Sports
University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, August 30, 1989
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Exploring Jayhawk jungle Director wants stadium to frighten opponents
By Gene King Kansan sportswrite
To opposing basketball teams, Allen Field House can be an intimidating place.
Kip Helt, assistant director of marketing at the Athletic Department, wants Memorial Stadium to be simulated intimidating to opposing football teams.
Hell developed the promotional idea of a "Jayhawk jungle." The jungle would seat only students and occupy the existing student sections.
"I want this to be like the Dawgs pound of the Cleveland Browns,"
The pound is a section in the stands where fans root for the Brown's offensive line. Fans wear football jerseys and makeup that helps them look like dogs. Members of the pound throw them onto the field occasionally throw them onto the field.
The Jayhawk jungle is another wav
The concept, he said, was for living groups to adopt a player and to make posters that bear jungle animal names. For instance Tony Quick-Sands, for Tony Sands.
to boost student support at home football games, as well as being used as an intimidation factor against opposing teams. Helt said.
Helt has asked Bill Riley, Olathe junior, to help organize the jungle. Helt said that he wanted Riley, a member of Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity, to contact the other organizer and student involved in arose student interest in the section.
"These kind of things mean a lot to the players and coaches," Helt said. "Coach Mason cares so much about the students."
Helt said he realized that since the first game against Montana State is Saturday, the student support may be minimal. But Helt said he expected support for the Jayhawk jungle to grow.
"This is in the infant stage right
now," he said. "I want this to go beyond the first game, though. I want it to be carried over into every season."
RP: said that students interested in sitting in the jungle should sit in the section directly behind the Marching Jawhaws.
Riley said he was excited about the idea.
"It is a great way to get the students involved with the game," he said.
Riley's fraternity has selected to support outside linebacker Lance Flachsharb. Their sign will read, "Sir L'lee's Lot." Riley said.
"The idea is to install confidence into the students and for that confidence to carry over to the players," Rilev said.
Concerning the conduct of the students during the game, Helt said he wanted them to to尔器, yell and just have fun.
"This is all for entertainment." Helt said.
Director wants athletic unity
By Dan Perkins
Kansan sportswriter
Academic support for Kansas athletes has taken on a new look this year, not only with a new director, but also a new name.
Paul Buskirk, the new assistant athletic director for Student Support Services, told the University of Kansas Athletic Corporation yesterday that he had been on the job only seven days, he already had made changes.
In addition to the name change, from Academic Support to Student Support Services, Buskirk said he also was working to bring all athletic teams together under the same academic support program.
"We're all under one umbrella in name now, but it may take more to become that way in practice," Buskirk said.
"The first and most important thing for us is our academic assistance program, but we're also going
to try to help the athletes with personal skills. In the spring, we also hope to expand it to working with career development.
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The first and most important thing for us is our academic assistance program, but we're also going to try to help the athletes with personal skills.
— Paul Buskirk assistant athletic director for Student Support Services
"There is no reason that KU can't be a leader in this area." Buskirk said. "We should be innovative, man follow the lead of other schools."
In other business, the board unimously elected Tou Mulnazini, professor in civil engineering, to remain chairman of KUAC.
The board also voted unanimously to approve Athletic director Bob Frederick's idea to reactivate a planning committee for the board.
"I just want to make sure that the board is heading in some direction," Fresson said.
Frederick said that he hoped the committee would be able to help with the self-study that KU must complete this year. He said NCAA institutions were required to do the study every five years.
Steve Walsh, director of the Williams Fund, told the board that its office had a better start this year and was hoping to lope in raise $3 million this year.
Walsh said the Williams Fund
funded $2,000,000 last year,
with our $2,500 donor.
"About 37 % of our budget is raised through private donations," Walsh said.
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Spike!
Lisa Patterson, St. Louis junior, left, goes up for a ball against Jodi Oelschlager, Lawrence senior as the KU Moments' Volleyball Team practices for their first game, Friday against Tulsa, OK.
--tackle George Williams, fullback Braxston Banks, defensive end Arnold Ale, linebacker John Foley and offensive tackle Pete Rausch.
WOODARD COMES BACK TO KU
AS COACH: Four-time All-American and former Harlem Globetrotter Lynette Woodard will return to Kansas this week to accept a position as assistant coach for the women's basketball team under her former coach, Marian Washington.
After leaving Kansas, Woodward was a member of both the 1984 and 1986 Olympic basketball teams. She played in the 1984 team, which won a gold medal.
Woodard played for Kansas during the 1978-81 seasons. During her career as a Jayhawk she set records as all-time leading scorer (3,649) and rebounder (1,714), records that still stand.
In 1886, Woodard became the first female to play with the Harlem Globetrotters, where she remained until 1888.
For the last year, she has been playing basketball in Europe.
CHIEFS SIGN KENNY HILL-KANSAS
CITY, Mo., The Kansas City Chiefs
signed free agent safety Kenny Hill
and waived 10 players yesterday.
