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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
SPORTS
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2005
ATHLETICS CALENDAR
◆ Basball at Stanford, 7 p.m., Palo Alto, Calif.
TODAY
- Blasbon at Stanford, 7 p.m., Yale Aloe College.
* Men's Golf at TaylorMade(Big Island Invitational), all day, Waikoloa, Hawaii.
* Softball vs. Arkansas, 1 p.m., Las Cruces, N.M.
* Softball vs. Purdue, 3 p.m., Las Cruces, N.M.
* Track and field at John McDonnell/Tyson Invitational, all day, Fayetteville, Ark.
* Track and field at Iowa State, all day, Ames, Iowa
TOMORROW
Baseball at Stanford, 3 p.m., Palo Alto, Calif.
- Baseball at Stanford, 3 p.m., Palo Alto, Calif.
* Men's basketball vs. Colorado, 2:30 p.m., Allen Fieldhouse
* Softball vs. UMKC, 4 p.m., Las Cruces, N.M.
* Softball at New Mexico State, 5 p.m., Las Cruces, N.M.
* Track and field at Iowa State, all day, Ames, Iowa.
* Track and field at John McDonnell/Tyson Invitational, all day, Fayetteville, Ark.
FF
SUNDAY
◆ Baseball at Stanford, 1 p.m., Palo Alto, Calif.
◆ Softball vs. Utah Valley State, 11 a.m., Las Cruces, N.M.
◆ Women's basketball vs. Colorado, 1 p.m., Allen Fieldhouse
MONDAY
* Men's basketball at Texas Tech, 8 p.m., Lubbock, Texas
INTRAMURAL SCORES
BASKETBALL
♦ Men's
Ligerhawks tie Phi Psi 3 44-44
Servers def. Phi Psi 2 78-33
Team Overman def. Raining Deep 56-44
T D LLP def. Phi Psi 1 77-50
Fiji 2 def. DU 3 35-32
Below the Rim def. Theta Chi 3 42-28
Naismith Railplitters def. Theta Chi 1 56-52
Cory Haim's Drug Problem def. Tri Chi Trillionaires 57-49
Booty Poppers def. LCA 4 87-37
All-Stars def. A-Squad 47-42
Handful of Crackers def. Army ROTC 54-31
♦ Women's
Thunder Thighs def. Kappa Delta 2 66-22
♦ Co-Recreational
Hoosiers def. NSCS 72-55
Savages def. Pink B-ball Babes 42-40
FOOTBALL
Committee recommends instant replay
There may be instant replay at Memorial Stadium next season.
The NCAA Football Rules committee recommended experimental use of instant replay begin for all of Division I-A next season.
The recommendation will be looked at by the Playing Rules Oversight Panel on Feb. 24 and, if it is approved, will be used throughout Division I-A.
The model that the committee looked at was the system used last season by the Big Ten.
When the Jayhawks traveled to Big Ten school Northwestern last fall, coach Mark Mangino elected not to use instant replay.
If the committee enacts the rule, the Big 12 conference will have until June 1 to decide whether the conference will use the system. Passage does not require conferences to use instant replay; it merely gives them the option.
The system would not be used in bowl games next season.
Ryan Colaianni
ESPN 2 to feature KU track and field team
Several members of the KU track and field team will compete in this weekend's John McDonnell-Tyson Invitational, portions of which ESPN 2 will broadcast at 8 p.m. Saturday.
Kansas will join nationally-ranked teams at the invitational including Arkansas, Baylor, Florida, Indiana and Texas.
The Kansas women's pole vaulting team will be featured at the event in the Golden Spike Pro Invitational.
Because of the suspended National Hockey League season, ESPN 2 has been airing collegiate track and field events and the national arm-wrestling tournament in the evenings.
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Former Cardinal sits for series
BASEBALL
BY ALISSA BAUER
abauer@kansan.com
KANSAN SPORTWRITER
Kodiak Quick, junior right-handed pitcher for Kansas, watched the Jayhawks get swept in their first series at Stanford last season. He watched from the Cardinal dugout.
