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University Daily Kansan/Wednesday, September4, 1991
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Richard Scott (left) attempts to shoot over Greg Ostertag.
Rayford, Pearson must sit and wait
Jamison had to sit out one year and a semester because he didn't meet the Big Eight Conference rule requiring junior college transfers to have 24 transferable credits in the previous fall and spring semesters.
Jamison said from his own experience of sitting out that it would be important for Pearson and Rayford to ensure the responsibility of staying in shape.
"They will have to go out and play every day," he said. "Nobody will be
By Jeff Kobs
Kansan Sportswriter
"The year off is usually going to hurt a player," he said. "They (Pearson and Rayford) will have to work on the weak part of their game."
The recruits, Calvin Rayford and Sean Pearson, did not qualify for scholarships. But they have enrolled at Kansas. Rayford and Pearson are not eligible to practice or play with the team during the 1991-92 school year.
Academic ax falls on two recruits unable to practice with team this year
"Satisfactory progress requires players to complete 24 hours toward their degree in the previous year," he said.
Richard Konzem, assistant athletic director of compliance, said Rayford and Pearson must make satisfactory progress toward their degrees in order to be eligible for the 1992-93 season.
The Big Eight Conference also requires that athletes have a 1.8 grade point average through their first 60 hours of class and a 1.8 GPA after that. The NCAA presently has no GPA requirements.
Senior Alonzo Jamison, a Rancho Santiago, Calif., Junior College transfer, said it was hard for anyone to sit out a year.
"They will have to go out and play everyday. Nobody will be telling them what to do.The coaches will be too busy with the season."
Jamison, unlike Pearson and Rayford, was able to practice with the team and did not lose a year of eligibility.
Senior forward Alonzo Jamison telling them what to do. The coaches will be too busy with the season."
Newcomers to the team this year are freshmen Greg Ostertag, Duncaville, Tex.; Greg Gurley, Leawood; and Ben Davis, Fort Pierce, Fla. Also new are transfers Rex Walters, who came from Northwestern, Eric Pauley, from Cypress Community Junior College in California.
*The first day of official basketball practice, by NCAA rules, will be Oct. 15. The Jayhawks are tentatively planning an open practice in front of the public with festivities, similar to last year's opening midnight practice, for Friday. Oct. 18.
Other Kansas basketball notes:
"Oostagt, at 7-foot-1, is the tallest member on the team. He also has the biggest feet. Oostagt wears a size 18 shoe.
*Kansas has finalized its 1991-92 schedule, which will feature five games on ESPN and one on ABC.
*Coach Roy Williams, along with members of the Kansas band and cheerleader squad, will be on hand at the Kansas State Fair at 1 p.m. on Sunday. Williams will be home to teach Kansas students to stay in school and study hard. A life-sized photographic cutout of Williams also will be on hand. Fairgoers will be able to pose for pictures with the cutout.
Opener has unique pressure
Ohioan 'Hawk football players to play in front of hometown fans
By David Mitchell
Kansan Sportswriter
The Kansas football team's sea son opener Saturday against the University of Toledo in Toledo, leading for nearly one-fifth of the squad.
The Jayhawks have 22 players whose hometowns are within a 150 mile radius of Toledo.
When the Miami Hurricanes were removed from the Kansas schedule last spring, Tolledo was substituted in the Kansas' recruiting strength there.
There are 10 players on the roster from the Detroit area, which is about 60 miles from Toledo. Twelve other players are from Ohio. Kansas is the only state that is better represented on the Jayhawks roster.
Coach Glen Mason said that those players had a special incentive in preparing for the team's first game.
"The Ohio and Detroit players a going to play in front of a lot of people that they know." Mason said.
Junior quarterback Chip Hilleman of Westerville, Ohio, estimated that the senior members would be at Toledo's Glass Bowl to watch him play this
"I'm more nervous than I usually am. It's a little more exciting with all those people traveling so far to see us."
weekend.
He said that there would be an added pressure ingoing home.
"I'm more nervous than I usually am," Hillary said. "It's a little more exciting with all those people traveling so far to see us."
-Quarterback Chip Hilleary
"We've been playing together since our freshman year," fhillary said. "Our friends will get to see us play in the same backfield here."
Hilleary said that Westerville was about an hour and a half from Toledo.
Hillery will go back to his home state with high school teammate Monte Cozzens. Cozzens, the Jayhawks backup fullback, was the starting tailback at Westerville North High School.
Junior offensive guard Scott Immalew of St. Mary's, Ohio, said he looked forward to playing at home
again. The youngest of nine children, Inwalle said his brothers and sisters had never seen him play in a Kansas uniform.
Iwalle said he expected about 70 people to make the hour and a half trip north from St. Mary's to Toledo. The group was of the trustess would help his performance.
