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2B THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
ATHLETICS CALENDAR
SPORTS
TODAY
* Rows golf at Taylor Made/Big Island Invitational, al
way, Wikitake, Hawaii
TODAY
TOMORROW
TOMORROW
Bassall at Stanford, 7 p.m., Palo Alto, Calif.
- Men's Golf at Taylor Made/Big Island Invitational,
all, raiv. Wakalpa, Hawaii
- all day, Waikolao, Hawaii
*Softball vs. Arkansas, 1 p.m., Las Cruces, N.M.*
- Softball vs. Arkansas, 1 p.m., Las Cruces, N.M.
vs. Kentucky, 2 p.m., Las Cruces, N.M.
*Softball vs. Purdue, 3 p.m., Las Cruces, N.M.
Tamperdonk def. John McDonnell/Tyson
Invitational, all day, 8 weekends
* Track and field at Iowa State, all day, Ames, Iowa
SATURDAY
Baseball at Stanford, 3 p.m., Palo Alto, Calif.
- Track and field at John McDonnell Iysoh Invitational, all day. Fayetteville, Ark.
- Bassham skittanism, CP, Colorado
* Men's backball vs. Colorado, 2:30 p.m., Allen
Fleming
- Hirehouse
*Softball* vs, UMKC, 4 p.m., Las Cruces, N.M.
- Softball va. 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
- Track and field at John McDonnell/Tyson
institutional, all day, Fayetteville, Ark.
◆ track and hire at John Smith Academy, ap.
invitations, all day, Fayetteville, Ark.
SUNDAY
SUNDAY
Ballpark at Stanford, 1 p.m., Palo Alto, Calif.
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 10. 2005
- Battalion at Utah Valley.
* Sortall vs. Utah Valley 11 a.m., Las Cruces,
NM.
- Women's basketball vs. Colorado, 1 p.m., Allen Fieldhouse
MONDAY
+ Men's basketball at Texas Tech, 8 p.m., Lubbock,
Texas
BASEBALL
A season-high 14 hits propelled the Kansas baseball team to its fifth straight victory of the year against Hawaii at Hilo yesterday.
Kansas wraps up island series
Despite the Vulcans' best scoring effort in the series, the Jawhaws triumphed, 16-8.
Travis Goset, junior left-handed pitcher, started for Kansas but was left with a no decision after allowing two runs in three innings.
Ryotaro Hayakawa, sophomore right-handed pitcher, then came in and earned the victory by allowing no runs in two innings of work.
Kansas struck first at the plate with consecutive RBI singles from John Allman, freshman designated hitter, and Jake Kauzlarich, senior catcher.
Hawaii-Hilo's John Matson, senior left-handed pitcher, earned his second loss of the series, allowing four runs in 4.2 innings.
catcher. The Vulcans evened the score at two in the third inning and scored five more in the eighth. But the Jayhawks built their lead in the seventh by knocking in six runs.
by knocking in six rifts. Don Czvy, Kansas junior right-handed pitcher, closed the final two innings. Seniors Scott Sharpe, left-handed pitcher and Michael Fitch, right-handed pitcher, also saw relief time on the mound.
a prentice, Sloan college Kansas will travel to Palo Alto, Calif., today for a three-game weekend series against No. 5 Stanford.
Alissa Bauer
SOFTBALL
Team has rough start to season
The Kansas softball team (1-4) will head to Las Cruces, N.M., this weekend to compete in the Hilton Classic. Kansas will open by facing off against Arkansas and Purdue tomorrow.
The team suffered three tough losses at the Arizona Pepsi Classic last weekend.
Kansas coach Tracy Burge said the Jayhawks had performed well thus far into the season, despite their record.
"It was one of those weekends where all the close calls went against us," Bunge said.
Jackie Vasquez, freshman outfielder, led the team in the tournament with seven hits.
nette Fierros, junior third baseman, also sparked the Jayhawks lineup, hitting .600.
Offensively, the Jayhawks showed good balance and were able to put runs on the board. Defensively, they were also solid with a .960 fielding percentage.
Bunge said she was surprised that the pitching needed improvement. Going into the season, pitching looked to be the strong point of the team, she said. But Kansas had 18 walks this past weekend and failed to get ahead in counts.
— Drew Davison
White powder fun that's legal
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shove
Chris Wallace, Topeka junior, and Adam Barmann, Weston, Mo., sophomore quarterback, shove Lindsey Gatewood, Topeka senior, and Ashley Hanes, Topeka junior, down Campanile hill. Heavy snowfall brought out sledders of all ages Tuesday and yesterday.
TV strike hurts reputation
OLYMPICS
BY STEPHEN WILSON THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
TURIN, Italy — The Olympic torch has arrived and banners are flying. A day before celebrations marking a year until the Turin Games, though, Italy's reputation took a hit 200 miles away at the Alpine World Championships with the postponement of a race because of a local TV strike.
The walkout that forced the men's giant slalom to be abandoned in Bormio yesterday was organized by a small union of RAI state TV workers over contract issues, raising fears similar action could disrupt next year's Olympics.
"I'm a little bit ashamed by this," Valentino Castellani, Turin's chief Olympic organizer, told The Associated Press. "It's not good for the image of our country."
This is not the sort of display local organizers wanted to present to the IOC, which is holding a two-day executive board meeting exactly one year before the opening of the Feb. 10-26, 2006, Olympics in this Piedmont city at the foot of the Alps near the French border.
International Olympic Committee leaders will get a firsthand look at preparations for the games, as well as assurances that Turin's $196 million budget shortfall will be covered by the government.