This year, he will make this weekend's trip to Palo Alto, Calif., as a Jayhawk, but he won't be playing.
Kansas coach Ritch Price and Stanford coach Mark Marquess decided that Quick would not throw against Stanford in the series. He understands the agreement, but that does little to ease his feelings about it.
"I'm a little disappointed
that I don't get to face them, but I'm real excited to see what happens." Quick said. "It's going to be a good measure to see how good our team really is."
Quick spent the first two years of his college career as a closing pitcher for the Stanford Cardinal before transferring to Kansas last fall. Quick had a successful career with the No. 6 Cardinal in the last two seasons.
Quick
In 2004, Quick posted 3.28 ERA which ranked second on
the team. In 24.2 innings of work, he struck out 19 batters. In the two-year span, Quick recorded 53 strikeouts in 41 appearances. His one victory in 2004 came against the Jayhawks during the final game of last season's three-game series.
"I think the addition of Kodiak Quick, with his experience at Stanford, will make him a great Friday night starter," senior catcher Sean Richardson said.
Becoming a starter was a big reason Quick decided to leave. Stanford used him out of the bullpen, and most times as a closer. Quick was eager to shake that role, despite being noted as one of the team's top
"I want to try to be more of an impact player. I want to start instead of close," Quick said.
He said the increase in playing time and a new role were the primary reasons Kansas was a good choice. The Belton, Mo., native also liked the coaching staff, including Price and pitching coach Steve Abney, and the close-to-home location. Nevertheless, it was hard to leave Sanford, he said.
"It was tough leaving my school," he said. "But I knew coach Price and talked to coach Abney a couple of times while I was in high school."
pitchers out of the pen.
Edited by Lisa Coble-Krings
TRACK
Track team splits up for weekend
BY PATRICK SHEAH
psheah@kansan.com
KANSAN SWIPTER WRITER
The Kansas track and field team heads north and south this weekend as it competes in the John McDonnell-Tyson Invitational in Fayetteville, Ark., and the Iowa State Classic in Ames, Iowa.
Pole vaulters Ekaterina Sultanova and Amy Linnen, distance runner Benson Chesang and spinner/hurdlers Julius jiles and Aaron Thompson will represent the squad in the home of the No. 1 Arkansas Razorbacks. The rest of the team will compete at Iowa State.
Linnen said she expected to have her best performance of the year.
"I feel pretty healthy, and my technique's coming, together," she said. "I'm feeling very confident."
Linnen set the national record for pole vault during a stint at the University of Arizona.
And as for this weekend's televised meet?
"We don't think about that as we jump," Linnen said. "It will
After injuring her Achilles tendon and suffering feet problems, she said she needed to get back on a national level while at Kansas.
"This is my last year of eligibility, and I'm in a good place," Linnen said. "This will show everyone that I'm on top and nationally ranked."
get us a lot of exposure, though."
Linnen and Sultanova stand at second and third in the Big 12 Conference in pole vaulting.
Chesang will look for another victory in the 3,000-meter race after his success last week in Lincoln. Neb. In his first race of the indoor season, the junior won and finished in the fourth-fastest time in school history.
Thompson and Jiles continue to battle for rankings within the Big 12 in the 60-meter hurdles. Jiles, a freshman, ranks fourth in the conference, and Thompson, a junior, ranks seventh.
"This meet is important because this is where nationals will be held this year," vertical jumps coach Tom Hays said. "We are working to another step towards nationals."
Hays, a KU graduate and first-year coach, will coach the squad in a nationally televised meet.
"Any time it's televised, there's going to be better competition from the better athletes," Hays said. "Good things will happen if you're prepared."
Coach Stanley Redwine has a higher purpose for splitting the team as he leads the second squad into Ames for the Iowa State Classic.
"With the split meets this weekend we will give our athletes the best opportunity to compete for their best times." Redwine said.
