wednesday, february 11,2004
sports
the university daily kansar
3B
Hockey team can't get a break
By Christina Kessler
ckessler@kansan.com
Kansan sportswriter
Jordan Egertson, Chesterfield, Mo. freshman defender, watched as his teammates battle the Southwest Missouri State Bears on Friday, Oct. 10. The game concluded with a 4-3 defeat.
Starting off with a rocky spring semester, the University of Kansas ice hockey team has now gone to 6-14-2, after losing its last four games on the road.
Two weeks ago, Jan. 23 and 24 the team went on the road to face the Eagles of Robert Morris, a Division 2 team.
Marty McSorley, Webster Grove, Mo., senior, was in goal for the first game, facing about 45 shots.
With only eleven seconds off the clock, Conner Meigs, Omaha, Neb., freshman, scored his first goal of the season. Unfortunately, the game ended in a loss of 3-13.
Other goal scorers were Brandon Schultz, Apple Valley, Minn., senior, and David Hall, Wichita freshman.
The second game did not go well. With a final score of 0-10, the Jayhawks never got into a groove against the Eagles.
Zach Sias, Webster Grove, Mo., freshman, was in goal and faced around the same amount of shots as the previous night.
Robert Morris defeated Kansas previously in the Kansas Cup Tournament at the beginning of the season with score of 1-8. Robert Morris is ranked in the top five in the Mid-America Collegiate Hockey Association (MACHA).
The following weekend, Jan. 30 and 31, was an off weekend for the
"I've been going school, hockey practice, work, homework, sleep since the semester started," said captain Jeff Evans, Omaha, Neb., junior.
Kansas hockey team. Needing a break from its strenuous school and practice schedule, the team practiced and was able to relax.
Last weekend, the 'Hawks faced Eastern Illinois in Charleston. Ill.
Marty McSorley was in goal, and faced 30 shots on net. Kansas attempted 23 shots.
The lone goal was by Conner Meigs, who went coast to coast to score his second goal of the season. The final score was 1-5.
The following night, the Hawks had better luck, but still couldn't come up with the win.
Ryan McGarry, Superior, Wis. junior, was in goal. Shots improved by seven on both sides, totalling 50 for Kansas and 37 for Eastern Illinois.
Steve Barbaro, St. Cloud, Minn., sophomore, scored his first goal after returning from a torn achilles
tendon, which he had injured at the beginning of the season.
Other goal scorers were Schultz, Hall, Sammy Dorf,
Chicago freshman, and Joey Barghini, St. Louis Park, Minn,
juniure. The final score was 5-6.
This weekend, Kansas has two away games, facing the Bears of Southwest Missouri State.
The Bears record stands at 18- 10-0, a challenge for the struggling 'Hawks.
— Edited by Stephanie Love**
New rules could change National Hockey League
HENDERSON, Nev. — Hoping to increase scoring in the National Hockey League, general managers proposed yesterday that goaltenders wear smaller pads and not be allowed to handle the puck behind the goal line.
The Associated Press
"we are attempting to restrike the balance between offense and defense," NHL commissioner
Gary Bettman said after a meeting of GMs and three members of the players' association.
Goaltenders will be the most affected as the width of their pads would be reduced from 12 inches to 10 inches — where the pads were before 1989 — and they no longer be able to go behind the goal line to play the puck.
Most couldn't remember a time when suggested changes weren't supported.
Scoring has dropped by 25
"We now have to go back and take the package and flush it out, make sure we haven't omitted anything or need to clarify something." Bettman said.
goals per game in the last 15 years to an average of five per game.
Most of the changes would take effect by next season, unless a work stoppage occurs after the collective bargaining agreement expires Sept. 15.
The general managers plan to meet again within the next two months for further discussion on the rule changes.
The group came up with several adjustments that could become rules once they are discussed and voted on by a panel of hockey experts.
Steve Lower, president of Hardbodies Entertainment Inc. in Denver, said athletes at Colorado and universities around the country have been paying strippers to entertain recruits for years.
Lower said students or athletes at the University of Houston, Rice University, University of Northern Colorado and Colorado State University also have hired his dancers.
The Associated Press
DENVER — Already mired in a scandal that includes rape allegations, the University of Colorado suffered another blow yesterday when an adult entertainment company confirmed that football players hired strippers for recruiting parties as recently as two weeks ago.
"Yes, these have been our girls doing it, and no, the college has absolutely not paid for it, condoned it or been aware of it," he said.
"It's a tradition, like throwing a bachelor party," he said.
Officials at most of the schools did not return calls seeking comment.
ment:
"Ifthis is true, it is a violation of what we teach them and tell them," Colorado football coach Gary Barnett said.
Houston athletic director Dave Maggard said he and football coach Art Briles were not aware of any strip parties.
Earlier this month, St. John's University suspended five basketball players for breaking curfew to go to a strip club.
University of Minnesota officials are investigating whether high school football recruits visited bars and a strip club during a visit in December.
According to National Collegiate Athletic Association rules, a school "may not arrange or permit excessive entertainment," though it is unclear what constitutes excessive.
The NCAA is convening a
"If this is true, it is a violation of what we teach them and tell them."
Gary Barnett Colorado football coach
panel this spring to discuss recruiting problems.
Colorado was plunged into scandal last week with the disclosure of allegations that it uses sex and women to entice recruits.
The claim was made by Boulder County District Attorney Mary Keenan in one of three federal lawsuits filed by women who say they were raped at an off-campus party in Dec. 2001 which was attended by Colorado players and recruits.
Last week, police said they were also investigating whether Colorado football players hired prostitutes from an escort service.
University officials have denied the school uses sex parties as a recruiting tool.
Last week, Barnett suspended four players, including one for taking a recruit to a strip club.
The Board of Regents has ordered a special commission to investigate and prepare a report by April 30.
Regent Jim Martin, who has been critical of how university administrators have handled the scandal, said investigators should find out where the money to pay for the strippers came from.
Colorado players testified in depositions that they get $30 from athletic department officials to host recruits.
Lower said it costs $250 for two strippers to dance for an hour.
supplies to the team. "It is usually paid for by friends of the players," said Lower, who spoke first with the Rocky Mountain News.