WAIT 'TIL NEXT YEAR
DONOVAN BAILEY, the Olympic 100-meter champion and world record-holder, and MICHAEL JOHNSON, the 200-meter gold metalist and world record-holder, are
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planning to race 150 meters to determine who's the world's fastest human. But don't hold your breath. The inability to reach an agreement with Bailey has postponed the race, initially scheduled for Oct. 6, for a later date, which will likely not be for another year.
Michael Johnson
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Hume's past coaching experience includes being an assistant at Northwestern State in Natchitoches, La., from 1993 to 1996.
The Kansas track team named SAM HUME as its new assistant track coach. Hume will coach sprinters and hurdlers on both the men's and women's team.
WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 11, 1996
LABOR TALKS...
MAJOR LEAGUE BASE-BALL OWNERS headed into Wednesday's executive council meeting unsure if it will lead to a labor agreement or a breakdown in the talks that would lead to another season under the old work rules.
Management negotiator Randy Levine didn't want to comment on what he will
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say at the meeting, but others said he planned to detail the history of the 3 1/2 year talks and consequences if a deal is not reached.
Kansas senior swimmer Rebecca Andrew practices her butterfly stroke Tuesday at Lone Star Lake. The team was practicing yesterday for an open water race this weekend in Carbondale, Illinois.
Success follows senior swimmer
By Matt Woodruff
Kansan sportswriter
For senior Rebecca Andrew, swimming has always come naturally.
"I took some swimming lessons when I was little, like 4 or 5, and the swimming instructor told us that I should stay with it," Andrew said.
Andrew attended Hickman Mills High School in Kansas City, Mo. She lettered in swimming and was named to the all-state and all-conference teams all four years. She also finished fourth in the 100-meter butterfly at the 1983 Junior Olympics and was named first team all-metro three times.
That advice paid off as Andrew has been a dominating force in both the 50- and 100-meter freestyle, as well as other events, ever since.
"We've been doing time trials, and they've gone very well so far,"
Kansas swimming coach Gary Kempf said, "Rebecca Andre has
Andrew has continued that success at Kansas. She ranks second all time in the 50- and 100-meter freestyle and has already received eight All-American awards.
had tremendous success here at KU. She came in as relatively unknown and unheralded and has developed into one of the top scripter in the country."
With the team's first action on Sept. 14, Andrew is poised to add more accolades to her already impressive history. Saturday the team will travel to Carbondale, Ill. to compete in the open-water race.
Andrew thinks the team has been swimming strong in practice and is ready to compete.
she said.
Andrew is no slouch academically, either — she was named a Javahawk Scholar in 1995.
A sports management major, Andrew hopes that she will have some sort of job in athletics when she graduates.
"I haven't decided whether I'll go to graduate school," Andrew said. "In May I'll be doing an internship, and I'd like to do it at NCAA headquarters because it's close to where I'm from. After that, maybe an academic adviser or something like that."
Until Andrew decides, she will be concentrating on continuing her success n the pool.
That will be important because Kempf said that with such tremendous success comes high expectations.
"Obviously, my expectations for her are very high," Kempf said. "When you get to be one of the best in the country, I think expectations for you have to be that way. She's one of our leaders, and I expect her to have a great year."
Former boxer arrested on stealing charges
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Former heavy weight boxing champion John Tate was arrested on charges of stealing cinder blocks and other construction materials from a supermarket.
rate, 41, claimed he had permission to take the items when he was arrested Sunday as he loaded his 1979 pickup truck at a Kroger store. A store employee disagreed.
Tate was arrested on two theft counts and was being held on $1,500 bond. Police confiscated his truck because it allegedly had stolen license tags.
The former champion's life has been in a tailspin since he lost the WBA title to Mike Weaver in 1980. He had won the title only five months earlier in a 15-round decision against Gerrie Coetzee.
Boris Becker withdraws from Romanian Open
BUCHAREST, Romania — Top-seeded Boris Becker withdrew from the Romanian Open tennis tourna
in his right wrist.
Becker was trailing Christian
Rud of Norway
5-3 in the first
set at Progresil
Arena when he
retired.
"I felt a strong pain at 4-3," Becker said. "I
ment yesterday because of pain in his right wrist
hoped it would go away, but it didn't."
Dallas captured a tense in his.
He open because of the injury.
His departure left No. 2 seed Goran Ivanisevic of Croatia as the favorite in the clay-court tournament. Ivanisevic begins play today against Romania's Andrei Pavel.
Becker ruptured a tendon in his wrist at Wimbledon and skipped the U.S. Open because of the injury.
Ministry calls to kicker
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Jeff McCord will forgo final season
By Dan Gelston
Kansan sportswriter
Six on the board and the kick from McCord will be no more after this football season.
McCord is in his third year as the Jayhawks placekicker. He is 75 for 78 on extra points and 17 for 25 on field goals, putting him ninth on the all-time scoring list with 126 points.
Kansas junior kicker Jeff McCord has decided to forgo his final season of eligibility and leave Kansas football for the ministry, he said yesterday.
McCord, who is graduating in May, said the decision had been an easy one and it had been something he had planned for months.
"My wife and I made a decision last January," he said. "The decision that we made was that it was going to be my last season. We applied for a minsitry. In May I'll graduate, and December will be my last game."
The Mesquite, Texas, native said he had told the Kansas coaches last January about his decision.
"This is no surprise," Kansas coach Glen Mason said. "He's talked about it for a long time."