Castellani stressed there is no danger of a TV strike at the Olympics because the organizing committee (TOROC) operates as host broadcaster and provides the TV feed. In addition, TOROC plans to negotiate a no-strike deal with trade unions for the games.
A few months ago, Turin was being compared to Athens and its delays in preparing for the 2004 Summer Olympics. But most venues are ready, and the IOC is upbeat.
"I don't think there is any possible comparison between Athens and Turin," said Gilbert Felli, the IOC's executive director for the Olympic Games. "They are on track."
The Olympic torch was presented in Turin yesterday for the first time. The torch relay will begin in Rome on Dec. 8 and travel more than 7,000 miles across the country before reaching Turin for the opening ceremony.
Just outside the IOC hotel, a ramp has been set up for a snowboard exhibition this weekend. There are World Cup biathlon races this week in San Sicario and snowboard events at Bardonecchia, both Olympic venues.
Bardonecchia, Italy Last month, the renovated arena in Turin hosted the European figure skating championships. World Cup luge races in Cesana Pario, however, were canceled last weekend after several bad crashes on the new track.
Tomorrow, dignitaries and former Olympic champions will gather for the unveiling of the official countdown clock, which ticks away the days, hours, minutes and seconds until the opening ceremony.
IOC president Jacques Rogge will send official invitations to the world's national Olympic committees; about 2,500 athletes from 85 nations are expected to participate.
expected to participate. Castellani will give a progress report to the IOC board, including the apparent resolution of TOROC's budget problems. After a highlevel meeting in Rome on Tuesday, the government said it would step in to cover the gap caused mainly by a shortage of state-owned sponsors.
Details still need to be worked out. As a private foundation, TOROC is prevented by state law from receiving government subsidies.
Meanwhile, the IOC board also is expected to recommend the expulsion of suspended IOC vice president Kim Un-yong in connection with corruption charges in South Korea. The IOC ethics commission will submit a report on Kim's case Friday.
Kim, who finished second to Rogge in the IOC presidential election in 2001, was suspended from the IOC a year ago after his arrest on embezzlement and bribery charges in South Korea. His country's Supreme Court upheld his two-year prison term last month, clearing the way for the IOC to consider expulsion. Kim, 75, has maintained his innocence and called the charges politically motivated.
If the board recommends his ouster, the final decision would go to the full IOC assembly in Singapore in July. A two-thirds vote is required for expulsion.
SOCCER
U.S. team victorious Trinidad defeated
BY RONALD BLUM
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
PORT-OF-SPAIN. Trinidad — Fifteen years later, the United States still knows how to spoil Trinidad's party.
Eddie Johnson kept up his incredible run of goals when he scored in the 30th minute, Eddie Lewis boosted the lead early in the second half and the United States beat Trinidad and Tobago 2-1 yesterday in the opener of the final round of World Cun qualifying.
World Cup qualifying.
Kasey Keller, who made a 23-hour trip from Germany on Monday to get to the game, made a sliding save on Leslie Fitzpatrick on a breakaway eight minutes into the second half that denied a tying goal. Keller also made several fine stops in the first half on Stern John and Dwight Yorke, playing his first official game for T&T since June 2001.
2001.
Less than three weeks ago, the Americans didn't even know if they would have their top players or would send a team of minor leaguers because of a labor dispute. But an interim settlement ensured the regulars would be on the field through 2005, and the 11th-ranked U.S. team imposed its will on Trinidad and Tobago, ranked 61st, until tiring in the final minutes.
"It's massive," Keller said, "especially with all the drama that's gone on around the team. The guys came together and got a great victory."
Until Angus Eve scored in the 89th minute on a cross that went in off Keller's hand, the home team didn't have much to cheer for. The United States, which plays its next qualifier at Mexico on March 27, is 22-0-8 against North and Central American and Caribbean rivals since a September 2001 loss at Costa Rica. The Americans haven't lost to a Caribbean opponent since a 1994 defeat in Trinidad.
"When you write the story of this game, there were a bunch of reasons why we couldn't be successful today." U.S. coach Bruce Arena said. "We never agreed with that. I think the way our team pulled together over the last couple of weeks to be ready to play this game under difficult conditions — travel, field conditions, the heat, everything else — it turns out to be a fantastic result."
Ash Wednesday usually is a beach day in this Caribbean nation, where the Carnival celebration that ends the previous night is huge. But the steel and samba drums were sounding for the Soca Warriors in the searing 90-degree heat at the Queen's Park Oval, with T&T hoping to continue the celebration and exact revenge for the November 1989 loss to the Americans that denied it a berth at the 1990 World Cup in Italy.
Johnson struck in the 30th minute, just as Paul Caligiuri did 15 years ago in the famous qualifier at nearby Hasley Crawford Stadium, a game that put the United States in soccer's top event for the first time since 1950.
Coming down the right flank of the 80-yard-wide field, Steve Cherunoldo crossed the ball into the penalty area and the 20-year-old Johnson, with no defenders near him on the near post, headed the ball into the net from 12 yards out. Goalkeeper Neil Shaka Hislop had no chance.
"The weight was already on the ball." Johnson said. "It was just about me redirecting it, and I thought I caught the keeper off guard."
He has six goals in just four international appearances and became the first player to score in each of his first four games with the U.S. national team. He matched William Looby (1955) and Brian McBride (2001) as the only player to score in four straight games and with six goals in qualifying already has tied Willy Roy for third on the career scoring list in qualifying behind Earnie Stewart (nine) and McBride (seven).
Nine minutes into the second half, Johnson passed the ball to Landon Donovan, who gave it to Lewis for a left-footed shot from about 23 yards out that easily went in. Arena credited Shaka Hislop for making several saves that kept the score close.
"The game could easily have been 3- or 4-nothing." Arena said.