Sports
University Daily Kansan
Friday, Aug. 30, 1985
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All tickets sold
The Kansas ticket office announced yesterday that all-sports tickets have been sold out, which means there are no more student basketball tickets available for sale.
Ticket manager Kent Weiser said yesterday that there were approximately 7,000 student seats for basketball games, and all those have now been purchased by all sports ticket holders.
Weisler said that his office started doing brisk business early in the morning, and had sold out of all sports tickets by early after its officer estimated that about 1,000 all sports tickets were sold yesterday.
Weiser emphasized that people who pre-ordered an all-sports ticket can still pick up their tickets from the ticket office in Allen Field House.
There are still plenty of student football tickets available, Weiser said. Ticket prices for student season football tickets are $25 for open seating and $28 for reserved seating. Reserved seating is available only to juniors, seniors and graduate students.
Anschutz open to all
The schedule of recreational use at Anschutz Sports Pavilion for the fall semester has been completed.
Open recreation times are from 6 to 8:15 a.m., and from 10:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Monday through Friday. From 7:10 p.m., there will be restricted recreation, open only to students, faculty and staff. Admittance during restricted recreation will be by identification only.
There will be restricted recreation from 6 to 10 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays. Entry for students, faculty and staff is always through the northwest lobby.
Chiefs ink McKinney
Recreation times may be pre-
empted by athletic events, prac-
tices or contests when necessary.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Kansas City Chiefs yesterday claimed eight-year National Football League defensive back Odis McKinney on waivers from the Los Angeles Raiders.
The Chiefs waived five-year veteran lineman Jim Rourke to keep their roster at 50 players, the NHL limit.
McKinney, who was the nickel back for the Raiders, was expected to join Kansas City yesterday and be available to play tomorrow in the last pre-season game with the St. Louis Cardinals.
McKinney, a second-round draft choice of the New York Giants in 1978, had played in 73 consecutive regular-season games and 10 post-season games for the Raiders.
Chief's coach John Mackovic described McKinney as an outstanding special team player.
Bourke, who had played every offensive line position for Kansas City in his career, was signed as a free agent out of Boston College in 1960.
From staff and wire reports
Somehow over the Rainbows 'Hawks won't have easy season opener
By Chris Lazzarino
Sports Editor
The opening episode of the fall football season for the Kansas Jayhawks is beginning to suffer from the same troubles plaguing network television.
The plots are all the same, only the cast changes. And only half of the cast changes at that. The lead actors Their sidekicks get seasonal relation.
Kansas will again open its season with academic question marks hitting its starting lineup. Exactly how many question marks remain at game time Saturday in Honolulu is not known.
What is known is that Robert Mimbs, who started KU's first five games of last season at tailback, won't play. Warren Shields, a second-second outside linebacker,
won't be in the cast of characters, either.
As of yesterday afternoon, left cornerback Alvin Walton and backup strong safety Marvin Mattox had not received academic certification, but were seeking certification in time to fly to Hawaii.
So, now the Jayhawks have more to deal with than the Hawaii Rainbow Warriors. Not only will it be that much harder for the Jayhawks to concentrate solely on the football but holes in their lineup must be filled.
Filling holes and worrying about single-mindedness is not the position head coach Mike Gottfried wanted to be in. He has repeatedly said during pre-season drills that his team is going to Hawaii for a football game, not a vacation.
He has said that because he knows.
Hawaii is a formitable opponent. The Rainbow Warriors have not had a losing season since 1977, which was head coach Dick Tomey's first season with the Warriors. Since 1967, the Warriors have had only two losing seasons.
Hawaii
Game one, Aug. 31
Honolulu, Hawaii
Hawaii was hurt by graduation, however, which means the Warriors also have holes to fill. The biggest injury was quarterback Rahul Cherry.
Cherry led the team in rushing with 424 yards, as well as recording 2,055 yards passing. Junior redshirt transfer Greg Tipton and freshman
redshirt Kurt Simon will be competing for the right to take over as quarterback, and both will play against Kansas, Tomey said yesterday.
Neither has played a down for Hawaii, so Tomey doesn't know which of the two will emerge as the top man.
The job facing the young quarter-backs will be made easier by the fact that Hawaii has one of the top receivers in the nation returning, and not only in football. He is the NCAA's third-leading active receiver in career yards
"I will play both of them to see how they do in a game situation," Tomey said. "Neither has played in a game for us, so I don't have much evidence on them. One of them will be starting the quarterback and another starting quarterback at this point."
Although the Jayhawks will most likely be attacking the Warriors with their passing game, Tomey plans to first attempt to stop the Jayhawks' running game.
"We try to stop the running game first, always." Tomey said. "If you don't stop the running game, it becomes too difficult to call defenses. Our first concern has to be to stop the running game so Kansas will have to go to pure pass."
