Inside Sports
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Sports
Tuesday October 20,1998 Section: B
The New York Yankees general manager has a good story to tell, and fans just can't resist crossing the border to see the Padres play. See Page 4B.
Kansas basketball
Injuries are starting to nag the the men's basketball team.
SEE PAGE 3B
Professional basketball
Page 1
The NBA owners won a battle when an arbitrator said they did not have to pay players during the lockout.
SEE PAGE 2B
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Center Nikaia Sanford goes up for a shot. Sanford is 10th on the all-time rebounding list for the Kansas women's basketball team. Photo by Kansan staff
Jayhawks' Sanford aims to boost scoring
Ranked North Carolina will be first opponent
By Sam Mellinger
Kanson sportswriter
Kansan sportswriter
Janice Baker Miller receives her K letter for her work in gymnastics from 1970 to 1973. Miller has gone on to be a teacher and a nationally known gymnastics coach for Shawnee Mission Northwest Hiah School. Photo by Kate Lewenson/KANSAN
Sure, the experts say, Kansas has a great perimeter game.
All-American candidate Lynn Pride leads several explosive scorers who can create match-up nightmares for opposing teams on the perimeter.
But the team's weakness is inside where every post player suffers from inconsistency or inexperience.
Sanford is the leader of the Kansas inside game. She's a three-year starter and the University's 10th all-time rebounder. Coach Marian Washington said she was looking for Sanford to prove the doubts wrong.
That, the experts say, is where teams
can beat Kansas.
"It's the truth, so I can't be mad," she said. "That's partly my fault. We can't really go very far without a good inside game, and it's my responsibility to bring that up."
Nakia Sanford, senior center, knows she will be expected to solidify the inside game and does not take the negative evaluations personally.
See EXPECTATIONS on page 3B
Former Jayhawks receive long overdue recognition
Female athletes return to claim their sports letters
By Sam Mollinger Kansan sportswriter
The Kansas Athletics Department set the records straight by awarding K letters to 38 former athletes during the Reunion Brunch Saturday at the Adams Alumni Center.
"You could see on their faces, there was a lot of pride," said Dianna Beebe, former fieldockey coach who was at the brunch. "It puts more of a cap on having represented the athletic department."
The letters were presented to women who competed before their respective sports were officially recognized as varsity. Records are not clear as to when each sport's athletes received letters, but no letters were given before 1974. By 1980, all female athletes received letters.
"We felt that there were still women who competed and represented the University of Kansas before letters were given that met the qualifications to letter," said Amy Perko, associate athletics director.
Recipients were: Genell Benjamin, field hockey, softball, volleyball, basketball, 1968-69; Nancy Foster Browne, swimming, 1973-74; Paige Wolf Carney, field hockey, softball, volleyball, basketball, 1968-69; Carla Cochran Stallard, softball, 1976; Margot Cortese, basketball, 1974-75; Robin Gruenduer Coxe, tennis, 1973-75; Liz Phillips Dobbins, golf, gymnastics, 1971-75; Nancy Fankhauser, basketball, 1969-72; Paula Frank, gymnastics, softball, volleyball, 1972-76; Peggy Glynn, softball,篮球, 1972-75; Care Groom, tennis, 1971-72; Pat Madden Grenzda, swimming, 1973-75; Veronica Hammersmith, field hockey, softball, basketball, 1964-69; Virginia Hammersmith, softball, volleyball, 1970-73; Penny Paulsen Jacobi, field hockey, basketball, softball, volleyball,
1972-75; Kerry Kapfer, swimming, volleyball, tennis, 1972-74; Cynthia Kelley, softball, volleyball, basketball, 1970-74; Barbara Lehman, volleyball, 1967-70; Carrie Weltmer Mayhew, track and field, 1975; Sara McBride, field hockey, softball, volleyball, basketball, 1970-74; Vickie Shirley McCauley, softball, volleyball, basketball, 1974-75; Brenda Metzler, basketball, 1969-71; Marty Metzler, volleyball, 1977; Janice Baker Miller, gymnastics, 1970-73; Julie Snodgrass Miller, field hockey, softball, volleyball, 1977-81; Gail Cable Nevin, basketball, 1968-70; Stephane Norris, softball, volleyball,
basketball; 1971-75; Janet Pappas, field hockey, volleyball, basketball, 1966-70; Di Philinbom, softball, basketball, 1972-74; Rose Rader, softball, 1978-81; Judy Raney, softball, volleyball, basketball, 1970-74; Nancy Rieger, swimming, 1973-74; Nancy Smith, field hockey, softball, volleyball, 1970-73; Joan Smith Starks, gymnastics, swimming, 1970-74; Lou Ann Thomas, softball, basketball, 1970-72; Terri Tyler, field hockey, softball, 1968-72; Mary Visser, field hockey, softball, volleyball, basketball, 1971-74; and Joan Lundstrom Wells, field hockey, softball, volleyball, tennis, 1967-71.
