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University Daily Kansan/Wednesday, September 11, 1991
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Julie Jacobson/KANSAN
Making waves
In preparation for a Big Eight water skiing tournament this weekend, Danni Roussel, Houston Junior, practiced her slalom technique at the MoKan ski lake, east of Lawrence on K-10. Roussel and other KU ski team members, who were practicing yesterday afternoon, will compete against five other Big Eight schools in slalom, jump and trick events.
Marketing hopes party will excite football fans
Imagine thousands of screaming football fans in a sea of blue. Fanatic "Mad Mike" Lyons beats on his trademark tom-tom along with one of the top collegiate marching bands in the country.
By David Mitchell
Kansan Sportswriter
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This is what Kansas sports marketing has envisioned for the Jayhawks' home opener Saturday against the University of Tulsa.
Jim Godfrey, assistant marketing director, said that Saturday's pregame tailgate party was designed to promote student interest in Jayhawk football.
In particular, sports marketing hopes to develop the student-seating area near the marching band into a central area of student support. The marketing department has named Section 40, on the east side of Memorial Stadium on the 50-yard line, The Mad Zone.
Students who do not arrive in time to get a t-shirt Saturday can pick one up at Ballard's for $1.06.
Ballard's Sporting Goods and KLZR-FM 106 will be on hand and supply the first 500 students with free Mad Zone T-shirts. Godfrey said that only students who wore the shirts would be allowed to sit in that section during the seasonlong promotion.
KLZR will supply the tunes, and EZ Shop will supply free hot dogs during the pregame party in the south end zone. Gates will open at 11 a.m. for the 1 p.m. game. Godrey said students in the Mad Zone section would be treated to further giveaways throughout the game.
"We want a blue of sea in that section," Godfrey said. "It would be great if we had so many people that we couldn't confine it to that area and their enthusiasm spread to the rest of the student section."
Godfrey said that the football team deserved the same kind of support that the basketball team received in Allen Field House.
"The field house has such a tradition of student participation and enthusiasm," she said. "With the success we're hoping for this season, this will be a way to start something down at the stadium."
Kansas cheerleader Tawnya Hall said she hoped that the
Mad Zone could match the level of Allen Field House's rowdiest section behind the nasket.
"Fans at basketball games seem so much more excited," Hall said. "The football fans will be a lot more excited this year. There will be more fans at the games."
one of the rowdest groups under the north basket has been the Super Fans. Kansas City, Kan., senior Joe Zielinski, alias "Captain Jayhawk," said his club planned to sit in the Mad Zone.
"We've always sat on the hill," he said. "With this new student section, it might be fun."
Mason said, "There for a couple years, I was asked questions like, 'Don't you wish Kansas had great football fans like they've got basketball fans?'
At his weekly press conference last Wednesday, Coach Glen Mason said he did not see Kansas as a basketball school or a football school. He said fans simply responded to winning.
Ziemsi said his only problem now would be to find a Kansas football to replace the Kansas basketball he usually wears as a helmet at Allen Field House.
"Kansas is like any other school. You get great winning fans. If we win, the football fans will be there. If we don't, they won't be there for anything."
Saturday's promotion will take the place of the pep rally that had been planned for Friday night. Also, students who were planning to camp out with offensive coordinator Golden Pat Ruel tonight will have to make other plans.
"Anything that students can get involved in is great," Ruel said.
The popular assistant coach said he was not upset that his promotion was canceled as long as something was done to rouse student interest.
Chiefs feeling heat of first-half blahs
Heel said.
"Now is a good time for the students to get behind us. They're going to see some surprises in the next few years," he said.
Kansas drum line instructor Ken Green said that the Marching Jayhawks would be glad to have some rowdy company.
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"The team, the fans and the band are ready to have some thing to shout about," Green said.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — About all Marty Schottenheimer wants to say regarding Kansas City's Jekyll-and-Hye personality the first two games is who is at fault.
"I should all the responsibility for it." Schottenheimer said yesterday at his weekly media luncheon. "Ashead coach, we have to accept the responsibility, and I do. We haven't played well in the first half of either game and it's something we've got to look at."
