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Friday
January 28, 2000
HOROSCOPES
Today's Birthday (Jan. 28). Keep banging your head against that brick wall or glass ceiling. You're liable to break through. Believe in miracles in February. In March, your faith leads you to take action. There's more than enough information in April. Whittle it down to useful size in May. An expert can show you the way in August, and an older person will test you in November. If you pass you'll win the prize. By December, you should be ready to celebrate, and you can entertain a secret passion in January.
To get the advantage, check the day's rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging.
Aries: Today is a 6.
You may feel pushed and pressed. The path you'd like to take is blocked. This is pretty exciting, which is just fine. You have a trick or two up your sleeve. Use your team, too.
Taurus: Today is a 5.
You are slightly inhibited by circumstances. Seems like everybody has a different agenda for you to follow. You and a friend can find a way around the logjam. Don't give up on what you want.
Gemini: Today is a 6.
If you can avoid traveling far, do so. Getting there might be more trouble than it's worth. Don't offer any information, either. If interrogated, only give them your name, rank and serial number.
Cancer: Today is a 7.
Your intution is good, but that doesn't mean everything's going to be easy. If one door closes, turn around. A better opportunity might be in a different direction.
Leo: Today is a 6.
You can influence the people around you. Don't come right out and tell them what to do; that won't work well. And, that's your normal method, you may feel stiffed. Learn to be subtle, instead.
Libra: Today is a 6.
Virgo: Today is a 6.
The tension in the air could be cut with a knife. You could spread it on toast although that would probably give you indigestion. Remember that life's a lesson. You're the student. Take notes.
Scorpio: Today is a 7.
Don't be upset if you can't get as much done as you'd like. Something may come along that upsets your schedule, too. Do the most important thing first even if it hasn't been on your list the longest.
Sagittarius: Today is a 7.
You have all sorts of energy and determination. You've schemed long enough. Go ahead and take action. But, just to be on the safe side, listen to a person who disagrees with you.
You're being forced to make a change. You already know what it is. The longer you resist, the more difficult it becomes. You're telling yourself to do this, anyway. So, just do it.
Aquarius; Today is a 5.
Money may still be on your mind. Instead of spending any, you could learn more about it. Get a good book on the subject. The more you know, the more you'll be worth.
You may be in a difficult situation. You need someone's OK, but that person isn't cooperating. You're basing your argument on facts, but the other person is reacting emotionally. Be understanding.
Capricorn: Today is a 7.
Pisces: Today is a 6.
You may be worried to a frazelle. If you relax you'll do a better job. First, sort through and toss the extra baggage you're carrying. Do whatever you can to lighten your load.
COLLEGE FOOTBALL
Football teams to net more in bowl games
ABC agreed yesterday to a fouryear contract extension worth about $400 million in college football's Bowl Championship Series.
the new deal runs through the 2005 season, which includes bowl games in January 2006. Taken as a whole, the entire eight-year package that began in 1998 is worth more than $930 million.
The BCS was created two years ago to match the two best teams — based on polls, computers and strength of schedule — in a national title game. The four bowls in the BCS are the Sugar, Orange, Fiesta and Rose.
Each team playing in a BCS game receives about $13 million, and the new deal is expected to raise the payouts by as much as 30 percent, to about $17 million, in the final years of the agreement.
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While most conference commissioners are accepting the new deal without much objection, the reality is that there wasn't much choice.
ABC has another deal with the Rose Bowl, Big Ten and Pacific 10 conferences that runs through the 2005 season. That deal matches the conference champions in the Rose Bowl, unless one of the teams is either No. 1 or No. 2 in the BCS standings. If the other four conferences in the BCS — the Atlantic Coast, Big East, Big 12 and SEC — chose not to agree to the extension after the 2001 season, there could be a split in the BCS and postseason chaos could follow.
Fines abound after Warriors-Mavs game
NBA
NEW YORK — Mark Davis of Golden State and Gary Trent of Dallas each were suspended for one game without pay by the NBA on yesterday. Trent also was fined
$10,000 and Davis $7,500.
Davis was penalized for picking up Dallas' Shawn Bradley, who is 7-foot-6, and throwing him to the floor during the third quarter of the Mavericks' 117-103 win against the Warriors on Tuesday night. Bradley was fined $3,000 for retaliating.
Trent was suspended for confronting the Warriors
Vontego Cummings in the locker room.
Cummings was fined $7,500 for a fragrant
foul against Steve Nash in the third
quarter.
There were three ejections, five technicals and two flagrant fouls in the game.
Davis missed last night's game at Houston, Trent, placed on the injured list Thursday with a mild groin strain, miss his first game after he is activated.
NFL
ATLANTA — In an Internet vote,
Dick Vermei of the St. Louis Rams
won the NFL Coach of the Year
award yesterday.
Rams' Vermeil wins coach of year award
Vermeil, who joined the Rams in 1996 after 14 years away from coach ingued, guided a team that was 4-12 last season to the NFC's best record and two playoff victories that advanced them into Sunday's Super Bowl.
Other finalists for the award were Jim Mora of the Indianapolis Colts, Tony Dungy of the Tampa Bay Pirates.
Dennis Green of the Minnesota Vikings.
More than 400,000 NFL fans took part in the voting, which was sponsored by Staples. It is the only major award determined exclusively by online voting.
FOXBORO, Mass. — Bill Belichick was hired yesterday as coach of the Patriots after New England gave the New York Jets a first-round draft pick to let the former defensive coordinator out of his contract.
Jets coach leaves team for New England job
Belichick, defensive coordinator in New England before leaving with Bill Parcells for the Jets, became free to negotiate with the Patriots following a deal today in which the Jets acquired New England's No. 1 draft pick this year, a fourth-rounder in 2001 and seventh-rounder in 2002.
