ALLEN IVERSON SIGNS
The Philadelphia 76ers have reached contract terms with ALLEN IVERSON, the No. 1 pick in the NBA draft and the player the team hopes will lead the Sixers' revival.
The team scheduled a news conference, to be held today, for Iverson to sign the three-year contract, which according to
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sources was worth $9.6 million, the most money allowed under the NBA's rookie salary cap. Iverson, 21, averaged 23 points in his two-year career with Georgetown. He left the Hoyas after his sophomore season to enter the professional ranks.
DID YOU KNOW ...?
NIKE has pulled the plug on the tongue-in-cheek advertising campaign that had the Seattle Mariners center fielder Ken Griffey Jr. running for president, sources said yesterday.
"For reasons that Steve Forbes and Pat Buchanan could get into, sometimes you end a run a little earlier than you thought you would," Nikke espoused Robin Carn-Locke said.
FORKITOUT
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1996
The NFL has rejected BRYCE PAUP's appeal of a $12,000 fine the Buffalo Bills linebacker received last season after a hit on Indianapolis quarterback Paul Justin. Paup, last season's Defensive Player of the Year, was fined after knocking Justin from the game in the third week of the season. The appeal was turned down
Wednesday.
was just one of those things that they weren't going to back down on." Paup said. "We still have some appeals left."
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Women's golf team begins season with experience
The women's golf team will tee off its fall season tomorrow and Sunday at the Minnesota Invitational in St. Paul, Minn.
The tournament will be at Les Bostad-University of Minnesota Golf Course, a 5,955-yard, par-74 course.
Last year, the Jayhawks finished
fifth out of 11 schools with a
team total score of
649. Head coach
Jerry Waugh said
he liked having five
of six players return from last year, including senior Missy Russell, who led the team with a two-day total of 160 at this tournament last year.
"The team that played for us last year is essentially back this season," Waugh said. "We'll have more people who have tournament experience playing for us than we've had in a long time."
— Kansan staff report
OU president reinforces support for football team
LAWTON, Okla. — University of Oklahoma President David Boren attended the football team's practice yesterday to reinforce support for the program after a player was booed for his performance in the season opener.
On Wednesday, Boren and the school's regents chats认盛 fans' decision to vocally express their displeasure on Saturday.
The Associated Press
Fans booed quarterback Eric Moore at the end of the second quarter and into the third quarter before coaches replaced him
replaced with quarterback Justin Fuente during OU's 20-7 defeat at the hands of Texas Christian.
The players' names were not on either of two lists of eligible players sent to Cole by university officials before the first game, The Tennesean reported.
Fuente's arrival was met with cheers. He led the Sooners in a drive that resulted in OU's only score. Boren said the team didn't quit despite being down 20-0 at one point.
Cole was reprimanded by the university, and an investigation is under wav.
"No one expects overnight miracles. We must be patient and give the players and coaches our full support," he said.
2 ineligible Tennessee State players suit up in opener
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Tennessee State has notified the NCAA and Ohio Valley Conference that two ineligible players took part in the Tigers' season-opening loss.
"All they have to do is put it on the certification list and send it to the OVC." Cole said. "Then they just certify him to play. He could be playing this Saturday."
Coach L.C. Cole said using the non-certified players, safety Ohmar Braden and tight end Ernest Hester, was a misunderstanding. Braden played one special teams play in the Tigers' 35-20 loss to Florida A&M on Aug. 31. Hester was in uniform but did not play.
Braden, a sophomore, remains on the team but is ineligible to play this season. Hester has been practicing with the team, and Cole said he expected the redshirt freshman to be certified this week from a summer course he took at a Memphis, Tenn., junior college.
Vaughn to undergo surgery
Operation today at Med Center
By Evan Blackwell
Kansan sportswriter
Kansas senior guard Jack Vaughn will undergo surgery on his injured right wrist today at the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City, Kan.
