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Tuesday. August 25. 1992
SPORTS
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Chiefs hand Bills worst exhibition loss in franchise history
The Associated Press
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Another Monday night in Kansas City, another humiliation for the Buffalo Bills.
This time it was only an exhibition outing, but the Chiefs '35-0 shutout of the two-time AFC champions Monday night was the worst exhibition loss in the 32-year history of the franchise.
"We've been so bogged down running the same plays over and over again that tonight we wanted to add a few wrinkles," said Bills quarterback Jim Kelly, who played only part of the first half. "We didn't want to go out and embarrass ourselves like that. But you guys know these games don't
mean anything."
Buffalo coach Marv Levy labeled the Bills' performance as embarrassing.
"I don't know what to judge," he said. "Nothing was good, the effort or the concentration."
The Chiefs, who blasted the Bills 33-6 last October in their first Monday night game in eight years, scored on four of their first five possessions as Dave Krieg made a rousing debut in his new town. Krieg, the longtime Seattle quarterback who came to the Chiefs as a free agent, passed for 160 yards and two touchdowns in just two quarters.
"That was heartwarming," he said. "It's nice to have that. The key is to keep it continuing."
Krieg, a 12-year veteran, showed Chiefs fans the downfield passing attack and scrambling ability that had been missing from the three seasons under Steve DeBerg.
Kreg hit touchdown passes of 6 and 24 yards to JJ. Birden and led an 89-yard, second-quarter drive that Harry Williams capped with a 7-yard run.
me," he said. "It's a growing process that has to grow up pretty fast."
"I think our offense is getting used to
The Chiefs out-gained the Bills 432 vards to 210.
Kelly split first-half playing time with Gale Gilbert and hit five of eight passes for 52 yards. The Bills' Steve Christie, acquired as a free agent from Tampa Bay, missed field goals of 47 and 48 in the first half.
"If you look at our preseason record over the past few years, you know it's not going to be very good. Kelly said."
yard completion to Birden on his third play from scrimmage. A 5-yard pass to Todd McNair put the Chiefs on the Buffalo 19-yard line, and five plays later Krieg hit Birden with a 6-yard scoring pass, capping a nine-play, 70-vardrive.
Krieg got the Chiefs rolling with a 44-
Williams, who had 72 yards on 16 carries, swept over right end on a 7-yard scoring sprint to make it 14-0 with 5-22 left. Krieg hit Kimble Anders with a 13-yard completion to keep the drive going. On fourth and one from the Buffalo 29, Williams went over right end for 6 yards to the 23. Four plays later the second-year running back scored.
After a holding penalty on rookie center Jay Leewenburg late in the
Rookie quarterback Matt Blundin hit Alfred Pupunu with a 14-yard touchdown pass in the third quarter. In the fourth, Fred Jones got wide open in the end zone for a 24-yard scoring pass from Mark Vlasic.
half, Krieg connected with Birden from 24 yards.
Kansas City's Doug Terry, a free agent defensive back from Kansas, was removed from the field on a foul ball. He was later described as a concussion.
Terry was taken to a hospital but not kept overnight.
"We think he's going to be all right," Chiefs coach Marty Schottenheimer said.
Phoenix waives Sands
Kansan staff report
Former Kansas running back Tony
Forest was one of ten players waived
by the Plainfield Rams.
Sands is the Jahayhaw's 'all-time leading rusher and holds the NCAA single-game record for most yards in a game with 397, which he accomplished against Missouri in his last collegiate game. Sands was not taken in the NPL Draft last April, but he signed with the Cardinals as a free agent.
Sands was not the only former Jaya-
hawk waived by a National Football
League team yesterday. Linebacker
Curtis Moore was waived by the
Philadelphia Eagles. Moore, who
attended Kansas from 1986 to 1990,
was attempting to make the team
after playing for the London Monarchs
of the World League.
Mike Norseth, a quarterback who played at Kansas in 1984 and 1985, was waived by the New York Jets. Norseth played for the Birmingham Fire of the World League this past season and had brief stints with the Cincinnati Bengals, Cleveland Brown and Green Bay Packers of the NFL.
The Associated Press
Ripken hits the jackpot
BALITMORE • Ral Ricken got a very expensive 32nd birthday present yesterday – a $23.5 million, five-year contract, the richest total deal in history
Ripken, a 10-time American League All-Star, will average $6.5 million a year under the contract, which in average annual value trails only the deal Ryan Sandberg of the Chicago Cubs agreed to in March, a four-year contract worth $7.1 million a season. The team has also passed Bobby Bonilla's $29 million, five-year deal with the New York Mets.
"This contract represents the fair value of Cal Ripken to the Baltimore Orioles," Orioles president Larry Lucchino said. "When you're negotiating, you do it from all the data you can accumulate. We know what Cal Ripken means to the Orioles and to their fans."
Ripken, who is making $2.1 million in 1992 in an option year, will get a $3 million signing bonus, part at the end of this year and part next year. He gets salaries of $4.5 million in 1983, $4.8 million in 1986 and $5.2 million in the 1995 and 1966 seasons and $6.2 million in 1997. The final two years are at Ripken's option.
Included in the deal is a $2 million offer for a post-playing career employment contract with the Orioles at a salary of $500,000 per year.
"It's a gigantic amount of money, a giantic commitment," Lucchino said. "We made an offer of $30 million at spring training, and this is an improvement on that."
"Reaching an agreement with the Orioles was a continuing objective of Cal's in this negotiation, and a truly unique and harmonious relationship between a club and player has been cemented," said Ripken's agent, Ron Shapiro.
