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University Daily Kansan, February 6, 1985
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NEWS BRIEFS
Luzinski says he's retiring
CHICAGO — Former Chicago White Sox' designated hitter Greg Luzinski has decided to retire and become a freshman in the MLB. He Jersey high school, his agent said Tuesday.
"After playing for 14 years, he has decided he'd like to spend more time with his family and pursue other interests," agent Jack Sands of the Boston-based Sports Advisory Group Inc. said in a telephone interview.
Luzinski, 34, who became a free agent last November after four seasons with the White Sox, had been selected by the Pittsburgh Pirates in the free-agent draft and invited to the Baltimore Orioles' spring training camp.
But Luzinski, who once was one of baseball's most feared power hitters, opted for retirement because of family considerations and the fact that he will receive $200,000 a year for the rest of his life through investments.
Milwaukee Bucks up for sale
MILWAUKEE — The Milwaukee Bucks are for sale, preferably to someone who will keep the club in the city, owner Jim Fitzgerald said Tuesday.
His voice cracking with emotion, Fitzgerald said in a news conference that he and his partners would have to think about moving the basketball club to another city if no local offers surfaced or were not acceptable.
"While we will discuss sale of the club to any interested party, all our discussions must take place in the cave that the cavet has built. We have the highest priority." Fitzgerald said.
Fitzgerald said there was no timetable, and he expected the league to give Milwaukee as much time as needed for the ownership change.
He said the franchise, considered one of the best-run in professional sports, was solid and had money in the bank. The NBA has been notified.
Fitzgerald said that the collapse of SportsVue, a cable television sports network, was a factor, but that the major reason for selling was "the feeling of myself and partners that the well-being of the Milwaukee Bucks might best be served by local ownership."
KUAC to hold board meeting
The University of Kansas Athletic Corporation will hold its first board meeting of the year today at 3 p.m. in the Phillips Board Room of the Adams Alumni
The KUAC board, which is the governing body of the Athletic Department, meets four times a year to make policy and budget decisions.
Today committees will give brief reports to the KUAC Board. The finance committee will give the department's financial report, and the executive-military projection for next year's budget.
Susan Wachter, the department budget manager, said two of the changes in the budget concerned the basketball and football ticket revenues. Up to now, there had been no doubt above the expected amount. But football revenue fell about $100,000 below.
a report of Williams Fund athletic
leaders Bob Friedman and Bob
Freeleman executive director of the FI
The academic and long range planning committees are also scheduled to give
Policy on fan conduct stated
An Athletic Department policy regulating fans' conduct at sporting events is a reaffirmation of existing standards, an assistant athletic director said yesterday.
The policy says, "The Jayahawks' tremendous winning tradition is due in part to the vocal support of the KU fans. Unfortunately, some overzealous fans are detracting from this support with objectionable and potentially harmful behavior.
"The Kansas Athletic Department does not condone, nor will it permit, fan behavior which disrupts the athletic contest, or has the potential for causing harm to the athletes, officials or spectators.
"If a fan's behavior has been determined by an athletic department official or by the police to be of a nature requiring attention, the following avenues will be taken: 1) Immediate dismissal from the arena; 2) Student penalties may include possible suspension and expulsion from the University; and 3) If a non-student, prosecution of the action in the courts of Douglas County or the city of Lawrence."
The policy was drafted after the Jan. 22 men's game between Kansas and Missouri, Lonny Rose, the assistant athletic director, said yesterday. During the game, some spectators threw programs, cups and souvenirs onto the court.
The policy was announced over the public address system before the Kansas-Colorado game and was published in the game program.
“It’s not new,” said Rose. “We just wanted to make it clear, so everyone can hear it.”
Student problems will be handled by the dean of student life and problems with non-students will be handled by the district attorney, Rose said.
KU continues busy schedule against OSU
From Staff and Wire Reports
Sports Writer
Bv MIKE BRENNAN
Changes in the Kansas schedule to accommodate the television networks have made the last two weeks busy for the Jayhawks, and this week does not get any
Kansas will play its sixth game in 12 days when the Jayhawks face the Oklahoma State Cowboys tonight at Allen Field House. Game time is 7:30 and about 650 tickets remain.
KU's schedule had to be changed several times earlier in the season and most of the changes were to get some of the games on national television.
MICHIHAN HAD THREE days off before playing Kansas in a regionally televised game, and the Jayhawks played the day before in Boulder. Memphis State comes to town Saturday, and it will have six days off before playing Kansas.
