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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
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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."
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