2B THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
SPORTS
THURSDAY, AUGUST 25, 2005
ATHLETICS CALENDAR
TOMORROW
Soccer vs. Michigan, 5 p.m., Jayhawk Soccer Complex
- Voleyball vs. Alabama, 7 p.m., Horejsi Family Athletics Center
SATURDAY
♥ Volleyball vs. UMKC, 7 p.m., Horejsi
Family Athletics Center
SUNDAY
SUNDAY
♦ Soccer vs. Wisconsin, 1 p.m., Jayhawk
Soccer Complex
WOMEN'S BASKETBALL
Welcome back picnic will let fans see players, coaches
The KU women's basketball team will host a welcome-back picnic for fans Saturday.
The event will be held at Centennial Park, 9th and Iowa streets. Festivities start at noon with player introductions at 12:30 p.m.
There will be no charge to attend. The event will also include games, face painting and free food.
The picnic will be one of few opportunities for fans to see both the players and the coaches before Late Night on Friday, Oct. 14.
Fans will see plenty of new faces on this year's team. Coach Bonnie Henrickson will add six new players to a team that has six returning players.
Michael Phillips
FOOTBALL
Kansas running back arrested at Kenny Chesney concert
Kansas sophomore running back Bruce Ring wood was arrested Sunday night, a spokesperson with the athletic department confirmed vestedav.
Associate Media Relations Director Mason Logan said that the team is still looking into the incident after the team learned of it just before yesterday's practice.
Ringwood worked on the scout team last season as a linebacker.
According to KMBC-TV channel 9 in Kansas City, Ringwood was arrested at the Kenny Chesney concert at Kemper Arena in Kansas City. Mo.. for two counts of assault.
Ringwood is listed in the team's media guide as a running back and is from Blue Springs, Mo.
Ryan Colaianni
MLB
Sheffield says he can't help former baseball star Gooden
TAMPA, Fla. — Former baseball star Dwight Gooden allegedly fled police after being stopped for drunken driving — and his nephew, NewYorkYankees outfielder Gary Sheffield, says there is nothing his family can do to help anymore.
"I've done pretty much everything you could possibly do." Sheffield said Tuesday at Yankee Stadium. "It just comes to a point where you have to let him go through what he's got to go through. Sometimes, it is God's plan for us to back off and let him do it, because the family has tried everything."
Gooden, who has a history of drug abuse, left the scene of a traffic stop early Monday after refusing to get out of his 2004 BMW to take a field sobriety test, police spokeswoman Laura McEllroy said Tuesday.
— The Associated Press
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CROSS COUNTRY
BY ANTONIO MENDOZA
amendoza@kansan.com
KANSAN SPORTWRITER
Runners rush to stay in shape
Imagine running 60 or more miles a week in addition to all the classes, studying, sleeping and social events that college students experience. For sophomore cross country runner Colby Wissel, this is a reality.
Cross country runners at Kansas not only keep up with their hectic schedules, but they also have to keep their bodies and minds in superb condition.
To achieve this, runners attend daily practices and train their bodies for long distances.
"We are doing mileage to get their stamina up because at the end of the season the guys will have to race a 10K and the ladies will have to race a 6K."
Runners get one day off per week to comply with NCAA rules, but their training schedules are still rigorous.
said Kansas cross country coach Stanley Redwine.
"Routine is key; you can't get out of your routine, otherwise it can really mess you up," Wissel said. "The closer you stick to your routine, the better off you're going to be."
After their daily classes, runners practice at 2:30 p.m. Wissel said practice could last up to two and a half hours.
Senior runner Angela Pichardo said training started for some by running one or two miles before classes that day.
Pichardo said Redwine expected this kind of work ethic from his runners on a daily basis.
"Per day, he prefers six miles," Piichardo said. "For now, it's six per day, and
"Routine is key; you can't get out of your routine, otherwise it can really mess you up."
Colby Wissel
Sophomore runner
eight on long runs on Sunday."
The length varies from athlete to athlete, depending on how they feel, Pichardo said.
Wissel said he ran up to 14 miles on Sundays.
Even though the runners do get one
day off, Wissel said he still ran on days off to stay prepared.
