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Quick Looks
Monday April 24, 2000
HOROSCOPES
Today's Birthday:
This year travel could be your reward for a job well done. You're lucky in May, especially if you play by the rules. Move boldly forward in early June. Study in the summer session so you can speak the language. Save your pennies through September. Be the leader in November. Don't take risks in December so you can if you want to in January. Be back to reality by February. Share your dreams with a caring friend next April.
Aries: Today is a 7.
Your work doesn't seem to increase, but your income might. If you ask for a raise, point out how perfectly you've played by the rules and how much experience you've accumulated. Those will be good selling points.
Taurus: Today is a 7.
This could be a good day for you to travel. A private conversation with an old friend could be productive. You may have to deal with a few problems soon, but they're not here yet, so relax.
Gemini; Today is a 6.
You may be worried about money that you owe or money you're trying to borrow. If you're trying to pay off a debt, talk to an expert. You may be doing this the hard way. Make it easy on yourself.
Cancer: Today is a 5.
You may have a conflict with your partner or mate. If you can't understand each other, bring in a translator. A mutual friend, or even a group of friends, can help you settle this silly squabble so you can get on to more interesting things.
Leo: Today is a 6.
You're doing the work, but you're not making much money. If you've noticed that, don't despair. There's way too much effort involved, but just think of it as paying dues. You'll get your reward later.
Virgo: Today is a 9.
You're lucky today. You get the prize. You should be in a fabulous mood all day. Set up an interview with a person you want to sell and/or a date with the person of your dreams. Try something bold. Your chances are good.
Scorpio: Today is a 6.
Libra: Today is a 6.
You'd like a lot of things, but you have to choose what you can afford. That's where the partner comes in. Between the two of you, it'll be easier to figure out what to get now and what to wait on.
You want to be in control of the situation, but today you may be the student. If you're getting ordered around, don't argue. Take notes instead. You can figure out what's useful and what's not later.
Sagittarius: Today is a 7.
Capricorn: Today is a 9.
You could make yourself a lot of money. If you hustle, and maybe even work overtime, you could amass quite a fortune. Put your experience to use and kick yourself into warp speed. If you don't, the opportunity could pass you by.
You should be in a marvelous mood. Put your chores aside this evening and relax. If you can surround yourself with family and friends, so much the better. You don't have to work all the time. Tonight, the more, the merrier.
Aquarius: Today is a 5.
You might need to fix something. If you're not sure how to make the change, do more research. Find another book to read or another expert on that topic. It's kind of fun to have a new topic to study after you get into it.
Pisces: Today is an 8.
Get together with friends today and try something new. You may find you have a talent that you didn't know existed. You have a tendency to be shy around people, sometimes. Put that aside for now. Fitting in will be easier than you expected.
KANSAS FOOTBALL
Fullback Norris chosen for leadership meeting
Senior fullback Moran Norris was selected to participate in the fourth annual NCAA Foundation Leadership Conference, May 28-June 1 at Disney's Coronado Springs resort in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. The conference is designed to give student-athletes the opportunity to explore critical issues facing their peers, enhance their leadership skills and promote better communication among student-athletes, coaches, administrators, faculty and communities.
Norris was one of 352 student-athe-
letes selected from 885 nominees.
— Allan Davis
Jayhawk running back considering transfer
The Laurence Journal-World reported Saturday that Kansas run back Henri Childs was considering transferring to another university because of a lack of playing time. The Journal-World quoted Childs' father, Henry Childs Sr., as saying, "Right now, a lot of things are up in the air, so I'd better keep my mouth shut. He needs to talk to his coach again. By the first of next
week, we should know for sure."
According to the Journal-
World, an Internet
rumor was
fueled by a caller to a Kansas City-area radio sports talk show who said that Childs was planning to transfer.
and played in all but one of last season's 12 games. He was third on the team in rushing yards, gaining 180 yards on 38 carries, and scored one touchdown. He also caught 16 passes for 168 yards and a touchdown.
