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Study reveals NCAA spending less than expected INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Virtually every NCAA school regularly los es money on its sports program, and spending more on athletics does not guarantee winning more. In its first scientific study on the impact of spending on inter collegiate athletics, the NCAA said Aug. 14 that its members spend an average of about 3.5 percent of their total budgets on sports. NCAA president Myles Brand trumpeted Thursday’s report as _ “myth-breaking.” He said the gov B erning body for college sports would continue to study connec tions between athletic spending and performance, academics, giv ing and other areas. “The public has formed its opin ions on spending in college sports by using assumptions on the ex tremes,” Brand said during a tele conference with reporters. The report challenged views on both sides of the spectrum—that greater spending on big-time col lege sports was either a “road to ruin” or a “road to riches,” said Peter Orszag, an economist with the Brookings Institution in Washington. The study also shows: ♦ Higher spending on football and basketball produced neither an increase nor a decrease in net operating revenue, on average, over the eight years covered by the study. ♦ Higher spending on football or men’s basketball does not pro duce medium-term increases in winning percentages, and higher winning percentages do not pro duce medium-term increases in net operating revenue. ♦ There is no correlation be tween increased spending and in creases or decreases in the mea surable academic quality of new students or in alumni giving. Brand recounted conversations with reporters or others in which they guessed that universities spend a quarter or a more of their total budgets on intercollegiate sports. A university with a $2 bil lion total budget, if it dedicated 3.5 percent to athletics, would spend $70 million. “It’s just not appreciated what the reality of the situation is,” Brand said. William C. Friday, the chair man of the Knight Foundation Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics, disagreed. He suggest ed that talk of an “arms race” was supported by the high salaries that some college football and basket ball coaches command, and by studies showing most Division I A football programs had built new stadiums or substantially reno vated existing ones. Friday challenged the NCAA to compare spending on athletics with how much'its members spend on undergraduate pro grams. Total institutional spend ing can include costly graduate programs in law of medicine, while almost every athlete is an undergraduate, he said. “There has been a very sub stantial acceleration in the cost of fielding athletic teams,” Friday, the president emeritus of the University of North Carolina, said from Chapel Hill, N.C. “We are spending a lot more money.” Brand said the NCAA can only study the effects of athletic spend ing and inform its members of the results but cannot influence how much schools spend on big-time sports. “It’s an institutional decision, and what kind of institution they want to be,” Brand said. “We can’t judge for individual institutions what their priorities should be.” The NCAA report was prepared by three independent economists and reviewed by peers, using in formation collected by the NCAA from 199? to 2001* The report’s authors warned that they did not have enough in formation to either prove or dis prove some of the ideas they stud ied. For example, they did not have data on how much schools spend on stadium improvements, or what coaches earn from shoe ■ endorsements. They were also unable to estab lish a connection between higher sports spending and academic success or donations by alumni. Despite shaky bullpen, Yankees dispatch Royals 8-7 NEW YORK (AP) — On the sur face, all is well with the Yankees. Roger Clemens, Juan Rivera and Nick Johnson starred in Wednesday’s 8-7 victory over the Kansas ’City Royals, which stretched New York’s winning streak to seven. But just below, there are wor (ries. Mariano Rivera had another shaky outing, giving up four straight hits in a four-run ninth before striking out Desi Relaford to end the game with runners at the comers. And with Jose Contreras re joining the rotation this weekend, will Jeff Weaver be content with a bullpen role — or perhaps even a short stint in the minors? “We’re trying to find out which way we are best,’’Yankees manag er Joe Torre said. In the meantime, the Yankees are rolling. And the Royals are reeling. Clemens got his 305th win to tie Eddie Plank for 18th place on the career list, Juan Rivera hit his first Yankee Stadium home run ! and threw out a runner to help stop Kansas City’s rally in the ninth and Johnson hit a two-run homer and scored three runs. New York, which moved a sea son-high 7 games ahead of second place Boston in the AL East, com pleted a three-game sweep and im proved to 10-0 at home against the AL Central this season. But the ninth inning left an un easy feeling. After Angel Berroa’s one-out RBI single off Sterling Hitchcock