2B = THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
WDNESDAY,APRIL 24,2002
SPORTS
HOROSCOPES
Today's Birthday (April 24).
today's slimty (April 12).
With your career established, love becomes a top priority. After you and your sweetheart get your routine worked out, you'll think of more ways to earn cash. This year promises success with both love and money.
Aries (March 21-April 19). Today is a 6. Although you're becoming amazingly successful, you don't really want to be a workaholic. You enjoy your playtime too much. Be intense in both your work and your play.
Taurus (April 20-May 20). Today is an 8. Late in the day will be perfect for soaking in the good life. Flowers can make any abode a palace, so why not gather some? Surround yourself with sweet fragrances, and the rest will come naturally.
Gemini (May 21-June 21). Today is a 6.
Feeling a little better, or are you not quite ready to go out into the world? If you're lucky, you won't have to. Schedule a date with your favorite snugglier for tonight.
You'll be up for that.
Cancer (June 22-July 22). Today is an B. A person who loves you may provide the missing puzzle piece you've been seeking. Let people know what's going on with you.
Leo(July 23-Aug. 22). Today is a 6.
One of the reasons you win so often is because you don't rest on your laurels. If there's something else you need to know, you learn how to do it. So don't be satisfied with a recent success. Start prepping for the next one.
Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). Today is an 8.
Provide comfort to a loved one who's having a tough time. Your plans are going well, so you can afford to be generous with your time and attention.
Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22). Today is a 7.
Isn't it funny how things can just fall into place? After pushing and pulling and struggling, how can it be so easy? That's how it'll be, but probably not till tomorrow.
Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21). Today is an 8.
A good friend is influential in your life again, so let people know what you want.
Most jobs and marriages result from contacts made through friends. If you want either, ask a friend to set you up.
Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). Today is a 6.
You'll see the wisdom of your choices as an old adversary turns into a friend. You're both stronger, more effective and happier now.
Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). Today is an 8. Travel will go much more smoothly today, especially if you're doing business. Think of something that will make your trip deductible.
Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). Today is a 7.
You're almost through the hardest part.
Plan a fabulous outing for tomorrow night,
and one for Friday, too. But nothing for
today. You're still in the tough part. Minimize distractions.
Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20). Today is a 6.
Something doesn't quite compute, and you can't quite figure it out. Maybe you're standing too close to the problem. A partner who's farther away can help guide you.
Barred skating judge attacks International Skating Union
The Associated Press
NEWYORK—Suspended in Salt Lake City, the French judge at the heart of the Olympic skating scandal is fighting back with charges of bias and misconduct against the International Skating Union.
A week before a hearing at ISU headquarters, Marie-Reine Le Gougne's lawyers Monday released a 24-page letter to the ISU attacking its "hasty, knee-jerk decision" to suspend her and award a second gold medal to the Canadian pairs team.
The lawyers contended she was suspended without conclusive evidence of misconduct and that ISU investigators conducted "biased" interviews in which they "grilled" Le Gougne, "attempting to trap her in a confession, but permitted her accusers to make outrageous, unsubstantiated and speculative accusations without any follow-up questions."
The attorneys said the ISU broke precedent by throwing out all the judges' votes, not just Le Gougene's, in awarding a second gold to Canadians Jamie Sale and David Pelletier, and that the combined results of all the judges, even with Le Gougene's marks canceled, still would have made the Russians, Elena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharulidze, gold-medal winners.
In a letter to the ISU, Swiss judge Christine Blanc said Le Gougne promised at Skate Canada in November she would favor the Russians for the Olympic gold, The Washington Post reported yesterday. Blanc joined three other judges who had accused Le Gougne or the French federation president Didier Gahlaguet of improper conduct.
The ISU denied Le Gougne due process, the attorneys argued, by failing to provide her a chance to cross-examine witnesses during the investigation and by not requiring all the judges to appear at the ISU council hearing next Monday and Tuesday in Lausanne, Switzerland.
Blanc said Le Gougne wanted to reciprocate for past favors that Russian judges supposedly granted
That, the attorneys said, suggested the ISU's actions were "hypocritical, inconsistent and discriminatory."
the French, the new newspaper
The lawyers for the French judge said the ISU
refused to provide "potentially exculpatory
evidence" concerning the financial motives of the
ISU figure skating technical committee and its
chairwoman, Sally Stapleford, to pressure Le
Gougne to accuse Gailhaguet of influencing her
vote.
the French, the newspaper said.
By refusing to hear accusations of misconduct against Stapleford, referee Ron Pfenning and Canadian judge Benoit Lavoie, Le Goune's lawyers said, the ISU acted in a "discriminatory manner, and is selectively prosecuting only those individuals that the ISU feels public pressure to prosecute."
Attorneys Maxwell Miller and Erik Christiansen insisted "there is no credible, consistent and uncoerced evidence of any misconduct" on her part in voting for the Russian pair.
They claimed the only credible evidence of misconduct is that of Stapleford "in lobbying judges to vote for the Canadians and in retaliating against Ms. Le Gougne and the French federation when Ms. Le Gougne did not obey Ms. Stapleford."
Stapleford, a British official whose father played hockey in Canada before he moved to England, told ISU investigators in Salt Lake City that she witnessed an outburst by Le Gougne after the pairs event in which Le Gougne said she was pressured by Gallhague into voting for the Russian couple.
Several others, including Jon Jackson, an American lawyer and figure skating judge who was present but not working at the Olympics, said in Salt Lake City they also witnessed Le Goune's outburst and that her complaints of pressure from Gailhaguet were spontaneous.
