UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Tuesday, November 7, 1995
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Men's golf team shines at end of fall season
Jayhawks had share of ups and downs on links
By Spencer Duncan Kansan sportswriter
The season was supposed to be a breeze. It turned out to be more like a tornado.
The Kansas men's golf team found itself spinning through the fall season and wondering what went wrong. With a roster boasting six seniors, including the defending Big Eight Conference tri-champion, this fall was meant to be a shining season for the Jayhawks.
"I think we all went into this season with high expectations," said Slade Adams, senior golfer and three-time Big Eight champion. "We thought we would do a lot better then we have."
At the beginning of the fall, coaches and players boasted that this season the team
could compete with anyone in the country.
The only problem was that it wasn't until the last tournament of the season that the team could back its big talk with a big finish.
The Jayhawks struggled all season, beginning with the first tournament.
In Minnesota, the team finished in seventh place, far behind the top finish it had desired.
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"It was not the finish we had hoped for," Kansas men's golf coach Ross Randall said when the tournament ended. But at the Kansas Invitational, the team shined.
The Jayhawks took advantage of playing at Alvamar Golf Club, their home course, and played the way they believed they were capable. The Jayhawks won the tournament by 31 strokes, and Adams and Kansas senior Dan Rooney shared the tournament title.
"This puts us back on track," Rooney said after the tournament.
The Jayhawks were unable to maintain the strong play and continued to struggle.
Not exactly.
Kansas finished 12th at Missouri and ninth at Tulsa. It was discouraging for a team that believed it was better than the scores indicated.
"A lot of players were getting frustrated," Adams said.
The Jayhawks were looking to break the frustration and had one tournament left to do it. Heading into the Stanford Invitational in Palo Alto, Calif., the Jayhawks knew it would be a tough battle. The field not only consisted of some of the nation's top-ranked teams, but Kansas also faced 13th-ranked
player in the nation, Stanford sophomore Tiger Woods. It was a chance for Kansas to prove it was better than the season had shown.
"It's important for this team to play well," said senior Alan Stearns before the tournament.
Playing well was just what the team did, and it captured a second-place finish. It was the best finish of the season and restored the team's confidence.
"It was a little bit of a relief," said Chris Thompson, Kansas redshirt freshman. "It felt good to get a win, especially since it was the last tournament."
The fall season is seen by both players and coach as preparation for spring, when the team must compete for the Big Eight Conference championship and try to qualify for the NCAA tournament.
"Finishing good gives you a little momentum," Thompson said. "You can look back on it, and it gives you something good going into spring."
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Deal entices Browns to migrate to Maryland
Cleveland would fill city's eleven-year itch for team
The Associated Press
NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue said he would submit a report on the proposed
BALTIMORE - Eleven years after the beloved Colts brought in moving vans in the middle of the night and skipped town for Indianapolis, football may be returning to Baltimore.
Cleveland Browns owner Art Modell said he would move his team to Baltimore next season.
game for the first time in 35 years, said the deal was too good to pass up.
"This has been a very, very tough road for my family and me," he said. "I leave my heart and part of my soul in Cleveland. But frankly, it came down to a simple
That's assuming he gets the support of other National Football League owners and wins a court challenge by the city of Cleveland.
team," Maryland Gov. Parris Glendening said at a news conference on the site of a planned stadium in downtown Baltimore.
Baltimore celebrated anyway.
The 30-year deal, reached two weeks ago, includes the $200-million stadium to be built by the state, up to $75 million for moving expenses and state-paid improvements to Memorial Stadium, where the Browns would play their first two seasons in Baltimore.
"I will tell you today we are standing on the very spot where in less than three short years I believe 70,000 cheering fans will be cheering for Maryland's newest
The move requires approval by 20 of the 30 NFL teams. NFL rules say an owner who wants to move his team must prove the team's host city is inhospitable and unwilling to help improve the club's situation.
proposition: I had no choice."