Coach Marty Schottenheimer announced the cuts as the Chiefs moved to reach the 60-player limit by the end of the day. The Chiefs said 10 more players remained to be cut.
Hill, who played eight seasons with the Oakland and Los Angeles Raiders and the New York Giants, was released by the Giants during the 1989 preseason. He has six interceptions and seven fumble recoveries since being drafted by the Raiders in
1960 from Yale.
The players waived included two rookies — safety Jack Phillips, a ninth-round draft pick from Alcorn State, and wide receiver Robert Oliver, a free agent from Western Michigan.
Others waived by the Chiefs were quarterback Steve Slayden, fullback Tom Kelleher, wide receiver Albert Bell, defensive tackle Bob'Standifer, cornerbacks Greg Hill and Calvin Loveall, safety Ellis Dillhunt and center Gerry Feeehery.
ATHLETIC DEPARTMENT TO SELL "CRIMSON CARDS": "Crimson Cards", a $20 season ticket for both volleyball and women's basketball will be sold to the general public, Athletic Department officials said yesterday.
Faculty and staff members can buy the card for half price.
The "Crimson Cards" admits an entire family to both ever's during the entire season, which include six home volleyball games, three home tournaments, 11 basketball home games and the Lady Dial Classic.
Students can get in for free as usual, said Craig Haines, KU's director of marketing.
U. S. BASKETBALL TEAM WINS GOLDEN DUSSBURG, West Germany — The United States won its first major men's international basketball competition in three years yesterday with an 89-80 victory over the Soviet Union in the gold medal game of the World University Games.
Kickoff Classic Notre Dame to play Virginia in season opener
The Associated Press
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — I Lou Holtz had managed the 1972 Yankees, he probably would have moaned about Babe Ruth's strikeouts and convinced writers that the club was heading for a last-place finish. So it isn't surprising that the coach of defending national champion Notre Dame is already poormoining his team's chances in 1989.
"We're not a Top 20 team right now," Holtz said at a news conference yesterday. "We're not as good as you think, but we're probably not as bad as I think."
In the last month, Notre Dame has lost seven players expected to play a significant role on this year's team. One quit, another transferred, two were banished for disciplinary reasons, two couldn't recover from lingering injuries and one was declared academically ineligible.
Actually, Holtz has reason to worry as his team prepares to open the college football season against Virgil "Gazette" KickoffClass at Giants Stadium.
The most damaging departures were All-American Hinebacker Michael Stonebreaker and running back Tony Brooks, the team's second-leading rusher last season. Also gone for the season are defensive
"We've got a completely different team than the one we started spring practice with," foltz said. "We're awfully thin at a lot of positions and we've got an awful lot of question marks."
Holtz tried his best to portray the Fighting Irish as undermanned, overrated and, in one case at least, undered.
"Our second-string defensive tackle is a true freshman who only weighs 216 pounds," he said. "He's going to be a good one—as soon as he finds the cafeteria."
A steady diet of Rice is what Notre Dame's opponents will be fed this season. Versatile quarterback Tony Rice not only threw for 1,176 yards and eight touchdowns last season, but also led the team in rushing with 700 yards.
"We've spent a lot of time working on his best plays." Virginia coach George Weish said. "But maybe his best plays won't be the same this year."
Unlike Notre Dame, Virginia is not a traditional football power. But Welsh has led the Cavaliers to five NCAA championship years, including a 7.4 mark in 1988.
All but four starters return from
that team, which finished with five consecutive victories. The offense will be directed by junior quarterback Shawn Moore, 19th in the nation last year in total offense.
"We think our program has reached the level where we can be competitive with anyone," Welsh said.
"When I first came to Virginia in 1822, it was hard to recruit. Now we have a much more positive image and players want to come here."
Although Virginia and Notre Dame have both been playing football for 100 years, this will be the first meeting between the schools.
"Our kids are very excited about playing Notre Dame," Welsh said. They've worked very hard in practice, but they'll play well, they're going to be 9-11.
With so many Notre Dame alumni and fans in the New York area, most of the sellout crowd of 76,891 will be rooting for the Fighting Irish.
"That shouldn't bother us," Welsh said. "We play before that kind of crowd at Clemson and we "joy it."
Notre Dame is the fourth-standing national champion to play in the NCAA basketball season. Penn State in 1983, Miami in 1984 and Bridgham Young in 1985.
Penn State was crushed by Nebraska 44-6. Miami beat Auburn 20-18
Evert scores win in her last U.S. Open
Connors, four days shy of 37 and fresh after a nine-week vacation from tennis, played with nearly the same verve he showed in his first Open 20 years ago as he crushed 24-year-old Tom Niijames of the Netherlands 6.2, 6.1, 6.2.
