2B • THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
SPORTS IN BRIEF
TUESDAY, MARCH 5, 2002
HOROSCOPES
Today's Birthday (March 5).
Today's Birthday (March 5).
Should you invest all of your time and talent at work, or spend it on projects at home?
That's one of the big dilemmas you're facing this year. The answer: Everything in moderation. A risky proposition probably won't pay off. A gentle romance could. A difficult household task is a pain, but immensely satisfying when completed.
Aries (March 21-April 19). Today is a 7.
Make an investment in something for yourself. Putmoney down on that cruise, or new bike, or new car. If you don't have that much to spend, how about dinner out?
Taurus (April 20-May 20). Today is a 6.
If in doubt, don't. If your intuition is trying to tell you something, listen. If you feel the urge to step aside and let the rats race right on by, do that. It's wise not to play in traffic.
Gemini (May 21-June 21). Today is a 6. Instead of snapping at an irritating person, practice your deep-breathing exercises. The irritating person may be right.
Cancer (June 22-July 22). Today is a 7.
Better pack a lunch. There may not be
time to go out. Put travel plans on hold,
too. Simplify your schedule as much as
you can. If something goes wrong, you'll
need time to fix it.
Leo (July 23-Aug. 22). Today is a 7.
If your love life is encountering difficulty,
maybe you need more time to talk. Pencil
that into your schedule for Sunday.
Meanwhile, listen.
Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). Today is a 6.
Out with the old, in with the new. You're in
the mood to seriously clean house. Don't
toss out something your mate wants to
keep, or there'll be trouble.
Libra (Sept. 23-Oct 22). Today is a 7.
New complications arise, blasting your
schedule to bits. Send out messages to
let people know if something you promised
will be late. New information may
convince you that a change is required.
Stay flexible.
Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21). Today is a 6.
Don't pour money down a rat hole. Keep close tabs on the job to determine if you're getting good value on your investment. You can get a fair deal, but you probably won't get a great one.
Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). Today is a 7.
You used to put up with all sorts of irritations, but not anymore. You want things to go your way, and you're willing to pitch a fit. That will work better on Friday.
Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). Today is a 7.
You don't have to reveal everything you know. That includes all the tricks you tried that didn't work. Let people think you always do it right the first time.
Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). Today is a 7.
Some people admire you for your lofty credentials, or because you're so smart. Others give you a run for your money. Which are your true friends? The ones who make you laugh.
Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20). Today is a 6.
Do your best to provide what's needed—once you can figure out what that is.
Respect authority. They'll love that, and one of them might even start making more sense.
Dogs, mushers take off on 1.100-mile Iditarod race
The Associated Press
WASILLA, Alaska — Sixty-four muskers and more than 1,000 dogs headed out under a cloudless sky Sunday, beginning a 1,100-mile trek along frozen rivers to Nome, Alaska, in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.
Sled Dog Rewild
Linwood Fiedler of Willow, Alaska, last year's runner-up, took the early lead, arriving at the Yentna checkpoint at 5:01 p.m. Alaska time and leaving five minutes later. DeeDee Jonrowe, also of Willow, took a 25-minute break and was second out of the checkpoint 42 minutes after Fiedler.
Jon Little of Kasilof, the third musher to start the race and the first into Yentna, took a longer rest. A total of 11 mushers made it to the first checkpoint before 6 p.m.
With the festivities of the ceremonial start behind them, the mushers were focused on the real start, which took place 45 miles north of Anchorage.
Charlie Boulding of Manley, who drew the top starting position, checked his sled bag as he waited for the start, with temperatures in the low teens.
"I always like to get out of here early because of the heat. My dogs aren't used to that," said Boulding, a fisherman and trapper who lives on the Tanana River in Alaska. "If you're leaving vay in the back you're leaving in the heat of the day."
The teams travel up frozen rivers before heading into the Alaska Range. They will have reached the highest elevation of the trail — 3,160 feet — at Rainy Pass, about 200 miles into the race, by late yesterday.
Fans enjoyed the sunshine and watched from lawn chairs as the teams headed out at two-minute intervals on a trail that winds through wooded hills of spruce and birch. More fans were waiting farther down the trail, traveling to the Yentna River on snowmobiles and holding tailgate parties as the mushers pass.
