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Quick Looks
Tuesday January 18,2000
HOROSCOPES
Aries: Today is a 7.
Your team might have had trouble understanding what you're talking about. Well, that situation should change, soon. You're learning, and that helps. They're learning, tool
Taurus: Today is a 7.
Don't rely on your imagination alone. Get help. Somebody else may be able to solve the problem once you define it. It's a team effort, and you both have something to contribute.
Gemini; Today is a 7.
Is it time for you to take another trip? You need a change of scenery more than once a year or else you get stale. Foreigners will be fun today, too. Set something up.
Cancer: Today is a 7.
You may not want to be in the spotlight. Instead, provide information somebody else can use. It's nice to have an agent or a spokesperson, and today it'll be quite effective, too.
Leo: Today is a 6.
Wrap up a team effort and investigate a new possibility. Do you have a partner who you can rely on? If not, make that your next priority. No need to wear yourself to a frazzie.
Virgo: Today is a 6.
It's time to clean house again. Get rid of all that junk you don't need. It might be time for changes in your romantic relationship, too. Is it time for a commitment? Make one.
Libra: Today is a 7.
There will be a lot of action tomorrow. You may have to prove you know what you're talking about.
Do the homework today. Don't run off and play; get prepared, first.
Scorpio: Today is a 7.
Your attention is required at home. Maybe it's a leaky batten, but it's rather intimidating if you don't know how to do it. Education is the key to your success. Get a book.
Sagittarius: Today is a 7.
Capricorn: Today is a 6.
You and a person who you care about need to come to an understanding. It's hard to talk about money sometimes, but if you do, you'll make your life easier. Just tell it like it is.
You might have been doing a little introspection lately. Maybe you've made some course changes to get in line with achieving your objectives. Now, look at the bottom line. Find the money.
Aquarius: Today is a 7.
You could have a major breakthrough soon. You've thought about all the possibilities, courses of action and variables. Well, they could jostle into one coherent whole. Stand back a little.
Pisces: Today is a 6.
You and your friends have things worked out pretty well. But, the more you learn, the more you realize you don't know. That may happen again. You're venturing into unknown territory. Congratulations!
Note: Horoscope have no basis in scientific fact and should be read for entertainment purposes only.
KANSAS FOOTBALL
Kansas football coach Terry Allen has a vacancy to fill on his coaching staff, Ted Gilmore, who served as Allen's tight ends coach last season, has accepted a position with the University of Houston.
Assistant coach leaves for position at Houston
Gilmore will be reuphased with Houston's new football coach Dana Dimel, formerly the coach at Wyoming.
Gilmore, who
Glimore, who was an assistant at
Wyoming for eight years,
was Dimal's wide receivers
coach before
joining Allen's staff in 1999.
"Ted felt like this was a good opportunity for him, and we wish him nothing but the best of luck with his coaching career," Allen said. "We appreciate all of his efforts in helping our program throughout the past year."
Dimel is a former assistant to Bill Snyder at Kansas State, serving as offensive coordinator immediately before accepting the job at Wyoming
Schedule change pushes opener back a week
The 2000 football schedule has been changed, with the home opener against Alabama-Birmingham being moved from Sept. 9 to Sept. 16.
The date was changed to accommodate a request by the Alabama-Birmingham athletics department, which would help facilitate a change in the Blazers 2000 schedule. Kansas opens its season Sept. 2 at Southern Methodist and will have an open date on Sept. 9 before playing Alabama-Birmingham at 6 p.m. Sept. 16.
NFL FOOTBALL
Allan Davis
DAVIE, Fla. — Jimmy Johnson was on his way out the door on a balmy Sunday, headed for retirement and the Florida Keys, when he stopped
Johnson quick to sail after his retirement
Johnson: Will remain with Miami as a consultant
"High tide is at 2 o'clock," Johnson said with a smile. "I've got to get out there."
and looked a his watch.
Then, accompanied by his wife and Yorkie, Johnson departed for his boat, leaving Dave Wannstedt to deal with the
The 56-year-old Johnson will remain with the team as a consultant on personnel matters, but his involvement will be limited, said owner Wayne Huizenga.
wreckage of the Dolphins' 1999 season.
"He does not want to be under contract. He does not want a job. He does not want any day-to-day position," Huizeng said. "He wants to fish."
George likely to leave after successful season
EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. — Jeff George salvaged his career in Minnesota but couldn't save the underachieving Vikings from yet another playoff loss.
"I've said all along if we didn't win the Super Bowl, we'd be a big failure for the second year in a row," said Randy Moss after the Vikings' title dreams were dashed by the warp-speed St. Louis Rams 49-37 Sunday.
No thanks to George, who was chased out of three NFL cities but found harmony and a home in
But his lease is up and his stay
Minnesota.
Vikings might be ending, too.
Minnesota.
the consensus
preseason
favorite to represent the NFC in the Super Bowl, lost just three times in George's 12 starts after he was beckoned from the bench to replace Randall Cunningham, who was demoted just 5 1/2 games into his new $28 million contract.
