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University Daily Kansan / Friday, February 15, 1991
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Conference-leading 'Hawks to take on K-State
By S. J. Bailey
Kansan sportswriter
Tomorrow's matchup between Sunflower State rivals Kansas and Kansas State appears to be a battle of teams heading in opposite directions.
The Jayhawks, 18-4 overall and on top of the Big Eight Conference at 7,2 have bolted to No. 11 in The Associated Press college basketball rankings on the heels of a nine-game winning streak.
In contrast, Kansas State, 12-10 overall and 2-7 in league play, has dropped four of its last six games, including an 83-71 loss to Colorado on Wednesday. The Wildcats now occupy the conference cellar.
On paper, the contest looks like an opportunity for Kansas to fine-tune its play before taking to the road to meet Colorado on Wednesday.
But Kansas basketball coach Roy Williams said yesterday that was definitely not the case, even though he has been a player in 76-89 in Manhattan earlier this season.
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"They have a talented group of kids." Williams said. "When we played at KState, in the first half they dominated the game. But we played well enough in the second half to come back and win, and I think we learned a few lessons from that."
Confidence AI Gain
W L L W L W L
Kansas 7 2 1 8 4
Oklahoma State 6 3 17 5
Nebraska 6 3 20 4
Missouri 5 4 13 9
Oklahoma 4 5 18 8
State 6 3 10 15
Colorado 3 6 13 9
Kansas State 2 7 12 10
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Williams said the Wildcats had shown that at times they can compete with any team in the conference, but Williams and the sank OK kibapha # 7-10 in Maplethorpe.
"That wasn't that long ago," he said. "On that night, they could have beaten about anybody."
Despite K-State's erratic play, the consistently fine performance of senior guard Jeff Wires has been an anchor for the Wildcats. Wires has averaged 14.5 points and 4.4 rebounds a game this season and scored 13 points in the previous meeting with the Javahawks in Manhattan.
"Jeff Wires is playing fantastic basketball," Williams said. "I've been really amazed. Every game I've seen him play this year he's
Junior forward Alonzo Jamison said he agreed with Williams.
gotten better and better."
"The key for us will be controlling their guards," Jamison said. "We'll have to cut down the number of times Wires gets the ball in scoring position. If we can do that, I think we'll be successful."
But the Wildcats are not just a men- team. Senior forwardes Jen Doruellell and Keith Amerson have 16.6 and 9.9 points a game respectively.
Although Dorrillele had a tough night at Colorado on Wednesday, shooting only two for 15 from the field, Williams does not expect a similar performance against the Jayhawks.
Williams also said he did not expect to see a Kansas leddown like the one in Tuesday's come-from-disaster history against Missouri in Columbia.
Kansas Basketball GAME 23
KANSAS
JAYHAWKS
Coach: Roy Williams
Record:18-4
KANSAS STATE
WILDCATS
Coach: Dana Altman
Record: 12-10
PROBABLE STARTERS
Player Ht. PPG RPG
F-Alonzo Jamison 6-6 11.2 6.6
F-Mike Maddox 6-7 7.7 3.3
F-Mark Randall 6-9 15.2 5.5
G-Terry Brown 6-2 17.7 3.8
G-Adonis Jordan 5-11 11.7 3.0
Player Ht. PPG RPG
K-Keith Amerson 6-4 8.9 5.6
F-Jean Deroillere 6-5 16.6 3.8
C-Maurice Brittain 6-9 7.8 6.2
G-Marcus Zeigler 5-11 5.6 1.3
G-Geff Wires 6-0 14.5 4.4
Game Notes: Kansas will play K-State tomorrow at 1:05 p.m. in Allen Field House. The Jayhawks lead the series with the Wildcats 134-86, including a 63-33 record in Lawrence. Kansas won the season's first meeting with K-Stat 63-18 as Alonzo Jamison scored 20 points and grabbed 10 rebounds. The Jayhawks have a nine-game winning streak and are ranked 11th in the nation the latest Associated Press poll. Kansas took to the road yesterday, traveling to the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City for an afternoon practice.
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Lady Jayhawks to play Sooners
Bv Lana Smith
Kansan sportswriter
Win or lose, Kansas coach Marian Washington said she would like to hear people say the Jawhaws competed hard.
That is what Kansas plans to do against the Oklahoma Sooners at 2 p.m. tomorrow in Norman, Okla.
Washington said that even if the Jayhawks did compete hard, the victory against Oklahoma would not necessarily be easy.
"They feel very comfortable at home." Washington said.
"We will work hard to play a good tough defense," Washington said. "We think we can match up with them very well."
Washington said she expected Oklahoma to get into a running game with the Jayhawks and take advantage of the Sooners' outside shooting. She said Oklahoma was one of the best three-point-shooting teams in the Big Eight Conference.
