12 Friday, October 3, 1986 / University Daily Kansan Sports briefs Jayhawk volleyball squad, 14-2, to compete in weekend tourney The KU volleyball team will be in Springfield, Mo. today and tomorrow for the Southwest Missouri State Tournament. The Jayhawks have a 14-2 record going into the tournament Kansas will meet longtime interstate rival Kansas State for the third time this season. The Jayhawks will also face Southwest Missouri State and Louisville in the round-robin tournament. Wednesday, the Jayhawks defeated Kansas State in four games, improving their Big Eight Conference Record to 2-1. Cross country iamboree in Okla. The Kansas's cross country team will be in Stillwater, Oka., tomorrow to compete in the Oklahoma State Jamboree. It is the team's fourth meet of the year. Other teams competing at the meet are Central Missouri State, Houston, Oklahoma Christian, Oklahoma State, Oklahoma, Oral Roberts University, Southern Methodist and the University of Texas at Arlington. At the Kansas State Invitational on Saturday, the cross country team didn't qualify for the team rankings because one of its runners failed to finish the race. Golfers play in Florida tourney The KU women's golf team is playing at the College Girls' Invitational Golf Tournament today and tomorrow at the Beacon Woods Country Club in Bayonette Point, Fla. Jayhawk golfers playing in the tournament are junior Tina Gnewuch, freshman Sherri Atchison, freshman Donna Lowen, sophomore Linda Bauerle and junior Susan Pekar. The KU baseball team will play a double-header against Highland Community College at 1 p.m. Sunday at Holcom Park, 25th Street west of Iowa Street. Each game will be seven innings. Jayhawks to play double-header The Jayhawks are 4-2 this fall Rugby teams to compete at Rolla The Kansas Rugby Club's varsity and senior reserve teams will play in the Midwestern Invitational Rugby Tournament tomorrow and Sunday at the University of Missouri at Rolla. The varsity team will face teams from Missouri, St. Louis University, Southeast Missouri State, Rolla and the Rolla alumni in the round-robin tournament. The senior reserve team will play the Rolla "B" team. The club team will travel to Jefferson City, Mo. tomorrow, to play in a merit table match against the Jefferson City Rugby Club. Football leagues begin Monday Intramural football will begin Monday for teams that registered and paid fees by Sept. 24th. About 108 teams will be participating in the threeweek long regular season and post-season championship tournament. Games will be played at Shenk Complex at the corner of 23rd and Iowa streets beginning at 3:30 p.m. Monday through Thursday and at 12:30 p.m. Sunday. Schedules are posted outside 208 Robinson Center. Letterman places bet on playoffs HOUSTON — Houston Mayor Kathy Whitmire and late-night talk show host David Letterman have bet on the National League playoffs after Whitmire earlier bet New York Mayor Ed Koch. Letterman telephoned Whitmire on Wednesday while taping his television show and initially offered the mayor a $1,000 bet on the playoffs. The best-of-seven series between the Houston Astros and New York Mets begins Wednesday night in Houston. But Letterman changed his mind, and instead offered, if the Astros win, to display on his show an enlarged photograph of Whitmire and an Astros team picture. The photographs would hang behind Letterman's desk four consecutive nights. If the Mets win, Whitmire agreed to display in her office a bigger-than-life-sized picture of Mets outfielder Mookie Wilson for four days. "She agreed after we told her who Mookie Wilson was," said Whitmiire spokesman Paul Mabry. "I haven't been able to see it, but at least it isn't a picture of Mayor Koch." Whitmire told Letterman. We wouldn't be Crazy. Detect man responded. Under the Whitmire-Koch bet, a "Houston Proud" banner will fly in New York's Central Park if the Astros win the series. An "I Love New York" banner will fly in Houston's Tranquility Park if the Mets are victorious. Gators probation ends this year GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The NCAA informed the Florida Gators this week that their football program will not be saddled with a third year of sanctions for football recruiting violations, a university spokesman said yesterday. "We have heard unofficially that the third year of the probation will be lifted," said university spokeswoman Linda Gray. "We haven't heard by letter." But Gray said David Berst, director of the National Collegiate Athletic Association's enforcement division, had confirmed that a letter would be sent to the school this week officially informing university officials of the lifting of probation. The probation will end at the conclusion of the football season. The NCAA's decision was one the university had been waiting for since 1984, the year the probation was instituted, said associate athletic director Jeremy Foley, who will become interim athletic director Sunday, when athletic director Bill Carr steps down. Florida was placed on probation after the 1984 football season and stripped of its first Southeastern Conference title that year when the school was found guilty of 59 recruiting violations. A two-year ban on bowl appearances, live television and scholarship restrictions was imposed with the understanding that any further violations would result in a third year of penalties. Baseball hits the Soviet Union MOSCOW - Baseball, that most American of institutions, has received the state seal of approval to become an official Soviet sport. The decision of the Soviet State Committee for Physical Culture and Sport was announced by the official Tass news agency yesterday in an article that never mentioned the United States. "Baseball, a sport that is quite popular in the world and is played by at least 300 million people, is to be cultivated in the U.S.S.R. along