Kansas Sports Information officials said the two-hour operation would be performed by Bruce Toby. Two pins will be inserted into Vaughn's hand, and the ligaments that tore loose from the bone will be reattached.
readached.
Kansas men's basketball coach Roy Williams was still out of town on recruiting trips yesterday, but he was scheduled to be in Kansas City for Vaughn's surgery today,
Sports Information officials said.
worst types of wrist injuries that could be suffered.
Kansas men's basketball trainer Mark Cairns said Vaughn's injury was one of the
"As far as wrist injuries go, it's basically the equal of rupturing the ACL (anterior cruciate ligament) in your knee," Cairns said.
While the injury is extremely severe, he said it is most likely not
Jacque Vaughn
said it is most likely not career-threatening.
"It has the potential to be career-threatening, but I don't think it will be," Cairns said.
"I'm about 85 percent sure it won't be, but there still is that 15 percent chance that it will."
Cairns said he was with Vaughn for much of the day Wednesday and that he spoke with him again yesterday. Cairns said Vaughn had been in severe pain since the injury occurred Tuesday night.
He's been on pain medication, but the pain has been so severe that he didn't get much sleep Wednesday night, Cairns said.
While Williams has been away, he has been kept abreast of Vaughn's condition by phone calls through the basketball offices. One of the people he has been in contact with is Cairns.
"Coach Williams is very perplexed right now," Cairns said. "His job dictates that he be on the road right now, but his heart and mind are here with Jacque."
Once the surgery is completed, he said Vaughn's right hand would be in a cast for about eight weeks. Cairns said after the cast was removed, Vaughn would have a very limited range of motion.
Cairns said Vaughn would have to undergo at least three to four weeks of rehabilitation before he would get the goahead to return to regular practice.
"He'll have to get the strength back in his hand and forearm," he said.
Kansas begins practice Oct. 15, and its season opener is Nov. 22 at Santa Clara. The earliest Vaughn could be back for the Jayhawks likely would be the game against Cincinnati on Dec. 4 at the Great Eight in Chicago.
Jacque Vaughn's injury, a scaphoid disassociation, is a tearing of ligament away from the scaphoid and lunate bones.
Vaughn's injury
Scaphoid bone
Lunate bone
SOURCE: The Hand Atlas Andy Rohrback/KANSAN
Point back-ups step up
Steve Punne / KANSAN
Kansas sophomore point guard Ryan Robertson will have to step up this season because of the recent wrist injury to senior point guard Jacque Vaughn.
Robertson, McGrath ready for challenge of Vaughn's absence
By Evan Blackwell Kansan sportswriter
At the end of the 1966 season, Kansas sophomore Ryan Robertson and junior C.B. McGrath knew they might get more playing time this season.
But they never expected this.
Torn ligaments in the right wrist of starting Kansas senior point guard Jacque Vaughn are expected to keep him off the court for possibly the first month of the season. Vaughn suffered the injury while playing in a pickup basketball game Tuesday night.
Now, just four months after Vaughn
C. B. McGrath
Now, just your thumbs meet the decided to stay at Kansas instead of leaving for the NBA, the spotlight may shift to the Jayhawks' other point guards, Robertson and McGrath.
"I knew down the line I would be playing point guard, but I didn't realize it would be this quick and this important," Robertson said.
Robertson saw action in all 34 Kansas games last season, averaging 4.3 points and nine minutes a game. The 6-foot-5 guard was considered the Jayhawks' point guard of the future when he was recruited last season out of St. Charles, Mo.
"The only thing I'm worried about now is my stamina." Robertson said. "I'm going to have to be prepared in that area
handing the ball, Robertson said. Robertson said he was ready for the challenge ahead after spending the off-season in the weight room and gaining 10 or 15 pounds of muscle.
"inugh school, I shot quite a bit, but my primary role was handling the ball," Robertson said.
"I knew down the line I would be playing point guard, but I didn't realize it would be this quick and this important."
Ryan Robertson sophomore point guard
more than anything else."
