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Selfinvites'88NCAAchamps to'Late NightinthePhoq'
wednesday,october8,2003
By Jessie Newell
jnewell@kansan.com
Kansan sportswriter
Despite being Kansas' men's basketball coach only a few months, Bill Self has already taken action to remember the lavhawks' past.
Self has invited the 1988 national championship team to the first ever "Late Night in the Phog," set to take place Oct.17 in Allen Fieldhouse.
"This spring marked the 15th anniversary of the title, and we felt that it was appropriate to bring those guys back and honor them in the appropriate fashion," Self said.
According to Jim Marchiony, associate athletics director, the idea came entirely from Self. He said Self personally called the entire championship team.
"It's just an example of how aware Bill is on the tradition of KU," Marchiony said.
Larry Brown, coach of the 1988 team and current coach of the Detroit Pistons, was contacted by Self, but it is still unclear whether he will be able to attend, Marchiony said.
The 1988 squad concluded its improbable run to the championship with an 83-79 victory against Oklahoma at the Final Four in Kansas City, Mo. Forward Danny Manning averaged more than 27 points in the tournament, leading the Jayhawks while also garnering the Final Four's most valuable player award.
Marchiony said the return of the 1988 team should be a treat for Kansas fans at the event.
"The fans of KU basketball are very passionate, and the fans respect the past tradition of Kansas basketball," Marchiony said. "Very few things personify that more than the '88 team."
Doors for "Late Night in the Phog"
will open at 7 p.m. with seating determined on a first-come, first-serve basis. The event will conclude with a brief scrimmage by the men's team at midnight.
With 11 members of last year's Final Four team on the current Kansas roster, Allen Fieldhouse will host two of the last three Jayhawk teams to reach the championship game.
Self said he felt it was important to commemorate the championship team.
Kansas' 1991 squad also reached the final game, falling to Duke 72-65 in Indianapolis, Ind.
"With all the great tradition and history of this program, the 1988 team accomplished what only one other team in KU history did — win a national championship," Self said. "I couldn't be more excited to have them come back and be recognized by KU and our great fans."
— Edited by Michael Owells
Courtesy University of Kansas Archives
The 1988 national champion men's basketball team met then-president Ronald Reagan at the White House, "Late Night in the Phog" with Bill Self is almost a week away.
Chiefs, Hall remain humble as they set NFL records
The Associated Press
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — It is Dick Vermeil's third year as head coach of a Missouri-based NFL team that has won its first five games.
One of his players has emerged from obscurity to become the most electrifying player in the land.
Dante Hall and the 2003 Kansas City Chiefs?
Yes. Also Kurt Warner and the 1999 St. Louis Rams.
The parallels are striking between St. Louis then and Kansas City now as the Chiefs keep winning and Hall continues
making NFL history with his amazing kick returns.
Like the Rams, the Chiefs had an overall losing record in their first two seasons under Vermeil.
Then the 1999 Rams started 6-0, something the Chiefs will try to match when they visit Green Bay this week.
Not everything is parallel.
Warner was a former stock boy at a grocery store who put in time as an Arena Football League quarterback before finally getting his big chance and winding up as MVP for both the season and the Super Bowl.
return specialist last season.
Hall, on the other hand, was voted to the Pro Bowl as a kick-
But until now, few people outside Kansas City had paid much mind to the one-time wide receiver with NFL Europe's Scottish Claymores who had come into the league as a fifth-round draft choice in 2000 after playing running back at Texas A&M.
Now he has set the league record with touchdown kick returns in four straight games. Until now, no one had ever had touchdown returns in more than two straight games.
Hall needs just one more touchdown return to set the NFL record for a single season.
Like Warner, Hall has Vermeil
to offer counsel on dealing with the rewards and pitfalls of sudden fame.
"Some guys need it more than others. Some don't need it at all," Vermeil said Tuesday. "There's two or three different ways you can go when you experience success for the first time.
"I think Kurt Warner handled it super in 1999. And I think Dante Hall will handle it real well here."
Vermeil is extremely close to Hall, who says his coach is like a father to him.
Normally friendly and easygoing, Hall acknowledged last week
that the demands of the national media were becoming troublesome.
"I'm concerned about Dante trying to be too nice, to service too many people, to try to please everybody because he is a humble kid." Vermeil said.
