Column
NCAA has
$1 billion
problem
By Clint Riley
■ The Eastern Progress
Eastern Kentucky U.
CBS bought each person in the
U nited States a front row seat to the
NCAA Division I basketball tour
nament for the next seven years, at
a price of $1 billion The NCAA
received a windfall of cash, but with
it comes a shower of problems.
Not as if the NCAA doesn’t have
enough problems already plastered
across sports pages nationwide. It
creates most of the stories itself
while trying to clean up the mess
created when the Supreme Court
ruled that colleges could bid for tele
vision rights for themselves, thus
creating big money college athletics
But the deal cut with CBS allowed
the NCAA to get in on the big money
once again, an action that will have
NCAA Executive Director Dick
Schultz and his cohorts mopping up
the slop for the rest of their undeter
mined careers Just how big a mess
they have to clean up will be deter
mined once they decide what to do
with the money.
The seven-year deal dwarfs the
previous three-year $166 million
contract with CBS by almost three
fold The $166 million contract w as
72 percent more than the contract
before it
These monetary increases have
led to increased cheating in college
basketball and other sports. The
reason? Greed.
Everybody wants a piece of the
huge tournament revenue pie
However, it is divided into a few
large slices for a select few who can
grab them. This breeds the attitude,
“Do anything to get a recruit which
will give a basketball program the
edge needed to rake in the tourna
ment funds that could put a school's
entire athletic program in the
black “ The system needs revision.
Eastern Kentucky U Athletic
Director Donald Combs said he
hopes the NCAA will divide the
money up among the 214 Division
1 basketball schools and “quit mak
ing that big payoff to one school ”
Otherwise, it will just become fur
ther inducement to cheat
See NCAA. Page 23
Preventative medicine
Testicular cancer is the third-leading killer of males
aged 16-34. Two Kentucky professors have developed a
video which helps students perform self-exams
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SPORTS
Hands down favorite
The popularity of team handball, which combines the
skills of many sports, is rising in the United States
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Baseball coaches debate
timing of season openers
By David Hardee
• The Auburn Plainsman
Auburn U.
College baseball coaches from the
Midwest and Southeast say their
' teams are at a disadvantage when
competing with the Sun Belt schools,
and they are fighting to move the sea
son to wanner months
Kentucky coach Keith Madison is
one of the leaders in the fight to post
pone the start of the season and con
tinue it through the summer. "Why
should teams from colder climates
have to cram 6(1 games into a nine
week schedule and travel the entire
first half of the season, while teams
m the Sun Belt play their first 25 at
home and use the weather as the pn
1 mary recruiting tool against
Northern teams '" Madison asked in
an interview with Collegiate
Baseball
Before Wichita State C won last
season's national championship,
teams from Arizona, California,
Florida and Texas swept the
’ Division 1 national title 22 years in
a row Madison and other coaches
claim that pattern is a direct result
of scheduling difficulties for
Northern schools caused by the
weather
"It is time for the majority to stand
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up and speak out for what is best for
our athletes, our programs and college
baseball,” Madison said.
The proposed season includes 120
games, played April through
September
Southeastern Conference Associate
Commissioner John Guthrie supports
the season-opener delay "It’s just too
cold to be playing in early spring, at
the Northern schools in particular.
I think this format could be put into
effect by 1991 if the right people want
ed it The one big drawback is that the
coaches are not united," Guthrie said.
Arizona Suite Coach Jim Brock and
Texas A&M Coach Mark Johnson are
among those opposed to the change,
based on several arguments
First, an extended season would
leave players unable to participate in
summer leagues
Auburn pitcher Adam Shore said,
"It would hurt the summer leagues,
and those are crucial to a player's
development."
Bo Carter, director of media rela
tions for the Southwest Conference,
said coaches have ran into resistance
by summer leagues that use amatuer
players, including the Cape Cod
League and the Alaskan League.
Second, baseball players not on full
scholarships mav need to work during
See BASEBALL, Page 23
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Video helps students learn to detect testicular cancer
By David King
• The Eastern Progress
Eastern Kentucky U
Two Eastern Kentucky l professors
recently completed a video designed to
help male students detect testicular can
cer during its early stages.
Testicular cancer is the third-leading
killer of males between the ages of 16
and 34 One out of every f>00 men will
develop the disease during his lifetime
I)r Robert Brubaker and Dr Larry C
Bobbert filmed the video to instruct stu
dents on performing testicular self
examinations The Kentucky American
Cancer Society recently began showing
the video throughout the state, and the
American Cancer Society is considering
the film for national distribution.
Dr. W.R. Allen, a urologist at Pattie A
Clay Hospital, said self-exams are
important because early detection
increases the odds of successfully treat
ing the disease
“This type of cancer is a very virile dis
ease," Allen said. “It used to kill everyone
we found it in if it had already spread at
the time of diagnosis. But in the last 20
years, there has been no other branch of
medicine that has made more progress
than this one.’
Allen said he has known or treated
several patients who found lumps hut
put off doing anything about it. Bv the
time they came back six to nine months
later, the cancer had spread and it was
too late to do anything about it, he said.
Allen said one reason some men delay
seeking treatment is that they believe
only painful lumps are dangerous
Actually, he said, painful lumps are
almost always due to inflammation,
while the non-irritating lumps can be
serious
He said the cancer starts inside the
substance of the testicle, therefore, the
tumor will not be palpable until it has
already grown to the size of a peanut.
The self-exam is a simple process,
Allen said, and can be performed in a few
seconds while in the shower or before or
after going to the bathroom He said,
however, that before males perform the
test they should become familiar with
their anatomy He said there are some
extra structures in the scrotum men are
not used to feeling that they may confuse
with a foreign growth