NBA UPDATE
CHARLES OAKLEY, of the New York Knicks, and CHARLES BARKLEY, of the
Houston Rockets, were suspended as a result of their fight last week, the NBA said yesterday. Oakley was fined $10,000 and Barkley $5,000. Oakley will miss Friday night's opener at Toronto and Sunday's home game against Charlotte. Barkley will miss the Rockets' opener Friday night against Sacramento. The fight occurred during the first quarter of Friday night's exhibition game at the Summit which the Knicks won 79-75.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN SPORTS
NHL PLAYER OF THE WEEK
BRENDAN SHANAHAN, the Detroit Red Wings' left wing who scored six goals including two game-winners in four games, is the NHL's player of the week. Shanahan beat out New York Rangers center Wayne Gretzky, who had two goals
and five assists in three games, San Jose Sharks right wing Owen Nolan, who had five goals and two assists in four games, and Red Wings goaltender Chris Osgood, who won three games with a 0.67 goals-against average.
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 29,1996
WOMEN'S HOOPS
The Kansas women's basketball team added a home exhibition game to its schedule last week. The Jayhawks' first exhibition game of the 1996-97 season will be against Central Texas AAU at 8 p.m. next Tuesday in Allen Field House. Kansas will play its only other exhibition game against the Belgium National Team at 7 p.m. on Nov. 11 in the fieldhouse. The 1996-97 season begins for Kansas in
the first round of the presea
non Worlten's National
Invitational Tournament against
Southern
Methodist University
at 8 p.m. on
Nov. 1.5 in Allen
Field House.
SECTION B
Football player charged with second sex offense
SPRINGFIELD, MO. — Southwest Missouri State defensive lineman Anthony D. Woodson has been charged with a second sex offense. This time, according to the police report, for allegedly reaching under a woman's dress near campus.
The charge, a misdemeanor,
comes less than a week after he was
charged with sexual abuse of a 21-
year-old woman for an incident in
June. He was to be issued a summons
to appear in court on the mis-
demeanor charge.
Woodson, 22, of Fort Wayne, Ind., was suspended from the team indefinitely, pending further investigation.
The 6-foot-2, 310-pound player was arrested Thursday after a woman saw him on a bus and told police he was the stranger who assaulted her Oct. 14. The charge from that case was filed yesterday.
The woman's description of Woodson matched one given by another woman, who reported being attacked June 16 after jogging at the school's stadium.
Woodson entered a not guilty plea Friday to one charge of sexual abuse in the first incident and was released on $25,000 bond. That charge carries a jail sentence of two to seven years.
Receiver waived earlier returns to pained Packers
GREEN BAY, WIS. — The injury-prone Green Bay Packers lured receiver Anthony Morgan back to the team yesterday.
The Packers desperately needed Morgan back to shore up their depleted receiving corps after losing their top two receivers in the past three weeks.
Antonio Freeman broke his left forearm in his first start in place of injured
Robert Brooks in
Robert Brooks in Sunday's 13-7 victory against Tampa Bay. Morgan was a part-time starter at split end for the Packers last
year and signed a three-year, $2 million contract with a $450,000 sign bonus during the offseason. But he was waived in the final cut.
Morgan was called last week after Brooks was lost to a season-ending injury, to smooth the hard feelings created by the breakup, but the sides couldn't work out a deal.
Colorado and Missouri players share Big 12 honor
DALLAS — Missouri quarterback Corby Jones and Colorado free safety Steve Rosga are sharing Big 12 Conference honors as players of the week.
Jones, a senior from Columbia, Mo., broke the school quarterback rushing record with 193 yards on 18 carries in a 35-28 overtime victory against Oklahoma State on Saturday, the conference said yesterday.
Rosga, a senior from Roseville, Minn., intercepted two passes and recovered a tumble despite suffering bruised ribs in the second half of the Buffaloes' victory against Texas.
Rosga, the Big 12 Conference's best defensive player for the second time, had two interceptions and 11 tackles, three solo, in Colorado's 28-42 victory against Texas on Saturday
In the Tigers' first league victory, Jones contributed three touchdowns and completed five of 10 passes for 70 yards and a fourth score. He punted once for 37 yards.