"But he also owes himself. He's got to be careful. We've already talked with him about it. He'll do a good job."
"He is very appreciative of the things that have taken place since he's been here and the people who have helped him.
Vernail figures that one advantage Warner and Hall enjoy in learning to deal with their new status is
the fact they play in the Midwest and not in a major media center.
"We talk about these things all the time," he said. "That's part of my job, to make sure we keep our focus on the right things."
The Chiefs are one of four unbeaten teams left in the NFL. But Vermeil is not worried that a team that was 8-8 a year ago and hasn't made the playoffs in five years will get too full of itself.
"I've been around teams who start taking it for granted," Vermeil said. "We're too young, too inexperienced at winning games in a row to take it for granted."
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11th-inning home run lifts Marlins over Cubs
The Associated Press
CHICAGO — Mike Lowell sure wrecked this Wrigley Field party in a hurry.
With the old ballpark still shaking after Sammy Sosa's tremendous, tying homer with two outs in the ninth inning, Lowell led off the 11th with a pinch-hit home run that sent the Florida Marlins over the Chicago Cubs 9-8 last night in the NL championship series opener.
In a game featuring seven homers, four triples and six doubles, Sosa's two-run shot was clearly the most dramatic. He finally delivered a big postseason hit, and when the ball landed beyond the left-field wall, it turned Waveland Avenue into Bedlam Boulevard.
An All-Star third baseman, Lowell missed almost all of the final four weeks because of a broken left hand, and has played sparingly in the postseason. He was ready for his first pinch-hitting appearance
Too bad for the Cubs, Lowell's drive won it. He had help, too: Playoff star Ivan Rodriguez homered and drove in five runs for Florida.
this year, batting for winning pitcher Ugueh Urbina and launching a drive over the center-field wall off Mark Guthrie.
The sellout crowd of 39,567 started rockingearly as Moises Alou homered in a four-run first. But the Marlins, who posted three comeback wins over San Francisco in the
opening round, stormed back when Rodriguez, rookie Miguel Cabrera and Juan Encarnacion homered in a five-run third.
Braden Looper pitched the 11th for a save, giving the Marlins a win and a nice omen. The last 10 teams to win the NLCS opener have reached the World Series.
After avoiding Barry Bonds in the first round, Marlins manager Jack McKeon said he would pitch to Sosa in this series.
And it was a good decision — up until Slamming' Sammy took his final swing.
Curse, old rivalry fuel classic AL East matchup
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — When the Yankees play the Red Sox, it's baseball's version of the Hattfields versus the McCoys, and that's when they meet during the regular season. Starting tonight, the AL pennant will be on the line.
And if you listen to Boston's Todd Walker, the title of best team in baseball is at stake in the AL championship series.
"The team that wins this wins the World Series. We're the two best teams in baseball," he said yesterday. "No disrespect to the Cubs and the Marlins, but we're the best two teams."
Traveling across the country after its dramatic win at Oakland on Monday night, the Red Sox arrived in New York at 8:50 a.m. yesterday to take on the team Boston president Larry Lucchino called the "Evil Empire."
The Yankees, coming off a first-round win over Minnesota, are seeking their 39th AL pennant, trying to get to the World Series for the fifth time in six seasons.
And their always-demanding fans are looking for their team to restore luster to
a franchise that hasn't gone to the World Series in two long years, since the seven-game loss to Arizona in 2001.
Losing to the Red Sox would bring unthinkable shame upon Yankee fans, who weren't pleased their team won the season series by only 10-9, getting outscored 109-94. To them, beating Boston is a rite of nature, a close-to-annual event since former Boston owner Harry Frazae sold Babe Ruth to New York in 1920 for $125,000 plus a $350,000 loan that helped finance his Broadway musical, No, No Nanette.
While the players might not know the history of Ted Williams and Joe DiMaggio or Carlton Fisk or Thurman Munson, they understand the importance of advancing.
"Do I hate the Boston Red Sox? Do I hate their players?" Derek Jeter asked rhetorically. "No, I don't hate their players. I want to beat them, though."
When Boston's Tim Wakefield takes the mound against Mike Mussina in the opener, the Red Sox will try to continue the roll that began when they overcame a 2-0 deficit in the first round against Oakland, sweeping three straight games.
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