Washington said that although she did not know if Oklahoma really had a key player, the Sooners carried him. Carin Stiles and junior forward
Angie Alexander for their perimeter game.
Even without a go-to player, the Jayhawks have proven they can play with tough teams.
Washington said that Kansas did not have a go to player, but the guard guarded an anchor and guarded Kay Koei and junior forward Terrilyn Johnson.
"In 90 percent-plus of our games, we've been very competitive," Washington said. "Most of our losses have been close."
Junior forward Tanya Bonham said after the Jayhawks' victory against Missouri, "We have 12 very good players who can play at any given time. It's our best asset."
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Oklahoma lost to Oklahoma State 72-63 last night, and the Sooners' record fell to 10-15 overall and 3-8 in the conference.
Washington said she had a great deal of respect for her team, which had remained positive after a rollcoaster season. Kansas improved its record to 14-9 overall and 5-6 in the conference with the victory yesterday against Missouri.
| Kansas | Pos. | HT. | PPG | RPG |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Terrilyn Johnson | F | 5-11 | 9.8 | 9.0 |
| Tanya Bonham | F | 5-8 | 5.8 | 1.5 |
| Marthea McCloud | C | 5-10 | 6.1 | 6.1 |
| Stacy Truitt | G | 5-8 | 10.5 | 4.4 |
| Kay Kay Hart | G | 5-7 | 9.0 | 3.5 |
Oklahoma
Angie Alexander F 5-11 16.1 6.4
Sharon Webster F 6-1 3.1 3.3
Caihy Bassett C 6-1 10.4 8.5
Carin Stites G 5-6 19.1 3.3
Dana Posey G 5-8 7.6 2.9
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Kansas guard Stacy Truyt practices in Allen Field House for tomorrow's game against the Oklahoma Sooners in Norman, Okla.
Baseball salaries 'insane,'old-timers say
NEW YORK — Baseball's escalating salaries have some old-time players diminishing the accomplishment of the questioning the sanity of the owners.
"You have to be pleased by anyone who can earn that kind of money, but the numbers are so astronomically high that I think a lot of the owners have lost their minds," St rusty, who played in the major leagues for 23 years before retiring in 1985, said yesterday.
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"I think the game and the owners are costing themselves unnecessary money," shugger Reggie Jackson, a 21-year major leaguer, said. "What you're going to see is millionaires buying teams. What you won't see are the home-grown owners like they have in Minnesota."
Jackson, baseball's highest-paid player in 1977 when he earned $600,000, said the players of his era, such as Bob Gibson, Willey Mills, Mickey Mantle, Pete Rose, Sandy Koufax and Juan Marichart, were superior to most of today's players, including Boston's Roger Clemens.
Henderson, the American League's Most Valuable Player last season while leading the Oakland A's to the American League championship, ranks in a 32nd-place tie among baseball's $73 million and-up players. His average salary through 1993 will be $3 million per year.
Jackson has no qualms with the big-name players being paid well, but he said that some second-liners were getting too much money.
the highest-paid player with an average salary of $5,380,250 per year for four years starting in 1992.
"I don't think there have been such stars as those," Jackson said of the players. "The only player who is a star to that era is Rick Henderson."
"I have no problem with what the stars are making," he said. "But if (Dwight) Gooden is to make $3.3 billion, it would be on his staff up, and that's not fair."
"For example, I don't understand how an arbitrator who hasn't played baseball can say that since Clemens was a junior player. That Young should make $2 million."
"I don't see anybody worth paying $5 million to $10 million. We're rewarding people not for perform but just for putting on a uniform."
"I like to see the players making money, but there has to be some realism." Black said. "There has to be a ceiling.
Joe Black, a former relief ace with the Brooklyn Dodgers, agreed with Staub and Jackson that baseball's salaries have gone overboard.
"I'm waiting for the day — and I hope it never comes — that two or three teams will go bankrupt."
Black said the attitude of today's players toward the game was much different than the older players.
"We put out more effort. And we were more of a family as a team. We cared about each other.
"The ballplayers enjoyed money then, but most of all we enjoyed playing baseball," he said. "We were from families — the wives and our children."
"Today, the number one priority is
that if you make $1 million. I have to make $1 more. I want to be known as the highest-gain player in baseball."
Harmon Killebrew, fifth on baseball's all-time home run list with 573, also is amazed by the high salaries.
"It's hard for me to believe that some of those contracts are true," the former Washington and Minneapolis mayor said, but I don't know when.
“It’s going to get to the point where it’s not going to be feasible to pay them. It seems to me that a salary cap would be feasible.”
Joe Gargiola, the former major league catcher who has become more renowned as a broadcaster and humorist, said, "I wish I was part of
"There are guys getting $100,000 who don't even know where second base is."
