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University Daily Kansan, February 20, 1985
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SPORTS
NEWS BRIEFS
Omaha Royals sold to builder
OMAHA, Neb. — The Kansas City Royals, citing annual losses of $200,000, have announced the sale of their Class AAA Omaha franchise to Chicago builder Irving Cherry, a former minor league pitcher.
Dick Balderson, the Royals' player development director, and Cherry declined to the price paid for the Omaha Royals. The sale was announced yesterday.
Balderson said the major league team had received more than the $600,000 it had asked for the franchise when it was up for sale. Balderson said the price was less than $1 million.
Balderson said Kansas City was losing around $200,000 a year with the Class AA franchise. The club has owned and operated the Omaha Royals since 1969.
Cherry said, "I'm going to be willing to spend some money to get this thing going."
"I'm not getting into this for the money. I figure I'm going to get a lot of joy out of Cherry said. "And, I figure we can breathe. If we can make some money great."
Cherry said he would retain Bill Gorman as general manager of the Omaha team which competes in the American Association has been general manager 14 years.
Cherry has signed a five-year lease with the City of Omaha to use Rosenbelt Stadium, the Royals' home since 1969. The major league Royals will supply players to the Omaha team and pay a portion of their salaries.
Bengal's duo may not be split
Yesterday's announcement concluded six weeks of negotiations.
CINCINNATI — Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Ken Anderson, a 14-year veteran and the NFL's 1981 Most Valuable Player, today ended speculation about his retirement, saying he will be back with the team next year.
However, Bengals officials indicated he does not have a lock on the starter's job. "I don't have it out of my system yet." Amanda did out of his career. "I think I can still play."
Meanwhile, Cris Collinsworth's agent said Tuesday he was optimistic that a deal could be worked out that would send the wide receiver back to the Bengals following the collapse of his deal with the Tampa Bay Bandits of the USFL.
Collinsworth had been expected to sign a five-year, $3-million contract with Tampa Bay, but the deal fell apart Monday when an insurance company refused to guarantee payment of the contract because of Collinsworth's history of ankle problems.
Mancini unsure about future
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio — Ray "Boom Boom" Mancini, his eyes still swollen and attached after Saturday's WBA lightweight fight with Livingstone Bramble, returned home yesterday with no definite results for his future except to take a good rest.
"Sure I want to fight again," Mancini said at a news conference. "But am I willing to pay the dues to get to the fight? If I am, I will go back."
Before losing his bid to regain his WBA
hit Saturday night from Bramble in a 54-round fight in Reno, New, Mancini had said he would retire if he lost.
Compiled from United Press International reports.
JV forward will suit up for KSU game
By SUE KONNIK
Sports Writer
The Jayhawks will have an extra player on the bench tonight.
Junior varsity forward Don Kennedy will suit up with the varsity team when the Jayhawks take on the Kansas State Wildcats tonight in Allen Field House.
Junior varsity coach John Calipari said head coach Larry Brown contacted him Mike Rendle.
"Brown wanted one of the guys, and he was real interested in Kennedy," Calinari said.
"I'M REAL EXCITED. It's such a thrill for me," Kennedy said last night after the junior varsity team defeated Baker JV 78-52 at Allen Field House.
Kon Kennedy, KU forward, looks for a shot at Baker's Mike McCubbin during its push with the varsity for the first time in touchdown. Keepes Paul.
Calipari was pleased with Brown's interest in Kennedy
"I really hope he gets to play," Calipari said. "It'll be the best thing that ever happened to him. He deserves the opportunity."
But Kennedy didn't always deserve it.
The 6-foot-4 sophomore didn't play more than three minutes a game in his first five games.
"Don wasn't in real good physical condition at the beginning of the season," Calipari said. "He didn't play much then."
The Salina sophmore said he spent the winter holiday getting in shape.
"I practiced a lot over break and got my
clown down," he said. "I'm shooting with a lot
of clowns."
HE CAME BACK from break looking very good, Calipari said. "I didn't give him anything. He really earned it all."
Kennedy has averaged 20 points a game in the last four 1V games, but shooting isn't its weakness.
"I have a good shot, but I also hustle a lot." he said. "I don't have a lot of natural talent, so for me to be outstanding I need to hustle, and I think Brown likes that."
Kennedy said it wasn't the game he was looking forward to.
"The pre-game warmups will be fun because I'll get to handle the ball a lot," he said.
But he is hoping to see some action.
"It really depends on the game goes, but if the guys play the way they have been, it'll work."
