SPORTS UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Thursday, November 18. 1993
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Soccer team makes it to nationals
Local businesses fund Phoenix trip
By Anne Felstet
Kansan sportswriter
Kansas soccer players will be sprinting around the national soccer field in Phoenix this weekend, thanks to the help of a few sponsors.
Soccer captain Tray Thompson, senior, said the Lawrence businesses Red Lyon Tavern, River City Hair Co. and Quest for Value contributed enough money to send three players who could not afford to pay their own way to the National Collegiate Club Soccer Association tournament, which determines the club soccer
Kansas has been in the national tournament for the last four years but has been defeated in the first round each time. Senior Kipper Hesse said the team should be more competitive this season.
The team flew out yesterday morning and practiced in the afternoon to prepare for the tournament.
national champion.
Sponsors were sought to help defray unexpected travel costs. Late in the season, the team learned that the tournament was moved from Austin, Texas, to Phoenix. The longer distance made it necessary for the team to fly to cut down on the time the players would be absent from school. That increased the team's costs.
The 16 teams in the tournament are guaranteed to play three games each. The winners move into the singleelimination quarterfinals. Salisbury said the team would not know its opponents until the tournament started.
Kansas' three games are at 8 a.m. and 3 p.m. today and 11:30 a.m. tomorrow. If the team wins those, it will advance to the quarterfinals later in the afternoon.
Coach Mark Salisbury said the practice would help the team become acclimated to its surroundings.
He said that the team was never completely prepared for any tournament and that it had been hard for the team to find time to practice. Only eight people showed up for the last practice before the team left for Phoenix. Salisbury said many of the players were trying to finish homework before the five-day trip.
butions, the team sold long-sleeve T shirts for $15 each. Thompson.
Hesse estimated the cost of the trip at $209 for airfare, meal and hotel costs. The team received a discounted airfare price of $160 for each person.
To supplement the sponsors' contri-
Eighteen players will represent Kansas at the tournament. Salisbury and a manager will accompany the team.
Regardless of whether the team wins or loses, the team will stay in Phoenix until Sunday. Hesse said the team would do some sightseeing once it finished playing.
Salisbury said the teams that would do well in the tournament would be the ones that could put all the trivial things aside and concentrate on soccer.
Tyson ready for fighting chance
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — Former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson will he resume his boxing career when he leaves prison because, "All I know how to do is fight."
"What else am I going to do,man, be a nuclear scientist?" he said in an interview published in today's New York Daily News.
"But it's not all I want," Tyson said. "I want a family. Fighting will give me the cash to live."
Tyson, who could be released as early as the spring of 1995 from the Indiana prison in which he is serving a six-year term on a rape conviction, believes he could defeat "what's out there," including WBC and WBA champion Evander Holyfield.
"I'm envious of him," Tyson said of Hollyfield during the interview at the Indiana Youth Center near Indianapolis. "He's got what I want ... he's classy ... he carries himself with dignity, but I can beat him."
Tyson, who appeared in shape and said he occupied his time by reading, said former champion Riddick Bowe wasn't serious enough. He said Holyfield, Bowe and the other top heavyweights, Razor Rudock and Lennox Lewis, didn't have to be fighters.
"They can do other things ... they're athletes ... not me," Tyson said. "I didn't play ball when I was a kid. All I know how to do is fight."
Tyson said a report in a Zimbabwe newspaper that quoted him as saying he was considering settling in Africa was erroneous.
"Where do they get that?" he asked. "I said I wanted to see the pyramids, to see where Alexander the Great was buried.
"But I couldn't live in Africa. In Africa, with African justice. I have had my head cut off."
Tyson also restated his contention that he is innocent of raping a teen-age beauty contestant.
"People wanted me to cry in court. Cry and beg," he said. "Why should I? I didn't do anything."
West Virginia to defend 9-0 record against No.4 Miami
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Students camp out overnight in the rain for a chance at a handful of tickets left for West Virginia football games. It's a weird scene at a school with a 63,500-seat stadium and only 20,000 students.
Saddled by a coal miner's strike and high unemployment, the state of West Virginia has gone bonkers over its unbeaten team. And on Saturday, the No. 9 Mountaineers, 9-0, are preparing to host No. 4 Miami, 8-1.
"I think it's the biggest game of the whole program's history of 103 years" alumni director Steve Douglas said. "I've had calls this morning from Honolulu, Las Vegas, New York. I've been in the alumni business for 11 years, and this is the hardest ticket I've ever had to try and get for somebody."
Besides a chance at a big bowl game, Saturday brings an opportunity for true recognition.
"This place is going to go crazy on Saturday," Trey Eno, West Virginia sophomore, said. "Everybody's looking forward to it, to earn respect.
"Like this morning, I was watching ESPN. They did a rundown of all the college games and they started with the top 10, and they didn't even show highlights with our game last week."
Not since West Virginia beat Syracuse to finish 11-0 in 1988 has there been such excitement for a game in Morgantown. A statewide radio advertisement calls on Mountaineer fans, even those without tickets, to attend a Friday night pep rally at the university.
"We know when that big bad Hurricane hits the Mountain State, it's just a slight breeze out of the south," the ad savs.
Yesterday, callers jammed phone lines at a Charleston radio station that was giving away
two tickets. Even West Virginia football secretary Lori Rice is having trouble.
"I told my daughter I couldn't get her tickets for this game," Rice said. "She said, 'That's all right, I'll stand outside until halftime, then walk in.' I'm not sure I'd want my children in this crowd, especially if we win."
Police plan to be ready.
"I remember when they beat Oklahoma (in 1983) and that was an away game—they really parted downtown," campus police Capt. Bill Mathess said. "I think they took over and set fires in the streets.
"When they do that for an away game... if they beat Miami, I look for them to party." he said.
It's never too early to party at West Virginia because the Mountaineers know that even if they remain unbeaten, they might not be invited to the big party.
"It's kind of disappointing, especially when you see teams that have lost football games that can still compete for the national title," safety Mike Collins said. "Quite honestly, I don't think it's fair."
West Virginia senior receiver Mike Baker already is campaigning for a split championship.
"If you have a 12-0 team you voted No. 1, and you have another 12-0 team and you voted them No. 2, then that's not fair," he said.
First, however, West Virginia must beat Miami. Offensive coordinator Mike Jacobs recalls that the Mountaineers most-hyped game to date, against No. 1 Notre Dame in the 1988 Fiesta Bowl, ended in a 34-21 loss.
"We've had some darn big ones, when Boston College came in here undefended, and our Penn State home wins we've had," Jacobs said. "You notice I say those were wins. So this will be a big game for us if we win, the way I figure it. That's the most important thing."
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