8A • THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
SPORTS
TUESDAY,OCT.30,2001
Soccer team eyes revenge against St. Louis
By Ryan Wood
Kansan sportswriter
The Kansas soccer team battles St. Louis University at 3 p.m. today at SuperTarget Field, and although the game is a nonconference makeup game, the Jayhawks have plenty of incentives to win.
With the NCAA tournament less than a month away, Kansas is in serious contention for an at large berth in the newly expanded 64-team field.
"We're trying to make the
NCAA tournament, and a loss could really hurt us," said coach Mark Francis.
Kansas comes into today's game with an 11-5 record, all five losses coming at the hands of Top 25 teams. St. Louis has an 8-7-1 record, but Francis said he didn't think his team would look past today's contest.
"I think the biggest mistake we could make is to take the game lightly." Francis said, noting that St. Louis had beaten
"We're trying to make the NCAA tournament, and
a loss could really hurt us."
Mark Francis Kansas soccer coach
No. 20 Marquette last weekend.
Kansas also has revenge on
its mind. The Jayhawks played against the Billikens last season in St. Louis, with the Billikens rallying from a 2-0 deficit and scoring three goals in the final 25 minutes of play. Francis said the returning players had not forgotten.
forgotten.
"That was a tough loss because I thought we outplayed them for 75 minutes," he said. "They came back and beat us in the last 15. We just didn't finish the game, and I think that's something they're thinking about."
St. Louis is led by freshman forward Jamie Perry, who has racked up 10 goals and three assists in her debut season. The Billikens last played on Sunday, crushing DePaul, 6-0. Today's game will be the first against a Big 12 team this season for St. Louis.
Notes:
Freshman forward Monica Brothers hurt her knee in practice yesterday and likely will not play today. Francis said she would be ready to play in the
Jayhawks' regular-season finale against Missouri on Friday.
Kansas remained sixth in the central region of the National Soccer Coaches' Association of America poll, which was released yesterday.
Contact Wood at 864-4858
Jordan to return to Garden
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — Michael Jordan returns to the NBA tonight at the arena where he's had some of his greatest moments.
When he came back to Madison Square Garden in 1955 after his first retirement, he scored 55 points against the New York Knicks.
"It enthused me to play there every chance I got," said Jordan, who makes his regular-season debut tonight with the Washington Wizards. "There's a lot of memories of playing on that floor, and I'm not going to forget them."
After eight preseason games, it
all begins to count now for the 38-year-old Jordan, whose second retirement lasted nearly 3 1/2 years. He will start at small forward, wearing a uniform other than Chicago's for the first time in his NBA career.
He returns with six championship rings and with the fourth-highest scoring total in league history. But he is coming back with a team that won only 19 games last season when he was the team president.
Jordan said he planned on playing hard, and whatever happened would happen.
in and get off to a good start of the regular season, and hopefully the team feels the same way."
The job of defending Jordan will fall to Latrell Sprewell, who is eager to end all the speculation about Jordan.
"It's going to be fun. It's what everybody has wanted to see for sometime now," Sprewell said. "I guess people are anxious to see how good he is. I expect him to play hard and to get a lot of shots off."
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Yankees to rely on veteran pitcher
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NEW YORK — Squirming in a World Series corner after two losses in Arizona, the New York Yankees turn to a 39-year-old pitcher with a cranky hamstring who hasn't won in 41 days.
This, though, isn't tany old pitcher. This is Roger Clemens, equipped with a 20-3 regular-season record that almost certainly will translate into a sixth Cyr Young Award.
The problem is Clemens enters tonight's game winless in six starts since Sept. 19 with three losses and three no-decisions during the last six weeks.
Clemens had two losses and a no-decision in the final weeks of the season, then lost Game 1 of the American League division series against Oakland, coming out in the fifth inning when his right hamstring began hurting. He worked into the fifth of the decisive Game 5 of that series and got no decision.
Against Seattle in the American League championship series, he came out after five innings of Game 4, again with no decision. That extended his career postseason record to 5-6 with a 3.57 earned run average in 19 starts, rather ordinary for a pitcher whose dossier includes 280 victories.
Still, manager Joe Torre is entirely comfortable handing the ball to Clemens for Game 3.
"As far as the physical stuff,
you never are really going to know until he goes out there." Torre said. "However, we feel good enough about him to have pitched him in Game 3, because if we felt that he was not able to pitch a Game 7, we would have pitched him in Game 4."
The road to a Game 7 has to start in Game 3 for a Yankees team caught in an 0-2 hole and knowing that no team has ever come back from 0-3 to win a World Series.
Clemens relishes the assignment.
"Physically, I feel great," he said. "I'll know how it goes each inning I pitch. I plan on going as hard and as long as I can and hopefully longer. The stamina and my strength have felt great."
Overwhelmed in the first two games by Curt Schilling and Randy Johnson, the Yankees must find some offense against left-hander Brian Anderson, who will be making his first World Series start. Anderson was 4-9 in the regular season and his record pales alongside Clemens accomplishments.
Clemens sees the Yankees situation as a challenge, to him as well as the team.
"I hope it's a challenge we all look forward to," he said. "We knew what we were facing out there and those guys threw the ball exceptionally well. I think all the guys look forward to
being back at home and look forward to the challenge of trying to make this somewhat of a series "
Clemens' postseason career has been a series of up and downs. He pitched the Yankees' clincher in the 1999 sweep against Atlanta and had a one-hitter in the American League championship series against Seattle last year, his only complete game in 19 postseason starts.
Then there was Game 2 of the World Series against the New York Mets lastyearwhen he threw a splintered bat at Mike Piazza, an episode that resulted in a $50,000 line.
Still, the Yankees expressed a sense of confidence about having him on the mound.
"He's been our horse," said catcher Jorge Posada. "To have Rocket going is a good feeling. The days off have helped him. I know he's looking forward to getting on the mound."
And Clemens liked the idea of being the main man in this crisis.
"I enjoy the opportunity just to pitch," he said. "I mean whether I am ailing or not feeling great, I still enjoy the challenges. I enjoy the opportunity every time to go out there because I know guys are counting on me." pitch." he said. "I mean whether I am ailing or not feeling great, I still enjoy the challenges.
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