Childs, a 6-2, 215-pound junior, is listed as the backup to senior David Winbush at running back. Childs started two games in 1999
Allan Davis
In this year's spring game, Childs gained 29 yards on 8 carries and had one reception for 47 yards.
COLLEGE FOOTBALL
North Texas lineman on road to recovery
FORT WORTH, Texas — Two months after Shawn Kramer collapsed at North Texas' first spring football practice, his parents say he is making a miraculous recovery.
Kramer collapsed Feb. 26 after going to the sideline during a scrimmage. The 6-foot-5, 270-pound junior offensive lineman didn't appear to have taken a hard hit.
Emergency neurological surgery at Dallas' Methodist Medical Center kept Kramer alive after he had a blood clot on the brain and two collapsed lungs.
"When we met with the doctors that Sunday, they didn't think he was going to live," Kramer's father, Gary, said in a Fort Worth StarTelegraph story in Sunday's editions.
He spent 10 days in a coma,24 days in critical condition and 35 days at the hospital before being allowed to return to his home in Topeka, Kan., to enter a rehabilitation center.
Kramer is far from recovered, but his parents say he has had a remarkable medical turnaround. He walked with a walker for the first time last week and has had conversations with family and friends during the past two weeks.
The mental recovery is taking longer. He can hold a conversation but can't remember it later.
GREENSBORO, N.C. — Hal Sutton used some gutsy play down the stretch to win his second tournament in a month, shooting a 71 yesterday and capturing the
Sutton's clutch strokes lead to Greensboro win
GOLF
capturing the
Greater Greensboro Chrysler Classic.
Sutton beat Tiger Woods four weeks ago in the Players Championship
by one stroke. He held a one-shot lead on playing partner Andrew Magee with four holes left at Forest Oaks Country Club.
And once again Sutton was clutch, nailing a 10-foot birdie putt on No. 15, while Magee bogeyed for a two-shot swing that enabled the 20-year PGA Tour veteran to pick up his 13th career victory with a 14-under 274.
BASEBALL
AUSTIN, Texas — Nolan Ryan underwent emergency double-bypass surgery yesterday at the Heart Hospital of Austin.
Nolan Ryan undergoes double-bypass surgery
The Hall of Fame pitcher did not suffer a heart attack, Rangers representative John Blake said.
Ryan, 53, experienced shortness of breath and chest pains around 9 a.m. after taking a morning walk with his wife, Ruth, at the Dell Diamond in Round Rock.
Note: Horoscopes have no basis in scientific fact and should be read for entertainment purposes only.
Ryan was there to watch a 2 p.m. game between the Texas League Double-A Round Rock Express, which he owns, and the Midland RockHounds.
trocardiogram and blood tests. He was then taken to the Heart Hospital of Austin, where an angiogram showed a substantial blockage of the left main coronary artery, said J.J. Gottsch, Express director of media and public relations.
Ruth Ryan drove her husband to the Round Rock Medical Center. where doctors performed an elec
A double-vessel bypass was performed there at 3 p.m. Gottsch said the surgery was a success.
Blake said Ryan was expected to be hospitalized for about a week.
TENNIS
HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. Top-seeded Mary Pierce, who finished off a week of dominance yesterday by breaking one of Chris Evert's records, easily beat Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario to win the Family Circle Cup.
Pierce wins tourney breaks Evert's record
Pierce, who earned $166,000 for her first win of the season, lost only 12 games during the tournament. That topped the record of 15 by 1985 champion Evert.
"This has been a great, great week for me," said Pierce, at times recognized less for her play than her sometimes-petulant attitude and well-chronicled estrangement from her father. "I've just become more and more relaxed and more at peace with everything that I do."
The former Australian Open champion easily dumped No. 3 Monica Seles, 6-1, 6-1 in the semifinals. But she figured to have more trouble with Sanchez-Vicario, sometimes called a human backboard, who won a three-hour match against Amanda Coetzer in the quarterfinals.
