Monday, November 3, 1997
The University Daily Kansan
Section A·Page 7
KU-KSU game not on free TV
By Kristie Blasi
kblasi@kansan.com
Sports editor
Kansans will have to pay $14.95 to see the Jayhawks play the Wildcats on Saturday. That's not a reduced-ticket price at sold-out KSU Stadium but the pay-per-view cable television rate.
Or Big 12 Conference football fans can watch Nebraska-Missouri, Colorado-Iowa State and Texas-Texas Tech for free.
Athletic officials at Kansas and Kansas State announced the arrangement with Metro Sports on Friday. The game became available for pay-per-view after ABC and Fox Sports chose their three Big 12 games for the week.
Bob Frederick, athletic director, told the University of Kansas Athletic Corporation board he was tremendously disappointed the Kansas-Kansas State game had not
been picked up by the Big 12's television-contract providers.
"These decisions are made by the people whom we (the Big 12) signed the contract with for $100 million for five years," Frederick said. "With that, we gave up some of the control."
"We're upset with the television people because it's obvious the states of Colorado, Oklahoma and Texas have the priority because of their number of TV sets," Frederick said.
The control refers to kickoff times and ABC and Fox Sports television privileges for Big 12 games.
K-State director of athletics Max Urick agreed that the conference agreement limited the schools' ability to bring the game to their constituencies.
"Under the Big 12 Conference Telecast Rights Agreement, it is not permissible for a conference
institution to produce an over-the-air telecast and distribute it to local affiliates within our market like we were able to do in the Big Eight," Urick said.
Frederick said both schools cooperated with the conference to find a method of televising the game between the rivals.
"It's always an exciting atmosphere and a meaningful game when Kansas and Kansas State are playing," he said. "This is a game that should be televised."
Frederick expressed disgust that the game was not selected instead of the Colorado-Iowa State game because of the combined records of the schools.
Kansas and K-State are 12-5 this season. The Buffaloes and Cyclones are 5-11.
Viewers can begin purchasing the pay-per-view telecast this week by contacting their local cable operators. Sunflower Cablevision supervises cable operations in Lawrence.
Senior Kylie Hunt and sophomore Brooke Chiller advanced to the final match in doubles play with a semifinals victory Saturday at the 1997 Central Region Rolex Championship in Omaha, Neb.
Tennis
Hunt and Chiller, both Australian, defeated Agnes and Anna Bek of Colorado 8-4 to make the championship match, which will be at 9 a.m. today.
Kansan staff reports
The No. 5-seeded Jayhawks will face Eline Chiew and Adrian Jenkins of Brigham Young in the finals. Chiew and Jenkins are seeded No. 2 in the tournament and were ranked No. 41 in the country entering the weekend.
"We had a great tournament to finish the fall season with." Kansas women's tennis coach Roland Thorqvist said.
Cross Country
The Kansas men's and women's cross country teams placed eighth and 11th, respectively, in the Big 12 Conference Cross Country Championships held Saturday in Stillwater, Okla.
In the women's 5K race, senior co-captain Lynn LoPresti led the Jayhawks for the fifth consecutive race. She placed 27th overall with a time of 18:43.
Swimming
Kansas freshman Ricardo Ameczuca finished 10th with a time of 24 minutes, 55 seconds in the men's 8K race. It was the first time Ameczuca recorded a time of under 25 minutes in his collegiate career, and he missed all-conference honors by only seven seconds.
The Kansas swimming and diving team lost to Texas A&M in a dual meet Saturday in College Station, Texas. In the Jayhawks first dual meet of the season, the men lost 160.5 to 139 and the women were defeated 188.5 to 111.5.
Senior swimmer Kristen Nilsen led Kansas by winning three events — the 100 and 200 meter breaststrokes and the 200 individual medley.
Senior Brian Humphery led the Kansas men's diving team, which
Sophomore swimmers Brandon Chestnut and Tyler Painter led the Jayhawks, each winning one event.
swept the top three places in both the one- and three-meter competitions. Humphery placed first in both events and was followed by sophomores Sean Jacobs and Joe Donnally.
The Kansas soccer team defeated Mississippi State 3-0 on Friday in Oxford, Miss.
Soccer
The Jayhawks game-winning goal came from freshman Colleen Colvin 23 minutes into the game. Other Kansas goals were scored by junior midfielders Erin Hon and Jen Magid, who scored her first collegiate goal.
Kansas improved to 6-12-1 with the victory.
Vollevball
The Kansas volleyball team lost in a Texas two-step last weekend.
The Jayhawks lost in four sets at Baylor on Friday and in three sets at Texas Tech on Saturday. The road matches started the second half of the volleyball season.
Kansas dropped to 8-17 overall and 1-11 in the Big 12 Conference this season. The Jayhawks will play Kansas State at 7 p.m. Wednesday in Manhattan.
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Book Sales
The University Libraries is conducting book sales this week. For the first part of each sale (exact time varies), access will be limited to those with a valid KUID.
Tuesday, November 4:
English and American Literature, Watson, 2nd floor 8:00-3:00 History, and Social Sciences
Wednesday, November 5:
Area Studies Watson, 2nd floor 8:00-3:00 Music 448 Murphy 9:00-3:00
Science and Engineering Anschutz 9:00-1:00
Art and Architecture Spencer Museum Courtyard 5:00-7:30
Workshops
The library workshop series will conclude in early November. Places are still available in the final two workshops of the semester. Call 864-8998 or email workshop@ukans.edu to register.
Thursday, November 6 9:00-10:30 Clark Lab
Finding Information on the World Wide Web
Friday, November 7 9:00 - 11:00 Clark Lab
New on KUILS (KU Interactive Library System)
Chemical Abstracts (Under "Chemistry Databases") in the CD-ROM menu system, Encyclopedia Americana and Floppy Disk Utilities (as main menu buttons) are now available on the Libraries' workstations. Users will be able to perform minimal disk management tasks so as to facilitate easier downloading of files from the databases
Exhibits
*Kansas Collection: Championing Archives: The Legacy of Donald R. McCoy
*Special Collections: Britannia In Kansas
Watson Library: Rollin' Down the River Festival
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