PHILLIPS SETTLES...
St. Louis Rams running back Lawrence Phillips has settled a federal lawsuit filed against him by a woman who claimed he battered and sexually assaulted her.
The settlement between Phillips and Katherine McEwen of Topeka, a student at the University of Nebraska, was reached this week, but only after a federal judge agreed to allow the lawyers to black out
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more sensational aspects of the lawsuit, The Kansas City Star reported.
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McEwen, Phillips former girlfriend, filed the lawsuit last month in Jackson County Circuit Court.
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The Atlanta Braves' new stadium will be named for long-time owner Ted Turner, Turner Broadcasting Systems said yesterday. The announcement ended speculation that the new
stadium, scheduled to open in time for the 1997 season, would be named for Hank Aaron.
Kansas tennis players Enrique Abaroa and Xavier Avila, both sophomores, won two doubles matches Wednesday at the National Clay Court Championships in Baltimore.
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The tandem defeated
The tandem defeated the DeAngelo/Safarian team of East Tennessee State 8-2 in the first round. Abarca and Avila then defeated the Franklin/Turek team of Illinois 8-6 to reach the quarterfinals of the qualifying bracket.
Abaroa and Avila will face Georgia Tech's Casale冈和Cozad team for a spot in the main draw today. They are the top seed in the doubles qualifying draw.
Kansas women's golf team finishes sixth in Oregon
The Kansas women's golf team finished sixth out of 18 teams at the Northwest Invitational at Sun River, Ore., this week.
Kansas was 44 strokes behind the tournament champion Oregon with a team score of 966, which was 102 strokes above par.
Oregon won the three-day tournament, which ran from Monday to Wednesday, with a team score of 922.
Senior Missy Russell tied for 13th in the individual standings and led the Jayhawks with a combined score of 238. She shot rounds of 81, 80 and 77, respectively.
Junior Beth Reuter and sophomore Mandy Munsch shot team-best rounds of 76 in the tournament. Reuter tied for 26th with a combined score of 242 and Munsch placed 32nd with 245.
The women's golf team will see its next action at the Big 12 Preview Tournament in College Station, Texas, Oct. 7 and 8.
—Kansan staff report
PITTSBURGH — Alexandre Daigle, Ottawa Senator center, told a joke that bombed.
Ottawa hockey player faces fine after joking about bomb
Daigle faces a fine of up to $300 because he said that a Senators' official had a bomb in his bag during a layover at Pittsburgh International Airport. Daigle was accused of disorderly conduct, and he was not allowed to reboard USAir Flight 1948 last Wednesday.
—The Associated Press
The team continued on to Tampa, and Daigle caught a later plane.
The Senators were on a flight to Tampa, Fla., when a flight attendant told Trevor Timmins, the Senators' director of team services, that he had to stow a carry-on bag under his seat.
According to police reports, Daigle said, "Watch out, Trevor. You brought your bomb."
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The FBI was called, but federal officials declined to prosecute, Allegheny County police Sgt. Daniel Monaghan said. The Federal Aviation Administration could file additional charges against Dagle, who was detained for about 45 minutes.
"He apologized and said it was a stupid mistake. He realized it after he said it. But, of course, then it's too late," Monaghan said.
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'Hawks ready to play
By Dan Gelston Kansan sportswriter
rms name may be hard to say, but his game is hard to stop.
That's the way it has been since Utah sophomore running back Chris Fuamatu-Ma'a-falaf (FOO-ma-too MAH-ah-fah-la) began his career at Utah, running wild in the Western Athletic Conference.
The No. 20 Jayhawks, who are 2-0,
will get their chance to stop Fuamatu-Ma'a'afala at 8:05 pm. tomorrow when they play the 3-1 Utes at Rice Stadium in Salt Lake City.
It will be the first game for Kansas since a 52-17 win against Texas Christian on Sept. 14. Utah has won three straight since dropping its opener.
