INDIANS WIN DIVISION
THE CLEVELAND INDIANS are headed to the playoffs again. They clinched their second strait AL Central last night with a 9-4 victory against the Chicago White Sox. They didn't win the division by a comfortable 30 games like they did last season,
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but their 1.2-game lead was
but then a cozy margin. "We're playing well," said pitcher Charles Nagy. "The personalities are starting to mesh. It's fun to be here now. It beats losing."
WOMEN'S PRO BASKETBALL UPDATE
Olympic track great JACKIE JOYNER-KERSEE, a former basketball player at UCLA, decided to give hoops another shot as she joined the Richmond Rage of the new American Basketball
League. "I can run up and down the court ever," Joyner-Kersee said. "But it's different when you've got a ball in your hand."
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WFEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1996
Dismiss the rumors BARRY SWITZER is in his last year as coach of the Dallas Cowboys. Look for him to be around well into the next century. "Barry Switzer is more vital today then he was when he got her three years ago," said Cowboys owner Jerry Jones. "I think of Barry coaching the Cowboys 10 years from now. He is my
SWITZER TO STAY
coach and my only coach for
long time to come."
Since replacing Jimmy Johnson, Switzer has taken the Cowboys to two consecutive NFC championship games and last year's Super Bowl title.
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Rockies' Dante Bichette to undergo knee surgery
DENVER — Dante Bichette, who has hit 70 homers and driven in with 265 runs for the Colorado Rockies in the past two seasons, will have knee surgery next month and is expected to be ready for the start of the 1997 season.
"Once I get this thing down, I can keep my weight down," Bichette said Monday. "I'm excited about getting it cleared up."
batteriep. Bichette suffered a torn anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee in 1992, and the knee has deteriorated since then. Despite the tear, Bichette has stolen a career-high 30 bases this season while also hitting 30 home runs with 137 RBIs.
He made the decision to have surgery after meeting with his wife, Marianna, Rockies general manager Bob Gebhard, J.R. Steadman — the physician who will perform the surgery
and Rockies team physician
Wayne Gersoff.
Wayne Carson:
"What I needed to know was the risk factor, as well as the rehabilitation time," Gebhard said. "I wanted Dante to hear from Dr. Steadman what was involved in the rehabilitation and how that can affect his rehab time."
that can be missed Biclette will have the surgery Oct. 9 If the Rockies do not make the playoffs.
Leyland says he'll leave Pirates for contender
pursue a job at National League manager of the year, said Aug. 29 he had planned to honor a $1 million-a-year contract that ran through the 2000 season. But he changed his mind after realizing the Pirates may not contend again for years.
PITTSBURGH — Pittsburgh Pirates manager Jim Leyland, unhappy with ownership-ordered trades and salary slashing, said yesterday he will resign at the end of the season to pursue a job with a contending team.
"It wasn't a tough decision, but it was a sad decision," said Leyland, who rebuilt a 98-loss team in 1986 into a three-time division champion only to see the roster dismantled for financial reasons.
Leyland, 51, offered to resign immediately, but owner Kevin McClattry asked him to stay for the rest of the season. Leyland will seek a job with a contender and is not interested in another rebuilding situation. The Florida Martins are rumored to be interested in hiring him to replace John Boles.
"If I have to sit out a year, I'll sit out a year to get the right situation," Leyland said.
Missouri football player receives 15-day jail term
The Associated Press
Hamilton found that Jenkins was meeting the other requirements of his sentence, which included paying court fees, putting in 200 hours of community service and taking part in a sex offenders program.
COLUMBIA, Mo. — Worcester wide receiver Rahsetau Jenkins will serve a 1.5-day jail term for violating probation in a sexual abuse case last year.
Jenkins admitted that he failed to report to the alcohol rehabilitation program he was assigned to complete as terms of his sentence. He also admitted violating probation by failing to report to his probation officer.
Jenkins was sentenced Monday by Boone County Circuit Judge Gene Hamilton. The sentence will begin Dec. 27, during the university's semester break and a month after the Tigers close their season.
Hamilton also ordered Jenkins to complete the two-year supervised probation he began in October 1995
Women's team gets new coach
New assistant faces recruiting
By Adam Herschman
Kansan sportswriter
Gene Eatman taught his son how to become lucky.
lucky.
"I learned from him that the harder you work, the better you're going to become," said Timothy Eatman, new assistant women's basketball coach. "A lot of people use the statement, 'That was lucky.' Well, the harder you work, the luckier you get."
you get. It wasn't luck, however, that earned the 29-year Eatman the position that Renee Brown held before she took a job as director of player personnel at the Women's National Basketball Association in New York City. Eatman had held five collegiate coaching jobs before he was hired on Sept. 9.
He began his collegiate coaching career as a senior at Talladega College in Talladega, Ala.
Talladega's women's basketball team did not have a head coach when classes began in 1988. Eatman, who then was a point guard on the men's team, approached the president of Talladega College, Paul B. Mohr, and asked him if he could coach the women's team. Mohr gave him an opportunity to coach the team on an interim basis.
"Fortunately, the players on the team had never won before," Batman said, "So when we won a
couple of games, they started to believe a little bit."
The team went from 0-26 to 16-13 in Eatman's first season. While coaching, Eatman finished his degree in chemistry from Talladega. He also has a master's degree in counseling from Jacksonville State.
Eastman coached at Talladega for two more years until he took an assistant coaching job for the Mississippi State women's basketball team in 1990.
After coaching at Mississippi State for two years, Eatman became assistant coach of women's basketball at Houston, La., and most recently at South Alabama before accepting the job at Kansas.
