Tuesday, September 27, 1994
SPORTS
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
NHL labor talks resume; season still in jeopardy
Issue of salary cap under discussion
The Associated Press
TORONTO — The art of the deal took on a sense of urgency in the hockey world yesterday when the NHL and NHL Players' Association resumed negotiations to avert a postponement to the start of the 1994-95 season.
NHL commissioner Gary Bettman has announced he will postpone the season, scheduled to open Saturday, if a new contract can't be worked out by then.
Bettman and NHLPA executive director Bob Goodenow have each said they want to strike an agreement, but the two sides differ substantially on the major issues.
The most major issue of all is something Bettman will not even acknowledge: a salary can.
Throughout the talks, the rhetoric being employed by Bettman and Goodenow has been strong but tempered, and there is a def-
intite lack of rancor between the two. But that doesn't mean there is a simple solution.
"If Gary calls for a fight, the players are ready for it," Goodenow said over the weekend. "Some of these players fight for a living. They will stick together."
Goodenow met with the Chicago Blackhawks on Thursday in Las Vegas, met Friday with the Boston Bruins and the Tampa Bay Lightning, and met Saturday with the St. Louis Blues.
Bettman and Goodenow, who said he was hopeful the season would open on time, agree that something must be done to keep small-market teams competitive, but they differ on the solutions.
The players have proposed a 5 percent tax on every team's payroll and gate receipts, which they say would raise about $40 million.
Bettman has proposed a luxury tax on teams whose payrolls exceed a league-wide salary average (approximately $15.5 million in 1993-94).
Clubs would pay a 100 percent tax if their spending is less than 10 percent over the average, and 200 percent if more than 10
"If a team is going to pay me $500,000 and then have to pay the league $1 million (in payroll tax), then it isn't going to do it," said Kelly Miller of the Washington Capitals, an NHLA vice president.
percent over.
The threat of a work stoppage comes when hockey is on the rise in the U.S.
A limit on salaries for rookies, salary arbitration and more liberalized free agency rules are other issues being contended.
"I'm not saying this in a boastful way, but with New York winning the Stanley Cup last year, now is the time for the NHL collectively to jump into the spotlight, take the ball and start running," Rangers forward Adam Graves said.
League revenues last season were approximately $700 million, up from $549,305,000 in 1992-93. Salaries also rose, to approximately $440 million last season from $356 million in 92-93.
Last season, 75 players in the NHL — topped by Wayne Gretzky's $8,366,000 contract — made at least $1 million. Just five years ago, there were only three millionaires in the league.
The players felt Bettman's wrath when he said in a letter on Aug. 1 that he would roll back training camp benefits if the contract wasn't in place by the opening of camps on Sept. 1. The players went to camp anyway.
Both the owners and players appear united in their efforts.
"He said he wants to get a deal, but what he did on Aug. 1 certainly doesn't go very far towards getting a deal," Goodenow said of Bettman. "It just makes both of our jobs that much more difficult."
"I know that Gary Bettman has told certain new owners that he would have a salary cap in place by this year," said Bob Corkum, player representative of the Anaheim Mighty Ducks. "He's a hired gun.
"He definitely came here to get a salary cap, and he's not going to fold up easily just because he's getting a little opposition from us."
"The uncertainty of the labor issue certainly is something that no one enjoys, player or coach or executive," said St. Louis Blues president Jack Quinn. "Hopefully that will come to a successful conclusion this week.
Sports facts
Sports salaries
Sports salaries
Highest annual salaries, by sport:
Baseball: Bobby Bonilla, $6 million
Basketball: David Robinson,$5.72 million
Football: Steve Young,$5.35 million
Hockey: Mario Lemieux,$6 million
SOURCE: Associated Press
Knight-Ridder Tribune
SPORTS in brief
Kansas won first and third place in the second division. In the third division, sophomore Chessa Bieri placed first.
Women's tennis nets weekend wins
Rugby threshes Creighton
The Kansas women's tennis team won championships at the Wildcat/Travelers Express Tennis Invitational in each of the three singles divisions last weekend in Manhattan.
