University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, March 19, 1991
Sports
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Bo knows he won't be with the Royals
The Associated Press
HAINES CITY, Fla. — Bo Jackson, one of the most recognized athletes in the world, was released by the Kansas City Royals yesterday after the team determined his injured imp play allowed him to play baseball this year.
The Royals will ask for wavers on Jackson this morning, and any team can claim him for $1 in the waiver that ends at 2 p.m. EST Friday.
"This action is taken with deep regret," Royals General Manager Herk Robinson said. "The entire organization is deeply appre-
cative to Ro for his contributions to the club. We wish him and his family the very best of health and success."
Steve Joyce, the Royals team physician, said Jackson had a fracture/dislocation of his left hip. The injury sustained in the Los Angeles Riders' game on Jan. 13 resulted in cartilage damage in the hip socket.
Robinson said the Royals would pay one-sixth of the $2,375,000 contract Jackson agreed to in February. Jackson would have made the full amount of his contract only if he was on Kansas City's opening day roster.
"We felt this was the cleanest
manner in which to handle this and was probably the most equitable to all involved." Robinson said in a report at the Royals training complex.
"We got nearly $2.5 million involved in a situation like this," Robinson said. "Finances do enter into a situation like this."
The Royals notified Jackson's agent, Richard Woods, of their decision.
Jackson was examined by James Andrews earlier yesterday in Birmingham. Ala
Robinson said the Royals were not crazy about Jackson playing football.
He said if Jackson had played in winter leagues he might have been the greatest player to wear a uniform.
Jackson completed the fourth year of a $7.4 million five-year deal with the Los Angeles Raiders in 1990.
"it's tragic that this happened." Robinson said. "Bo played a vital and exciting role in the development of sports in this country."
Joyce said he felt strongly that Jackson should not play baseball this year. Other doctors consulted by the Royals thought there was a possibility Jackson might play again, but Joyce said he believed that it was
highly uncertain.
"We were guided very closely by our team physician, Dr. Steve Joyce." Robinson said. "Steve feels very strongly that it is not in Bo's best interest to play baseball — at least in 1991."
Robinson said different doctors gave different time frames for when Jackson would be able to play again.
"Don't count me out." the 28-year-old Jackson said at a brief news conference with Andreas of the Alabam Medical and Orthopedic Center.
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Heather Berlin, Liberal freshman, practices the javelin throw near Memorial Stadium.
Track team heads outdoors
By Rick C. Honish
Kansan sportswriter
Yesterday's sunny skies and cool temperatures helped create nearideal conditions for the Kansas men's and women's track teams first outdoor practice of the 1991 outdoor season
The teams were in Memorial Stadium preparing for this weekend's alumni meet.
Kaiser said the field events now would include the javelin, the discus and the shot put.
Track
Kansas Relays manager and assistant jump coach Davis Kaiser said that different conditions, different events and longer distances characterized outdoor track competition.
"We threw balls inside that weighed a little more than the javelin," she said. "That helped us
Freshman javelin thrower Heather Berlin said that the athletes involved in the throwing season work on indoor season working on technique.
to build strength."
Berlin said that the change from indoor to outdoor competition was not that drastic.
the footwork will be a little quicker outside because of the difference in surface," she said.
Kaiser said that many of the distances in the sprinting events were longer outdoors because outdoor tracks were longer.
"The indoor tracks are smaller." he said. "So the only way to run a 100-meter dash inside be to go around curves."
Besides lengthening the indoor 55-meter dash to an outdoor distance of 100 meters, there also is a 10,000-meter event, a 400-meter intermediate hurdles event and a 110-meter hurdles event.
Kaiser said the hurdlers had to develop more rhythm to run the 110 meters.
outdoor race compared to only five or six indoors." he said.
"There are 10 hurdles in the
"The longer distances make outdoor track a little more endurance oriented," he said. "Just because you are quick off the block does not mean you run a fast 100-meter. There is an extend 43 meters that has to be covered."