George, who signed a one-year deal for $400,000, will make a mint off his resurrection, which included the first playoff victory of his checkered 10-year NFL career last week against Dallas.
Former assistant coach to be hired by Packers
GREEN BAY, Wis. — Mike Sherman, the Seattle Seahawks' offensive coordinator and a former Green Bay assistant, will be hired as the new coach of the Packers, according to reports.
ESPN and the Appleton Post-
crescent, citing anony-
mous sources, said Sherman could be introduced as early as tomorrow.
The newspaper reported on its Web site that Packers general manager Ron Wolf interviewed Sherman on Saturday. Sherman is a devotee of the West Coast offense run by Holmgren during the Packers' consecutive trips to the Super Bowl.
Sherman spent two years as Mike Holmgren's tight ends coach in Green Bay before moving to Seattle with Holmgren in January 1999.
Wolf fired Ray Rhodes on Jan. 3 after the Packers completed an 8-8 season, Rhodes' first with the team.
BASEBALL
Rock band wants song pulled from lineup
ATLANTA — Members of Twisted Sister, protesting John Rocker's comments disparaging gays and minorities, asked the Atlanta Braves to stop using their song "I Wanna Rock" to introduce the reliever.
"We've got Hispanics in this band, italians in this band, people who are Polish and Russian," said guitarist Jay Jay French, the heavy metal band's co-founder. "We're all immigrants, all foreigners — quote unquote — and this is our way of saying his comments were not acceptable."
In an interview in Sports Illustrated, Rocker said he never would play for a New York team because he didn't want to ride a train "next to some queer with AIDS." He also bashed Immigrants.
BOXING
Women's group wants Tyson out of England
LONDON — Mike Tyson arrived in England on Sunday with yet another fight on his hands — from a women's group that wants him barred from the country.
The former heavyweight champion is to face Julius Francis Saturday in Manchester. On Thursday, the government said Tyson could enter England despite his 1992 rape conviction.
Women's group representative Julie Bindel called Tyson an absolute disgrace and said he should donate his earnings to rape crisis charities.
The Associated Press
Tues.
Wed.
Sports Calendar
Thurs.
Women's basketball
@ Baylor @ 7:05
p.m.
Track @ Missouri Invitational
Men's basketball @ Missouri @ noon
Swimming @ Texas A&M
Women's basketball
@ Texas Tech @ 3 p.m.
New approach, design will make Kansan sports section a winner
Every semester brings change to the Kansan. Editors come and go, and most spend their time trying to make changes that students will see and recognize. Last spring, sport-of-the-week was added. Last semester, it was a sports calendar and a couple of new writing positions.
This semester should bring changes that will be apparent immediately and improve the sports section immensely not only for sports fans, but also for the casual Kansan reader.
Mike Miller
Sports Editor Commentary
For starters, we've shaken up our columnists and how they go about their job. It won't be one guy writing on a certain day of the week — sorry all you Wednesday Joneses out there, you'll get over it — we have seven writers producing some of the best opinion sports writing in college.
They will accompany reporters to basketball games, track meets, baseball games and everything else at Kansas. In short, we're trying to grow up; to have some professional reaction to the events that happen, instead of being behind the times. It's an opportunity to inject attitude and insight into the sports section, while allowing our beat writers to produce unbiased, factual stories.
sports@kansan.com
You might notice the changes at the top of the page, too. The redesign of the Kansan's flag opened up space at the
top the front page, which puts more stories and photos on the page. Instead of a static eyesore that always had one story at the top, a column down the side and a boxed feature in the middle, the sports front will be an eye-catching presentation that hopes to rival the regional newspapers.
The new sports agate page is a lot of work for us, but it will be worth it. An agate page gives us a more professional look and gives sports nuts something to peruse during a lecture class. We couldn't do anything like that before because of time constraints, but we decided to hell-with it this year.
Lastly, this should be the last boring thing you read in the sports page this year. We will take chances in our coverage and our writing style, so if you see something you don't like, e-mail us.
Reader feedback is essential to the Kansan, because it's the only way we
know what our readers think. If some article rubs you the wrong way, let us know. If we should've covered something we didn't, then somebody better tell us.
We spend most of our time sitting in the newsroom, watching SportsCenter and yapping about Vince Carter's monster dunks to argue about how many games the Royals will lose this year.
If we're too tough on Eric Chenowith for not taking the ball strong to the basket and dunking above someone half-afoot shorter than him, then tell us. If we don't mention often enough that the women's rowing team — yes a varsity, school-sponsored team — doesn't have a boathouse at Clinton Lake, then we should know about it. And if we forget to mention that for some odd reason the $25 million renovation of Memorial Stadium still isn't finished despite a $300,000 bonus and an extra four months of working time, then we're not doing our job.
If someone can think of new chant for Missouri basketball coach Quin Snyder, tell us. "Sit down Norm" was a classic, but it's time to get the creative juices flowing.
But if we do something you like, then tell us that, too. After all, we're a student paper and we'll make mistakes along the way. We just hope you stick with us for the ride.