Sophomore Jenny Atkerson the first division with a victory over Kym Hazzard of Oklahoma State. In the third-place match, freshman Christie Sim defeated Kansas State's Divah Watson, Junior Kim Webster clinched fifth place with a victory over Oklahoma State's Kelly Press.
The Kansas rugby team defeated Creighton 114-3 Saturday at the Shenk Complex, 23rd and Iowa streets.
Creighton was never in the game as Kansas built a 64-3 lead at halftime. Mike Swartz led the team with two tries worth five points apiece and four conversion kicks worth two points apiece.
Compiled from Kansan staff reports.
Tennis star will return to game
Capriati says she is ready to battle again
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — Jennifer Capriati's long-awaited return to tennis may be delayed.
The New York Times reported yesterday that Capriati will not play the European Indoors tournament at Zurich, Switzerland, next week because of a groin injury. It was not clear when she intends to play next.
In her last match, Capriati suffered a first-round loss at the 1993 U.S. Open. She had planned to return to the women's tour at Zurich.
"I was always expected to be at the top, and if I didn't win, to me that
Burned out by tennis and despairing over her appearance and relationships, Capriati, who turned pro when she was 13, told the Times she once thought about killing herself.
"I really was not happy with myself, my tennis, my life, my parents, my coaches, my friends. ... When I looked in my mirror, I actually saw this distorted image: I was so ugly and fat; I just wanted to kill myself, really."
meant I was a loser," she said. "I felt like my parents and everybody else thought that tennis was the way to make it in life. They thought it was good, but I thought no one knew or wanted to know the person who was behind my tennis life."
Now, she said, "It's just a game to me now.
Capriati, after having not touched a racket for months, said she realized she wanted to play tennis again last winter.
"It wasn't like I wanted to go back to it yet," she said. "But when I thought about the slams, I always thought, 'I'll be there again.'"
"I don't care about being No. 1, but I'm ready and willing to give it a battle, and that's what sports is all about. There's no ending to my story vet."
On May 16, she was arrested in a Coral Gables, Fla., motel and received a misdemeanor charge of marijuana possession. She went into a 28-day treatment program at Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami Beach, Fla.
Last year, Capriati withdrew from her family and in November moved into her own apartment in Boca Raton, Fla. Her legal problems began Dec. 10, 1993, when she was arrested for shoplifting but said she accidentally took the ring from the store.
Jennifer Capriati A look at the career of the teen tennis sensation,
Born: March 29, 1976,
in New York
Resides: Boca Raton, Fla.
Turned pro: March 1990
at age 13
Career prize money:
$1,451,823
Highest singles ranking: 6
Top Grand Slam finishes:
■ Australian Open;
Quarterfinals,'92,'93
■ French Open; Semifinals,'90
■ Wimbledon; Semifinals,'91
■ U.S. Open; Semifinals,'91
Passing shots
Capriati was the youngest:
U.S. Open semifinalist ('91)
Wimbledon semifinalist ('91)
Ranked in the Top 10 ('90)
SOURCE: Women's Tennis Association
Ranked in the top 10 (90)
Grand Slam semifinalist ('90
Grand Slam seed (12th, '90 Wimbledon)
Wightman Cup player ('90)
French Open, U.S. open junior champion; U.S. amateur Hard Court, U.S. amateur Clay Court champion ('BB)
Nebraska player sent to hospital
The Associated Press
LINCOLN, Neb. — Nebraska quarterback Tommie Frazier was admitted to a local hospital for tests on his deeply bruised right calf, coach Tom Osborne confirmed this morning.
Frazier was admitted to Bryan Hospital in Lincoln on Sunday, one day after No.2 Nebraska's 70-21 victory over Pacific.
Hospital officials said yesterday that they could neither confirm nor deny that Frazier was still in the hospital.
Officials in the Nebraska sports information office said Frazier's status for this Saturday's game against Wyoming would depend on test results and other developments in the next 24 hours.
The preliminary diagnosis was that Frazier has a vascular problem, Osborne said. A vascular problem would involve the circulatory system.
Frazier suffered the bruise in the 49-21 victory over UCLA on Sept. 17.
"Frazier is about the same," Osborne said Sunday. "Apparently it didn't get any worse though he didn't play very long, of course."
