Thursday, April 26, 2001
The University Daily Kansan
Section A · Page 9
KANSAS BASEBALL
Hawks sign five more to letters of intent
Kansas coach Bobby Randall announced the signing of five athletes to national letters of intent yesterday.
Randall addressed the team's pitching needs by signing two junior college pitchers — Pat Holmes and Brad Vibbard. Holmes spent the past two seasons at NJCAA powerhouse San Jacinto North Junior College in Houston. Holmes, who also will play first base for the Jayhawks, batted .319 last season and added six home runs and two stolen bases while leading San Jacinto to the NJCAA World Series as a freshman.
Vibbard pitched the last two seasons at Northeast Texas Community College in Mt. Pleasant, Texas.
The other Kansas signees were catcher Beau Thompson, who played the last two seasons at Westark College in Ft. Smith, Ark.; Dwayne White, a centerfielder at Independence High School; and Devin Warner, an outfielder from Fort Collins, Colo.
The five recruits join Justin Humphries (1B,P), Chris George (P), Adam Rachlin (OF) and Andy Lytle (SS/P), who all signed during the fall signing period.
TENNIS
Women to take on Missouri in first round
The Kansas women's tennis team will begin its quest for a Big 12 Championship title today in Waco, Texas.
the seventeed Jayhawks (11-11,
4-7) take on the 10th seeded
Missouri Tigers
(13-9, 2-8) in a first-round match-up at
KANSAS
TENNIS
3 p.m. today. Kansas has won 20 consecutive matches against the Tigers dating back to 1981, including a 5-2 victory against Missouri on March
14 in Columbia, Mo.
The winner of the Kansas Missouri match will advance to tomorrow's quarterfinals in the 12-team tournament and will face second-seeded Oklahoma State.
Today's First Round
No. 8 Colorado vs. No. 9 Texas
Tech, noon.
No. 5 Kansas State vs. No. 12
Oklahoma, noon.
No. 6 Nebraska vs. No. 11 Iowa State, 3 p.m.
-Kansan staff reports
No. 7 Kansas vs. No. 10 Missouri, 3 p.m.
NFL
Former first-round pick decides to end career
CLEVELAND — Six weeks ago, Curtis Enis had a chance to start his career again. Now, it's come to an end.
The 24-year-old, a former first-round draft pick who had hoped to resurrect his career with the Cleveland Browns, said yesterday he was retiring from football because of a degenerative condition in his left knee.
He was signed by the Browns to a one-year contract March 13 after three disappointing seasons with the Chicago Bears. He said he had been considering retirement for some time and finalized his decision after the Brown's recent minicamp.
"It's tough," Enis said. "But it's just a part of the game. You come in with so much promise and high hopes of doing well and the injury just wouldn't let it happen."
Denver lineman gets contract for $60 million
DENVER — Trevor Price became one of the NFL's top-paid defensive players yesterday when he resigned with the Denver Broncos for $60 million for seven years.
The deal, which came nearly a year after Prince held out of training camp in an attempt to renegotiate his contract he signed as a rookie, includes a signing bonus worth nearly $11 million.
"I wanted to play here the rest of
my career," said Pryce, 6-foot-5 and
295 pounds. "I love the city. I love the people. This is an ideal situation for me and my family."
Pryce, a defensive tackle who was in the final year of his five year, $4.9 million contract was rewarded
with a revamped deal after appearing in his second-straight Pro Bowl after the 2000 season.
Last summer, Pryce stayed out of training camp for 16 days, rejecting a seven-year, $31.5 million offer.
NBA
BLAZERS
Trail Blazers fined $7,500 for verbal abuse
NEW YORK — Dale Davis of the Portland Trail Blazers was fined $7,500 by the NBA yesterday for verbally abusing officials during his team's 106-93 playoff loss to the Lakers in Los Angeles last Sunday.
Davis fouled out of the game trying to guard Shaquille O'Neal after playing just nine minutes without scoring. He had just two rebounds.