Kennedy scored eight points when the Jayhawks rolled by Baker to boost their record to 5-9. Tony Berry was the high scorer for KU with 18 points. Jeff Johnson scored 13
points and had six rebounds.
Johnson picked up 9 points early in the game, and KU jumped to a 36-19 halftime
KU's 54 percent from the field in the second half was enough to keep Baker at a distance. Tony Jenkins led the Baker team with 23 points.
Women look to beat KSU again
--the amount of coins, toilet paper and cups the fans threw from the stands had increased. But he also said that most fans were not throwing things.
Bv TONY COX
Sports Writer
The women's basketball team will be looking for a repeat performance when it faces Kansas State at 5 p.m. today at Allen Field House.
On Jan. 29, the last time the teams met,
Kansas beat the Wildcats 76-64 in Manhattan
as Vickie Adkins scored 26 points and
pulled down 11 rebounds.
Kansas State was led by Jennifer Jones' 18 points and seven rebounds, but the Jahayws won't have to face Jones this time around. Jones is out with a broken jaw.
HOWEVER, KANSAS STATE will have a player that wasn't in the lineup the first time the teams met. Carlia Thomas returned to the Wildcat lineup in Kansas State's victory over Nebraska Saturday. She leads the team in rebounding this season, averaging 13.
"I predict that they are going to be tougher than last time." KU head coach Marian
Washington said yesterday. "They lost a player, and that's not an easy challenge, but they do gain a player in Carlisle Thomas.
"Jennifer Jones added another dimension to their team with her outside shot. Carlisa Thomas is more a scorer. She's a power type player — very physical. She finds a way to help."
"We have to play Kansas State with a very set game plan and that plan centers on controlling the boards and playing intense offense," said Coach Shawn. "We're going in have to play the same way."
The rivalry between the teams will be an important factor in the game. Washington
"THEY ARE A lot of emotions that come into play." Washington said. "The records or what the teams have done in previous games don't matter. Any time the teams get together it's an explosive ball game. I think the people will be in for a great double-header package on Wednesday."
The players are also aware of the added intensity from the rivalry.
KU guard Sherri Stoecker said, "I think the intermity just because it's two Kansasans.
Kansas State head coach Matilda Willis said, "We've just got to be able to handle their defensive pressure a little better." PROBABLE STARTERS FOR KU are Jake Odom, Brandon Tate and Barbara Adkins and Vickie Adkins at forwards and Philicia Allen at center.
Kansas State's probable starters are Cassandra Jones and Thomas at guards, Cindy Durham and Sheila Hubert at forwards, and Sue Leiding at shella.
KU can insure a homecourt berth in the first round of the Big Eight Post Season Tournament with a victory tonight. The Jayhawks are tied for third place in the conference with a 7-3 record and a 16-7 overall record.
Kansas State is fourth in the conference with a 4-6 record and a 13-10 overall record.
St. John's stays at top of ratings; KU drops 3 to 13
By United Press International
NEW YORK -- Carrying the label of No. 1 presents its own unique pitfall, a perturbing situation that St. John's will understand even better by next week.
Solidly entrenched as the nation's top-ranked college basketball team for the last month. St. John's now faces the most treacherous part of its schedule and the unenviable purpose of being a prime target for three powerful Big East rivals.
The Redmen, 22-1 after winning three games last week, begin their perilous journey against Boston College on Wednesday night, followed by a visit to seventh-ranked Syracuse on Saturday. The biggest game of the season, 27 when St. John's hosts No. 2 Georgetown
ST. JOHN'S, BOASTING a 17-game winning streak, the longest in the nation, received 38 of 41 first-place votes and 585 points Tuesday in the latest balloting of the Board of Coaches. Georgetown, 23-2, picks two first-place votes and totaled 560 points.
Kansas dropped three places to No. 13.
Two coaches did not participate in the batsmen game.
St. John's helped demote DePaul from the Top 20 by beating the Blue Demons, 93-80, last Sunday behind Chris Mullin's 31 points. Earlier in the season, Mullin defeated 644d and Pflitzer.
Oklahoma, tied for fifth with Georgia Tech last week, climbed to 3.4, replacing Memphis State, which dropped to 4.0. Duke fell one pitch to No. 5 and Michigan climbed a place to No. 6. Syracuse, at No. 7, andouille (No. 8), also improved by the rankings, to No. 9. Louisiana Te坎mumbled four spots to No. 9 and Louisiana Tech vaulted from 13th to No. 10.
