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Wednesday November 10, 1999
BASEBALL
Royals' Beltran selected as AL Rookie of the Year
NEW YORK — Carlos Beltran of the Kansas City Royals was a nearly unanimous choice yesterday as American League Rookie of the Year following a season in which he was the first rookie in 24 years with 100 RBI and 100 runs.
The 22-year-old switch-hit outfielder received 26 of 28 first-place votes. He also received one second-place vote and was bypassed on one ballot. He earned 133 points from a panel of the Baseball Writers' Association of American.
Beltran hit .293 with 22 homers, 108 RBI, 112 runs and 27 steals in 35 attempts. He is the third Kansas City player to win the award, following Lou Piniella in 1969 and Bob Hamelin in 1994.
Beltran was the first rookie with 100 runs and 100 RBI since Boston's Fred Lynn in 1975 and only the eight overall, a group that includes Ted Williams and Joe DjMaggio.
COLLEGE FOOTBALL
Tennessee surges to second in Bowl Championship Series
Penn State lost, Virginia Tech barely won and Tennessee won big.
Toss the results into a computer, and the Volunteers emerged for the first time as one of the top two teams in this week's Bowl Championship Series standings.
Tennessee (7-1) jumped from fifth place to second in the BCS standings released Monday, replacing Penn State (9-1) behind Florida State (9-0) and moving ahead of Virginia Tech (8-0) and Florida (8-1).
If this scenario plays out, there will be a repeat pairing for the national title: Vols vs. Seminoles. Last season, the Vols beat the Seminoles 23-16 in the Flesta Bowl for the title.
The final BCS standings on Dec. 5 determine which two teams play in college football's designated national championship game — the Sugar Bowl on Jan. 4.
FOOTBALL
Chiefs special teams coach goes home from hospital
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Kansas City Chiefs special teams coach Mike Stock was hospitalized overnight with kidney stones, coach Gunther Cunningham said yesterday.
Stock, 60, was released yesterday after passing all three stones, Cunningham said. The team did not say when he was expected to return to his coaching duties.
Stock was on the sidelines Sunday when Kansas City lost 25-17 at Indianapolis but was in a great deal of discomfort, Cunningham said.
Colts' Muhammad cleared in death of pregnant wife
INDIANAPOLIS — As the Indianapolis Colts rallied around grieving teammate Steve Muhammad, the Marion County prosecutor's office said yesterday that no decision had been made about pursuing charges of domestic battery against him.
Muhammad was cleared in the death of his pregnant wife, 30-year-old Nichole Muhammad. An autopsy indicated injuries that induced the premature labor and internal bleeding that led to her death and the death of her unborn baby Sunday were caused by a traffic accident last Thursday, not by a fight with her husband a week earlier.
band a week earlier.
Muhammad was
arrested Oct. 28 on
three misdemanor
charges. He is free on
$30,000 bond and is
scheduled for an initial hearing on Dec. 21.
Nichole Muhammad, who was five months pregnant, reported her husband twisted her right wrist behind her back, pushed her against a wall and threw her to the floor during an argument at their apartment. She said Muhammad also struck their 6-year-old son, Eric, after the boy began hitting his father with a yellow plastic baseball bat.
COLLEGE BASKETBALL
Catchings nets most votes for preseason All American
Tamika Catchings, part of Chamique Holdswain's supporting cast during her first two seasons at Tennessee, stood on her own yesterday as the top vote-getter on The Associated Press preseason AllAmerica team in women's basketball.
Catchings was the only repeater from last year's preseason team and appeared on 43 of 45 ballots cast by a national media panel.
Catching was the most recent for his year's preseason team and appeared on 43 of 45 ballots cast by a national media panel. Tennessee's Semeka Randall also made the team, along with UCLA's Mayla Martin, Connecticut's Svetlana Abrosimova and Georgia's Kelly Miller. Abrosimova received 77 votes, Martin 36, Miller 25 and Randall 18.
Martin is the only senior among the five. The rest are juniors.
Bradley player to miss aames after using fake ID
PEORIA, Ill. — Bradley suspended Reggie Hall from the basketball team after he was arrested on charges of using a teammate's driver's license to enter a downtown tavern.
Hall, a 20-year-old junior swingman, was arrested early Sunday morning and charged with unlawful use of a driver's license and misrepresentation of age by a minor, police said. A court date was scheduled for Dec. 6.
Bradley coach Jim Molinari said Hall's suspension would include an exhibition game against Athletes in Action and could include some regular season games. The Braves' season-opener is scheduled for Nov. 19 at home against South Alabama.
Molinari said team rules forbade players from visiting bars even if they were more than 21 years old.
with financial penalties if the team lost money because of his absence.
Ottawa general manager Marshall Johnston, reiterating that the Senators will not trade the Russian center, also said the club thought Yashin still owed them a year's service.
With both parties adamant they won't budge on their contract stance, the suspension seems to add little to the mix — unless Yasin unexpectedly caves in.
But the threat of financial penalties and the issue of whether Yashin owes the team another year could be critical to the league and the NHL Players Association.
The dispute comes at a critical point in the franchise's history, as majority owner Rod Bryden lobbies for tax breaks he says the team needs to survive.
Four convicted in beating of policeman at World Cup
ESSEN, Germany — Saying they behaved like monsters, a court yesterday convicted and sentenced four soccer hooligans to up to 10 years in prison for the near-fatal beating of a French policeman at last year's World Cup.
