SPORTS
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Tuesday, October 27, 1992
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Jayhawks will get second chance on national television
By David Bartkoski Kansan sportswriter
Kansan sportswriter
The Kansas Jayhawks will play on ESPN for the second time this season as the total sports network has decided to broadcast the Kansas-Nebraska game on Nov. 7.
Earlier this year, Kansas played California in an ESPN game and lost 27-23 to the Golden Bears.
The game, originally scheduled to start at 1 p.m., will be played at 6:30 p.m. in Nebraska's Memorial Stadium.
Josh Kruwitz, publicist for ESPN, said Kansas '27-10 victory against Oklahoma and 6-1 record were major factors in the network's decision to show the game. Nebraska is currently 5-1 head-to-head in the contest with Colorado. Kansas plays host to Oklahoma State.
"This game could have Orange Bowl implications," he said.
Bob Frederick, athletic director, said he was delighted that the Jayhawks would again be playing on national television.
Kansas is off to its best start since the 1968 season, when the Jayhawks started 7- and went to the Orange Bowl.
"I feels great," he said, "I'm pleased for all the people around here who have helped the football program get better."
Frederick was hired as athletic director in 1987 and watched the Jayhawks post a composite file from 9-3-2-1 from 1978 to 1990.
But Kansas is 12-6 since the
Nebraska has not had a losing season since 1961, compiling a 287-63 record since then.
beginning of the 1919 season. The Jayhawks victory against the Sooners guaranteed back-to-back in the 1920s, and their first time since 1975 and 1976.
Mike Bohn, director of marketing for the College Football Association, said that both the Huskers and the Jayhawks had to give consent for ESPN to show the game.
But Kansas and Nebraska did not take much time in reaching an agreement.
Frederick said he was first contacted about the deal about 8:30 a.m. yesterday, and both schools will play on ESPN within a few hours.
Saturday's contest will be the first Kansas-Nebraska game ever played before a national television audience.
The Cornshuskers and Jayhawks have played two games on regional television. In those games, Nebraska defeated Kansas 67-13 in 1983 while Kansas beat Nebraska 2-9 in 1958.
Nebraska lost to Washington earlier this year on ESPN.
Krulewitz said that Ron Franklin and former Kansas coach Mike Gottfried would be the announcers for the game.
JV basketball coach to select 15 players; two will join varsity
By David Dorsey
Kansan sportswriter
Wanted: Fifteen basketball players for the Kansas junior varsity men's basketball team, two of which will play against the team to play on varsity next semester.
Steve Robinson, a varsity assistant coach, will coach this year's team replacing Mark Turgeon. Turgeon now is an assistant coach at Oregon.
Troynes for the junior varsity team are from 6 to 7 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 1, in Allen Field House. Robinson said he had seen at least 50 players at the tryouts.
Kansas coach Roy Williams said he
knew the idea of having two players in
the starting lineup.
Part of the decision has to do with the success of Lane Czapielnik, a former junior varsity player who joined the varsity team last season.
"This is the best deal we've ever had," he said. "I'm going to take two of those guys when the second semester starts, and they'll practice and travel with us for the rest of the season."
Although he didn't get much playing time, Caplinski was adored by Jay Hawk's fans, who would chant his name during the closing minutes of home games if the Jayhawks had a commanding lead.
"Lane was fantastic for us, and hopefully we'll find a couple of more Lanes from that group," Williams said.
Last season, Turgeon guided the team to a 22-1 record. This year, the team has only five games scheduled because college coaching staffs were reduced from five to four, putting time restraints on the coaches.
Robinson will continue his varsity duties while coaching the junior varsity team.
since Williams arrived in 1988 abd is entering his 12th season coaching on the college level. He previously was an assistant coach at Cornell.
Robinson said that he jumped at the chance to coach the junior varsity this
"I volunteered for it because I wanted the experience and because I love basketball," he said. "I think it will be good for me to have to organize practices and to coach these kids. I don't care if it's a game, and I don't care if it's one game. I'm going to put as much effort into it as Turgeon did when it was 22 games."
Robinson said he would evaluate players on Sunday and would extend tryouts another day depending on the turnout.
"I want to see guys who want to battle on the floor for loose balls, who want to hustle, and guys who want to take charges and guys that want to play tough," he said. "I'm not interested in the guy who comes down and shoots the basketball every time."
Robinson said that only two deserving players would be promoted.
"Two guys are going to have a fair chance," he said. "But we're not going to move two guys up just for the sake of it. But the best opportunity that any of them have ever had to move up to the varisity will be this year.