Vaughn's injury also may bring a shortterm return to the court for McGrath, who was Vaughn's primary backup two years ago. In that first season, the 5-11 guard from Topeka played in all 31 games and averaged 5.9 minutes a game. He returned to the bench last season after Robertson was signed.
McGrath spent the off-season rehabilitating his left hand, which he fractured in November. Ironically, the fracture was in the scaphoid bone of McGrath's wrist, one of the same bones from which the ligament was torn in Vaughn's hand.
"I still don't have the full range of motion back," McGrath said.
The cast came off McGrab's hand about a month ago, and he said the hand was back to about 75 percent.
McGrath said the only reason he held off the surgery until the summer was because the injury wasn't to his right hand.
"If it would have been the right wrist, I wouldn't have been able to do anything." McGrath said.
While McGrath knows that Vaughn's injury may mean more playing time, he said the thoughts of the Jayhawks still were with Vaughn.
win vaults.
"This couldn't have happened at a worse time for Jacque," McGrath said. "We're expected to do great things this year, then you lose the Conference Player of the Year and your best player. It'll be a trying year for us."
Kansas set to play Texas Christian
'Hawks well-rested after 16-day hiatus
By Dan Gelston
Kansan sportswriter
The clock may read 8:05 p.m. when No. 24 Kansas takes on Texas Christian tomorrow in Fort Worth, Texas, but Jayhawks coach Glen Mason knows what time it really will be.
"It's finally time to play again," he said.
It's finally time to play again. He took
After a 16-day hiatus, the well-rested Jay-
hawks take on a Horned Frog team coming
off a 20-7 drubbing of Oklahoma in Norman,
Okla., last Saturday.
Drubbing is the word that would describe the all-time series record. TCU holds a 16-6-4 advantage. The 26 games are the most Kansas has played against a nonconference team. Despite the series edge, Kansas defeated TCU last season 38-20 in Lawrence.
last season to be so well against "I know that we played awfully well against them last year," Mason said. "It surprised us because they're a good team."
Kansas was buoyed last year by the running tandem of June Henley and L.T. Levine.
Henley had 13 carries for 163 yards and Levine had 13 carries for 137 yards.
TCU coach and former Heisman Trophy winner Pat Sullivan said playing a nonconfer-
ence team so often made preparing easier.
"We've played KU the last two years, and it's turned into a pretty good rivalry," he said. "They've got a lot of people coming back, people that we've become familiar with for the last two years."
Entering this season, TCU, like Kansas, had a void at quarterback.
The Horned Frogs filled their void with highly touted freshman quarterback Jeff Dover. Last week he went 12-for-19 for 176 yards and two touchdowns in the win.
Kansas' quarterback situation appears to be clearing up.
Junior Matt Johner gets his second straight start after a 14-of-20, 147 yard, one-touch-down performance in the Jayhawks' 35-10 season-opening win against Ball State.
season opening day Kansas junior defensive back Jason Harris said the Jayhawks knew the importance of this game.
yards and who would be the winner?
"I know that they had question marks," Mason said. "I knew that if they answer these question marks, most notably at quarterback, and it looks like they have, that they were going to be a good football team."
"This game has really been a turning point for both teams," he said. "Last year we won and went on to a bowl, and the year before they beat us and went to a bowl. Both games were early in the season so it's a good test."
Mason said the scheduling quirk played havoc with coaches' and players' mindsets.
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"We've had to shift gears from a practice mentality to a get-ready-for-a-game mentality" he said.
Mason said the two weeks off gave Kansas more time to improve. Because TCU didn't play until last Saturday, Mason said it was hard to learn about or practice for the Horned Frogs. He said they couldn't learn as much as they'd like because of the personnel change from last year.
"We have really tried to concentrate on just our improvement," he said. "We weren't working on the unknowns or specifically what TCU was going to be like."
Sullivan said a game between two solid teams like these would come down to one thing: turnovers.
"It will come down to a situation where as to who turns it over the least win will," he said. "We'll have to be at our best to win the football game."