UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, March 5, 1997
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Road wins suit team
By Matt Woodruff
Kansan sportswriter
When people say there is no place like home, the Kansas softball team will have to take their word for it.
By going 3-2 last weekend at the Hillenbrand Invitational in Arizona, the Kansas softball team improved their record to 7-4 with all 11 games on the road.
Success on the road will be vital to the team's chances this season, because the team has only six home games, all double-headers, this season. The first of those home games will be played April 2.
"It's unusual to have only six home games; it's not unusual to not have one until April," Kansas softball assistant coach Marla Looper said. "We're planning on changing that next year."
Looper and assistant coach Carla Marchetti said because the coaches are all new to the staff, the schedule was set for them before they arrived.
"It makes it kind of tough," Marchetti said. "But teams that are in the colder states will not have the advantage of playing at home as much as teams like Oklahoma and Texas."
Looper said all of the traveling made it hard for the players to keep up with academics.
"It is very tough on the kids when they miss classes," Looper said. "They have to keep up with their homework, make sure they get enough rest and stay healthy. It's hard for them to keep up with everything, but it's one of those things you have to deal with."
Despite the jet lag, the coaches are pleased with how the season has started.
"We've had some very good outings and have seen good things from the kids," Marchetti said. "I think that each day we have improved."
The team will be on the road again this weekend when they travel to Oklahoma City to play in the Hall of Fame Tournament.
It is nearing the end of the basketball season and Kansas Jayhawk fans are saying goodbye to the seniors and the teams until next season.
Can we see one more game?
Fans will never get a chance to see the seniors play in Allen Field House again before they leave for the NBA, the CBA, the WNBA, the ABL or their chosen professions after graduation.
My question is, why not let the devoted fans see them play one more time?
Of course, with the season coming to a close and the Big 12 Conference tournaments underway, it does not seem conceivable that the fans would get a chance to see the seniors play again before they graduate in May.
But, I think there still could be a chance.
Why not let the men's and women's basketball teams play together in a scrimmage for a final farewell in Allen Field House?
It seems so simple.
ASSOCIATE
SPORTS
EDITOR
Put both No. 1 Big 12 teams on the floor and let them show the fans
what it means to be a Jayhawk, with teamwork and fun.
The field house could be filled with fans for both the men's and women's teams.
Admission could be free for the first 16,300 fans who arrive, similar to Late Night with Roy Williams at the beginning of the season. Or the money that is raised could go to a charity, such as Coaches vs. Cancer, which men's basketball coach Roy Williams actively is involved with.
No matter how the Jayhawks end their respective NCAA tournaments, the true, die-hard fans always will be behind the teams. I think these are the people who need to see the players on the field house court one more time to celebrate the tremendous seasons that both teams had this year.
Fans already said their goodbyes to the seniors with flowers and cheers.
the seniors, both the men and women Jayhawks, in the field house to put an ultimate finale to such fantastic seasons.
As a senior myself, I would like to have the chance to see Scot Pollard, Jerod Haase, Jacque Vaughn, Tamecka Dixon, Angie Hableib and the rest of the crew play again. They would not have to play for a ranking or a title; they would play for the fans, the people who have been the biggest supporters of the teams for more than just the last four years.
It may be a fantasy to think the Jayhawks could play one more time for the fans before they finish another season, but as Jiminy Cricket taught me as a child, dreams can come true.
Site selection for 2004 Olympics becoming nasty
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The Associated Press
LAUSANNE, Switzerland — Three days before the selection of the finalists, the contest for the right to hold the 2004 Summer Olympics turned nasty yesterday.
Russia
A 14-member International Olympic Committee panel will trim the record field of 11 candidates to four or five cities on Friday. The full IOC will select the winner on Sept. 5.
Rome and Athens appear certain to make the short list. Competing for the other spots are Stockholm, Sweden; Cape Town, South Africa; Buenos Aires, Argentina; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; and St. Petersburg,
The other candidates are Lille, France; Seville, Spain; and San Juan, Puerto Rico.
The IOC adopted the cutoff procedure to reduce the bidding costs. But the system only has raised the stakes for cities desperate to avoid the humiliation of failing to qualify for the final round.
Yesterday, Turkish officials assailed the IOC technical report about the Istanbul bid as flawed and unfair. They accused the IOC of looking for excuses to eliminate Istanbul and other candidates.
Russian government leaders reiterated their criticism of the report
and continued to exert heavy political pressure on the IOC to make sure St. Petersburg made the cut.
Istanbul sent a five-page written rebuttal addressing the factual mistakes, discrepancies and omissions contained in the IOC evaluation report, which cited transportation problems and other drawbacks to the bid.
"This was an injustice," bid chief Yalcin Aksoy said. "The strength of the bid is not reflected in the report."
Sinan Erdem, president of the Turkish Olympic Committee and an IOC member, added, "The problem is that the system is wrong. You can not expect a good result from a
wrong system. It is acceptable to be the loser with a working system. But it is not acceptable that a group of people can say you are in or you are out."
Istanbul's bid was further hurt by newspaper headlines this week citing fears of a possible coup in Turkey following disputes between the pro-Islamic governing coalition and the military.
"There are differences of opinion, but they are trying to solve their problems in parliament with democracy." Aksov said.
Istanbul has brought a delegation of 75 people to Lausanne, including three-time Olympic champion
weightlifter Naim Suleymanoglu,
known as Pocket Hercules.
But Aksoy said Turkey, making its second consecutive Olympic bid, may turn its back on the games if it does not make the cut Friday.
The same might apply to Russia, which has put its political prestige on the line by backing St. Petersburg. The IOC report cited financial and other deficiencies.
Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin made a telephone call this week to IOC president Juan Antonio Samaranch to complain about mistakes and inadequacies in the report.
and Buenos Aires heated up this week when soccer legend Pele, Brazil's sports minister, said that the Argentine capital — which received a very favorable IOC evaluation — doesn't deserve to make the final round.
The rivalry between Rio de Janeiro
"If we look at what happened during the 1995 Pan American Games in Argentina, it's clear the Olympics shouldn't be there," Pele said in an unusual attack against a rival bid. "The organization was awful. And the IOC knows that."
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