Sports
Adam Klinker
KSU fans
truly are
ridiculous
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - I never
thought I’d have occasion to get the
business from the Kansas State
folks following their miracle foot
ball season of 1998.
Furthermore, I never thought
the issue would surface at a basket
ball game of all places, but such is
the way of the Wildcat fan. They
aren’t bashful to offer public forum
(read: worship) for their “great”
football team and most especially,
their savior, Bill Snyder.
Certainly, I am the antithesis of
a K-State fan, but I was fairly
impressed with the Wildcat perfor
mance on its way to an 84-74 win
over Missouri in the Big 12
Conference Tournament.
Knowing how much the
Wildcat ego loves a boost, especial
ly after a win over a team as tradi
tionally strong as Mizzou, I still
thought it had deserved most of
what it had received - in football or
basketball.
Contemplating a congratulatory
remark to my newfound KSU
friend, who was part of its sports
information department, and with
hope for a thawing of my prior inch
nations of KSU fans (raucous, rude,
immature), I turned to him.
But his eyes had widened, and
his jaw slackened as he gazed in awe
across the court to something he
saw in the crowd opposite press row.
He leaned over to me. “There’s
Bill Snyder,” he said.
It was all over. I couldn’t help
but laugh as he quickly spun to the
rest of the KSU conglomeration and
excitedly proclaimed the triumphal
appearance of the savior himself.
Sure enough, I looked, and there
he was. In the middle of an entire
section of purple-clad disciples,
wearing a brown sports coat, his
white hair like a halo, he stood
applauding KSU as they broke out
of their huddle after a TV time out.
And it is his school.
Make no mistake, you can’t
escape the fraud religion that is the
Church of Snyder at Kansas State
University.
I was at a basketball game, and I
got harangued by this lunatic cadre
of zealots. It was as if this fella had
been looking for Snyder the whole
time. Seek and ye shall find.
All the more shocking, I discov
ered that this KSU follower was not
from Kansas, but Nebraska. I was
appalled that this mind-numbing
theology had seeped into the stolid
Comhusker mind-set; further prov
ing that no one is safe.
So beware ye, for ye know not
when the master of the hpuse
cometh. And if he can win with
three returning offensive starters,
none of them with the last name of
Bishop (the irony), he might just
show up next season - canonized.
Adam Klinker is a sophomore
English and philosophy major
and Daily Nebraskan senior staff
writer.
Former Husker Green arrested
Future recruit
also arrested
for threats
From staff reports
A former Husker football player
and an NU recruit both had scrapes
with the law last week - both were
arrested on different charges
Thursday.
Ahman Green, a former All
American I-back for NU, and Tomotu
“Junior” Togoai, a defensive-line
recruit, were both taken into custody
Thursday by authorities.
Green, who now plays for the
Seattle Seahawks, was arrested in
Kirkland, Wa., and charged with
domestic assault against his fiancee,
Shalynn Vance on Thursday morning
in their apartment in the Seattle sub
urb, Kirkland police said.
Vance and Green were to be mar
ried later that day at a local court
house. Green was arrested by Kirkland
police outside of Lake Washington
High School, where Green was drop
ping offhis nephew, Brandon Thomas,
for school.
The report alleged that Green and
Vance had an argument and Vance
tried to keep Green out of the apart
ment, when Green forced the door
open and hit Vance with it, chipping
her tooth.
Green rushed for 259 yards this
season with the Seahawks as he played
back-up to starter Ricky Watters.
Green was the second all-time leading
rusher in NU history with 3,880 yards.
Attempts to reach the Seattle
Seahawks organization were unsuc
cessful. As of Friday, the Seahawks
released a statement saying they had
no comment on Green, as the situation
was still pending.
Vance and Green, who both live in
the same household, could also not be
contacted. A worker at the Evergreen
Heights Apartments acknowledged
the incident occurred there but would
DN FILE PHOTO
FORMER NO l-BACK AHMAN GREEN was arrested last Thursday on a domestic assault charge. Green was in No. 2 on
the all-time rushing chart at Nebraska.
not comment further.
The arrest of Green was only one
of two incidents that had the Nebraska
name attached to it.
The other was Togoai, a 6-foot-3
inch, 280-pound defensive lineman
from St. Louis High School in
Honolulu.
Togoai, who was part ofNU’s most
recent recruiting class, was arrested
Thursday in Honolulu for second
degree terroristic threatening of a
teacher at the school. He will be
arraigned on the charge Tuesday
morning.