Weather will also have an effect on outdoor results, Kaiser said.
"I think the sprinters do a little better on the hotter days, and the distance runners do better on cooler days," he said.
The teams train for all kinds of weather, though, Kaiser said.
"If we go to Drake and it is cold and rainy, then that is what we have to run in," he said.
The only squad that will not yet practice outside is the jump squad. Kaiser said that until the weather was more predictable, that squad would stay in the Anschutz Sports Pavilion.
"They use some expensive equipment," he said.
Crew excels in Texas regatta
By Lana Smith
Kansan sportswriter
Kansas Crew coach Rob Catloth said he was pleased with the teams' results at the Heart of Texas Regatta during spring break in Austin, Texas.
Kansas finished second overall. The women's varsity team took first place in the Women's Collegiate Basketball Tournament. Eight for the ninth consecutive year,
The men's varsity team finished fourth in the Men's Open Eight. Kansas took both the second and fourth places in the Mixed Collegiate Eight, a race in which men and women row in the same boat.
"For us, it was a preparatory race," Calthead said of the crew's first regitation of the season. "This was a learning experience for us."
Mike Armbruster, Stilwell senior, said this was Catlath's new strategy. The team has a different training schedule this year, and Kansas will be gearing more for the championship races.
Ambruster said he was happy with Kansas' results, especially because teams like the University of Texas could be on the water all year.
did what they were expected to do. There were no disappointments.
Kansas has not peaked yet, Catloth said, and he does not expect them to do so for a while.
"We knew that we were the underdogs going into the race," Armbruster said.
Calitth said hard work and increased strokes per minute would give Kansas the chance to give the Wisconsin crew a real competition.
He said that with increased time on the water, Kansas would improve and do better than it did in the regatta last week.
He said that Kansas trained for 200-meter races and that because the regatta was only a 1000-meter race, Kansas had fewer strokes per minute than its competition. Catloth said the 200-meter races would separate the good crews from the bad crews.
Catloh said that Kansas' finishes at the regatta were strong efforts and that the races were close and exciting. He said the team was trying to build confidence in how it would race later in the season.
"You develop through the season," Catloth said.
Netters beat Vols for a second time
By Mark Spencer
Kansan sportswriter
In early February, the Kansas men's tennis team shocked the collegiate tennis world with a 54 victory in fifth-ranked Tennessee Volunteers.
Now in mid-March, the collegiate tennis world is buzzing again.
Kansas upset Tennessee for the second time this season during a four-match spring break trip through Arizona and California.
The Jayhawks went 2-2 during the trip, in which they faced four of the country's best teams.
The Jayhawks began the week in Tempe, Ariz., at the Penn National Collegiate Invitational against Arizona State.
The Sun Devils swept all six singles matches and defeated the Jayhawks 6-0. Doubles matches were successful, but the team score had been decided
Kansas rebounded the next day with a 5-4 victory over San Diego.
Kansas senior Jeff Gross and junior Rafael Rangel were the only Jayhawks to win their singles matches. Kansas trailed San Diego by one point, but Kansas pulled out the victory by sweeping all three doubles matches.
"The character of the team was really brought out during that match." Kansas freshman Rhain Buth said.
In the final match of the Invitational, Kansas victories by Gross. Juniors Rangel and Patrick Hani tied
Kansas seniors Craig Wildey and Chris Walker knocked off the Vols No. 1 doubles team of Brice Karsh and Tim Jesup.
Tennessee 3-3 heading into the doubles matches.
Kansas junior Paul Gavin and Rangel sealed the victory for the Jayhawks with a 6-3, 5-7, 6-4 victory over the Knicks at DeLoaye de Ploy and Fabio Silberberg.
"We beat the number five team in the country, and this time they had their number one guy," he said.
Gross said the second victory over the Volunteers was better than the first.
Brice Karsh, Tennessee's No. 1 singles player, did not play against Kansas in February.
