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SPORTS
WEDNESDAY, APRIL3, 2002
HOROSCOPES
Today's Birthday.
Something you're studying could lead to great riches. More research is required, but that should be easy. The subject is fascinating to you. Keep at it. For maximum profits, play by the rules.
Aries (March 21-April 19) - Today is a 6.
Pull in the reins; it's time to get practical. How are you going to pay for all this? Don't worry, you'll think of something. There's a lot going out, but there should also be a lot coming in.
Taurus (April 20-May 20) - Today is a 7.
tatuas (April 20- May 20) - Today is a day if things aren't going the way you want, hold out for a little while longer. Conditions are changing in your favor. The difficult situation won't disappear completely, but you'll find a way around it.
Gemini (May 21-June 21)-Today is a 7.
Take time out from the fun and games to discuss an upcoming expense. You know it's coming; don't let it creep up on you.
Cancer (June 22 - July 22) - Today is a 6.
Finish a job that's been giving you fits. Keep trying different methods until you find one that works. Then, celebrate with friends. But don't start partying early, or you'll miss your deadline.
Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) - Today is a 7.
New possibilities are opening up for love,
adventure and new friends - even though all the
details haven't been completely settled yet.
Leo (July 23-Aug. 22)-Today is a 7.
Time to prove you can do what you promised.
You can produce the results. Don't do it for the money. Do it for love.
Libra (Sept. 23-Oct 22) - Today is an 8.
You should be pretty efficient now. There should be time to add a little pizzazz to your household dicer. Start by removing the old pizza boxes, beer cans, etc. You may soon want to entertain again.
Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) - Today is a 6.
Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) - Today is a b.
A recent mystery will soon be revealed. You can learn a lot by just asking some questions.
Even people who clammed up before will sing like birds.
Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) - Today is a 7.
You can generally live in a fantasy world, but sometimes you have to get real. This is one of those times, so do the work and make the bucks. It'll be fun.
Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) - Today is a 7.
Make sure a gentle friend one knows how much he or she brings to your life. If you can't find the words, send flowers. That's also help you forget a problem you can't solve yet.
Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) - Today is a 7.
You're generally quick to discuss whatever's on your mind. Today, that's not a great idea. Hold your tongue for a couple of days. New information may change your perspective.
Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) - Today is a 6.
You know someone who's sometimes cranky but always trustworthy and true. That person could use a sympathetic listener now. If you lend an ear, your friend will solve his or her own problem.
Bonds belts homers in opener
The Associated Press
LOS ANGELES — At this rate, Barry Bonds will break his own home-run record this year.
Bonds homered twice and drove in five runs yesterday to lead the San Francisco Giants to a season-opening 9-2 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers.
After hitting 73 homers last year to topple the record set by Mark McGwire in 1998, Bonds hit a two-out, three-run shot off Kevin Brown on his second swing of the season, a drive that capped a five-run second innine
Bonds had an RBI single off Brown in the fourth, then sent a 1-1 pitch from Omar Daal just inside the right-field foul pole in seventh, becoming the 10th player to reach the loge level at Dodger Stadium.
The home runs gave Bonds five on opening day and 569 overall, moving four behind Harmon Killebrew, who ranks sixth on baseball's career list. Bonds has 57 multihomer games, including 10 last season, and is
Bonds, who popped to second on Brown's first pitch in the opening inning, took a called strike before hitting an 0-1 pitch into the left-field stands in the second.
fifth in the category. He became the 25th player to homer twice on opening day.
bonds, who came out of the game after hitting his second homer, ended last season by hitting his final three against the Dodgers at Pacific Bell Park including No. 73 off knuckle-baller Dennis Springer in the final game.
Livan Hernandez, making his third straight opening-day start for the Giants, won by allowing both runs and four hits in eight innings. Hernandez, who retired 14 straight batters before Mark Grudzielanek singled to start the eighth, also had two hits, scored twice and drove in a run.
Brown, making his first start since surgery on his right elbow Sept. 27, was battered for seven runs and nine hits in four innings. Brown, 3-3 in seven
opening-day starts, had been 8-1 with a 1.86 ERA against the Giants.
Notes: Bonds has two homers in 34 at-bats against Brown ... The game was played before a sellout crowd of 53,356. ... Hernandez had 24 hits, bats .300 and drove in eight runs last season ... The Giants are 28-17 and the Dodgers 24-21 in season-openers since the teams moved to California before the 1958 season ... The Giants are 5-2 against the Dodgers in seven season-openers between the teams since 1958 and 14-12-1 in openers against each other since 1900 ... Peter O'Malley, who succeeded his father, Walter, as president of the Dodgers in 1970 and held the post until selling the team to the Fox Group in 1998, threw out the ceremonial first pitch. ... When Dodger Stadium opened nearly 40 years ago — on April 10, 1962 — it was Peter's mother and Walter's wife, Kay, who throw out the ceremonial first pitch. ... Blues artist Patti LaBelle sang the national anthem.
Coach illegally paid his players
The Associated Press
TAMPA, Fla. — The University of Tampa has been placed on one-year's probation and its women's soccer team banned from postseason play because its founding coach improperly paid players' tuition and violated recruiting rules, the NCAA said yesterday.
Former women's soccer coach George Fotopoulos, now the coach at Louisiana State University, used his own money and his father's to pay tuition for six players and provided two Swedish recruits improper housing and transportation, the NCAA said.