Le Gougne's attorneys told the ISU they would present evidence to show that Stapleford pressured judges to vote for the Canadian pair and that Pfening told judges not to give the Russian pair anything higher than a 5.8 because he did not want "the door closed"for other skaters.
The attorney for Pfening and Jackson, Benjamin Kaplan, declined to discuss the claims made by Le Gougne's lawyers.
Stapleford, who could not be reached for comment, previously denied Le Gougne's allegations.
Fight could be richest in history
The Associated Press
Memphis may soon have something else to boast about besides Graceland.
If ticket sales for the Tyson-Lewis title bout go as expected beginning today, the city likely will be playing host to the richest fight ever on June 8.
With ringside tickets costing $2,400 and even nosebleed seats going for $250, Mike Tyson's fight with Lennox Lewis for the heavyweight championship could gross nearly $19 million from the live gate alone.
gate alone.
That would make it the biggest live gate ever, surpassing the $16.8 million that Lewis and Evander Holyfield brought in for their second fight Nov. 13, 1999, in Las Vegas.
1995, in Las Vegas. "Nobody ever thought Memphis, Tenn., would host the biggest fight of all time," said Gary Shaw, Lewis' promoter.
Certainly nobody thought that in January when the fight was announced for April 6 at the MGM Grand hotel-casino in Las Vegas, the same property that was host to the infamous Tyson-Holyfield bite fight in 1997.
The fight was always going to be big, but many in boxing thought it was occurring five years too late and that Tyson's troubles outside the ring and the problems Lewis had inside of it would limit sales.
Tyson's outburst at a New York press conference in January, though, did more than just get the fight moved out of Las Vegas. It created a buzz that is allowing fight promoters to charge the highest priced ringseats ever.
Local promoters in Memphis landed the fight with a site fee bid of some $12.5 million. Their gamble figures to pay off now, assuming the public is willing to pay ticket prices astronomical even by boxing standards to be in the Pyramid arena on June 8.
June 8.
Ticket prices for the biggest fights in Las Vegas are generally $1,500 at ringside, although the Lewis-Hasim Rahman fight in November had $2,000 ringside seats.
"This is the fight that boxing has been waiting for," said Shaw, president of Main Events. "It got derailed for a while and that derailment brought it more publicity than it would have ever gotten any other way."
"I thought the prices were a little high, but I guess they can get it," said promoter Bob Arum, who does not have a stake in the fight. "I don't think the casinos would have stood for $2,400 tickets."
Local residents will get first chance at tickets today when a limited number of seats go on sale at the Pyramid. The tickets will be sold by lottery, with a maximum of two tickets each in the $250 and $500 categories.
Helping fuel sales will be an influx of British fans, who are expected to buy as many as 5,000 seats to cheer Lewis on.
"The demand is incredible. I think it will be sold out within a couple of days," Shaw said.
In addition to the lower priced tickets and the ringside seats, there are tickets in the $900 and $1,400 category. The average ticket price is more than $1,000.
In addition to the multimillion-dollar gate, the fight is expected to do big business on pay-per-view sales. The joint production by HBO and Showtime networks is expected to be bought by some 1.2 million homes, at about $50 a home.
Even at those figures, though, the fight will still lag behind Tyson-Holyfield II, which sold 1.9 million pay-per-view homes in addition to a live gate of $14.3 million.
TENNIS
Two women named to academic team
Kansas tennis players Christi Wagenaar and Kim Lorenz were named to the 2002 Academic All-Big 12 First Team yesterday. First-team members must have maintained a grade point average of 3.2 or higher
This season, Wagenaar, Westville, South Africa, senior, competed at both the No. 5 and No. 6 singles and carried a 2-9 record in the dual seasonal. Heading into the Big 12 Tournament, Wagenaar has a 42-39 career singles record and a 22-21 career doubles mark for her four year career at the University of Kansas.
Lorenz, Omaha, Neb., junior, has seen most of her singles action at the No. 6 position and carries a teamhigh 23 wins heading into the Big 12 Tournament. Lorenz started the spring dual season winning 11 straight singles matches. She also posted an 11-2 record over Big 12 opponents this season.
"This is a great accomplishment to get two players named to the first team," coach Kilney Waterman said. "Our main priority is to do well in the classroom as well as on the court."
—Kansan staff report
Wimbledon continues sex-biased awards
WIMBLEDON, England — Women still will earn less than the men at Wimbledon, even though total prize money at the Grand Slam tournament is going up.
The All England Club announced a 5 percent increase across the board in payoffs on yesterday, pushing the purse to $12.7 million.
The men's champion will receive $756,000, and the women's champion will get $700,000. Last year, Goran Ivanisevic was paid $720,000, and Venus Williams $666,000.
The total prize money is $6.29 million for men and $5.32 million for women, with the rest of the overall fund going to mixed doubles and senior doubles events.
The discrepancy between men's and women's prize money had narrowed the past two years because Wimbledon gave the women higher percentage increases. But not this year.
The Women's Tennis Association, which has campaigned for years for equal pay, was disappointed by the decision.
"We continue to be concerned over the lack of equality between women's and men's prize money." WTA Tour chief operations officer Josh Ripple said yesterday.
SOCCER
Soccer team among oldest at World Cup
NEW YORK The United States will head to the World Cup with one of the oldest teams in the tournament.
Ten of the 23 players selected by coach Bruce Arena will be 30 or older, up from five on the American team that finished last among the 32 nations at the 1998 tournament.
There were no surprises on Arena's roster, with Colorado Rapids defender Pablo Mastroeni, who has just eight international appearances, earning the final spot. He is the only player who didn't appear in any qualifiers.
The Associated Press
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