LET'S KICK IT...
Former Nebraska quarterback TOMMIE FRAZIER will have his jersey retired before Saturday's game against Kentucky. After halving to 10-4,
Kansas. After helping Nebraska to
successive national titles and having his Canadian Football League career curbed by blood clots that limited his play in 1994 for Nebraska, Frazier now is part of the crew that broadcasts Cornhusker games.
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"It means a lot," Frazier said. "It
shows that everything did is not
going unnoticed. It shows that I will always have a place in history here at Nebraska."
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Despite trailing 5-0 in the early innings of last night's game, the New York Yankees were able to overcome the deficit and defeat the Atlanta Braves 8-6 in 10
innings. The Yankees scored two runs in the top of the 10th, and the Braves couldn't best New York's two runs in their half of the 10th.
Ten Seattle Seahawks and seven Kansas City Chiefs were fined by the NFL for a series of skimishes during last Thursday's game between the two teams. NFL representatives said yesterday that Corey Harris and Dean Wells of Seattle were fineed $5,000 each for unnecessary roughness, and Winston Moss was assessed $5,000 for fighting. Seahawks Mike Barber, Carlton Gray, Selwyn Jones, Cortez Kennedy, Darryl Williams, Ronnie Williams and Terry Wooden were finesd $4,000 each for entering
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the area of a fight. Marcus Allen of
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Others was in need $5,000 for fighting and Chris Penn $5,000 for unnecessary roughness. Kimble Anders, Danan Hughes, Dave Sott, Tim Grunhard and Keith Cash were fined $4,000
area
each for entering a fight
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Gold medalist athletes sign with Women's NBA
NEW YORK — Olympic gold medalists Rebecca Lobo and Sheryl Swoopes, two of the most prominent names in women's basketball, will play in the Women's NBA, a new professional league that is to start in June.
Both players passed up the rival American Basketball League, which began play last weekend, and signed two-year contracts with the WNBA.
Neither player has a team yet. The WNB will announce its eight teams next week.
"The opportunity to play professional basketball in the United States is very exciting," Swoopes said yesterday. "And to be a part of the WNBA is an honor and a dream come true."
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Swopoops led Texas Tech to the 1993 NCAA championship, scoring a record 47 points in the title game. Lobo, 6-4, led Connecticut to a 35-0 record and the national championship in 1995, her senior year.
Baseball coach resigns after 19 years at OSU
STILLWATER, Okla. — As much as he still loves college baseball and coaching, Gary Ward's back won't let him continue.
Ward resigned yesterday after 19 years at Oklahoma State, saying hisailing back had become too much of a burden.
"When you give up batting practice, when you give up swinging the bat in a demo situation, when you can't hit fungoes, when you're wearing a back brace at third base, it takes a genuine love." he said.
Ward, 56, compiled a 953-313 record at Oklahoma State. His teams won 17 Big Eight titles, including the last 16 in a row, and reached the College World Series 10 times.
"Oklahoma State baseball is not about Gary Ward. Oklahoma State baseball is about Oklahoma State its people, Allie P. Reynolds Stadium, those who have played," he said.
Oklahoma State won 45 or more games in all but three seasons under Ward, and the team won 75 percent of its games in 12 of the last 17 years.
Ward planned to leave town for a few days with his wife to discuss future plans. He encouraged a national search for his replacement and said he would not make public recommendations for a new coach.
Texas Southern put on probation by NCAA
HOUSTON — The NCAA announced yesterday that it has put Texas Southern on probation for five years for academic and ethics violations, primarily in its track and field and cross country programs.
The NCAA Committee on Infractions said it found violations between 1991 and 1993 that included athletes receiving uneamed academic credit and a lack of institutional control.
- Penalties against the university included prohibiting its track and field and cross country teams from postseason competition for the next two years.
The track and field team also cannot participate in invitational meets this year, while the cross country teams are prohibited from such competitions next year.
The probation was effective Aug. 11.
In addition, the committee said the school could not award new scholarships in track and field or cross country through 1999 and reduced the number of the school's football scholarships for next year by four.
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And the winner is...
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Brian File and Jennifer Finnegan won the Gumby's first annual Heisman hony for the 1996 intramural flag football season. File was a standout for the BRLB team, and Finnegan starred for Alpha Delta Pi. The runner up in the
men's race was Delta Tau Delta's Quentin Hammontree. Chi Omega's Emily Leonard and Gamma Phi Beta's Lisa Sapasap tied for second in the women's bracket.
Basketball recruits closer to picking Kansas after Late Night attendance
Event impresses three high school prospects
By Evan Blackwell
Kansan sportswriter
Kansas may receive some good recruiting news this week after all.
Despite the fact that the men's basketball team lost out on forward Shane Battier from Birmingham, Mich., who chose Duke on Monday, three other undecided recruits who visited Late Night With Roy Williams may be closer to committing to Kansas than they were before.
Maurice Evans, a 6-foot-6-inch forward from Wichita, definitely will commit to a school in the early signing period, said Mitch Figel, his high school coach. Evans' choices are down to Kansas, Wichita State, Oklahoma State and Nebraska.
Figal said Evans thoroughly enjoyed his visit to Late Night.