Fuamatu-Ma'afaal has been the equivalent of Jayhawk senior running back June Henley. Fuamatu-Ma'afaal was the 1995 WAC freshman of the year and his success has carried into this year. Despite a slow start, he has rushed for 374 yards on 85 carries, including 169 last week in Utah's 45-17 win against Fresno State.
Fuamatu-Ma'a fala is joined in the backfield by junior Juan Johnson who has 269 yards rushing and leads his team with four touchdowns.
"I feel that's what they're capable of, if the offensive line blocks like they're capable of and they run like they're capable of," McBride said.
Utah coach Ron McBride said that was the performance he expected from his two backs.
Kansas coach Glen Mason agreed.
"They have an offense that features two big running backs that can bust through those holes," he said. "They have enough good players at the key positions and that's what you need to have a good football team, especially in the WAC."
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Olan is led at quarterback by senior Mike Fouts, the nephew of NFL Hall of Fame quarterback Dan Fouts.
Fouts has put up amazing numbers this season, including 107 passes without an interception, a 66 percent completion rate, and eight touchdowns.
McBride said Fouts was the main reason for the team's success.
Kansas freshman outside linebacker, Jeremy Hanak, rushes in for the sack in the TCU-Kansas game.
"He knows how to read coverage; he knows how to read the blitz; he knows where to put the football. That's the key to the quarterback position," he said.
Utah lost its opener 20-17 to Utah State, but Mason said that wasn't the real Utah football team.
"They've got an outstanding football team," he said. "I've totally discounted their first game. Not to take anything away from Utah State, but if you watch them play the other three games, that was not their typical outing."
Kansas had an atypical outing the last time they played Utah in 1993. Kansas leads the all-time series 2-1, but the Utes thrashed Kansas 41-13 in Lawrence in their last meeting.
"It was a nightmare," Mason said. "We got beat in every way, shape or form. The only good thing to say about it was that it could have been a lot worse. We were trounced. On that day they were better than I
thought."
Besides a good game, Kansas may see the return of one co-captain and the loss of another tomorrow night.
The Jayhawks enter the game having wom 11 of its last 12 non-conference games and 19 of 26 overall.
Senior running back Mark
Sanders, who has yet to play this season because of a twisted ankle, practiced this week, and Mason said he should be ready to play.
Senior inside linebacker Ronnie Ward, who left the TCU game with a sprained ankle in the second quarter but returned in the second half, is doubtful. Junior Jason Thoren may take his place.
Junior running back Eric Vann said the Jayhawks were ready for their final non-conference game of the season.
"I think we're real prepared and have come together as team," he said. "We're working on correcting the little things in practice and hopefully they'll be corrected for Saturday."
Defense often unnoticed
Backfielders find ways to boost selves mentally
By Brian A. Petrotta
Kansan sports writer
They are the "guardians of the goal," the "knights of the net." Whatever the moniker, they are the backfielders who have the unenviable task of stuffing the opposing team's attack and making the goalkeeper's job just a bit easier. But defenders often go unnoticed on the stat sheet. No one keeps track of tackles in soccer.
"As defenders you need a focus, like, I made a good tackle or a good stick," said Jackie Dowell, sophomore sweeper. "You gotta kinda boost yourself up because you don't get the glory everyone else does.
It's really tough and stressful being a defender because one time you make one mistake out of playing an incredible game, they score a goal, and it's just on your mind. You feel like it was all your fault."
Landsey Loeffler, Norman, Okla., freshman, is the marking back charged with stopping the opposing team's best player. Erin Hon, Millersville, Md., sophomore, is also a marking back. It is her job is to push the ball up the field. And Jackie Horton, Germantown, Tenn., freshman, usually takes on the
Maybe that is why tough is a word the team's defenders used to describe each other.
taller opposing players.
"She intimidates her opponent, and she's also really intense," said Hon.
Hon, a former goalkeeper, appreciates the value of the defense, and she learned much from her time in the net.
"I had the defense in front of me all the time, so I was always working with them and with what they had to do," Hon said.
And no one seems to know
what to do better than Dowell. Head coach Lori Walker, a former goalkeeper, thought so highly of the sweeper that she made her a co-captain both last season and this year.
