1995_02 The Daily Collegian February 1995

              Wednesday. February 3,1995      The Daily Collegianr-7
Jeremy Cloud/Sports Information
Jon Bettencourt and the rest of the FSU golf team will have a
difficult time defending their 1994 WAC title in the '95 season.
Golf
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coach Mike Watney that he was
turning pro, and would not be
back for his senior season. Joe
made it through a rigorous quali¬
fying School and got his PGATbur
Playing Card. He missed the cut
in his first two tournaments.
A further blow occurred when
, starter Brian, Smock also an¬
nounced he would forego his se¬
nior season of eligibility and turn
pro also. He, unlike Acosta, didn't
earn his PGA Tour card, and will
probably toil on smaller tours,
playing for less money.
Nevertheless, H3U still has one
of the more talented tear is in the
country. They will be a force to
reckon with in their upcoming
matches. • *
Next up for the T)ogs will be a
tournament in Hawaii February
18-20. The UH Hilo Invitational
field will feature many of die top
20 ranked teams in collegiate golf.
Number one ranked Stanford will
be, included, along with Iheir
freshman wonderboy Eldrick
"Tiger" Woods; a definite favor¬
ite for winning the tournament
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Swfmsuit Edition:
The sports fan's bible
A very special piece of mail'
arrived in the office yesterday.
No, it wasn't my paycheck or that
letter fromjanet Jackson I've been
waiting on for months. You could
almost smeU the malWrool in the
sair When Sport Magazine's "Hot
Swimsuit Issue" made its way
around the desks of my colleagues
and I.
Trie cover of the publication
carried a poignant preview of
what was to -come on the pages
inside,. Then? stood a rather
comely young lady with slicked -
back, wet hair, and nothing on
but something that looked like
two pieces of that yellow tape
"For the last 25
years or so,
people all over
the country and ':■
g^S^ilSg soriie^arts of ; I
-tewaist & Cuba 'have- ■,&
My curiosity was so peaked
that I forced myself to open me thumbed thrOUgh
magazine and browse further.
What, had this girl done to war¬
rant her photo beingon the cover
of such a prestigious sports pub¬
lication? Was she MVPfMost
Valuable Player) Of the Super
Bowl? Did she 3*ore 40 points ina
basketball game? Does she own a
sports franchise?
To my utter amazement, in¬
side the magazine were 25 more
pictures of girls just like the one
'on the cover! All of them were
dressed pretty much the same,
although not all of them were
wearing the police-tape look. That,
of course, would've been toodull.
It' got me thinking about the
one thing you hear tinroand time
again when one of these issues
comes out What in God's name
does this haveto do with sports?!
And the answer is: absolutely
nothing. • ,    " •   -
But swimsuit issues are as
much a tradition in the sports
magazine business as those an¬
noying subscription cards that
always fall out of the^pages.
magazine, "No more/' So maga¬
zines like Sports Illustrated, Sport
and Nuns Sport Weekly (just kid¬
ding) put out their annual skin
the swimsuit
issue. SomU are
pleased, many
others are
* disgusted."
They've been around for years,
taking flight in the early seven¬
ties, in Sports Illustrated. For the
last 25 years or so, people all over
the country and some parts of
Cuba have thumbed through the
swimsuit issue. Some are pleased,
many others are disgusted. Every
year, SI gets sacks of letters from
angry readers who.say they are
cancelling their subscription be¬
cause they are so offended by the
swimsuit issue. A few of them
actually do cancel. But the num¬
ber of swimsuit issues that non-
subscribers buy off the newsstand
and supermarket racksdvvarfsthe
number of people who tell tfte
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As a guy with a reputation
(albeit a lousy one), there" is only
so much negative stuff I can say
about these issues. But they obvi¬
ously have little to do with sports,
although boxing does have its
popular, scantily clad ring-card
girls. Maybe they think that since
their magazines are catered to
^sports fans, their audience would
like to-see something like mis.
Maybe they're right I mean,
you'renot likely toseeaswimsuit
issue in Ms. Magazine.
The fact mat they call them
"swim"suits is amusing to me.
Some of these things you would
(or could) hardly swim in, much
less be seen with mem on in pub¬
lic. One girl, "Brooke", was pho¬
tographed with her back to the
camera and nothing on but some
half-inch thick pieces of string that
corralled her body. Another,
"Chris^",hadc«asortof "Littie
Mermaid" costume, complete
with seashells mat served as bra
cups, although Christine was-
slightly more developed than
Disney's lovable Ariel
While Sport magazine hardly
i compares with SI as far as the
s photographic quality of their
swimsuit pics (no, I'm serious), it
still has its share of females who
routinely sputter the words "Oh
my God" from those who view it
But all this really has no place
in sports magazines. But it is ironic
that I am writing about this in me
sports section. '
I also find it ironic that smack
dab in the middle of the pictorial
was an advertisement depicting
NBA star Shawn Kemp. Ironi¬
cally, he. was covered from head
to toe in a baggy sweatsuit
It's unbelievable. Tobe honest,
I've never really seen the differ¬
ence between bikinis arid linge¬
rie. But hey, if women wantto
wear them in public (and wear
them in my magazines), who am
I to tell them what to do?
Frankly, I didn't want to look,
at the swimsuit issue but I felt I
had to in order to do justice to this
story.
Geez, the things journalists do
for research.