The Falcons and Saints combined for 357 first-half yards but just 145 after intermission. Kansas City has nine first dows in the first half, 25 in the second. Their opponents have 20 first-half first dows but only eight in the second half.
But the 1-1 start is a familiar one for Schottenheimer. In seven seasons as a head coach, he's been 1-1 seven times.
It's no wonder the Chiefs, who will face Houston in the Astrodome next Monday night, are 1-1. In beating Atlanta and losing to New Orleans, the Chiefs haven't scored in the first half — and haven't been scored upon in the second half. They've managed just 144 yards in the first half but exploded for 419 yards in the second.
In the second half of a 17-10 loss last week to New Orleans, Kansas City allowed the Saints to cross midfield only once.
"Regarding our preparation, I don't think that's a matter of concern," Schottenheimer said. "I have to accept the responsibility. All I can tell you is, unfortunately, I'm too familiar with 1-1."
Critics are wondering whether the Chiefs are coming into each game ill-prepared for what the opponent has up its sleeve and forcing them to scramble at halftime to adjust.
Schottenheimer is also all-too-familiar with what happened last time his team faced the Oilers' run-and-shoot offense. On a cold December day in Arrowhead Stadium last year, Warren Moon's passing onslaught rolled up 527 yards — second-highest in NPL history — in a 21-10 victory that wasn't as close as the score sounds.
In addition, that was the game Chiefs' quarterback Steve DeBerg suffered a painfully fractured bone in his left pink. DeBerg finished the season with a large cast over the hand and in frequent pain.
All in all, it was the most negative game the Chiefs played all year. And as they prepare to face the Oliers Monday night, their defensive backs are mostly mobbed and hurt. All-pro cornerback Albert Lewis, who intercepted three passes against Atlanta, missed last week's game with an injury and is still listed as questionable.
Also questionable is Lewis' backup, Jayce Pearson, who suffered a foot injury Sunday. In addition, defensive back Charles Washington broke his knee injury, and former Pro Bowl安全员 Cherry has a sore knee.
To nobody's surprise, the Chiefs were working out several free agent defensive backs Tuesday.
Rain can't help Royals wash away Twins' lead
"We're a little banged up," Schottenheimer said. "That, combined with what happened a year ago, I'm more confident than I was before we confident. But I'm not concerned."
"I think come Monday night we will have ample people to line up and do the job."
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Both Minnesota starer Allan Anderson and Kansas City starter Mark Gubicza were pulled yesterday after five innings — in part because of a rain delay in the fourth.
The difference was that Anderson left after pitching a three-hit shutout in the 12th inning.
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"I just want to pitch and contribute," Anderson said. "They gave me the opportunity. They gave me the ball, and I think I can do well."
the Royals spoiled the combined shutout bid in the eighth on Brett's RBI single and Bill Pecota's run-scoring grounder.
Minnesota scored twice and led 2-8 when Gubicza left. Pedro Munoz then hit two run, two-out home run off Nolan's first pitch, before opening up the game for the Twins.
Anderson (5-8) was sent to the Twins' Class AAA affiliate at Portland on July 24 and was recalled Aug. 21.
Aguilera came on and retired Brian McRae on a short fly out, struck out George Brett and got Danny Tartabull on a fly out for his 39th save, tying him for the league lead.
"Gubicza threw well," Royals manager Hal McRae said. "He wasn't taken out because of his stuff. It was a sloppy night. He got his work in."
The Royals loaded the bases with no one in out the ninth off Bedrosian, who walked Kurt Stillwell and Warren Cromartie on eight consecutive pitches before Kirk Gibson singled.
Mark Guthrie, Terry Leach, Steve Bedrosian and Rick Aguilera finished for the Twins.
Minnesota, streaking toward the AL West title, has won five in a row and eight of its last nine games.
Tight end Fette will miss five weeks
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ByJeff Robs
Korean Sportwrite
It was a victory and a loss at the same time
Although the Jayhawks rolled over the University of Toledo in the season opener, they also lost junior right end Chad Fette.
e rute, back maction after having surgery last winter for a congenital heart condition that sidelined him at the end of last season, injured his knee in the first half of Kansas's victory against Toledo.
