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SPORTS
WEDNESDAY.JULY23,2003
TICKETS
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According to Snyder, the money paid to the Williams Fund has now become a season-ticket fee and is wrongly enforced between ticket holders.
Snyder said that violated the equal protection laws.
The lawsuits states, "The dramatic increase in the fee for the season tickets is arbitrary and capricious and results in the unlawful taking of property by a state agency."
Hinrichs said premium seats should be reserved only for contributors to the Williams Fund.
"If you are sitting in the premium section, you want to know that the person sitting next to you is helping as much as you are to support KU athletics," Hinrichs said.
Hinrichs said 29 accounts were still unresolved.
Ticket holders have until July 31 to decide whether to pay the $5,000 or lose their premium seats.
The lawsuit hearing will start at 10 a.m. Friday at the Douglas County District Court.
— Edited by Maggie Newcomer
COLLEGE BASKETBALL
Clemons leaves team following chain of troubles
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) Missouri permanently dismissed basketball player Ricky Clemons from the team yesterday, ending his troubled tenure with the Tigers that included a guilty plea to misdemeanor assault and a severe accident near the home of the university president.
Clemons originally faced felony second-degree domestic assault charges after he was accused of choking a woman and holding her against her will at his apartment in January.
He pleaded guilty in April to reduced charges of misdemeanor third-degree assault and false imprisonment, and was sentenced to 60 days in jail.
He was also suspended from the basketball team for one year.
But on the night of July 4, Clemons was hurt in an all-terrain vehicle accident near the home of University of Missouri system President Elson Floyd.
Clemons suffered fractured ribs, a punctured lung, a serious laceration to
his chin and head in the accident.
Self calls reported violations gesture of team's compliance
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — To new Kansas coach Bill Self, it's almost a point of pride that during his three seasons at Illinois the school reported 20 minor violations to the NCAA.
The minor, or secondary, violations surrounding the program were reported Sunday by the St. Louis Post- Dispatch.
Because they didn't give the school a recruiting or competitive advantage, Illinois faced no sanctions.
Self, speaking Monday at the Great Plains APSE sports editors meeting, said the fact there were so many violations speaks to the strength of the compliance program at Illinois and not to any lack of institutional control.
"If you're not turning yourself in for secondary violations, your compliance program is not very good," Self said. "Everybody commits secondary violations. Everybody."
Illinois has four full-time staffers in its compliance office keeping tabs on its coaches, three more than at some
other schools where Self has coached Kansas hired Self in April after former coach Roy Williams left for North Carolina.
FOOTBALI
Heisman Trophy winner quits Packers before first workout
GREEN BAY, WIS. (AP) Eric Crouch has quit the NFL for the second time in 11 months.
The 2001 Heisman Trophy winner from Nebraska left the Green Bay Packers on the eve of full-squad workouts, which began yesterday.
He had hoped to win a job as one of Brett Favre's backups but coach Mike Sherman said he had little chance at beating out the three QBs ahead of him in that race.
Crouch sat out last season after the St. Louis Rams drafted him in the third round and tried to convert him into a wide receiver.
He was set to play quarterback in the Canadian Football League, which he thought could be a springboard to a career as an NFL quarterback, when the Packers claimed him off waivers this spring.