After the game, Portland players and coaches complained that the officials were protecting O'Neal.
Davis' fine was the third levied on the Trail Blazers in the first game of the first-round series.
Even before the games started, Rasheed Wallace was fined $10,000 for failing to make himself available to the media and the team was fined $25,000 for failing to ensure its players adhered to the NBA's media policy.
Newest champ gets knocked out of car
BOXING
BALTIMORE — Newly crowned heavyweight champion Hasim Rahman and his family were thrown from a convertible in a
Everybody's OK," Rahman said after leaving The Johns Hopkins Hospital.
The champ said he was feeling "excellent" and was "ready to talk about the next fight."
motorcycle accident yesterday after a celebration at City Hall.
Rahman sustained minor cuts on his elbows. His wife, Crystal, sustained cuts and bruises and was fitted for a neck brace before being taken from the scene by ambulance.
The boxer, his wife and at least two of their three children were sitting in the back of a convertible when it struck a taxi, hurling them from the car.
Rahman had been honored at City Hall for winning the IBF and WBC titles Saturday night in South Africa with a surprise fifth-round knockout of Lennox Lewis.
Italian racer killed during test drive
RACING
BERLIN — Michele Alboreto, a one-time Formula One star, was killed when the Audi he wastest driving crashed in eastern Germany, the carmaker said yesterday.
The 44-year-old Italian was behind the wheelofa new R6car when it spun out of control and turned over on a straight section of the Lausitzring circuit, in what Audi's sporting chief Wolfgang Ulrich called an "incomprehensible tragedy."
The carmaker said it didn't yet know what caused the crash, adding that the car had already completed thousands of miles of tests on various circuits without incident.
Alboretto, born in Milan on Dec. 23,
1956, broke into Formula One with the
Tyrrell team in 1981 and won his first race in Las Vegas that year and
again in Detroit two years later.
The Associated Press
TRIVIA ANSWER
The Pittsburgh Alleghenies named after the Allegheny River, which runs through Pittsburgh. They became the Pirates in 1889.
College Hall of Fame adds new members
The Associated Press
SOUTH BEND, Ind. — Former Washington Redskins quarterback Doug Williams and New Orleans Saints coach Jim Haslett were among five players and two coaches added yesterday to the College Football Hall of Fame.
"When you think about all the people who have played, to be selected for this honor says a lot," said Williams, now the coach at Grambling.
Williams, who guided the Tigers to a 35-5 record from 1974-77, and Haslett, who played linebacker and defensive end at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, were selected from Division I-AA, II, III and the NAIA schools. Last week, 15 former Division I-A players and three coaches were selected.
"I don't think it makes much of a difference where you played. It's what you do where you play that matters," Williams said.
Others named to the Hall yesterday were two-way players Gordie Lockbaum of Holy Cross and Bill Redell of Occidental; Freddie Scott, a wide receiver at Amherst; Joe Fusco, who helped build Westminster into a small-college power; and Ace Mumford, who compiled a 233-85-23 record coaching Jarvis Christian, Bishop, Texas College and Southern from 1924-61.
He was the first player from a predominantly black college ever chosen as a first-team All-America by The Associated Press and also was the first quarterback from a predominantly black college to be picked in the
Williams passed for 8,411 yards and 93 touchdowns, and finished fourth in the Heisman Trophy voting in 1977, the year Earl Campbell of Texas won.
"I don't think it makes much difference where you played. It's what you do where you play that matters."
Doug Williams
former Washington Redskins
quarterback
first round of the NFL draft.
Williams, who also was the first black quarterback to win a Super Bowl, said it's rewarding to him to see so many black quarterbacks flourishing in the NFL, especially with Michael Vick being the first player selected Saturday in the draft.
"They can concentrate on what they're doing and it makes it easier to perform," said Williams, who guided Grambling to 9-2 last season.
Haslet set school records with 20 sacks and five fumble recoveries in a season before becoming a second-round draft pick of the Buffalo Bills in 1979. He was the AP's defensive rookie of the year and played for nine years before going into coaching.