HOCKEY
— Edited by Kendall Dix
Hockey lockout hits critical point
BY IRA PODELL
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK - The NHL told the players' association yesterday that a deal must be reached by this weekend to save the hockey season, a top league official said.
The union rejected what was described as a compromise proposal during a secret meeting Wednesday in Toronto, NHL chief legal officer Bill Daly said.
The sides agreed to keep negotiating through yesterday. But if an agreement is not reached in principle by this weekend, Daly said, then the season likely will be cancelled.
Commissioner Gary Bettman scheduled a news conference for Wednesday night. A union spokesman did not immediately return phone calls.
The lockout reached its 148th day today and has wiped out 813 of the 1,230 regular-season games as well as this weekend's scheduled All-Star game.
If it was determined after an unspecified period of time that the deal wasn't working, the agreement would be converted to the league's Feb. 2 proposal that contained a salary cap that would force teams to spend at least $32 million on player costs but no more than $42 million — including benefits.
Also included in that six-year offer — which could be reopened by the union after four years — was a profit-sharing plan that would allow the players' association to evenly split revenues over a negotiated level with the league.
percent rollback on all existing contracts.
The NHL offered on Wednesday to go with the players' association proposal from Dec. 9 that featured a luxury-tax system and an immediate 24
It was believed that there had been no contact between the sides since last Friday when talks broke off after three straight days of meetings.
The bulk of the negotiations since mid-December were conducted mostly by Daly and players' association senior director Ted Saskin.
Bettman was invited by the union back to the table last week for two days of talks after the union rejected the league's previous proposal.
BASEBALL
BY RONALD BLUM
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK — Jason Giambi apologized to the New York Yankees. He apologized to his teammates. He apologized to fans.
Giambi offers apology but skirts steroid issue
He never said why he was apologizing. And not only did he never say whether he used steroids, he never even mentioned the word.
Giambi came to Yankee Stadium to make his first public comments since it was reported in December that he'd told a federal grand jury in 2003 that he took steroids for at least three seasons.
"When I went into that grand jury, I told the truth," he said. "I know the fans might want more, but at this present time because of all the legal matters, I can't get into specifics," he said. "Someday, hopefully, I will be able to."
Only 10 days before he's scheduled to report to spring training, Giambi met with small groups of reporters with general manager Brian Cashman, manager Joe Torre and agent Arn Tellem at his side.
Wearing a dark striped suit
and black shirt, Giambi twiddled his thumbs and crossed his legs as he spoke.
Asked what message he was sending to kids, Giambi again refrained from specifics.
"This is a guy who is facing his problems. He's not running from them and he's trying to overcome them," he said. "And he's not quitting. I think that's what makes you a man."
Giambi said he had not read the San Francisco Chronicle story, which cited transcripts of his grand jury testimony, and he would not say whether the newspaper's report was accurate.
Giambi was bothered by a parasite and a benign tumor last year, and slumped to .208 with 12 homers and 40 RBIs. The Yankees dropped him from their postseason roster.
"I think we're all curious to see how he's going to rebound from everything he went through last year." Torre said. "He certainly looks better than he did."
One of the few topics Giambi addressed specifically was Jose Canseco's upcoming book, which is being released next week.
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Present the KIU Theatre for Young People and snacky production
NOODLE DOODLE BOX
1.00p.m. Monday-Friday,
February 7-11, 2005
2.30p.m. Saturday, February 12, 2005
Crafton-Preyer Theatre.
So funny you won't be able to contain yourself!
production
by Paul Maer
directed by
Benito Pettigro
and artist
Reserved seat tickets are on sale in the KU Ticket Office, University Center, 864-3922 and Lied Center, 864-A4TIS, and on-line at kuhatech.com; public $10; senior citizens $9; KU faculty/staff $8, and all students $6; both KUA and the Museum are accepted for phone orders.
This production is partially funded by the KU Library Fund. Activity fee: funding is also provided by the Kansas Arts Commission, a statewide National Endowment for the Arts, a national agency.
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