University Daily Kansan / Monday, April 13, 1992
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Track team shines; 9 athletes win events
By Chris Jenson Kansan sportswriter
The Kansas track team couldn't have asked for anything better.
With several of its top athletes resting for the Kansas and Drake relaxes, the team got outstanding performances from its underclassmen at the John Jacobs Invitational in Norman, Okla., during the weekend.
The meet was not scored.
The Jayhawks had nine first-place finishes: three freshmen, three sophomores, two juniors and one senior.
Six Kansas athletes won their field event and three finished second.
The 'Hawks also won the men's high jump and the women placed first and second in the same event.
Senior high-jumper MaryBeth Labosky won the event with a jump of 6-11/4. The jump was a personal best and just short of the automatic qualifier.
ing mark for the NCAA championships. Labosky has qualified under the provisional standards for the meet. Sophomore Keely Harding finished second in the event with a jump of 5-6.
Other field-event winners were sophomores Harun Hazim and Heather Berlin. Hazim won the long jump with a jump of 24-5, and Berlin won the javelin with a throw of 167-1. Junior Jenny Schmitz won the discus with a throw of 142-7.
Senior middle-distance runner Jason Teal said that having excelled in the field events gave the team a better record. They scored second in the 1,500 in a time of 3:51.10.
"We've always known the middle distance and distance events would be a strong point," he said. "Now this shows that our other events are good too. It gives us a lot of confidence."
The field events were not the only
strongholds for Kansas. Three runners also came away from the meet with first-place finishes.
Junior Lynn Crawford won the 110-meter hurdles in a time of 14.8.68. Sophomore Kris Nelson won the 400-meter hurdles, dropping several seconds from her personal best. She finished in 1.02.78.
Freshman Kristi Kloster pulled off the upset of the day, defeating Oklahoma's two-time Big Eight Champion, Monique Ecker, in the 800-meter run. Kloster won the event with a time of 2:11.05
"I was happy to beat her, but it wasn't nastly an upset, "Kloster said. "If felt pretty good to pass her and beat her."
Ecker won the 3,000 and 5,000 meter runs in the 1992 Big Eight Indoor Championships and does not normally compete in shorter events like the 800.
NHL players score gains from strike
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — With the settlement of the NHL strike, the owners bought some time. It did not come cheaply.
When the accord was reached early Saturday morning, the NHL Players Association had come up with considerable gains.
At best, all the owners could do was avert an immediate disaster — the loss of their lucrative Stanley Cup plavoffos.
"The short term gives us some breathing space to find better ways to do business together," said Bob Gutowski, president of Madison
Square Garden, the parent company of the New York Rangers.
In actuality, the one-year contract was about the only battle the owners won in the negotiating war with the players.
The players made gains in the area of pensions, playoff money and insurance. They had the draft restructured and eased restrictions on free agency.
They also turned aside the owners' wish for a salary cap similar to that of the NBA. The owners, faced with a 56-percent salary increase over the last two seasons, had hoped to keep that figure under 15 percent next year.
The biggest victory of all, though, had to do with perception as much as it did economics.
It was the issue of licensing.
Translation: hockey cards.
It was the issue of licensing.
Translation, hockey cards.
The owners recognized that the players owned exclusive rights to their individual personality, including their likeness. That language was written into the contract agreement over the weekend.
That is not all the owners gave in on. They also agreed to establish a new salary arbitration procedure with a panel of eight arbitrators to be agreed on by the two sides.
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