According to police, physics
teacher Gerilyn Tolentino Corpuz
alleged Togoai threatened her Feb. 8
with the statement: “I have two words
for you: ‘Tony Tata’”
The statement, Corpuz said in the
complaint, referred to an incident
where Tata, now a NU linebacker,
smashed the windshield of a teacher’s
truck last year.
Last week, Corpuz, who is teach
ing her first class, decided to make the
call to police after Togoai allegedly
made a gesture toward her with a yard
stick. Corpuz said Togoai picked up
the yardstick, turned at her, and swung
the yardstick like a baseball bat, as if
Corpuz were an imaginary baseball.
Corpuz tendered her resignation
Feb. 23 in a public statement and
taught her last day of classes Friday.
The alleged threat toward her concern
ing the yardstick would have taken
place after she had decided to resign.
Corpuz is also seeking a restrain
ing order against Togoai. Togoai is the
second 1999 Husker recruit to be
arrested. Recently, running back Josh
Davis was arrested for allegedly steal
ing a Sony PlayStation from a
Loveland, Colo., home in December.
There was no answer at the home
of NU Coach Frank Solich, so he
could not comment.
The Associated Press con
tributed to this report.
Huskers wins series
over OU in baseball
Harvey goes 10 for 14 in three contests
By Jason Merrihew '
Staff writer
The Nebraska baseball team brought its
bats into Norman and abused the Oklahoma
pitching staff in a 12-3 win Sunday. The
Huskers won two games to take the series two
games to one.
The Sooners used seven pitchers Sunday to
try to cool down NU’s potent offense. The
Huskers finished the game with 18 hits, 17 of
which were singles.
Nebraska jumped ahead early, with three
runs in the top of the first. Jamal Strong, Adam
Shabala and Danny Kimura all scored in the
inning.
NU blew the game wide open m the third
inning on a three-run homer by Wilt Bolt, giv
ing the Huskers a 6-0 lead. Bolt’s homer was
Nebraska’s only extra-base hit of the game.
Oklahoma did not score until the bottom of
the sixth inning. After allowing a run and a cou
ple of runners on second and third with only one
out, NU Coach Dave Van Horn pulled senior
starter Jay Sirianni for freshman Shane
Komine. Komine froze the Oklahoma base run
ners by popping out OU’s Josh Witcher to Short
and then striking out Jeremy Vidales to end the
inning.
The Huskers answered the Sooners’ run in
the top of the seventh with four runs. NU took a
10-1 lead after Strong, Kimura, John Cole and
Ken Harvey scored.
Harvey led NU’s offense, going 4 for 5, with
four singles and three RBIs. With his perfor
mance Sunday, Harvey finished the weekend,
10 for 14 with eight singles and two home runs.
Shortstop Brandt Vlieger went 4 for 4, with
four singles and one RBI.
Nebraska and Oklahoma were involved in a
slugfest Saturday, which the Sooners won 12
10. The defeat snapped the Huskers’ five-game
winning streak.
inu committed a season-high live errors,
which contributed to six of the 12 Sooner runs.
Harvey, a first baseman, brought the
Huskers within four in the top of the ninth with
a home run.
With ruhners on third and second,
Oklahoma reliever Jeff Bajenaru struck out
Kimura, the potential go-ahead run, to finish
the game. /
Nebraska won Friday against Oklahoma, 5
4.
The Huskers (10-6 overall, and 2-1 in the
Big 12) will take on the No. 21 Baylor Bears at
Buck Beltzer Stadium on Friday at 7 p.m.
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NU gymnasts
roll again past
BYU in meet
■ The Husker women are victorious
while the Husker men aren’t able to
forge a wia
By John Gaskins
Staff writer
Laurie McLaughlin and her partners in crime on the
Nebraska women’s gymnastics team are coming on
strong at just the right time.
With a dual against her hometown school, No. 4 Penn
State, and the Big 12 Championships looming on the
horizon, the senior from State College, Pa., is only get
ting better. And the team is following in her path, as many
Huskers had repeat victories from last week’s Masters
Classic performance.
For the second meet in a row, McLaughlin, last
week’s Bjg'tzGyinhast of the Week, won both events she
competed in, tying for the title on the uneven bars and
balance beam with a score of 9.85 in both as the No. 8
Huskers (14-2) defeated BYU (4-9) 195.725-194.625 in
Provo, Utah, for their sixth-straight meet victory.
Seniors Courtney Brown and Misty Oxford also are
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