Jeff McCord
McCord applied to be a part of the Lawrence-based ministry group the Navigators but isn't expected to hear if he is accepted until December. He is expected to graduate in May and then start in June. Presently, McCord is the president of the KU Fellowship of Christian Athletes.
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"I want to serve people,"he said
McCord said he found God his junior year in high school. Since then he has devoted his life to God, and he prays on the field before each attempt.
Even if he is not accepted into the Navigators, he will try to join another mission, he said.
"They're not really hurt by it, and I'm not hurt by it either," McCord said of leaving the team.
Joining a mission and serving God means the end of his playing career.
"I never really loved football," McCord said. "I just wanted an ends to a means."
Bike trips cause broken hips
By Cameron Heeg
Dangerous sports hurt head and pocket
Kansan sportswriter
The top 10 sports on the list accounted for more than 3 million injuries costing $18.5 billion in medical, legal and other expenses. Injuries included broken bones, torn ligaments and tendons, cuts and deep bruises.
The study focused on 26 different sports ranging from football to trampoline injuries. Basketball topped the list of sports with 693,933 recorded injuries costing those injured $3.6 billion in 1995.
A head fake. The poetic glide past your defender. But instead of driving down the lane to the hoop, you end up driving down the road to the emergency room.
bicycling came in second to basketball in injuries but surpassed it in cost at $4.29 billion. Many bicycling accidents can be prevented, said Brent Reeves from Sunflower
Basketball is the most injury-riddled recreational sport played in the United States, according to a study of emergency room visits collected by the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System.
"I have had a concussion one time because I was acting cool, drinking and riding without a helmet. That obviously could have been prevented," Reeves said. "But most bike injuries can be prevented through being careful, wearing proper protective gear and knowing your limits."
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Stretaching before and after any type of physical activity helps reduce the risk of injury, said Alan Bagby, local physician and sports medicine specialist.
"You need to stay in shape and flexible. I see a lot of weekend warriors out of shape playing sports," Bagby said. "It is common that people do recreational activity and don't assume that it is dangerous."
Bagby also said that people recovering from an injury needed to have full motion in an injured area before they returned to the sport; otherwise the injury could become permanent
The American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons recognized the importance of the prevention of sport injuries with its program called Play It Safe. The program is aimed at the younger population, but Letha Griffin, orthopedic surgeon from Atlanta, said the Play It Safe recommendations should be followed by everyone.
According to the program's research, conditioning yourself to play a sport is an important step to staying injury free. The program suggested cross training, weight training and cardiovascular workouts instead of jumping into a sport.
SOURCE: American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons
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Quick look at week in sportsland
Postcards from an undisclosed central Montana location: After publicly predicting nearly every loss team in division I and professional football would win last weekend, I can't bare to show my face in Lawrence.
Since I'm a time zone away, I think I'll start out with a dicyet subject.
Maybe I'm the only one who caught this, but Eric Chenobyn, Villa Park
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High School hoops star and Kansas oral committer, in an Aug. 26 issue of this very publication claimed the Lawrence community and the Jayhawks history of big men were his reasons for coming here.
Then Chenowith said something that would raise an ewbrow from
every NCAA official from California to Connecticut, "The alumni are pretty supportive."
Thanks Eric, it's quotes like that one that form the foundation for a complete NCAA investigation.
All right Chiefs fans. It's time to come down from your cloud.
In case you haven't noticed, Kansas football is back in the AP Top 25 poll. The 'Hawks must have had a great week of practice.
a sixteen-point win in week two, where your defense put up nearly half the points against a makeshift quarterback, who wet his pants every time the Chiefs rushed him, with Raiders team on the decline doesn't make the Super Bowl a lock.
I'm not even going into the typical Chiefs fruitful heroes — pick up a fumble and run it 90 yards for a score or funbling three times and each time the ball somehow finds its way into Chiefs' grasp.
It sure is better to be lucky than to be good.
Congratulations to Kansas State on its impressive 59-3 home victory against a sorry Indiana State guard. Way to go guys. By the way, if you want to beef up your non-conference schedule we have some pretty solid intramural teams you could take on
Also, congrats to Nebraska and their coach Tom Osborne, who left his starting offensive squad in versus Michigan State until 13:40 in fourth quarter with the score a tight 48-7.
Dr. Tom, don't let the fact my mother and her gardening club could hold that lead keep you from safely disposing of this traditional Big 10 punching bag.
This week's Albert Belle Award, which recognizes the most classless action in sports, goes to Snickers candy bars. The candy bar that "satisfies your hunger" took a cheap shot at the now-defunct Cleveland Browns in their commercial which depicts two Brown fans sitting in Cleveland Stadium on the 40-yard line waiting for kickoff as the announcer says "Not going anywhere for a while?"
gongling And I thought Art Modell was the only one who used Cleveland to make a buck.
Brett Favre is the best player in the NFL this year, last year and will be for the next, say, three years to come. As far as quarterbacks go, no one is even in his class right now. This is the player who would split the Chiefs defense in half.
The Michael Irwin Award, given to an athlete making a moronic career move, goes to Evander Holyfield to accepting the challenge to fight Mike Tyson.
'Cmon Evander, I want to remember you as the brave, fierce warrior who walloped Buster Douglas and refused to go down against George Foreman and Riddick Bowe. Not this has-been who will get the snot beat out of him against Mike Tyson on Nov. 9.
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