The Jets gave the Patriots a No. 5 in 2001 and a No. 7 in 2002. Belichick was New England's defensive coordinator when they won the AFC championship but he left for a
deal that would have made him hein to the Jets' head coaching job when Parcells stepped down. But when Parcells retired
after this season, Belichick decided,
he didn't want the job after all.
he didn't want the job after all.
He resigned in a bizarre news conference just a day after being given the job. When the Jets wouldn't let him out of his contract, he filed a grievance with NFL commissioner Paul Tagliabe and when that didn't work, a federal lawsuit. But Belichick was rebounded on both fronts.
Linebacker Greene retires after 15 years
ATLANTA — Linebacker Kevin Greene, who 160 career sacks rank him third in NFL history, retired yesterday, saying it's time to get off the train.
Greene, who played eight seasons for the Los Angeles Rams, three for Pittsburgh, one for San Francisco and three for Carolina, said he could play a few more years but wanted to quit while still a productive player.
"I played with love and passion and
drive," Greene said. "I've been on this train for 15 years. I haven't sat in the caboose; I've been driving that train up hills and through mountains and into some valleys and gorges. Now it's time to get off the train."
Greene had 10 or more sacks in 10 seasons, with averages of 16.5 in 1988 and again in 1989 with the Rams. He led the NFL with 14 sacks in 1994 at Pittsburgh and with 14.5 in 1996 at Carolina, where he concluded his career with 12 sacks this season.
"I used to eat tight end for breakfast," he said. "There wasn't one in the league who could block me. The last few years, I felt I was slipping."
Census gets low rate for Super Bowl ad
WASHINGTON — Score one for the U.S. Census Bureau — a highly coveted, 30-second TV advertisement during the second quarter of the Super Bowl for about half the $2.7 million the time originally cost.
It's the first time the federal government has paid for a spot during the biggest game in pro football, Census officials said Thursday. They scooped up the space for the bargain price of $1.4 million after another advertiser dropped out and forfeited a similar amount it had deposited as a down payment, the bureau said.
"This is an opportunity to reach a very large audience at quite a reduced cost," said Census Bureau director Kenneth Prewitt.
The ad is part of the Census Bureau's game plan to increase mail-response rates for the 2000 count. Only 65 percent of Census forms were filled out and mailed back in 1990, compared with 78 percent in 1980 — the first time response rates ever declined.
The heart of the bureau's $167 million advertising campaign kicks off with the coveted spot during the first commercial break of the second quarter of the Super Bowl.
The Associated Press
Sports Calendar
Swimming vs. Nebraska
Swimming vs. Nebraska at 7 p.m. in Robinson Natatorium.
Women's basketball vs. Iowa State at 1 p.m. in Allen Fieldhouse
frack vs. Kansas State and Missouri at Anschutz Sports Pavilion, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Men's basketball vs. Iowa State at 3 p.m. in Ames, Iowa.
Women's basketball vs. Colorado in Boulder, Colo. at 8 p.m.
Collison, Hinrich make trip home
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Before that, the Jayhawks were scorched for their worst loss in 10 years by the Missouri Tigers, 81-59.
That's the same Tigers team that Iowa State handled earlier in the month. 86-81.
"They beat Missouri," Kansas forward Nick Collison said. "And we all know what Missouri did to us."
Iowa State is led by All-American candidate Marcus Fizer, who is tops in the Big 12 with a scoring average of 20.5 points per game. Guards Michael Nurse and Jamaal Tinsley also are averaging double figures.
"I don't need to talk about (low Iowa state coach) Larry Eustachy's players," Williams said. "I have enough trouble trying to talk about my own."
Two of Williams' players will
"Me and Kirk have definitely been looking forward to it," Collison said. "I'll be a lot more fun if we can get a victory."
return to Iowa tomorrow -- Collison and fellow freshman Kirk Hinrich -- where both played high school basketball.
Coming out of Iowa Falls High School, Collison considered both Iowa State and Iowa before he signed with the Javahawks.
Hinrich initially committed to Iowa State when he was a sophomore at Sioux City West High School. But when former Iowa State coach Tim Floyd left to coach the NBA's Chicago Bulls, Hinrich changed his mind and eventually signed with Kansas.
"It's easy to say they're two of our top six or seven players," Williams said. "And I think both of them are
going to be fantastic for us in the future."
Williams said he still hadn't decided on the status of forward Lester Earl. Earl was suspended indefinitely from the team on Monday after he was arrested for suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol.
"On Tuesday he did practice with us," Williams said. "But I'm still kind of torn. I can't throw a kid out. I have a hard time because I'm just dumb enough to think that I can help him."
Earl sat out on Monday night's game against Colorado and will not travel with the team to Iowa State.
"In my mind, I have a number and I have a date," Williams said when asked about Earl's possible return. "But we are going to have to see a lot of perfect actions during that time period before I ever commit to that."
Jayhawks can't give up three-pointers
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and lately, we have had those. Balanced scoring is the key to long-term success, and we have had that this season."
Despite Iowa State's improving play post, Kansas coach Marian Washington said that under the Cyclones' attack, the Jayhawks were
going to have give up something, like 31 t and she would prefer to give up game." two points rather than three.
g. like 31 three-pointers. That's not our game."
two points rather than three:
"We can't give them open threes." Washington said.
"It's not going to be good enough to exchange three for two. We have to make it diff-cult for them. Kansas State came within three points, and they shot
But Kansas' game does worry Fennelly.
"They are very athletic and very physical," Fennelly said. "We have to limit their second shots. Lynn Pride and Suzi Raymant are going to score, but we can't let them do too much."