KANATA, Ontario — The Ottawa Senators suspended Alexei Yashin for the season and threatened their captain yesterday
HOCKEY
The attack 16 months ago left officer Daniel Nivel in a coma for six weeks.
senators suspend Yashin threaten with penalties
Andre Zawacki, 28, was convicted of attempted murder and sentenced to 10 years in prison. Prosecutors accused him of inflicting the most serious injuries on Nivel by beating him on the head with a metal rod in the attack.
Tobias Reiffschlaeger, 25; Frank Renger, 31; and Christopher Rauch, 24, were convicted of causing serious bodily harm and given sentences of six, five and 3/12 years, respectively.
The Associated Press
AP TOP 25
The top 25 teams in The Associated Press' men's preseason college basketball, with first-place votes in parentheses. 1998-1999 records, total points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th - place vote and last season's final ranking.
|ank | team | rec | pts | pre |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| 1.Connecticut (21) | 34-2 | 1,669 | 3 | 11 |
| 2.Cincinnati (17) | 27-6 | 1,676 | 11 | 11 |
| 3.Michigan St. (20) | 33-5 | 1,607 | 2 | 11 |
| 4.Auburn (8) | 29-4 | 1,676 | 4 | 1 |
| 5.Ohio St. (3) | 27-9 | 1,432 | 14 | 11 |
| 6.N. Carolina (3) | 24-10 | 1,421 | 13 | 11 |
| 7.Temple (2) | 24-11 | 1,381 | -- | -- |
| 8.Florida | 22-9 | 1,341 | 23 | 12 |
| 9.Arizona | 22-7 | 1,241 | 12 | 10 |
| 10.Duke | 37-2 | 1,034 | 1 | 1 |
**11.Kansas** **23-10** **994** **22**
12.UCLA **22-9** **890** **15**
13.Stanford **26-7** **752** **7**
14.Kentucky **28-9** **747** **8**
15.Utah **28-5** **699** **6**
16.Illinois **14-18** **688** **19**
17.Syracuse **21-12** **660** --
18.St.John's **28-9** **657** --
19.Tennessee **21-9** **531** **9**
20.DePaul **18-13** **452** **20**
**21.Texas** **19-13** **348** --
**22.Oklahoma St.** **23-11** **257** --
23.Purdue **21-13** **252** --
24.Gonzaga **28-7** **227** --
25.Miami **23-7** **227** --
Others receiving votes: Maryland 195, Wake Forest 151, Oklahoma 63, Georgia Tech 38, Indiana 22, New Mexico 21, Fresno St. 19, Louisville 18, Arkansas 17, N. Carolina St. 12, Oregon 12, UNLV 19, Virginia 12, Tulsa 11, Weber St. 11, Murray St. 10, Siena 9, Colli, of Charleston 8, Bradley 7, Rhode Island 7, Detroit 6, Mississippi St. 6, Massachusetts 5, Michigan 5, Delaware 4, New Mexico St. 4, Xavier 4, Akron 3, Memphis 2, Georgetown 2, N.C. Charlotte 2, Iowa 1, Missouri 1, Princeton 1.
New offense has trouble adjusting to zone defense
By Amanda Kaschube
sports@kansan.com
Kansan sportswriter
Earlier this season, Kansas coach Marian Washington said her team would be implementing the triple-post, or triangle, offense.
The offense, which was invented by Los Angeles Lakers assistant coach Tex Winter, uses the team's strengths and passing ability to find an open shot for any player. The Jayhawks had been practicing their new offense against man-to-man defense. However, the Jayhawks' competition last night, Club Gija Marijampole, a team from Lithuania, did not play man-to-man last night. The Jayhawks won 80-67.
"We hadn't spent a lot of time on zone defense," Washington said. "We quickly worked on it two days ago."
Senior guard Lynn Pride said that the triangle offense worked better against a man-to-man defense.
"Once we have the opportunity to run it on the man defense, we will have more to say about it." she said.
In the last minutes of the game, Club Gija switched to man-to-man defense, and the Jayhawks executed the triangle better. Once, Pride received a back-door pass and drove to the basket before being fouled.
Senior shooting guard Suzi Raymant agreed that the lack of preparation against a zone defense hurt the team's offense.
"We've been practicing the triple post in practice," she said. "We rushed a lot though — people wanted to shoot if they were open."
The rushed offense caused the Jayhawks to commit 20 turnovers, which resulted in 23 points for Club Gila.
"We need to be patient with it and work through it," said junior forward Brooke Reves. "We need to think through it before we can execute on offense."
The Jayhawks did have moments of greatness, though. Once, Kansas passed the ball around the perimeter five times before sophomore forward Nikki White scored in the paint.
"The offense could be very effective," Washington said. "We will spend more time on it."
Reves said she enjoyed working with the new offense because it made the team much stronger.
"When we stuck with the ball, it worked really well because the team is so versatile," she said. "We work well with the ball."
Once the season begins, Pride said that the triple post would be used more because it would be better suited against the opposition's defense.
"With the competition in the Big 12, I don't anticipate to see much zone defense," she said.
— Edited by Brad Hallier
Sophomore center Nikki White defends Club Gija Marijampole's Zane Rozite in the paint. The Jayhawks opened their season last night at Allen Fieldhouse with an 80-67 win against Club Gija, which is from Lithuania.
Photo by Shelby Smith/KANSAN
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