tuesday,october 21,2002
what we heard "Yes, many have offered their opinion on managerial matters." Larry Lucchino, Red Sox CEO, on e-mails he has received since Boston was eliminated from the playoffs. off the bench
the university daily kansan 9A
KU ice hockey team defeats St. Louis team twice on road
After losing its last three games, the KU ice hockey team entered the weekend looking for some answers. The team answered the questions about its ability in a two-game sweep of St.Louis University and found a new foe in its roughest pair of games this year.
The team won easily on Friday night, 7-2, for the its third victory of the season. The Jayhawks dominated nearly every aspect of the game, from faceoffs to shots on goal.
shots on goal. The KU ice hockey team led 6-0 going into the third period. As the game wound to a close, some SLU players got frustrated and started throwing cheap shots at the Jayhawks, resulting in an a major altercation and four penalties. It was 3-on-3 when SLU scored its only two goals, making the score 6-2.
two goals, making a mistake.
Before the buzzer sounded, the KU team was able to put up another goal, only adding to the Billikens' frustration.
"Being down made the SLU players pretty cheap and the game got pretty rough," said team captain Jeff Evans, Omaha, Neb., junior.
On his 19th birthday, David Knight, Toronto sophomore, scored a goal and had two assists. His brother, Geoff Knight, Toronto senior, had two goals and one assist. The other goals came from Joey Bargihni, St. Louis Park, Minn., junior; Cory Miller, Leawood freshman; Matt Davis, Topeka junior; and Corey Groulk, Lenexa freshman.
Brandon Schultz, Apple Valley, Minn. senior, had two more assists, making him the Jayhawks' leader with six assists.
Saturday night, the team once again faced the frustrated Billikens with similar results.
Ryan McGarry, Superior, Wis., junior took over the duties in goal, and SLU was able to score one goal during each period. But the KU ice hockey team outshot the Billikens and again dominated the faceoffs on the way to a 7-3 victory.
Barghini and Jeff Engel, St. Louis Mo., senior, each had goals. Scoring their first goals of the season were Kyle Wilson, St. Louis junior and Tim Veach, Pittsburgh, Pa., senior. Schultz got the team's second hat trick of the season, scoring his first three goals, and added another assist to lead the team with seven overall.
Again, the SLU players got rough towards the end of the third period, resulting in more five-minute fighting penalties just before the buzzer sounded.
The team's record stands at 4-5-1-0.
Chiefs defeat Raiders, preserve winning ways
The Associated Press
OAKLAND, Calif. — The confident Kansas City Chiefs wanted nothing more than to beat the Oakland Raiders in decisive fashion. They ended up holding on for dear life yesterday night when a backup quarterback turned a potential shutout into a shootout.
Oakland's Tim Brown was tackled on the Kansas City 1 as time expired and the unbeaten Chiefs won their seventh straight game, beating their bitter rivals 17-10.
Trent Green passed for 206 yards for Kansas City, which tied a franchise record for consecutive victories. But the Chiefs had to survive a gutsy last-minute drive led by Marques Tuiasosopo, who had thrown just six passes all season.
Tuilasosopo took over for injured MVP Rich Gannon in the second half. He led two scoring drives and drove the Raiders (2-5) from their own 6 with 147 left to the Kansas City goal line on a drive featuring two catches by Jerry Rice and a huge 35-yard reception by Jerry Porter.
Oakland even tried a fake spike to get in the end zone, but the game ended when Jerome Woods and Greg Wesley tackled Brown on a catch at the 1 while time ran out.
Gannon bruised his right shoulder in the final minute of the second quarter, then spent the second half on the sidelines nursing the injury which came from two vicious sacks by Shawn Barber and several other hard hits.
Tuiasosopo also struggled before sparking the Raiders to an impressive fourth quarter. The third-year pro had just 69 yards passing in his entire career, but was 16-of-28 for 224 yards in the second half.
Priest Holmes rushed for 123 yards and ran for a 2-yard touchdown with 4:57 left that gave Kansas City a 17-3 lead.
The Chiefs gave Dick Vermeil a victory in his first appearance on Monday night as a head coach since his Philadelphia Eagles played in Miami in 1981.
For the Chiefs, this victory took some of the sting out of an embarrassing 24-0 loss in Oakland last Dec. 28, the first time in 88 meetings between the former AFL foes that the Raiders shut them out.
That game, played in a steady downpour, gave Oakland the top seed for the AFC playoffs, as well as a much-needed bye, and eliminated the Chiefs from making the postseason for the fifth straight year.
How different things are this year:
Despite the stirring fourth-quarter rally, the Raiders are reeling one year after winning the AFC championship
The Chiefs remain one of two unbeaten teams in the NFL this season along with Minnesota (6-0).
Kansas City's stingy defense held Oakland to 114 yards through the first three quarters, frustrating the offense that was the NFL's best last season.
Tuiasosopo led the Raiders to the Kansas City 8 midway through the fourth quarter, but Oakland settled for a 27-yard field goal by Sebastian Janikowski. The kick with 8:06 left kept the Raiders from being shut out for the first time since Dec. 7, 1997, in Kansas City.
The Raiders lived up to their promise to keep the ball away from dangerous kick returner Dante Hall, but that strategy hurt them midway through the first quarter. Stranded deep in his own territory, Shane Lechler punted directly toward the Oakland sideline, giving Kansas City the ball at the Raiders 44.
