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Coachless club still wins
Hockey team improving with second season
CONTRIBUTED PHOTO
The 1996-97 Kansas hockey club team poses in front of the Coors Beer Plant in Golden, Colo. The team is 4-3 this season.
By Kevin Bates Kansan sportswriter
The Kansas ice hockey club has played its first seven games of the season without a head coach.
"Right now we're kind of coaching ourselves," Dave Hill, St. Louis senior said. "But we're not super-concerned about it."
The team is not crippled by the absence of a coach. It came away 4-3 after a seven-game stretch on the road.
"It was a one-on-one breakaway goal," said Kim, Glennview, Ill., senior. "I didn't even look at the clock. I got a full head of steam, faked left and scored right."
The first two wins came against Regis University on Oct. 4 and 5, one more came at Drake on Oct. 25, and the last one was against Colorado School of Mines on Monday in which Tony Kim scored the winning goal with 7 seconds left.
The team expects to perform better in its second season than in its inaugural season. Last year the team went 3-11, two of the wins from forfeits.
"Last year was a building year." Nils Jergensen, Colorado Springs, Colo., senior, said. "We weren't
organized last year, but now we're actually developing into a good team."
Jergens said improvement had been focused on finding the right team composition.
"We've stressed putting together good lines and working together," Jergensen said. "We're working on getting in the right mind set."
That mind set could be helped by the addition of a head coach. Hill said that players concentrating on individual jobs can have trouble seeing the whole game.
"What hurts most is during the games we can't step back and get a full objective look at what's going on." Hill said.
Jergensen said the team could
have benefited from a coach during its losses in the games at Colorado on Nov. 1 and 2.
"We need to have someone running the bench," Jergensen said. "We need someone to be there looking at the team's problems."
The team's next two games are against Nebraska on Nov. 15 and 16 at home, and Jergensen said it was the biggest series so far. The team plays all home games at The Rinks on Johnson Drive in Shawnee.
"It may just be the mystique of their athletic program, but they'll definitely be tough," Jergensen said. "But I think we're a leg up on them because this is their first season and we're more developed this year."
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The Kansas-Kansas State series has gradually gotten bigger, especially since Mason and Snyder took control. Last season, the Wildcats won 41-7 before a record crowd of 44,284 fans in Manhattan.
Players are pumped for the game, even though 7,000 tickets remain.
Kansas natives who were recruited by both schools are especially looking forward to the game.
"I never liked the atmosphere in Manhattan," Kansas sophomore guard and Buhler native Cleve Roberts said. "I didn't like the program."
Senior tight end Jim Moore said bragging rights were fierce in his hometown of Garden City.
Though Mason said he tried to treat the game like any other, he realized its importance to fans.
"People like to bet cows and pigs on the game," he said.
"I talked this game up when you guys were laughing about it and were calling it the Toilet Bowl," he said. "Coaches don't make rivalries, they inherit them. They're charged with carrying them on. I do my best to carry that tradition on."
Kansas Governor Bill Graves will attend to present the Governor's Cup to the winner. The traveling trophy was established in 1969 by then-governor Robert Docking. Kansas has won 16 times.
"We have to play a lot better than we've been playing to have a chance," Mason said.
With that in mind, is Mason sure he wouldn't eat a frog for a win?
"My wife's a dentist. She'd kill me," he said, laughing. "Maybe if I flossed."
Gambling in college
HBO to air show which exposes betting problem on campuses nationwide
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — Student bookies at Alabama considered it a "badge of honor" to expose their operation on HBO, which will air a major piece on student gambling next week on Real Sports With Bryant Gumbel.
The show, which airs for the first
time Tuesday night, has been in the works for months, long before news of the Boston College betting scandal broke, HBO Sports executive producer Ross Greenburg said.
"The timing couldn't be better for this story," Greenburg said. "But, no, we aren't swamis, and none of us had the foresight to know this was going to develop."
Boston College suspended 13 football players for gambling on football and baseball. Two of them bet against their own football team, although there has been no evidence of point shaving.
Most of the gambling segment of Real Sports deals with a student bookie operation at the University of Alabama "to document what is really a widespread problem across America," Greenburn said.
He said that of 30-40 campuses queried, "we found active student gambling operations on all of them."
Larry Merchant, who went to Tuscaloosa, Ala., for the story, said he uncovered no evidence in his investigation that college players had made bets through Alabama's student bookies.
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