Wednesday, April 29, 1998
The University Daily Kansan
Section B · Page 3
Chiefs owner bids for Royals
The Associated Press
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Kansas City Clifs owner Lamar Hunt said yesterday that he and his family had joined with Western Resources to bid for ownership of the Kansas City Royals to assure that the baseball team will remain in Kansas City.
The deal is "something very important to mid-America — the continuity of major league baseball in Kansas City." Hunt said at a news conference.
Hunt said the bid was very serious and competitive, and he would not discuss the bid process or actual bids. "The ball is now in the Royals' court," Hunt said.
Topeka-based Western Resources CEO John Hayes described the bid with the Hunts as an effort to keep Kansas City Royals in Kansas City.
"We could not think of any better way to make that happen than to
join in this partnership with the Huntfamily," he said.
Yesterday was the deadline for preliminary bids for the American League franchise.
The purpose of the preliminary bids was to gauge the seriousness of potential buyers, said Royals spokesman Dean Davison.
Royals officials have not disclosed the number of potential bidders. However, in addition to Hunt, publicly known bidders are:
A group led by former Royals star George Brett and his brother Bobby;
— New York lawyer Miles Prentice, who owns a minor-league team.
The bids are preliminary and nonbinding, meaning they can change. A bidder also can ask for a one- or two-day extension of yesterday's deadline.
The Royals' investment banker
J. P. Morgan & Co., was to review the bids. J.P. Morgan may ask the bidders for clarifications, particularly if the bids included contingencies and qualifiers, Davison said. The Royals screen.
ing committee, composed of three Royals directors, is scheduled to meet next week to consider the bids. Bldgers may ask to see more intensive data on the team.
After that, serious negotiations are likely with any bidders who submitted competitive bids. The Royals will ask the finalists if they will sign an agreement to keep the baseball team in Kansas City.
Royals directors will pick the new owner, who necessarily may not have submitted the highest bid but who appears most likely and most capable of running the team well and keeping it in Kansas City.
Gymnastics club members fail to land board approval
By Keith Burner
Kansan sportswriter
The University of Kansas will not have a gymnastics club this year because the club could not get on the agenda of Monday's Recreational Advisory Board meeting.
After being recommended by the KU Sports Club Council last Thursday, the club only needed the advisory board's approval to become recognized as an official club.
But after months of writing and revising its constitution, recruiting members and wading through the bureaucracy of the club-forming process, the club didn't make it onto the agenda for the board's final meeting of the year because of budget hearings.
"I'm upset," said Jenelle Diebold, Wichita junior, who would have been the club president. "We wanted everything to be finalized so we could get things rolling this summer for next year. Now, if we do something this summer and end up not getting approved; then it will all be for nothing."
Diebold said the would-be club members had planned to start looking into meets for next year and talking to coaches who might agree to help next year.
Damien Martell, Lawrence sophomore, said, "I'm disappointed." Martell would have been a member.
"We've been working hard to get into shape for competition, and
this puts a kink in our plans," he said.
The Recreational Advisory Board is comprised of Student Senate members, Sports Club Council members and members of KU Recreational Services.
The focus of Monday's meeting was the allocation of $550,000 of student fees for recreation, said Mike Walden, board chairman and former student body vice president.
"I wasn't even aware that they were trying to get onto the agenda." Walden said.
Martell said the group would keep trying.
"Hopefully we can get in next year," he said. "We need the workout time more than anything.
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