THE UNIVERSITY DARY KANSAN THURSDAY APRIL 5 2007
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WOMEN'S NCAA CHAMPIONSHIP
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Tennessee's Alberta Auguste (33) hoists up teammate Shannon Bobbitt as Rutgers' Essence Carson walks by after the NCAA Women's national championship college basketball game Tuesday in Cleveland. Tennessee defeated Rutgers 59-46.
Summitt does it again
Lady Vols win NCAA title for sixth time in coach's history
BY TOM WITHERS ASSOCIATED PRESS
CLEVELAND — As the party wore down in the wee hours Wednesday, Pat Summitt was faced with a tough decision: Get a couple hours of sleep or break down videotape of Tennessee's win over Rutgers. She opted for bed.
"I did not watch tape," she said.
"That might be a first."
A few hours after closing her eyes, Summitt was awakened by a phone call — from President Bush.
Ah, to be a national champion. Again.
Ending a nine-year drought between NCAA titles with a swarming defense and relentless rebounding. Tennessee beat Rutgers 59-46 on Tuesday night, giving the Lady Vols and their Hall of Fame coach a seventh national championship.
The Lady Vols would not be denied this time.
The standard of excellence in women's college basketball, Tennessee hadn't won it all since 1998, losing twice in the semifinals and to Connecticut in the title game in 2000. 2003 and 2004.
"Our banner's going to be in the rafters forever," said a smiling All-American Candace Parker, who scored 17 points. "We've left our mark."
Back in January, Tennessee's players signed a pact, promising each other to give everything they had
for the rest of the season. Now, their names will be permanently etched into the school's record books.
These Lady Vols, like so many before them, made history.
"This has been a team that has been a joy to coach," said a bleary-eved Summitt, clutching a
cup of coffee at Wednesday's news conference. "This is a team that had a great passion for getting it right. This group will always be very special to me. They took ownership of what they wanted to do. They
whose seven titles are second only to John Wooden's 10, is positioned to make another run.
coached themselves. I thought this team was really a team."
"Our banner's going to be in the rafters forever. We've left our mark."
"C'mon," she said. "Why wouldn't I? I'll be back wearing orange next year. I'm coming back to Tennessee."
Tennessee arrived in the home of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame intent on leaving with more than a souvenir T-shirt. And they're heading back to Knoxville with another trophy for the display case, and a pledge from Parker that she'll be back for her junior season.
Summitt, though, knows how difficult it is to win consecutive championships.
"Its very difficult to repeat," she said. "It will be interesting to see
It might be premature to start thinking about title No. 8. But with the majority of her players back and a crew of high school All-Americans on their way to Knoxville, Summitt,
CANDACE PARKER
Tennessee All-American
After cutting down the nets and hoisting the championship trophy on Tuesday night, Summitt insisted this crown wasn't any sweeter than
"This is not about winning No. 7;" she said. "This is about this team winning its first."
Tennessee's six others.
The Lady Vols wanted this title — badly. Almost from the outset, they workworked the young Scarlet Knights (27-9), who waited until the final game of an improbable tournament run to show their inexperience.
"Maybe we read the headlines or realized it was a national championship game," said Rutgers coach C. Vivian Stringer. "We looked like a deer stuck in headlights."
Forward Heather Zurchin said,
"Nothing was clicking."
Dotel out for 15 days because of muscle strain
NASCAIR great Richard Petty signs autographs at the Martinsville Speedway in Martinsville, Va., on Saturday. Petty said franchising is the only thing keeping NASCAIR from being entirely "legitimate."
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"I don't know if I'll live long enough to see it or not, but it will probably happen someday," said the man still widely referred to as "The King." "I think the only thing in my mind that keeps NASCAR from becoming a completely legitimate, major league with golfing or football or baseball or whatever is being franchised."
"He really threw great," manager Buddy Bell said. "He threw a lot of sinkers. His sinker got exceptionally better as the spring went on."
As a car owner whose teams are struggling to keep up with multicar megateams, seven-time champion Richard Petty has a solution to guarantee those who built NASCAR stick around: franchising.
BY HANK KURZ JR.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Son Kyle, who runs the twocar Petty Enterprises entry in the Nextel Cup series and drives one of the cars, and veteran Ricky Rudd said it's time NASCAR give back to its teams.
Dotel, limited to only a handful of appearances the last two years while recovering from reconstructive elbow surgery, had pitched well in spring training after signing a one-year contract.
"From an owner standpoint, I was pushing for franchising years ago when I had my teams because, at the end of the day, we spent millions of dollars and we had an auction and got 10 cents on the dollars for all our parts," he said this week at Richmond International Raceway, where he was testing his car for Robert Yates Racing.
closing, so that's probably the biggest reason why he's in that spot right now," Bell said. "But if we're in a situation where a guy's throwing good going into the ninth, we just might let him pitch the ninth rather than bring in Dave."
"Until it goes away, there's really not a whole lot you can do about it," said Bell. "We don't think it's something that's going to linger."
Bell said the injury is "not a real dangerous issue."
The Royals purchased right-hander Jason Standridge's contract from Triple-A Omaha. To make room for Standridge on the 40-man roster, right-hander Leo Nunez (fractured wrist) was moved from the 15-dav DL to the 60-day.
Rudd, like Kyle Petty, understands the situation as a driver and as an owner.
Owners consider franchising
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Kansas City Royals put closer Octavio Dotel on the 15-day disabled list Wednesday because of a strained muscle on his left side.
NASCAR
He's not alone.
"David has had some experience
Standridge has appeared in 76 major league games during his career while pitching for Tampa Bay, Texas and Cincinnati.
The Royals are counting on him to revive a bullpen that blew a major league-high 31 saves last year. The move is retroactive to March 30.
"It was sort of a sad situation because you work, you put all that sweat into it, but it doesn't really get you anything," Rudd said. "It gives you a business for
Right-hander David Riske will take on the role of closer.
"There was no tear of anything like that. It's irritable for him."
he said. "So far, no model has been developed to ensure that the need to perform would remain a team's priority.
"True, side by side competition is at the root of NASCAR," he said, "and it's important to be maintained."
That's a week-to-week concern for some struggling teams.
Bell said an MRI had exposed a "hot spot" on his left, non-throwing side.
The Pettys are, and they're having a tough time. They haven't won a race since 1999 at Martinsville Speedway and have just three victories since the 1983 season. Longtime racing team the Wood Brothers is also struggling, winning five times since the 1983 season.
Although Petty driver Bobby Labonte is 22nd in points and guaranteed a spot in the next race, Kyle Petty is dangerously close to the top 35 cutoff for such guarantees — he's 32nd. The Wood Brothers are outside that top 35.
NASCAR's vice president of racing operations, Steve O'Donnell, said the governing body has considered franchising and discussed it with team owners.
As a driver, Kyle Petty said the 43 fastest cars should make the field.
today but no planning for the future. Man, I'm so tickled that I'm not an owner right now.
"In the business world, there's a totally different set of rules," he said. "Call it sweat equity. We put 60 years in here, and we deserve something back for those 60 years. The Wood Brothers deserve something back for their 50 years."
"The challenge is 'what does a franchise mean?' in our sport and how can it benefit everyone?" O'Donnell said in an e-mail to The Associated Press.
"We are different than the stick and ball sports. Competition, not contracts, dictates whether teams compete week in and week out,"
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