MONDAY,AUG.20,2001
SPORTS
IHE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN - 15B
BIG 12 FOOTBALL Nebraska running backs arrested after disturbance
LINCOLN, Neb. — Two Nebraska football players were arrested early yesterday outside a downtown bar and spent the night in jail before posting bond.
bar's owner
Police Capt.
David Beggs said
Tony Tata was
arrested for disturbing the peace outside Mickey's Irish Pub at 12 a.m. after he was seen arquing with the
Dahran Diedrick was arrested at 12:48. He had been kicked out of the same bar after a disturbance and was yelling at the owner and police officers while being restrained, Beggs said.
Diedrick is expected to be a starting back this season. Tata is a backup middle linebacker.
After he refused to leave, Diedrick was arrested for failure to disperse and disturbing the peace. Beegs said.
School officials were not immediately available for comment.
The Cornhuskers open the season Saturday at home against Texas Christian University in the Pigskin Classic.
TENNIS
Wimbledon champ falls in RCA Championships
INDIANAPOLIS — French Open champion Gustavo Kuerten advanced to the RCA Championship final yesterday by beating Wimbledon champion Goran Ivanisevic 1-6, 6-3, 6-2.
After a one-hour break, Kuerten had to get back on court to face Pat Rafter for the title. Kuerten's semifinal was scheduled for Saturday but was postponed by rain.
It was the second straight week Kuerten was forced to play a semifinal and final on the same day.
The Brazilian beat Tim Henman and then Rafter to win a tournament in Cincinnati last Sunday.
In Indianapolis, Ivanisevic cruised
through the first set but struggled after that.
His booming serve failed him during the last two sets, with just 44 percent of first serves going in.
At one juncture, he threw his racket, breaking it, and then tossed it into courtside flowers.
Rafter, who lost to Ivanisevic in the Wimbledon finals in July, won his semifinal Saturday against Marat Safin 6-3, 5-7, 7-6.
MLB
White Sox manager ejected for second time this season
CHICAGO — Chicago White Sox manager Jerry Manuel was ejected from yesterday's game with the Oakland Athletics following a heated argument with home plate umpire Mike Fichter.
It was the second ejection this season and the fifth of the normally mild-mannered Manuel's career.
Manuel became enraged after Chicago starter Mark Buehrle, who has allowed just 1.9 walks per nine innings this season, walked No.8.
and No.9 hitters Ron Gant and Frank Menechino for the second time in the game.
After Gant scored when first baseman Paul Konerko made an error on Johnny Damon's bouncer, Manuel came out of the dugout screaming at Fichter, apparently about ball-and-strike calls, and was ejected.
Crew chief Joe Brinkman came in from third base to try to calm Manuel down.
Bench coach Joe Nossek took over for Manuel.
Shoulder soreness keeps Cub's pitcher on the bench
PHOENIX — Kerry Wood's return to the Chicago Cubs' rotation has been delayed after the right-hander experienced soreness in his shoulder.
Wood, who hasn't pitched since Aug. 3 because of tendinitis in his right
shoulder, had been scheduled to start tomorrow against Milwaukee at Wriley Field.
"I'll bag it until he's ready," Cubs manager Don Baylor said.
Wood said the soreness came after he released pitches Saturday and yesterday.
Wood, who missed all of the 1999 season after reconstructive
elbow surgery, is 10-6 with a 3.50 ERA and 183 strikeouts, third-most in the National League.
Baylor said 20-year-old right-hander Carlos Zambrano would be called up from Triple-A Iowa to make his major league debut in the second game of today's doubleheader against Milwaukee.
zambrano was 9-4 at Iowa with a 3.98 ERA in 24 appearances,23 of them starts.
Another pitcher will be called up to pitch tomorrow.
ST. LOUIS—A slumping Mark McGwire was dropped to sixth in the St. Louis Cardinals' batting order for the first time this season yesterday,
McGwire suffers slow season after disabling knee surgery
McGwire,
batting, 185
with 21 homers
and 44 RBIs,
was benched by
manager Tony
La Russia in the
first two games of the series.
McGwire entered in a double switch Saturday night and had a strikeout and a pop-up.
He has 89 strikeouts in 215 at-bats this season and has taken a called third strike 34 times.
McGwire has had difficulty coming back from offseason knee surgery and was on the disabled list for more than a month.
He entered yesterday's game with
475 career at-bats in the sixth slot. He's been used far more as a cleanup hitter (3,156 at-bats) and in the third spot (1,279). He's hit fifth 892 times.
McGwire's career numbers batting sixth were a.232 average, 35 homers and 96 RBIs.
Curse may have blown up Volkswagen featured in film
BOSTON — The Curse of the Bambino hasn't stopped a 29-year-old Navy veteran from visiting every baseball park in the country, even though his 1970 Volkswagen bus burst into flames near Fenway Park.
A firefighter told Carter Richardson on Friday the van was a victim of the
legendary curse, which some believe has kept the Red Sox from winning the World Series.
The van, named "Breeze" after the vehicle driven by
Kevin Costner in the film Field of Dreams, had already been to 20 ballparks.
"Breeze went out in a blaze of glory," said Richardson, who bought the vehicle for $2,400 in California about three months ago.
He managed to save most of his belongings, including about 20 bobble-headed slugger dolls and a baseball cap/ice cream dish from every stadium he's visited.
Richardson also got to see Friday's night game against the Orioles — from seats he called "amazing."
"My friends and I were sitting where Kevin Costner and James Earl Jones were sitting in the movie," he said.
Hays team loses to Alaska in Congress World Series
NBC
WICHITA — Bobby Huddleston drove in the winning run with an infield single as the Anchorage Glacier Pilots beat the Hays Larks 3-2 Saturday night to win the National Baseball Congress
World Series.
Tournament MVP Jeff Francis earned the save, getting the last five outs for the Alaska team.
The Glacier Pilots finished with a 7-1 record, coming out of the loser's bracket to win their fifth NBC championship.
The Larks were runners-up for the second straight year.
Danny Hodges was the winning pitcher and J.P. Gagne threw 7 1-3 innings for the loss.
TRACK & FIELD Top runner warns athletes against performance drugs
GENEVA — Many track stars will die as a result of taking performance-enhancing drugs, world 1,500-meter champion Hicham El Guerrouj warns.
"In the years to come, many athletes will die because of doping," the Moroccan said. "Believe me, there will be more premature deaths. We will see in 20 or 30 years who took drugs and who didn't. Look what happened to Chelimo."
He was referring to former 10,000-meter world record-holder and Olympic silver medalist Richard Chelimo of Kenya, who died Wednesday from a brain tumor.
Asked if he meant that Chelimo's death was linked to taking performance-enhancing drugs, El Guerrouj replied: "I'm not saying anything. I am simply pointing out that not long ago Chelimo is a healthy athlete. Now, at 29. he's dead."
El Guerrouj's comments came after world 5,000-meter silver medalist Ali Saidi-Sief of Algeria tested positive for the banned steroid, nandrolone.
Saidi-Sief faces a disciplinary hearing and risks a two-year ban and being stripped of his medal.
"He has tarnished Algeria's image, and that upsets me after everything that athletes like Nouraddine Morceli have done for Algeria," "El Guerrouj said.
The Associated Press
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