PACKERS WIN
The GREEN BAY PACKERS scored the first touchdown on their second play of the game and never looked back. They defeated the New England Patriots yesterday 35-21, winning Super Bowl XXXI and earning the Vince Lombardi trophy, Green Bay last won the
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Super Bowl 29 years ago under the guidance of Lombardi, the man for whom the Super Bowl trophy is named.
HOWARD NAMED SUPER BOWL MVP
DESMOND HOWARD, the Green Bay Packers kick returner, was named the Super Bowl's most valuable player. Howard is the
first special teams player in NFL history to be named Super Bowl MVP. Howard finished the game with a record 244 return yards.
MONDAY. JANUARY 27,1997
NFC DOMINATES
The NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS' Super Bowl loss marked the 13th consecutive time the AFC has lost a Super Bowl. The last AFC team to win was the Los Angeles Raiders in 1984. However, Bill Parcells did become only the second coach in NFL history to take two different teams to the Super Bowl. He won two titles
with the New York Giants. Don Shula was the other coach to take two different teams to the Super Bowl.
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Heisman winner Wuerffel in high demand from fans
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Heisman Trophy winner Danny Wuffelf is in demand these days.
it's been that way since the quarterback led a 52-20 victory over previously No.1 Florida State in the Sugar Bowl, giving Florida its first national title.
New deals, agents and fans barrage the 22-year-old athlete.
"There are so many wonderful opportunities, to speak to kids, to churches," Wuerffel said. "I'd love to do all of them. But there is only one of me."
The transformation from collegiate athlete to the high-stakes world of the NFL has Wuerffel weeding through offers to separate the serious from the scams, trying to choose a professional sports agent, working to stay in physical condition, and making time for his fiance and family.
"None of us have had to watch out for people before," said his father, Lt. Col. Jon Wuerffel, an Air Force chaplain who added that handling the flood of telephone calls has become an ordeal.
Scrailing a signature every 7.2 seconds, Wuerffel signed more than 1,500 times. "I've got to get that up to 11 a minute," he said.
A sample of the pressure: Fans lined up before dawn Saturday at a Books-a-Million store in Gainesville to wait for Wuerfel to sign copies of Gator Glory: A Season Divine.
Carl Lewis will quit track in June after long career
Lewis' nine Olympic golds and one silver include four golds at the 1984 Los Angeles Games, matching Jesse Owens' feat of four golds at the 1936 Berlin Games. Lewis also equaled disc thrower Al Oeater's record of winning the same event — the long jump — in four straight Olympics.
Lewis was in Australia to compete in a 100-meter race Monday. He finished next to last in the 100 Friday at Auckland, New Zealand, in a slow 10.76 seconds.
Lewis, 35, has won nine Olympic gold medals and eight world titles. He has been involved in setting 10 world records, and he recorded 65 consecutive victories in the long jump between 1981 and 1991.
"I don't know what it's going to feel like not being on the track any more, but I'm not going to sever my connection with the sport or with the Olympics," Lewis said.
NEW ORLEANS — Volunteers tending a bungee jumper's cord apparently let out too much line, causing her to plummet head first onto the Superdome floor yesterday.
SYDNEY, Australia — Carl Lewis,
the most decorated track and field
athlete in history, will end his career
in June in his hometown of Houston.
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"A lot of people have been encouraging me to stay on, and this is the first time I've said it will be my last season, but I intend to make my final race at Houston in June." Lewis said.
Police sources said that the rope and pulley used to feed line to Laura Patterson showed no obvious problem, although experts had not been called in to examine it.
Superbowl performer dies practicing halftime show
Trent Hartl competes in the 200-yard freestyle at the Robinson Natatorium in the Jayhawks' swim meet against Southern Illinois University. All the KU swimmers drew black bands around their arms in honor of teammate Seth Dunscomb for the meet.
Patterson, 43, of Sarasota, Fla., died Tuesday night of head injuries.
