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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN TUESDAY, APRIL 29, 2008
trivia of the dav
Q: Which college sports coach holds the record for most national championships?
A: Arkansas men's track and field coach John McDonnell, who has recorded 42 national titles in his tenure as the Razorbacks coach.
fact of the day
—espn.com
quote of the day
coachmcdonnell.com
Coach McDonnell, who will retire at the end of this season, has been the national coach of the year 30 times.
"It is hard to imagine that any coach in intercollegiate athletics has had more influence on a program than John McDonnell has had on the men's track and field program at the University of Arkansas,"
Arkansas athletic director Jeff Long
on tv tonight
—Kansas City at Texas, 7 p.m., FSN
MLB:
NBA:
Dallas at New Orleans:
Playoff First Round Game 5, 6
p.m., TNT
—Phoenix at San Antonio:
Playoffs First Round Game 5,
8:30 p.m.
Airborne ascent
—Team USA vs. Oklahoma, 6 p.m., ESPN2
Softball:
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Cleveland Cavaliers' LeBron James goes airborne to score with a dunk against the Washington Wizards in the first quarter of Game 4 of an NBA basketball first-round playoff series, Sunday. in Washington.
>> NBA
Former Miami Heat head coach Pat Riley listens during a news conference after stepping down as coach of Miami , Monday. Riley resigned as coach Monday but remains team president. Spoelstra, a 37-year-old assistant, will succeed Riley and become the NBA's youngest current coach.
Miami coach calls it quits
BY TIM REYNOLDS ASSOCIATED PRESS
MIAMI—Pat Riley's worst season as coach of the Miami Heat will be his last.
The Hall of Famer resigned as coach Monday but remains team president. Erik Spoelstra, a 37-year-old assistant, will succeed Riley and become the NBA's youngest current coach. Spoelstra has never been a head coach at any level outside the NBA's summer league.
Miami finished the season with the NBA's poorest record (15-67) and, by far, the worst of Riley's 25-year career.
"I look forward to the challenge," said Spoelstra, who received word of the decision over the weekend.
As president, Riley will continue overseeing the plan to rebuild a franchise that's just two years removed from a championship.
after deciding that he'd best benefit the franchise by working exclusively from the front office.
The on-court duties now belong to Spoelrau, who started in the Heat video room in 1995.
"While we are always looking for NBA talent to perform on the court, the most important talent that you may find has to perform on the bench, in the locker room, late at night, watching film, motivating and executing."
MLB
Clemens addresses his relationship with singer
Roger Clemens denied that his relationship with country singer Mindy McCready was inappropriate in response to a Daily News story Sunday. The story said Clemens and the singer were involved in a 10 year relationship.
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NEW YORK — Roger Clemens had a decade-long relationship with country star Mindy McCready that began when she was a 15-year-old aspiring singer and the pitcher was a Boston Red Sox ace, the Daily News reported.
Clemens' lawyer, Rusty Hardin, confirmed a long-term relationship but told the newspaper it was not sexual.
"Mindy McCready is a longtime family friend of Roger Clemens and the Clemens family," Hardin said in a statement Monday. "At no time did Roger engage in any kind of inappropriate or improper relationship with her. It is unfortunate that the Daily News has chosen to report anonymous allegations that are completely unfounded, have no basis in fact, and have nothing to do with Roger's baseball career or the issue of steroid use in baseball."
The story, which appeared on the newspaper's Web site Sunday night
and in editions Monday, quoted several people who asked not to be identified because of the sensitivity of the situation.
McCready's lawyer, Lee Ofman, said he did not have any comment on the Daily News story.
Clemens was 28 and a married father of two when he first met McCready, the newspaper reported.
The story could undermine Clemens' reputation, which is central to the defamation suit the former pitcher has filed against former personal trainer Brian McNamee. McNamee contends Clemens used performance-enhancing substances during his major league career.
The newspaper said Clemens sent cash to McCready to help her with legal issues and reached out to
"If true, it's just another example of Roger's pervasive prevarications which will be at the core of any defamation case," said McNamee's attorney, Richard Emery, in an email to The Associated Press.
her when she was in jail last year in Tennessee.
The 32-year-old McCready was sentenced last September for violating probation from a 2004 drug
arrest and was released from jail last Dec. 30. The violation occurred in July when McCready was accused of scuffling with her mother and resisting arrest.
ROWING Hawks fall to Golden Gophers in regatta
The Kansas rowing team bussed up to Minnesota expecting their most difficult regatta of the year against a seasoned and ranked Minnesota Golden Gopher squad. Minnesota brought those expectations to reality, rowing to victories in all seven of the races. The Golden Gophers came into the match ranked 16th in the nation.
The race began a day prior to what was scheduled because of weather conditions. Instead of a Saturday morning start, the regatta began on Friday night, as a storm was predicted to move in over the weekend.
"It's tough to get off a long bus ride and go race," coach Rob Catloth said. "And we were racing one of the top teams in the nation. We did the best we could under the circumstances."
The novice boats rowed the closest to their respective Golden Gopher opponents. The
First Novice Eight continued its impressive season with a loss by 3.7 seconds. Their time was only 5.1 seconds slower that Kansas premier First Varsity Eight. The Second Novice Eight came within 7.7 seconds of beating Minnesota's Second Novice Eight.
The First and Second Varsity Eight reached the finish line with times of 6:44.1 and 6:57.3. Others that raced included the First Varsity Four, the Second Varsity Four and a Third Novice Eight.
The Jayhawks travel to Austin, Texas for the Big 12 Invitational on Sunday where they compete against Kansas State and Texas, two teams that Kansas has already faced in the spring. Catloth believes his team's speed has increased and will now get the chance to see if their improvement can help them beat two teams that bested Kansas earlier this season.
Ben Ashworth
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