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The University Daily Kansan
Tuesday. February 10, 1998
Notre Dame meet prepares Kansas
Track team holds high hopes,jumps for next invitational
By Angela Johnson Kansan sportswriter
The Kansas track and field team finished competition at the Notre Dame Invitational last weekend and now are looking ahead to the Husker Invitational on Feb. 13 and 14 in Lincoln, Neb.
Coach Gary Schwartz said the Husker meet would be of the same caliber as the Notre Dame meet.
"This is another step up."
Schwartz said. "The Husker Invitational is one of the premiere meets in the country. There are high entry standards."
Schwartz said the high-quality competitions gave the athletes the chance to challenge their abilities.
"It's an excellent opportunity for people to get good performances," he said.
Schools competing at Notre Dame were the University of Michigan, Michigan State University, Purdue University, Kansas and Notre Dame.
Team scores were not tallied at the Notre Dame Invitational, but Schwartz said the KU athletes placed high in events in which they were entered.
In the women's pole vault.
Kansas had the top three finishers, with Candy Mason, Nevada, Mo., senior, winning with a jump of 12-0. Ashley Feinberg, Sparks, Nev., freshman, placed second at 1-6. Andrea Branson, Leawood freshman, placed third at 10-0.
Lester Smith, St. Louis junior,
won the triple jump with a mark
of 49-2 1/4. Smith has won the
triple jump in every meet he has
competed in this year.
The men's distance medley
relay team won with a time of 10:07.26. Medley team members were Charlie Gruber, Arvada, Colo., freshman; Kevin McGinn, Carlisle, Pa., sophomore; Andy Tate, Lake Elmo, Minn., sophomore; and Jabari Wamble, Edmond, Olda, freshman.
Ricardo Amezcua, Acambaro,
Mexico, sophomore, placed second
in the 3,000 meter run, with a time
of 8:12.73. He said he hoped to make it to nationals this year. Amezcua needs to cut two seconds from his time to qualify for nationals.
"I am trying to improve my speed, but I am running faster than ever," Amezcua said. "I am confident that I will make it to nationals."
Aggies get fourth loss to injury
Associated Press
COLLEGE STATION, Texas — Guard Chris Clayton will miss the rest of the basketball season with a fractured right foot, the fourth Texas A&M player to suffer a season-ending injury.
Coach Tony Barone said yesterday that Clayton, a Bakersfield, Calif., junior, fractured his foot late in Saturday's game with Texas Tech in which Clayton scored 10 points.
"It's an unfortunate injury," Barone said. "Chris had worked hard and was getting more and more playing time."
The Aggies now are down to eight players on their roster.
Before the season began, returning starter Dario Quesada was lost with a bulging disk in his back. Calvin Davis suffered a herniated disk in his back during the Big 12 Conference season opener with Oklahoma State, and freshman T.J. Brown suffered a knee injury against Oklahoma on Jan. 31, which ended his season as well.
Clayton was A&M's leading three-point shooter.
Jordan reiterates plans to retire
Bulls' star guard says he will leave if coach changes
Associated Press
NEW YORK — This might have been Michael Jordan's final All-Star game, and it will be followed by what might be a farewell tour and last championship push.
Through it all, there will be believers and nonbelievers. Some think it's the end of the Jordan era. Some think it's 'all a big charade.
"How many times do you want me to say it?" Jordan said Sunday after winning his third All-Star game MVP award. "I'll say it once more. If Phil (Jackson) is not in Chicago, I'm not playing."
Jordan did not change his stance during All-Star weekend. He simply reiterated what he has been saying for weeks: If the Bulls change coaches, as management says it will, he will retire.
Neither side figures to blink until the playoffs are finished and it is clear whether the Bulls have added to their dynasty with a sixth title in eight years.
If they win, the pressure to capi-
culate will be on owner Jerry Reisdorf and general manager Jerry Krause.
If someone beats the Bulls, management will have an excuse to
rebuild the team.
"He's such a great person, a great player, that it will really hurt if we lose him," said Larry Bird, Eastern Conference All-Star coach.
weekend, heard the Jordan question again and again. And like everyone, he did not know whether to believe it.
Bird, like nearly everyone at All-Star
Jordan: Says he will retire if Bulls change coaches.
"Michael will be here again next year and will win the MVP again," said Jayson Williams, New Jersey Nets forward. "I don't know why Mike needs so much drama in his life."