And during the Colorado game Monday night, several players got tired and head coach Larry Brown did not realize that fatigue was becoming a problem.
"A lot of the kids were tired," Brown said after the game Monday night. "TV has changed our whole schedule around. I would like to play conference games on Wednesday and Saturday but we never have a solid week like that."
Ron Kellogg, who was named Big Eight player of the week and is suffering from a slight hamstring pull, asked Brown a few times during the Colorado game to be taken
"I was a little tired after the game," Kellogg said. "What I like about this team is that no one person has to do it all."
Brown said that he was impressed, especially after his record-setting performance in Nebraska, with the unselfish play of Kellogg.
"I WAS REALLY proud of him," Brown said. "How many times do you see a player after going so good give up the ball?"
Oklahoma State head coach Paul Hansen
the most improved player for the Javahues
“Dreiling and Manning are playing well but the player that has helped them the most is Kellogg,” Hansen said. “He is a tremendeous man, so we have to have a chance, he must be contained.”
The Nebraska game statistics may indicate that Kellogg was selfish, but Brown said the other players recognized Kellogg was plaving well and got the ball to him.
Throughout the entire season, Brown has said she would like to be a guard and Kansas is finally doing that.
AND AGAINST COLORADO, four players scored in double figures and Brown said he thinks it's exciting to see his players play unselfishly.
"We have a lot of good kids and that is as important as anything." Brown said.
Kansas will have to face the Cowboys, who lost to Oklahoma in the final seconds on a jungle chase.
Hansen said his team was playing well but he would take a 40 minute effort for his team
"Kansas has a very good ball club." Hansen said. "They'll man you, zone you, trap you, pressure you and probably do it better than anyone else.
Brown said he had a lot of respect for Oklahoma State.
"Our team is getting the ball inside better and our inside people are getting better."
Jose Paterno (left), Long Island, N.Y., junior, instructs a fenc- by Walter Mikols, associate professor of health, physcal class in Robinson Center. Paterno was recommended education and recreation, to teach the class.
Women to take on first-place OSU
By TONY COX
Sports Writer
One team will have to come down from its emotional high when Kansas meets Oklahoma State in women's basketball tonight at 5:15 in Allen Field House.
KU has a three-game winning streak, all three victories coming on the road, and Oklahoma State is coming off an 85-76 victory over Oklahoma on Sunday. The victory moved Oklahoma State into a tie for first place in the Big Eight with the Sooners.
"The kids are playing as well as we could ask them to right now," Cowboy head coach Dick Hallerman said. "Our kids have been back from the West Coast trip."
OKLAHOMA STATE IS 5-1 in the Big Eight and 13-6 overall. KU is 4-2 in the conference and 13-6 overall. A victory would mean a win for the team in conference after a 2-2 start in play.
KU is coming off an 84-79 victory over Nebraska on Saturday. The game was a see-saw battle with 13 ties and 14 lead changes. The Jayhawks had a test of depth
with three players fouling out and three others in foul trouble
KU head coach Marian Washington said, "It makes it even clearer the kind of club we have the way we kept going and showed great determination down the stretch."
Against Oklahoma State, KU's strategy on offense will be to get the ball inside, Washington said. The Jayhawks will try to win against Nickie Adkins, their leading scorer, she said.
we can we get the ball in to her, we want it then we roll the ball of times we have rolled, rolling, key on one.
WITH THE EMERGENCE of greater depth by KU, teams will not be able to concentrate on Adkins as much in the last half of the season. Washington said.
"I don't think that in the second round of the Big Eight season they're going to be able to win," he said.
The Jayhawks have a size advantage, but they may have trouble against Oklahoma State's aggressive style of play, Washington said.
"We're going to have to attack early," she said. "We're really going to have to play aggressive basketball, Oklahoma State is a
very physical team. They are probably as physical a team as we play this season.
"We're going to have to really try to control their inside game, push the ball down the floor on our offense and try to get them to run the floor a bit.
"I THINK WE'RE going to have to work to test their bench. I don't know how deep the terrain is."
The Cowboys used very little substitution in their victory over Oklahoma and KU wants to force them to go to the bench by running the floor a lot. Washington said.
The Jayhawk's height advantage could be a key in the game, Halterman said.
"KU creates a little different problem for us than the other teams," he said. "That height creates some problems for us. If we can control those people inside, we'll be OK. We're going to have to control the boards."
KU also will be concentrating on stopping the inside game on defense. Washington said,
"Kathy Schultz and Jackie Glosson are both tremendous threats offensively and they're good on the boards," she said. "We're going to have to try to keep them under their scoring averages and maintain overall intense defense."
