Bin OK COUCGC
Sports Review
November 1996
PUBLISHER ? Ernest H Pitt
Production Manager ? Kathy Lee
PRQPUCTtON STAFF WRITER
David W Schlosser. Cover Design Langston Wertz, Jr
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AhEAd of tIhE CjAME
More than 2.5 million players will be taking the
football field this season, and statistics show that over
200,000 of them will experience a serious head
injury. Countless others will suffer concussions of
varying degrees of severity. Of course the games will
go on, but the question remains ? is anything being
done to help reduce the staggering number of head
injuries?
Recent studies
conducted by the
Pennsylvania State
University
Biomechanics
Laboratory and the
George
Washington
University
Hospital Sports
Medicine
Department indi
cate a resounding
"yes" ? a format
ting soft helmet
shell, called a
"ProCap," easily
attached to the top
of conventional
Steve W allace of the 49 'ers hard-shell helmets,
can greatly reduce
the risk of serious head and neck injuries.
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Cover Photo: Central State Head Football Coach, Jack Bush,
exhorts one of his team members during drills. Photo by Bill
Reinke
BCSR is a supplement to these newspapers: Chicago Crusader.
Charleston Chronicle The New York Beacon, The Informer and Texas
Freeman, Philadelphia Tribune, Miama Times. Michigan Chronicle.
Baltimore Times. Altanta Inquirer and The Winston-Salem Chomcle
Woods earns biq bucks, Fans cIhant TiqERl TiqERl'
The commercial, as true experience," the three time the world is ready or not, here
as it was, seemed to shock so U.S. Amateur champion said. comes Tiger.
many people. But why were "It's just like winning the The 20-year-old is clearly
American columnists writing Amateur, though. I really the favorite of tans who jam
that Nike was crazy for mak- can't say what it means until I the fairways and crowd the
ing an ad for Tiger Woods think about it more." greens. They chant 'Tiger,
that talked about him not Woods earned $297,000, Tiger." wherever he goes,
being able to play at certain bringing his Woods is striking fear into
golf courses because his skin his fellow pros, although he
had color? professes not to be too wor
You ried about how
-ay. f him.
JjjBpr really don't know how
eyes they me," Woods said of
it, but his "1 look up to
these guys, these are the guys
won't I watched on TV growing up.
go But to every tournament
away, trying to otherwise you
even
Shoal
Creek,
to a lot of people with
skin color, still
doesn't seem like so
long ago.
Nike was right,
and Tiger, so far, is
looking like the
prodigy the shoe
company
thought he
was when
they
Tiger
Woods
earn- ????????????????????????????
ings to
$437,194. The bold three-page ad
Undecided depicting a dark-skinned child
previously golfer in a recent Wall Street
signed him up. about playing in the final two Journal said it all:
Just six weeks after turn- full-field tournaments of the "Hello World. There are
mg pro, i igcr wcxxis won tne year, Woods indicated he still courses in the United
Las Ve?as Invitational on Oct. might play in the hopes of States that I am not allowed to
6 for his first PGA Tour title. getting in the top 30 and a play because of the color of
Woods played the 90 holes in spot in the Tour my skin.
27-under par, then heat Davis Championship. "Hello World. I've heard
Love III on the first playoff Incredibly, after only five I'm not ready for you. Are
hole. tournaments, Wtxxls is 40th you ready for me?"
The victory tripled on the money list and could with'that in-your-face
Woods' earnings, gave him a make the top 30 with about flourish, Nike trumpeted to
shot at finishing top 30 on the another Si70,(XX). the world its new $40-million
money list, earned him a two- Then he went out and superstar endorsement, golf
year exemption tour and got won another tournament. On ing phenomenon Tiger
him back the Masters in vita- Oct. 20, he won the Wcxxis.
tion he gave up by turning Disney/Oldsmobile Classic After the 20-year-old
professional. and won another $216,000.
"It's been an unbelievable So all of sudden, whether St r P.\c,r V