"That's the kind of situation that just about any kid 17 or 18 years old would really enjoy," Figel said. "The overall environment; it was a great situation."
"... the kind of situation that just about any kid 17 or 18 years old would really enjoy."
maurice Evans' high school coach, on recruits' visits to Late Night With Roy Williams
Mitch Figel
Evans will visit Oklahoma State this weekend and Wichita State on Nov. 1. He already has visited Nebraska, where his cousin, DeAngelo Evans, is a running back for the Cornhusker football team.
The early signing period begins Nov. 13, and Figel said Evans would make his decision before then.
Kenny Gregory, a 6-foot-5-inch guard from Columbus, Ohio, may be close to making a decision in the next week, said Dave Feyh, his high school coach.
"He hopes to make up his mind later this week, but I wouldn't count on that, not the way he has been operating latex." Fevh said.
Feyh said that Gregory still was considering Kansas, Clemson and Cincinnati, but that the Jayhawks really impressed Gregory on his visit to Late Night.
"He enjoyed his visit to Kansas very much," Fevh said. "He thought it was a great place."
Khalid El-Amin, a 5-foot-10-inch point guard from Minneapolis, and his wife enjoyed their visit to Kansas, according to a report in the *Minneapolis Star* Tribune on Monday. El-Amin has narrowed his college choices to Kansas, Minnesota, Cincinnati and Georgetown.
El-Amin told the Star-Tribune that he still was not close to making a decision and that he probably would decide in the spring, after visiting Georgetown and Cincinnati sometime during the season.
Center to face ex-team
Stiebel motivated to play his former Nebraska teammates
by Dan Gelston
Kansan sportswriter
Kansas senior center Jim Stiebel said there was only one thing missing in his college football career — two rings.
"I'd like to have those two national champions rings," he said. "But that's the only thing I regret."
Stiebel left Nebraska after one season with the Cornhuskers in 1992. He does not need extra motivation when he makes his first start against his former team, he said. Kansas plays No. 9 Nebraska on Saturday.
Stiebel arrived in Nebraska as part of a recruiting class that included Jayhawk senior quarterback Ben Rutz.
"I remember me and Ben came in early that summer and just spent the summer training," Stiebel said. "We were just getting used to life at Nebraska."
But life at Nebraska was not what Stiebel envisioned.
"Early on, a couple of my buddies were like 'I gotta get out of here,' and I was like 'No, you can't transfer,' he said. "Then spring ball came around and I wasn't getting the reps I wanted to get. But there were 47 offensive linemen there. I don't know how I was expecting to get any," he said.
Stiebel redshirted that season and was part of the scout team. He didn't see a future at Nebraska.
"I loved the guys. It was nice. But I just wasn't happy," he said. "I was a freshman. I was young. I was homesick. I just thought I had to get out of there."
Stiebel discussed leaving with Cornhusker coach Tom Osborne, who advised him about his options. Stiebel decided to transfer, but he didn't know where to go.
Stiebel contacted some schools that had recruited him in high school, he said.
But those schools did not include Kansas. That changed when Stiebel's high school coach talked to Mitch Browning, Kansas' recruiting coordinator.
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Volleyball and track and field keep Kendra Kahler busy
By Adam Herschman
Kansan sportswriter
Competing, staying active motivate excelling student to participate in two teams
She is the only female two-spot athlete at Kansas, aside from the female athletes who compete in both cross country and track and field. Kahler is the starting right side hitter on the volleyball team and a high jumper on the track and field team.
Kendra Kahler doesn't have time to get stressed out.
"I don't think I've ever seen her stressed," said Leslie Purkeyyile, Kahler's roommate and volleyball teammate. "Usually she has a ton of energy."
Last semester, Kahler attended both volleyball and track practices almost every day and still earned a 3.94 grade point average.
"In high school I was really used to playing sports all year round," said Kahler, Ottawa junior.
Kahler played volleyball in the fall, basketball in the winter and ran track in the spring at Ottawa High School. She was the Kansas 5A volleyball player of the year her senior year.
"When it came around to volleyball being over my freshman year, I just had nothing to do." Kahler said. "I was totally bored."
She started on the Kansas volleyball team as a freshman, but after her first season was finished, Kahler realized she wanted to try out for the track team.
"Sports just came very easily to me," Kahler said.
So two years ago, she asked Kansas assistant track and field coach Rick Attig about joining the team during the indoor track season. Kahler had qualifications as a high jumper after two top-three finishes in the high jump at a state high school track meet.
"When I went up and asked him, right away he told me I could." Kahler said.
"With my schedule, too, as far as practicing goes, he would always come in and help me at a different time if I'd come in and ask him."
Kahler said she prioritized volleyball higher than track because of her volleyball scholarship.
"When I asked Coach Schonewhe if I could do track, she said, 'Only if it doesn't interfere with anything like practice or anything for volleyball.'" Kahler said.
Kansas volleyball coach Karen Schonewise said Kahler could be one of the best players in the conference if she learned to make strong movements all the time. Kahler is sec-
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Kendra Kahler, Kansas junior right-side hitter, not only excels on the volleyball court but also in academics and in track. Kahler has a 3.94 GPA and is a high-jumper for the KU track team.
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