MOLITOR GETS 3,000
Last night PAUL MOLITOR reached 3,000 hits against the Kansas City Royals, becoming the 21st major leaguer to reach
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Paul Molitor
this total. On Saturday, Touh Hundley of the New York Mets set the record for home runs by a catcher with his 41st of the season, breaking Roy Campanella's record set in 1953 with the Brooklyn Dodgers. The next day, the Baltimore Orioles set the season home run record of 243 by hitting five against the Detroit Tigers.
MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL UPDATE
MO VAUGHN, of the Boston Red Sox, and
ELLIIS BURKS, of the Colorado Rockies, were
honored Monday as players of the week in
the American and National Leagues. Vaughn, last
year's MVP, batted. 560 with 14 hits in 25 at-bats last week. Bukes was of 18 and 63 with three doubles, a. 688 on-base percentage and a .964 slugging percentage.
CHIEFS UPDATE
With Tamarick Vanover and Lake Dawson alling, coach Marty Shottenhelper used DALE CARTER, a two-time Pro Bowl cornerback, at wide receiver against the Seattle Seahawks on Sunday. Carter responded with his first career touchdown catch in a 35-17 victory. The question remains, once Vanover returns, will Carter continue to double duty
like another Pro Bowl cornerback,
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lallas' Deion Sanders? "This is not a Deion Sanders deal," Shottenheimer said. "With all respect to Deion, what we're trying to do is take 53 players and find a way to win a football game."
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Michigan State given four-year probation
LANSING, Mich. — Michigan State's football program will be on probation until the end of the 1999 season.
The NCAA said Monday it found the school violated rules on recruiting, benefits, academic eligibility, ethical conduct and institutional control.
The university won't lose the right to appear in bowl games. The sanctions also don't prohibit the team from playing in televised games.
In addition to four years of probation, which began Dec. 1, 1995, the NCAA eliminated seven initial financial aid awards Michigan State can make to football players during the 1997-98 academic year. And it eliminated one coach in charge of off-campus recruiting during December 1996 and January 1997.
The sanctions are in addition to penalties the school imposed on itself after investigations by Michigan State and the NCAA discovered the violations.
The school put its football program on probation for two years, starting Dec. 1, 1995, fired its athletics student adviser and reassigned others connected to the program during the time the violations occurred.
Steffi Graf's father may go free on bail
MANNHEIN, Germany — An appeals court will decide next week whether to free Steffi Graf's father on bail after more than 1.3 months in prison for tax evasion charges, a court representative said yesterday.
Peter Graf, 58, has been in jail since Aug. 2, 1995. He is on trial for allegedly not paying about $13.3 million in taxes on $28 million of his daughter's earnings between 1989 and 1993.
Prosecutors filed an appeal against the judge's ruling with the Baden-Wuerttemberg high state court in Karlsruhe. Prosecutors contended that Peter Graf and Eckardt might try to flee if released.
The chief judge at the trial announced Friday that Peter Graf could be freed on $2 million bond. His former tax adviser, Joachim Eckardt, who also is jailed and on trial, could go free after posting $200,000 bond.
Magic's Jon Koncak will miss NBA season
ORLANDO, Fla. — Magic center Jon Koncak, who underwent surgery Sept. 10 to remove tom cartilage and bone spurs from his left knee, will miss the entire NBA season.
Koncak, who
Konck, who has had operations on the same knee three times during his 11-year career, re-irrigated it during an informal workout Sept. 9. The Magic had been hoping he could help fill the
Jon Konak
While starting the first 23 games at center in place of an injured O'Neal, Koncak averaged 5.3 points, 6.1 rebounds and 1.4 blocks a game as Orlando went 18-5.
Last season, his first with the Magic, Koncak averaged 4.1 points and 3.0 rebounds. He played in 67 games, making 35 starts.
Shauquile O'Neal, who signed with the Los Angeles Lakers this summer.
"This is another backset for us at the center position," "general manager John Gabriel said. "While there are not a lot of centers available, we'll explore our options."
The Associated Press
Rapid recovery unrealistic
Vaughn out for 12 weeks or more
By Evan Blackwell
By Evan Blackwell Kansan sportswriter
In the wake of losing his best player and his team's floor leader last week, Kansas men's basketball coach Roy Williams has been busy on the phones.
"I talked to six doctors and they all sounded like a recording." Williams said.
Indeed, the prognosis for the scapholunate disassociation in Kansas senior guard Jacque Vaughn's right wrist must be to be set in stone. After successful surgery on the wrist Friday.
Williams said the first cast would be removed after eight weeks, then the two pins that were inserted into Vaughn's wrist would be taken out. A new cast will then be fitted for the next two weeks, followed by two weeks of rehabilitation
Williams said Vaughn will wear a cast for the next 10 weeks.
Williams said Vaughn had been in good spirits since the surgery.
Roy Williams
"He's reacted to it the way I expected Jacque would react to it," Williams said. "It's a done deal, and he can't change it."
Referring to the possibility of a miracle
recovery before the 12-week timeframe, Williams said, "There is zero chance of that happening here."
Williams said he did not know when Vaughn's second cast would come off or when his rehabilitation would begin.
"That's all conjecture, and that's like listening
Jacque Vaughn
to recruiting rumors," Williams said.
