TUESDAY MAY 6,2007
"No more pictures. That's what got me in trouble."
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— Iowa State men's basketball coach Larry Eustachy to reporters outside his home
TUESDAY, MAY 6, 2003
Inside Sports
Joey Berlin
jtims@kansan.com
Wild boys: coaches party all night long
It's a fair question to ask: Are all college coaches wild and crazy pleasure-seekers?
One Division I coach caught engaging in frat-boy antics is a novelty. When it happens twice in one week, you have to wonder if there's a trend here.
It may be that behind coaches' ties, mock turtlenecks and headsets lurk the hearts of hedonists who need to get ripped and feel young again.
We know power corrupts. Presidents, CEO's, members of Motley Crue — once they establish themselves as powerful figures, they use their power in all sorts of slimy, decadent ways. Evidently, being head coach at a Division I college has the same kind of effect on Eustachy and Price.
Like criminal or terrorist profiling, the practice of "coach profiling" needs to be reexamined with the changing times. The stereotype of the coach who spends his spare time drawing-up new plays and breaking-down game film may be outdated.
The recent revelations about former Iowa State men's basketball coach Larry Eustachy and former Alabama football coach Mike Price should change the way we look at coaches. Eustachy's drunken, dirty-middle-aged-man moves on coeds at Kansas State and Missouri parties ended his coaching tenure last night in a settlement with the university. Price was fired for, among other things, paying for dances at a topless bar.
If the answer is yes, it opens the door to a host of other questions.
Did Roy Williams leave Kansas for North Carolina because he wanted to follow his lifelong dream? Or did Williams simply want a shorter trip to Atlanta's notorious Gold Club?
By day, coaches want to win games. But is it possible that by night, the typical coach has an instinctive desire to get his drink on and score some tail?
What about Bill Self? Did Drue Jennings lure Self away from Illinois with a trip to the Outhouse? Or is Self a houseparty man who relishes the prospect of parallel parking at 12th and Tennessee Streets to trek to a 10-kegger one block up the hill?
In truth, it's probably just a coincidence that Eustachy and Price were caught at about the same time. It's worth pondering how the status of coaches affects their social limits, but we need more evidence before we can slap a wildparty-boy label on all college coaches.
In the meantime, keep an eye on where Mark Mangino spends his Friday nights. After an evening of screaming at high school referees, you have to blowoff steam somehow.
Berlin is a Leawood senior in journalism
Royals set home victory record
The Associated Press
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Kansas City Royals became the first team in 92 years to win its first 11 home games, rallying for two runs in the ninth inning to beat the Boston Red Sox 7-6 last night.
Mike Sweeney scored the winning run on shortstop Nomar Garciaparra's second error of the game.
Garciaparra, whose two-run homer tied it at 5 in the eighth, let Brent Mayne's two-out grounder go under his glove. A moment earlier, Brandon Lyon (1-1) hit Desi Relaford with a pitch to force in the tying run.
Garciaparra has eight errors this season; last week he had the first three-error game of his career.
Albie Lopez (4-0) got the victory despite allowing Jason Varitek's tiebreaking homer in the top of the ninth.
With a victory tonight the Royals would tie the 1911 Detroit Tigers, who
won their first 12 home games to set the modern major league record. Kansas City is 9-9 on the road.
Varitek's two-out homer in the ninth put the Red Sox on top 6-5.
Lyon gave up a single to Michael Tucker, then a walk and a single to Raul Ibanez to load the bases. Lyon struck out Ken Harvey for the second out before hitting Relaford.
The Royals, who were swept in a three-game series in Boston last week, blew a 5-0 lead.
Darrell May, looking for his first victory since last Sept. 11, got a standing ovation when he handed a 5-3 lead to Jason Grimsley with one on and one out in the eighth following Todd Walker's single.
But Garciaparra hit a 2-1 pitch over the fence in center for his fifth home run. Varitek then hit a 1-0 pitch from Lopez, who started the ninth.
Boston starter Derek Lowe lasted only 3 2-3 innings. He gave up five runs
— four earned — on seven hits, with three walks and three strikeouts.
May retired 12 of the first 14 batters he faced, but on his first five pitches of the fifth innning Shea Hillenbrand doubled. Bill Mueller homered and Varitek doubled. With two outs, Walker hit the third double of the inning to drive in Varitek and make it 5-3.
Relaford and Tucker each hit two-run shots off Lowe in the fourth to give the Royals a 5-0 lead. Harvey singled ahead of Relaford's shot and Dee Brown singled before Tucker lifted an opposite-field homer over the fence in left.
Tucker singled leading off the first and went to third when Garciaparra fielded Joe Randa's grounder and threw the ball into right field for Boston's sixth error in its last four games.
Sweeney's infield out then scored Tucker with an unearned run. May was charged with four runs on seven hits.