Henley back in uniform
The Associated Press
By Dan Gelston
Mason gives OK to back's return; discusses alcohol
Kansan sportswriter
Kansas senior running back June Henley is back with the Jayhawks after serving a onegame suspension, Kansas coach Glen Mason said yesterday.
"Ive reinstated June Henley," Mason said. "He will not start at Iowa State. Will he play? I don't know."
Mason said he didn't know whether Henley would travel to Ames on Saturday with the team.
"I'll make (that decision) later in the week," he said. "There's no guarantee. I wanna see how he reacts to the whole thing."
June Henlev
Henley has yet to comment.
Mason said the decision was not hasty and that numerous things came into play.
"It was not an easy decision for me," he said.
"I really pondered it all weekend.
"I'm not reinstating him because I think we need him to beat Iowa State. That's not my concern. To eliminate the rest of his season, I thought, would be too harsh. If it wasn't his senior year, I would have suspended him for the rest of the season. But he's on my probation, I can tell you that. Anything else, and I mean that, anything else and he's done."
Henley was arrested on suspicion of operating a vehicle under the influence of alcohol early Thursday morning. He was suspended for the Jayhawks' game against Nebraska on Saturday and did not travel to Lincoln.
Mason said after the game that Henley's act had been disappointing. He reiterated that point yesterday.
"I did view the situation that he put himself in as very serious," Mason said. "I'm very concerned about anybody, regardless if they're a student-athlete or not, that drinks and then drives an automobile."
In 1993, Henley was arrested on a charge of misdemeanor theft that was later dismissed. Later that year, a warrant was issued for his arrest after failing to pay child support. Henley was arrested on charges of domestic battery last year after he allegedly pushed his girlfriend during an argument. Those charges were dropped. This year, Henley was cited for contempt of court for failing to pay child support. Those charges were dismissed.
Henley is the Big 12 Conference's fourth-leading rusher with 131.7 yards a game. But his rap sheet is as long as his stat sheet.
"I really think some of the things as to why he has a bad reputation have been blown out of proportion," Mason said.
Mason said Henley was lucky he only got arrested.
" told him, if you got a ticket for driving
you should consider yourself very fortunate
that you weren't involved in an accident
or God forbid, killed someone."
Mason also talked about the general problem of drunk driving on college campuses.
"If any football coach thinks their players are not driving and drinking they're wrong." Mason said. "It's a problem on our college campuses, a problem with young people, it's a problem with a lot of people.
"I'm pulling on campus and I see a fraternity or a sorority — I'm not really sure which one it is — and they had the yellow school buses out there because the kids are coming back from a party. Why? Why now why they rent the school buses? It's so they're not drinking and driving. Hey, that's part of college life, right, wrong or indifferent."
Mason said athletes, or anyone in the public eye, are held to a higher standard.
"There is a price that you pay if you want to be interviewed and have your picture in the paper. There's that other side of it, too. You're held to a higher standard and you should be."
However, Mason said there is a double-stan-
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Steve Puppe / KANSAN
Kansas senior quarterback Ben Rutz throws a pass during the Nebraska game Saturday in Nebraska. Rutz will be the starting quarterback in the Iowa State game this Saturday.
Time running out for B.J. Williams' hurrah
By Evan Blackwell Kansan sportswriter
B. J. Williams knows that he only has one more chance.
One more chance to live up to his potential. One more chance to fulfill the expectations that the athletic forward brought with him to Kansas three years ago.
One last chance to build on the momentum he
Richard Devlinki / KANSAN
Kansas senior forward B.J. Williams finished last season with a carrier high 18 points and nine rebounds in the NCAA tournament in Arizona.
gained at the end of last season.
B. J. Williams, a senior for the Kansas basketball team, enters his final season in a familiar role, as the Jayhawks' sixth man. Kansas men's basketball coach Roy Williams said this was the time for his defensive stopper to put the whole package together.
