SPORTS UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, March 1, 1995
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The Big 12, it's a whole new game
Conference isn't just an expansion
The Associated Press
KANSAS CITY, Mo. —It's not easy creating a new super conference.
Just ask the Big 12 athletic directors and primary women's administrators saying "thank you" and "excuse me, please" while poring over committee reports on a swarm of nettlesome issues this week.
Transition subcommittees studying everything from basketball schedules to a possible football championship game to uniform academic requirements were set to discuss their findings — but not necessarily make final recommendations
— during meetings yesterday and today.
All major decisions of the new league, which goes into business officially on July 1, 1996, will be made by the 12 CEOs, who will not be in attendance at these meetings.
Underlying the meetings will be the steely determination the 12 schools have to maintain their fragile sense of unity.
Already, discordant notes have been sounded from many Big Eight officials unhappy with the decree that instead of a Big Eight expansion, it's a whole new conference.
"Above all, we've got to work to make decisions that are in the best interests of the conference," said Missouri athletic director Joe Castilgione. "That has to clear remain
our focus. We need to build the engine and the interior before we decide what color to paint this new car."
Nevertheless, signs of tension have been growing between the original Big Eight schools and the four newcomers — Texas A&M, Texas Tech, Baylor and Texas. Many officials in the Big Eight are niffed at talk coming out of Texas that the Big 12 offices could be headquartered in Dallas and not Kansas City, where the Big Eight and its precursors have been located since 1907.
Kansas basketball coach Roy Williams noted his displeasure when asked about Kansas athletic director Bob Frederick being a candidate for Big 12 commissioner.
"I don't want him to leave. But if he does get the job, I think he will remember we were the Big Eight and we were doing pretty doggone well," Williams said. "And we invited these four schools to come in.
"Now I read that it seems like we were the ones who were suffering, and those four Texas schools with their great care sort of took us in. It's hard for me to understand how that happened.
"We're going to move the NCAA office, the Big 12 office, the officials' office, the BCA office, the Alvamar Golf Association office down to Texas because that's the only place left in the United States of America. I get sick of hearing that garbage."
Olympian took years to tell about AIDS
Louganis pondered coming out; new book influenced decision
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — The day that Magic Johnson announced he tested positive for the virus that causes AIDS, Greg Louganis remembers hearing the news on the radio and thinking, "Maybe I should come out and join him."
That's because the Olympic diver had tested positive in early 1988, more than three years before Johnson's disclosure. Louganis decided instead to keep his status private.
Six months after the news about Johnson, Arthur Ashe announced that he had AIDS. Still, Louganis remained silent.
Now, the silence is over. Louganis has gone public with that fact that he has AIDS.
"That's what this is all about," he said. "No more secrets."
He had kept his terrible secret too long, through the 1988 Olympics and the frightening accident in the diving hall when he hit his head on the edge of the springboard, through his second double gold medal sweep, and through the years after.
When it came time to do his autobiography, the first question co-author Eric Marcus asked was about the accident in Seoul. Louganis took a deep breath and said, "Stop the tape. We've got to talk."
It was then that Louganis decided his book, "Breaking The Surface," would address being gay and testing positive.
"You don't realize how powerful secrets can be," Louganis said. "I dreaded speaking engagements. I had to always watch what I said. I couldn't tell the whole story.
"When you live with a secret, you worry all the time. You worry that the maid will find your medication or a house guest will look in the medicine cabinet. You think about a thousand things. It's an awful lot to carry around."
Some people suggest that Louganis should have spoken out before the 1988 Olympics. In Seoul his accident left him with a cut scalp and James Puffer, a medical doctor working without gloves, stitching the wound.
Louganis understands the criticism. "I was scared," he said.
After the Games, he still did not inform Puffer of his condition. "I probably should have told him of my HIV status then," Louganis said. "Hindsight is 20-20. But I was drained and dazed. You're not thinking properly. I made assumptions that were not accurate. I thought that Dr. Puffer would be tested routinely."
When he began writing the book, Louanis called the doctor. Puffer, who has tested negative for the virus, expressed more concern for the diver than he did for himself. "He reassured me," Louanis said. "He was confident he'd be negative for the virus. It was a load off my mind when he was."
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