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The University Daily Kansan
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CHICAGO — His body, exquisitely sculpted but still 35 years old, has been pounded repeatedly during a season that started in October and could last until June. Planes and
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practices, jump shots and jostling.
But it is one question that we areies Michael Jordan more than anything else. At every stop, before and after every game, it is always the same: What's next?
Jordan: Hasn't decided whether he will return next year
play next year if Bulls coach Phil Jackson is not back. General manager Jerry Krause has said it is time for Jackson to leave, and the ex-hippe, Zen-practicing coach is ready to take a year off.
Jordan has said he will not
Who knows? Jordan has at times appeared to hedge. And he has changed his mind before. And almost no one wants to believe basketball's greatest player, a man whose salary alone has totaled $63 million the last two years, is going to hang up his flying shoes.
So that ought to be it. Right?
"It's a lot of the same old questions I had to deal with city-to-city," Jordan said. "It gets monotonous, although I may have the same answers. It's taken too much time to talk about something that really hasn't been decided."
So the question keeps coming, over and over and over again.
He has been on top of the NBA as its best player for years, even after taking a nearly two-year respite from the game when he experimented with baseball.
Comebacks from retirement often produce players who are just a shadow of what they once were. Jordan, who altered his game the second time around and has made great use of a fall away jumper that is unblockable, has won two championships since coming back. This season, he captured his 10th scoring title.
"Hell," said Nick Anderson, Orlando Magic guard. "You ever been to hell before? You don't want to go."
What is it like to guard him?
Now, Jordan's favorite time has arrived—the playoffs. Knowing the Bulls need 15 more wins for their sixth title of the decade, he will be revitalized for the postseason, which begins tomorrow against the New Jersey Nets.
The playoffs, Jordan says, start with players' willingness to push themselves. And no one has done that better.
His career playoff average of 33.6 is the best in NBA history. He has made game-winning shots in the postseason an art form.
"Having him means you've got the mental edge over every team you play because he's the best," said teammate Steve Kerr. "Even if you lose a game or are down in a game, you've got him on your side. You're always in the game. Until we lose or get knocked off, we will always have that."
That this might indeed be who Jackson calls the Bulls "last dance" will make Jordan even more passion ate in his quest for another title.
"I think the last championship is always the hardest and probably the most gratifying because of the expectations you deal with over the whole course of the season," Jordan said. So, what if this is the end?
"I think he is probably at the prime of his game," Daly said. "He knows exactly how to generate his energy, where it is at all times. He has complete control of his body. I think he is probably playing the best basketball he's ever played in his life. I think it would be unfortunate if he left the game."
"I think it would be a terrible loss for the game," said Chuck Daly, the Orlando coach whose champion Detroit Pistons teams of the last 10 years often frustrated Jordan with their rough defense and great play, for years denying him a shot at a title.
Student-athletes score work permit
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OVERLAND PARK — NCAA athletes yesterday won the right to hold part-time jobs, a ruling that might signal a new relationship between big-time college programs and the players who generate millions of dollars for them.
Many coaches and administrators worry that the decision will encourage booster groups and possibly bring a new wave of cheating — athletes being paid for work they never did.
But others, including Bridgit Niland, leader of the NCAA's student-athlete advisory committee, lauded the move by the college presidents, who hold power within the NCAA's new structure.
"They really did consider the welfare of the student-athlete instead of just saving they were." Niland said.
$2,000 a year. They can work while their sport is in season, and the jobs can be arranged by the athletic department or boosters.
Final approval for the measure, adopted during the NCAA's 1997 convention but suspended for a year, was made by the NCAA's board of directors, a group of college presidents, meeting in Indianapolis.
Beginning in August, Division 1 athletes who have been enrolled for one year will be able to earn up to
Significantly, the jobs also can be
with the school's recreation department, provided its budget is separate from the athletic department's budget.
doubted most athletes would seek jobs.
"There are too many time demands on these kids," she said.
"The only time the abuse is going to happen is when it's facilitated by a coach or an athletic director."
Another concern is that highly sought recruits will expect coaches to guarantee jobs. Another is that athletes may spend time working instead of studying and let their grades slump.
"It's going to be a disaster," said Kansas State basketball coach Tom Amurv
David Berst, head of the NCAA's enforcement department, said he was not bracing for a repeat of the widespread cheating that occurred
before boosters were barred from recruiting.
"Boosters are willing to follow the instructions of coaches," he said. "And the abuses that we all remember were often the result of the coaches and others who winked at the notion that the boosters should avoid violations."
Many coaches resent not being represented on the committee that worked with the NCAA's management council and board of directors in making the decision.
Niland, a committee member, said the proposal was recommended only reluctantly last week by the athletic administrators who make up the management council.
"This philosophically sounds good to the presidents, but it's the coaches who will get fired," a basketball coach who asked not to be identified told a recent meeting of the National Association of Basketball Coaches.
Syracuse president Kenneth Shaw, the board chairman, made good on the promise he made last year when the board suspended the rule.
"We are delighted to give student-athletes the opportunity to work in this way," he said.
Vindicated world-class runner takes mark again
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EUGENE, Ore. — Mary Slaney is ready to race again. Four months short of her 40th birthday, the best woman distance runner in U.S. history is mounting one more comeback, motivated by the raw deal she thinks she got from the people who run track and field.
"I've been written off so many times," she said. "And I think every time people decide to write me off or the scuttlebutt is 'Well, she's finished', it makes me just that much more determined to come back and do well."
Slaney is entered in the 1,500 meters at this weekend's Drake Relays, her first serious race since she was cleared to run following her suspension for excessive levels of testosterone, detected in tests at the U.S. Olympic Trials in 1996.
Slaney, backed by the considerable resources of Nike, fought the charges. She challenged the tests used by USA Track and Field and the International Amateur Athletic Federation, citing studies that showed testosterone can fluctuate greatly depending on factors such as age and menstrual cycle.
The names of those who test positive are not supposed to be made public until a hearing and the accused can respond to the charges. But Slaney's name was leaked and she was banned. The IAAF cited the slowness of USA Track and Field to act on the matter for the suspension.
When a hearing was held last September, the panel unanimously agreed she was innocent and cleared her to run again. The IAAF refused to go along but referred the matter to arbitration.
That means Stanley is cleared to race worldwide, said Craig Masback, who took over as head of USA Track and Field in the months after Stanley's suspension.
"I can't imagine there's any need for further discussion, and I've told the IAAF that," Masback said. "There essentially was no reason for a suspension in the first place."
The governing body has overhauled its testosterone testing since Mashack took over.
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Slaney and Masback, acquaintances from their days as competitors, have met several times to discuss Slaney's situation.
"I certainly feel like things are at least heading in the right direction now," she said.
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