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Haase only Big Eight pick on USA collegiate team
Kansan staff report
Kansas junior guard Jerod Hanse will join forces with 11 other collegiate standouts on the 1995 USA Men's World University Games Team.
The USA Basketball Men's College Committee selected the team Monday after three days of tryouts in Colorado Springs, Colo,
"There was some great competition at the trials, and for me to make the team is exciting," said Haase, who is the only Big Eight Conference representative. "It is a huge honor to be part of the World University Games Team and play for my country."
Haase, who led Kansas in scoring last season, completed his first season as a Jayhawk this spring. The Big Eight named Haase the conference's newcomer of the year.
The South Lake Tahoe, Calif., native won't be the only player on the team to have conference honors. Five other members of the world team were deemed top players in their conference.
"This is a group of good athletes whose abilities compliment each other very well," said USA coach Lon Kruger.
Members of the World University Games Team are: Chucky Atkins, South Florida; Ray Allen, Connecticut; Austin Crosher, Providence College; Tim Duncan, Wake Forest; Brian Evans, Indiana; Haase; Ottelia Harrington, Georgetown University; Allen Iverson, Georgetown; Kerry Kittles, Villanova; Charles O'Bannon, UCLA; Jerome Williams, Georgetown and Lorenzon Wright, Mamphis University
The squad will have a week to train before the World University Games begin on Aug. 24. The games will assemble the world's top student athletes and recent college graduates in Fukuoka, Japan.
'Hawks represented in festival
Kansan staff report
Several Kansas basketball players will represent the Jayhawks in the 1995 U.S. Olympic Festival.
USA Basketball and the U.S. Olympic Committee selected Kansas junior guard Tamecka Dixon, sophomore guard Billy Thomas and incoming freshman forward Paul Pierce to compete in the festival, held July 26-29.
Four regional teams compete against each other in the Olympic Festival. Players on these teams are 20 years old or younger with no more than one year of high school eligibility remaining.
Dixon is a member of the East Team, which includes high school first team All-American Chamaine Holdsclaw.
In the men's competition, Thomas will play on the North Team with three other Big Eight Conference representatives: Colorado's Chamcey Billups, Missouri's Kendrick Moore and Kansas State's Mark Young.
Pierce will compete on the West Team with Toby Bailey and J.R. Henderson, members of the national champion UCLA Bruins.
Ex-'Hawk tees up at U.S. Open
Former Kansas golfer Matt Gogel is learning to play for money.
By Mark Luce
Kansan staff writer
Three years ago, Gogel qualified for the U.S. Open Championship at Pebble Beach Golf Links in Pebble Beach, Calif. He was an
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Gogel qualified for his second Open by winning the sectional qualifying tournament at the Milburn Country Club in Kansas City, Mo. Gogel is already in New York for practice rounds and could not be reached for comment.
July, Gogel has traveled around the world to make his living playing golf. He played on the Asian Tour this spring and had a fourthplace finish in the China Open in April.
Gogel will attempt to earn his tour card, which would allow him to play for a year on the PGA Tour, later this summer.
Kansas men's golf coach Ross Randall said that his former player was progressing steadily in his professional endeavors.
Since he turned professional last
"Matt is coming along well." Randall said. "It may not be as quick as he would like, but he has had to get used to traveling and adjusting to different grass every week. Hopefully, he will continue on a nice steady progression."
Randall said that because Gogel already had played in one U.S. Open, he would be more relaxed this week.
"He's going as a professional," Randall said. "I don't think he will be as awed as he may have been as an amateur. He has gotten used to playing for money, which is very different than playing in college."
Dan Rooney, Kansas senior
golfer and Gogel's friend, said that Gogel was looking to improve on his last showing at the Open.
"From talking to him, he has a very different mindset," Rooney said. "It will be a real stepping stone if he can play well and make the cut."
Despite Gogel's talent, Rooney said that professional golf was highly unpredictable.
"He certainly has the tools to make the tour, but pro golf is a funny thing," Rooney said. "The odds are in his favor, but you can never be sure in golf."
Slade Adams, Kansas senior and last spring's Big Eight Conference co-champion, said that Gogel's collegiate experience should help him earn his tour card.
"It's a good type of warm-up because it gives you a feel of how you measure up against everyone else," Adams said. "A combination of skill, luck, determination and patience is needed to make the tour."
Gogel tees off in tomorrow's first round at 3:15 p.m. Television coverage for the first two rounds will be provided by ESPN.
PGA's Shark hungry for major win
The Associated Press
SOUTHAMPTON, N.Y. — Once again, Greg "The Shark" Norman comes into a major championship playing very well. Once again, he'll be the favorite to win. The question is: Will Norman disappoint once again?
Norman said yesterday that he was playing better going into this week's U.S. Open Championship than at any time in his career.
And Norman at his best is positively awesome.
Norman returned to competition after six weeks of rest, recovery and some fishing with a 19-
under-par victory at the Memorial Tournament two weeks ago and then had a fourth-place finish Sunday at the Kemper Open.
"On a scale of 1 to 10, I'd give it a 7 1/2." Norman said of his game's current state.
Even before his layoff, Norman was playing well. He was second at the Doral Ryder Open in March and third at the Masters Tournament a month later, closing with three 68s.
He has served notice on the Open's defending champion, Ernie Els, and the rest of the field that he'll be in the hunt when play begins tomorrow at Shinneck
Hills Golf Club in Southampton, N.Y. But even Norman knows he's served notice before only not to follow through.
"I have been at the top of my game, too, going into other tournaments, and it doesn't come off the way you like it to come off," Norman said before practicing yesterday.
Last year, for instance, Norman went into the Masters as a near prohibitive favorite after a record-shattering 24-under-par 268 and a four-stroke victory in The Players Championship. But he tied for 18th at Augusta, stumbling home with a 75 and a 77.
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