THURSDAY, JANUARY 23, 2003
SPORTS
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN 9A
KU women's tennis team deserves school support
You will not see the women's tennis team at the Robinson tennis courts this spring season.
You will not see the team at the Alvamar Tennis and Swim Club. You will not even see the team in the city of Lawrence.Instead, you will have to travel 40 minutes to watch the Jayhawks take on Brigham Young University on Saturday.
That's right, the tennis team will play its home matches at the Wood Valley Racquet Club and Fitness Center in Topeka.
On Aug.1, the Bishop Seabury Academy purchased the club in hopes of expanding the size of the academy.
Last season, Kansas was forced out of the Alvamar Golf and Countrv club.
The club has supported the team for 25 years and now will leave the team without any kind of home court advantage.
It is ridiculous that the team must travel in a van for 40 minutes
SPORTS COMMENTARY
Jonah Ballow
As of Nov. 5, the softball team was given $2 million for a new stadium from Mission Hills businesswoman Cheryl Womack. Jayhawk Field is known as one of the worst in the Big 12 Conference, but it's still in Lawrence.
ballow@kansan.com just to get to practice.
Womack said she wanted to increase the confidence of women athletes who use the stadium.
Women athletes? The tennis team does not even have a practice facility in Lawrence.
The women's tennis team is a quality team and improving every season under coach Kilmeny Waterman.
Last spring, the Jayhawks had a breakout season with a 16-6 overall record and an impressive 9-2 record in the Big 12.
After finishing with a No.1 ranking in the Central region, the Jayhawks just missed the NCAA tournament. Waterman also earned Big 12 coach of the year honors.
Gary Kempf, assistant athletic director, is in preliminary discussions about a new facility for the team.
"We are trying to fund-raise right now to get something built," Kempf said. "We are meeting with people who are interested but its too early for anything to be set in stone."
With this team enjoying such success, where is the payoff?
Somebody within the community or the University must step up like Womack and help the team with money for an indoor facility.
Ballow is a junior from Littleton, Colorado in journalism.
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FRIDAY
Track, KU/KSU/MU Triangular in Anschutz Sports Pavilion
Baseball doubleheader at Hawaii-Hilo, 4 p.m.
Game clock questioned
SATURDAY
Men's basketball vs. Arizona, in Allen Fieldhouse, noon
Women's basketball at Texas A&M, 7 p.m.
replays showed the Sooners may have gotten an extra 1.7 seconds before Price's off-balance jumper tied it at 60.
Baseball doubleheader at Hawaii-Hilo. 11 a.m.
LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) — Big 12 officials are reviewing a tape of Texas Tech's 69-64 overtime loss at No. 7 Oklahoma to try to determine whether there was a glitch in the game clock during the final seconds of regulation.
The Associated Press
The outcome of the game cannot be reversed.
Hawaii-Hilo, 11 a.m
Television replays of Monday night's game, which was broadcast by ESPN, show that two pauses on the clock may have affected the final seven seconds of the second half and given Oklahoma extra time before Hollis Price's buzzer-beating shot forced overtime.
ESPN broke down the apparent clock problem during a segment Tuesday night.
"We're aware of an apparent clock problem," Big 12 spokesman Bo Carter said Wednesday. "We're just going to evaluate things. We're working to correct any clock problems and doing a review with all the schools."
The Lubbock Avalanche Journal reported on its online edition Wednesday that TV
The first clock pause appeared to have happened with 6.7 seconds remaining when the game was tied 58-58.
Tennis vs. BYU in Topeka, 1 p.m.
Big 12 commissioner Kevin Weiberg contacted Texas Tech
Dale Kelley, supervisor of officials for the Big 12, said that if any clock problems had been noticed before the teams left the floor, officials could have reviewed it and might have adjusted the clock if they found it necessary.
Tech then went ahead 60-58 after Will Chavis made two free throws with 4.5 seconds left. On the ensuing inbounds pass, Price appeared to dribble the ball twice before the clock started, and went the length of the court for his game-tying shot, which was in the air as the buzzer sounded.
Oklahoma officials are awaiting the evaluation.
coach Bob Knight and Oklahoma athletic director Joe Castilione about the review, league spokesman Chris Theisen said.
"Once they've looked into it, they'll call us and tell us what they think," Tech athletic director Gerald Myers told the newspaper. "That's about all we can do right now. They're not going to reverse the game, once it's in the book."
Given repeated opportunities Wednesday to comment by The Associated Press, Tech basketball spokesman Randy Farley referred all inquiries to Big 12 officials.
"Until they come back and figure out exactly what went wrong, I don't foresee anything happening," Sooners basketball SID Mike Houck said. "You can't correct something until you know what's wrong."
Free for All
Just a word to the wise: Wear deodorant when you go to KU games so you don't stink up the place when everyone raises their hands for "Whoosh!"
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I wondered if Drew Gooden's Club Zero is named after the number of members it has.
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I'm pretty pissed off because it's Tuesday at 4:03 and I go to pick up my tickets for the next round of basketball games, and they won't give them me to beame I'm three minutes late. I love the ticket office!
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So I don't have cable, but why,
WHY, when I live in Lawrence,
can I barely get the KU
basketball games on TV while
I'm sitting here watching
Missouri play Iowa State? What
the hell is that?
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