"It takes a lot of time to resolve the time print, but I never doubted this day"
"I'll see."
Ripken enjoyed the best season of his career last year but has struggled this season, leading to speculation the contract negotiations were playing a part.
Dou£ Hesse / KANSAN
During volleyball practice yesterday in Robinson Gymnasium, members of the Kansas volleyball team practice their blocking techniques. The team also practiced setting and spiking during the three-hour practice.
Women's volleyball: ready for Wichita St.
Depth of team forces difficult lineup decisions
By David Dorsey
Kansan sportswriter
The starting lineup is still uncertain for the Kansas women's volleyball team as it prepares to play its first match one week from today at Wichita State.
"Last year we didn't have the depth we have now," said Kansas volleyball coach Frankie Albitz. "We have more flexibility now."
Mary Beth Bella, Kris Kleinschmidt, Adrian Powell, Lisa Seigle and Julie Woodruff, all starters on last year's squad, were seniors last season.
But Albitz said that Kim DeHoff, Julie Larkin, and junior Cyndee Kanabel all received valuable playing time and experience backing up the starters last season.
DeHoff and Larkin are the only two seniors this fall, which should give more of the younger players a chance to prove themselves, Albitz said.
Larkin was recently voted by her teammates as this year's team captain.
"I was really surprised," Larkin said.
DeHoff said Larkin would be a good leader for the squad.
Derrick said Darkin would be a good teacher for the squad.
"She's very positive," DeHoff said. "We needed somebody to step in and be an outside hitter. If we don't have a good passer, the team falls apart."
The team finished two-a-day practices last Friday and began the regular practice schedule this week.
"We had a very good practice," she said. "They were very focused."
Yesterday, Albitz said she was pleased with the team's progress.
Team unity has developed during practices and during an outward bound program that the squad participated in last week, she said.
"Last year we didn't have the depth we have now. We have more flexibility now... I am looking forward to this whole year because I know we have the depth."
Frankie Albitz
Kansas volleyball coach
The team took one day off from practice and went to the woods, where they solved different scenarios and participated in other activities.
"It was something that the team did that was not in the gym, and the team had been in the gym a long time," Abitz said. "They did some problem solving and things like that. It just gives them a change."
"We were given a type of problem and then the team would have to solve that problem together," she said. "The problems were so complex that the entire team had to work together to solve them.
Barb Bella, a returning junior on the squad said that the program helped form a more unified and closer team.
"The program really brought out the personality of the team, which we couldn't just get on the court."
Bella, DeHoff, and Larkin all said that they were ready to play their first game.
"It's in my hometown, so I'm really excited about that," Larkin said, who attended Bishop Carroll High School in Wichita.
Albitz said she was ready to see her team in action.
"I am looking forward to this whole year because I know we have the depth." Ablizz said.
Runners prepare for season
By David Bartkoski
Kansan sportswriter
Senior Amy Rodehaver has trained with the Kansas cross country team in the past, but she has never competed for a spot on the team until this year.
The 1992-93 KU cross country team practices agility drills at Memorial Stadium. The team practiced yesterday for the upcoming season, which begins Sept. 12 with the Jayhawk invitational.
Rodehaver joined members of the men's and women's cross country teams at a practice this week at Memorial Stadium. Other members of the men's and women's track teams also participated.
She had not run on a cross country team since her senior year of high school, although she did run a year of track at Iowa and two years for the Jayhawks.
Paul Kotz / KANSAN
Kansas coach Gary Schwartz said there were several track members on the cross country team because cross country afforded training rewards that track alone could not offer.
Rodehaver, who competes in the 800 meters and is a member of the 4X400 relay team during track season, said she was not going to have big expectations for the upcoming cross country season.
"Cross country is a tremendous strengthener and confidence builder," he said. "You just can't get in the same type of shape if you don't run it."
"I'll train with them, and then if I'm in the top seven, I'm in the top seven. If not, I'll use it to prepare for track," she said.
Junior Dan Waters, an 800 meter runner who won the big Eight Indoor title last year in that event, he trained with the cross country team but did not compete with them. Waters
said runners on the track team who did not compete with the cross country squad used the late summer months to gradually gear up for the track season.
Waters' former teammate at Bishop Miege High School and current Kansas teammate, sophomore Kristi Kloster said running with the cross country team gave her strength and endurance.
"Cross country works as a good progression toward track season," said Kloster, last year's 800 meter champion at the Big Eight Outdoor Championships.
One of Kloster's teammates and rivals in the 800, sophomore Melissa Swartz, had to sit out last year's outdoor season because of a stress
Swartz said one of her goals this year was to be part of a two-mile relay team that qualified for nationals. The team, which also included Rodehaver, Kloster and sophomore Erin Howerton, could not compete last year because of injuries to Swartz, Kloster and Howerton.
fracture in her femur, which had healed by the beginning of this semester.
Schwartz said that, even though he had said last year was good, he anticipated an improvement by the men's and women's teams in cross country and track.
"I'm assuming that on the men's side we'd have to be one of the top three teams in the Big Eight in cross country," he said. "I'd be real disappointed if we weren't."
"On the women's side in cross country, a conservative thing to say is we're a top-four team in the Big Eight. Where we can go from there I don't know."
Schwartz said that a top three finish by the women's track team in the conference indoor and outdoor seasons would be possible.
The men's track team needed to improve over last year's lower-division finish. Schwartz said.
He said that this year's team's team had a chance to improve because it had skilled athletes competing in events that Kansas had not fared well in before.
The cross country team's first meet will be the Jayhawk Invitational on Sept. 12.