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BIG 12 INJURY UPDATE
Oklahoma State safety R.W. MCQUARTERS will miss the rest of the season after breaking a bone in his lower
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leg. McQuarters suffered the injury on the first play of the second half of Saturday's 28-27 victory against Iowa State.
"He was very much a part of our defense and our special teams," coach Bob Simmons said on Sunday.
"What you have to find now is somebody else to do the things he has done."
That will be difficult, since McQuarters is the Cowboys' best all-around player. He was an all-Big Eight kick retuner as a freshman
last year. This season he moved from cornerback to safety, returned punts and kickoffs,and was second or the team in tackles.
NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE REPORT
Colorado Avalanche center JOE SAKIC, who had nine points in three games, was selected yesterday as the NHL's player of the week. Sakic leads the NHL in scoring with 15 points.
including 11 assists. He had a goal and five assists in a 7-2 victory against Edmonton last Tuesday before getting two goals and an assist in a 9-2 victory against Vancouver on Saturday.
Iowa State running back TROY DAVIS and Nebraska linebacker JON HESSE were named Big 12 Conference players of the week. Davis galanced 238 yards on 36 tries with a pair of touchdowns in the Cyclones' 29-27 loss at Oklahoma State. The nation's leading rusher with 1,285 yards, 224 carries and 15 touchdowns,
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Davis also became Iowa State's leading career
rusher with 3,482 yards as he passed Dexter Green, who had 3,437 yards from 1975-78. Hesse made 11 tackles in the Cormhuskers' 24-10 victory against Texas Tech. He was a fixture in the Raiders' backfield for most of the afternoon with four tackles for losses of 10 yards and a blocked punt, his second this season.
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1996
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Women basketball tryouts scheduled today, tomorrow
Kansas women's basketball walk on tryouts will take place from 2 to 4 p.m. today in Allen Field House and from 8 to 10 p.m. tomorrow in the field house.
Players are not required to attend both trvouts.
—Kansan staff report
Saints' coach Mora goes marching out after tirade
NEW ORLEANS — Jim Mora resigned yesterday as coach of the New Orleans Saints, a day after a profane trade against his players and coaches following a loss to the Carolina Panthers.
Mora had coached the Saints since 1986,the longest tenure of any current NFL coach with one team.
"I would encourage everyone to con-
port this team and this organization," Mora said. "They work very hard, and this is team
very, very close to being a very, very good football team."
He was the first coach in Saints' history to post a winning record.
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Owner Tom Benson said the choice of Mora's successor had not been made. He said he and general manager Bill Kuharich would immediately begin looking for a new coach.
Bengals fire Dave Shula Bruce Coslet to coach
Shula is the first NFL coach to lose his job this season.
CINCINNATI — Dave Shula, who has his father's prominent jaw but not his knack for winning, was fired yesterday as the Cincinnati Bengals' head coach.
Offensive coordinator Bruce Coslet will coach the team for the rest of the season and have an opportunity to stay longer if the team wins. Coslet, a former New York Jets head coach, rejoined the Bengals before the 1994 season after a stint as offensive coordinator.
"I wish Bruce Coslet and the Bengals all the luck in the world," said Shula, who stood with Brown in front of reporters. "I thank Mike for the patience he's shown through the years as we've struggled to put a winner on the field.
"The record is what I'm judged by.
That obviously was not adequate."
Shula, 37, was the youngest coach in the NFL and one of the least successful. He was 19-52 in four-plus seasons and lost 50 games faster than any coach in league history.
—The Associated Press
UCLA's Harrick cleared in sale of car to recruit
LOS ANGELES (AP) — UCLA basketball coach Jim Harris has been cleared by the Pacific-1.0 Conference of violating NCAA rules in the sale of a car he owned to the sister of a top recruit, officials said yesterday.
Both the conference and the University looked into the sale of a car by Harrikil's son, Glenn, to Lisa Davis-Hothon on Sept. 20.