Gottfried was expected to hold a news conference yesterday concerning academic certifications, but the president according to the Associated Press.
Game time is 12:30 a.m. Sunday,
Lawrence time, and can be heard
live on KLZR-FM 106. The game will
be broadcast later. Sunday on
KLWAN-AF
Rugby player achieves honor; selected to All-America team
By Frank Hansel
Knudsen's selection to the United States of America Rugby Football Union All-America team came after he failed to make the national team,
Of the Kansan sports staff
When Pete Krusden decided to attend the University of Kansas, his athletic career seemed to be behind him, but last summer the fifth-year senior made KU history.
Knudsen became the first player in KU rugby history to gain All-America honors. He achieved the honor last June in California.
Knudsen said he was looking for something to take the place of basketball and baseball, two sports in which he was in at Shawnee Mission Northwest.
"I laid around a lot as a freshman, and I was used to being active," Knudsen said yesterday. "After a friend and myself heard about the rugby club we decided to go out for it."
But Knudsen was in for a sunrise.
"My first year out, I had been to only three or four practices, and I didn't even know all the rules when I went to Omaha with the team. I remember thinking 'what in the world am I doing here.' But the best way to learn the game is to just get out and play." Krudgen said.
the Junior Eagles, a team for players under 25 years of age.
Knudsen said he was selected for the All-America team because some of the players on the Junior Eagles didn't qualify because they were no longer college students.
Besides Knudsen, Lou Blanco and Quint Nufer, varsity captain, went to the Interterritorial Trials in California.
Knudsen's honors were not the only highlight of the summer for the rugby team. A combination of players from the collegiate team and the club team completed their fifth international tour.
This year's trip took the team to Argentina, where the players played for three weeks in Buenos Aires, Mar Del Plata and Rosario.
Bill Mills, third-year head coach, said the team tried to take an international tour periodically and it had helped the team gain some recognition.
"We try to play on foreign shores about every other year," Mills said, "and it has gotten to where when we were born, who know the Kansas Rbudch club is."
Recognition is one thing that American rugby is lacking. Mills said the sport was just as popular in the United States as in other parts of
the world. But the only difference is that Americans don't hear or read about the sport as much.
One reason Mills gave for the lack of exposure is that rugby is not a professional sport.
"Television networks don't tend to cover amateur sports as much unless it is something like the Olympic games." Mills said.
Besides the lack of nationwide attention, rugby has another problem — an image of rugby as a brutal game.
"It's a misconception that people have," Mills said. "I think a lot of it comes from the fact that people view rugby as football played without pads."
Knudsen said a lot of newcomers came in with the idea of beating people up, but they soon learned that wasn't what rugby was about.
"There are a few people around who want rugby to keep its rough and tough image, but most players are too tired during a game to want to fight, and I don't know anyone that goes out looking to get hurt." Knudsen said.
Knudsen also played one year of high school football, and like many first-time rugby players he said he had to get rid of old football habits.
Brvan Graves/KANSAN
All-America rugby player Pete Knudsen guards teammate Larry Witherbee during a rugby practice yesterday at the fields on 23rd and Iowa streets. The three rugby squads — the club team, collegiate team and the reserves — are preparing for the season opener in Omaha, Neb., Sept. 7.
ISU standout pleads guilty to assault
United Press International
NEVADA, Iowa — Iowa State quarterback Alex Espinoza pleaded guilty yesterday to one count of serious assault and one count of simple assault in a plea bargain arrangement with Story County Attorney Mary Richards.
Espinosa, who was the starting quarterback for the Cyclone football team as a sophomore last year, entered the pleas in connection with two separate incidents near the Ames campus.
The junior's future with the Cyclone football team was not immediately known, although he indicated he already had been disciplined by coach Jim Criner.
Espinoza, 21, Stane Fe Springs. Calif., faces up to a year in prison, but Richards said she would recommend he be sentenced to up to 100 hours community service.
"I think it was a just and appropriate outcome." Richards said. "I think it would be good to give him some time to think about it."
Espinoza initially had been charged with two counts of serious assault and one count of simple assault following incidents in the "campustown" area near the Iowa State campus last April.
following a pre-sentence investigation,
will take about a complete
Espinoza will be sentenced Sept. 30
The initial serious assault charge was filed after Chris Maskrey, an ISU student from Des Moines, accused Espinoza of assaulting him during the early-morning hours of April 21.
However, Richards said the charge was reduced to simple assault because it would be hard to prove what injuries Espinoza actually inflicted on Maskrey during the incident.
"So we're not sure what physical damage Alex actually inflicted on (Maskrey)," she said.
"In that respect, I feel very good about making that concession" to reduce the serious assault charge to simple assault, Richards said.
rey sustained a skinned nose, blacked eye and possible concussion.
During the 30-minute hearing before District Associate Judge Thomas Hronek, Espinoza said he was looking forward to the Cyclones' home opener against Utah State, Sept. 14.
