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Baseball to play first home series
By Ryan Colaiani
rcolaiani@kansan.com
Kansan sportwriter
After playing 15 games on the road, the Kansas baseball team will finally get to play at home, in Hoglund Ballpark, as the Jayhawks host the 1-1 Creighton Bluejays at 1 p.m. Sunday.
The 'Hawks look to rebound after be swept last weekend by No.4 Stanford.
"We played very well Saturday and Sunday against Stanford," coach Ritch Price said. "But I think the difference was the fact that they have been outside all season and we have been practicing in Anschutz for four weeks."
The team has been unable to practice outdoors for the entire season, holding practices at Anschutz Sports Pavilion. With
"Sean Land has been outstanding out of the bullpen, he has held the lead in many games this season."
Ritch Price Baseball coach
the weather warming up the team is hoping it will be able to practice outside before the home opener
Price had his team shoveling snow out of the outfield into carts and dropping in the parking lot.
"We got the snow off today, we just have to hope that it warms up so the field can dry out," Price said. "These guys have worked their tails off trying to get this field clear."
This weekend was supposed to
be a home and away with Creighton, but be c a u s e Creighton is still covered in snow, only one game will be played.
Senior Ryan Knippschild will be the start-
Price
will be pitcher Sunday for the Jayhawks. Knippschild is 1-2 on the season with an ERA of 6.04.
Creighton, coached by Ed Servais, who is in his first year, is trying to improve a program which went 20-37 last season.
Kansas Baseball Notebook
Freshman Sean Land, who is 1-0 out of the bullpen, has impressed Price so far this season.
Land is the team's only fresh man pitcher.
"Sean Land has been outstanding out of the bullpen, he has held the lead in many games this season,"
Land
Price said. Land ranks fourth on the team in innings pitched.
The Jayhawks have changed the dates of their Oakland series next week, moving the games from Feb. 25 through 28 to Feb. 23 through 26. Price elected to move the series because of possible poor weather for the weekend.
- Edited by Nikki Nugent
Hockey to play final two home games
By Christina Kessler
ckessler@kansan.com
Kansas sportwriter
With 24 games under its belt and only four games left in its season, the University of Kansas' men's hockey team (6-16-2) can finally look forward to playing on its home ice.
The team has been on the road since the spring semester started with not much success.
Last weekend, the Hawks went to Springfield, Mo., to take on the Bears of Southwest Missouri State (20-10-0) with disappointing results.
Both games were losses, with Kansas scoring only two goals in each game. In the first game, Ryne
"A few guys even had to change their playing positions to help out the team. Everyone has worked very hard this
year."
Ryne Tusten
Olathe freshman
Tusten, Olathe freshman, scored both goals, but it wasn't enough to prevent a 2-7 loss.
"A team can't become great until they face adversity." Tusten said about the season so far.
tine following night, Tusten shared a goal with David Knight.
Toronto sophomore. But the Hawks just couldn't pull it out, losing 2-6.
"I love playing hockey. Scoring goals is just a plus," Tusten said. "It isn't much fun to score goals if your team doesn't win. Nothing is more fun than winning games."
Tusten has nine goals for the year and has easily proven himself as a key player for Kansas' hockey team as a freshman.
He also said it would be rare to have a first-year team win all of its games.
"I there are a lot of guys who have improved throughout the season," Tusten said. "A few guys even had to change their playing positions to help out the team. Everyone has worked very hard this year."
This weekend, the Jayhawks changed their schedule.
Instead of facing the University of Oklahoma, who defeated Kansas early in the season, they face the Roadrunners of Metro State University of Denver at 8:30 p.m. tonight and tomorrow at Canlan Ice Sports, 19900 Johnson Dr. Shawnee.
These two are the last of the team's home games.
The teams have never played each other before.
- Edited by Nikki Nugent
Final seating plan comments submitted
By Joe Bant
jbant@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
The University of Kansas faculty and staff finished their men's basketball seating plan last week
Now, the Athletics Department just needs to follow suit.
The department's priority points seating plan isn't finalized yet, but one more step in the process was finished Wednesday when the 44-person ticket advisory committee submitted its final comments regarding the plan.
The committee has been reviewing the plan since the end of January when the department first released a draft of the plan. Changes the committee has initiated include a greater points award for University service and points for people who donate money to the Chancellor's Club.
Don Steeple, vice provost and committee member, said he thought the most important change was awarding points to the Chancellor's Club donors. He said it was a good way of recognizing the people who gave money to the academic side of the University.
Andy Knopp, student body president and member of the committee, also agreed that monetary donations should be the primary way to earn points. He said if the prime seats were going to go for cheap, they should go to the students. Otherwise, they should be used to maximize revenue.
Jim Marchiony, associate athletics director for external affairs, said the next step for the department would be to show the plan to
the KUAC board, so that it could comment at its Feb.27 meeting.
Sometime after that, he said the athletics director would submit the final plan to the chancellor for approval.
The department's first draft of the plan, which was released at the end of January, aimed to increase revenue for KU athletics by distributing the best seats to men's basketball and football games to the biggest donors.
The plan used a points system to accomplish this, with a variety of criteria to award points that will determine where ticket-holders will sit. Donating money to the Athletics Department was the primary way to earn points.
The department then appointed the ticket advisory committee to consider the draft of the plan and to suggest necessary changes. The department wanted to consult a broad spectrum of people to ensure the plan represented a variety of perspectives, Marchiony said.
Committee member Dale Seuferling said it was nice to be finished with this part of the process, and now the department could move on to finalizing the details and putting the plan to action.