with softball and the old Russian game of Lapta." Tass said "All three games involve the use of a ball and bat and their joint development might prove to be quite effective." the report said. Tass said there were already several student baseball teams in the Soviet Union — in Georgia and the Ukraine — but the first game in Moscow will be next Tuesday. A team from Moscow University will face one from Patrice Lumumba University, which teaches mainly Third World students. "Apparently specialists from Cuba and Nicaragua, countries where this game is played and which have performed well at major competitions, will be the first teachers of Soviet baseball球队." Tass said. Sports budget limits get little support From staff and wire reports United Press International KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The NCAA Presidents Commission has refused to support any measure to limit spending on college athletic programs, which a report calls exceedingly expensive, at the next National College Athletic Association convention. The commission met this week to hear financial issues and academic requirements and also heard a report from a committee of the American Council on Education. "These represent a rather significant package that needs to be brought together and thought But with the deadline for proposed legislation just a month away, the commission said Wednesday that it would wait before submitting cost-restrictive measures to the full NCAA convention. through quite carefully," said Commission Chairman John B. Slaughter. Slaughter said a good legislation package, one which would be in the best interests of intercollegiate sports and is being used in time to meet the Nov. 1 deadline. One measure the presidents did support was the implementation of Proposition 48 on the NCAA Division I basketball season. The applicable only, on the Division I level. "Presidents of many colleges and universities across the country are distressed today because of the exceedingly high cost of intercollegiate athletic programs," Slaughter said "And they believe (athletics) constitutes a much larger share than warranted of institutional resources. Shaughter of the University of Maryland, however, said the group would not be against calling a special NCAA convention for June. A decision on whether or not a special convention should be called will be made at the commission's next meeting in January. "And that they require an excessive amount of time, energy and emphasis on the part of the participants. Thus, unlessly, reducing the time that can be devoted to academic concerns." Slaughter said the commission "approved in principle" measures suggested by the ACE committee. That committee proposed cutting down on schedules, practice time and some coaching positions. The commission will not push those measures at January's NCAA convention in San Diego, but Slaughter did not say they were out of the picture in future meetings. "This is not de-emphasis (of athletes)." Slaughter said. "This is restoring the pre-eminence of academics to the intercollegiate athletics scene." The ACE committee's best-known proposals would cut football scholarships from 95 to 80, end spring football, have basketball start a month later than the current schedule and do away with so-called "out-of-season sports" such as fall baseball. "Their work clearly represents activities that we think are consistent with the continued strengthening of intercollegiate athletics through chief executive officers' involvement," Slaughter said. The meeting drew 38 of the 44 members of the NCAA Presidents Commission, a quorum that Slaughter said, 'reflects the continued strong interest of chief executive officers in the issues of intercollegiate athletics. Bird expects to win despite Bias' death United Press International BOSTON — Despite the death of Len Bias and this summer's heavy trading in the NBA, Larry Bird said Wednesday that he thought the Boston Celtics would become the first team in 16 years to repeat a championship victory. "I'm more excited about starting this season than any other," he said. "We definitely have the talent, and I believe we'll do it. I really believe this will be our year." Bird, who won the Seagram's Sports Award as the league's top player for the third straight year, said after the presentation that the cocaine death of the rookie from Maryland was mind-boggling. "Bias was a great basketball player with a great future, but he was with the wrong crowd, did the wrong thing, and that's the way it always turns out," Bird said. "Some guys get away with it for three, four or five years, and some guys it hits hard right away." "One thing I've always said: somebody who gets involved in drugs, that's what it leads to. I'll leave it at that." The 6-foot-9 forward said winning a 17th Celtics championship banner this season was the result of luck and good attitudes. "I thought we'd have a great shot at repeating last time (after the 1984 championship)." he said. "But you've got to be mentally prepared and playing great basketball going into the season. Probably everybody thinks we can't do it, but the key for us is to avoid a major injury." Boston takes only 13 players to training camp, which opens Friday. No rookies were invited with Fred Roberts, formerly of the Utah Jazz. The 6-10 forward signed an offer sheet, and a trade was struck after the Jazz matched the offer. Boston, in 1968-69, was the last team to win consecutive titles. Bill Russell coached and played center. Bird said he no longer suffered from elbow problems, and exercises had alleviated his back pains. BLACK STUDENT UNION $\bullet$ AXΩ • AΔπ • AΓΔ • Aφ • ΔΓ • - $\angle AE \cdot \angle X \cdot \angle N \cdot \angle \phi E \cdot T K E \cdot \theta X$ Get psyched to tee-off Good Luck Omicron Open Teams! 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