B. J. Williams may be able to make that shift to the offensive end of the court this season, based on the way he finished the previous campaign. His best performance came in the Jayhawks' Sweet 16 meeting with Arizona in the NCAA tournament, where he had a career-high 18 points and nine rebounds while, powering Kansas to an 83-80 win.
"He's been a very good defender for a long time, and hadn't been able to transfer it to the other end of the floor for a long time." Roy Williams said.
"I'm trying to make sure it carries over," he said.
"This whole season's going to be a challenge."
He said he had used last year's performance to motivate him during the summer, in the weight room. "Now I'm trying to do it during the season, to finish off my career," he said.
With his lean, 6-foot-8 frame and leaping ability, B.J. Williams has always been a versatile performer for the Jayhawks. Although he has never started a game in his Kansas career, he has always taken seriously his role off the bench. He and sophomore T.J. Pugh again enter this season as the Jayhawks' only backups on the interior.
"We give Raef (LaFrentz) and Scot (Pollard) some breaks when they get tired," B.J. Williams said. "We have to maintain it when they come out."
As a Jayhawk, B.J. Williams has several times flashed the brilliance he hopes to sustain this season. His athletic ability has often left the fans wanting more.
"B.J. does have good abilities, good quickness, long arms — those kinds of things," Roy Williams said. "But he sees what's going on out there, too."
His coach knows his ability better than anyone — and also knows that the success B.J. Williams had last season could be invaluable now.
"A lot of it had to do with feeling more comfortable, feeling more confident," Roy Williams said. "He should be more comfortable and confident than he's ever been, and hopefully, that will continue."
Kansas tennis team controls tourney play wins championships
By Tommy Gallagher
Kansan sportswriter
"From the beginning of the season I always talked about the responsibility of being a top-10 team and of not resting on your laurels," said Mark Riley, Kansas men's head tennis coach. "We had to prove that we deserved to be one of the best teams in the country, and we played well as a team from top to bottom in Wichita."
The Kansas men's tennis team was eager to show why it earned a preseason No. 10 ranking, and did so with a dominant performance at the Rolex Region V Championships in Wichita.
Abaroa defeated Marc Bauer of Colorado, 6-3, 4-6, 6-4, and won the singles title. Bauer entered the tournament No. 46 nationally and No. 2 in the region behind Abaroa, the tournament's top seed in singles and doubles.
Junior Enrique Abaroa, No. 8 singles and No. 18 doubles nationally, spearheaded the Jayhawks' assault by winning tournament championships in singles and doubles play yesterday. The tournament began Thursday and ended yesterday.
"It was hard because everyone is looking to beat you, and everyone plays their best matches of the tournament against No.1," Abaroa said. "You can feel the improvement in the team since Coach Riley came here, but we still have a lot of
room to improve."
En route to winning the championship, Abaroa defeated junior teammate Trent Tucker, 6-2, 6-4, in the round of 16. He then won matches against Colorado's Artur Rusiecki and Tulas's Gareth Williams to earn a spot in the title match.
Two other Jayhawks, junior Xavier Avila and sophomore Luis Uribe, advanced to the quarterfinals before falling. Avila defeated Colorado's Martel Bufford, 6-2, 6-1, as No. 16 Uribe upset No. 4 Louie Pranic of Tulsa, 6-2, 4-8, 6-2, making the quarterfinals.
The doubles championship match featured four Jayhawks: the tandem of Abaroa and Avila against sophomore Fernando Sierra and Uribe. Abaroa and Avila defeated Shaun Harrop and Grant Huddin of Wichita State, 6-4, 7-5, while Sierra and Uribe won against Colorado's Bauer and Rusiecki, 7-6, 6-2, advancing to the championship match.
Abaroa and Avila then won against their teammates, 6-4, 7-6, capping a successful tournament for the team and its individuals.
"We just wanted to dedicate the tournament to Coach since it was the last one of the fall season," Avila said. "If we did good, it was because we got a lot of help from Coach. He has helped us improve this season, and we should continue to improve in the spring."