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SPORTS UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Kansas tennis nets respect
Kansas tennis earned some respect on the national scene this weekend when four Jayhawks competed in the Rolex National Indoor Tournament in Dallas.
Four Jayhawks hold their own against NCAA's best in Dallas
By Robert Moczydlowsky
Kansan sportswriter
The annual tournament features the top-16 doubles teams and the top-32 men's and women's singles players in the nation. Seniors Nora Koves and Martin Eriksson and junior Reid Slattery and Mike Isroff represented Kansas at the four-day tournament.
"It's really an honor to participate," Kansas men's coach Michael Center said. "We really made a strong showing, I thought. I can't find any faults with our efforts. Our results show that we are on the same level as some of the best teams in the country. I really think people will look at our program with a little more respect now."
Most of Kansas' success during the weekend came from the doubles play of Slattery and Isroff. In their first competitive match of the season they upset the defending NCAA champions, Paul Robinson and David Roditi of Mississippi State, 6-2, 7-6. In the quarterfinals, Slattery and Isroff came out on the losing end of a fierce three-set match, falling 6-7, 7-5, 7-6 to Ashley Fisher and Jason Weir-Smith of Texas Christian.
"The opening round was a huge win for us," Isroff said. "My knee didn't bother me, and Reid and I played real well together. In the second match, I thought we played just as
well. We just didn't get the breaks we needed. It was one of those matches that came down to one or two shots here and there. Overall, I think that this tournament got us off on the right track."
Center agreed, adding that Slattery and Isroff could possibly factor into a national championship race.
"I think that their play this weekend showed that Mike and Reid are one of the top doubles teams in the nation," he said. "They played two great matches against the toughest competition there is. Now they just have to play that well all season."
The Kansas singles players made a little noise of their own, as both Koves and Eriksson knocked off nationally ranked opponents. In the tournament's opening round, Koves defeated Nancy Dingwall of Texas &M, 6-1, 2-6, 6-4. She lost to Nancy Phebus of UCLA in the second round, 6-1, 7-5.
"Nora played well in her first match," Kansas women's coach Chuck Merzbacher said. "In the second match, she had a tough first set and then couldn't recover. Nora learned an important lesson this weekend. You can talk about winning a national championship, but you also have to be able to back it up. We'll just start taking every match one at a time."
Eriksson lost his opening round match to Steven Baldus of Georgia, 7-6, 6-1. He then bounced back in the consolation round, posting an impressive 6-0, 6-4 win against No. 28 Marc Tardiff of the University of California-Irvine. Eriksson lost his final consolation match to No. 7 Jan Anderson of Arizona.
"Martin played very well," Center said. "He had a big win, and he played Jan Anderson tough. I think that overall we proved that we can compete on a national level."
Sweet swing, sour suspension
Strawberry fails to follow league drug policy,is dismissed by Giants
The Associated Press
"It was made very clear to Darryl upon his signing last June that any violation of this nature would automatically terminate his contract with the team," Giants general manager Bob Quinn said.
NEW YORK — Darryl Strawberry was suspended from baseball yesterday for violating baseball's drug policy and his own aftercare program, then was immediately released by the San Francisco Giants.
Strawberry, also facing federal tax-evasion charges, was suspended for 60 days starting April 2, when the season is scheduled to open. The outfielder and his agent, Eric Goldschmidt, were not immediately available for comment.
Quinn said the Giants told Strawberry, 32, that since receiving the test results, he no longer was with the team. He did not, however, indicate when Strawberry was last tested.
"We told Darryl that, although he will no longer be a Giant, we will continue to make available to him our aftercare and counseling problems," Quinn said.
The players' association and owners have clashed over drug-related suspensions during the past 15 years. Eugene Orza, the union's No.2 official, said his side wouldn't make any decisions until after meeting with Strawberry and the doctors.
"After that, we'll decide what happens next," Orza said in Washington at the baseball labor talks.
Strawberry, once among baseball's best power hitters,
led the National League in homers in 1988 with 39. Last year,
he hit only .239 with four homers and 17 RBIs in 92 at-bats.
Although this is the first time Strawberry has been suspended by major league baseball, he's had a turbulent past.
Last season, he avoided suspension by entering a reha
On April 8, 1994, Strawberry entered the Betty Ford Clinic in Rancho Mirage, Calif., for treatment of the problem and staved there for 28 days.
bilitation program after telling the Los Angeles Dodgers he had a substance abuse problem. The admission came after he failed to show up for the team's final spring training game, April 3, at Anaheim, Calif.
"We are deeply saddened by today's news," Quinn said. "Over the past nine months, we have come to know Darryl not only as a baseball player but as a warm and caring person."
Strawberry's substance abuse problems first became known in 1990, when he agreed to enter Smithers Clinic in New York for alcohol rehabilitation. That came just a week after he was arrested during an argument with his ex-wife.
Strawberry, one of the stars who helped the New York Mets win the 1986 World Series, missed most of the 1992 and 1993 seasons because of a chronic back problem.
Three weeks after he left the Betty Ford Clinic, the Dodgers released him, agreeing to pay him $4,857,143 last July 1, a figure that included half his scheduled $2.5 million salary for 1995.
Last Dec.18, Strawberry pleaded innocent to tax evasion charges in U.S. District Court in White Plains, N.Y. Goldschmidt, also pleaded innocent to tax evasion, a felony that carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
Strawberry is accused of evading $146,000 in income taxes by allegedly not reporting more than $500,000 in cash payments from autograph shows and personal appearances.
An indictment charges Strawberry and Goldschmidt with concealing existence of a bank account from accountants so a substantial proportion of their income from card shows would not appear on their 1989 and 1990 tax returns.
To fill the void left by the loss of Strawberry's power, the Giants are interested in signing free agent Kevin Mitchell, who won the NL MVP Award while playing for San Francisco in 1989.
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