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The University Daily Kansan
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Monday, December 8, 1997
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Alliance makes for bad business decisions
I know I have voiced my displeasure
I know I have voiced my displeasure with the landscape of collegiate and professional sports throughout the semester, but I would like to do so just one more time.
The college football Alliance will provide some entertaining match-ups during the winter break, but better games will not be played because of the money behind the Alliance and its bowls.
No. 5 UCLA arguably is playing the best football in the country, but the Bruins were passed up by the Alliance in favor of No. 9 Ohio State and No. 10 Kansas State.
UCLA and No. 7 North Carolina were bypassed by the Alliance, which means they face a $7 million drop in bowl revenue.
With help from the Alliance, college football programs have earned more money than at any time in history. But that forces business decisions in selecting which teams deserve $8 million from the Alliance as compared to $1 million elsewhere.
shunned?
Why were UCLA and North Carolina
Ohio State has had a strong support
Tommy Gallagher
sports@kansan.com
group attend bowl games throughout the years. The Wildcats brought 40,000 fans to the Cotton Bowl last season and could draw similar numbers again.
Fans bring money, and money drives bowl games. Anyone who believes the Alliance is concerned about the best possible game is naive.
Otherwise, we would see UCLA and No. 3 Florida State play in an Alliance game. Instead, we have to be content with a Fiesta Bowl featuring K-State and No. 14 Syracuse, and a Cotton Bowl blowout between No. 20 Texas A&M and UCLA.
Next season, the Alliance will pair the top two teams in the country for a true
national championship game. But what match-ups are forged after that is where my concerns rest.
Sadly, college football has transformed from a game into a big business.
■ Insubordination has never been a gray issue. But San Francisco mayor Willie Brown said in the "San Francisco Examiner" that perhaps Golden State Warriors guard Latrell Sprewell should be considered a victim.
Sprewell assaulted his coach, P.J. Carlesimo, last week.
"Maybe the coach deserved a choking," Brown said.
Sprewell does not deserve any sympathy or empathy from the public. He cannot defend his actions because he was wrong no matter which point of view is chosen to analyze the whole flasco.
And Sprewell is an athlete who lives in luxury, unlike most of us who try to find nuggets of happiness during a routine
work day. He has wealth most of us will never see, so how can I feel sorry that he will go without nearly $24 million during the next year?
But Brown somehow feels for Sprewell, who would have been fired from any job for his actions against one of his bosses. In a politically correct world, I wonder how this man became mayor for a city as diverse as San Francisco.
Remember that Brown called then-San Francisco quarterback Elvis Grbac an "embarrassment to humankind" for throwing a costly interception in a regular season game. Brown takes sports far too seriously.
For that, I consider Brown an embarrassment to humankind.
It has been an exhausting semester for sports fans, and I can imagine that will only continue through the holiday season. Best wishes to you until we meet again in January.
Later.
Gallagher is an Olathe, Kan., senior in journalism.
Chiefs one step closer to playoffs at home
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — That slippery, fragile thing the Kansas City Chiefs suddenly are cupping in the palms of their hands is their own plavoff destiny.
The Associated Press
A dominating 30-0 shutout of Oakland yesterday and Pittsburgh's 35-24 win against Denver mean the Chiefs (11-3) will capture home field throughout the AFC playoffs if they win their last two games at San Diego and home against New Orleans.
The Broncos also are 11-3, but Kansas City has the tiebreaker advantage in the AFC West with only one loss in the division. The Broncos have two.
In time of possession, it was Kansas City 41:30, Oakland 18:30.
It was a poor effort on the part of the Raiders (4-10). In defeating their archrivals for the 15th time in 17 meetings, the Chiefs outgained them 418-93 and piled up 27 first downs to five. While the Chiefs had 214 yards rushing, the Raiders had 36.
Rich Gannon threw one touchdown pass and rushed for another. Pete Stoyanovich kicked three field goals, extending his string to 16 straight without a miss.
The Raiders, who came into the game tied for third in the NFL with 37 touchdowns and averaging 341.1 yards per game, came close to a touchdown only once, when James Jett dropped a pass in the end zone in the fourth quarter.
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