SAME OLD STORY...
Steffi Graf won U.S. Open yesterday defeating rival opponent Monica Seles (7-5, 6-4). This win marks Graf's fifth U.S. Open title adding to her accomplishments which includes five French Open titles and seven Wimbledon crowns.
Graf almost skipped the U.S.
Open because of a calf injury.
Aside from her calf injury, Graf
was also distracted by thoughts
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of her jailed father, Peter Graf, who is currently on trial for in Germany for evading taxes on $28 million of her income.
However, Graf managed to stay focused and was able to defeat Seles, who pulled out all of her tricks for little success.
Story on Page 6B
SPORTS
DID YOU KNOW THIS ABOUT BOXING?
Mike Tyson has earned $7.5 million fighting in four fights that have lasted a total of less than eight minutes. Tyson made $1.5 million on Saturday night's fight against
Bruce Seldon. (According to Tyson in an interview conducted by ESPN, much of his money goes to charities and other causes.)
BIG 12 UPDATE
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1996
Oklahoma State defeated Texas Tech 31-3 in Big 12 Conference football action on Saturday. Texas Tech junior tailback Byron Hanspard rushed for a school-record 272 yards and scored two touchdowns in the victory over the Cowboys. Baylor, Colorado, Kansas State, Nebraska and Texas each won in non-conference matchups this weekend. Oklahoma lost on Saturday to Texas Christian 20-7. Kansas will travel to play Texas Christian in Fort Worth, Texas, this Saturday in a non-conference game.
SECTION B
Nebraska still at the top of poll by Associated Press
The Associated Press
The Top 28 teams in the Associated Press college football, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Sept. 7, total points on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote, and last week's ranking;
Record Pts Pvs 1. **Nebraska** 57) 1-0-0 1,659 1
2. Tennessee 4) 2-0-0 1,557 2
3. Florida St. 3) 1-0-0 1,527 3
4. Florida 1) 2-0-0 1,509 4
5. Colorado 3) 2-0-0 1,402 5
6. Penn St. 2-0-0 1,315 7
7. Texas 2-0-0 1,191 8
8. Ohio St. 1-0-0 1,182 10
9. Notre Dame 1-0-0 1,061 6
10. Miami 1-0-0 1,038 11
11. Michigan 1-0-0 885 12
12. North Carolina 2-0-0 856 24
13. Alabama 2-0-0 775 14
14. Brigham Young 2-0-0 708 16
15. Auburn 2-0-0 695 18
16. Southern Cal 1-1-0 646 19
17. Kansas St. 2-0-0 615 21
18. Arizona St. 1-0-0 526 20
19. Virginia Tech 1-0-0 425 15
20. LSU 1-0-0 412 17
21. Iowa 1-0-0 377 22
22. Virginia 1-0-0 352 23
23. Syracuse 0-1-0 331 9
24. Kanase 1-0-0 207 —
25. Texas AM 0-1-0 180 25
Others receiving votes: Oregon 19, Northwestern 74, East Carolina 39, West Virginia 26, San Diego St. 23, Washington 23, Texas Tech 14, Georgia Tech 13, Arizona 8, Wisconsin 6, Utah 5, Baylor 5, Southern Methodist 3, Texas Christian 3, Wake Forest 3, Air Force 2, Colorado 2, Oklahoma 2, UCLA 2, Wyoming 2, Maryland 1, Miami 1, Michigan 1, South Carolina 1,
Big 12 teams in AP's top 25
Cornhuskers also remain atop USA Today-CNN poll
USA Today/CNN Top 25
The Top 25 teams in USA Today-CNN college football poll, with first place wins in parishes, records through Sept. 8; total on 25 points for a first place vote through one of a 25th-place vote, and last week's parking.