City leaders felt differently, arguing in a lawsuit that the move would violate the team's lease with the city.
"Like a thief in the night, our NFL franchise is being stolen," said Cleveland Mayor Michael White.
Hours before the news conference, a judge issued a temporary restraining order preventing the Brown's from moving until a Nov. 20 hearing.
The city also is hoping voters today will extend a tax on alcohol and tobacco, the last piece in a package of levies meant to raise $150 million to $175 million to renovate the Brown's stadium.
move at a special league meeting that probably will be held in mid-January.
Modell said he couldn't help being reminded of Baltimore's pain when the Colts skipped town without a word of warning. The Colts' equipment rumbled away in a convoy of moving vans well after midnight on a snowy night in March 1984.
"I know what you went through 11 years ago because that's what's happening now in Cleveland, and I am deeply, deeply sorry from the bottom of my heart," he said.
Baltimore has fought desperately for an NFL team since the Colts bolted.
St. Louis Cardinals owner Bill Bidwill took a tour of the city in 1987, then moved his team to Phoenix. Baltimore also courted owners of the Los Angeles Rams, Oakland Raiders, Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Cincinnati Bengals.
Baltimore tried to get a new team in 1993, but the NFL decided on Jacksonville. Fla., and Charlotte. N.C.
NFL owners have mixed feelings about Browns' move
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The Associated Press
Gathering of leaders expresses respect for Cleveland's Art Modell but confusion about his decision
GRAPEVINE, Texas — Forget Jerry Jones, favorite whipping boy of the NFL establishment this year.
"I am deeply, deeply sorry from the bottom of my heart," said Modell to fans in Cleveland, but many of his longtime partners, who are members of the NFL's inner circle, were gathering there with mixed feelings.
ence in Cleveland," Tagliabue said in a statement.
When NFL owners get together this week in Jones' backyard, they're likely to take on one of their longstanding insiders, Art Modell, who announced yesterday that he would take his Browns from Cleveland to Baltimore.
"The league's review will include many issues, financial and otherwise, unique to pro football's near 60-year pres
They said they still respected Modell but couldn't fathom his move from a city that had supported his team for so long.
There will be no official vote on the move, which would require approval from 23 of the 30 owners. Commissioner Paul Tagliabue said he had told Modell and officials from Maryland and Ohio that he would review the proposal and report back in mid-January.
Based on the immediate statements of other owners, few would be willing to approve the move following a year in which the Rams and Raiders left Los Angeles for St. Louis and Oakland.
"This is wrong," said Ralph Wilson of the Buffalo Bills, who, along with Modell, is one of the so-called old guard owners, who like to think they put the common good ahead of individual gain.
Pittsburgh's Dan Rooney said, "The credibility of our league has taken a beating in the last year. Fans used to believe that our league stood for stability. Now it's all crazy. Tampa Bay wants to move, Houston wants to move to Nashville. All of this is hurting our league."
The Pittsburgh Steelers joined Modell's lead in breaking a deadlock and ironically joined the old Baltimore Colts in moving from the NFL to the AFC at the time of the merger.
Last spring, the owners voted down the move of the Rams to St. Louis, then reversed the decision at the threat of court action.
Tagliabue, who met with Cleveland officials on Sunday, now apparently believes the league guidelines for moving, which include fan support, could stand up in court. Among other things, the Brown's have averaged 70,000 fans a game for decades and are drawing more than 70,000 this year.
That seemed to be the general feeling around the NFL, although there was also a feeling that even a vote against the move couldn't thwart the Browns.
It also seemed clear from discussions with owners and team and league officials that pro-Cleveland sentiment runs deep, including with Tagliabue.
And even the pro-Modell statements aren't the kind calculated to win support, such as one from San Diego's Alex Spanos, who said: "It's great for Art Modell. When anyone can make out a check for $50 million, it shows how much football is really wanted around the country."