Moments later, Eddie Kennison slipped underneath two defenders and hauled in Green's 43-yard pass at the 1 despite safety Derrick Gibson's interference on the play. Green sneaked around the right end two plays later.
Kansas City had a 55-yard drive late in the second quarter, leading to Morten Andersen's 37-yard field goal with 1:07 left. Otherwise, Oakland's defense had reasonable offense against the Chiefs' powerful offense.
Porter, the Raiders' brash deepthreat receiver, played his first game since having multiple hernia surgery on Sept. 12. He finished with four catches for 69 yards.
Yankees' payroll triple that of Marlins'
The Associated Press
MIAMI When it comes to spending, the World Series is a mismatch.
The New York Yankees have outspent the Florida Marlins by a 3-to-1 margin, according to the most recent figures compiled by the commissioner's office.
New York had a major-league lead
ing $164 million payroll on Aug. 31 in the latest tabulation, which was obtained by The Associated Press. Florida was 21st in the major leagues at $54 million — seventh among the eight playoff teams.
playon teams.
"We're not worried about that," said Josh Beckett, Florida's starter for tonight's Game 3. "We're baseball players, we're going to play baseball,
doesn't matter who we're playing against."
Among the other postseason teams: Boston was fourth in the major leagues at $106 million; Atlanta sixth at $95 million; San Francisco ninth at $87 million; the Chicago Cubs 11th at $83 million; Minnesota 19th at $57 million; and Oakland 25th at $50 million.
Duke fires football coach after 5 years
By Robert Samuel
The Chronicle via U-Wire
Duke University
Duke University fired football coach Carl Franks Sunday and named defensive coordinator Ted Roof interim coach for the remaining five games of the season.
Athletic Director Joe Alleva will form a consulting committee to advise him in his national pursuit of a long-term replacement for Franks. The search began immediately after the firing, and Alleva mentioned Roof as a possible candidate for the job, though the athletic director would not release the names of any of the other candidates. Alleva based
"I felt like our football team wasn't going in the right direction," Alleva said. "I said all along that Carl [Franks] was my coach as long as I felt that we were making progress and we were going in the right direction. This year I haven't had that feeling. Even in the games we won, I didn't feel like we were making the kinds of progress that we needed to be making. As I told the team earlier today, there's more talent on this team than what we're showing on the football field."
his decision to dismiss Franks, who had a 7-45 record in his five-year tenure at Duke, on the football team's inability to improve this season.
Alleva also mentioned his own
responsibility to the football players and the alumni, and that Franks was not progressing in the right direction. He said he felt the players deserved the best experience they could possibly have, but that the 2003 campaign was less than first rate.
There were no direct decisions to relieve Franks from his duties before Saturday's game against Wake Forest, a contest in which the Blue Devils trailed 42-0 at halftime.
Alleva made Franks aware of the fire at 7 a.m. Sunday morning inside of Alleva's office.
Roof, who arrived at Duke at the start of the 2002 season after being a renowned defensive coordinator at
Georgia Tech, focused on his disappointment for Franks in his remarks to the press. But he also said he was "unintimidated" at the prospect of being the coach, and was already focused on advancing his career coaching record to 1-0 for the NC State matchup this Saturday.
NC State
Franks, who was not at the press conference Sunday, made his players aware of the firing himself at a 2:30 p.m. team meeting after their regularly scheduled special teams practice was canceled.
"Even if I never play football again ... whether I'm in a corporation or I'm in a business or whatever I'm doing, I never want to sit through another meeting like that again," running back Alex Wade
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Does anyone else think that it is bullshit that the men's three-onthree basketball game at Late Night had a score board and the women's didn't?
Kansas athletics calendar
tomorrow
Volleyball vs. Texas, 7 p.m., Horejsi Family Athletics Center Tennis at Omni Regionals, Salt Lake City
thursday
thursday
Tennis at Omni Regionals, Salt Lake City
friday
Tennis at Omni Regionals, Salt Lake City Men's Golf at Nelson-Stanford Invitational, Palo Alto, Calif.
Soccer vs. Oklahoma, 4 p.m., SuperTarget Field
Volleyball at Colorado, 8 p.m.
saturday
Tennis at Omni Regionals, Salt Lake City Men's Golf at Nelson-Stanford Invitational, Palo Alto, Calif.
Football at Kansas State, 1:10 p.m., KSU Memorial Stadium, Manhattan
Former Jayhawks reunite after pro basketball trade
The Boston Celtics announced yesterday that the team acquired Raef LaFrentz, Chris Mills, Jirl Welsch and a 2004 first-round draft pick from the Dallas Mavericks in exchange for forward Antoine Walker and guard Tonv Delk
The trade reunites two former Jayhawks, LaFrentz and Paul Pierce. The two played together from 1995-98 at Kansas, and both were named firstteam All-Americans during the 1997-98 season.
"Raef is a great complement to Paul Pierce, he stretches the defense, opens the paint and is a good shot blocker," said Danny Ainge. Celtics executive director of basketball operations, in a news release.
Don Nelson, Mavenicks head coach and general manager, said in a statement on the team's Web site that he was excited to get Walker, but the team would miss LaFrentz.
"The Celtics are getting a terrific player in Raef," Nelson said. "He is in the best shape of his career and has been one of my best players in the preseason. He is going to have a great year for Boston."
— Chris Wintering
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