WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2002
SPORTS
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN 3B
Sims to start against Jets Sunday
The Associated Press
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Ryan Sims, a training camp holdout called "fat and out of shape" by coach Dick Vermeil when he first reported, will get his first start Sunday against the New York Jets.
Vermeil said yesterday the 6-4, 315-pound Sims, the sixth player drafted overall, would start over Derrick Ransom at defensive tackle.
Sims, working himself into shape, has seen his role gradually increase each week for the Chiefs (2-2).
"He has 10 quarterback hurries and three pressures," Vermeil said. "And he's been involved in a number of tackles away from the point of attack. He's a big, strong and explosive guy. He's not a secret to us. The reason we invested that kind of money is
because we can project what he might be able to do once he gets going."
Vermeil said the move was not influenced by the $9.75 million signing bonus the Chiefs gave Sims at the end of the long holdout, though Vermeil agreed that bonus money does sometimes influence whether a player gets to play.
"It's not a factor here, but there is a tendency to do that," he said. "(Nobody) came to me and said, 'We've got all this money invested, let's start our first-round pick,'
They never even mentioned it."
Sims said last week before the Chiefs beat Miami 48-30 that he felt he was picking up his pace every week.
"I'm slowly getting into the scheme," he said. "It's kind of complicated right now. But I've got these guys helping me out on
the field. Hopefully, this week I'll get into it fully."
He said he would give himself a C minus.
"I've done all right," he said. "All I can do is improve. That's what I keep thinking — I can't do anything but get better."
Vermeil also said Eddie Freeman, who was taken in the second round after Sims, was being shifted from defensive tackle to end, where the Chiefs had projected him when they drafted him.
"That's really where we had him projected from the start," Vermell said. "But during training camp, for a lot of reasons, we needed to keep him inside."
Vermeil said Sims still has far to go.
"We won't see the best of him Sunday. We won't see the best of him this year," he said. "But you will see the best of him. He will be
"We knew what kind of person he was,what kind of person he is, what kind of player he's going to be."
Dick Vermeil
Chiefs coach
a dominating player."
Vermeil said he was not surprised at how quickly Sims has caught on after missing training camp.
"We knew what kind of person he was, what kind of person he is, what kind of player he's going to be."
Vermeil also said safety Jason Belser might not be over a deep hip bruise in time to play against the Jets, which would put them down to their third-team safety.
Marijuana possession last of Moss' charges
The Associated Press
MINNEAPOLIS — Minnesota Vikings star receiver Randy Moss was charged yesterday with possession of a small amount of marijuana, adding to charges last week that he pushed a traffic officer with his car.
The new petty misdemean count carries a fine of up to $200, but it could also lead to a suspension or fine from the NFL.
son of his mother.
Police said they found a marijuana cigarette in Moss' car after he was arrested on Sept. 24. Moss was driving in downtown Minneapolis when the traffic officer stepped in front of his car to stop him from making an illegal turn. She was slightly injured when she
fell off the car.
Moss spent the night in jail and was charged the next day with careless driving and failure to obey a traffic officer, both misdemeanors.
The complaint said the marijuana amounted to just under a gram. Moss has said the marijuana did not belong to him and that he had allowed other people to use his car recently.
ESPN reported Sunday that Moss was already in the league's substance abuse program for testing positive for marijuana last year, and underwent another test by the NFL after his arrest last week.
NFL spokesman Greg Aiello said the league would review the
case.
"Under the policy, a drug-related violation of the law is grounds for disciplinary action," Aiello said.
Moss was allowed to play in last Sunday's 48-23 loss at Seattle.
Moss could lose his driving privileges in Minnesota for a year because he refused to take a police test for drug or alcohol use when he was arrested, said Kevin Smith, a spokesman for the Minnesota Department of Public Safety.
Moss, who has only a Florida driver's license, also could lose driving privileges in Florida, Smith said.
City prosecutors on Tuesday added two new traffic counts to
the charges: making an improper turn at an intersection in a hazardous manner, a misdemeanor, and obstructing traffic with a vehicle, a petty misdemeanor.
Each misdemeanor count carries a maximum penalty of 90 days in jail and up to a $1,000 fine. The maximum fine on the obstructing traffic count is $300. Neither petty misdemeanor count carries jail time.
The 25-year-old Moss was to be arraigned Wednesday. Defense lawyer Joe Friedberg said Moss was not required to appear and would not be there.
"At some point we will enter not guilty pleas to all of these counts," Friedberg said.
Royals end season with record losses
The Associated Press
KANSAS CITY, Mo. When they storm the field and attack your first-base coach, it's a bad year.
Like Tom Gamboa, who was blindsided by a shirtless father and son in Chicago, the woeful Royals of 2002 never knew what hit them.
Lacking team defense, starting pitching, depth, consistency and middle infield skills, the Royals' worst team lost a franchise-record 100 games. It was the third time in four years they've lost at least 97.
For pumping in an extra $20 million and bringing the payroll to nearly $50 million, owner David Glass got three fewer victories than the previous year.
Look for extensive payroll slashing. Reliever Roberto Hernandez is almost surely gone, along with outfieldier Chuck Knoblauch and weak-hitting shortstop Neifi Perez.
Home attendance plunged almost 2,000 a game to an average barely more than 17,000 the lowest in 27 years.
But several thousand fans who cared enough to show up at a "protest game" organized by a radio station right before the expected strike were only berated by indignant players.
When Oakland grabbed a 6-0 lead in the first inning, thousands of fans began chanting "Strike right now! Strike right now!"
The harassment never stopped. They cheered every time the Athletics did something good, booed when anything positive happened for the home team.
The remarkable night marked a historic low in the player-fan relationship at a ballpark that used to draw more than 2 million annually.
About the same time, the Missouri Legislature chose to ignore commissioner Bud Selig's warning that renovating aging Kauffman Stadium was key to baseball's future in Kansas City. A funding bill failed even to come to vote.
Most disgusting was the decision not to outfit players in Kansas City Monarchs uniforms on the day major league baseball paid homage to the Negro Leagues.
It was in Kansas City in 1920 that Rube Foster founded the Negro Leagues.
The Negro Leagues Museum and Hall of Fame is not far from Kauffman Stadium, but Royals marketing director Charlie SeAlso good was the way Gamboa, describing himself as "a no-name guy having his 15 minutes of fame," bounced right back without permanent damage. rraphin said he vetoed the Monarchs uniforms because he didn't know about Kansas City's ties to the Negro Leagues.
The few successes of note during the horrible season:
First baseman Mike Sweeney signed a $55 million contract extension and hit.340
First baseman/outfielder Raul Ibanez had a breakout year with 24 homers and 103 RBIs. Center fielder Carlos Beltran drove in 105 runs with 29 homers.
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