Snowmobiles pose a problem. Last year, a musher was forced to scratch just 25 miles into the race after a snowmobile collided with his dogs, injuring two of them.
"When it gets dark, then it gets dangerous." Boulding said.
Defending champion Doug Swingley of Lincoln, Mont., said snowmobiles could make the first hundred miles tricky.
Norwegian musher Harald Tunheim was at the starting line despite a sprained right ankle that forced him to watch Saturday's ceremonial start on TV while a handler ran his team.
runneim said the injury may make it difficult to keep his balance. Bumps in the trail can require drivers to shift weight from one foot to another while standing on the back of the sled.
Re-hired umpstake the field
The Associated Press
HAINES CITY, Fla. — Bill Hohn joked with Kansas City manager Tony Muser at home plate, jogged past the pitcher's mound and took his position in the green grass just beyond second base.
With that simple trot in a spring training game yesterday, Hohn was back in baseball, 2-and-a-half years after losing his job as an ampire.
"It always feels good when you're on a big league field," he said.
Hohn was among 22 umps let go on Sept. 2, 1999, after a mass resignation plan by their union failed. Last week, after lengthy legal proceedings, baseball rehired Hohn, Joe West, Larry Poncino, Gary Darling and Larry Vanover.
Poncino and West worked their first games Sunday.
Sunday.
"I'm just happy to be back umpiring," Poncino said following the Giants-Rockies game in Tucson, Ariz. "Maybe down the line I will have a little something to say."
Along with the sage green uniforms they wear these days, instead of the dark blue and gray of the past, the returning umpires will find other changes.
The National League and American League umpiring staffs have been merged and are run by the commissioner's office, and there's a new umpires union.
There's a focus on calling higher strikes and an emphasis on preventing beamball battles. Even the technology has changed — reports on ejections
are e-mailed, not mailed.
"There are a lot of things that are different," Hohn sadd.
While baseball hopes those troubles do not spill onto the field, former umpires' union president Jerry Crawford acknowledged, "It'll never be the same way as it was before."
Baseball also is aware there's bound to be acrimony. The split among umpires in 1999 caused harsh feelings that may never heal, especially after several umps who lost their jobs went through severe financial and personal problems.
And there are legal battles ahead, particularly over the back pay the umpires are trying to regain. Plus, there are continuing efforts on behalf of Richie Garcia, Eric Gregg and the other umps who are still out of jobs.
Hohn's first regular-season game will be April 1 at Busch Stadium when Colorado plays St. Louis. His crew will include Larry Young, a longtime acquaintance, and two umpires he has not yet met, Bill Miller and Fieldin Culbreth.
On this afternoon, a sparse crowd of 1,298 had no reason to notice the umpires. But Reds catcher Kelly Stinnett, who began his major league career in 1994 and has played only in the NL, thought he spotted someone familiar.
"A lot of the umpires, you know them by face and not by name," he said. "I was looking at one guy, thinking I knew him, but I wasn't sure. Then Marsh said it was Bill Hohn.
"I'm glad those guys are back. They're part of the game and they belong," Stinnett said.
Got a Game This Weekend?
The University Daily Kansan wants to print scores and highlights from club and intramural sports. If you would like information from your game to be published in each Monday paper of the semester, please call Mike Bauer between noon and 4 p.m. Sundays at 864-4815 or e-mail sports@kansan.com anytime with the sport, score, place, date, team highlights, team record, date and place of your next game and contact information.
All information must be submitted by 4.p.m. Sunday. Any information submitted after that deadline will appear the following Monday.
Also, for better coverage we would like a copy of your sport's season schedule. With a schedule of when and where your team is playing, we may be able to send a photographer and/or reporter to your event.
For additional information contact Sarah Warren or Levi Chronister at 864-4858.
CANCELLATIONS
BASEBALL
The Kansas baseball team's game against Oral Roberts University today in Tulsa, Okla., has been canceled because of frigid temperatures. Although no makeup date is scheduled, it is still possible the game could be played in the future, said baseball media relations director Mason Logan
The Jayhawks' past five games have have been canceled because of inclement weather.