Instead, Pierce won the final Family Circle at Sea Pines Racquet Club 6-1, 6-0, in just 57 minutes.
The Associated Press
Sports Calendar
Men's golf at Big 12 championships in Hutchinson all day
Baseball at Washburn at 6 p.m. at Hoglund Ballpark
Softball vs. Wichita State at 3 and 5 p.m. at Jayhawk Field
Track at Duke Relays in Des Moines, Iowa, all day and at the UMKC Open in Kansas City, Mo.
Relays fly by at Memorial Stadium
women's and men's tennis in Big 12 championships at Jayhawk Field
So I'm tanning incognito, and there's plenty going on. Kansas pole-vaulters Greg Greene and Vadim Gvodetskiy are breezing toward toppthree finishes, when suddenly it occurs to the public address announcer that a vaulter from Northern Iowa has passed on all the previous heights. Out comes this Fabio-looking guy with Krameresque '80s hair down past his shoulders, and before you could bat an eye, he vaults 17 feet-8 and takes home the title.
Now I'm trying to watch four events at once, and they're showing the throwing events on the video board. It's all I can do to keep up with everything.
An hour has flown by now, and a quick glance down at the arms reveals no change. It's been a long winter; the tan will take a little time.
OK, next event: 300-meter intermediate hurdles. Is there anyone on earth who doesn't love the hurdles? It's like NASCAR, except it's an actual sport with real athletes: You just sit back and wait for the crashes. I don't want anyone to get hurt, but let's be honest, when you have high schoolers sprinting three-quarter of the way around the track (in my book, anything longer than the distance from the couch to the fridge isn't really a sprint, but whatever) and jumping over hurdles the entire way, some people are going to eat it.
One of the boys hurtlers — no lie —
My arms and legs are looking a little pink now, and it's time to head to the other side of the stadium. When the steak starts to sizzle, you gotta turn it over.
hits every single hurdle around the track. He barrel rolls over one, almost falls two more times and is still leaning at the finish, fighting for second to last. The crowd aplauds his effort.
As I get to the west side, Scott Russell is throwing the javelin outside the stadium. If you do nothing else in your University of Kansas career, watch Russell throw the javelin. The Windsor, Ontario, junior also throws the disc, the hammer, the shot put and a small sedan if he felt like it. At 6-foot-9, 275 pounds, he's the Canadian Jolly Green Giant — but also just a nice guy.
The public address announcer directs our attention to the MegaVision video board as he begins to throw. As a point of reference, when the other throwers heavie the javelin and the camera follows it, you can see some stuff in the background
mostly the little hill behind the javelin field and maybe (if they throw it really high) part of Mississippi Street.
When Scott Russell threw it, you could see trees, cars on Mississippi, three different buildings of Berkeley Flats and pretty much everything else all the way to Gertrude Sellards Pearson-Corbin Hall. He needs to
throw only seven meters farther to qualify for the Canadian Olympic team.
On Saturday he said he was pretty confident he'd be able to do it. When you're built like a mountain, confidence isn't a problem.
Russell didn't compete in the discus on Saturday because of "pinched stuff" on his left side and tendinitis in his knees (he also has a chronic bad back), but he is out there retrieving discs anyway.
"I'll do it 'til I fall apart," he says of the javelin. He loves that javelin. He gets a big smile just talking about it
He laughs when I tell him about seeing GSP-Corb on the video board. Evidently the other throwers were giving him a hard time about that. We've both been at the Relays for two days, and I now look like someone spray painted me red. Russell, though, is as white as a sheet of paper.
Well, the Relays are winding down now, my sunburn aches, I'm walking like a man with no joints, and I just want to go home. But it has been quite a weekend of track excitement. By the way, the World's Fastest Man was here, too. He runs really fast. But my girlfriend keeps pointing out that he's already dark and has great abs.
Some guys have it all. Now where did I put the aloe?
James is a Hugoton senior in journalism.
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