SPORTS
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, July 28, 1993
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Mason happy with chance vs. likely No.1
Coach recalls 1992 season
The Associated Press
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Kansas coach Glen Mason had an easy answer for those who wondered why his Jayhawks were picked to appear on national television in the Kickoff Classic next month against likely No. 1 Florida State.
After all, Kansas had a good year last year, but an 8-4 record and one Aloha
Bowl appearance in 11 years certainly does not catapult a team into national prominence.
"I know why
Kansas is playing
them," an
exuberant
Mason said in
remark Mon
Glen Mason
centers above day to the annual workshop of Associated Press Sports Editors of the Great Plains Region
"Everyone else turned them down.
No one else wanted to play them. Those guys are really good. But if I'm sitting at home on August 28th watching two teams play, I'm thinking it could be us," Mason said.
The energetic Mason was full of anecdotes; the Iowa State game last year when Kansas took a 21-7 lead in the first quarter only to fall behind 47-21 when the Cyclones scored on the opening kickoff of the second half.
Don't worry, Mason had said at half time. Then he worried.
Mason took one look at his down-trodden team sitting on the bench and declared, "If we score again, we're going for two." His coaches looked at
him as if Mason had finally snapped under the pressure of raising the Jayhawks from the depths of despair.
"We're going for two," he insisted.
They dit, and the lahapaws ended in
sadness.
"I think about that game every night as I live in job," Mason said.
as 17th in oke, "shsoo lsoa"
"how able to play the ball with,
winter's hoop in late fourth in the
quarters. Kansas had the ball in position
for a 47-yard field goal try with
one of the best college field goal kickers
in Dan Eichloff.
Mason asked Eichloff if he could make it. Sure coach, but do I have time to go to the bathroom first?',
Eichloff asked.
Mason pondered the distance to the locker room. He wondered if he should have called time out. He even thought he could possibly stop the game by having one of his assistants fight a heart attack.
Suddenly, it was fourth down. He refused to let Eichloff go to the bathroom and sent him on the field.
Eichloff launched a perfect, game-winning kick. "Okay Dan, you can go to the bathroom now," Mason then said.
"Coach, I don't have to go anymore."
Stephle rodded.
"I love my job." Mason said five
times, heading into his sixth season at Kansas.
He is a firm believer in the value of college athletics. Kids learn to get back up when adversity strikes, they learn that nothing worthwhile comes easy and they learn the value of teamwork, he said.
Boston star Reggie Lewis dies following collapse
"Everyone focuses on the kids going to the pros," Mason said. "So many of those kids have no chance. A very small percentage of the kids have a chance to make a living playing athletics. But there are lessons to be leamed playing intercollegiate athletics."
The Associated Press
Lewis collapsed late Tuesday afternoon while shooting baskets at Brandsuck University, the Celtics who were no organized team practice.
WALTHAM, Mass. — Boston Celtics star Reggie Lewis died yesterday night after collapsing for the second time in three months while playing basketball. He was 27.
Local paramedic found him in "complete cardiac arrest." He was admitted in critical condition at Waltham-Weston Hospital at 5:41
p. m. and was pronounced dead at 7:30 p.m. EDT, Dr Mary Anne McGinn said at a news conference.
The 6-foot-7 Celtics captain got a second opinion that he was suffering from a nerve ailment and might be able to resume his career.
Lewis, Boston's top scorer the past two seasons, originally was diagnosed with a career-threatening heart disorder after he collapsed April 29 during a playoff game against Charlotte.
Lewis had not participated in any team practices since his April 29 collapse.
Two more recruits sign baseball letters of intent
SPORTS BRIEFSE
Two more baseball players have signed letters of intent with the University of Kansas.
Headley hit 400 with two home runs and 20 BBI this season at Bolton High School in Arlington, Tenn.
Royals inkTexas A&M pitcher Jeff Granger
DeMarco played high school baseball at J.P. Taravella high school in Coral Springs, Fla. He hit 420 last season with 23 runs and had a school record of 40 stolen bases.
Infelder Joey DeMarco and first baseman/outfielder Justin Headley signed with the Jayhawks earlier this week.
The Associated Press
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Kansas City Royals on Monday signed their No. 1 pick in the June amateur draft, right-hander Jeff Granger of Texas A&M.
The fifth pick overall in the draft,
Granger had a 14-3 record with a 2.72
ERA in helping pitch the Aggies to the
College World Series. The all-time
strikeout leader at Texas A&M with
394, Granger had a 30-9 mark in three
seasons.
Granger will report to Eugene, Ore.
in the Northwest League tomorrow.
High jumper breaks own world record in Spain
The Associated Press
SALAMANCA, Spain — Javier Sotomayor of Cuba broke his own world record in the high jump yesterday with a leap of 5 feet $ \frac{1}{2} $ inch yesterday at the Salamanca Invitational Track Meet.
His old mark of 8 feet had stood for four years.
The bar teetered but stayed put on his second, record breaking attempt, and Sotomayor leaped up from the pit to be mobbed by excited athletes. Sotomayor set the previous record
Sotomayor set the previous record on July 29,1989, in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Big Ten Conference gets sanctions from NCAA
The Associated Press
CHICAGO — The Big Ten Confer- ence will get a reduction in grants of $75,000 and lose about 65 scholarships because it maintained a rule that violated NCAA regulations.
The conference awarded 65 scholarships too many during a period from 1987 to 1991.
The scholarship rule, adopted by the Big Ten in 1978, excluded the extra costs of out-of-state tuition from the computation of financial aid for non-revenue sports.
The NCAA warned Big Ten officials about the rule in 1979, but it wasn't investigated until 1991.
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