Pick 'em games:
Week 8, October 24
Pick the winners of the football games and submit your picks to the Kansan. We'll publish each weeks top pickers, and we'll list everyone on the UDKi.
Drop your picks by the newsroom, 111 Stauffer-Flint hall, or e-mail them to the sports editor at mattf@ukans.edu by 5 p.m. Friday.
Include your name, hometown and year in school.
Colorado at Kansas
Iowa State at Kansas State
Missouri at Nebraska
Oklahoma at Oklahoma State
Texas Tech at Texas A&M
Baylor at Texas
Georgia at Kentucky
Miami at West Virginia
North Carolina State at Virginia
Alabama at Tennessee
Toledo at Akron
Pride: Player of the Year candidate.
Pride becomes award candidate
Kansas women's basketball junior Lynn Pride was named one of 10 presen- candidates for the 1988-99 Maismith College Basketball Player of the Year.
The announcement came yesterday from Jackie Braidford, executive director of the Atlanta Tioff Club.
Pride Ld the Jayhawks in points (14.9)
ppg), rebounds (6.7 rpg), and steals (70)
last season.
This summer, Pride won a gold medal with the 1998 USA Women's Basketball Jones Cup team. She averaged 9.0 points, a team high 7.0 rebounds and 2.2 steals per game.
"Lynn Pride is one of the elite players in the country," said coach Marian Washington. "At her size, her quickness and her ability to handle the basketball, she is just simply one of the best."
The candidates were selected by the
Naismith Awards National Advisory Board, which is made up of leaping basketball coaches, journalists and administrators.
Other candidates include Chamique Holdswclaw, Semeka Randall and Tamika Catchings, Tennessee; Dominique Canty, Alabama; Amanda Wilson, Louisiana Tech; Tamika Whitmore, Memphis; Mery Andrade, Old Dominion; DeMya Walker, Virginia; and Steehlan White, Purdue.
Kansan staff report
Commentary
Basketball lockout hurts NBA players
Disappointing was the word that came to mind when the NBA canceled 99 preseason and regular season games.
It raised an interesting question. Will the NBA suffer the same fate as Major League Baseball?
My thoughts: no way.
Professional basketball games are more exciting to watch, and NBA players have personalities fans love. Furthermore, every team has at least one outstanding player worth watching.
But NBA players are hurting themselves.
While they argue about the right not to be tested for marijuana and for profit sharing, players like Patrick Ewing, who, because of his age, only has a couple seasons left, are letting a chance to win a championship with Michael Jordan out of the league slip away.
Unfortunately, any team that wins the championship this season would have a big asterisk by its title, because it did not complete a whole season.
The rest of the superstars are making at least $5 million a year, and if you're Michael Jordan, $35 million.
That doesn't include the endorsement deals athletes receive.
What bothers me most is that the players believe they deserve a cut of the owners' profits.
The last time I checked, the minimum salary for an NBA player was about $250,000. And if you're getting paid the league minimum, chances are you're not playing much.
The players need to remember basketball has made them rich. It would be foolish to forget that.
I understand the players' point of view, however. The owners invest hundreds of millions of dollars each year into their respective teams, and it wouldn't be fair to take their profits away.
The owners built the NBA and have put large amounts of money
into the pockets of athletes playing a game they claim to love.
If they really loved it, the NBA wouldn't be in the middle of a lockout.
The balance of power in the sports world is out of whack.
Tony Pacheco
It appears as if
It appears as if the players run the league.
They choke coaches, sit out if they're not happy, spit on fans and speak badly about the organization they play for until they're traded.
The coaches can't coach, and the owners can no longer manage for fear of offending prima donna athletes.
The owners need to refuse the profit sharing request. If they give in now, where will it end?
Pacheco is an Olathe senior in English.