She was one of eight bungee jumpers who were to bounce twice, performing acrobatics and then be lowered to the ground along the football field's sidelines:
but Patterson hit the ground on her second dive in a final rehearsal for a segment of the Super Bowl's halftime show. The segment was scrapped after her death.
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Meet dedicated to friend
Swim teams win, take 25 events
By Kelly Cannon Kansan sportswriter
In a tribute fitting their fallen friend, the Kansas men and women's swimming and diving teams handily defeated Southern Illinois on Saturday at Robinson Natatorium.
The meet, which was dedicated to Seth Dunscomb, who died Wednesday of an enlarged heart, was senior appreciation night and the last home meet for the Jayhawks.
At the meet, Coach Gary Kempf announced that Dunscomb would be inducted into the Kansas swimming and diving hall of fame.
"If somebody would ask Seth 'What would you do?' he'd tell us to swim." Kempf said. "We have a need to move forward, and we have a need to show our team is working through this. And part of working through this is understanding we have to compete again."
The announcement got a standing ovation from the capacity crowd.
The team honored Dunscomb by drawing black bands around their left arms.
The women earned 141 points to Southern Illinois' 104, winning 13 of the 14 events.
Adrienne Turner placed first in the 1,000-yard freestyle, finishing in 10:26.05, nearly 10 seconds faster than the competition. Turner also captured the 500-yard freestyle in 5:08.16.
vidual medley in 4:38.83. Nicole Paplham placed fourth in the 50-yard freestyle.
Brebcca Andrew won the 100-yard freestyle in 52.38, and Andee Greves earned first-place in the 400-yard indi-
Colleen Philipps, Kristin Nilsen, Tracey McCalley, Quincy Adams, Sherry West and Rebecca Eustice all won one event each.
The men also won 145 -106, taking 12 of 14 events.
Erik Jorgensen won the 200-yard butterfly in 1:53.08 followed by Brian
O'Mara in 1:54.46. Alex Tejada came in third in the 50-yard freestyle.
Tyler Painter won the 1000-yard freestyle in 9:06.94, setting a new national best time. Painter also won the 500-yard freestyle.
Trent Hartl won two events, taking first in the 200- and 100-yard freestyles. Kostaki Chilligris and Brad Artis won the 200-yard individual medley and 200-
yard breaststroke, respectively
Skip Reynolds won the 400-yard individual medley in 4:10.88. After his race was over, Reynolds pointed to the black band on his arm in honor of Dunscomb.
Kansas will face Nebraska on Feb. 8 in Lincoln, Neb.
"Much of our performance the rest of the year is dedicated to Seth," Kempf said.
Abaroa triumphs in 'ugly' tennis match
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y Andy Rohrback Kansan sportswriter
Enric B. Howell/ XANSAN Enrique Abaroa, Monterey, Mexico, junior, keeps his eye on the ball. He never lost sight of the match Saturday.
Every bounce of the ball could have been a gunshot.
Bam. Bam. Bam.
The tennis club at Alvamar Country Club in Lawrence was silent Saturday night as Enrique Abaroa, Monterey, Mexico, junior, prepared to serve.
Abaroa, the No. 11 college singles tennis player in the country, had been backed into a corner by his opponent Bryan Smith of No. 67 Ball State. Smith had taken the first set 7-5 and led the second 5-4. He needed only one more game to win the match and defeat Kansas' No. 1 singles player.
A moment of absolute silence, then a grunt, a swish and a swat. The serve
Bam. Bam. Bam.
rocketed past Smith, scoring Abaroa's first point.
Three more aces followed, and Abaroa set the set 5-5.
The ninth-ranked Jayhawk men's tennis team had already guaranteed a 6-1 win against Ball State, but the night was far from over for these players.
"When I got to five all, I thought he was going to get down," Abaroa said. "I was not playing my game. I thought I was going to it around, but he didn't get down at all."
Coach Mark Riley took a moment to talk to Abaroa during a break between games.