"I think it's important that if two of those guys are going to move up and play then I need to instruct them so that they have some idea and concept about what the varsity level will be doing."
There will be a preliminary meeting at 5:30 before tryouts Sunday. The meeting will be at the field house outside the track office. Prospects must bring proof of insurance in order to play.
Match made in Texas: Coach with no experience and team with no successes
ARLINGTON, Texas— Kevin Kennedy, who has neither played nor managed in the big leagues, yesterday accepted the challenge of managing the Texas Rangers, a team with a 20-year history of never having made the playoffs.
Kennedy, a Montreal bench coach,
was given two years to do what 12
managers ahead of him have never
done.
The Associated Press
"I think being No. 13 is a good omen," Kennedy said "I watch in hope."
Harrah was offered another job in
the rangers organization, but genetical manager Tom Grieve said Harrah has yet to say whether he will stay with the club.
Grieve said Kennedy won't be given time to rebuild.
Kennedy, of Tarana, Calif., succeeded Toby Harrah, who was 32-44 after replacing Bobby Valentine who was fired in July.
"Our goal is to win the American League championship," Grewe said. "It's important to me to win next year."
Kennedy, 38, was a minor league manager in the Los Angeles Dodgers organization, posting a 533-373 in eight years from 1984 to 1991.
"I've been in the game 18 years, and I haven't felt like a rookie since 1976." Kennedy said. "There's no question I'm prepared for this opportunity. I've served my apprenticeship. There was nothing left to do in the minors."
Chiefs hope bye gives them time to overcome big losses
KANSAS CITY, Mo- It got so bad in Kansas City Sunday that fans booed when the Chiefs announced the attendance and thanked the crowd for a fourth consecutive sellout.
Most fans had packed up and left by the fourth quarter Sunday night as the Chiefs were dominated by the Steelers 27-3 in what was the worst game by the home team at Arrowhead in the Carl Peterson-Marty Schottenheimer era.
Schottenheiner and his players have a lot to think about as they take their bye this week.
Kansas City has lost two games in a row under Schottenheimer for only the third time in his four years. In his career, Schottenheimer now is 35-10-1 in games after a loss.
beaten earlier Sunday by San Diego.
Touted as a Super Bowl contender, Kansas City has lost three of the last four to fall to 4-4. The Chiefs missed an opportunity to tie Denver at the top of the AFC West after the Broncos
"I wish I had an answer, but I don't," Schottenheimer said after striding grim-faced into the locker room. "Every guy has got to look at himself, starting with me and with everybody else that is involved. That is not a performance that is representative of this football team."
Breakdowns were evident every where.
Ron Woodson returned a punt 80 yards for a touchdown midway through the first quarter for Pittsburgh, and that turned out to be the knockout punch.
Pittsburgh's sturding defensive line dominated the much larger line of the Chiefs, forcing Dave Krieg to throw three interceptions and throw poorly
otherwise. Krieg finished just 9-of-27 for 82 yards.
Christian Okoye gave Kansas City 73 yards, but that was the only offence outside of a 52-yard field goal by Eddie Murray late in the first half.
That made it 13-3 and rendered any hopes Kansas City still had false.
stopped at the line of scrimmage by the 275-pound Smith and 295-pound Dan Saleauma but managed to drag the two would-be tacklers for a 4-yard gain.
"We let them have the ball too long," Chiefs defensive end Neil Smith said. "At one point, we were on the field for half a quarter. When you do that, it tends to wear down the defense.
It all added up to a triumphant return to Arrowhead for Pittsburgh coach Bill Cowher, who served seven years as Schottenheimer's assistant at Cleveland and Kansas City.
"The offense moved the football on us, and they scored points when they needed to. It was getting ugly out there."
Barry Foster, the NFL's leading rusher, did not start because he missed practice all week with a bad back, but he still rushed for 105 yards and scored a touchdown for the Steelers.
Cowher said that beating his mentor was not important, but his broad grin afterward seemed to say that this win was special.
On one play, Foster appeared
More importantly, the victory kept the Steelers tied with Houston in the AFC Central as the Oilers head into Pittsburgh this weekend.
The Chiefs will have a week to think about the home-field advantage against San Diego and Washington who are scheduled in the two weeks after the bye at Arrowhead.
Philip Meiring / KANSAN
Sooner Boomer
Kansas fullback Maurice Douglas fights through the Oklahoma defense for extra yards during the Jayhawks' 27-10 victory Saturday. Douglas ran through over and around the Sooners for 115 yards.
