MONDAY,AUGUST 18,2003
SPORTS
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN * 11B
Serving up some play
Kevin Jacobs, Minneapolis, Minn, junior, returns a serve from Liam McNamara at Robinson tennis courts Friday afternoon. Jacobs defeated Liam McNamara, Manhattan, junior, 7-6 in a tiebreaker.The two said they had just started playing again but tried to play twice a week.
Athletics staff welcomes two,says goodbye to one
By John Domoney
jdomoney@kansan.com
sports writer
During the summer, the Athletics Department lost two loyal Jayhawks and gained a Huskie from Connecticut.
from Concord Janelle Martin and Richard Konzem announced their resignation after a combined 37 years of service to the University of Kansas, and Jim Marchiony joined the athletics department staff for a return to the state of Kansas.
Martin, associate director for
compliance and senior women's administration, took administrative leave on July 20 and will officially leave the athletic department on Sept. 30. After over 15 years in service within the department and the University of Kansas Athletics Corporation, Martin decided to explore other career options.
"I want to express my admiration for the coaching staffs and student-athletes with whom I have worked during the last 15 years at KU for their efforts in competition and in the classroom," Martin said in a statement. "I wish them much success."
On August 6, Konzem left his position as senior associate director after 22 years of involvement in University athletics. A Kansas graduate, Konzem spent his entire career at the University. He started as a student manager and worked in nearly every other capacity all the way up to interim athletics director. He also was a candidate for athletics director.
"Nothing would make me happier than to see future success in all sports at the University
"It's a great place. with a lot of success and a lot of potential."
Jim Marchiony associate director for External Affairs
of Kansas," he said.
Leaving the department was a difficult decision, he said, but it was important to him to seek other career opportunities in accomplishing his career goals.
Konzem said he was applying
for the athletics director position at a West Coast school but will be a special assistant to Lew Perkins, athletics director, and continue to work on completing the men's basketball schedule for the upcoming season.
Marchiony comes to the department as associate director for External Affairs.
Marchiony left the University of Connecticut, also a former home to Perkins, where he was the associate athletics director for External Affairs since April 2002. Before his stay in Connecticut, Marchiony worked for
more than 17 years at the NCAA, serving the last five years as the media coordinator for the NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament.
Marchiony will concentrate on new avenues to create revenue for the department through fundraising and private donations.
tons.
"It's a great place with a lot of success and a lot of potential," he said. "Right now I'm just trying to learn people's names and learn what's being done."
- Edited by Cate Batchelder
Collison, Brown and other athletes recall how they survived blackout
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — Too hot upstairs, too dark outside. So Vincent Carter walked into the lobby of his hotel, where a half-dozen of his Olympic teammates were chatting and playing cards.
Who should walk in at that very moment? None other than incoming NBA rookie LeBron James, the most hyped prep player in the history of basketball.
ball.
"I have no idea what he was doing there," Carter said, referring to James—who has no connection with the U.S. team.
Everyone had a story to tell Friday about surviving the blackout of 2003, and the surprise appearance of James was only one of the tales related by members of the U.S. men's basketball Olympic qualifying team.
Olympic qualifying coach Larry Brown was out for a 6-mile walk, strolling the perimeter of Central Park with assistant coach Gregg Popovich, when people starting to stream into the park.
into the park.
"A kid in a Suburban stopped us and said 'Did you hear about the blackout?' He said there was a power shortage all over, and he mentioned Detroit _ which cracked me up,' said Brown, who recently took a job as head coach of the Detroit Pistons.
Brown made his way back to the team hotel, walked around for 90 minutes in a fruitless search for an open restaurant.
for an open restaurant
Brown
Then he went back to his room _his hotel's elevators were running on generators and settled for a pack of chocolate.
ager Billy Beaty.
The U.S. team's exhibition game against Puerto Rico, originally scheduled for Friday night, was postponed until noon EDT Sunday because of the blackout.
One CFL game also was postponed Friday, as was the racing card at Woodbine in Toronto, but the blackout did not cause any other major disruptions in the sporting world.
covered raisins from the minibar as he used a flashlight to read "Moneyball," the best-seller about Oakland A's general manager Billy Beane.
