
heavyweights ' and beat
heavyweights. We’re both
great fighters, both warriors.
“We’re like old school
boxers. We don’t run away.
Blood and guts is what I
bring. I try to hurt people for