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SPORTS
2B THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
ATHLETICS CALENDAR
TODAY
Softball vs. Wichita State, 3 p.m., Arrocha Ballpark
FRIDAY
Baseball at Texas; 6:15 p.m., Austin, Texas
Player to watch: Andrew Spitfaden. As a replacement for the two regular catchers, the freshman has been on an absolute tear, including going 2-3, driving in two runs and scoring another in a 7-5 victory against Oklahoma Sunday.
SATURDAY
Softball vs. Iowa State, 2 p.m., Arrocha Ballpark
Spitzfaden
travelball at the 2, p.m. Austin, Texas
Track, Ward Haylett, 2, m.a. Austin, Manhattan
TENNIS
Two KU players named to All-Big 12 team
Women's tennis players sophomore Elizaveta Avdeeva and freshman Ksenia Bukina were named to the All-Big 12 tennis singles team and also to the All-Big 12 doubles team, the conference announced Monday.
ence announced Monday.
The pair, from Obninsk, Russia, played as No. 1 and No. 2 singles all season for the Jayhawks. Bukina was No. 1 while Avdeyeva was No. 2.
Eleven other singles players were named to the All-Big 12 singles team, and six other doubles duos were named to the doubles team.
— Eric Jorgensen
WOMEN'S GOLF
Junior women's golfer Amanda Costner was selected to play in the 2006 NCAA Regional Champion ships, the selection committee announced Monday.
Costner gets bid to NCAA Regional
play a selection committee announced Monday. The last Jayhawk to play in the NCAA Championships was Holly Reynolds in 1993. Before playing in the National Championship, Costner must qualify at the NCAA Regional May 11-13 in College Station, Texas.
texas.
A total of 324 golfers were selected for regional competition. Only 126 will advance to the National Championship.
Eric Jorgensen
Bonds inches closer to The Bambino
MLB
SAN FRANCISCO — Barry Bonds moved within two home runs of tying Babe Ruth on baseball's career list, connecting for No. 712 Tuesday against the San Diego Padres.
the San Diego Padres. Bonds homered to straightaway center field off Scott Linebrink with two outs and nobody on in the eighth inning. Linebrink became the 419th pitcher Bonds has homered against. Bonds' fourth home run of the season came on the final game of the Giants 'five-game homestand.
San Francisco starts a five-game road trip to Milwaukee and Philadelphia on Wednesday, during which Bonds could pass Ruth's mark of 714.
Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee
Boxer Oscar Del La Hoya poses on the ring at MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Tuesday. Del La Hoya will fight Ricardo May- orga on Saturday in Las Vegas.
Curators call for sports changes
MISSOURI ATHLETICS
BY ALAN SCHER ZAGIER ASSOCIATED PRESS
Now it's again time for Alden to face the curators for the University of Missouri's four-campus system — and this time he will have some company.
I have some of the agenda for the curators' Thursday and Friday meeting at the University of Missouri-St. Louis includes a session on intercollegiate athletics billed as "board development." Unlike the March 26 meeting — which came hours before Alden introduced Mike Anderson of Alabama-Birmingham as Missouri's new basketball coach — this week's discussion will take place in public.
COLUMBIA, Mo. — Five weeks ago, University of Missouri-Columbia athletics director Mike Alden emerged with his job barely intact after a closed meeting of university curators.
previously have suggested that Alden and his peers at the other three campuses report directly to University of Missouri system President Elson Floyd, rather than their respective chancellors.
in public Some curators, including John M. Carnahan III, of Springfield.
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In an interview with The Associated Press on Tuesday, Carnah stopped short of suggesting that sort of change, which was widely opposed on the campuses and among the public.
puses and among the people. But his comments suggest that for curators, the issue of athletics management in Columbia and across the University of Missouri system is far from over.
"We're not taking charge of the athletic departments," he said. "That's a sore point. But we are going to look at them to tell us what's going on."
ten or whatever, at minimum, Carnahan said, curators needed updates on campus sports business at most or all of their meetings, which are held every two months. He wants to compare the Missouri system's sports
management structure with those in other states, such as Texas and Illinois.
Carnahan also wants the curators, a group of both Democratic and Republican political appointees, to scrutinize athletic finances further to determine possible cost savings through program consolidation.
"I want to see what works on other campuses and what doesn't work," he said.
Carnahan acknowledged that he and his colleagues remain concerned about Alden's handling of the mid-February resignation of Quin Snyder in the middle of his seventh season as the Tigers men's basketball coach.
men's basketball courier
Snyder+, who received a $574,000 buyout, said he was forced out by Alden with six games to go and received the news from Gary Link, a Tigers broadcaster and Alden assistant.
Alden has denied that account but subsequently apologized for his handling of the affair.
MLB
Luna leaves bad days behind him
BY R.B. FALLSTROM ASSOCIATED PRESS
ST. LOUIS — If not for Junior Spivey's poor spring training, Hector Luna would likely be in the minor leagues trying to fight his way back to the St. Louis Cardinals.
Instead, he was one of the first-month surprises for a team off to another good start. Luna has shaken off a spring performance that was nearly as bad, impressing with his overall skills and versatility.
"He knew he had a real good opportunity to win a job and he didn't take advantage in spring training." teammate Albert Pujols said. "He didn't win that job and he didn't have a good spring training.
"But now this is the season, and when we need it he's coming through for us."
if he's coming through it.
Luna, 26, was mostly a bit-part player the last two seasons after the Cardinals took him in the Rule 5 draft from Cleveland in 2004. He's basically been splitting time at second base with Aaron Miles, and was batting .362 with a home run and six RBIs.
six RBIs. He has a pair of three-hit games, multiple hits in six of 12 starts, and seven hits in 12 at-bats with runners in scoring position. He's also played well in the field.
This performance is nothing like spring training when he batted only .207 and committed four errors, failing to seize a spot when the Cardinals gave him every opportunity with 58 spring at-bats.
bats.
"Junior and me, I didn't know how that was going to work out," Luna said. "I feel a lot better now.
Given new life when Spivey was outrighited to Triple-A Memphis to try to recapture the game that put him in the All-Star Game in 2002, Luna has looked more comfortable anywhere the Cardinals have put him than in either of his earlier seasons.
now. "In spring training, I didn't see the ball good out of the pitcher's hand."
seasons.
The performances of Luna and Miles, who was batting .293 after a two-hit game on Tuesday at Cincinnati, have thus far eased questions about the hole the Cardinals had to fill at second base when they refused to pay Mark Grudzielanek more than $2 million and he left for a free-agent deal with the Royals.
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