The Jayhawks concluded the spring break trip against the California-Irvine Antateurs in Irvine, Calif.
The team score was tied at 3-3 heading into doubles matches, but the Jayhawks dropped two matches and losd 5-3.
A scheduled match with Pepperdine in Malibu, Calif., was rained on Saturday, the day before the Jay hawks returned to Lawrence.
Buth said the trip was productive for the Jayhawks.
"It was a great experience to play the top-ranked teams," he said. "It magnifies your weaknesses, but when time it helps you work on them."
The Jayhawks, 9-6 overall, will play host to Missouri on April 2, in the Big Eight Conference season opener.
Team says play is not up to par
Kansas junior Shelly Triplett tied for 36th with a total of 247.
By Lana Smith
Kansan sportswriter
The Kansas women's golf team finished seventh in the 19-team Peggy Kirk Bick Invitational golf tournament during spring break in Owia, Froli.
She said she did not think the team had been playing up to its potential.
After the tournament, junior Laura Myers said she knew the team could do better.
"I wouldn't say that I was disappointed, but I know we're not where we should be," she said.
"I need to work on putting to get consistency." Myers said. "That consistency will help my game and build team cohesion, that will help the team's plaving."
Myers was Kansas' top finisher in the tournament. She tied for eighth with a three-round total of 238, seven additional champion Kim Cayce of Duke.
Myers said that the team did not seem to have the same level of confidence that was present last year.
She did not know why the lack of confidence had arisen, but Myers said it might have been the loss of confidence in her staff as well as recent changes to the team.
She said that regaining confidence was essential and that they needed to motivate each other.
Golf
But she did not think that any of the teams in the tournament played as well as they could.
"We've got a lot of work to do"
Triplett said. "I'm a better player
than I have been playing."
"All of the scores were high," Triplet said. "We need to get scores low. We have five girls who should be shooting in the 70s."
Other Kansas players in the tournament were freshman Holly Reynolds and junior Laura Martin, who finished 31st and 33rd with scores of 245 and 246. Sophomore Cathy Reinebock finished 84th with a total of 276.
Kansas' next tournament will be April 5. Triplets said she hoped the next two weeks would allow the Kansas players to get their priorities straight and to concentrate on their games.
Duke finished first in the tournament, but Tripplet said that if Kansas had played the way it could have, the Jayhawks would have beat Duke.
"I think these last two tournements we've been telling ourselves it's still early," Triplett said. "You get involved in school. You've got to decide which is more important, and it's hard to know what is important at the time. Right now, golf is important."
"They were not out of reach," Triplett said.
Bowling teams place in sectional tournament
The Kansas bowling team competed in the National Bowling Council Sectional Roll-Off in Topeka during spring break.
The Topeka sectional was one of five sectionals held nationwide involving the top 64 teams in the country.
The women's team placed fifth behind Wichita State, Nebraska-Lincoln, Mankato State and Nebraska-Omaha.
tournament with a 187 average.
"The good news is we did fairly well, but we would have liked to win it," Kansas coach Michael Fine said. "It was exciting to be invited."
Joe Donniever averaged 207 pins a game and led the men's team to a sixth-place finish. Wichita State won the men's tournament.
Sports briefs
Dykstra faces possible probation for gambling
CLEARWATER, Fla. <- Philadelphia centerfielder Lenny Dykstra does not know that baseball commissioner Fay Vincent will put him on probation as reported yesterday by a newspaper, but such a ruling sounded fine to him.
Amy Gentz led the team in the
"No comment," was Dykstra's response to a Philadelphia Daily News report that Vincent had placed him on probation for one year.
Dikstra has admitted in court that he lost more than $78,000 in illegal, high-stake poker games.
Dykstra met Saturday with Vincent and was told he would not be fined or suspended on the basis of his testimony last week at a federal trial.
Patrick McEnroe beats Boris Becker 6-1, 6-4
KEY BICAYNE, Fla. — Patrick McEnroe did something yesterday that his brother has done only one. He beat Boris Becker.
