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Scrimmage focuses on basics
Bv Jeff Denton
sports@kansan.com
Kansan sportswriter
As Saturday's spring football game draws closer, Kansas coach Terry Allen has made it clear what he hopes to establish for the third Saturday of this month — another day of practice.
"It won't be a true game," Allen said of the 75-play scrimmage at 7 p.m. at Memorial Stadium. "With the new staff members and the new players, we really can't afford to break it up into a game because of utter chaos."
The spring opened up with chaos for the fifth-year coach. After spending the offseason reshuffling Kansas' coaching staff with new faces. Allen lost two familiar ones.
Linebackers coach Mark Farley, an assistant for Allen at Northern Iowa from 1987-96 and followed him to Lawrence in 1997.
resigned from Kansas's staff. He signed a five-year contract to coach at Northern Iowa.
Allen said Farley's hiring, which took place during Kansas' second day of spring practice, was disheartening but expected.
The next coach to pack his bags stunned Allen.
Running backs coach
Bill Salmon was lured
by Farley to Northern
laws to become its off-
sive coordinator. Like Farley, Salmon signed a five-year deal with the school, leaving two holes in Kansas' coaching department.
Since that time, Kansas hired Johnny Barr to coach the linebackers and promoted administrative assistant Rob Bolks to work
"I was upset when coach Farley left because he was a big reason why I came here," said Kansas junior defensive end Charlie Dennis. "But the new coaches have been such a strength to this team."
with the running backs.
Kansas will practice again today and have tomorrow off before Saturday's spring game.
With me coaching distractions behind him, Allen was finally able to focus on football. He said he had seen significant strides from the past 13 days of practice with the coaching staff and wanted to use the final two days as something to build on.
"But it is important when we are working on the schematics and the personnel that we do not put on a show." Allen said.
The real show, with a full cast, will kick off Sept. 1 when Kansas plays host to Southwest Missouri.
Edited by Melinda Weaver
On tournament days sophomore golfer Tiffany Kruggel only plays with No. 3 golf balls. Kruggel is one of many University of Kansas golfers who has chosen to look to superstition for good luck. Photo by Joanna Fewins/KANSAN
Superstition fuels'Hawk golfer habits
By John Domoney
sports@kansan.com
Kansan sportswriter
Tiger Woods always wears red shirts on Sunday's final round, David Duval lives up to his mysterious reputation by donning sunglasses and the late Payne Stewart paid homage to golf's heritage by sporting knickers for every tournament.
If superstitions work for today's finest golfers, then members of the Kansas men's and women's golf teams figure they should be incorporated into their games as well.
One of the most prevalent practices by both the Jayhawk men's and women's players concerns the marking of their balls on the green.
number."
"For myself, from high school to the last couple of tournaments I used a two dollar Canadian coin," senior Ashely Bishop said. "I played at sectionals junior year and won, but I lost the coin. I went all the way to the airport to get another one."
"On tournament days I only play No. 3 balls," said sophomore Tiffany Krugel. "It's my lucky
Of course, marking the ball is only the beginning of the story. Most players tend to give their golf balls a certain identification with a marker. Other players find it helpful to use the same number of golf balls for each round.
Look inside a Kansas golfer's bag and you'll probably find more good luck charms that appear to have no connection to golf. Each, however, allows the golfer to relax and enter a certain state of mind necessary for competition.
"I've got a little plastic world in my bag," said women's coach Nicole Hollingsworth. "When I'm hitting it bad I pull the little world out and realize I'm only a little dot on the world an 'it's not that bad."
So why are so many golfers superstitious?
"I think it's because it’s such a head game and such a mental game," his coach Ross Randall said. "I don’t care how well they’re hitting the ball but how well they’re thinking."
Of course, Randall would know all about the superstitious side of golf.
In his seven years on the PGA Tour, Randall saw the greatest golfers in the world succumb to their routines and superstititions.
Even legendary Jack Nicklaus was concerned about not changing a routine or his pre-round if it had produced a win in the past.
"Nicklaus had some things that he did that were very weird," Randall said. "In certain places he always had to have the same omelet, and he always wanted the same locker. He would also retrace
the same driving route to the golf course."
If one of golf's greatest legends follows a certain code of repetition, it's hard to argue against the effect of superstitions, which is why Randall doesn't usually discourage his players from following routines.
Randall does, however, draw the line on certain superstitions he thinks can actually hurt golfers.
"One thing I'm trying to get them out of it if they play a good round
If a player uses only one ball, the ball can get knicked and that can affect the flight of the ball.
they only use one ball," Randall said. "I want them to use two or three balls."
Still, as long as golf is played superstitions are likely to play a major role.
"It's one of those things where if something's going well you try not to change," said senior Conrad Roberts.
— Edited by Jason McKee
Tabb enjoys softball like her father did
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leagues for several years before finally breaking in with the Chicago Cubs. He went to Oakland the next year and played sparingly with the A's for two years before finally giving up the game.
He retired in 1980 — the same year Leah was born. Jerry and Leah's mother, Mary Tabb, were divorced when Leah was young. He lived in the Houston area while Leah grew up with her mother and brother in Oklahoma City.
Jerry Tabb has seen his daughter play only on occasion through the years as work and distance have made it difficult.
"I can tell you, when he's at a game you see a different Leah Tabb." Bunge said. "She just sparkles when he's around."
Though she never got to see her father play baseball, Tabb said his influence had always been there.
"It was one so strange," she said. "I was playing one time a few years ago and this guy came up to me and said he had seen my dad play, and he was like' you have the same swing your dad does.' That was just kind of crazy."
Tabb admitted she took a sense of pride in excelling at virtually the same sport as her father.
And, of course, she's always good for a Leah-ism now and then.
Her relationship with her father doesn't define Leah Tabb. Nothing does. She's just a person who takes what life gives her and makes the most of it.
"She actually believed Allen Fieldhouse was named for Terry Allen," said Musser, Tabb's roommate and teammate of three years.
For the record, the building is named for former Kansas basketball coach Phog Allen, not current football coach Terry Allen.
That's just Leah Tabb being Leah Tabb.
Softball note
"You never see her without a smile on her face," Bunge said. "She's a hard worker, her teammates love her to death. She's just the kind of kid you love to have in her program."
Junior center fielder Shelly Musser is doubtful for today's game against Missouri. Musser is recovering from a back injury, which has limited her action during the past two weeks.
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