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The University Daily Kansan
Thursday, April 15, 1999
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Team encouraged by wins
"We're understanding the game more, and we understand what he wants from us. What he asks of us, we're doing on the field, which is making him happy, too." Colvin said.
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Freshman defender Melanie Schroeder agrees. "He's just really intense with what he wants us to do, and it makes us want to play harder," Schroeder said. "Plus, we have to prove ourselves to to him since he's new to us."
for a lack of defenders. The team has prevailed anyway, and Francis has praised the efforts of junior Cynthia Dahle, freshman Natalie Hoogveld, sophomore Kylie Watts and Schroeder in the backfield. Watts is the only true defender in the group, but the four women, as well as sophomore Katie Garrity in goal, have combined to be a formidable block to opponents' offenses.
This task has been tougher since many of the players have had to play at different positions to make up
opponents outlines.
"It's kind of like putting a jigsaw puzzle together," Francis said. "You've got all the pieces, but you're not sure where they fit at first. But we're really pleased with the ones we've got right now."
— Edited by Clint Hooker
Top Indiana scorer to transfer
Recker third starter to leave Knight's team
The Associated Press
INDIANAPOLIS — Luke Recker, Indiana's leading scorer last season, has decided to transfer, becoming the third starter in the past two years to leave Bobby Knight's program.
The 6-foot-6-inch sophomore swinger said yesterday he hasn't decided which school he will attend next season.
Unlike the other recent transfers, however, Recker said the reason was his own lack of development as a player, not because of any personal conflict with the Hoosiers coach.
recruits.
"This is the toughest decision I have ever made," Recker said. "I love the state of Indiana, and playing for IU was always my lifelong dream."
Recker was Indiana's 1997 Mr. Basketball as a senior and made an oral commitment to become a Hoosier two years before that, becoming one of Knight's earliest
At Indiana, he started 63 of 66 games. Only junior guard A.J. Guyton, who also reportedly has been considering leaving early to enter the NBA draft, had more starts (64)
"I appreciate the opportunity given to me by c o a c h Knight," Recker said in a statement yesterday. "However, I have not been satisfied with my development as a plaver. I
over the past two years.
Recker started 30 of 32 games and averaged 12.8 points a game as a freshman, then started 33 of 34 games last season, averaging 16.1
Knight: Three of his players have left early in last two years
blame no one but myself for this and believe my development will best be served in another program."
points a game.
points and gain Recker joins guard Neil Reed and center Jason Collier to leave the program in the past two years.
Reed left after the 1997 season, accusing Knight of physical and verbal abuse, and later enrolled at Southern Mississippi. In December 1997, Collier quit the team, saying he no longer could take Knight's constant criticism, and enrolled at Georgia Tech.
Recker will have to sit out one season if he transfers to another Division 1 school and then will have two years of eligibility remaining.
"It is not easy to leave my friends, my family and my home state." Recker said. "I love to play basketball, and the thought of sitting out a year kills me."
A statement from the Indiana athletic department said, "We are very sorry that Luke has decided to leave Indiana University. He has been an integral and important part of our basketball program the last two years. We will miss him. We wish him much success as he goes forward."
By Matt James
mjames@kansan.com
Kansan sportswriter
Kansas women row to No.22 in nation
By Matt James
Not many college teams can boast of a national ranking in only their fourth season of existence. But that's exactly what the Kansas
women's rowing team has accomplished
Kansas team, which consists of first and second varsity eight-person boats, as well as a freshman eight and open four. With Petty setting the pace and initiating commands, Kansas finished third at Amherst, Mass., March 27th, defeating New Hampshire and
The team grabbed the No. 22 position in the country yesterday when the new
rankings were released, up six spots from two weeks ago when they claimed No. 28.
The Kansas program is off to its best start in its short history, thanks in part to co-captain Risa Petty, Lawrence junior. She is the first varsity team's stroke, a position at the stern of the boat usually given to the strongest rower.
They will try to keep the momentum going this Saturday when they race conference fee Kansas State at Manhattan.
Petty originally planned to play softball at Kansas but she soon realized that the sport she played in high school was, in her words, "Not going to be a reality" at this university. She wasn't quite ready to give up on her athletic dreams, however.
So she called head rowing coach Rob Catloth, who encouraged her to try out. It was exactly what she was looking for.
"I love it," Petty said. "It's a team sport, which is what I wanted. And it's perfect fit for me."
She's also been a great fit for the
Boston College, and finishing nine seconds behind nationally ranked Boston University and Massachusetts. Last weekend
Last weekend, the Jayhawks finished 10 seconds ahead of Texas and 10 seconds behind then 5th-ranked Southern California.
"We've been working really hard to get faster," Cattal said. "We've got a team of mostly juniors, and they're getting a lot of experience."
The team's first varsity boat consists of six juniors, a senior and a sophomore, and will be looking to sweep the Wildcats for the first time ever after defeating them during the fall season.