Lockbaum played defensive back and halfback for Holy Cross, finishing fifth in the Heisman voting after his junior year and third the next year.
Redell played quarterback and defensive back at Occidental after passing up a scholarship offer to Southern Cal. Redell earned first team All-Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference honors on both offense and defense. He also was the place-kicker and punter, and played six years in the Canadian Football League.
Padres' left fielder breaks the Babe's record
The Associated Press
SAN DIEGO — The Man of Steal lifted a record from the Sultan of Swat.
It was just a day earlier that Henderson matched the record.
Rickey Henderson, who's usually in a headfirst hurry, took a leisurely stroll to first base yesterday for his 2,063 walked, breaking the record he shared for a day with Babe Ruth.
pretty big reason — the Babe.
Always able to inject a bit of swagger into the moment, Henderson, 42, took off his batting helmet Tuesday and waved to the cheering crowd as a small burst of fireworks went off.
The walks record might seem somewhat mundane next to Henderson's many other accomplishments, but it's notable for a
"He's Mr. Baseball. Once you get in the category of a Babe Ruth, it means that you went out and you did the best job you can do."
"The name comes to mind and you think about the greatest baseball player that played the game, the guy that probably kept this game alive for so many years," said Henderson, who's been baseball's career stolen base leader for a decade.
Henderson would have owned the record earlier if not for a statistical adjustment by the commissioner's office in 1999 that added six walks to Ruth's total, 64 years after his last game.
Henderson, who drew the record-tying walk off reliever Chris Brock and the record-setter off Jose Meza, put that in perspective like only he can.
"He's Mr. Baseball. Once you get in the category of a Babe Ruth, it means that you went out and you did the best job you can do."
Rickey Henderson
Padres left fielder
"I always wonder, where did he get those walks?" Henderson said. "It was a theory that Babe rose again and went back out there and they gave him six more intentional walks because they were still afraid to pitch to him.
"He got a few more walks, so we just laughed about it."
Tony Gwynn, who like Henderson is a probable Hall of Famer, laughs too, but only because his teammate's latest milestone seems a bit surreal.
Gwynn, an eight-time batting champion and member of the 3,000-hit club, is in his 20th season and Henderson in his 23rd. With careers that long, Gwynn said, players are bound to mingle with immortals on the all-time lists.
"Babe Ruth is like the icon of this game," Gwynn said. "To be chasing one of his records, man, it's hard to put it in perspective."
"When there's nobody else left to pass, I'm sure you think about it a little bit more than you would if there's seven, eight guys in front of you," Gwynn said. "But when you get to the last one and it's Babe Ruth, geez."
Don't forget the
thur.
Sports Calendar
Men's tennis at Big 12 Championships. With win Friday, team plays at noon.
20% student discount when placing a classified. With proof of KUID
Softball vs.
Oklahoma. 1 p.m.
Baseball at Texas
Tech. 2 p.m.
Women's tennis
at Big 12
Championships.
With victory
Friday, semifinals
at 3:30 p.m.
Rowing at K-
State Regatta. All
day.
Championships vs. Oklahoma State. 11 a.m.
Women's tennis at Big 12 Championships.
With win Thursday, team plays Oklahoma State at 4 p.m.
Baseball at Texas Tech. 7 p.m.
Track at Drake Relays. All day.
Men's tennis at Big 12
**Women's tennis**
at Big 12
Championship
finals. 11 a.m.
**Softball vs.**
Oklahoma. 1 p.m.
**Baseball at Texas**
Tech. 2 p.m.
**Men's tennis at**
Big 12
Championship
finals. 2:30 p.m.
Where is the Panchen Lama?
We don't know,but we're throwing a birthday party!!!!
Students for a Free Tibet is hosting a Veggie Lunch today at the ECM(12th and Oread) from 11.00am to 1.00pm to celebrate the 12th birthday of one of the world's youngest political prisoners.