8B = THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THE UNIVERSITY DAHM
SPORTS
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2003
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Forwards Nichelle Roberts and Blair Waltz double-team Missouri's Tracy Lozier during Kansas' 61-54 defeat on Feb. 15. The Jayhawks will try to even the border war when they travel to Columbia tomorrow.
Missouri and Kansas to duel in border war
By Shane Mettlen
smettlen@kansan.com
Kansan sportswriter
The Kansas women's basketball team will visit Missouri for the second game of this year's border war at 6 p.m. tomorrow.Both teams are coming off disappointing losses and looking to get back on track.
Kansas will try to forget about Wednesday night's 80-57 drubbing at the hands of Kansas State with a victory over its other archrival, Missouri.
The Tigers, meanwhile, will try to rebound from a 74-69 heartbreaker against Oklahoma on Wednesday.
With the loss, the Tigers slipped into sixth place in the Big 12 Conference, one game behind the Sooners.
Foul shots made the difference for Oklahoma.
The Sooners went to the line 36 times compared to eight free throw attempts for the Tigers. Despite the wide margin, Missouri stayed close the entire game.
"I give credit to our kids for hanging in there and battling, because it's horrible that they had to fight against that kind of disparity from the free-throw line," Missouri coach Cindy Stein said after the game. "It's unfortunate because we really needed this game, and it definitely shows what the kids had to go through. There were times we lost our poise, but I was so proud of the way this team battled."
Evan Unrau and Tracy Lozier led the Tigers with 17 points each. Unrau also led Missouri in scoring in the season's first meeting with Kansas with 18 points. The Tigers won 61-55 in Lawrence.
If the Jayhawks are to be successful this time around they will need to continue to get the ball into the post. Kansas outscored Missouri 32-24 in the paint during the game in Lawrence.
Edited by Christy Dendurent
Pitcher: Many baseball players 'juiced'
NEW YORK — David Wells claims up to 40 percent of major-leaguers use steroids and says amphetamines are readily available in baseball clubhouses.
The Associated Press
"As of right now, I'd estimate 25 to 40 percent of all major-leaguers are juiced. But that number's fast rising." Wells wrote in "Perfect I'm Not! Boomer on Beer, Brawls, Backaches and Baseball," an autobiography scheduled for release next month.
Wells also admits he was "halfdrunk" and had a "raging, skullrattling hangover" when he
pitched his perfect game against Minnesota in May 1998, having stayed at the "Saturday Night Live" season-ending party until 5 a.m., eight hours before game time.
A copy of the galleys of the book, written by Chris Kreski, was obtained by The Associated Press from publisher William Morrow.
"Down in the minors, where virtually every flat-broke, baloney-sandwich-eating Double-A prospect is chasing after the same, elusive, multimillion-dollar payday, the use of anabolic homer-helpers is flat-out booming." Wells wrote. "At just about
12 bucks per shot, those steroid vials must be seen as a really solid investment."
He writes that amphetamines are so commonplace that "stand in the middle of your clubhouse and walk 10 feet in any direction, chances are you'll find what you need."
"As a pitcher, I won't ever object to a sleepy-eyed middle infielder bearing up to help me win," Wells said. "That may not be the politically correct spin on the practice, but I really couldn't care less."
Rob Manfred, executive vice president of labor relations in the commissioner's office.
declined comment on Wells' claims. Major-leaguers are being tested for the first time this year for certain illegal steroids and drugs of abuse, but the testing has been criticized by some as not extensive enough to be effective.
The 39-year-old left-hander was not available for comment yesterday.
In the book, Wells alternately criticizes and praises Roger Clemens, admits he's not friendly with teammate Mike Mussina, says Andy Pettitt was angered by Hideki Irabu's large salary and calls former teammate Kenny Rogers a "cuckoo-bird."
Courtney Kuhlen/Kansas
Sophomore forward Wayne Simien is escorted off the court after reinjuring his shoulder during Wednesday night's game against Texas A&M. Coach Roy Williams announced Simien was done for the season during a press conference yesterday.
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ing his mother, Margaret, worry in the stands, Williams said.
"When a kid sits there and says 'Coach, it's hard for Mom to sit there and watch me wince all the time,' it's difficult," Williams said.
Sinien's comeback reached the end of the road during Wednesday's game against Texas A&M. He played less than a minute before a collision with an Aggie player sent him to the sideline and then the locker room. His shoulder had come out of place again. Sinien was able to pop it into the socket himself, but he did
not return to the floor.
An X-ray yesterday morning revealed that his condition hadn't changed, but Simien's outlook on the rest of the season had.
He and Williams met at 10:15 yesterday morning and agreed to make plans for a surgery within the next month. The surgery will tighten the ligaments that hold the joint together.
After the surgery and four to six months of rehabilitation Simien should return full force, said Kansas basketball trainer Mark Cairns.
"He'll come back stronger," he said. "The shoulder's stable. The bone looks good."
-Edited by Todd Rapp
The Associated Press
Celtics player Baker faces suspension
WALTHAM, Mass. — Vin Baker was suspended indefinitely by the Boston Celtics on Thursday after meeting with team officials, reportedly to discuss problems with alcohol.
The Celtics issued a statement on their Web site saying Baker had left the team "to address personal issues. It is unknown when Baker will rejoin the team." General manager Chris Wallace later confirmed Baker had been suspended.
Baker did not attend practice
yesterday after The Boston Globe, citing unidentified sources, reported he would be suspended for two weeks for alcohol-related problems. The brief statement from the team did not refer to a suspension, but Wallace said on his weekly radio show that the Celtics suspended Baker.
"Our first and foremost concern is Vin Baker the person, and we believe that taking time off is the best thing for him to do at this time." Wallace said in the statement. "We look forward to his successful return to the team."
Baseball works toward banning ephedra
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — Baseball took its first move toward banning ephedra by prohibiting players with minor league contracts from taking the substance, which was linked to the death of Baltimore Orioles pitcher Steve Bechler.
The commissioner's office is powerless to extend the ban to major leaguers, who are covered by the collective bargaining agreement with the players' association.
But commissioner Bud Selig made the decision Monday to ban the use of ephedra in the minors, and notice was transmitted to the teams in a memorandum by Jennifer Gefsky, a lawyer in the labor
relations department of the commissioner's office.
"The minor leagues have always been the testing ground," said Brian Falkenberg, a pitcher at spring training with the Seattle Mariners on a minor league contract.
Players on 40-man major league rosters, including those on option to minor league teams, are not covered by the decision because they are members of the Major League Baseball Players Association. The players with major league contracts are covered by the drug-testing rules of the new collective bargaining agreement, which bans only drugs of abuse and certain illegal steroids.
The decision to ban ephedra among players with minor league contracts was first reported yesterday by The Baltimore Sun and was confirmed to The Associated Press by a baseball official who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
Minor league players, who are not unionized, were tested on a sporadic basis for several years. Starting in 2002, the commissioner's office instituted centralized random testing for minor leaguers from spring training through the end of the season.
That program covers drugs of abuse, steroids and supplements such as androstenedione, and now, ephedra.
Ephedra is banned by the NFL.
NCAA and the International Olympic Committee. Baseball negotiators intended to propose last summer that it be banned in the major leagues, but after the players' association voiced opposition, management didn't include ephedra on its proposed list of banned substances, according to lawyers for both owners and the union.
Bechler, a 23-year-old pitcher who was overweight, died Feb. 17, a day after collapsing at spring training with heatstroke. A Florida medical examiner, Dr. Joshua Perper, said an ephedrabased diet pill, Xenadrine RFA-1, probably contributed to the player's death.
KU's African Students' Association Presents
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