"It's becoming a little rivalry for us," Petty said. "We've usually split with them, so we're looking forward to it."
Petty said that the experience of this year's team is largely responsible for its success. Experience is something the Kansas State program is trying to gain as well, in only its third year as a varsity sport.
"We're not overlooking them," Petty said. "But they appear to be down this year."
Edited by Clint Hooker
Heisman home in trouble
Downtown Athletic Club fights for its financial life
The club hopes to solve its cash problems with a last-ditch plan to have a hotel built on the upper floors of its 35-story Art Deco building.
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — The home of the Heisman Trophy — Manhattan's once-exclusive but now faded Downtown Athletic Club — is fighting for life in a bitter battle in bankruptcy court.
building.
But if the deal doesn't get court approval, the property could be sold at auction to face a potentially uncertain future.
The club's director, William Dockery,
said nothing less than the fate of college
football's most prestigious award is at stake.
The Heisman Trophy, named for the club's first athletic director, former coach John Heisman, has been awarded annually by the club since 1935 to college football's best player. Past winners include O.J. Simpson, Roger Staubach and Barry Sanders. Ricky Williams of Texas won last year.
"They want to purloin our building," Dockery said yesterday, complaining about the auction proposal. "We've maintained the integrity of the Heisman Memorial Trophy for the last 65 years, and we will never allow it to be sullied."
Heisman is not part of their plan
"We never had any intention but to preserve the Heisman Trophy for future generations — that was as important to us as it was to them," said Steven Caspi, a partner in 18 West, which holds the building's mortgage and is the club's largest creditor. "Where this idea of us doing anything with the trophy came from is just malicious rumor."
Richard Born, another 18 West partner, said the proposal to auction the building even includes a clause that would allow the club to survive. "Whoever bought the building would be required to offer a lease to the club at about $12 a square foot," he said. "If they can't pay $12 a square foot for real estate, they're probably not economically viable."
But creditors say commandeering the
canyon club. The club sits on prime real estate — overlooking New York Harbor, a short walk from Wall Street. But it is long past its prime. The carpeting is frayed, plaster is falling from above the boxing ring, and membership is at 1,400 — down from 4,000 in the 1970s.
The club is proposing that the property be bought for $16 million by a Stamford, Conn., investor Chesslock-Bakker. The athletic facilities would then be sold back to the club for $8 million, while the upper 15 floors would be turned into a hotel by the Pacific and Caribbean Hotel Group.
The proposal was rejected by Judge James Garrity of U.S. Bankruptcy Court, but the club appealed the judge's decision. A hearing on the appeal is scheduled for April 22.
District attorney to investigate judging of Lewis-Holyfield fight
The Associated Press
ALBANY, N.Y. — A state Senate committee has given evidence of potential criminality in the judging of the Evander Holyfield-Lennox Lewis fight to Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau, its chairman said yesterday.
"We found some rather suspicious and peculiar developments of a potentially criminal nature which we frankly turned over to the New York (County) district attorney," state Sen. Roy Goodman said yesterday.
He said testimony on March 18 in Manhattan before the Senate Investigations Committee, which Goodman chairs.
Holyfield: New York state senators investigating fight
which Goodman chaired, had been forwarded to Morgenthau's investigators. The district attorney has convened a grand jury to look into the controversial outcome of the March 13 heavyweight title fight, which was declared a draw despite Lewis' apparent domination of the bout.
Lewis is the World Boxing Council champion. Holyfield holds the World Boxing Association and International Boxing Federation titles.
During the Senate hearing, one of the judges at the fight acknowledged that she had recently filed for bankruptcy. However, Eugenia Williams, of Atlantic City, N.J., who
scored the fight for Holyfield, denied that any attempt to help her financially was made in exchange for her judgment of the bout
Goodman said the hearing testimony also indicated that the mortgage of judge Larry O'Connell of England, who scored the fight a draw, was in "arrears."
"This raises a very important question: Should anybody be judging a big fight on which enormous amounts are wagered if they themselves have financial problems and could be subject to temptation?" Goodman told Albany radio station WROW-AM yesterday. "We are not accusing anyone of anything, but we do think that the criminal piece should be looked at by the DA."
In addition to the Senate and district attorney's investigations, the state Athletic Commission and state Attorney General Eliot Spitzer are also reviewing the Holyfield-Lewis decision and prize fighting in general.
A federal grand jury in Newark, N.J., is also reportedly investigating whether the International Boxing Federation sold rankings and arranged fights in return for kickbacks. A Hollyfield-Lewis rematch has been ordered by the JBF, the WBA and the WBC.
The Senate committee's hearing resumes tomorrow in Manhattan, with Holyfield scheduled to appear in person and Lewis via a videotape interview Goodman has already conducted.
Goodman said they will be "testifying as to their impressions not only of the fight but what needs to be done to clean up the boxing game."
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