SPORTS UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, October 27,1993
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Charlotte lands team
NFL second expansion deferred until Nov.30
The Associated Press
ROSEMONT, III. — The NFL expanded into new territory last night, adding a team in Charlotte, N.C., that will begin play in 1995 as the Carolina Panthers.
NFL commissioner Paul Tagliabue announced the addition at the league's expansion meeting. Action on the second team was deferred until Nov. 30 with St. Louis, Baltimore, Memphis, Tenn., and Jacksonville, Fla., still in the running.
Tagliabue was interrupted by applause from Carolina backers in the jammed hotel ballroom where the announcement was made.
Charlotte was a unanimous recommendation by the 11-member expansion and finance committees and a unanimous choice of the 28 owners, although only 21 votes were needed.
Julia Clarke/KANSAN
In Charlotte, fireworks exploded and hundreds of people gathered for a downtown celebration. Many North Carolinie television stations carried the brief announcement live. The Panthers, the NFL's 29th team, will be run by Jerry Richardson, a former Baltimore Colts wide receiver and owner of a company that runs such restaurants as Harddee's and Denny's.
"I hope giving birth isn't as difficult and doesn't take 61/2 years," Richardson said.
The general manager will be Mike McCormack, the former general manager of the Seattle Seahawks and a former player and coach with the Cleveland Browns. And speculation has already begun that the coach might be Joe Gibbs, a Carolina native who resigned last year after leading the Washington Redskins to three Super Bowl titles in 12 years.
The team will begin play at Clemson Stadium in South Carolina and is situated in what the NFL considers a vacuum between the Redskins and Atlanta Falcons. The area has a population of about 10 million within a 100-mile radius.
Its permanent home will be a stadium financed under a unique concept - permanent seating licenses purchased by prospective ticket buyers at prices from $600 to $5,600. Even without a franchise guarantee, 50,000 licenses were sold. That, in turn, seemed to sell the NFL owners on Charlotte.
The owners deferred action on naming the second club last night at least in part because the St. Louis ownership group led by Stan Kroenke was not named until Monday. The owners wanted more time to investigate his background and finances.
The situation is similar to the league's last expansion in 1976. The owners first approved a franchise for Tampa Bay, then named Seattle after further investigation of the ownership group.
Dan Glasscock, Overland park graduate student, practices with the bowling club at the Kansas University Jaybow. The Kansas bowling club competed in its first tournaments of the season this weekend in Wichita and Emporia.
Club sports offer great variety
By Anne Felstet
Kansan sportswriter
Kansas sport teams can be found in the oddest places, for instance the first floor of the Kansas Union. Any weekday, except Fridays of tournaments, the bowling team gathers for practice. From 3:30 to 5 p.m., whizzing bowling balls seek perfectly still pins.
The Kansas bowling team, unlike most club sports, receives its funding from a source other than Recreational Services. The Kansas Union Jaybow finances the team, so bowling is not registered as a club team with Recreational Services like other clubs.
However, coach Michael Fine said the team was considered a club sport.
The 17-member team competed in its first tournament of the season this weekend, which was held at Wichita State and Emporia. The men's team placed second in the six-team field; the women's team placed sixth.
The team competed against collegiate teams from Nebraska, Nebraska-Omaha, Wichita State, Emporia
and Central Missouri State. This weekend it will compete in Kansas City, Mo., against 12 teams from seven different states.
Although the bowling team will have its hands full with a number of competitors this weekend, the water polo club has yet to find one.
Sophomore Nick Pivonka, founder of the water polo club, said it was up to him to start a team if he wanted to continue to play the sport. Pivonka, who started the club this semester, played water polo in high school.
The team has not yet found other collegiate teams to compete against, but that has not stopped it from practicing. The 18-member team practices in Robinson Natatorium Thursday and Sunday nights from 7 to 9 p.m.
Pivonka said he considered the team coeducational because although most of the members were male, one female also played on the team.
Unlike water polo, some Kansas club sports, like the women's volleyball club, have varsity-level counterparts.
organized the women's volleyball club team four years ago. Now the team has a roster of about 30 women under the coaching of seniors Sumitra Ghate and Karen Vest.
The team usually practices Tuesday and Thursday nights from 7 to 9 p.m. in the Robinson north gymnasium. The practices have recently been scheduled from 8 to 9 p.m. to make room for a floor hockey team.
The club volleyball team is registered with the United States Volleyball Association and competes against other registered teams in the area. No games have been scheduled for the fall semester, but Ghate said the team played almost every weekend in the spring, its main season.
Graduate student Michelle Walsh
Many other sport clubs exist at Kansas such as jugging, water skiing and a variety of martial arts. Recreational Services in Robinson Center has more information about what sports have clubs.
However, Jayhawks are not restricted to participate in the established sports. Almost any sport could exist, to which water polo club founder Nick Pivonka could attest.