Frazier, a 6-foot-2, 205-pound junior from Bradenton, Fla., played only two series in Saturday's game. He led two touchdown drives that took 1:45 and 1:32 in the first six minutes of the game.
"Coach Osborne told me they didn't want to play me very much," Frazier said after the game. "I guess 14 points was enough. That's fine with me."
HAWKPAC MEETING TONIGHT: 8:00
Kansas Union: Walnut Room
HawkPac is an affiliate of the American - Israel Public Affairs Committee and of the KU Hillel Foundation.
Now Available!
KU Bookstore REBATE Over $2,400,000 returned to date.
Now accepting receipts from the Spring '94 semester for rebate payments.
Receipts (period 95) from cash or check purchases are eligible for a $7% rebate at the Customer Service counter of the KU Bookstores until the end of December, 1994.
KU student I.D. required.
Computer hardware purchases are not eligible. Other restrictions may apply.
KU Bookstores Kansas and Burge Unions The only store that offers rebates to KU students
Just Look at ALL of These Ways YOU Can Save Some Cash
Restaurants
1819 W. 23rd - 842-1620
Get the daily special prices every day of the week
BLUMPLE GIRLS AND BALADS
2500 x 885,4000
BUY 1.6" Cold Sub Sandwich, get 1 for 79¢
Available at these locations:
6 02:48 w8t 14:00 - 0902%
25% Off Any Delivery Order not valid with any other offer)
ESPRESSO'HOUSE
91843-3007
BUY1 Menu Item, and get the Second One at 1/2 Price
401 N 2nd 84-277-BUY a chaseholder with first at reg-
istration for the $1,000 fee on June 30, 2016.
803 Massachusetts@832-0444
$1.00 OFF Sandwiches and Diners Before 6 P.M.
2907 W 8th-641-1688-FREE Soft Drink (with FREE refills)
PERKINS FAMILY RESTAURANT
1711 W 23;843 B940
B24 W 129-814-2310 Crest of Our Cup of House Coffee (Certi
fied Organically Grown) with Amq All Purpose Meal
1006 Massachusetts-843-0561
10% off any purchase of $2.50 or more
SEE ADVERTISING
UNIVERSITY
BOOK
SHOP
JOHNNY'S TAVERN
1116 W23rd
- $1.00 OFF Any Entree, Anytime, 24 hours a day
PIZZA SHOPPE
电话：842-0600
$1.00 OFF Any Purchase Over $3.50 (includes food and coffee drinks)
Med Pizza $5.95, 2 for $9.95, 1g Pizza $7.95, 2 for $13.99
14h & 01o HD-842-3223+0 50m, add lpss 90m, lpss 75m,
add tgs 15m, tgs 85m, add $10m. Caps ($15m)
One Pizza with One Topping $2.60 plus as Carry Out Only
**HURRAY**
2700 town*749-2615 FRI-SUN Drink with Purchase or
A Valor Price Book
162 w/2dtr 82-1851-101 Wison 843-909-2300 Hastell
Ave. 824-5533-1013 Tacor'i Tace for $9 (NO LIMT)
487
1420 Crescent Rd. Lawrence, Ka. 66044
Retail/Merchandise
ATHLETIC STREET®
914 Massachusetts-841-6966
15% OFF Regularly Priced Shoes
BARR’S RIVALITY BARS
20% OFF Any purchase (0-149)
20% OFF Any purchase Over $2,000 Excluding Rentals
2429 Iowa-842-7378
745 New Hamilton G43-6282-$12.00 discount for Dearman
Uganda Lateral. $129.95 IBM Compatible
PCs.