Osborne doing well; Hartman at practice
By United Press International
back to his routine in four to six weeks — in time for spring football.
"He is stable and doing very well," said Walt Weaver, Osborne's personal physician. "He is in excellent shape and has a very strong heart muscle."
LINCOLN, Neb. — Nebraska football coach Tom Osborne under four hours of heart surgery Tuesday to bypass a partially blocked artery and came out in "excellent shape."
Osborne, 47, is a dedicated jogger. He is known among his peers and fans as a "maniac." He runs two miles in about an hour.
DEEPAK GAKGAHAR, THE surgeon who operated on Osborne, said two areas of the left anterior descending coronary artery — one of three artery systems that supplies blood to the heart — were 90 to 95 percent blocked.
Doctors said Osborne's strong heart made the operaton easier. They said he would be able to work on his own because of the surgery.
The procedure performed on Osborne is used in only about 10 percent of bypass operations, doctors said. Normally, a leg vein is used to channel blood around an attached coronary artery. But in this instance mammary arteries were preferable.
"We use this whenever possible in younger patients." Weaver said.
or eight weeks he experienced a fullness or tightness in his chest when running.
"There was no real pain at all," he said. "If I hadn't been a runner, the doctor said I could have had a heart attack and keeled over. The problem enabled me to detect the problem sooner."
Osborne said Monday that over the last six
In Manhattan, Kansas State basketball coach Jack Hartman, who underwent quadruple coronary bypass surgery just 23 days ago, returned to practice Tuesday.
A school spokesman said it is not known when Hartman will be able to coach during games.
Hartman suffered a heart attack and underwent surgery Jan. 13, one day after a narrow loss by the Wildcats to Oregon State.
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Freshman spinter Rodney Harris kneels at the starting blocks in Anschutz Sports Pavilion.
Sprinter adjusts to Kansas after moving from Chicago
By DAVID O'BRIEN
Sports Writer
Lawrence, Kan., is a long way from the west side of Chicago. But freshman sprinter Rodney Harris has begun to make the adjustment, both on and off the track.
"like it a whole lot," Harris said after practice yesterday at Anschutz Sports Park. "It's cool."
Harris, a three-time state champion in the 100-meter dash at Chicago's Providence-St. Mel High School, chose to attend the University of Kansas over Iowa State University.
"When I looked at the options of both schools, both academically and athletically."
"How many schools can say they have two indoor facilities? I thought that would help me as an athlete, being able to train year round."
That decision suited Harris' parents just fine.
"MY MOTHER JUST said to look at all the options and take it from there," Harris said. "And my father feels good about me being here because he has two sisters and a brother in Kansas City, which is only about an hour away."
"So that's like a home away from home for me."
me. But Harris said his friends weren't quite as
"He asked me why I was going down there with all that wheat and those open fields and fields."
"I still remember the expression on my best friend's face." he said.
Harris said he's made a lot of adjustments since he came to Lawrence.
Things have also been different on the track for Harris.
"COMING FROM THE city. I was used to going places, having to travel to get anywhere," he said. "But here everything is so centered together that you don't have to."
"It's taking me awhile to adjust to college track," he said. "I was used to getting first or second in every meet. So in college if I get third, fourth, or fifth I get discouraged.
"But I'm just a freshman and I can't rush everything. I know everything will come."
"Rodney is really progressing," said Kueffert, who teaches the KU sprinters. "It got a bright flash."
"He's really enthusiastic and popular with his teammates. It makes you look forward to him."
Harris stands out on the track because of his size, or rather, lack of it. Standing only 5-foot-4, Harris does not look like the typical spinner.
"I HAD THIS thing in high school that if a guy was taller than me, I thought he'd beat me." Harris said. "But I don't have that problem anymore."
But Harris still gets teased by his teammates because of his height.
"I take a lot of talk," he said. "They tease me about my sweets because they come up so easily."
"They are real big," Harris said, pulling his sweat pants up near his chest to demonstrate.
Harris thinks he and his teammates can become a force in the Big Eight soon.
"As you get older, you get stronger," he said. "This team has a majority of freshman and junior college transfers, and we've got a big The Big Eight title in the next couple of years."
Harris said he had another long-range goal for himself.
"ISIAH THOMAS AND Mark Aguire grew up around my neighborhood," he said. "And there's a lot of drugs, prostitution and gangs there."
"Those guys had a goal, whether it was to go college or to become a pro basketball player," he said.
"Someday I want the kids in my neighborhood to look up to me."