Jayhawks look for road victory against Tigers
By Gerry Fey
Kansan sportswriter
History will not repeat itself tonight if the Kansas volleyball team has anything to say about it.
won the five-game match after Kansas won the first two games. The Jayhawks face the Missouri Tigers at 7:30 tonight in Columbia Mo.
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The two teams already have played this year, when Kansas defeated the Tigers 3-0 on Oct.13 in Allen Field Hou
"Anytime you beat a team that easily, it gives you confidence," said Erkram Kramer, senior middle blocker and right-side player. Confidence and determination are needed to defeat the Tigers in Columbia, she said.
Kramer said she hoped Kansas would win an away game in the Big Eight. The Jayhawks have not defeated a conference foe on the road this year.
"I don't know if we're trying too hard in the Big Eight," Albitz said. "It's something we've lived with the past couple years, not doing well in the Big Eight even if we beat good teams in our nonconference schedule. It's got to be psychological."
An offensive change during the Colorado match last weekend may have helped Kansas improve its play.
Instead of exclusively using sophomore Lesli Steinert, Albitz doubled Steinert with senior Shelday Bedry. Colorado defeated Kansas 3-0 Saturday, but Kansas played better when it used two setters.
Albizt said if the strategy looked good in practice, she would use it against Missouri.
Kramer said the plan had worked when the team used it in the past.
"We did that last spring, and it worked," Kramer said. "I'm surprised she waited this long to use it."
Missouri coach Craig Sherman said two Kansas setters might benefit his defense.
"It actually simplifies things in some ways," Sherman said. "The thought process as a blocker is easier. You don't have to worry about knowing if their setter is in the back row or the front row."
Missouri's defeat to Kansas earlier this season was not reminiscent of a typical Tigers team, Sherman said. Missouri's defense only generated 39 digs compared to 60 digs for Kansas.
"Earlier in the season we were more of a blue-collar team, scrappy," Sherman said Tuesday. "Looking at the tape of the match yesterday, we just need to sharpen up our hustle. We were slow and lackadaisical."
Swimmer carries injury on her shoulders
The conference match is just as important to Missouri as it is to Kansas. Sherman said.
"We need to protect our home court," he said. "Our backs are against the wall in the Big Eight. We need this win."
By Kent Hohlfeld
Kansan sportswriter
Last year Katie Chapeau overcame the inexperience of being a freshman on the Kansas swim team to become an All-American. This year she will have to overcome tendinitis in both shoulders.
The shoulder injuries have hampered the Omaha, Neb., sophomore's efforts to return to last year's all-American form.
"It's a very common injury for swimmers," Kansas coach Gary Kempf said. "Right now we're just trying to let her rest it some."
Kempf said that Chapeau was also performing exercises aimed at strengthening her shoulders.
"This is the first time she's been, injured," Kempf said. "She's having to learn to deal with it."
He said that he did not expect the
"She made a very positive step last year," Kempf said.
injury to keep Chapeau from swimming in competition or returning to the type of performance she made last year.
As a freshman, Chapeau became Kansas' first freshman all-American since Barb Pranger in 1989. Chapeau qualified for the 50-meter freestyle race and placed 11th in the 100-meter backstroke at the NCAA championships.
In last year's Big Eight meet, although she won the 100-meter backstroke, she was disqualified for staying under water too long during the race's start. Swimmers can stay under water only for the first 15 meters of the race.
"It was a rookie mistake," Kempf said.
Chapeau said the disqualification was the lowest point of her freshman
season. The highest was the team's victory against No. 3 Southern Methodist.
"I was so proud to watch our team pull that out," Chapeau said. "Those are the moments that make me glad I came to KU."
She credits part of the success of her freshman year to being a member of a of a close team.
"In high school we all kind of swam our own race," Chapeau said. "Here we're all like a big family."
Teammate junior Frankie Hanson said that Chapeau dealt well with the pressure of being a freshman. Hanson was the only other member of the women's team to accompany Chapeau to the NCAA meet.
"She was constantly making jokes," Hanson said. "It helped get your mind off the pressure of being at nationals."
Hanson said that she thought the experience of competing in nationals
would help both her and Chapeau.
Chapeau said that last year's success surprised her and that it would probably translate into higher expectations for herself and the team this year.
"There are higher expectations on me," said Chapeau. "I think I put a lot of it on myself though."
Chapeau said that she tried to avoid setting goals for herself in order to avoid the pressure of meeting them. She said the only goal she set for the season was to better her times.
Kempf said that he expected Chapeau to compete in the 50-meter freestyle, 100- and 200-meter backstroke and some of the relay races. He said that knowing her abilities would be a key aspect to Chapeau's success this year.
"She made great strides last year in training, attitude and understanding her abilities." Kempsaid.
Sophomore swimmer Katie Chapeau ices her shoulders after practice at Robinson Natatorium. Chapeau, an All-American last year, has suffered from tendinitis in both shoulders during practice this season.
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