But one team official noted reports that Modell needed the money because he had taken out a loan to pay wide receiver Andre Rison's $13 million up-front signing payment. The official questioned how that would sit elsewhere, particularly with teams such as Green Bay that also were seeking Rison.
Before the Browns' move, the main topic of discussion was to be the Raiders' move. The league did not oppose that one since Al Davis took his team back to the city he had left 14 years earlier, but it did sue him over the split of the revenue from Permanent Seating Licenses. Davis countersued.
There also will be talk of realignment, which could be affected by a Browns move to Baltimore. It still seems likely that the same division alignment will remain in place for next season.
There also was to be discussion on Bud Adams' negotiations to move the Oilers from Houston to Nashville and Jones' challenge to the NFL revenue-sharing policies by signing separate deals with Nike and Pepsi-Cola for the Cowboys.
Fans are upset about possible loss of their beloved Browns
"I think he's a sneak and a coward," said Joe Simone, 41, Cleveland, a Brown's season-ticket holder for 23 years.
"Art did say we had until the end of this year before he would do anything," Simone said. "He placed a moratorium on any talk about moving the team, but yet during his moratorium, he was dealing with Baltimore. I don't think that's
Simone was upset that Modell had imposed a season-long moratorium on discussions of renovating Cleveland Stadium but had ignored his own rule to talk with
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The same fans who cheered for the Indians weren't handing out popularity prizes to Modell, whose franchise once was the only bright spot in the city's sporting calendar.
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The city hasn't given up. Community leaders argued Oct. 31 for passage of a ballot issue that would extend the county sin tax on alcohol and tobacco products to help pay for renovation of Cleveland Stadium.
"We, as a community, need to show that we did everything in our power to keep our 49-year-old football team home," said Lee Weingart, Cuyahoga County Commissioner.
The sin tax is central to two of the city's hopes for keeping the Browns: convincing the NFL to block the move or persuading team owner Art Modell to stay.
"If he thinks someone's going to beg him to stay here in Cleveland, I'm not."
A third option, a legal challenge,
already is under way.
right."
Under the NFL's rules, an owner
wanting to move his team must prove his host city is inhospitable and unwilling to help improve the situation.
It's a slim chance: Twice this year, the league has failed to block a determined owner from moving his team.
But the NFL may be Cleveland's best chance for now. NFL commissioner Paul Taligliab sent Mayor Michael R. White a letter yesterday, lending his strong support to the sin tax extension.
"Obviously, this funding is critical to establishing a state-of-the-art facility and the future of professional football in Cleveland," Tadliolle wrote.
The vote also affects whether Cleveland can go to Modell tomorrow with any kind of package to compete with Marvland's offer.
But it's unclear how Modell would receive such an offer, since
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The Associated Press
The first round of the city's legal challenge to the move met with limited success yesterday. A judge granted the city's request for an order temporarily blocking the Browns from leaving town, but left open the door for the team to announce its intention to leave.
Minutes later, the team issued a news release confirming its plans to move.
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Regina White, 33, of Cleveland, watched televised coverage of yesterday's news conference in Baltimore as Modell announced his plans.
"If he thinks someone's going to beg him to stay here in Cleveland, I'm not. The people of Cleveland should just tell him to go ahead." White said.
CLEVELAND — Two weeks ago, this city was glowing with pride as the Indians were host of the World Series for the first time in 41 years.
Yesterday, Brown's owner Art Modell made it official: His football team is leaving town for Baltimore.
contended that it was an outright rejection.
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Showalter wouldn't say if the Tigers or A's had made him an offer, but Jerry Colangelo, the Diamondbacks' managing general partner, left little doubt that he hoped to hire Showalter.
Showalter said he merely rejected an initial contract offer. Steinbrenner, at odds with Showalter over the team's coaches,
The Associated Press
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Showalter spoke with general managers of the Detroit Tigers and Oakland Athlet-
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