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Friday December 1,2000
HOROSCOPES
Today's Birthday (Dec. 1). Study technical material this year, and you could become a whiz. Even if you've been all thumbs before, it all starts making sense. Change for the better in December. The work's there, and the money's in January. Study computers or machinery in February; you'll do better than you thought you could. Get a routine down pat in May and cut out more work than ever. Forgive and forget in June, and a partnership benefits. You should have a great time next October with new Friends. Plan strategies for next year in November.
Aries (March 21-April 19) — Today is a 7.
Watch for a new discovery. You're in a creative mood and may come up with a brilliant idea, so there's no telling what might happen — and not a moment too soon! Meanwhile, don't forget an older person's request.
Taurus (April 20-May 20) — Today is a 6.
Take it slow and easy. A problem you run into isn't fatal, it's more likely going to be helpful. When you're trying to do something that's never been done before, it's smart to heed all suggestions. Even the ones you don't like.
Gemini (May 21-June 21) — Today is an 8.
You're able to talk people into doing just about anything today. Why not go for something you've been thinking about for ages? This could be the moment you've been waiting for. Discretion is advised.
Cancer (June 22-July 22) — Today is a 5.
Are you the same person you were this time last year? Last week? Don't get stuck thinking about yourself in the same old way; your role may have changed. If you're feeling confused, this may be why. Keep practicing, you'll get it.
Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) — Today is a 6.
You're a very busy person, that's true. Are you trying to do too much? Nobody else has your style but someone else might be better suited for drudge jobs. Delegate.
Virgo (Aug. 23.Sept. 22) — Today is an 8.
As your performance today shows, you're a pretty good juggler. Of course there's too much for one person to do, but so what!? You routinely do the work of three or four people. You even make it look easy.
Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) — Today is an 8.
Do something you've always wanted to do but were afraid to try. If you don't know how, someone nearby can teach you. Romance is blossoming, and you're learning fast, but don't believe everything you hear. Use good sense.
Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — Today is a 5.
It's time for a household meeting. You and your family or roommates need to have a little talk. If you don't let your feelings be known, they're liable to do something you won't like. Better nip this in the bud, or at least add modifications.
Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — Today is an 8.
Venture into new fields. Something you thought was too hard might start making sense, and you're learning quickly. Don't limit yourself based on old memories. You may be even smarter now than you were back then.
Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Today is a 6.
Push to finish the job as soon as possible, but don't get sloppy. The fewer errors the better. Ask for money now, too. It's better to have it sitting snugly in your account than to wait until later.
Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — Today is a 7.
Friends look to you for advice, which you love.
You're full of great ideas, but don't offer them too quickly. Add a disclaimer or two, in case your first suggestion doesn't do the trick. Give yourself a little room to work in.
Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) — Today is a 5.
You may feel pressed, but don't be intimidated. Just because others are more confident doesn't mean they're right. You may get further on intuition than they do on logic. Speak up if they're missing something you think is important.
BIG 12 BASKETBALL
Two Big 12 players plan to transfer from teams
Texas Tech junior forward Moses Malone Jr., the son of NBA legend Moses Malone, has not been in uniform for the Red Raiders' first three games and has been absent from their bench for the last two. He has indicated he may leave the team.
Two Big 12 Conference players who are concerned about their roles with their teams have shown intentions to transfer.
indicated he Texas Tech officials said Malone told coach James Dickey that he was disappointed with his role on the team after tensions brewed between the two during preseason practices.
Malone transferred to Texas Tech from the University of Houston after his freshman year because he was upset about his role with that team, too. He played in nine games and averaged 10 minutes per game that year.
Malone averaged 1.3 minutes per game last year for Tech and shot 13-056 from the field during the season.
Another conference player who has said he intended to transfer from the conference is Missouri junior center Pat Schumacher. At 6-foot11, he is the tallest player on the Tigers' roster, but he plans to leave Missouri at the end of semester because he said he was disappointed with his role on the team.
Note: Horoscopes have no basis in scientific fact and should be read for entertainment purposes only.