Eatman's father, Gene, was a junior high school boys coach. His mother, Shirley, coaches women's basketball at Aliceville High School in Aliceville, Ala.
job at Kansas.
"I was raised in basketball," Eatman said. "I had the opportunity to learn about women's basketball at an early age."
Anneville, Ada.
"I think I learned from my mother that no matter how great you are with X's and O's, if you care about your players, they're going to care about you," Eatman said.
you, Eatman said.
One of Eatman's responsibilities at Kansas will be recruiting. Eatman will have a big job recruiting this year, because the team will lose five seniors after this season.
seniors after this season.
When Brown coached at Kansas she recruited against Eatman, who was at Iowa in 1995. Eatman won the recruiting battle and signed four players who were high school Kodak All-Ameri-
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Timothy Eatman is currently the new women's assistant basketball coach. He was previously the assistant coach for the women's team at South Alabama.
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Amanda Reves a hit for KU volleyball
Middle blocker Amanda Reves, Denver freshman, joined the Kansas volleyball team this season as a walk-on. Reves started in her first game last week against Iowa at the Hawkeye Classic in Iowa City, Iowa.
By Adam Herschman
Kansan sportswriter
Kansas walk-on freshman Amanda Reves spent the majority of her first two tournaments cheering on her Kansas volleyball teammates.
"She's like the one person I hear from the bench all the time no matter what, when I'm in the game," said Maggie Mohrfeld, Kansas junior middle blocker.
Reves, however, didn't expect her teammates to be rooting for her during their match with Southeast Missouri State at the 7-UP Billiken Invitational in St. Louis two weeks ago.
Reves said Kansas volleyball coach Karen Schonewise substituted her so redshirt freshman middle blocker Anne Kreimer could get a breather.
"At first I was so nervous," Reves said. "But she left me in longer than I had been in before, and I just was doing
well."
wen. The Denver native finished the match with four kills, three block assists and one solo block.
"Almost everybody came over to me during the time-outs and just encouraged me and told me how good I was doing," Reves said.
Mohrfeld said she was not shocked with Reves' contributions to the team that match.
"It wasn't a surprise because I knew she was a good player," Mohrfield said. "She stuck to what she remembered in practice, and she went as hard as she could."
Reves, middle blocker, wasn't heavily recruited at Manual High School in Denver but wanted to compete at the Division Level.
"I was kind of interested in KU, and I sent my tape," Reves said. "They responded to me, which was more that I had gotten from any school."
Reves decided to visit
Kansas and talked with the coaching staff. She said that Schonewise liked how she played but that she didn't have enough experience above the high school level.
"I felt like I didn't know where I was going," Reves said.
Reves said it was important for her to compete in athletics while at college.
"I've been really athletic all my life," Reves said. "I don't think I could live life not doing something athletic."
Reves was a first team all-city selection in volleyball, all-city in soccer, and honorable mention all-state in basketball.
"I don't look at athletics as a source of fitness; I look at it more as a challenge for myself to accomplish something," Reves said. "Right now I want to accomplish improving my game to better the team so we can beat teams like Colorado and
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KU's poll position may drop
By Evan Blackwell Kansan sportswriter
Travis Williams' career ends early
Kansas senior guard Jerod Haase knows losing fellow backcourt mate and All-American Jacque Vaughn for possibly the first month of the season may alter the preseason predictions.
"All the qualities he (Vaughn) brings to the team will be missed, but I don't think we're going to lose every game this year." Haase
But he also knows the Jayhawks shouldn't be counted out just yet.
Roy Williams
While
Vaughn's
injured right
wrist leaves
a point
guard
vacancy.
Kansas still
returns four
other starters
Haase,
senior center Scot Pollard, junior forward Raef LaFrentz and sophomore forward Paul Pierce.
"We're still four men strong out of our starting five," Pollard said. "We're still a pretty good team."
The Jayhawks were a strong candidate to be the preseason
In a column that appeared on ESPNET on the Internet last week, ESPN college basketball commentator Dick Vitale said the Jayhawks were his preseason No.1 before Vaughn's injury.
No. 1 in many publications. While Vaughn's injury may knock Kansas off that pedestal, a top 15 ranking still is likely from some sources.
Even though the Jayhawks now have dropped, Kansas still would be in the Top 15 when his annual college basketball preview magazine hit the newsstands Oct. 8. Vitale said.
Men's basketball coach Roy Williams said he thought many of
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'Hawks on offensive, creating new holes
By Dan Gelston
Hermes correspondent
Although No. 22 Kansas has played both its games this year at night, Jayhawk running backs have seen nothing but daylight.
The Kansas running game is averaging 292 yards a game, including a staggering five yards a carry.
securing holes.
That's that the Kansas offensive line is opening holes that have enabled Kansas running backs, specifically senior June Henley, to run wild on the opposition.
sagegoat The front five — sophomore right tackle Justin Glasgow, sophomore right guard Cleve Roberts, senior center Jared Smith, senior left guard Jim Stiebel and senior left
someone else.
"We've kind of come together, kind of jelled together more than we have in the past," Glasgow said.
"That kind of continuity is important for a line."
tackle Scott Whittaker — has paved the holes for Henley's biggest runs.
But it takes more than talent to make a successful line, according to some members of the line.
Glasgow is a relative newcomer to the line. This is his first year as a starter, and he received a history lesson from Kansas offensive line coach Golden PAT Ruel.
"Coach Ruel said we're one of the best lines he's ever had here at Kansas," Glasgow said.
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