West coach George Karl added, "The league will learn how to function without Michael, but I'll go on record right now that I personally think Michael should continue to play."
Jordan won the Most Valuable Player award after leading all scorers with 23 points. The East beat the West 135-114. Jordan shot 10-for-18 and had eight assists, six rebounds and three steals.
"If that was his last, it was a great way to go out," Jason Kidd said. "If he does decide to retire, he's going
There is skepticism regarding Jordan's pronouncements because he has gone back on his word before.
out at the right time — out on top."
When he retired in 1993 to become a baseball player, he said that he was finished playing basketball.
When he returned to basketball in 1995, he wore uniform No. 45 and said he would never wear No. 23 again.
In both cases, Jordan flip-flipped. Now, people are looking for any sliver of hedging.
If he will not play for any coach besides Jackson, would he consider beine a plaver-coach?
"No. That was just an appetizer thrown out by Phil," Jordan said.
Would he play elsewhere next season if Jackson gets a job coaching another team?
"Nowhere else." Jordan said.
"No. I said I'd only do that if I was single. I'm not single," Jordan said.
Why don't people believe him?
"I don't know," he said. "I guess you'll have to wait and see. People don't want to see it, or people just don't want it to happen. But this day was going to happen sooner or later.
"I've always said I would not walk out of the game lumping. If I walk out of the game, I want to walk out knowing I can still play. People have to believe that."
Olympics continue unfettered in Japan
Spectators taught the wave, warned about gangsters
The Associated Press
NAGANO. Japan
MOB MENTALITY: City officials want Olympic visitors to enjoy the sights and sports. And while they are at it, beware of organized crime.
In "The Guide to Nagano," published by one of Japan's largest newspapers, guests are urged to show their solidarity with Japanese police by patronizing only those bars, restaurants, hotels and stores that have posted anti-organized-crime stickers in the windows.
In English, the stickers proclaim: "We have NO relations with YAKUZA," the generic Japanese word for gangsters.
Police estimate there are 42 yakua gangs in Nagano, with about 1,000 members operating in the area.
The rival gangs usually target each other, but police official Shoichi Kinoshita is guarding against the following scenario: Out-of-town revelers would be sampling sushi or sipping sake at some nightspot when a group of drunken gangsters decides to bully a shop owner.
"We don't want guests to be exposed to that or endangered by it," he said.
HAPPY COMMUTING: Heavy restrictions on traffic during the Olympics got the first real test in a weekday rush hour yesterday and held up better than expected.
Traffic actually was lighter in some areas of town than usual, police said, reflecting increased use of carpools and buses.
Concerns about transportation during the games have been high because of Nagano's narrow, crowded streets and relatively poor mass-transit system.
International Olympic Committee representative Michele Verdier said the roads remained an issue.
"Transportation is still a problem," she said. She added that organizers had promised to beef up the system.
NICE TRY: The new Olympic sport of women's hockey may
Olympic Games
not be the most popular ticket in town, but it gets high marks for trying.
Fans at yesterday's match at the Aqua Wing arena, where Finland beat Japan 11-1, were told to be quiet for an important pregame tip.
The crowd, most of them rooting for the hometown Japanese, were then given a simple rundown about the basic rules of hockey on the large-screen video.
The crowd next was told to liven things up so they were led by the game announcers in a round of "the wave." Several hundred Japanese schoolchildren at one end of the rink took to the wave with particular glee.
Fans also were reminded to take their trash home rather than leave it in the arena.
WAIT AND SEE: China's top sports official said his country would bide its time in deciding whether to bid for future Olympic Games.
"We will select the most appropriate time (to bid) according to the domestic and international situation. So whether it is in 2008, 2012 or 2016 will depend on the actual situation," Wu Shaozu, member of the Communist Party Politburo and leader of China's National Olympic Committee, told Kyodo News.
Beijing's bid to hold the 2000 Olympics failed in 1993, losing to Sydney, Australia, by one vote.
Wu also addressed the Chinese doping scandal at the World Swimming Championships in Perth, Australia, in January. He insisted that the four Chinese athletes who tested positive for the use of banned diuretics and the Chinese coach and athlete caught trafficking banned human growth hormones were isolated cases.
He praised the International Olympic Committee and Australia's National Olympic Committee for taking an objective attitude toward the scandal and criticized an "unfriendly" media for touching off a furor about the doping affair.
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