NEVADA-LAS VEGAS WAS No. 11,
followed by Tulsa, Kansas, Illinois, North
Carolina, Iowa, Oregon State, Virginia
Commonwealth and Maryland. Tied for No.
20 were Southern Cal and Alabama-
Birmingham
Southern Cal, 16-6, is making its first appearance in the Top 20 while Alabama-Birmingham returns to the spot which it held in the Top 14 last week. No 18 last week, also fell from the Top 20.
Virginia Commonwealth, the third new team this week, returns to the Top 20 after a
Of the teams which were ranked last week,
None made it to made the biggest jump.
improving five, the best.
THESE ARE THE latest ratings of the UPI
THESE ARE THE latest ratings of the Board of Coaches:
1. St. John's (38) (22-1) 585
2. Georgetown (2) (23-2) 560
3. Oklahoma (21-4) 422
4. Memphis State (19-2) 421
5. Duke (19-5) 399
6. Makigian (20-3) 367
7. Syracuse (19-4) 342
8. Southern Methodist (20-5) 284
9. Georgia Tech (18-5) 249
10. Louisiana Tech (22-2) 199
11. Nevada-Las Vegas (19-3) 192
12. Tulsa (19-4) 168
13. Kansas (20-6) 108
14. Illinois (20-7) 103
15. North Carolina (19-6) 87
16. Iowa (19-6) 72
17. Oregon State (18-5) 30
18. Virginia Commonwealth (20-4) 23
19. Maryland (19-9) 16
20. (tie) Ala.-Birmingham (21-6) 13
21. (tie) Northern Cal (16-6) 13
Brown hopes fans remain sportsmen against K-State
By MIKE BRENNAN
Sports Writer
Head coach Larry Brown walked onto the basketball court during a time-out of the Missouri game. He picked up two foam mats and kicked out fans had thrown behind the Kansas bench
That incident prompted the Athletic Department to publish a warning to those fans who threw things on the court. But Floyd Temple, assistant athletic director, said yesterday that the intent of the warning was not to discourage the crowd from showing its fists.
"A FEW OF our people have slipped away from sportsmanship," Temple said. "We want the enthusiasm but we also want the sportsmanship."
Brown said he was concerned about tonight's game against Kansas State, which starts at 8:10 and will be televised by channels 27 and 62. He said he also was concerned about Saturday's game against Oklahoma.
Both games have been sold out for months, and brown said he wanted the crowd show
"I just want them treated like we want to be treated when we are on the road," Brown said. "I don't want them to stop yelling but I want them to be courteous.
Brown used the public address system and asked the fans to stop throwing things onto the court. After the game, some fans tried to break through and his players to the locker room.
"I'm not sitting here judging our fans. If, did, they would score pretty high with me." IN LAST SEASON'S game against Oklahoma, head coach Billy Tubbs and his players reportedly made some obscene gestures to the akeans fans. In response to those gestures, the fans threw things onto the court, at Tubbs and at the players.
Temple said that during the past two years,
Brown said that the fans' support this season had been strong, and that he did not want to allow him.
"KU has a great tradition and great fan support," Winston said. "It is a tribute to the game. You want games like that. It's a challenge."
Darryl Winston, Kansas State's interim head coach, said yesterday that he liked to play at Allen Field House in front of a large crowd.
"I DON'T WANT the administration's action to take that away from us," Brown said. "And I don't think that was their intent, either."
WHEN HE WAS in Ames, Iowa, on Saturday, Temple said the crowd was hospitable, and the Iowa State fans applauded a few times for KU.
"I love the support and what they've done,
and I hope you can be a friend to you,
you will have a couple of kids throwing things."
Temple said that he had talked with several of the other Big Eight schools, and none of them had trouble with fans throwing things.
In Nebraska, a couple of fans behind the Jayhawk bench yelled into KU's huddles during time-outs. Brown said the yelling did not bother him.
But one of the antics in Columbia, Mo., did. Before the introductions, the fans were told over the public address system to turn their backs to the court when the Kansas players were introduced. Brown said that action was disrespectful.
"For the most part, fans around the league are good," Brown said. "I'm just thankful I'm in a program where the kids are appreciative and loyal."
The Jayhawks, who are 7-3 in the Big Eight, return_home tonight after losing two games in a row on the road.
Fans at the south end of Allen Field House show support for the Jayhawks at the Memphis State game Feb. 9. University officials and head coach Larry Brown have expressed hope
Jacki Kailo/KANSAH
that the fans at tonight's K-State game and Saturday's Oklahoma game continue to support the Jayhawks in a sportsmanlike manner.