"Pat is a solid young man who wants to go somewhere where he'll have a better opportunity to contribute," Missouri coach Quin Snyder said. "We certainly understand his decision and we wish him the very best."
schumacher saw less time this season behind senior center Tajudeen Soyoye and freshman center Arthur Johnson. Schumacher averaged 2.4 points and eight minutes per game during his first two seasons with the Tigers.
— Chris Wristen
COLLEGE BASKETBALL
"I just simply was drained. I just simply could not keep up and it began to bother me," Bennett said yesterday at a tearful news conference flanked by his wife, Anne, and athletic director Pat Richter. "I don't want to go out cynical."
Assistant Brad Soderberg, who played for Bennett at Wisconsin-Stevens Point in the early 1980s, was hired as interim coach for the remainder of the season.
MADISON, Wis. — Dick Bennett, who guided Wisconsin to an NCAA Final Four appearance this year, is retiring because of burnout.
Wisconsin coach retires because of burnout
remember. Of course,
"This is a tough day for me
because I'm so close to coach."
Soderberg said. "I just think it's a sad day for basketball in Wisconsin."
The 57-year-old Bennett said his health was fine.
Soderberg said he tried to talk Bennett out of retiring, "but as he told me, he just ran out of gas."
The Badgers (2-1) are ranked 23rd and have high hopes for a Big Ten title run when Maurice Linton and Travon Davis return to the team after serving eight-game NCAA suspensions for receiving extra benefits.
Soderbergh was head coach at South Dakota State from 1993-95 before joining the Wisconsin staff when Bennett became the coach.
Bennett came to Wisconsin in 1995 after twice being passed over for the Badgers' job. Before that, he spent nine years at Wisconsin-Stevens Point and 10 seasons at Wisconsin-Green Bay.
"I have been blessed to be able to do the thing I've always wanted to do, in the state I always wanted to do it and I ended up at the place I always wanted to be," Bennett said.
NEW YORK — Baseball's most successful team is adding the top pitcher on the free-agent market.
Mike Mussina and the New York Yankees agreed yesterday to an $8.8 million, six-year contract.
Pitcher joins Yankees in $88.5'million contract
Mussina, 32 on Dec. 8, joins a staff on the three-time defending World Series champions that already includes Roger Clemens, Orlando Hernandez and Andy Pettitte.
MLB
"New York was the best fit for me," Mussina said. "It just came down to who really seemed to want me on their team the most. Joe Torre called me not even a week after the World Series, before he
went on vacation. To me, that was a pretty big gesture."
He also was impressed with the staff he joins.
"We might go to the playoffs next
year and I might not even get a chance to pitch." Mussina said. "That's how strong they are."
"This is a great, great day for the New York Yankees," said team president Randy Levine, adding that the move would help the team win more championships.
With a $14.75 million average annual value, the deal makes Mussina the second- or third-highest-paid pitcher in baseball, depending on how Clemens' new contract is evaluated.
While Clemens and his agents consider his $30.9 million extension a two-year deal that averages $15.45 million, the Yankees say it's a three-year contract that averages $10.3 million.
The only position players with higher average salaries are Toronto outfielder Carlos Delgado ($17 million) and Atlanta third baseman Chipper Jones ($15 million).
Mussina also trails Kevin Brown of Los Angeles, who averages $1.5 million under a $105 million, seven-year contract.
Mussina is 147-81 in his career after going 11-15 with a 3.79 ERA for the Orioles last season. He led the American League in innings pitched with 237 2-3 and was third in strikeouts with 21C, trailing Boston's Pedro Martinez (284) and Cleveland's Bartolo Colon (212).
Royals name Sweeney 2000 player of the year
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — First baseman Mike Sweeney was named the 2000 Kansas City Royals player of the year yesterday by the Kansas City Chapter of the Baseball Writers Association of America.
