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Friday, March 3. 1995
SPORTS UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
SPORTS in brief
Kansas swimmers and divers earn Big Eight kudos
Kansas freshman swimmer Kristin Nilsen has been named Big Eight Women's Swimmer of the Month for the second time this season. She shared this month's honor with Penny Heyns and Melanie Dodd, both of Nebraska.
Nilsen also was named co-Outstanding Performer at the Big Eight Championships in Oklahoma City last weekend, placing first in the 200- and 400-yard individual medleys. She also took home Big Eight Women's Newcomer of the Year honors at the conference meet.
In other Kansas swimming and diving news, 18 team members were named yesterday to the Phillips 66 Academic All-Big Eight Honor Roll. Listed below are the nine Jayhawks named as first team selections and their grade point averages and majors:
Kristen Carlson, senior, 3,35, microbiol- og technik
■ Andrea Greves, sophomore, 3.10, undecided
Marc Hensel, senior, 3.90, business administration master's program
Roberto Iglesias, freshman, 3.80, premedicine/biology
Ronda Lusty, senior, 3.00, human development
Dan Philipos, junior. 3.08.business
Kristin Nilsen, freshman, 3.00, unde cided
■ Erika Rasmusson, senior, 3.36, journalism
Heather Switzer, senior, 3.40, mechanical engineering.
Kansas softball team to compete in Texas
The 5-1 Jayhawk softball team will play in its second tournament of the year this weekend in College Station, Texas.
The Texas A&M Invitational features 16 teams from the Midwest. Kansas is slated to open tournament-pool play with triple-
headers today and tomorrow.
Kansas' first opponent today will be Southwest Missouri State, followed by Purdue and Centenary. Tomorrow the Jayhawks will face McNeese State, Illinois and Texas A&M. The winners of each eight-team pool will square off Sunday in the tournament final.
Pitching will likely be the key to Kansas' success, as junior Bettie Robinson and sophomore Tiffany Blood will be called on to pitch numerous games.
At the plate, the Jayhawks will be led by sophomore designated-hitter Jacque Wenger and freshman shortstop Michelle Hubler, who lead the team in hitting with a 450 average.
Track team sends two to Iowa NCAA qualifier
Two Kansas track team members will compete this weekend in the NCAA qualifying meet in Ames, Iowa.
Senior All-American pole vaulter John Bazzoni and senior vaulter and highjumper Nick Johannsen will attempt to improve their NCAA provisional qualifying marks.
Bazzoni, who is a four-time Big Eight champion, will try to jump 18 feet 1/2 inch, which would automatically qualify him for the national championships. He already has jumped a provisional height of 17-8.
Bazzoni's provisional mark does not guarantee that he will compete in the NCAA Championships, but another jumper must beat that provisional mark to knock Bazzoni out of the competition.
Johanssen will attempt to improve his 7-3 provisional mark in the high jump. He also will compete in the pole vault competition.
If Bazzoni and Johannsen fail to qualify today, they will have the option of traveling to Lincoln. Neb., to jump tomorrow.
Kansas track coach Gary Schwartz said assistant coach Rick Attig would decide whether to send the two to Nebraska after he saw today's performances.
The NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships will be Mar. 10 and 11 in the RCA Dome in Indianapolis, Ind.
Compiled from Kangan staff reports.
Big 12 studies issues for 1996 conference
The biggest concern is dividing the money
The Associated Press
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Tens of millions of dollars will begin flowing into Big 12 coffers as soon as the new super conference opens for business in 1996.
People wonder who gets the money. What share of gate receipts will Nebraska and Texas keep from football stadiums, and what percentage will they share with other teams like Baylor and Iowa State?
People also wonder how much basketball money the Jayhawks will share with other teams.
At the end of two days of discussion Wednesday, Big 12 athletic directors and primary women's administrators felt much better about the most sensitive issues they face.
others. But at the same time, it helped define a little bit better what we need to do in terms of coming to a final proposal."
It's impossible to predict exactly how much money the Big 12 will reap through gate and television receipts for football and basketball, NCAA and conference basketball tournaments, and football bowl games.
If the Big 12 gets two teams into the first tier of bowl games, it will make at least $16 mil-
"It has the potential to be very divisive when you start talking about sharing people's mor."
"I don't think it will be as much of a problem as I thought it would be before this meeting," said Bob Bockrath, Texas Tech head of a special subcommittee studying revenue distribution. "It has the potential to be very divisive when you start talking about sharing people's money."
Subcommittees studying the issues submitted their reports, most without making any final recommendations. The Big 12, which begins competition in 1996, hopes to reach final issue decisions in a May meeting.
money. Bob Bockrath Texas Tech representative
"At this point in time, I feel reasonably certain we can do that," Bockrath said. "We had a very good meeting here."
"We developed some different revenue-sharing models," Bockrath said. "It would be fair to say some models were accepted better than
From the time the 12 schools first started talking about pooling their resources, they fretted over getting everybody to agree on how to split up their money.
lion. In addition, next year's new Big 12 football television plan will produce $18,300,300 and increase $500,000 a year. Complicating the issue is the presence of "haves" and "have-nots" in the new league. In football-eaching potential, Colorado, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Texas and Texas A&M tower over the others. The most consistent money-makers in basketball, on the other hand, include Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma State. Bockrath said his com-
"I wouldn't characterize it as being directed toward the haves or the have-nots, but somewhere in-between," he said. "That in-between ground is where we are now, trying to find out where that space is."
"There will have to be compromise on both ends." said Bockrath. "It's going to be some people on the low end who perhaps had great expectations of income increase who are going to have to concede that they're not going to get as much as they originally thought.
"And on the high end, some of those individuals will perhaps have to be willing to spread the wealth more than they have in the past."
The Big 12 schools also would supply teams for the second tier of bowl games — the Cotton, Holiday, Alamo, Copper and Aloha bowls — in the 1995 season, a year earlier than the actual formation of the new league. The Big Eight already had agreed to supply teams, but the new group would include the four newcomers from the Southwest Conference.
SPORTS WATCH
Live, same-day and delayed national TV sports coverage for today.
All Times CST
FRIDAY, MARCH 3
1:30 p.m.
3 p.m.
■ ESPN — Senior PGA Golf.
HPF Health Care Classic,
first round, at Ojai, Calif.
USA — PGA Golf, Doral Open, second round, at Miami
6 p.m.
PRIME — College Hockey,
CCHA/UIC at Notre Dame
6:30 p.m.
ESPN - NHL Hockey, Philadelphia at N.Y., Rangers
7 p.m.
7 p.m.
TNT — NBA Basketball,
Seattle at Phoenix
Luxury tax issue snuffs strike talks
The Associated Press
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Baseball talkers teetered on the verge of collapse Thursday night, when several owners said they were leaving the bargaining table and contemplating bringing in hard-line negotiators.
After a two-hour meeting with the union, acting commissioner Bud Selig said he would return to Milwaukee later in the evening, but some management negotiators would remain.
"We couldn't get around to talking about the luxury tax," Boston Red Sox chief executive officer John Harrington said.
The sides got stuck again on the owners' revenue-sharing agreement, reached in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., in January 1994.