"He was blocking on a sweep, and then one of their guys dove trying to catch Tony Sands and swung around and hit Chad right in the side of his knee," tight end coach Tim Phillips said. "His knee just
Fette tore a ligament in his knee and could be out five to six weeks while it heals. Surgery will not be performed on the knee, Phillips said.
"He'll probably have about five weeks of rehabilitation, 'Phillips said. "It all depends on how quick it comes around."
Lynn Bott, a Kansas athletic trainer, said the injury suffered by Fette was fairly common among athletes. Bott said a common rehabilitation for that type of knee injury included a brace and crutches.
"Initially the athlete is put into a hinge brace, which allows minimal movement at the knee joint," Bott said. "They're usually on crutches for two weeks until the hurt stops."
Bott said the hinge brace was gradually loosened, allowing more motion in the knee. Next, the athlete gradually works his way up to being able to do full squats, and then, in about five to six weeks, he can run straight ahead and in a figure eight pattern.
"The possibility could be staring him in the face," Ruel said. "It was a freak deal. It's just one of those things that happens."
Offensive coordinator Golden Pat Ruel said Fette could be redshirted because he had not had a redshirt season.
Ruel said the injury shouldn't cause any shakeups in the offensive strategy.
*Any time you lose a player that's been productive*
offensively you become concerned how it will affect the offense, *"he said. "We still have good talent at that position."
Fette was the second tight end on the team to be injured this year. Sophomore Pete Vang, who held the No. 2 position on the depth chart last season and started after Fette went out with the heart condition, broke his ring finger on his right hand during the summer.
"We have more depth than we've ever had, so we aren't in a critical situation where we are scrambling to fill the spot like we would be been doing two years ago."
Junior Jason Stallman and freshman Brent Willeford are the top candidates to fill the second spot on the depth chart. Sophomore Dwayne Chandler holds the No.1 spot.
Phillips said Vang began practice this week but was questionable for Saturday's game.
"We'll see how practice goes," Phillips said. "It depends on what the doctor says after they X-ray it this week."
During one of the first games of the intramural softball season, Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity, last year's champions, took on a team from Delta Upsilon fraternity. The Delta Upsilon team (in the field) won yesterday's game 14-8 at the softball fields south of Robinson Center.
Opening day
SPORTS BRIEFS
Cvelone's return doubtful
AMES, Iowa — Iowa State coach Jim Walden said yesterday he doesn't expect wide receiver Steve Lester to return to the team.
Lester is waging a court battle with Iowa State to be accepted as a full-time student so he'll be eligible to play footballs. He said he doubled Lester would win.
"We've got to go on, with or without him, and certainly I think in my heart it's going to be without him," said Walden.
In what may be Lester's final chance to get back on the team, a near-cancelled game would have been a win.
Court tomorrow on his petition to be admitted as a full-time student
McDonald's Open teams set
Lester's attorney, Tim Pearson, is hoping for a quick decision because Iowa State said Lester could not be held as a full-time student after Monday.
NEW YORK — The Los Angeles Lakers will play Limiges CSP of France, and European champion Slobodna DalmacijaSplit will meet Spanish champion Montenegro in the night of the McDonald's Open on Oct. 18 in Paris, the NBA and the International basketball Federation announced jointly
Arocha can pitch in U.S.
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NEW YORK — Rene Arocha, the Cuban national team pitcher who defected to the United States in July, may play major league baseball in the United States, the U.S. Justice Department confirmed Tuesday.
Slobodna Dalmacija of Yugoslavia won the last three European Cups while known as Jugoplastiks Split and POP 84. Jeventuent beat Barcelona's four-year reign at home, but he was the last four French titles, while the Lakers have appeared in nine of the last 12 NBA finals.
Arocha's U.S. agent, Gus Dominguez, said earlier in the day that the commissioner's office had arranged for teams to scout Arocha in a few instructional league games and then hold a special lottery-style draft.
In Washington, Duke Austin, a representative for the Justice Department's Immigration and Naturalization Service, said Arocha was legally free to play for a major-league team, although it wasn't necessary for baseball to wait for the service's go-ahead to hold the draft.
— From The Associated Press