"I appologized to the football team for embarrassing them and the university. I just want to get on with things," he said.
According to court records, Mask
Alan Haeman/KANSAN
Anne Frizzland, Kansas City, Mo., junior, catches a pass during a practice for Alpha Delta Pi sorority's intramural football team. The team is preparing for a tournament Sept. 4.
BYU beats BC, 28-14, in season opener
The Associated Press
The victory stretched the nation's longest winning streak to 25 games and got BYU off and winging in the opening game of the college football season.
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- Robbie Bobie completed 35 of 53 passes for a career-high 508 yards and Glen Klonowski caught 10 passes for 241 yards as Brigham Young opened defense of its 1984 national team by defeating Boston College 28-14 in the third annual Kickoff Classic.
Bosco and Kozlowski teamed up on four long-range passes to set up BYU's first three touchdowns and
It was Bosco's third touchdown pass of the contest. He also flipped a 6-yarder to Mark Bellini to start the scoring early in the second period and fired a 12-yarder to Bellini late in the third quarter to snap a tie after BYU had hulled a 14-0 lead. Bellini caught nine passes for 111 yards.
then put the game away on a 22-yd touchdown pass with 8-32 left to play.
Boston College unveiled a new starting quarterback in Shawn Halloran, who spent the last two seasons backing up Heisman Trophy winner Doug Flutie. The fourth-year junior got off to a shaky start and finished with 18 completions in 37 attempts for 165 yards. He was intercepted three
times while Bosco had four passes picked off.
Boston College, 10-2 a year ago and Cotton Bowl champion, scored on a 1-yard run by John Mihalik in the second period and tied the score on Troy Stradford's 5-yard run at 9:27 of the third quarter.
But the Cougars had something to prove to a Giants Stadium crowd of 51,227 and a television audience in 92 percent of the nation, and Bosco answered the tying touchdown with a 51-yard bomb to Koziowski at the Eagles' 12-yard line. The next play was his second touchdown pass to Bellini and put BYU ahead to stay.
Despite last season's championship, BYU was only ranked No. 10 in the nation.
Although Boston College was not ranked after finishing fifth a year ago, the team did receive 40 top points in the AP poll.
After three straight seasons with four losses, the Oklahoma Sooners — with nine returning defensive starters — have resurged in respect and led as the nation's No. 1 pre-season team on both the AP and UPI polls.
season poll. The team faired better in the United Press International's poll with a No.7 ranking.
BYU's 508 passing yards was the most ever against a Boston College team, surpassing the 447 by Miami last year, a game capped by Flutie's "Hall Mary" last-second bomb that gave BC a 47-45 triumph.
Original movie rocky; sequel a big hit
Of the Kansan sports staff
By Heather Fritz
The plot sounds like that of a grade B movie — too tragic to be true.
She plays one match in that No. 1 singles position, then a knee injury puts her in the hospital. Two weeks after surgery, she is driving to work on晕机 on a moped when the woman fails to stop at an intersection.
Tracy Treps comes to Kansas and earns the top spot on the women's tennis team as a freshman.
To top it all off, she is患畜ick and almost quits the team to leave
In the movie, the star would have come back and won the Big. Eight championship, but in reality, Treps placed fourth.
Get ready for the soon-to-be-released sequel.
Now a sophomore, Treps is at peace with herself and at home in
"I hate to say I didn't want to play," she said, "but I just wanted to get out of here. I really didn't like being here. Now things are 100 percent better."
Treps went home last spring with the idea that she wouldn't be back. But when she taught at head coach Todd Schumacher this summer, she changed her mind.
"I told him I probably would not be back this year," she said. "But I came back over the summer and something happened. I couldn't be happier now."
return to KU to Perelman. She said he called her at Christmas to try to get her to return to Kansas and spent time with her after her surgery.
Treps gave all the credit for her
Treps' change of heart could do wonders for her tennis game. She will be battling with last year's No. 1 singles player, Barb Arnim, for the first time since the weekend's challenge matches. Attitude could give her the edge.
"Coach was so patient with me," she said. "I felt like I let him down. I was miserable and I reminded him of it every day."
"I have a lot different attitude this year," Treps sniff. "This is honest — I'm really excited to be back and I'm ready to go for the top again."
But Inman gave notice that it might not be that easy.
"Everyone has their problems and you just have to deal with them, including me," she said. "I won the challenge matches, I won the matches against other teams. That's why I played No. 1."
Senior player Pam Porter said the competition between Treps and Inman could be tough.
"They're both good players, they're both capable of playing out there," Porter said. "It could be tight. Barb had a great summer. She played the amateur circuit and did great."
Also competing for a top spot will be Christine Parr. Last year Parr won the Big Eight championship at No. 3 singles and helped the team to its second-place finish behind Oklahoma State.