What Williams does know is that the Jayhawks will now have to turn to a new starting point guard to start the season. The candidates are sophomore Ryan Robertson and junior C.B. McGrath.
Williams said when Kansas had recruited
Robertson a year ago, they had recruited him mainly as a point guard. Robertson saw action at both guard spots for the Jayhawks a year ago.
"Even as early as Utah he did a heck of a job," Williams said. "Then he struggled a little bit against Virginia, but he came back and gave us a lift against UCLA."
Another possibility at point guard would be senior Jerod Haase, Vaughn's starting mate in the Kansas backcourt. Williams said Haase would only be used as point guard after Robertson and McGrath.
hasee, who played point guard in high school and part time in practice during his red-shirt year at Kansas, said he was ready if he was ever called upon.
"I willing to do whatever coach wants me to do." Haase said.
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Kansas junior quarterback Matt Johner finished 13 of 25 for 132 yards in Saturday's game agains TCU. The game marked his second consecutive start, and Kansas coach Glen Mason said he saw Johner doing more good things.
Henley ready for Big 12
Mason is pleased but not surprised bv Saturday's play
Senior running back June Henley ran for record-breaking numbers in No. 22 Kansas' 52-17 win against Texas Christian. He carried 31 times for 201 yards and had four touchdowns. His touchdowns tied the Jayhawk single-game record and made Henley the career touchdown leader.
By Dan Gelston
Kansas sportswriter
It may have been September, but it was a beautiful June night on Saturday as far as Kansas coach Glen Mason was concerned.
Kansas football coach on June Hemley's impressive numbers
Kansan sportswriter
"I think June Henley has been a very good performer at the Big Eight level and now the Big 12 level," he said. "He's got good moves, good quickness, good vision as far as knoowing where the pursuits are coming from. When you look at it over
June Henley
Mason said he was impressed, but not surprised, by the numbers.
Glen Mason
"I think June Henley has been a very good performer at the Big Eight level and now the Big 12 level. He's got good moves, good quickness, good vision as far as knowing where the pursuits are coming from."
the long haul, he's made some big plays against some of the best competition in the country."
Henley was the only Jayhawk running back to carry the ball until there were five minutes left in the first half.
But that didn't tire him, he said, thanks to his off-season conditioning program.
"Coach Roll got me into shape this summer," Henley said of Fred Roll, Kansas director of strength and conditioning. "He worked me out pretty hard. It wasn't more than usual, but he just made sure I was getting my work done."
Junior quarterback Matt Johner said
opposing teams knew what they had to do if they wanted to defeat Kansas
"When you play Kansas, you gotta stop the sweep, stop the run," he said.
Johner established himself as the starting quarterback with another solid, but not spectacular, performance Saturday. He was 13 of 25 passes for 132 yards and had one touchdown. Mason said Johner was improving at the decision-making process involved in quarterback play,.
"You look for progress in a guy and when I look at the game film of TCU, I see Matt Johner doing more and more good things," he said.
Tourney to help homes for children Fraternity organizes flag football games to aid abuse victims
By Kerry Hillard
Kansan sports writer
The Delta Upsilon fraternity kicked off a flag football tournament yesterday for more than just competition. Teams are playing to help abused children.
The fraternity hopes to earn $10,000 to $12,000,
which will be donated to the Lawrence and Topeka Village houses. Lawrence is home to three
Village houses serving 30 children. Topeka has
five houses serving 50 children.
The 20 men's teams and 11 women's teams paid $100 each in entry fees.
The 16th annual Greg Wilkerson Memorial Tournament will raise money for the fraternity's national philanthropy project, the Villages. The Villages is a non-profit organization that provides shelter for abused children ages 6 to 18.
Play in the single-elimination bracket tournament began yesterday with three women's and three men's games.
In the women's bracket, Alpha Chi Omega shut out Delta Gamma 14-0, Delta DeltaDelta won by forfeit against Gamma Pi Beta, and Pi Beta Phi defeated Kappa Delta 8-6.
The Pi Beta Phi-Kappa Delta game brought the only controversy of the day.
A Pi Beta Phi player who had lost her flag scored a two-point conversion. The controversy arose whether the player had been touched, which would negate the two-point conversion. Officials ruled that the player had not been touched and counted the conversion, which put Pi Beta Phi ahead by two.
In the men's bracket, Sigma Nu shut out Alpha Tau Omega 16-0, Phi Delta Theta shut out Beta Theta Pi II 16-0, and Alumni '91 defeated Phi Gamma Delta by forfeit.
Second-round play will continue today. Championship games will be played Sept. 22 at Memorial Stadium.
"It's not unusual for us to have kids coming who have never celebrated Christmas, or never had a bike, or never even had new clothes," Crawford said.
Sylvia Crawford, executive director of the Villages, said that without donations from Delta Upsilon, the Village children would have nothing but the bare essentials.
The money from fees, T-shirt sales and donations will be used to purchase the extras such as sports equipment and gifts.
The Delta Upsilon members will make a personal delivery of their donation at a barbecue, where the children will meet the fraternity members.
Crawford said that this contact was more important than the money.
"The kids can see what college life is like," she said. "It's helpful to see some role models that aren't that far removed from them in age."
Andy Hineman, tournament co-chair, said meeting the children made the tournament worthwhile.
"It's neat to meet the kids out there and see some of the things they might not have available to them," said Hineman, Dighton junior.