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — Jimmy Connors and Chris Evert, long-time crowd favorites at the U.S. Open and winners of 11 championships between them, took fans on a sentimental journey yesterday with victories that brightened a rainy day
"I didn't hang around tennis all summer," said Connors, who set a record for the most matches in a U.S. championship with 163, more than Vic Seixan. "I really got away, and I like it. I come back and I see some things I enjoy, and a lot of the things I'm glad I got away from. My
Sweden's Stefan Edberg, seeded
third, beat Argentina's Jayra Fran
There were some tense moments and a few rain delays on the second day of the Open, but the only upsets were minor ones, ninth-denied Pam Shriver losing 6-2, 6-3 to Larsia Savchenko of the Soviet Union, and十seconded Mary Jane Fernandez falling to Wendy White 6-4, 6-3.
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tennis was OK. It was the mental outlook that wasn't too good."
Evert, seeded fourth, had her parents, brother and husband, skier Andy Mill, at courtside, filled with emotion and memories along with the fans, wondering at times early in the match whether this would be her last.
Martina Navratilova, the second-seeded woman, beat newcomer Eiida of Japan 6-0, 6-2. Gabriela Sabatini, the third seed of Argentina, beat Claudia Porwik of West Germany 6-1, 6-2.
The fans were with Connors on every point, but they showed a special affection for Evert, whom they've adored from her debut as a ponytail teen-ager through her years as six-time champion.
Ever's decision to end her involvement in major tennis after the Open, perhaps to pursue motherhood, though not necessarily the life of an ordinary housewife, put drama in her appearance but no extra pressure on her.
7-6, 6-2, 7-5; Andre Agassi, seeded sixth, beat Robbie Weisle 7-6, 6-4; Tim Mayotte, seeded ninth, beat Marr Furie 6-1, 6-3, 6-2.
"It doesn't feel any different with me," she said. "I'm aware of people's reaction, being a little more supportive because it's my last Open."
After a loving ovation as she started her 19th Open, Evert, a little nervous, her baseline shots less precise than in the past, made the points she needed to beat Argentina's Bettina Fulco 6-4, 8-2.
She began inaspiciously, broken by Fulco after a batch of unforced errors  a forehand in the net, then one more in more the net and a final one wide.
Royals get hits, win 12-8
"My whole career, people have been talking about how tough I am," she said. "Now that I'm losing some, can see how tough I was — the killer instinct, the single-mindedness, playfulness." "I don't know, that's what made me a champion."
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Kansas City manager John Wafhan to warn his players not to let up against Detroit even though things just seem to go from bad to worse for the Tigers.
after coming in behind a drop shot.
She bit her lip on the court after that first game and looked down. This was not the way she wanted to start, Fulco, though, began her service with a double-fault, and Evert seized the opportunity, eventually breaking her on crisp forehand volley
Good thing he did.
That set out of the way, the butter-
gate goes. Even wrapped through the
season, it looks like a frozen ball.
Evert, 34, pulled ahead 4-1, but she was still unsteady from the base line. She had to slow down and quick and strong 20-year-old, came back to tie the match 4-4.
Moments later, with Evert serving and the score 15-15, a few drops of rain fell, and play was suspected. Play resumed after 15 minutes, the skies still gray and the air warm and clammy.
Evert, known for her poise, quickly won the game and closed out the set by breaking Fulco, after two deus, and held volley that Fulco didn't hand.
It was Ewer's 69th career victory at the Open, against only 11 losses. Incredibly, she has won 202 sets and dropped just 33.
The Royals rallied back twice behind a 17-hit attack to beat Detroit 12-8 and send the sinking Tigers to their 10th straight lost.
"I told them that playing a team like this, all they have to play for is to beat a contender. They're professionals and all they've got left is to play hard and try to knock somebody down," he said. "You're going to get the most he can out of them. You've got to keep up the intensity."
Kansas City fell behind 3-1 and 8-6 before subduing the Tigers with three runs in each of the sixth and seventh innings.
"We talked about it before the game," said Wahm, whose Royals had just taken two out of three from first-place Oakland and three of four from second-place California in a week of playoff like intensity.
"This was a helluva game," said Anderson, who has seen 16 players go on the disabled list 20 times this year and who had Alan Trammell and Fred Lynn unavailable because of injury.
The Tigers scored the most runs they have scored in 28 games, but lost a ninth straight game on this road. They also lost to Detroit in 1960. Detroit is 40 games under .500.
"It was ugly," said Royals shortstop Kurt Stillwell. "But every win is a big one this time of year. There never really was any doubt we could score some more runs, but we just had to keep them down."
Stillwell, George Brett and Jim Eisenreich had three hits apiece, and Stillwell drove in three runs. Each hit was at least one hit except Ben Jackson.
The two clubs combined for 30 hits, including seven doubles. The Tigers had four of the doubles.
Trailing 2-2, Kansas City scored to run in the fourth and two in the eighth.
But Detroit tasted around in the sixth to score five runs off starter Luis Aquino.
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