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Soccer team nets two new recruits
The recruiting season for women's soccer has ended with the signing of two new athletes.
Additions to make team more flexible
By Sean Patrick
Kansan staff writer
Colleen Colvin from Hopkins, Minn., and Kylie Watts, from
Topeka, complete head coach Dan Magner's first recruiting class at the University of Kansas.
"Kyliie brings speed and toughness to an already formidable defensive line. We will look to Kyliie to use her outside defensive skills to attack from the wings," Unsworth said.
"Colleen will add flare to our forward line, and we hope to see her on the score sheets in the fall," said Lisa Unsworth, head assistant coach for the team.
Watts and Colvin complete a ninemember recruiting class that Magner hopes will mesh well with his 12 returning letter earners.
Colvin was a four-year letter winner at Hopkins High School in Minnesota and was the school's all-time leading scorer in women's soccer. She was named an All-American by the U.S. High School Soccer Coaches Association in 1996.
Watts was a senior defender for
Topeka High School and is a member of the Kansas City Cosmos Soccer Club.
goal is to quality for and get into the Big 12 tournament in San Antonio.
Last year, under former coach Lori Walker, the Jayhawks finished seventh in league play and did not qualify for the Big 12 tournament.
"The conference games will be played at a much higher intensity level, with much more focus than the other games on our schedule." Magner said. "Not to take anything away from the other opponents, but we really need to develop a sense and a belief among the players that our ticket to success is to do well in those Big 12 games, allowing us to
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"I am very excited for this coming season," Magner said. "Our No. 1
get into the Big 12 Tournament."
Magner describes the team as fundamentally sound. The biggest questions are regarding the offense.
"I think the key will be a striker, a finisher. We really need someone to fill that role."
"I would look for us to keep possession of the ball, and I would look for us to be very well organized." Magner said. "Not only organized defensively, but organized when we look to attack.
Magner hopes the team's strengths will be dedication and camaraderie.
Cuban baseball players expelled for trying to flee
The Associated Press
HAVANA — Cuba permanently expelled a player and three coaches from baseball yesterday, charging that they made several attempts to leave the island to join a professional team in the United States, news media reported.
Another three players were separated from the sport for an indefinite time but could return to Cuban baseball depending on their future conduct, the National Institute of Sports, Physical Education and Recreation said in a statement published by the Communist Party daily Granma.
The statement said the sanctions adopted by the National Commission of Baseball took into account the gravity of the acts committed by the players.
There are no professional sports in Cuba, where athletes receive government salaries similar to those of average workers.
The surprise announcement came a week after a 10-day trip for Cuban baseball players to the United States was canceled for security reasons.
In canceling the trip, Cuban officials said that during earlier visits to the United States, players had received threats, as well as money offers to defect and join a U.S. professional team.
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Earlier this month, catcher Francisco Santi- esteban defected while on a week-long trip for a series of exhibition games in Colombia.
In recent years, there have been more than a dozen Cuban baseball players defect, including Livan Hernandez, a pitcher who signed a $4.5 million contract with the Florida Marlins last year, and Rolando Arrojo, a pitcher who signed a $7 million deal in April.
The player expelled yesterday, Jorge Luis Toca, played first base for Villa Clara. The institute accused him of attempting to leave the country to become a professional player and accused coach Orlando China of helping.
President Fidel Castro criticized baseball players who defected to join a U.S. professional team because high salaries were promised.
The institute accused coaches Pedro Jova, the team's manager, and Luis E. Gonzalez of allowing Toca to establish contact with traitors to Cuban baseball — an apparent reference to Cuban players who earlier defected to the United States.
Rawlings plans to market speed-sensing baseball
The Associated Press
ST. LOUIS — The next time the neighborhood blowhard pops off about the 90 mph fastball he threw in high school, tell him to prove it.
By February, Rawlings Sporting Goods Co. expects to market the Radar Ball, a baseball that features a small digital display showing how fast the ball was thrown.
The company displayed the ball this month at the National Sporting Goods Association's annual convention in Chicago.
Analysts say Rawlings could make millions of dollars with the baseball. The ball also might break the hearts of millions of would-be and could-been major leaguers.
"There's going to be a lot of fathers who have blown egos when they throw in front of their sons," said Randy Black, vice president of marketing for St. Louis-based Rawlings.
The Radar Ball was invented by 25-year-old Dave Zakutin, who experimented with the idea of a speed-sensing baseball as his
senior project at the University of Waterloo in Canada.
Zakutin contacted Rawlings, maker of major league baseballs for 20 years, then brought a couple of friends to play catch in front of Rawlings executives.
The ball is the size of a regulation baseball. To use it, the catcher squats 60 feet, 6 inches from the pitcher, the standard distance from the pitcher's mound to home plate.
A sensor in the baseball measures time from the moment the ball is released until it is caught, Black said. A microprocessor inside the ball then divides the distance by the time and displays a reading in mph.
"You grip it like any of your pitches, you throw it, and you get immediate feedback," Black said.
Rawlings also plans a Little League version that calculates the speed from 45 feet. And the company plans to market a similar softball, due in stores by April.
Black said the Radar Ball would retail for $34.99 to $39.99, making it affordable for high school and American Legion teams.
The Associated Press
John Daly back in golf and sober
"HONESTLY, OFFICER. THAT IS ME IN THE PHOTOGRAPH. I JUST GOT BLUE CONTACT LENSES AND LOST 80 POUNDS. BESIDES, EVERYONE TELLS ME THAT I LOOK YOUNGER THAN A 27 YEAR-OLD. OH, YAH, AND THIS IS NOT MY BEER."
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Daly, 30, was suspended in 1993 after quitting during the second round of the Kapalua international. After fighting with a 62-year-old man at the World Series of Golf in August
Daly said he had been attending Alcoholics Anonymous meetings as often as five days a week.
The rocky road continued at the U.S. Open last month when he quit in the second round. He said he withdrew because of shakes brought on by anti-depressant medication.
Daly, sober since March, said things will be different this time.
Accompanied by his familiar crushing drives is another commitment to sobriety and a push to get back to having fun with the game that thrust him into the spotlight after winning the PGA Championship six years ago.
"The only fun I used to have is what got me suspended," he said.
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He underwent alcohol rehabilitation for the second time in four years after a drinking binge at the Players Championship in March.
There were no shakes yesterday when a steady Daly played in a nine-hole Skins Game — paired with Fuzzy Zoeller.
CROMWELL, Conn. — A trimmed-down John Daly is preparing for a return to PGA competition following a five-week absence that started with his abrupt withdrawal from the U.S. Open.
1994, he agreed to sit out the rest of the year.
"I feel good, and my game is solid," he said. "It'll be a little different because I haven't played in a month and a half, but I'm not going to worry about what I'm going to shoot. I'm just going to go out and play and see how I feel. There's no goals these days, except sobriety."
"Everybody for the last three years has been saying go out and have fun. It's easy to say that," Daly said yesterday while practicing.
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