Association of American Previous winners include Hall of Famer George Brett, Frank White and Jermaine Dye, who won the award in 1999. Sweeney will be presented
Sweeney, 27, was named to the 2000 All-Star team and posted career-bests in four offensive categories. He batted .333 with 206
the award at the Kansas City Baseball Awards Dinner on Feb. 2.
hits, 29 home runs and 144 RBI. Sweeney was second in the league in RBI and broke Hal McRae's clubrecord 133 set in 1982.
Sweeney finished third in the American League behind Darin Erstad and teammate Johnny Damon in hits. Damon and Sweeny were the first teammates in franchise history to record 200 hits in a season.
After the 2000 season, Sweeney was named to the major league all-star team, which toured Japan and played eight games against Japanese all-stars. He batted .364 in seven games.
The Associated Press
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Women's swimming vs. Iowa, all day, Robinson Natatorium
Malone nears Chamberlain's record
Men's swimming at Texas Invitational, all day
The Associated Press
Karl Malone isn't all that comfortable with what he's about to accomplish.
Something doesn't seem right about passing Wilt Chamberlain on the NBA's career scoring list so soon after his death.
"When you're climbing up the list, those guys are still alive. But he's not with us anymore so it's kind of a different feeling," said Malone, within 48 points of Chamberlain's 31,419 entering the weekend.
"It's really kind of weird. I don't want to use the word bittersweet, but it's kind of like I'm not excited to do it.
"it's like certain records, maybe,
should stay the way they are."
should stay there.
Malone, averaging 23.6 points
this season, is on pace to pass
Chamberlain early in the game
Tuesday night at home against
Toronto, becoming the second-
leading scorer behind Kareem
Abdul-Jabbar (38,387).
Athens Chamberlain, who died in October 1999 at age 63, played for 14 years in the NBA and averaged 30.1 points. He holds the single-game scoring record, 100 points.
"Wilt is one of those legends — such a legend I almost can't fathom it," said Malone's longtime teammate, John Stockton. "And yet I've watched Karl do it day in
and day out for so many years, it's hard to believe that's where he is."
The 37-year-old Malone, in his 16th NBA season, recalled his one and only meeting with Chamberlain, in Cleveland in 1997 when the NBA assembled the 50 greatest players of all time. The two spoke in a hallway at Gund Arena.
"I found myself talking to him a lot more than a lot of the other guys, and it was kind of neat to talk to somebody of his stature," Malone said.
"He told me something I'll never forget — I like the way you play, and don't ever change the way you play no matter what anybody says. Just keep playing like you're playing."
That's exactly what Malone has done, playing night-in and night-out almost without interruption year after year after year. He has missed only seven games in his career — three because of injury and four because of suspensions.
A two-time MVP and 12-time AllStar. Malone is the only player ever to score 2,000 points in a season 12 times. He ranks second in career free throws made (8,100 plus) and defensive rebounds (9,486) and is in the top five in free throws made and field goals made and attempted.
"Ive had the honor of coaching him through out his entire
career," Utah coach Jerry Sloan said. "I'm amazed, I really am, at how his career has turned out."
"Karl was a bad free throw shooter when he started, and he changed just about everything about his game. I don't think Wilt ever had to change anything. He could do all those things to start with — he had a great body when he started, a great body when he left — but Karl had to individually work very, very hard to make himself a great player."
Malone made up his mind about what kind of player he wanted to be in the spring of 1986 after being summoned to Jazz president Frank Layden's office after his rookie season.
With Adrian Dantley sitting out because of injury, Malone averaged 21.8 points in a first-round playoff loss to Dallas.
physiologist of Balmor.
Malone seemed most proud that Chamberlain had picked him as the power forward on Chamberlain's all-time best starting five.
His memories of Chamberlain include watching him play on the black-and-white TV he occasionally watched as a youngster in Louisiana.
"he made things look real easy," Malone said. "He ran easy, he jumped easy, everything was pretty much easy to him — that's what I remember more than anything."
Kansas Women's Basketball 2000 KU Credit Union Jayhawk Classic December 1 & 2, 2000
Senior Jaclyn Johnson KU's newest 1,000 point scorer!
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