made it 8-4, Mariano Rivera re lieved. Mike Sweeney drove in a run with a dribbler to third that went for a single, Carlos Beltran grounded a run-scoring single up the middle and Raul Ibanez sin gled sharply to right. Sweeney held up at third, but Beltran took a wide turn at second and was thrown out by Juan D i Trnvin *») brought back from the minors af ter Tuesday night’s game. “When I saw him hit the ball, I took off,” Beltran said. “I was go ing full speed when I saw Sweeney (hold up). It was three or four steps past second base. It was tough for me to react and get back. It’s not something to be sorry about. That’s the way we play the game.” Royals manager Tony Pena'said Beltran shouldn’t be criticized for running aggressively. “It was a little mistake we made. It’s no big deal," Pena said. “I thought I made some pretty good pitches that they hit hard. And the pitches I missed they hit harder.” JIMMY GOBBLE KANSAS CITY PITCHER “He thought Sweeney was going to score, and he wanted to go to third with the tying run. It’s not something I’m going to crucify him for.” Joe Randa singled to center for Kansas City’s seventh straight hit, pulling the Royals within a run. Rivera then struck out Relaford on three pitches for his 27th save in 33 chances. Mariano Rivera said it seemed the ball had “eyes today.” Catcher John Flaherty thought the clos er might have missed a few spots. “It’s not like they’re hitting ♦ Koll gaps or on the fence or over the fence,” Rivera said. “They put the ball in play and it went through the holes.... Most of the time, I’m going to come out on top.” Last weekend at Baltimore, Riyera allowed homers in consec utive appearances for the first time in his career, including a game-tying drive to Luis Matos. Rivera has blown four of 11 save chances in the first 20 days of August, numbers he’s not accus tomed to. “He is the elite,” Torre said. “Whatever year it is, ‘98, ‘99,2000, I’m no different in my feeling and confidence in him.” Kansas City, which outhit New York 17-13, has lost six of eight and dropped into a tie with Chicago for the division lead. Minnesota, just a half-game back, hosts the Royals in a four-game series starting Thursday. Clemens (12-7) allowed three runs and eight hits in 6 1-3 in nings. The 41-year-old right-han der, 8-2 in night games but just 4 5 in the afternoon, left with two on in the seventh and was re placed by 46-year-old left-hander Jesse Orosco, who struck out Brent Mayne. Orosco walked Aaron Guiel, then Antonio Osuna came in and struck out Berroa. It was the first start for Clemens since he talked about the possibil ity of pitching for the United States in next year’s Olympics. He intends to retire after the season and said he wouldn’t pitch in the major leagues next year just to stay in shape. • Jilt’s not something I’m think ing about at this point,” he said of a possible Olympic bid. Clemens fell behind 2-0 in the second inning, but New York quickly overcame that against Jimmy Gobble (2-2), making his fourth major league start. Derek Jeter had a go-ahead, two-run sin gle during a nine-pitch at-bat in the four-run second after falling behind 0-2 in the count. Gobble started his big league career with two wins over Tampa Bay but has since lost to Minnesota and New York. He gave up eight runs and 11 hits in 41-3 innings, his ERA rising from 3.52 to 6.41. After Randa’s sacrifice fly and Ken Harvey’s RBI single put the Royals ahead in the second, the Yankees quickly ate up Gobble. “I thought I made some pretty good pitches that they hit hard,” he said. “And the pitches I missed, they hit harder.” Donnalley sees changes in Panther training camp SPARTANBURG (AP) - Offensive guard Kevin Donnalley said he expects a shorter presea son and a hometown training camp in the future of the Carolina Panthers. “The way you see the way guys report to camp in such great phys ical shape and with the off-season conditioning programs you have now, you don’t really need a long camp,” Donnalley, a 13-year vet eran, said after the Panthers broke camp Wednesday. “Camp used to be to beat you into shape. But now guys report in such great shape, you just need couple of weeks to tune up.” Several other NFL teams have decided in recent years to bring their training camps back to then home stadiums. However, it prob ably won’t happen anytime soon for Carolina. The Panthers have six years re maining on their 15-year agree ment with Wofford College in Spartanburg, S.C., to host train ing camp. Wofford is the alma mater of Panthers owner Jerry Richardson and he still has strong ties to the college. In other news, head coach John Fox said wide receiver Steve Smith is expected to play Saturday night against Green Bay after missing the first two preseason games with a pulled hamstring. “That’s the target right now,” Fox said. “He’s had a good week of practice. He’s gotten used to car rying his pads again. He’ll be day to-day but right now he’s doing just fine." Happy Hour: $1.50 Bud Lights, Great Appetizers & Other Drink Specials! Every Wednesday — Brent Lundy Band Tuesday. 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