Seuferling, who is also the president of KU Endowment, said he thought the committee had done a good job accomplishing what it set out to do.
“Introducing change like this is always difficult,” Seuferling said. “It's been a process that has sought input from all the various constituencies.”
BASEBALL
Edited by Michelle Rodick
Pujols gets large offer from St. Louis Cardinals
Albert Pujols and the St. Louis Cardinals were expected to announce their $100 million,
seven-year contract today, when the sides had been scheduled to go to salary arbitration in Arizona.
Puilots and the Cardinals agreed to the deal Wednesday, according to a source familiar with the negotiations who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
The Cardinals called an 10 a.m. news conference for today at their spring training complex in Jupiter, Fla., but did not announce the subject matter.
At 24, Pujols led the major leagues in hitting at .359 last year. He hit 43 home runs with 124 RBIs and topped the majors with 51 doubles, and he made $950,000. His deal contains an option for an eighth year that could make the contract worth $111 million.
Puiols gets $7 million this year,
$11 million in 2005, $14 million in
2006, $15 million in 2007 and $16
million in each of the final three years, according to contract terms obtained Thursday by The Associated Press.
The Cardinals have a $16 million option for 2011 with a $5 million buyout.
St. Louis gets to defer $3 million a year from his 2007-10 salaries without interest, with Pujols getting $1.2 million a year from 2020-29.
St. Louis made Pujols the ninth baseball player to receive a $100 million contract, the first since Jason Giambi's $120 million, seven-year agreement with the New York Yankees in December 2001.
Pujols has played only three full seasons, making him the fastest player to receive a $100 million contract.
Colorado's Todd Helton signed a $141.5 million, nine-year extension in March 2001 after three-plus seasons in the big leagues.
Pujols had been seeking $10.5 million in arbitration, while the Cardinals had offered $7 million.
Cardinals had only one AP team. Third baseman Scott Rolen previously had been the highest-paid Cardinals player. He'll be entering the second year of an eight-year, $90 million contract.
The Associated Press
NBA teams negotiate players, draft picks
The Associated Press
The Detroit Pistons got a lot better without giving a lot away, getting Rasheed Wallace from the Atlanta Hawks yesterday in the most significant deal before the NBA trading deadline.
Pistons president Joe Dumars gave up a pair of first-round draft picks and four reserves — Bob Sura, Zeljko Rebraca, Lindsey Hunter and Chucky Atkins—in a three-way trade also involving the Boston Celtics.
A total of four trades were made yesterday, two apiece by the Utah Jazz and Orlando Magic.
By far the biggest was the Wallace deal, which adds a talented offensive threat to a team that went to the conference finals last season and has the East's third-best record (34-22).
"Itm getting Rasheed is a great thing. I'm happy for those guys," Knicks president Isiah Thomas said. "At least now there's a couple teams over here that can challenge Indiana and New Jersey."
The Pistons beat out the Knicks to obtain Wallace, putting together a package — a No.1 and
a parcel of players with expiring contracts—that was exactly what Atlanta wanted.
Detroit sent Rebraca and Sura to the Hawks, and Atkins and Hunter to the Celtics, and received Mike James from Boston. Atlanta gets Milwaukee's lottery-protected first-round pick, and Boston gets Detroit's No. 1 pick. The Hawks also received forward Chris Mills from the Celtics.
Wallace played only one game for the Hawks, who acquired him from Portland last week.
"He was a big fish on the market, and we did everything — without tearing up the core of the team — to try to get him," Thomas said. "If it was a talent-for-talent deal, we were in a pretty good position to play in that game. But that's not what they were looking for."
Thomas also was in negotiations with the Golden State Warriors for center Erick Dampier, but the teams could not agree on a deal.
Another team surprisingly idle was the Philadelphia 76ers, who turned down Orlando's offer of Gordon Giricek and Juwan
Howard for Eric Snow.
Instead, Giricek was dealt from Orlando to Utah for guard DeShawn Stevenson and a future second-round pick. The Magic also dealt Shammond Williams to New Orleans for Sean Rooks.
Utah also acquired Tom Gugliotta, a pair of No. 1 picks and a 2005 second-round pick from Phoenix for Keon Clark and Ben Handlogen — a deal that uses up all of the Jazz's salary cap space for this season. The two No. 1 picks formerly belonged to the Knicks, who sent them to Phoenix in the Stephon Marbury trade.
One consequence of the Suns-Jazz trade is that Utah no longer has the ability to claim center Michael Doleac off waivers. New York traded the 7-foot center to Atlanta last weekend in the deal that brought Tim Thomas and Nazr Mohammed to the Knicks, and the Knicks now hope to resign him.
Thomas, who brought in Kareem Abdul-Jabbar to tutor his big men at practice yesterday, said the Knicks are also interested in signing Vin Baker after he clears waivers.
Among other trade-minded teams shut out were the Toronto Raptors, who are in danger of falling out of the playoff race after losing Vince Carter and Jalen Rose to injuries.
"There was nothing we could get done that made sense. We could have made some bad deals. There were no good deals out there," general manager Glen Grundal said. "We were trying to get a veteran big guy. Those guys are more difficult to get."
Difficult for everyone except Dumars, who added Wallace to a starting front court that already includes All-Star Ben Wallace and Mehmet Okur.
By shedding Atkins' contract, Dumars also positioned the Pistons far enough under the salary cap to offer Okur a market-value deal when he becomes a free agent this summer.
Dumars said Wallace's past problems never entered into his decision-making process, and coach Larry Brown was thrilled with the acquisition of a fellow former North Carolina Tar Heel.
"It gives us a real shot to compete at the highest level in the NBA right now," Dumars said.
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