"I just kept talking to him," Riley said. "I mean, the guy played really well."
Abaroa wasn't so sure he was playing well.
"There's a lot of areas where I can
"It was an ugly match.Those are the hardest matches to win-- the ugly ones."
Enrique Abaroa
Kansas tennis player
improve," Abaroa said. "He was telling me to just keep it in, to keep pressuring him to the middle, to keep being aggressive ... It was an ugly match. Those are the hardest matches to win—the ugly ones."
Smith was a bit frustrated as well.
"I was a little down after being up 5-3," Smith said. "I played a few loose games."
Abaroa won the second set 7-5. The third set deadlocked at 6-6 and was decided by a tie breaker, which Abaroa won 8-6.
The second singles match was also a crowd-pleaser, as Xavier Avila, Barcelona, Spain, junior, rebounded from a 1-6 first-set loss to win the last two sets 6-1, 6-4.
"They're pretty talented and really tough," Avila said of Ball State. "I saw really good players. Overall, they're a pretty decent team, better than we thought."
Kansas won the meet 6-1, giving Riley his first win as the team's coach.
He said that he expected the Cardinals to put up a fight but was pleased with his team's performance.
Track team takes second place
Gene Coleman breaks 600-yard run record
By Matt Woodruff
Kansan sportswriter
In the annual battle of rivals, the Kansas men and women's track and field teams combined to finish second at the Tri-Meet with Kansas State and Missouri in Anschutz Sports Pavilion Saturday.
Kansas State won the meet with a total of 257.5 points, Kansas followed with 219.5, and Missouri finished third with 213.
"I saw a lot of enthusiasm out there," Kansas coach Gary Schwartz said.
Several of those performances came from the men, who scored 142 of the team's total points.
Sprinter Gene Coleman made a statement in the meet, breaking the Tri-Meet record in the 600-yard run with a time of 1:10.98 and running the anchor leg of Kansas' victorious 1,600-meter relay.
Ricardo Amezcua, who won the Mexico national championship in the 10,000-meter run, won the 3,000-meter run in his first indoor meet ever with a time of 8:34.23.
"Since it's our rival schools, I get fired up," Coleman said.
"It was a good race," Amezuca said. "It was my first competition for Kansas. I am very happy with it, and I expect good things this year."
Schwartz was pleased with Amezcuza's first meet as a Jayhawk.
"I think he was a little too nervous and fired up in the mule," Schwartz said. "But I think in the last part of the 3,000 you saw what kind of athlete he really is."
Kansas' pole vaulters also had a strong meet. Mark Romito and Jon Colby Miller both broke a meet record by clearing 16 feet 6 inches, and Chip Malmstrom followed closely behind them with a 16 foot vault.
Personal bests were set by Nathan Prenger, who came within six one-hundredths of a second from being an NCAA provisional qualifier with a time of 7.45, and Craig Hettiche, who
had a time of 4:18.09 in the mile run.
On the women's side, spinner Carleen Roberts won the 200-meter run in a photo finish, edging out Kansas State's Karissa Stewart with a time of 24.74 to Stewart's 24.75.
Roberts also ran well in the 400-meter run, finishing second with a time of 56.61.
April Kockrow won the shot-put event against some tough opponents.
"There was very good competition,
especially in the throws," she said.
Lynn LoPresti set a personal record in the 3,000-meter run with a time of 10.33.68.
Kansas State coach Cliff Rovelto, whose team earned the right to keep the traveling "Jug" trophy for the third straight year, said that he looked at the meet as a stepping stone for his team's development.
"I look at the meet in terms of how we perform and try not to get caught up too much in what Missouri does cr Kansas does," Rovelto said. "We try to prepare for conference and nationals and take meets along the way.
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Ricardo Amezcua leads the pack early in the mile race. The Jayhawks hosted the triangular meet against Kansas State and Missouri Saturday at Anschutz Sports Pavilion.