"But I'm glad to see that Donald Febr (executive director of the Major League Baseball Players Association) is meeting with baseball people about it. Maybe they can restore some fiscal sanity."
Jayhawks to play first season game
By Mark Spencer
Kansan sportswriter
The Kansas baseball team will take the first step today in a 62-game, season-long journey that the Jayhawks hope will end in Oklahoma City at the Big Eight Conference tournament.
The Jayhawks will play Hardin-Simmons today and tomorrow in Abilene, Texas.
"We're putting a lot of emphasis on this weekend, but it's not the whole season," senior first baseman Mike Kovacs said. He stepped stone in the rest of the year."
Kansas coach Dave Bingham said that Hardin-Simmons had played and lost 10 games this year to tough opponents.
"The they are dangerous for us because they probably perceive this weekend as a break from a tough schedule." Bingham said. "They're 0-10, but we might be also if we played their schedule."
Hardin-Simmons coach Marvin Stringflowel said that his team had played Rice, Texas, Texas Christian, Baylor and New Mexico State.
"We don't really expect a break with Kansas," he said. "We expect
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them to be loaded. They are returning almost everyone."
Hardin-Simmons has been practicing and playing outside for a month in 70-degree weather, Stringfellow said.
"I hope we have a little advantage, but they'll be really pumped up for their first name," he said.
Bingham said juniors Eric Stonecipher and Curtis Schmidt probably would start on the mount for the Jayhawks this weekend, but he expected several pitcheres to see action.
"The ultimate would be five innings from each of them, and then we'll fill in with others," he said.
The Jayhawks are returning seven starters, including six position players and a designated hitter, Bingham said.
The Jayhawks are looking for big seasons from senior outfielder Denard Stewart and junior catcher designated hitter Mark Moore. Bingel and Moore were secondteam all-conference selections last season.
Kansas swimmers face final meets of season
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The men's team has a 5-2 record in dual meets and is ranked 21st in the nation by a national coaches' poll.
The Kansas men's and women's swim teams end their regular season Saturday in a dual meet against the Utah team at 4 p.m. in Robinson Center.
The women's team is 6-2 in dual meets and is ranked 11th.
Kansas coach Gary Kempf said the meet would provide good competition and preparation for the Big Eight Conference Championships.
The Jayhawks beat southern Illinois last year in the Southern Illinois Invitational in Carbondale, Ill. Kansas both the men's and women's divisions.
Track teams warm up for clash with K-State
The Kansas men's and women's track teams will travel to Manhattan tomorrow for the Kansas State University Open.
The meet will be the Jayhawks last before the indoor season concludes at the Big Eight Conference meetings in Columbia, Mo. on Feb. 22.
Freshman distance runner Dan Waters will go up against K-State's Jared Storm in a rematch of an earlier 800-meter run. Waters beat Storm in their first meeting by .01 seconds.
Kansas already has competed against the Wildcats twice this season. The first clash was at a triangular meet with K-State and the second meeting occurred last week at the Cornshucker Invitational.
The Kansas women's tennis team will take a three-match trip through Texas this weekend.
The Jayhawks (3-2) will play Texas
Women's tennis team heads for Texas trio
in Austin today, Trinity and Texas-San Antonio tomorrow and will pay a visit to San Antonio on Sunday.
The Jayhawks have not played a team match since Feb. 3, when they defeated Illinois 7-2.
Kansas is led in singles competition by juniors Renee Raychaudhuri, 5-0. and Eveline Hamers, 8-2.
Eighth-ranked Hamers was defeated in the consolation bracket finale of the FTC/Ara National Championships in Minneapolis on Feb. 10.
Coach Tubbs accused of injuring cameramar
ALKOHAMIA CITY — An Oklahoma City television station awaited an apology yesterday from Oklahoma officials following an alleged altercation involving coach Billy Tubbs and a cameraman.
While walking toward the locker room in Gallagher-1ba Arena Wednesday night after Oklahoma lost to Oklahoma State 77-42, Tubbs allegedly grabbed at a camera lens, ripping the lens cover off.
The cover struck the photographer, who was stationed in the area, in the right leg and cut him, police said.
"We asked after the incident that if Bilty Tubbs would apologize to our photographer all would be forgotten, and Billy refused," Jerry Gumbert, news director for the station, said yesterday.
Donnie Duncan, Oklahoma's athletic director, said yesterday. "At this point, we're investigating it. We have not done so thoroughly, and I think it's important to do that before commenting any further."
Duncan said he had spoken with KFOR officials and planned to talk to Tubbs later in the day.
Campus police said the cameraman filled out a "Witness/Victim Voluntary Statement" following the incident.
"It's under investigation at this time," Lt. Richard Atkins said. "The victim is not sure if he's filing charges."
From The Associated Press