FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14. 2003
SPORTS
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN - 3B
Team races with top U.S. runners
By Chris Wintering
cwintering@kansan.com
kansan sportswriter
The Kansas men's and women's track and field team will compete in the Tyson Foods Invitational in Fayetteville, Ark. today and tomorrow.
The meet will be a homecoming for Kansas coach Stanley Redwine, who ran at the University of Arkansas from 1980-1983 and was an assistant coach for the Razorbacks for 11 years. He is a member of the University of Arkansas Hall of Honor.
"It's always great for me to go back to University of Arkansas, but it has been so long ago now
that none of the kids on the team know anything about it," Redwine said.
Redwine said his team was not worried about a homecoming because it was focused on the meet.
Today's section of the meet will be made up of 27 universities and colleges, including Big 12 Conference schools Baylor, Oklahoma State and Texas. Tomorrow's section will be a mix of collegiate athletes and professional athletes who are traveling on the USA Track & Field Indoor Golden Spike Tour.
According to the USA Track & Field Web site, the Golden Spike Tour is in its fourth year and provides America's best athletes the opportunity to compete in the United States. The site also said that the professional athletes on the tour earned a substantial amount of prize money in front of a nationally televised audience. Portions of the meet will be televised Sunday from 8-9 p.m. on ESPN2.
Redwine said that it would probably be a last-minute decision and that Kansas athletes would run on Saturday depending on how they felt.
"There will be a select number of KU athletes that will compete on Saturday," Redwine said. "It is unclear right now who those athletes will be."
Because of the size of the meet, today's section will run all day. The field events and running events start at 10:30 a.m., and the last event, the 4x400-meter relay, is not scheduled until 10:10 p.m.
Tomorrow's meet will be shorter than today's because it is an Olympic preparation event. Tomorrow's events begin at 5:00 p.m. with the men's 5,000-meter run and end with the men's 60-meter dash finals.
Because of the size of the meet, the results will only be posted on the Arkansas women's athletics Web site, www.ladybacks.com.
— Edited by Christy Dendurent
Tennis team to host pair of weekend duals
By Jonah Ballow
jballow@kansan.com
Kansan sports swimmer
The No. 47-ranked Kansas tennis team will try to extend its undefeated 2-0 record this weekend at the Wood Valley Racquet Club in Topeka.
Before facing Utah at 1 p.m.
Sunday, the team begins conference
play against 12th-ranked
Texas at 1 p.m. tomorrow.
"We are very excited to play this match," coach Kilmeny Waterman said. "We feel we have a better chance than we have ever had to beat Texas."
The Longhorns are coming off a defeat against the University of Miami and will try to defeat the Jayhawks for the second consecutive year. Kansas has never beaten Texas and lost last season to Texas in a 4-3 bat
te with the Jayhawk losing the decisive doubles point.
Waterman said the indoor courts would benefit the team in its first Big 12 match-up of the season because Texas is not used to playing indoors.
Texas has only two seniors. The rest of the team is made up of freshmen and sophomores.
The Jayhawks will have little time to rest as they face the Utah Utes on Sunday. Utah is 2-2 on the season and was recently defeated by Brigham Young University, a team Kansas beat for its first victory of the season last year.
"These will be pretty tough matches for us," junior Emily Haylock said. "We all believe we can pull the upset against Texas."
Top high school pick wows Arizona guard
Edited by Ryan Wood
By Maxx Wolfson
Arizona Daily Wildcat (U. Arizona)
via U-Wire
TUCSON, Ariz. — When Hassan Adams saw what LeBron James did to his old high school on Saturday, he wasn't surprised one bit.
James, who is considered the best high school player in the nation and the consensus No. 1 pick in the next NBA draft, scored 52 points for Akron, Ohio's St. Vincent-St. Mary against Adams' old team, Los Angeles' Westchester High School, at a tournament in Trenton, N.J.
come and play. And he did."
"That was scary, and I knew it was going to come," said Adams, a freshman guard for Arizona. "He was fired up because everyone was on him. The press was on him about him taking this and that. I knew it was hurting him and his family, and I knew he was going to
There is no telling if James could have dropped 52 points if Adams was playing, but either way, it was still quite a game for the 18-year-old who is expected to make millions in a couple months.
"It doesn't bother me, but it's crazy," said Adams about James eventually jumping to the pros. "He's just blessed. He's out there doing what he loves to do. He is out there having fun, and I'm just happy for him."
Adams, who is six months older than James, met him at Michael Jordan Camp over the summer and was impressed with the prep-phenom then.
Adams, before signing with Arizona, was also considered one of the top recruits in the nation. At Westchester, Adams was named Mr. Basketball in California and was also picked for the McDonald's All-American team.
Football tradition to remain in Dallas
The Associated Press
DALLAS — Texas and Oklahoma have agreed to keep their annual football game in the Cotton Bowl—for now.
And, as long as the stadium operator is able to make progress to add more seats and make other improvements, both schools said yesterday that they would have no reason to move the game. The Red River Shootout has been played on the grounds of the State Fair of Texas since 1929.
"Our main objective has been to create more opportunities for fans to see the game and make the game a more enjoyable experience," Oklahoma Athletic Director Joe Castiglione said.
The latest deadline for the schools to opt out of the contract that keeps the game in Dallas was yesterday. The schools instead agreed to amend the existing contract with the State Fair of Texas, which operates the 72,000-seat Cotton Bowl.
The existing contract goes through 2006, but under amendments made yesterday, the schools said they would have a yearly opportunity to cancel or make changes to that agreement.
State Fair officials agreed yesterday to explore temporary seating options for the short term. The agreement also calls for them to work with the city of Dallas toward a long-term plan to add 6,000-10,000 permanent seats and 16 suites that would hold at least 15 people each.
"We are pleased that they were open to conversation and willing to make some adjustments to our agreement," said Texas Athletics Director DeLoss Dodds. "Our No.1 priority in the conversations was to provide more seats for our fans."
The game has been a sellout since 1941, the neutral site being less than a four-hour drive from both campuses. The stands are always a 50-50 split of burnt orange and crimson.
The option deadline initially was Dec. 31, but was extended. The delay and ongoing talks had led to speculation about the game moving, said State Fair representative Nancy Wiley.
"That's what's prompted all the talk, not that anybody's unhappy or looking to get out," she said.
Wiley said another focus of the talks was to help the schools increase revenue from the game. She said Cotton Bowl officials are trying to help by defraying costs such as stadium rental, lodging and travel.
The stadium rental fee, which was $94,600 last year and is split equally by both schools, has been waived for the remaining years of the contract.
In addition to waiving the stadium rental fee, the agreement calls for the State Fair to initiate the development of underwriters to provide $150,000 to the schools to underwrite expense related to the game.
Oklahoma President David Boren suggested to his UT counterpart that the game be rotated each year between the schools. UT President Larry Faulkner and Dallas city officials have said they wanted the game to remain in Dallas.
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