Thursday, April 19, 2001
The University Daily Kansan
Section A · Page 11
COLLEGE FOOTBALL Northern Arizona put on probation
PHOENIX — Northern Arizona's football program was put on probation for three years by the NCAA yesterday for using an ineligible player.
The university was censured for a lack of institutional control because professors changed the player's grades.
The NCAA Division I infractions Committee took away five football equivalences for the 2002-03 academic year, leaving the team with 58. An equivalency is a scholarship that can be divided up among several players.
The committee vacated the results of six 1999 games in which wide receiver Francis St. Paul played while inelegible, committee chairman Jack Friedenthal said yesterday. The Lumberjacks won four of the six games, so their 1999 record dropped from 8-4 to 4-8 with the ruling.
The committee found that Northern Arizona failed to report the violations and ignored initial inquiries from the Big Sky Conference, which ordered the team to forfeit the games last year.
The committee found that two university professors either improved St. Paul's grades posted the previous semester or submitted early grades.
MLB
Rays ax manager; McRae takes reins
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Larry Rothschild was fired yesterday as manager of the Bay Beach Devil Rays after three consecutive last place finishes and a 4-10 start this season.
He was replaced by Hal McRae, the Devil Rays' bench coach this season
who managed Kansas City from May 1991 through 1994. McRae played for the Royals from 1973 to 1987.
The firing, the first of the 21/2-week-old season, came a day after the Devils Rays lost 10-0 to Boston in their 499th game ever. Rothschild had been the manager for every one, compiling a 205-294 record.
The Devil Rays were nearly flawless in opening the season with an 8-1 victory against Toronto, but it was all downhill after that. After playing sloppily and losing the second game of the series 11-8, the Blue Jays took the finale 11-0.
The skid reached seven games when the Devil Rays dropped the first five games on a 10-game, 11-day road trip that may have sealed Rothschild's fate.
McGwire goes on DL because of tendinitis
ST. LOUIS — Mark McGwire's balky right knee has landed him back on the disabled list.
The St. Louis Cardinals first baseman was placed on the 15-day disabled list yesterday because of tendinitis in his knee.
"It's hard to believe that in 15 days he'll be ready," St. Louis manager Tony La Russa said yesterday before the Cardinals played Arizona.
McWire, baseball's single-season home run king, has been bothered by the knee since last season. He had just 15 at-bats after the All-Star break because of the sore knee.
He has played only six games this year, with two hits and one home run in 21 at-bats, for a .095 average.
"All I know is, I'm not myself," McGwire said Tuesday. "I have to play at a certain level and I'm not there, if I don't play at a certain level, I think I'm embarrassing myself and I'm no good to a ballclub."
Hardaway to miss entire postseason
NBA
PHOENIX — Penny Hardaway won't be joining the Phoenix Suns for the plays. After practicing twice, Hardaway decided his surgically repaired right knee isn't strong enough.
"It was my decision basically," Hardaway said yesterday at the team's morning shootaround. "I didn't feel I was at the percentage I needed to be at to help the team."
Phoenix coach Scott Skiles said Tuesday he thought Hardaway looked good and could help the team in the postseason. But he said yesterday he wasn't surprised Hardaway wouldn't play.
The Suns play Sacramento in the first round.
"We know he's not 100 percent and probably more like 75 percent," Skiles said. "This team has won 50 games so far without Penny for the most part, so we don't see the reason to risk putting him out there."
Hardaway, in the second year of a seven-year, $86 million contract, played in only four games in January before he was sidelined by extreme soreness in the knee. He missed 22 games last season because of a foot injury.
BOXING
Tyson to fight against WBA's No. 9 contender
NEWYORK — Mike Tyson, whose last three bouts have totaled 1.0 minutes, 41 seconds, will fight David Izon on June in the MCI Center at Washington.
Tyson (48-2, 2 no-contests, 42 knockouts) stopped Lou Savarese at 38 seconds of the opening round June 24 in
Glasgow, Scotland. On Oct. 20, Andrew Golota quit against Tyson after the second round at the Palace of Auburn Hills (Mich.), and the fight was later ruled a no-contest.
Izon (27-3, 23 knockouts), a native of Nigeria, is ranked the No. 9 heavyweight contender by the WBA.
The Associated Press
Sports Calendar
thurs.
Softball vs Missouri. 4 p.m.
Kansas Relays. Events begin at 9:30 a.m.
women's tennis vs Southern Methodist. Noon.
Men's tennis at Texas Christian. 1 p.m.
Softball at Iowa State.
1 p.m.
Baseball vs Nebraska.
2 p.m.
Kansas Relays. Events begin at 8 a.m.
Browning at Midwest
sun.
Begin at 8 a.m.
Rowing at Midwest Championships in Madison, Wisc. All day.
Men's tennis at Tulsa. 11 a.m.
Women's tennis vs. Texas A&M in Kansas City, Mo.
Noon.
Baseball vs Nebraska. 1
n.m.
Softball at Iowa State. 1 p.m.
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