NFL Complete coverage of the Cleveland Browns' proposed move to Baltimore. Page 3 SPORTS ERSITY DAILY KANSAN UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN TUESDAY. NOVEMBER 7,1995 Bowl options wide open for Kansas Edmee Rodriguez / KANSAN SECTION B Kansas junior tackle Kevin Kopp pulls down Missouri running back Brock Olivo in Saturday's win against the Tigers. The No. 10 Jayhawks appear to be headed for the Weiser Lock Copper Bowl on Dec. 27, but can move up in the bowl sweepstakes with a win in Saturday's game with No. 1 Nebraska at Memorial Stadium. agreed with Mason and expressed the attitude that the team has held throughout the season. Win against No.1 Nebraska would help Jayhawks' cause "A win is a win, period," he said. "It's all the same. I'll probably say that all the way until after game 12." By Robert Sinclair Kansan sportswriter That is the Weiser Lock Copper Bowl Dec. 27 in Tucson, Ariz. In search of its pot of gold, the No. 10 Kansas football team might end up with a bowl of copper. "We'd be delighted to have them," said Larry Brown, executive director of the Copper Bowl Foundation. "Our only concern is that they'll be too good for us, and one of the bigger bowls will snatch them up." The Copper Bowl is tied to the Big Eight/Big 12 Conference and has the fifth choice from among the 12 schools after the Bowl Alliance's selection. In its weekly wish list of the schools it is interested in, the Copper Bowl listed Kansas as No.1 followed by Air Force, Texas Tech, San Diego State, Colorado State, Kansas State, Colorado and Texas A&M. Texas Tech, the second most likely Big Eight/Big 12 candidate, lost to Texas last week 48. "They got stuck a week or so ago by Kansas State," Brown said. "But they're beaten many teams this year and will beat many more." After the Bowl Alliance — which includes the FedEx Orange Bowl, the Nokia Sugar Bowl and the Fiesta Bowl — the first four bowl teams selected from the future conference will go, in order, to the Cotton Bowl, the Plymouth Holiday Bowl, the Builders Square Alamo Bowl and the Jeep Eagle Aloa Bowl. The Aloha Bowl most likely will avoid Kansas and Kansas State since the schools represent two of the last three Big Eight teams that have competed there. The Big 12 teams, in the order in which they appear in this week's Associated Press poll, are No. 1 Nebraska, No. 7 Kansas State, No. 8 Colorado, No. 10 Kansas, No. 11 Texas and No. 18 Texas A&M. If the Jayhawks defeat the Cornhuskers on Saturday at Memorial Stadium, they not only will be in the running for the Big Eight championship but also will have an outside chance at the national championship and a spot in the Bowl Alliance. By finishing 10-1, which also would include a win at Oklahoma State Nov. 18, Kansas would have a chance at playing in the Cotton Bowl even if it was shummed by the alliance. Like the three alliance games, the Cotton Bowl is played on New Year's Day - the most prestigious game day for a college football team. Even if the Jayhawks aren't successful this weekend, they more than likely will be playing in the month of December. Don't mention that to them, though. Big Eight Conference Standings and Schedule "Everybody else can talk about all that stuff, but I'm not," said Kansas football coach Glen Mason. Kansas senior outside linebacker Keith Rodgers
ConferenceAll Games
W LT PtsOPW LT PtsOP
Nebraska5 00 287819 00 498147
Kansas4 11 1611128 10 269173
Kansas St.4 10 168838 10 336111
Colorado3 20 1781617 20 358217
Oklahoma2 30 961605 12 33216
Iowa St.1 40 1132103 60 226315
Okla.St.1 40 1141962 70 197303
Missouri0 50 581722 70 141259
Saturday's Games Kansas State at Iowa State, 1 p.m. Oklahoma State at Oklahoma, 1 p.m. Missouri at Colorado, 1:10 p.m. Nebraska at Kansas, 2:30 p.m. (ABC — Channel 9 and 49) Tennis player feeling ill By Dan Gelston Kansan sportswriter Greg Ostertag won't be the only athlete with ties to Kansas unable to play this week in Utah. But the rest of the Jayhawks are ready for the final tournament of the fall season. Mononucleosis has sidelined Kansas women's tennis freshman Kris Sell. She will not play in the Central Regional Rolex Championships in Salt Lake City. "It's always great to play with your best lineup, but we should still do fine," Kansas women's tennis coach Chuck Merzbacher said about Sell's absence. "Our players certainly have the ability to overcome the loss." Play begins for the 64-player singles and 32-draw doubles draw tomorrow. No. 3 junior Kyile Hunter, No. 13 junior Jenny Atkerson and No. 5 sophomore Christie Sim are seeded for Kansas. Senior Kim Webster, junior Bianca Kirchoff and Amy trytek, and sophomore Maria Abatjoglou round out the singles draw for Kansas. Kansas will have one less doubles team. Atkerson and Hunt have been forced to sit out because they have qualified for the Rolex Championships next spring. They qualified with a win at the ITA/SkyTel Clay Court Championships in October. Kansas will send Kirchoff and Sim, seeded eighth, and Atkerson and Webster. "I'm really looking forward to the tournament," Sim said. "We do pretty well together as a team. Bianca is a great doubles player." Being out of action is a disappointment for Sell, but she said she realized she still had a lot of tennis ahead of her. "I am so upset I'm not playing. I really wish I could be," she said. "It's very disappointing, but there's nothing I can do about it." Merbzacher said that Sell got all she could out of the fall season. A Kansas singles or doubles victory in the tournament would cap off what has been an extremely successful fall tournament season for the Jayhawks. Aside from the doubles championship won by Atkerson and Hunt, Sim won the Big Eight Indoor Championship and Hunt made it to the finals of the clay courts. "Everybody is playing really well right now." Merzbacher said. "We've just been working on fine-tuning some things in practice. We're anxious to get out there." McGrath finds dunking tough; players become award finalists Notes and