Although a freshman, Loeffler has the task of holding the opposition's best player under control. Although that may seem tough for a freshman, Loeffler does not back down.
"If she (Walker) has enough confidence to put me
"She brings some tremendous composure to the back," said Walker. "She is really able to control the flow of the game. As well, she is a leader and contributes to our defense from that aspect."
As one of the few players on the team with Division I soccer experience, her leadership is especially important to the younger players on the team, such as Loeffler.
See SOCCER,Page 3B
Golf team changes faces for tee off
By Tommy Gallagher
Kansan sportswriter
After a mediocre eighthplace performance at the Kansas Invitational, the Kansas men's golf team received a makeover before heading into the Missouri Bluffs Intercollegiate in St. Charles, Mo., tomorrow and Sunday.
Ross Randall, golf coach,
replaced Brad Davis and Andy
Bengtson with Jake Istnick
and Ryan Zug for team competition.
Kit Grove, Chris
Thompson and Ryan Vermeer
remained as players for team competition.
Istnick and Zug both competed as individuals at the Kansas Invitational, but not as players for team competition.
Istnick, Tulaa, Okla., sophomore, had rounds of 68, 72 and 76 for the tournament, which
"People want to see tough interregional competition."
Gary Schwartz Kansas cross country coach
was his best performance as a Jayhawk. His combined total of 216 was par for the three- round event.
Zug, Des Moines sophomore,
shot rounds of 76, 76 and 68,
which gave him a combined
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Volleyball team faces grueling schedule in Big 12
By Adam Herschman
Korea news switer
Kansan sportswriter
The Kansas volleyball team, however, will play its first conference match against Nebraska tonight in Lincoln, Neb. Tomorrow night the volleyball team will take on Colorado in Boulder, Colo.
No, there hasn't been a last-minute change in the football schedule. The Jayhawk football team still plays Utah in Salt Lake City tomorrow night.
"Welcome to the Big 12," Kansas junior middle blocker Maggie Mobrefeld said.
be more grueling this year because of the addition of the four Texas schools into the new conference. The Jayhawks (6-8) will have back-to-back conference games seven times this season. Consequently, the team twice will travel to Texas.
Nebraska (8-2) will try to extend its home winning streak of 20 matches with a victory against the Jayhawks. The No.7-ranked team defeated Kansas twice last year.
Kansas' conference schedule will
"The better competition we face, the better we're going to play." Kansas volleyball coach Karen Schonewise said.
Shonewise began her collegiate volleyball career at Nebraska as a walk-on player, and she went on to become a two-time All-American. She won the Honda-Broderick
Schonewise
Award — volleyball's equivalent to the Heisman Trophy — as the nation's top collegiate volleyball player in 1987. She is one of only three Nebraska volleyball players to have a retired
"It's a great place to play volleyball." Schonewise said.
The Colorado Buffaloes also won
jersey, and she also is featured in a bronzed statue called The Players inside the Nebraska volleyball arena.
"Colorado has a good team," Schonewise said. "They have a good, balanced attack."
Colorado (5-2) defeated Air Force but lost to No. 21 Colorado State last weekend. The Buffaloes had 14 service errors against the Rams.
Senior swing hitter Rachel Wacholder leads Colorado with 14 service aces and has 81 kills. Freshman setter Kelly Campbell has averaged 13.5 assists a game, and she also has 35 kills this season.
Kansas got some rest Wednesday before they left for Lincoln yester-
both games against the Jayhawks last year, and in 20 meetings between the schools, Kansas has won only twice.
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Kansas' offensive attack this weekend will be led by outside hitters sophomore Moira Donovan and freshman Mary Beth Albrecht. Donovan leads the Jayhawks with 175 kills, and Albrecht leads the team with 19 service aces.
"We basically took the day off because we wanted everyone to be sharp this weekend," Schonewise said.
Albrecht said the team worked on blocking and defense in practice this week to prepare for the first two conference matches.
"We've grown a lot in the past four tournaments," Albrecht said. "Now we're ready for conference play."