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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Sports
Tuesday
October 19, 1999
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Texas A&M's win against Kansas Saturday kept it in the race for the Big 12 South Division lead.
SEE PAGE 4B
Day of Rest
After a wild finish on Sunday night, the Mets and Braves had a day off before game six of the NLCS tonight.
SEE PAGE 3B
Battering Rams
The St. Louis Rams' 5-0 record is no fluke for coach Dick Vermeil.
SEE PAGE 5B
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A few bad minutes ruin a good game
Kansas running back Mitch Bowles is tackled by Texas A&M defensive back Jay Brooks. Bowles ran the ball eight times for 38 yards, but his second-quarter kick-off return fumble contributed to the Jayhawks loss of momentum when it set up the Aggies for a quick score. Photo by Matt J. Daugherty/KANSAN
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By Mike Miller
The last two minutes of Saturday's first half has got to still be bothering football coach Terry Allen.
Specifically, the last 144 of the first half, when Texas A&M scored 14 points and snatched the game away from the Jayhawks by transforming a 10-3 Kansas lead into a 17-10 Agieg advantage. Texas A&M held its lead through the second half and won 34-17.
It all started innocently.
It started almost immediately. The Kansas defense forced Texas A&M to punt for the first time during the game, which would have given Kansas excellent field position because the Aggies were at their own 17-yard line.
Kansas called a timeout, and Allen decided to try and block the kick — something that he regrets now.
"If I had to do it all over again, I would not try to do it." Allen said.
Kansas went for the block and then things went south for the 'Hawks.
Carl Nesmith and Matt Jordan both broke through the Aggie line just as punter Shane Lechler shanked the punt.
What happened next depends on which team you cheer for.
At first it was ruled a deflection, then a penalty was called on Jordan for roughing
the kicker. Replays showed both Aggie players and Jayhawks were blocked into Lechler, which is not an infraction. The referee said after the game that he saw Lechler shank the kick, and watched Jordan get blocked into him. If that were true, it would be only a five-yard penalty and Texas &M would have had fourth and eight. But, inexplicably, the call stuck, and Kansas was penalized 15 yards.
That call gave Texas A&M an automatic first down, and four plays later quarterback Randy McCown connected on a 15-yard touchdown pass with 52 seconds remaining in the half.
On the ensuing kickoff, running back Mitch Bowles sown around a tackle and fumbled.
Bowles spurt out and hit his helmet right on the ball," Bowles said of the Aggie defender.
The Aggies recovered the ball at the Kansas 7-yard line and had 45 seconds to score. Their only needed 22.
They only McCown scampered into the end zone on the drive's third play, and the Aggies had their first lead.
It was a dramatic change of events that Kansas never recovered from. Texas A&M would score on the second play of the second half, a 78-yard bomb from McCown to wide receiver Chris Taylor. It capped the two minutes of misery that turned a promising game into a blowout.
— Edited by Ronnie Wachter
Kuk Sool Won-a modern-era martial art
Korean discipline is a compendium of several forms
By Jason Walker sports@kanson.com Kanson Sportwriter
The words martial arts, for most people, invoke ancient Asian disciplines passed down for hundreds of years. Specialties like karate, judo, and others have been practiced and developed for centuries.
Kuk Sool Won, however, is a martial art that is an exception to that rule.
Kuk Sool Won was developed around the end of World War II by In Hyuk Suh. It took more than forty years for him to fully develop his system. Graham Pendreigh, Baldwin City graduate student and president of the Jayhawk Kuk Sool Won club, said that there were lots of various things brought together to form the basis of the martial art.
"There's kicking and punching, grappling, joint locks, choking and weapons," he said. "It's its really a compendium of various Korean martial arts brought together in a unified system."
Jon Lindsey, Kansas City, Kan. graduate student and first degree black belt, demonstrates a move to Lawrence graduate student Javier Balma during practice Saturday evening. Kuc Sool Won is
The University of Kansas club consists of about 20 members, ranging in levels from white belts, which is the beginning stage, to Jon Lindsey, Kansas City, Kan., graduate student, a first degree black belt. He
a combination of various Korean martial arts. The club offers a way to get in great physical condition while learning the basic foundation of self-defense. Photo by Carrie Julian/KANSAN
Fans may find unpainted track at football stadium
Embedded surface similar to the type used in Olympics
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The track at Memorial Stadium may seem bare to fans at this weekend's football game.
The track resurfacing process began Oct. 5 and was completed yesterday, but is without the white lines that divide it into lanes.