Former powerhouses now also-rans
Iowa, Oklahoma no longer considered college football's elite
The Associated Press
With five weeks left in the college football season, a number of ex-powerhouses seem to be bottoming out, operating in the also-ran area of a sport they once dominated.
A year ago, Iowa was 10-1-1, making its 10th bowl appearance in 11 years and armed with 35 returning lettermen. Now, the Hawkeyes are 3-5 after a 27-16 loss to Purdue on Saturday. They are tied with seven other teams for second place in the Big Ten and hope to get rid of the other six to gain the conference runner-up's automatic invitation to the Florida Citrus
Bowl.
Consider some records.
Clemson was 9-2-1 last season and champion of the Atlantic Coast Conference for the 13th time. That made the Tigers 49-10-1 over the five-year period beginning in 1887 — third best in the country, behind only Miami and Florida State.
Beaten 20-6 by North Carolina State on Saturday, Clemson 4-3and out of the Top 25 for the first time in three years. It is the first time since 1985 that the Tigers have lost three ACC games.
Arkansas, once a Southwest Conference powerhouse, decided it needed a new league and moved into the Southeast Conference. After the first game, the Razorbacks decided they also needed a new coach, so they dismissed Jack Crowe and replaced him with Joe Kines. They beat Tennessee by one point a couple of weeks ago for the long bright spot in a 2-5 season.
UCLA, 9-3 last year and ranked No. 18 in the preseason poll, is 3-4 and languishing in the Pac-10 basement with an 0-4 league record. The Bruins also had their 245-game streak streaked in a 20-0 loss to Arizona State on Saturday.
Poised on the 1-yard line at game's end, it seemed UCLA would at least salvage a field goal to score the scoring streak intact. Instead, Daron Washington fumbled and ASU recovered, clinching the shutout.
"I don't think it gets much worse than this," defensive end Mike Chalenski said.
Oh, yeah?
He could be playing for LSU, once an SEC heavyweight, now 1-6 and bending under the burden of a five-game losing streak, the school's longest since 1952. The Tigers have locked up an unprecedented fourth straight losing season, making the current senior
class the first in the school's 99-year football history to graduate without ever posting a winning record.
Oklahoma was 8-3 a year ago, aver-
aging 30 points per game and No. 16 in
the final AP poll. Now the Sooners are
3-3-1 and licking their wounds after
losing to Kansas, 27-10 on Saturday
This is a team Oklahoma had beaten 26 of 28 times and usually by lopsided scores like 64-1 in 39, 71-10 in 1987 and 63-14 in 1988. It was 41-3 last year and not pretty, which is why the Jay-hawks were savoring Saturday's defeat of the Sooners, even if it wasn't a blowout.
The victory left Kansas ranked No. 18 at 6-1 and Oklahoma, ranked in all but two years since 1970 and in the first six poll this season, missing in action among the top 25.
"Things are changing." Kansas coach Glen Mason said.
In a lot of places, too
BRIEFS
Missouri receiver, OSU linebacker earn league honors
The Associated Press
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Wide receiver Victor Bailey of Missouri and linebacker Keith Burns of Oklahoma State were named Big Eight players of the week Monday.
Bailey, a senior from Fort Worth,
Texas, had 159 yards in pass receptions
in a 34-24 loss to Nebraska. It was the fourth time in five games that Bailey caught passes for more than 130 yards.
Bailey, who is third in the confer
ence and 10th nationally in receiving yards per game with an average of 100.86, has 94 career catches four on the all-time list at Missouri.
Men's, women's cross country teams win races
Burns, a junior from Arlington, Va., was credited with 14 tackles, a funnel recovery and a pass interception in Oklahoma State's 27-21 victory over Iowa State. He won in a split vote over defensive tackle Leonard Renfro of Colorado, who had nine tackles — seven of them solo tackles — in a 54-7 victory over Kansas State.
Kansan staff report
Junior Michael Cox ran unattached and finished second in 15:10.
Kansas men's and women's cross country teams won their respective races Friday at the Johnson County Invitational.
Eight runners competed for the Jayhawks in a field of 49. None of them finished lower than 17th place.
The women's team won its 2-mile race with a team score of 19 points.
a total score of 19 points.
Sophomore Kristi Kloster took first place, running the course in 11.27. Junior Ashley Ace took second in 11.44.
Nine runners competed for the Kansas women. They finished between first and 18th places.