Fotopoulos, a Tampa graduate and former professional player with the Tampa Bay Rowdies and
the New Orleans Riverboat Gamblers, was placed on probation until 2003.
His wife, professional soccer player Danielle Fotopoulos of the Carolina Courage and a member of the 1999 women's World Cup team, was banned from involvement with his teams under the NCAA's sanctions.
Fotopoulos declined comment yesterday through LSU's sports information office.
In addition to being placed on probation, Tampa's women's soccer team is banned from the NCAA tournament for a year. The team also had to stop its recruitment of international students.
The university crafted a series of reforms for itself and has been
implementing them since the investigation began in 1999. It has recently heightened its compliance monitoring and is regularly conducting training for coaches.
"It hurts our reputation, which up to this point has been pretty spotless," said Gil Swalls, Tampa's associate athletic director.
The NCAA said Fotopoulos arranged for a $3,500 payment from his father to two students to help them pay tuition and fees at the private university in 1998. A year later, Fotopoulos paid another $1,500 to two students and after leaving Tampa in 1999, paid yet another $3,000 for two team members' tuition.
Nets' Martin under scrutiny for fouls
The Associated Press
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J.
— On the eve of his first meeting of the season with the Lakers, Nets forward Kenyon Martin stated "I am not a thug" while cautiously adding that he wouldn't hesitate to foul Shaquille O'Neal if necessary.
Martin, who has played in two games since serving a two-game suspension for his sixth flagrant foul, will be in the national spotlight and under even more scrutiny as New Jersey makes a rare appearance today on TNT.
it's no fun having the eyes of Big Brother focused on him. ESPN sent a camera crew to last Saturday's game against Philadelphia with the assignment of focusing exclusively on Martin.
Martin was serving another suspension in early March when the Lakers defeated New Jersey 101-92 in Los Angeles.
The previous day, a reporter from National Public Radio was among those sent to interview the player some see as the league's latest bad boy. That came just days after commissioner David Stern criticized Martin in a television interview.
Martin is aware that the NBA, through its referees, will be keeping an extra close eye on him for the foreseeable future.
The Lakers will be coming off last night's game at Washington making their annual visit to the Meadowlands, where the Nets have put together an 11-game home winning streak.
He has come to realize that
Scott said Martin would be used as a help defender on O'Neal and, at times, as a man-to-man defender on Kobe Bryant. Scott also said the Nets would use most of their 18 fouls (from centers Todd MacCul-
loch, Aaron Williams and Jason Collins) to send O'Neal to the free throw line.
The hope is that Martin, if and when he does foul O'Neal, Bryant, Robert Horry or anyone else, doesn't do so with any added vigor.
"My advice to him would be to be careful," said Charlotte's P.J. Brown, who has come under the NBA microscope in the past after a series of rough plays. "Play hard, but those flagrant elbows, be careful when you throw them. There's a time and place for everything."
In the eyes of many people, Martin is being seen as the latest incarnation in a long line of dirty and/or obnoxious players that stretches from Rasheed Wallace to Dennis Rodman to Bill Lainbeer and beyond.
"He didn't want the dirty player moniker assigned to him," said union director Billy Hunter.
TENNIS Courtney Steinbock named Big 12 Player of the Week
Kansas tennis player Courtney Steinbock was named Big 12 Conference Tennis Player of the Week yesterday.
in singles the sophomore beat Baylor's Frida Borjesson at No. 3 singles 6-4, 6-2 in Lawrence and then downed Deni Alexandrova of No. 52 Iowa 6-3, 6-2. With these two recent victories, Steinbock extended her singles winning streak to seven straight matches this season. This season she is 9-5 in dual action and 7-0 versus Big 12 opponents.
"Courtney really deserves this honor," coach Kilmeny Waterman said. "She has improved in both singles as well as doubles this year and her results have been really good playing against some tough competition."
Kansan staff report
This is the second time Steinbock has been named Big 12 Player of the Week. She also received the honor the week of April 16, 2001.
SPORTS MEDIA Costas increases role with HBO network
NEW YORK — Bob Costas is expanding his role at HBO under a multi-year contract that includes appearances on "Inside the NFL."
Two TV industry sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, told The Associated Press about the deal yesterday. HBO declined comment. However, the cable network did announce that it will hold a news conference Wednesday, but wouldn't say why.
Costas, a 12-time Sports Emmy winner who joined HBO a year ago for his show "On the Record," couldn't be reached for comment.
But his business agent, Pam Davis, said yesterday: "He says he will announce tomorrow what he's going to do for HBO. It doesn't preclude involvement with NBC. The network portion is not defined."
GOLF
Back pains cause Nicklaus to drop out of Masters
Jack Nicklaus, the most dominant player at Augusta National with six green jackets won over 23 years, withdrew yesterday from the Masters because of lingering back problems.
It will be only the second time since 1959 that Nicklaus has missed the Masters. He also skipped in 1999 when he was recovering from hip replacement surgery.
While the 62-year-old Golden Bear has expressed concerns about competing against players half his age on an Augusta National course that has added nearly 300 yards, it was a back injury that has plagued him for nearly a year that forced him to withdraw.
Nicklaus also withdrew from this week's Legends of Golf on the Senior PGA Tour.
"I have tried over the last couple of months to get my body and my golf game in shape," Nicklaus said. "Neither is at the point I hoped they'd be at this stage."
The Associated Press
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