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NU athletes make honor roll
By Cindy Wastrel
Stiff Reporter
The University af Nebraska
Lincoln placed 113 athletes on the
Big Eight Conference Honor Roll
in the 1988-89 school year, more
than any other Big Eight school
UNL hid 24 more athletes on
the honor roll than runner-up Iowa
State University, which had 89.
UNL*® number included six
straight ^ students. Those stu
dents are: football senior Mark
Blazek, who U from Valparaiso
and majors in social science edu
cation; freshman Rachel Coll ins, a
tennis player from Thousand
Oaks, Calif., track sophomore
Lynne Prey, who is from
Tucumcari, N.M.,and studies pre
pharmacy; track junior Kimberly
Guthrie, from Amarillo, Texas, an
English major; Fort Calhoun na
tive Janet Kruse, a volleyball
freshman in genera! studies; and
volleyball member Virginia Stahr,
a senior from Waco majoring in
elementary education.
Each of the universities in the
Big Eight submits names of ath
letes who received grades of 3.0 or
better on a 4.0 scale to the confer
ence honor roll Each school has
about the same number of
athletes, UNL athletic director
Bob Devaney said.
Devaney said UNL’s coaches
stressacademics and try to recruit
student-athletes, which would
lead to UNL’s higher number on
the honor roll.
Cyclist takes on nationals
By Sara Bauder
Stiff Reporter
He rides his bicycle three to four
hours a day, every day. He puts any
where from 350 to 400 miles on his
bike every week. And he also works
as a bike mechanic at Cycle Works.
Kevin Burke, a 25-year-old senior
sociology major at the University of
Ncbraska-Lincoln, has been cycling
seriously for about seven seasons.
This year, he was Nebraska’s lone
representative at the National Road
Race in Park City, Utah, on July 17.
Burke qualified for the Nationals
by winning the State Road Race at
Branched Oak Lake,
At Nationals, Burke was elimi
nated in the first round when he fin
ished 53rd in his heat.
“1 was kind of nervous when I got
there,” he said. “I looked around and
saw a lot of big-name riders and spon
sored teams.,v
The course was a challenge for
Burke because it was at a high alti
tude and contained a half-mile climb.
“It was a short course and we hit
the hill a lot,” he said. “The altitude
made it hard to breath because I
wasn’t used to it.”
Burke said he had to pay his own
expenses to go to the race because
cycling does not receive a lot of spon
sor attention in Lincoln.
“The percentage of high-caliber
riders in Lincoln is really high, but no
one is interested in sponsoring a
team.”
Burke said that Cycle Works helps
him and teammate Mark Anderson
with equipment and clothes, but that
travel expenses are their own respon
sibility.
Having a company sponsor a team
would be a big advantage, according
to Burke.
Burke said teammates can use
blocking and sprinting strategies to
help each other do better in races.
Burke said he plans to stay in
cycling for a while because it is a
good way to stay in shape. However,
he does not plan to turn professional
any time soon.
"I’d have to get a lot better to do
that,” he said. “It’s a 24-hour job
when you turn pro. They don’t do
anything else.
*‘I’m more of a part-time cyclist. ”
Burke goes to at least 50 bicycle
races per year, starting in April and
running through late October. He said
that by the time the end of the season
rolls around, he is “pretty burned
out” on cycling.
“In the winter I lift weights, cir
cuit train, and play raquctball to stay
in shape,” he said. “By the time the
season is ready to start again, every
body gets pretty fired up about rid
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ing.
Gambling has its place
There was a heck of a bingo
game at the Knights of Colum
bus a couple nights ago, yet
there was no mention of it in the
sports section of the newspaper.
That’s surprising, considering
how much sports coverage gambling
related activities get. Pick up a sports
section these days and you’re bound
to find stories, post- times, results and
so on about horse racing and dog
racing. There’s lists of betting lines
for almost every sport. USA Today’s
sports page even has a section every
day which lists the winning numbers
from lotteries all over the country.
Horse racing, dog racing, lotteries
-- they’re all interesting, but are they
really sports? A sport is defined as an
athletic activity requiring skill or
physical prowess.
Admittedly, being a horse jockey
requires skill. However, watching
Willie Shoemaker whip a horse sure
doesn’t seem very athletic compared
to one of Michael Jordan’s high
flying slam dunks or one of Bo
Jackson’s towering home runs. And
watching an 80-year-old man scratch
off a lottery ticket doesn’t compare at
all.
This trend of covering gambling
as a sport even has creeped into
Sports Illustrated, the biggest sports
magazine in the country. A recent
cover story had a picture of a jockey
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with the headline Julie Krone, the
best woman jockey ever.” Pretty
impressive, until you try to think of
other women jockeys who she is bet
ter than. If anybody knows of another
great woman jockey, tell me, because
I’m still trying to think of one.
Fans of these so-called sports will
reply by saying that people bet tons of
money on baseball, football and ev
ery other sport. True. But millions of
non-betting fans still attend these
sporting events.
How many people would attend
the dog races if they couldn’t bet? A
few dog lovers might show up, but
that’s about it. Dog racing and horse
racing wouldn’t last long with
"crowds” of 10 or 15 people in the
stands.
I enjoy going to the horse and dog
races. I usually return home humbled
and penniless, but I always have fun.
So I’m not saying we should shut
down these places.
What angers me is the space gam
bling takes away from legitimate
sports in our newspapers, magazines
and sport shows. Whenever I see a
story on one of these events I always
think of how that space could have
been used to cover a real sport
I’m calling on sports editors of the
world to unite and leave dog racing,
horse racing, lotteries and all other
events based on gambling to the en
tertainment section. Because that’s
what they arc - entertainment.
The only gambling-related stories
I want to see in the sports section
should involve Pete Rose.
On second thought, I’m sick of
that story too.
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major and columnist for the Summer Daily
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