USA Today/CNN Top 25
| | Record | Pts | Pvs |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| 1. **Nebraska 57)** | 1-0-0 | 1,544 | 1 |
| 2. Tennessee 1) | 2-0-0 | 1,415 | 2 |
| 3. Florida St. 1) | 2-0-0 | 1,412 | 3 |
| 4. Florida 3) | 2-0-0 | 1,391 | 4 |
| 5. Colorado | 2-0-0 | 1,289 | 5 |
| 6. Penn St. 1) | 2-0-0 | 1,208 | 6 |
| 7. Ohio St. | 2-0-0 | 1,154 | 7 |
| 8. Texas | 2-0-0 | 1,119 | 8 |
| 9. Michigan | 1-0-0 | 960 | 10 |
| 10. Notre Dame | 1-0-0 | 856 | 7 |
| 11. Miami | 1-0-0 | 847 | 12 |
| 12. Alabama | 2-0-0 | 743 | 13 |
| 13. North Carolina | 2-0-0 | 672 | 22 |
| 14. Kansas St. | 2-0-0 | 664 | 15 |
| 15. Brigham Young | 2-0-0 | 649 | 16 |
| 16. Auburn | 1-0-0 | 614 | 17 |
| 17. Virginia | 1-0-0 | 533 | 20 |
| 18. Southern Cal | 1-1-0 | 491 | 21 |
| 19. Virginia Tech | 1-1-0 | 457 | 14 |
| 20. Louisiana St. | 1-0-0 | 323 | 19 |
| 21. Iowa | 1-0-0 | 319 | NR |
| 22. Kansas | 1-0-0 | 309 | 24 |
| 23. Arizona St. | 1-0-0 | 227 | NR |
| 24. Syracuse | 0-1-0 | 214 | 11 |
| 25. Texas A&M | 0-1-0 | 189 | 25 |
Others receiving votes: West Virginia 121, Washington 88, Oregon 50, East Carolina 34, Air Force 32, San Diego St. 30, Northwestron 99, Wisconsin 28, Georgia Tech 21, Texas Tech 16, Utah 16, Wake Forest 14, Texas Christian 12, UCLA 12, Mississippi State 10, Boston College 8, Miami (Ohio) 8, Southern Methodist 7, Arizonia 6, California 4, Maryland 3, Colorado St. 2, Louisiana 2.
Jayhawks net three wins
Volleyball team improves record at Invitational
By Adam Herschman Kansan sportswriter
The Kansas volleyball team won three matches and lost one at the 7-UP Billiken invitational in St. Louis, Mo., improving its overall record to 4-4.
The Jayhawks went 3-1 at this weekend's tournament by defeating Alabama, St. Louis and Southeast Missouri State. Butler was the only team to defeat Kansas.
Kansas opened its first game of the tournament Friday with a 2-hour-20-minute marathon match, in which the Jayhawks defeated Alabama in five games (3-2). Freshman outside blocker Mary Beth Albrecht led the Jayhawks with a career-high 21 kills and six service aces.
"She's a game player," Kansas assistant coach Kiran Mistry said. "She was jumping out of the gym."
sophomore setter Laura Rhode led the Jayhawks with 50 assists and 14 digs. Sophomore outside hitter Moira Donovan led the Jayhawks with a career-high 17 kills against St. Louis in Kansas' second match on Friday. The Jayhawks defeated the Billikens in their second five-game match (3-2) of the day.
Donovan said the team had its toughest practices last week.
Junior right side hitter Kendra Kahler had a strong all-around match for the Jayhawks, recording 11 kills, 21 digs and six block assists. Kansas redshirt freshman middle blocker Anne Kreimer had a team-record nine assisted blocks in a five-game match
"I think the key for us is the hard practices we've had," Donovan said. "We're getting in a rhythm."
The Jayhawks also got help defensively from junior defensive specialist Stephanie Blackwell, who posted a team-high 24 digs while playing about a third of the match.
Abrecht said that after the match against St. Louis, Kansas volleyball coach Karen Schonewise gave everyone a hug.
"She usually will shake our hand," Albrecht said. "This time she said she was really proud of us, and she hugged us. I just thought it was really neat."
The Jayhawks lost to Butler (1-3) in their first match on Saturday. The loss snapped a three-match winning streak for the Jayhawks. Junior captain middle blocker Maggie Mohrfield the team with 12 kills and 11 digs against the Bulldogs.
"Our team never gave up, they were always fighting," assistant coach Mistry said. "We have the mentality of a working-class team."
Kansas ended the tournament in the same fashion it started. The Jayhawks defeated Southeast Missouri State (3-2) in a 2-hour-38-minute battle.
Kansas participated in its third five-game match of the tournament and fourth of the season.
Freshman walk-on middle blocker Amanda Reves recorded four kills, three block assists, and one solo block in her first start. Mistry said Reves was going to redshirt, but an injury to junior outside hitter Leslie Purkeypile in the preseason forced her to play.
"She was vocal and aggressive and that's what we needed," said Kansas assistant volleyball coach Jan Madlock. "Those things were more important than her stats."
After playing 19 games in two days, Blackwell said the team was exhausted but in good spirits on the bus ride home.
"Everyone was smiling, but everyone was really tired," Blackwell said.
the Boxing Fixation
Students are quick to cry foul in the wake of Mike Tyson's latest win
By Bill Petulla
Kansan sports editor
Amidst a cloud of speculation on the WBA heavyweight championship, Mike Tyson knocked Bruce Selion down twice before Saturday night's fight ended in 109 seconds.
"Fix! Fix!" be heard throughout the MGM Grand Garden in Las Vegas following the fight.