K.C. attractions prepared for storms
The Associated Press
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Sunday's tornado passed by the Kansas Speedway in Kansas City, Kan., causing little to no damage, but the widespread destruction nearby provided a reminder of why both tourist attractions have emergency plans in place.
Spokesman Stann Tate said the speedway was in touch with weather services for several hours before any race.
The grandstands seat more than 80,000 people, but Tate said there could be an additional 20,000 fans in the infield area of the track.
speedway would try to evacuate all fans from the premises. With Interstates 70 and 435 nearby, Tate said the 100,000 fans could be evacuated in an hour-and-a-half to two hours.
In the best case scenario, Tate said the
Otherwise, the speedway has safe zones in which fans can gather.
"There are some safe areas, but if we had 100,000 people out here, we don't have that much space," Tate said.
Tate said employees perform exercises before each race season to prepare for potential emergencies. Speedway staff also meet with officials from the Kansas Highway Patrol, Wyandotte County Sheriff's Department and local police.
Tate said the speedway always had an operations center open during the race with the law enforcement agencies. He said the Speedway also runs a fire patrol in the grandstands during a race and has a medical center and helicopter from the
University of Kansas Medical Center on site.
Steve Schneider, director of stadium operations at Arrowhead Stadium, said plans were in place to move Kansas City Chiefs and Wizards fans out of harm's way if necessary.
In his seven years working at the stadium, Schneider remembers evacuating fans just once; in October 1998, during a Chiefs game he remembers as the "monsoon game." It was delayed by lightning, and fans were asked to leave the seating area and move into the concourses below.
In a tornado, Schneider said security officers and stadium workers would encourage fans to head to Arrowhead's lowest level. If necessary, Schneider said, fans could move into an underground tunnel connecting Arrowhead and the Royals' Kauffman Stadium.
Honor code could curb unruly fans
Bv Debbie Green
Iowa State Daily via U-wire
Iowa State University
AMES, Iowa — The NCAA Commissioners will look more in depth this June at the proposal for a Big 12 Sportsmanship Honor Code.
This honor code is designed to encourage good sportsmanship from all spectators at athletic events.
Student governmental bodies at Big 12 schools have noticed a growing concern over the conduct of spectators at events, said T.J. Schneider, former Government of the Student Body president. They all joined together in an effort to create the Sportsmanship Honor Code.
"It will help educate people about policies, procedures, good fan behaviors and to help reduce any future spectator problems," said Mike Banasiak, newly elected GSB president.
Currently, there is a sportsmanship honor code for athletes, but not athletic event spectators.
This honor code is more educational
in nature and, if adopted by the Big 12 Conference, will be found in a variety of publications such as athletic programs, media guides and Big 12 Web sites. It will also be displayed on jumbotrons and found on the back of sporting event tickets in efforts to remind fans of positive spectator behaviors.
As an incentive to have good sportsmanship, there would be an award given to a Big 12 university that showed overall sportsmanship throughout the year. After the conclusion of the baseball season, ballots would be sent out. Input from alumni organizations, the university president and student governments will help provide information about each university. The number of incidents regarding alcohol, fighting, throwing objects and postgame incidents will also be weighed to determine which Big 12 university should win the award.
At Iowa State, there hasn't been one specific problem that had raised awareness of this need, but different issues have arisen on occasion. Banasiak said one
Other Big 12 universities have seen problems, such as spectators throwing objects on to the field. There have been incidents where frozen tortillas, oranges and marshmallows stuffed with marbles and rocks have been thrown at the field.
example was the T-shirts worn by some ISU students during the football game against Nebraska. The shirts had profanity printed on them directed toward Nebraska fans. After the game, fans rushed on to the field to attack the goal post.
"These guidelines are not to make events less fun, just to make it a better environment for everyone, including players who get distracted during the game by things being thrown onto the field," Schneider said.
Schneider said they have support from the ISU athletic department on this venture.
"The ISU Athletics Department and Alumni Association support this honor code," Schneider said. "They were looking for a way to promote sportsmanship better and this is a way to help them do it."
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Hey Senator Wagle, you bring the porn, I'll bring the beer. Love, Larry Eustachy.
Does anyone else think it's kind of annoying that they put the tornado warning sign in front of the Dallas-Portland game score?
Connecticut forward arrested for selling drugs to an officer
By Chris Gillon
The Daily Campus via U-wire University of Connecticut
STORRS, Conn. — Mike Hayes, a forward on the Connecticut men's basketball team, was arrested in Hartford, Conn., on Thursday.
Hartford police said Hayes sold more than a pound of marijuana to an undercover police officer Thursday.
Hayes was charged with possession of a controlled substance, possession of a controlled substance with the intent to sell and possession of a controlled substance within 1,500 feet of a school.
The 6-foot-8, 236-pound senior transferred to Connecticut after studying at Cowley County Community College in Arkansas City, Kan.
Hayes posted bond and was scheduled to appear in Hartford Superior Court on May 15.
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