"I'll probably be more nervous," Imwalle said, "but it will make me play better. You have to you want me everyone from your hometown."
The Ohioans on defense are linebacker Hassan Bailey, cornerback King Dixon, cornerback Tim Johnson, cornerback defensive tane Dana Stubblefield.
Mason, who coached at Ohio State and Kent State before coming to Kansas, said that going home was the result, he team could not lose sight of its goal.
"Our whole approach is this: We're going in there to play a football game," he said. "We're not going in there for a family reunion."
Other players from Ohio on the offensive unit are backfull Maurice Douglas, wide receiver Rob Licuires, wide receiver and wide receiver Ron Page.
Capriati defeats Sabatini, to face Seles in semifinals
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — Jennifer Capriati, walloping 100 mph serves, took a giant step toward becoming the youngest U.S. Open winner in history as she reached the semifinals by toppling defending champion Gabriele Sabattini.
"I have come this far, I hope I can go all the way," said Caipiri, who is a year younger than Tracy Austin was when she won in 1979. Caipiris is the third student in U.S. open history, three months older than Andrea Jaeger in 1880.
Capriati next plays 17-year-old Monica Seles, a 6-1, 6-2 victor over Gigi Fernandez.
Capriati, at 15 already one of the strongest women in tennis, beat Sabatini for the first time in a full match, 6-3, 7-6 (7-1) on Tuesday, overpowering her on serves and ground strokes, pounding back returns from midcourt and, at critical moments, lobbing with perfection.
Using a strategy that worked so well in upsetting Martina Navratilova at Wimbedo, Capriati inked on Sabatini's weak second serves and rocketed them back or disoriented Sabatini enough with her movement and the noise of her skipping feet to cause double faults.
Capriati did exactly that to break Sabatini in the 11th game of the second set, taking the ball about five feet behind the service line and returning it harder than it arrived. Put on the defensive, Sabatini hta forehand long to fall behind 6-5 with her third broken service of the set and fifth of the match.
Overager to finish it off, Capriati couldn't put the match away. She made several errors that led the set into a tie breaker.
Capriati broke Sabatiini's first serve in the tie breaker, won the first four points and made it 5-1 with a lob into the corner that Sabatiini couldn't reach the key point. Capriati insisted backhand velo drop that left Sabatiini stunned.
"Every time I used to play her before, she'd control me," Capriati said. "She would move me side to side with her heavy top spin. I never used to attack her second serve, but now I go in with a different attitude."
Tartabull's blasts wilt White Sox
Earlier in the day, Seles barely broke a sweat beatting Fernandez, who at 27 is a full decade older than Sels. She was playing for 3 minutes, with Seles winning 6-1, 2-
Bo Jackson, in his second game of his comeback, went 0 for 4, making him hitless in seven at-bats. He struck out twice and grounded out twice.
Bo hitless again in second appearance
The loss ended a three-game winning streak for the White Sox, who are 6-17 since Aug. 11.
Seles won the first four games in 12 minutes while not dropping a point on serve.
Johnston, 24, was told to report to Comiskey Park in Chicago for the Royals-White Sox game last night.
CHICAGO — Danny Tartabull hit a pair of two-run homers for the sixth multiple home run game of his career, and Kevin Appier pitched a five-hitter last night as the Royals beat the White Sox 8-0.
The Associated Press
Appier (11-9) got his third shutout and sixth complete game this season, striking out nine and walking three.
In other action, the Royals recalled right-handed relief pitcher Jeol Johnston from the team's minor league club at Omaha, Neb., Tuesday.
Tartabul, who has 27 home runs,
had his third multihomer game this
season. He hit two against Baltimore
on June 12 and three against Oakland
on July 6.
Terry Shumpert hit his fifth home run in the seventh off Tom Drees, who was making his major league debut. Mayne hit his second sacrifice fly in the eighth.
Tartallbur's first homer gave Kansas City the lead in the first, and his second made it 4 in the sixth. The Royals added two more runs in the inning on Bill Pecota's RBI triple and Brent Mayne's sacrifice fly.
The Royals will announce Wednesday which remaining players in the minor league system will be added to the major league roster for the final month of the season.
Johnston posted a 4-7 record with eight saves for Omaha. He has a 5.21 ERA in 47 appearances.