131 Massachusetts-844-191-31*1%OFF All Apparel
Free FRIZCE T-shirt $w / Wearpiece $Over 2.50
GENERAL NUTRITION CENTER
23rd & Louisiana-832-1700
15%OFF Any Pro-Performance 24-Hour Diet Item
typewritten, Printer Ribbon of
JAYNAWK TROPICAL FISH
846 illos tubes. Suide Dk-842-8500>10% GF Whig Brander
PowerFilters, and All Other BrandUndergift Filters
10% Off Any Typewriter, Printer Ribbon or Printer Ink Refill
10% OFF All Academically Priced Computer Software
10% OFF Any Reference or Study Aid
www.nyseconference.com
840 Massachusetts-842-2442
15% Off All Footwear, Excluding Sale Items
KANSAS SPORTS CLUB
837 Massachusetts-842-2992
20% OFF KU Sweatshirts
AUD BOOKSTORE
KANSAS AND BURGE UNIONS+864-4640
Any Size Exam Book (Blue Book) 5¢
KU BOOKSTORE
KANSAS AND BURGE UNIONS-884-4640
10% Off Any Art, Engineering or Drafting Supply
KANAS AND BURGE UNIIONS-864-4640
50% Off Amy Clothing Clothing Ht Over $200
2340 S. Iowa 842-684-1006 FOI C14 Process (Not Valid)
LAKEHART RURT PHOTO
2340 S. Iowa 842-684-1006 FOI C14 Process (Not Valid)
708 Massachusetts+841-0334
15% OFF any regular priced purchases
MAURICE'S
708 Massachusetts-B41-0334
HELLE WOMAN
9th & New Hampshire-841-5324
10% OFF All Skin Care Products
HELLE WOMAN
910 N 2nd Bd/843-1910 I 8th Ave. Suite 1814-7544
$1.00 OFF Movie Rental(1 per visit)
622 W 120 St. (841-947-9000) w/ CD, Tape,
or LP (if Vital Value Greater than $5.00)
25% OFF All-Month Rentals
1741 Massachusetts-749-1605
25% Off All Month Rentals
SHARK'S SUPER SHOP
25% Off Any Non-Sale Purchase (excluding Snacks)
*Second level in the Kansai Union Bookstore at the Courtier Counter
*First level in the Burge Union Bookstore at the Courtier Counter
74 Massachusetts-B43-8933
15% OFF Any Regular Priced Item
PRO BUILD
Limited Availability-B43-0682
10% OFF All Aides.
620 Management 641-110-0000, OFF All CATALOG
620 Management 641-110-0000, Off All CATALOG
620 Management 641-110-0000, Recycled Cotton
716 Massachusetts #4-181-720% OFF. OIC: JP, 3pm; Morns: 7pm
Tuesday's Tumult & 11am Tuesday on Buya Book
*Show Card After Offer
receives on resume
PRO BUDGET
Lawrence, Ks-8655-0692
10% OFF All Sales
10% OFF All Sales
SPRINGMASTER/WAMUSETTA
1025 N. 304-832-1100
10%OFF Any Purchase
VURO ZERO
UNIVERSITY BOOK SHOP
1116W, 23rd-749-5208
20% OFF of all clothing (excluding sale items)
Services
B.C. AUTO & CYCLE
510 N 6h8-614-6955
10% OFF All Parts
BRADY ANALYSIS
73 Massachusetts - 842-0880
15% OFF Complete Eyeglass Purchase
HICHLER PHOTO CENTER
Initial Consultation at No Charge (Usually $30-$70)
10x19 Massechus kettle® 84 x 32 mm x 125 cm³ Al Allan Office
10x19 Massechus kettle® 84 x 32 mm x 125 cm³ Al Allan Office
1 W 30x24-641-6223+F2 Tens with Purchase of 7 Tans from 6223 and F2 Trial Formula One
(1/2 customer)
MANETAMERS
846 Illinois Suite E1-441-5499
$2.00 OFF Haircut or $5.00 OFF Chemical Service
15th & Kasell-832-028-125% OFF, Official or Annual
Vip Visit Plus 12 Free Condoms
**R.L.E. STADIUM BANERY**
10th Avenue 1845 W 76th St 863
Anh Vialtor or Hairlse $5.90
K-10.8 County Rd. 1057/1031|5142-1747
Buy One Small Bucket of Balls. Get One Small Bucket
7-134-025-1173
$35.00 OFF Lenses and Frames with FREE Adjustment
FREE IN TIMATE TAM
2419 laws St. 342-498-1 FIRST THESE on
purchase of a 9 Session Package (Saw $5,50)
UNIVERSITY DAILY KARSAAN
10 Stufards FL84 4362
119 Stauffer-Flint-Bm4-4358
20% OFF Any Private Classified Ad
1