"I went up against the baddest man on the planet." Seldon said. "It wasn't a fixed fight. I didn't train 12 weeks to come in here and take a dive. They say Mike Tyson is a destroyer. I am a witness to that."
While Seldon would like to call the fight utter domination, many KU students are calling it a fix.
"It was definitely fixed," said Andy Lonergan, St. Paul, Minn., senior. "I think Tyson was saving himself for Evander Hollyfield."
Seldon admitted the punch was a grazing blow, but
Tyson is scheduled to fight Holyfield on Nov. 9 at the MGM Grand Garden.
Seldon fell down from a glancing right hand high on the forehead, but referee Richard Steele thought it was a slip.
"I'm punching pretty hard these days," Tyson said.
"I'm puncher harder than when I was younger."
"The punch wasn't even a clean blow," Lonergan said. "It kind of grazed his forehead. I don't think he slinned."
From the opening bell, Tyson swarmed over Seldon. Seldon tied Tyson up on a few occasions, but he couldn't keep him at bay.
However, it was a punch by Tyson that Lonergan thought didn't land that led to the chorus of boos and the shouts of a fixed fight from the crowd of 9,000.
"When he went down, he looked like he was really hurt, but when the fight was called he bounced up, hugged Tyson and he was smiling." Huff said.
San Diego March 25, 1995. Tyson's four fights have lasted a total of less than eight full rounds.
Mike Tyson
In those four fights, Tyson's total earnings have reached $75 million, $15 million coming from Saturday night's fight.
Seldon had to wait nearly two months to pick up his $5 million paycheck because the fight, originally scheduled for July 13, was postponed when Tyson came down with bronchitis.
The 109-second bout was not Tyson's fastest in a
championship. He knocked out Michael Spinks in 91 seconds and Carl Williams in 93 in 1988 and 1989, respectively.
The 32-year-old Tyson earned his 45th victory against a single loss. It was his 39th knockout.
Seldon lost for the fourth time against 33 wins and 29 knockouts. It was Seldon's third knockout loss.
The Associated Press contributed information to this story.
Chiefs rout the Raiders in season home opener
The Associated Press
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The once-great Oakland Raiders can't seem to stop the misery.
James Hasty burned them with a defensive touchdown for the second year in a row and Kansas City cruised 19-3 yesterday, handing Oakland its eighth straight loss dating back to last season. It was also the Chiefs' 13th victory in the last 14 meetings in one of the oldest, bitterest and now most lopsided rivalries in the NFL.
Every Chiefs score came as a direct or indirect result of a mistake by the Raiders (0-2), who went for the second straight week with Billy Joe Hobert in place of injured quarterback Jeff Hostetler.
inquired quarterbacks JEN HOUSE, THE
The Chiefs (2-0), beginning defense of
the AFC West title, had a 7-0 lead midway
through the third period when Oakland mounted its first serious drive. On second-and-goal from the 5, Derrick Thomas beat Pat Harlow's block and delivered a savage hit on Robert's blind side, knocking the ball loose.
Hasty, whose electrifying 64-yard interception return vaulted the Chiefs
to a 23-17 overtime victory over Oakland in Arrowhead Stadium last year, picked up the ball on the 20 and sped 80 yards untouched. It was the third game in a row the Chiefs
have scored a defensive touchdown against the Raiders.
In the third quater, Oakland's Jeff Gossett went back to punt and then faked a handoff to Dan Land. The play fooled everybody, and Gossett kept the ball for 18 yards and a first down on the Chiefs' '35.
Six plays earlier, Harlow was penalized for illegal use of hands in his desperate effort to contain the rush of Thomas, who turned the same trick in the fourth quarter. With 3:12 left, Thomas again beat Harlow and separated Hobert from the ball. Barrett Robbins recovered in the end zone for the Raiders, giving the Chiefs a safety.
But a few minutes later, when Cole Ford lined up for a 43-yard field goal, the center snap went through Gossett's hands, and he was tackled by Dale Carter on the Chiefs' 45.
Nine plays later, Pete Stoyanovich kicked a 23-yard field goal to put the Chiefs on top 17-0.
A 23-yard pass interference penalty on Albert Lewis set up the Chiefs on the 1-yard line in the second quarter. Tony Richardson made a fumbling catch of Steve Bono's pass in the end zone on the next play.
Ford's 48-yard field goal with 7:01 left
kick the Raiders from getting shut out.
In a scoreless first period, the Chiefs began drives on their own 8, 6, 30 and 3yard line. But the Raiders also managed only one scoring threat, when Napoleon Kaufman broke about five tackles on a 33-yard run to the Chiefs' 41.
but keth Trayler broke through Barrett Robbins' block a few minutes later and got a hand on the ball when Ford tried a 43-yard field goal.