"The Pacific-10 Conference has
determined, based upon the information obtained during its investigation, that no NCAA rules violation occurred when Glenn Harrick sold a 1991 Chevrolet S-10 Blazer to Lisa Davis-Hodoh, sister of prospective athlete Baron Davis," the Pac-10 said. "Central to this decision was the determination that the car was sold at a fair market price."
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Quarterback position unclear
Matt Johner and Ben Rutz in the running
By Dan Gelston
Kansan sportswriter
Kansas junior quarterback Matt Johner had more reasons to look over his shoulder Saturday than just the oncoming Colorado pass rush.
Ben Rutz was coming, too.
When Rutz, the senior backup, came in during the first quarter of the Jayhawks 20-7 loss, the quarterback controversy that had died down for awhile heated right back up again.
Johner was pulled with 219 left in the first quarter for Rutz. Ruzt led the Jayhawks for two offensive series but was replaced by Johner for the remainder of the game.
Johner went just 9 of 16 passing for 110 yards and one touchdown. Rutz was one of 2 for 5 yards.
Kansas coach Glen Mason said after the game that the change was a predetermined part of the game plan. and Rutz deserved to go in.
At his weekly news conference yesterday, Mason said that the quarterback position was up in the air and as close as it had ever been before.
"We're going to evaluate how they go in practice," Mason said. "I think the competition is closing up there. There's no clear-cut number one guy that has a hold on the position. We planned all along, regardless of how the game was going that we were going to play Ben Rutz the first part of the game. There wasn't a set number of plays or anything. It all depended on how he performed how much he was going to play."
Rutz has played in five games this season but thrown 15 passes.
"I don't know if he looked rusty or not," Mason said. "He looked all right."
After a fast start, Johner has slumped. in the Jahwayh's loss to Texas Tech, Johner threw for a career-high 268 yards but was just 18 of 44 passing. That is 27 of 60 the last two games, away from the 65 percent completion percentage Johner said he aims for.
But Johner said he was not worried about losing his starting job.
"I can't think about it," he said.
"As far as I know, I'm the starting quarterback, and I will be when we play Nebraska.
"It doesn't bother me. He tells me in practice I'm starting, so I don't worry about what he tells you guys."
Mason said regardless of who would play quarterback, the offense was still not where it needed to be.
Kansas plays Nebraska at 6 p.m.
Saturday in Lincoln.
"I don't think the play-calling is the problem," Mason said. "Play-calling can be grossly overrated."
Mason said the problems were mostly with play execution.
Starting junior linebacker Jason Thoren missed the second half of the Colorado game because of a strained right knee.
"But all of it comes under the heading of coaching," he said.
Mason said yesterday that it didn't look very good, and Thoren might not play Saturday.
Freshman John Gordon has reclaimed one of the starting wide receiver spots from senior Andre Carter. Gordon had two catches on Saturday. Carter had none.
"I just think Gordon is better than Carter." Mason said.
Thoren is second on the team with 43 tackles.
Kansas quarterback Ben Rutz attempted a pass against Colorado defensive end Aaron Marshall. The Jayhawks lost to the Buffaloes 20-7 on Saturday.
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Prized recruit selects Duke
Kansan sportswriter
By Evan Blackwell
In the end, all Shane Battier could do was pray.
That's how the consensus top five prep forward from Birmingham, Mich., finally reached his college decision to attend Duke.
"As of yesterday (Sunday), I still didn't know where I was going to go," Battier said. "I went to church, and I prayed for the answer. What came to me was Duke."
Battier made his oral commitment official yesterday during an all-school assembly at Detroit Country Day High School. Battier chose Duke rather than Kansas, North Carolina, Michigan or Michigan State.
Battier said that his gut feeling had been to go with Duke all along, but that Kansas was under consideration until the end. Battier made his official visit to Lawrence during the weekend of Oct. 11-12.
"Kansas was the biggest surprise of the whole recruiting process," Battier said. "I probably knew the least about them going in, but I really enjoyed my visit to KU. They were right there at the end."
Battier notified the four coaches who lost out on him yesterday morning by phone before the public announcement.