National Collegiate Sportswriters' Poll
1. Florida State (22) 667
2. Michigan 610
3. Miami, Fla., (1) 583
4. Penn State (51) 599
5. Washington 552
6. Florida (2) 515
7. Notre Dame 503
8. Clemson (1) 457
9. Houston 404
10. Oklahoma 403
11. Tennessee 400
12. Texas 359
13. Colorado 333
14. USC 265
15. Georgia Tech 205
16. Iowa 234
17. Auburn 234
18. Nebraska 228
19. Alabama 175
20. Michigan State 174
21. TAE&M 152
22. UCLA 108
23. Ohio State 105
24. Brigham Young 87
25. Syracuse 68
Other teams receiving votes:
Illinois 56, Louisville 48, Pittsburgh
31, Georgia 24, Baylor 18, Oklahoma State 17, Louisiana State
14, Oregon 14, Indiana 13, North Carolina 12, Stanford 14, Virginia 10, Mississippi 10, Purdue 9, Virginia Tech 9, Colorado State 8, West Virginia 8, Arizona 6, California 3, Miami (Ohio)
2, Rutgers 2, Air Force 1, Duke 1, North Carolina State 1, San Diego State 1.
Eagles name McMahon OB
PHILADELFIA - With quarter-back Randall Cunningham out for the season, the Eagles are turning to the often-injured Jim McMahon, who led the Chicago Bears to a Super Bowl being relegated to backup status.
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Coach Rich Kotite, who plans to keep rookie Brad Goebel in the No. 3 slot, introduced former New York Jets wide receiver Michael Jordan as his choice for McMahon's backup.
Ryan agreed to a one-year contract with the team, the Eagles said. Other contract terms were not disclosed.
"Dr. DiStefao informed me that Dr. Clarence Shields saw Randall and concurred with Vince's diagnosis for a bone surgery for tomorrow." Gambale said.
Eagles President Harry Gamble also announced last night that the team physician, Dr. Vincent DiStefano, undergone surgery for his knee injury after seeing his family doctor in California.
The Eagles announced that Cunningham and offensive guard Mike Schad had been placed on injured reserve. Schad, who was de-activated at Green Bay, will be sidelined for four or five weeks with a back injury.
In another roster move, rookie defensive end Mike Flores, who was waived Friday, rejoined the Eagles' second unit in signing a series of two one-year contracts. Flores was the Eagles' 11th round draft pick this year out of Louisville.
Miami trades Hill to Phoenix
MIAMI — The Dolphins traded wide receiver Randal Hill, their first-round draft pick, to Phoenix yesterday in
exchange for the Cardinals' top selection in next year's college draft.
The trade was prompted by the fact that the Dolphins had "an abundance of wide receivers and it would have been a lot easier to play through the year," Coach Don Shula said.
"By getting Phoenix's first-round draft choice, this will put us in a better position to obtain defensive help, which is a more pressing need, either this year through a trade or next year in the draft," he said.
Hill, who signed with Miami on Aug. 6, played one game with the Dolphins. In the Sept. 1 contest against Buffalo, he had one kickoff return for $3 yards.
ISU coach prompts rivalries
AMES, Iowa — There's a new word in the Iowa State depth chart this year.
When a coach is undecided on a starter, he'll put the word "or"
That makes coach Jim Walder smile because he likes competition. He also likes having depth. In his first four years with the Cyclones, there was usually a big dropoff between the first and second-teamers.
between the contenders' names. There are six positions like that, including four on defense, for Iowa State, and three with Eastern Illinois on Saturday.
"This is a new thing for us." Walden said yesterday. "I didn't know how to put on that there."
One of the fiercest battles has been at strong-side linebacker between Larry Rigatan and Dan Watkins.
Also on defense, Matt Rehberg is pressing Travis Block at left tackle, redshirt freshman Jim Thompson is challenging Shane Dunley at left end and Mark DouBrau, the team's leading tackler last fall, is being pushed by
sophomore Lester Ridley at free safety.
Holtz supports jailed player
Offensively, Lamont Hill and Sherman Williams are even at running back, while Paul Schulte and Hussein Warmack are neck-and-neck at tight end.
SOUTH BEND, Ind. — Notre Dame quarterback Rick Mirror, recovered from the shock of being handcuffed and hauled out to jail by police, defended himself yesterday against accusations of drunken and disorderly conduct.
Coach Lou Holtz left no doubt that he's squared behind the starter who is making all the runs.
"It was a misunderstanding, and the only thing I can say about that is I was not publicly intoxicated and my conduct was not disorderly," he said.
He called the involvement of Mirer and linebacker Demetrius DuBose in the Friday off-campus party that attracted 500 people a "very innocent thing."
The security officer at the apartment complex where the two were arrested had instructions to call police if the crowd "became large," he said.
"The security man who called the police told me that there was no rowdiness, that there was no problem, no destruction," Holtz said. "It was a very orderly crowd."
For now, starting positions for Mirer and DuBose appear secure. Hole said he would discipline both, but not suspend either. The two still might face discipline by the university Office of Student Affairs.
Noformal charges have been filed.