"The amazing thing is, when I was the Clippers coach, being in L.A., I was in mudslides, a riot and an earthquake," Brown said. "Growing up here I was in blizzards and hurricanes, and in Kansas tornadoes. This was surreal.
"People were great. People were courteous and helping each other. I was really impressed with the way New Yorkers were acting."
coach Bob Apodaca, in town for a s er i e s against the Mets, stayed in his hotel room.
Colorado Rockies pitching
In Cleveland, members of the NFL's Green Bay Packers and the WNBA's Connecticut Sun chatted in the lobby of their hotel. The Packers arrived in Cleveland just minutes before the massive power outage, while the Sun's game against the Cleveland Rockers was postponed.
It was really a helpless feeling. There wasn't enough light to read by, I wasn't going to gamble on the elevators, and I certainly wasn't going to walk 19 flights of stairs." Apodaca said at Shea, where the Mets' game against San Francisco was called off Thursday.
Collison
land rockets was joined U.S. basketball team member Jason Kidd was oblivious to the blackout until he walked off the 18th green at Manhattan Woods country club and discovered he couldn't get into the clubhouse
"I did some calculating, and when my game started to come together was when the lights went out," said Kidd, who shot 83 and lost to teammate Ray Allen by a stroke.
Nick Collison U.S. men's basketball Olympic player
"I saw a lot of interesting people that had too much to drink. ... We had fun with it despite the inconvenience."
Kidd decided to take Allen and USA Basketball official Quinn Buckner to his house in New Jersey, where they grilled hot dogs and sat outside until power was restored at 9 p.m.
power was there. That spurred them to make the drive back into Manhattan, where — unbeknownst to them
the power was still off and would be for several more hours.
Many of the American players remarked about how dark the city got after sundown on a night when the moon did not rise until shortly before 10 p.m.
shortly before Nick Collison of the U.S. team took the opportunity to walk nearly 20 blocks to view a sight unseen in New York since the blackout of '77 — Times Square with no neon lights.
"I saw a lot of interesting people that had too much to drink," Collison said. "There were a few bars over there that were open, a lot of people coming in and out having a good time. We had fun with it despite the inconvenience."
Warner hopes to play most of tonight's game
The Associated Press
ST. LOUISE — Kurt Warner absorbed his first hard hit in the St. Louis Rams' opening preseason game, and now he's looking forward to his first success.
Warner was limited to two series in a 7-6 loss to the Oakland Raiders last week. He's been told he could play most if not all of the first half of tonight's game against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, although he's not counting on it.
During his career, he're rarely played more than a quarter in a preseason game.
"I hope to play a half, really get in there and get a rhythm and play against this defense," Warner said. "I think it'll really help me speed things up and get ready to go."
ready to coach Mike Martz was noncommittal about his plans for Warner, other than to say Warner would play more than he did the first week.
"I kind of have an idea of what we want to do, but it may change." Martz said. "He needs to get in and mix it up against a team like this."
team like this. Warner was 3-for-4 for 18 yards and an interception against the Raiders, last year's Super Bowl losers. He was 0-6 as a starter last season while battling early inconsistencies and then injuries to his pinky and hand.
Warner got rocked on the second play of the Raiders game by lineman John Parrella, but eventually shook off the hit.
"I don't want to say it's fun to get hit, but it kind of makes you feel like you're back into it," Warner said.
In practice we have the red jerseys on and nobody ever touches us," Warner said. "To get into a game, to get a hit or two and get kind of bumped around, it makes you feel like you're back in the swing of things.
It was a wake-up call for the quarterback, who has enjoyed the hands-off treatment all summer.
"It kind of excites you about what the season is going to be about."
"That's what makes it fun, that's what really challenges you," Warner said. "I think it's just a great test for us, coming off last year and wanting to get back to the level we were at a couple years ago."
about.
Facing the Bucs, the defending Super Bowl champions with the NFL's best defense, excites him, too. He relishes testing himself against the Bucs' team speed.
"Who better to test that against than the best defense in the league and a team that just won a Super Bowl?"
The Rams worked out indoors Friday because of the 92-degree heat, and gave healthy veterans Isaac Bruce and Aeneas Williams the day off along with several other players. Martz said if the team would have practiced outdoors they'd have to spend the next few days getting fluids back in the players.
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