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The University Daily Kansan
Friday. September 10, 1999
Cross country seniors to run final home lap
By Rebecca Barlow
sports@kansan.com
Kansas sportwriter
Tomorrow's meet will be a memorable one for the seniors of the Kansas cross country team. This will be the last time they will run at their home course at Rim Rock Farm. The meet, the Bob Timmons Invitational, will be the only home date for the Javhawks this season.
The seniors are excited about the home meet but not about it being the last time to compete at Rim Rock Farm. Seniors Andy Tate and Diane Heffernan are looking forward to tomorrow's meet.
"It will be exciting since it will be my last time racing there," Tate said. "This will definitely be more
special than the rest of them."
Hefferman also is excited about the race, but said she was sad that it would be her last race at Rim Rock.
Both Heffernan and Tate have a positive attitude about how the season is going.
"So far, things are going the way we hoped they would," Tate said. "I think we are doing all the stuff we need to do right now."
Tate said she believed that the attitudes of the athletes and their health had an effect on the success of the men's team.
This home meet will give all of the Kansas runners a chance to compete and will give Gary Schwartz, Kansas cross country coach, the chance to see where his
"It's a situation without a lot of pressure and a chance for us to get a high number of people competing," he said.
athletes are physically.
This will be the second year that the Bob Timmons Invitational will be held at Rim Rock Farm. Bob Timmons, former Kansas cross country and track and field coach, is the owner of Rim Rock Farm. He said the Rim Rock Farm course would be difficult.
"Most cross-country meets are held in parks or golf courses," Timmons said. "This is a farm, and we don't have that smooth type of grass."
Timmons also said the course was unique because it had a cov
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ered bridge, six ponds, natural rock sculptures and seven sculptures of famous American runners.
Rim Rock Farm became the Jayhawks' home course after their course on West Campus was damaged. This will be the 26th year that the Jayhawks will run at Rim Rock Farm.
Both the men's and women's teams will be running. There are six teams in each race, including Big 12 Conference rival Oklahoma.
The other teams in the men's race are Emporia State, Missouri Southern, Pittsburg State and Truman State. The women also will be running against Arkansas, Emporia State, Missouri and Pittsburg State.
The men will begin at 10 a.m. and the women at 11 a.m.
- Edited by Julia Nicholson
Tait makes up with Chiefs
'Badgered' first-round pick signs with team after fight
The Associated Press
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — First-round draft pick John Tait ended his holdout with the Kansas City Chiefs yesterday — just nine days after storming out of Arrowhead Stadium saying he had been cursed and badgered.
Tait, 24, signed a five-year contract. Terms were not announced
"I am glad that we were able to finally conclude this negotiation. The obvious is that it took far too long." Chiefs president and general manager Carl Peterson said in a statement as the team prepared for its season opener Sunday against the Chicago Bears.
Ethan Lock, the agent for the offensive tackle from Brigham Young, said the contract wasn't everything Tait wanted, but it was better than it was initially.
"John struggled with this," Lock said. "People can say we were bluffing. But, he was within inches of just waiting until next April and going back in the draft. He decided in the end this was the better thing for him to do."
Lock did not accompany Tait to Kansas City at the request of the Chiefs.
Tait, 6-6 and 311 pounds, was the first offensive
lineman taken in this year's draft. He probably will be placed on a two-week exemption list and not appear in the first two games against Chicago and Denver.
Lock accused the Chiefs' general manager of using profanity and trying to intimidate the deeply religious, 24-year-old Mormon during negotiations last week. The talks broke down Aug. 31 primarily over the Chiefs' insistence on a clause that would allow them to get back his entire signing bonus of around $4 million if he did not play out the entire length of the contract for any reason.
Tait, saying he was tired of the mistreat
Tait, saying he was tired of the mistreatment, stormed out of Peterson's office and left Kansas City. Peterson later called Alan Tait, the player's father, and apologized for using profanity. Another rift developed when Chiefs head coach Gunther Cunningham was quoted as saying that Tait, because of his inactivity, would be like a jellyfish and that defensive players were drooling to take a smack at him.
Alan Tait said at his home in Tempe Wednesday night that his son was glad to finally have the negotiations over.
"Kansas City is a good town full of good people," he said. "It's city to put all this uglish behind us and get on with mending fences and playing football. It's a great relief to John and to us. We're just glad it's over and he can get back to doing what he does best — playing football."
The Associated Press.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Kansas City Chiefs cornerback James Hasty, a former Pro Bowl player, was back in camp yesterday, attending Chiefs' meetings after missing practice a day earlier.
are of him. he is back today, said Bob Moore, public relations director, yesterday
He had a personal issue to take
Moore said he could not elaborate on the personal issue, but said Hasty was attending meetings in the morning and was expected to practice with the
team later.
Hasty practiced Monday, and the team took Tuesday off.
Earlier, it was reported that neither Chiefs coach Gunther Cunningham nor Ken Kremer, one of Hasty's agents, knew when Hasty would return to the team.
said.
Hasty has missed only two games in 11 seasons and only one since joining the Chiefs in 1995. He is in the second year of a four-year contract that pays a base salary of $1.5 million for 1999, plus another $200,000 in roster bonuses.
"I was caught off-guard by this just like everyone else," Kremer
"This is about trying to win this thing," he said. "That's what it's all about. It's a travesty that we have one championship in this city. One."
Hasty spoke about commitment and quitting last week at the Chiefs' preseason team banquet.
"We've got to go play football. And pretenders have to leave the room."
pretenders have to leave the room." On Wednesday, Kansas City worked out rookie defensive back Andre Dixon, who was signed by Green Bay as an undrafted free agent but released in the final roster cutdown. The Chiefs also began talks with veteran Merton Hanks, the NFC's starter at free safety in four of the past five Pro Bowls.
Hanks spent his first three NFL seasons as a cornerback.
Receiver stuck with Seahawks
The Associated Press
KIRKLAND, Wash. — If Joey Galloway wants to play this season, it will be for the Seattle Seahawks or not at all.
As the Seahawks got ready for their season opener against Detroit, on Sunday in the Kingdome, their star receiver remained at his home in Columbus, Ohio, presumably waiting for the team to blink in the contract stalemate.
"I would hope he'd walk in the door and say, 'OK, I'm ready to play,'" said Mike Holmgren, coach-general manager Wednesday.
Holmgron sound ed as if he was willing to let Galloway sit out the season.
"We're not going o trade him." he
said, "I want him here. I want him to be a part of this and he knows that."
Galloway, Seattle's leading receiver in each of the last three seasons, missed all of the Seahawks' training camp and their four exhibition games. The Seahawks placed him on their "reserve did not report" list this week
Galloway has one year left on a fiveyear contract and would be paid $1.6 million this season. He signed the contract after Seattle made him the eight overall pick in the 1995 NFL draft.
Even if Galloway stayed home this season, he would remain the property of the Seahawks.
Galloway has turned down a seven-year contract offer for $25 million, including a $7 million signing bonus. He is seeking a five-year deal worth about $25 million with a $10 million signing bonus.
Negotiations broke off two weeks ago. Other teams are seeking to acquire Galloway in a trade. Holmgren said.
"I've been approached in casual conversations by about 15 teams," he said. "I've told them all the same thing: 'I am not trading him. He's here. I want him here.'"
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