Wednesday, February 10.1999
The University Daily Kansan
Section B · Page 7
Kansas player nets victories before losing in tournament
By Amanda Kaschube Kanson sportswriter
Competing against the top 32 nationally ranked players would make any player nervous.
Last weekend, Kris Sell, Kansas' number one singles player, played in her first Rolex Indoor Championship and defeated two ranked players before losing on Saturday.
"If she had nerves, she disguised them very well," said Coach Jenny Garrity. "She focused on the game, not her opponent."
Sell, Moorestown, N.J., senior lost in the quarterfinals.
"I did better than I expected," Sell said. "Every match was hard, and I had to be ready."
In the first round on Thursday,
Sell, ranked No. 25, defeated No. 4
Mirela Vladulescu of Alabama-
Birmingham, 6-4, 6-2.
"There were a lot of times when Kris could have lost her concentration." Garrity said. "There were
Women's Tennis
Sell said she was not used to Vladi-
ulescu's style of tennis.
lots of bad line calls."
"She is from Germany, and she uses more spin and angles than I'm used to," Sell said. "I just mixed m shots up like my coaches told m to."
Sell practiced with her brothers before the match to prepare herself.
"They hit me a lot of different shots, so I'd be ready for Mirela," she said. "It helped me get in the right frame of mind."
In the next round on Friday morning, Sell defeated No. 33 Karen Goldstein of Duke, 6-4, 6-3.
Goldstein's style was similar to Soli's style of tennis. Garrity said,
Sell played Goldstein last year and defeated her, 6-4, 6-4.
"I was pretty confident going into the match," Sell said. "I just let her
make her mistakes."
Garrity said because of the similarity of the styles, Goldstein was a dangerous player for Sell to face.
"Kris fought the whole way," Garrity said. "She was down in six games 0-40, and she came back and won them all. It was a matter of who wanted it more."
In the quarterfinals on Friday night, Sell lost to No. 6 Marissa Irvin of Stanford. 6-0, 6-0.
"Kris was just a little outplayed," Garrity said. "I think there was a small let-down from the day before."
Irvin took out four top-10 players before eventually winning the tournament.
Garrity said Irvin, the top singles player at Stanford, would be the new No. 1 nationally ranked player.
Sell said she felt defenseless during the match.
"I tried mixing up my shots, but it didn't work." she said.
Browns load team with young talent
The Associated Press
CANTON, Ohio — With bronzed Hall of Fame busts of Jim Brown, Lou Groza and Leroy Kelly remind them of their rich NFL past, the new Cleveland Browns continue to build their team with no-name players.
Priming for their return this season after a three-year absence, the Browns selected Detroit center Jim Pyne with their first pick in yesterday's NFL expansion draft.
And with its final pick, Cleveland brought back a past Brown's player, former San Francisco cornerback Antonio Langham.
Pyne's selection set the tone for a draft in which the Browns spent wisely — only two players have salary costs of more than $1 million and loaded up on young offensive lineman and defensive backs. Cleveland used 10 of its 37 picks on defensive backs and nine on the offensive front.
high-priced players such as Denver's Darren Gordon and Washington's Gus Frerotte, opting instead to take players considered to have long-term potential while saving money to use on free agents.
As expected, Cleveland avoided
Pyne, 27, started all 16 games for the Lions last season after spending his first three years with Tampa Bay. His versatility made him attractive to the Browns, as did his salary of $1.885 million.
The Brown's selected only one player older than 30 — San Francisco linebacker James Williams.
take in the expansion draft.
The NFL required the Brownts to take 30 to 42 players or spend 38 percent ($21.77 million) of their salary cap ($57.28 million) on players they
Before taking Langham at a cost of $3.02 million against the cap, Cleveland had chosen only four players with price tags of more than $600,000.
Pyne's selection fit perfectly into this day when history was on everyone's mind. He is part of the only three-generation NFL family in history. His father, George III, played for Boston in 1965, and his grandfather, George I, played for Providence in 1931-32.
"Cleveland is a great place," said Pyne, a 6-foot 2, 297-pound from Virginia Tech. "I'm glad to be here. I wanted to be here. I grew up watching the Browns."
It seemed that everyone else at the Canton Civic Center did, too.
More than 4,000 fans were on hand for the nearly three-hour, made-for-TV event.
BATON ROUGE, La. Louisiana State University will get one last chance to argue that the penalties the NCAA imposed on the school in the recruiting of Lester Earl were too harsh.
LSU to get last appeal in Earl case
The Associated Press
University officials will go before the NCAA's appeals committee on Feb. 27 in Atlanta.
The university is appealing the ban on postseason play this year, the loss of one more scholarship and a limit of two new scholarships in each of the next two seasons. Those were among eight sanctions
from the NCAA Committee on Infractions.
Earl: His recruitment at LSU triggered NCAA sanctions.
The penalties were imposed after an investigation found several infractions, including that an LSU booster had paid Earl $5,000 to get the former high school All-
American to sign with the Tigers.
After ten to six weeks, the Committee's sanctions were added to LSU's self-imposed sanctions, which included a loss of five scholarships during the next three years, a reduction of six official recruiting visits, forfeiture of five games in which Earl played and the disassociation of two LSU boosters.
Reason for the appeal include:
Reasons for the upbraids here:
■ The university was not found to have a lack of institutional control.
■ The university did not gain a
The university did not gain a significant competitive advantage.
significant competitive advantage
■ No sanctions were imposed on then coach Dale Brown and assistant Johnny Jones.
The penalties are inconsistent with those placed on other universities with similar violations.
There were no systematic violations because only one athlete was involved and because the violations mostly were secondary in nature.
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