quotes from the Jayhawks' first few weeks of practice: Setting the record straight C. B. McGrath can dunk, although he failed in all his attempts at "Late Night with Roy Williams." The 5-foot-11, 168-pound sophomore guard said that he even had done a 360-degree dunk. It was in March in Dayton, Ohio, before one of the Jayhawks' NCAA tournament games. That wasn't the only time he dunked for the team. "Last year when we'd be on the road, every pregame practice I had to dunk before we'd leave," McGrath said. "Usually I did. If didn't, we were in trouble." McGrath wasn't serious, but he did miss a dunk at Iowa State. The Jayhawks lost 69-65 to the Cyclones Jan. 14. Dunking is not the only basketball skill some people don't believe McGrath possesses. Some don't believe that McGrath possesses enough skill to play for Kansas. "I'm a short little white kid, and I probably don't look that athletic, "McGrath said. "They don't even think I play basketball." McGrath chose to walk on at Kansas instead of accepting an offer to play on scholarship at Wichita State, North Texas or Washburn University. Junior guard Jacque Vaughn is a candidate for two awards given to college basketball's best male player. Three Jayhawks are John Wooden Award candidates: Vaughn, junior guard Jerod College basketball's most valuable player Haase and sophomore forward Raef LaFrentz. Kansas women's basketball player Charisse Sampson is a finalist for the Bar/Naismith Award for women's college basketball players. Vaughn also is a Ban/Nalsmith Award Finalist for men's basketball players. The finalists were selected by the Nalsmith Awards Advisory Board that consists of basketball coaches, journalists and administrators. The candidates have been narrowed to the top 10 candidates and 10 semi-finals. Vaughn received the fifth most votes to be a finalist. The first four nominees were: Wake Forest junior center Tim Duncan, Villanova senior guard Kerry Kittles, Massachusetts junior center Marc Camby and Connecticut junior guard/forward Ray Allen. Compiled by Kansan sportswriter Matt Irwin. Kansas junior guard Jacque Vaughn is a candidate for both the John Wooden Award and the Ban/Naismith Award. Paul Kotz/ KANSAN Money, not progress, motivates the franchise-moving game NFL games: Los Angeles at Jacksonville, Orlando at Detroit, Cincinnati at Nashville and, on Monday night, Baltimore at Pittsburgh. Here's a little twist to four of next week's Sound funny? It does. With the wheeling and dealing going on between cities and NFL owners, though, it could happen in time for next season. It already began this year, with the Rams moving to St. Louis and the Raiders returning to Oakland. ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR Recent additions to the list of potential NFL movers include the Seahawks or Cardinals to Los Angeles, the Buccaneers to Orlando, the Oliers to Nashville and the Browns to Baltimore. Will all four moves take place? Probably not. However, my guess is that two of the four teams will have new homes in 1996. What really bothers me is the way the owners go about the process. It begins with either poor attendance (the Rams) or frustration about poor facilities (the Ollers and Buccaneers'). Then, the owners solicit interested cities that don't have teams to see which makes the best offer. What is even more amazing is what the teamless cities are willing to do for a professional franchise. If a stadium or arena already exists, the cities promise to renovate it and allow the team to sell an arena or stadium's name to the corporate world for profit. Other cities promise to build new stadiums and arenas — with some doing so before they even get a team. Take Tampa-St. Petersburg, Fla., for example. The city of St. Petersburg built a baseball-only domed stadium in the late 1980s to attract a team. Since then, the Thunder Dome, which could easily be changed to Coca-Cola Dome or Microsoft Dome if necessary, has been the home of several NCAA tournament games, a few NBA exhibitions and more than its share of tractor pulls. About the only thing that hasn't been played in the Thunder Dome is baseball. Yes, once again money is the issue. Professional team owners want more, and mayors are willing to do anything to give it to them. Although the NFL has a set of rules a team must meet to be able to move, other leagues do not. The list of potential moves in professional sports is growing every day, with no But enough about money. The communities and fans that get left behind when their队 packs up and moves often are ignored. I don't think that's very fair. end in sight. When the Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Glants relocated to California in 1958, their fans' losses were excused as part of progress for the game of baseball. And in some ways, this was true. Baseball needed a presence on the West coast to improve revenue and cultivate fan support. Keeping all the action confined to the Eastern time zone wasn't a good idea. So taking both NFL teams out of the nation's largest television market was? That's debatable. Neither the Rams nor the Raiders had much support, so their games didn't sell out. Now both teams have sold-out games — but for how long? The Colorado Avalanche, one of the NHLs top teams, used to be known as the Quebec Nordiques. The only other hockey team to move in the last 10 years was the Minnesota North Stars, now in their third season as the Dallas Stars. The last NBA team to move was the Kansas City Kings, who left for Sacramento, Calif., in 1985. To find the last baseball move, you have to go way back to 1972, when the Washington Senators became the Texas Rangers. But the roof is crumbling. The Houston Astros could be in the Washington, D.C., area by next season, and the Kansas City Royals will be up for grabs in five years if Wal-Mart chairman David Glass decides not to buy them. . So I guess progress is back. Too bad it's only good for the owners' bank accounts and not t the fans in Cleveland's Dog Pound.