WEDNESDAY,SEPT.12,2001
SPORTS
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN - 7B
Ball games might be delayed
The Associated Press
The commissioners from all the Division I-A conferences, including the Atlantic Coast, Big East, Big Ten, Big 12, Pac-10 and Southeastern, discussed their options during a conference call hours after the attacks for staging this weekend's games.
"We're going to monitor and carefully evaluate everything and definitely make a decision tomorrow on our weekend football games," Big East commissioner Mike Tranghese said yesterday, speaking only for his own league's games.
Two games are scheduled for tomorrow night — Penn State at Virginia and Ohio at North Carolina
State, both at ACC schools. Brian Morrison, the ACC's assistant commissioner for media relations, said "it appears those games will be postponed."
Make-up dates were not immediately announced.
The final decision on whether to play could rest with the federal government, not the commissioners.
The government most likely will determine whether teams should travel by air and crowds ranging from about 35,000 to over 100,000 should gather at stadiums nationwide.
NCAA president Cedric Dempsey said the NCAA would cooperate with any executive orders issued by President Bush.
He also said conferences and individual schools have authority themselves to postpone or to play all regular-season games.
NASCAR yesterday canceled qualifying for the New Hampshire 300 following terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, but the sanctioning body made no decision concerning the race itself.
The Associated Press
Qualifying and a practice session were both scheduled for Friday at New Hampshire International Speedway until NASCAR president Mike Helton called off the activities and said the field for Sunday's race would be set by points.
NASCAR halts qualifying round
tioning body would consider how difficult it could be for teams to get to the race track following the FAA-ordered shutdown on air traffic.
Driver Dale Jarrett said earlier yesterday he hoped the sanc-
"With what's taken place here, you have to be concerned for safety and we also have to make sure that this is the right thing for us to be doing at this particular time," Jarrett said. "I think we do have to look at that. Is it safe for us to travel, along with the other teams in the other sports?"
Johnny Benson, one of a handful of drivers participating in a two-day testing session at the new Kansas Speedway, canceled his activities, and his team decided to drive the 700 miles back to Charlotte. N.C.
"Crew chief James Ince said there was no desire on his, driver Johnny Benson's, or the team's part to test after witnessing the attacks in New York City and Washington,"队 spokesman Drew Brown said.
Ince also said the decision was based on the lack of emergency aircraft available in case of an on-track accident.
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