Ryan Wood
SOFTBALL
Ali Brox
The Kansas softball team's home opener against Washburn University today has been postponed because of inadequate field conditions. The game is rescheduled for Wednesday, April 3 at Jayhawk Field.
MEN'S APTOP25
The top 25 teams in The Associated Press' men's college basketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Feb. 10, total points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote and previous ranking. team
| rank team | rec | pts | pvs |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| 1. Kansas (57) | 27-2 | 1,761 | 1 |
| 2. Maryland (14) | 25-3 | 1,717 | 2 |
| 3. Duke | 26-4 | 1,615 | 3 |
| 4. Oklahoma | 24-3 | 1,553 | 5 |
| 5. Cincinnati | 27-3 | 1,489 | 4 |
| 6. Gonzega | 28-3 | 1,362 | 7 |
| 7. Pittsburgh | 25-4 | 1,306 | 10 |
| 8. Alabama | 24-6 | 1,197 | 6 |
| 9. Oregon | 22-7 | 1,177 | 13 |
| 10. Illinois | 23-7 | 1,010 | 15 |
| 11. Florida | 21-7 | 1,006 | 8 |
| 12. Kentucky | 20-8 | 1,001 | 11 |
| 13. Marquette | 24-5 | 979 | 9 |
| 14. Oklahoma St. | 23-7 | 831 | 12 |
| 15. Arizona | 19-9 | 769 | 14 |
| 16. Stanford | 19-8 | 690 | 17 |
| 17. Georgia | 21-8 | 536 | 16 |
| 18. W. Kentucky. | 26-3 | 482 | 20 |
| 19. Connecticut | 21-6 | 474 | 23 |
| 20. Miami | 23-6 | 427 | 22 |
| 21. Ohio St. | 20-7 | 351 | 18 |
| 22. Southern Cal | 20-8 | 348 | 19 |
| 23. Indiana | 19-10 | 180 | 25 |
| 24. Xavier | 22-5 | 175 | — |
| 25. California | 21-7 | 104 | 21 |
Others receive keys: Wake Forest 84, Texas Tech 69,
Mississippi St. 65, Hawaii 59, Kent St. 51, Pearson 41,
Michigan St. 38, UCLA 23, Tusahai 8, Wisconsin 15, Texas
14, Virginia 10, N.C. University 8, N.C. State 7, Texas 6,
Wyoming 5, Cent. Connecticut St. 4, Notre Dame 8, Butler,
Louisville 3, Memphis 3, Memphis 4, Missouri 2.
WOMEN'S APTOP25
ik team    rec   pts   pls
1. Connecticut (44) 31-0 1,100 1
2. Stanford 30-1 1,052 2
3.Duke 26-3 993 4
4.Oklahoma 24-3 970 5
5.Vanderbilt 27-6 917 6
6.Tennessee 25-4 896 3
7.Baylor 24-4 823 8
8.Louisiana Tech 22-4 759 9
9.Purdue 23-5 721 11
10.Colorado 21-8 685 11
11.iowa St. 21-7 634 10
12.Texas 19-8 626 13
13.Kansas St. 23-6 574 14
14.South Carolina 22-6 496 12
15.Old Dominion 22-5 422 16
16.North Carolina 24-7 399 19
17.Texas Tech 17-10 351 15
18.Colorado St. 23-5 339 20
19.Minnesota 21-7 266 17
20.Boston College 22-6 250 18
21.Cincinnati 25-4 231 23
22.LSU 17-11 162 —
23.Penn St. 21-10 119 —
24.Florida 18-10 98 22
25.Fla.International 24-5 87 —
Others receiving gifts; Notre Dame 74, Arkansas 47,
TCU 45, Georgia 41, Villanova 32, UNLV 23, Arizona St.
17, Mississippi St. 13, Drake 8, New Mexico 6, Tulane 5,
Wisconsin 5, Alabama 3, Indiana 3, Saint Joseph's 3, UC
San Barbara 3, Syracuse 2.
KU College Republicans presents Carla Stovall
Tuesday, March 5th 7:30 pm Pine Room, Kansas Union EVERYONE IS WELCOME
The Gubernatorial Candidate and Kansas Attorney General will be speaking at the KU College Republicans meeting.
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