Wissel said runners maintained a healthy lifestyle off the track as well.
"Diet is definitely key" he said. "You have to fuel the machine properly."
L'Equipe is owned by the Amaury Group whose subsidiary, Amaury Sport Organization, organizes the Tour de France and other sporting events. The paper has
After a day of classes, running and studying, the runners go to bed and start the process again the next day. Wissel said that although it wasn't always easy, he enjoyed the work.
"I don't think you can call this a sacrifice because it's what we want to do, but it does take a lot of time, but it is something we enwil." he said.
The cross country season begins on Sept. 3 at the Bob Timmons Invitational, which takes place at Rim Rock Farm, Lawrence.
— Edited by Tricia Masenthin
CYCLING
Race director says Armstrong 'fooled' everyone
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
PARIS — Sounding convinced that Lance Armstrong is guilty of doping, the director of the Tour de France said "we were all fooled" and the seven-time champion owes an explanation for "proven scientific facts" from a newspaper report alleging he cheated to win cycling's most prestigious event.
Jean-Marie Leblanc's comments appeared in the French sports daily L'Equipe yesterday, a day after the newspaper reported that six urine samples provided by Armstrong during the '99 Tour tested positive for the red blood cell-booster EPO.
In a statement on his Web site on Tuesday, Armstrong denied ever taking performance enhancing drugs and dismissed the article as "tabloid journalism."
"For the first time — and these are no longer rumors, or insinuations, these are proven scientific facts — someone has shown me that in 1999, Armstrong had a banned substance called EPO in his body," Leblanc said.
"The ball is now in his court. Why, how, by whom? He owes explanations to us and to everyone who follows the tour. Today, what L'Equipe revealed shows me that I was fooled. We were all fooled."
While Leblanc seemed convinced of Armstrong's guilt, fellow cyclists came to his defense.
"Armstrong always told me that he never used doping products," five-time winner Eddy Merckx told Le Monde newspaper. "Choosing between a journalist and Lance's word, I trust Armstrong."
often raised questions about whether Armstrong has ever used performance enhancing drugs. On Tuesday, the banner headline of its four-page report was "The Armstrong Lie."
EPO, formally known as erythropoietin, was on the list of banned substances at the time Armstrong won the first of his seven Tours, but there was no effective test then to detect it.
The allegations took six years to surface because EPO tests on the 1999 samples were carried out only last year — when scientists at the national doping test lab outside Paris opened them up again for research to perfect EPO screening.
Another five-time Tour champion, Miguel Indurain, said he couldn't understand why scientists would use samples from the '99 Tour for their tests.
"I feel the news is in bad taste and out of place, given that it happened six years ago after his first Tour victory, and after he won six more," Indurain wrote in the Spanish sports daily Marca. "With the little I have to go on, it is difficult to take a position, but I think at this stage there's no sense in stirring all this up."
Arne Ljunggvist, chairman of the International Olympic Committee's medical commission, said the urine samples from 1999 still could produce legitimate EPO test results.
"I believe they may well, if they have been properly stored — without access to outside people so they cannot be tampered with. Also in a refrigerator or deep frozen," Ljungqvist said Wednesday in a phone interview with The Associated Press. "If not in such a situation — there's no guarantee they have not been subjected to undue temperatures."
The International Cycling
Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong of the U.S. waves on the podium the 20th and final stage of the Tour de France cycling race between Arpaijon and Paris in a Sunday, July 25, 1999 file photo. French sports daily L'Equipe reported yesterday that Lance Armstrong used the performance-enhancing drug EPO to win his first Tour de France title in 1999, a claim the seven-time champion immediately denied. L'Equipe devoted four pages to its allegations, with the front-page headline "The Armstrong Lie." The paper said that signs of EPO use were found in Armstrong's urine six times during the 1999 Tour.
The Associated Press
Union did not begin using a urine test for EPO until 2001. For years, it had been impossible to detect the drug, which builds endurance by boosting the production of
oxygen-rich red blood cells.
Armstrong has insisted throughout his career that he has never taken drugs to enhance his performance. In his autobiography, "It's Not
About the Bike," he said he was administered EPO during his chemotherapy treatment to battle cancer.
"It was the only thing that kept me alive," he wrote.