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Hornets find home in Oklahoma City
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BY JEFF LATZKR
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
OKLAHOMA CITY — The New Orleans Hornets have a few new homes on the road.
The Hornets announced plans Wednesday to play 35 home games in Oklahoma City and six others in Baton Rouge, La., after a relocation agreement was approved by the city council.
"This whole thing is somewhat bittersweet," owner George Shinn said. "I've got a fine line to walk. I want to be enthusiastic to the people here and let them know I'm proud and that we're going to make this thing work. I also want to make sure that people in New Orleans have hope because they've gone through a lot."
The New Orleans Arena sustained extensive water damage from Hurricane Katrina and will take months to repair. But even if New Orleans is ready to
welcome the team back before the 2005-06 season ends, the Hornets are locked into their 35 dates at the 19,675-seat Ford Center.
The team will alter its home jerseys so they read "Hornets" on the front. The road jerseys will feature the words "New Orleans," but a patch on the shoulder will recognize Oklahoma City. In standings and statistics, the NBA plans to call the team the New Orleans/Oklahoma City Hornets.
Playoff games also would be played in Oklahoma City, and the Hornets will have the option to stay for an extra year.
Numerous other cities — including San Diego, Las Vegas, Nashville, Tenn., and Kansas City, Mo. — also made offers to host the team for the upcoming season, but Oklahoma City had what few others could offer — a top-quality arena with few scheduling conflicts.
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Emily Huffines, Overland Park, senior, stretches out her arms during a break in her Thursday morning tennis class. Huffines enrolled in the course not only because she played tennis for the past ten years, but also because it would be good exercise she said.
CROSS COUNTRY
Sophomore Colby Wissel (far left) leads a group of KU runners at the Bob Timmons Invitational at Rim Rock farm, Saturday Sept. 3. The men's and women's cross country teams will travel to Minneapolis, Minn., this weekend for the 20th Annual Roy GrizzInvitational.
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Teams to race in Minnesota
BY RICHARD ANTONIO MENDOZA
rmendoza@kansan.com
KANSAN SPORTSWRITER
Both the Kansas men's and women's cross country teams will compete in their first out-of-state meet tomorrow at the 20th Annual Roy Griak Invitational in Minneapolis, Minn.
It will be the third race of the season for both teams. The women's team is coming off of two first place finishes, the Bob Timmons Invitational and the KSU Dual. The men won the Timmons Invitational and tied
KSU in the dual.
The men's race will be an 8K,and the women's race will be a 6K.
"For our freshmen, this will probably be one of the biggest meets that they race in," said Coach Stanley Redwine. "It's a great meet, great competition, and we're just looking to go there and do well."
The men start at 11:20 a.m., with the women following at 12:20 p.m. Both of the races will be on Les Bolstad golf course.
Last season the men's team finished 10th out of 25 teams,
being led by then sophomore Benson Chesang. The women finished 23rd out of 29 teams.
Coach Redwine did say that Chesang would run in the race this weekend.
The women will have 31 teams to race against. The only Big 12 addition on the women's side is Oklahoma State.
On the men's side 26 teams will be racing this season, including Big 12 conference rivals Baylor, Iowa State and Nebraska.
one is real excited about racing because it is our first meet traveling somewhere a little farther than Manhattan," said senior Angela Pichardo.
"The attitude this year had been a lot different and every-
Up to this point in the season this will be the largest race that the Jayhawks have participated in.
"There are probably going to be in between 200 and 250 girls racing," said Pichardo.
After this meet there will be meets every two weeks allowing the teams to get into a normal race pattern.
— Edited by Erick R. Schmidt
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