"By far it's been the most difficult part of the recruiting, telling the coaches," Battier said. "I really respect Coach
As of yesterday (Sunday),I still didn't know where I was to go.I went to church and I prayed for an answer. What
came to me was Duke." Shane Battier Top five basketball prep forward
(Roy) Williams and the Kansas program."
Battier, who attends the same high school as former Michigan star Chris Webber, said by choosing Duke he hoped to make his own name outside of the state.
"People that know me know that I want to blaze my own trail," Battier said. "I've already made a name in the state of Michigan, so this will be a new challenge for me."
Battier's high school coach, Kurt Keener, said he was relieved that the whole process was now finished. "Today felt kind of like a big game," Keener said. "Now that it's over, we can all get back to normal."
Battier has been an outstanding student at Country Day, prompting many recruiting analysts to compare him with former Duke, and current Detroit Pistons, star Grant Hill. Keener said any comparisons to Hill shouldn't faze Battier.
"He's been through it before with the comparisons to Chris Webber, Keener said. "He's a supremely confident kid. He's very secure in his own abilities."
Battier averaged 21 points and 8 rebounds a game during his junior year last season.
McGrath's knee surgery adds him to swelling list of injured Jayhawks
Kansas point guard C.B. McGrath underwent arthroscopic surgery to repair torn cartilage in his left knee yesterday afternoon. McGrath injured the knee during the scrimmage at Late Night With Roy Williams Friday night.
Kansas men's basketball trainer Mark Caims said McGrath's surgery was successful.
"I don't think this will be a situation where he'll be out a couple of months," Cairns said. "People react differently to these types of things. We could get him back in a couple of days or in a couple of weeks."
The knee injury is McGarth's second injury in the last year. He suffered a wrist injury in November that required surgery at the end of last season. McGarth played in 18 games last season with the injury.
McGrath was the primary backup to senior guard Jacque Vaughn during his freshman year, playing in 31 games.
McGrath's injury adds him to the long list of Jayhawks walking wounded. Vaughn is absent because of torn ligaments in his wrist, and freshman Nick Bradford is absent because of a broken nose. The Jayhawks will have only 10 healthy bodies for practice this week.
Sophomore Ryan Robertson is now the only healthy point guard on the Kansas roster. Freshman walk-on point guard Terry Nooner is currently practicing with the varsity team on a 2-week trial basis.
Maddux thrusts Braves to 2-0 World Series lead
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NEW YORK — Greg Maddux beat the Yankees into the ground — a grounder to second, a grounder to first, a grounder back to the mound.
For nine innings last night, the Yankees chopped slider after slider into the dirt. Perhaps they should have used pitching wedges instead of bats.
A year after opening the World Series with a two-hitter against Cleveland, Maddux showed once again why he's the best pitcher of the '90s. He got 19 groundball outs, all but two to the right side of the infield, leading Atlanta to a 4-0 victory against the Yankees
and a 2-0 World Series lead.
"I've had games where I might have pitched better, but under the circumstances, this is a game that I'll probably take to the grave with me." Maddux said.
He made just 82 pitches in eight innings, throwing a total of just 20 balls in 28 at-bats. He went to two balls four times and three just twice, never needing more than 14 pitches in any innning.
Given the behavior of the raucous spectators, the joke was that more Yankee fans made it to second base than Yankees.
"He was quick, sneaky and the ball had a tremendous amount of life on it," Braves manager Bobby Cox said.
Of the six hits Maddux allowed, just two came consecutively: by Derek Jeter and Tim Raines leading off the sixth.
"The one thing that's different about Greg
No problem. Wade Boggs hit a bouncer to second that the Braves turned into a double play, and Bernie Williams grounded to second, too.
Maddux is he doesn't do it with power," Yankees manager Joe Torre said. "The Gibsons, Koufax and Drydales mainly did it to power and intimidation. He seems to do whatever he wants with the ball. If there's something that's borderline, he gets it—and he's earned that."
Maddux was just 15-11 this season, his lowest win total since 1991. And for the first time since '91, he won't win the National League Cv Young Award.
But he doesn't really care about Cy Young Awards. For Maddux, it's the World Series rings that matter most.
Surrounded by John Smoltz and Tom Glavine, he has a chance to get his second.