By Doug Pacey
"The painting will take a period of two to three days," said Darren Cook, director of facilities. "Right now, I don't know when it will be done. The
Herm Wilson, regional vice president for Southwest Recreational Industries, the firm resurfacing and painting the track, said he was not sure when the lines would be painted.
"We'll finish it just as soon as we can," he said. "Our operations in the corporate headquarters in Austin schedule the painting. I'd like to get it done as soon as possible. I doubt it will be done by the weekend, but we would like to because of your football game."
guys are en route, but I don't know where they're at."
"Some of it will be finished by the weekend," he said. "I don't know about all of it, though. A lot of it depends on the weather. Southwest is pretty reliable. We've worked with them before."
Cook said he was not worried about the work getting done, though.
Southwest installed the artificial turf and refurbished the track at Anschutz Sports Pavilion last year.
Cook said the track needed to be resurfaced because some of the asphalt beneath it had deteriorated.
"The first week they were here they spent cutting out the bad parts of the track and repairing the asphalt," Cook said. "The asphalt deteriorates, and causes humps in the track. The second week, they resurfaced the track."
Because of the deteriorated asphalt, the job was difficult. Wilson said.
This track is different from the previous track and other tracks at the University, Cook said. This track is embedded, while the previous track and the one at Anschutz were encapsulated.
"Embedded (surface) have a very sticky polyurethane rubber, and you
put the granules in it when surfacing the track," Cook said. "Then you sweep up the loose granules and put them back in it."
Cook said the difference was that the encapsulated track had a rippled appearance and the embedded track has more cushion and a flatter look.
Wilson said that embedded tracks were used at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles and the 1972 Olympics in Munich, that all the tracks in Europe were embedded tracks, and that most major tracks in the United States also were embedded.
"Embedded tracks have more cushion and a higher resiliency," Wilson said.
- Edited by Mike Loader
Cook said that the cost of resurfacing the track was about $200,000.
Roy Williams faces challenge picking starters
Roy Williams has a recruiting problem. It has nothing to do with whether or not he lands highly touted Californians Travon Bryant and DeShawn Stevenson (both of whom attended Late Night on Friday).
Roy has made a point of saying that this is not a critical recruiting year. Why not?
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Because he's done too well coming into this year.
The 'Hawks are talented, experienced and have a lot of depth. Roy's problem will be finding the right mix of talent and experience and using that depth to
his benefit rather than to his detriment.
Chemistry is never a simple equation.
The possibilities are endless when you consider:
Putting all the pieces of the puzzle together isn't going to be easy. This year's team has a bunch of pieces that look like they should fit in one spot, but are probably better off in another.
Luke Axtell, at 6-9, is tall enough to play power forward, but would probably be more effective as a shooting guard or small forward.
- Ashante Johnson is basically the same story. He's got the body to play underneath but the skills to play on the wing.
- Tricky Nick Bradford lives up to the nickname with his versatility. He was outsized last year when he played the power forward spot, but handles the ball well enough to bring it up the court or play on the wing.
- Kenny Gregory, a guard, has the powerful leaping ability and strength to play as an undersized power forward.
The word is that Ashante dominates during pick-up games. The question is whether he can thrive in an offensive set that may have him playing with his back to the basket rather than on the wing, where he is more comfortable. The three spot, where Ashante probably should play, is going to be seriously crowded with Bradford, Gregory and Axtell all sharing time.
The most likely candidates are Ashante Johnson and Kenny Gregory.
Roy could play a lineup with one player taller than 7 feet and all the others shorter than 6-6 (Chenowith with Bradford, Gregory, London and Boschee). Or, he could go with one 6-footer and all the other players at least 6-8 (Boschee with Axtell, Johnson, Earl and Chenowith).
It may sound strange, but both of these line-ups have players in positions that they've played before. It's doubtful that either of these groups will see much time, but they illustrate the motley nature of this team.
Kenny has as much ability as anyone on the team. Last year he struggled somewhat trying to find a consistent role. He's at his best in the open court, but lags in the half-court set because of a sporadic jump shot. Kenny, wants to be a starter, but consistency will be the key.
His campaign for a starting guard spot won't be helped by Marlon London. Marlon's defense, ball-handling and passing will force Roy to give him more minutes. By the time conference play begins, Marlon will be starting.
The bookend point guard and center spots are the only ones with easy answers (Boschee and Chenowith dominating the minutes at both spots). The questions in the middle of the line-up will undoubtedly leave some players frustrated.
My starting five would look like this — Boschee, London, Axtell, Collison and Chenowith.
Roy's starting five for the first game won't. Whatever it does look like, I guarantee it won't stay that way throughout the season. There's just too many talented guys competing for too few minutes.
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Prater is a Lawrence graduate student in Journalism
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