The younger McEnroe, enjoying the best year of his career, upset the second-ranked German 6-1, 4-2 in the international players Championships.
Becker has a 6-1 career record against John McEnroe, and he beat Patrick in four sets when they met in the semifinals of the Australian Open
in January. This time, though,
Becker struggled from the start.
In his last tournament, the 24-year-old McEuroce lost to his brother in three sets at the finals of a tournament in Chicago. He has improved his ranking to No. 45 from No. 120 at the start of the year.
Becker tried to get back into the match against McEnroe when he broke serve in tying the second set 4-4. But he double-faulted on the next pitch, and The U.S. citizen then served out the match at love, finishing with an ace.
CBS fouls out with coverage
CBS's unprepared, biased and witless color commentator brought to Kansas' first-round tournament game about as much as could be accomplished by a budget microwaveable burrito.
Just keep Bill Walton far, far away.
Indigestion and disbelief.
Until that afternoon, I had been a fan of Walton from his playing days with Boston. I enjoyed watching him play and admired his comeback from Boston Fan. I'm a hard person to turn away from an old Celtic player.
Chris
Oster
Associate
sports editor
But his color work during the tournament has been without merit. His commentary during the Kansas-New Orleans game was misleading and consistently slanted in favor of the Priveteers.
I found myself needing a fix of Bob and Max. Chris Piper and Gary Bender would do. May be even Jean Paul DellaCamera.
Wake up. Bill.
Had you bothered to read the media guide or glanced at some of the pre-game statistics, you may have noticed that Randall is the team's second-leading scoring. He has earned an em in down town, Mr. Walton.
From the outset, he beated the play of Kansas. Most offensive comments were comments he made about Mark Randal. When a New Orleans player Randall. Randall. Walton would discount Randall's effectiveness as a post player.
Seemingly unprepared, Walton seemed to try to learn about Kansas as the game progressed. Early on, Mike Daddox dropped in a few plays before the free throw line. So who is Kansas' team leader? Daddox, of course.
Despite the accepted dominance of the powerhouse New Orleans team, Kansas did pull out the victory and way to meet Pittsburgh on Saturday.
Haltime now, and the game is tied at 26. So who should win the game? According to Walton, the stronger and more talented New Orleans team should take this one. Whoa. Look out Vegas, here come the Privateers.
So. Bill, who's your pick? Pitt or Kansas. No pressure, eyes closed, no peeking. Of course, Pitt.
I was happily unable to catch Walton's call of the game on Sunday, but have been informed that he was a bit less slanted in his commentary. Maybe a CBS executive caught the Kansas game and decided that rooting for one team or the other presented a problem.
Now to switch from the smaller problem to the larger one. What is CBS trying to do with its NCAA coverage?
After forking over billions and billions for the rights to broadcast the tournament, CBS has proceeded to butcher games by attempting to catch the last "exciting few moments" of every game. The continuity of any one game is shot and fans are left hanging, wondering if and when they might see the rest of their original game.
The network has acted like a kid with a new toy — whipping out its split-screen gadgetery once in a while to entertain those in the audience using 153-inch screens with four-games-at-one coverage.
I want my ESPN. The cable network may not have been great at pulling the big names for color, but they were able to come up with their designs and had respect for the teams and the fans come tournament time.
Even with Dick Vitalte rambling and Jim Valvano doing his best to sound like Vitalte, ESPN still would be my choice to show the games. Not only is their game coverage better, but also who whips CBS in the studio, as Chad Wainwright of the staff are less giddy and more entertaining in their wraps.
Now, back to you. Bill
With Walton covering the Indiana—Florida State game, a Seminole player was late coming out of the locker room after halftime, the victim of stomach cramps. Walton, who missed the game, player stick something down his throat, puke it up and come out and play basketball.
Sounds like Walton's commentary style lies somewhere along the same line.
Chris Oster is a Topeka senior majoring in journalism.