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Show 6 Thursday January 31, 2013 SPORTS 18° / 9 a.m. 23° / 3 p.m. Conditions and weather from utahskiweathencom Lots of freshies to be had. Still upside down though. TODAY'S SKI REPORT Alta www.dailyutahchronicle.corn Brighton 18° / 9 a.m. 23° / 3 p.m. Canyons 23° / 9 a.m. 290 / 3 p.m. Deer Valley 23° 290 // 93 a.m. p.m. Snowbird 18° / 9 a.m. 23° / 3 p.m. Solitude 19" a.m. 24° / 3 p.m. Dymtro Mamedov set to DESTINED R SUCCL. Mamedov's drive has him headed for the professional route freshman or even as a sophomore for that matter," Mamedov said. "You have to choose your profession before you enter college. So you're already going to a known profession at the age of 17 and, frankly, that is pretty hard to choose." Coming to the United States became Mamedov's best option, as the university system here combines athletics and academics. The fact that he had the desire to become a professional was appealing to Utah. "[His desire to play professional tennis] was also one of the reasons we recruited him," said assistant coach Connor Wallace STAFF WRITER Dymtro Mamedov has been playing tennis for just about his entire life, as his first steps on the court occurred when he was 5 months old in Kiev, Ukraine. Coming out of high school, Mamedov's options were limited. He had to make the decision whether to get a job or try to become a professional athlete. His mother believed he should go to college to start a career and his father, a downhill skier for the Soviet Union, believed he should pursue becoming a professional athlete. "The system that I grew up in is you don't get the luxury of being undecided as a See MAMEDOV page 8 CONOR BARRY/The Daily Utah Chronicle UPCOMING SPORTS EVENTS FRIDAY: Women's Basketball Utah @ USC 7 p.m. Los Angeles Swimming & Diving Utah @ Air Force 5 p.m. Colorado Springs Gymnastics Utah vs. Arizona State 7 p.m. Huntsman Center WEDNESDAY: Men's Basketball Utah vs. Colorado 12:30 p.m. Huntsman Center Track & Field Utah @ Mountain States Games 9 a.m. Pocatello, Idaho NCAA yields unanswerable quandary for paying athletes T he NCAA was dealt a big blow Tuesday. A federal court dismissed the NCAA's attempt to prevent football and men's basketball players from pursuing their share of television broadcast revenues, the largest income generator in college sports. This opens the door for players to challenge the NCAA, the only major corporation that doesn't pay its most valuable workers. This is undeniably a blow to the NCAA, but there is a bigger question at hand: Is this good for college athletes? oak = 1. JAKE BULLINGER 41111,- \ Sports Editor Take the term athlete in a broad sense. Yes, the federal court's ruling is great for football and basketball players who produce, in most cases, all of a school's athletic profits. But the volleyball play- ers, swimmers and track athletes wouldn't be receiving any cut, as they produce no television revenue. Here's where the larger issue can take hold. If colleges are forced to pay the players of revenue-producing sports, that money has to be taken from the athletic budget as a whole. Thus, there would be less money for the rest of the department. Most athletic departments, despite the common perception, are not flush with cash. Based on 2011 balance sheets, most schools were barely breaking even, and some athletic departments were in the red. In 2011, the athletic department at football powerhouse Nebraska didn't even generate $2 million in profit. UNLV lost more than $i million despite receiving more than $32 million in subsidies. The reason for the low margins is simple — running an athletics program these days is remarkably expensive. Title IX gave many female athletes the opportunity to go to college, but it also saddled See BULLINGER page 7 GYMNASTICS kaliaiimi Young roster fills senior roles WOMEN'S BASKETBALL RANK TEAM 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Baylor Notre Dame Connecticut Stanford Duke California Penn St. Kentucky Tennessee Maryland North Carolina Louisville Georgia Purdue South Carolina Texas A&M Dayton UCLA Oklahoma St. Florida St. Oklahoma Colorado Iowa St. Iowa Delaware Matt Ellis RECORD 18-1 18-1 18-1 18-2 18-1 17-2 17-2 19-2 16-3 17-3 19-2 17-4 17-3 17-3 18-3 16-5 17-1 15-4 15-3 17-3 15-4 15-4 14-4 16-5 15-3 STAFF WRITER Every college sports team must part with its seniors after virtually every season, and coaches have to decide which returning athletes or freshmen will fill in the gaps. Utah co-head coaches Megan and Greg Marsden have had to fill nine routines that were performed by seniors a year ago. That job became tougher when three other routines opened up because of injuries. Despite the high turnover, Utah remains high in the national rankings in the all-around and in single-event scores. So far the team has benefitted from a couple of freshmen looking wise beyond their years and some older gymnasts stepping into bigger roles. "This year, we just knew that it wasn't a matter of some freshmen stealing spots of returning people," Megan Marsden said. "It was more that the younger ones are just going to have to do it and we're going to have to live and die by them." The spot with the most turnover has been the beam lineup, as only Mary Beth Lofgren, Corrie Lothrop and Kassandra Lopez were in the regular lineup last year. When Lopez injured her calf before the first meet of the season, it meant that there would The Daily Utah Chronicle File Photo The gymnastics team has to fill several roles this season because of injuries and the loss of last year's seniors. The Utes will take on Arizona State on Friday in the Huntsman Center. be four new performers on that event. One of those newcomers was Georgia Dabritz, who has conquered her demons on beam and earned a 9.9 in the Utes' first home meet. The other spots were filled by Tory Wilson and Breanna Hughes, who each have seasonhighs of 9.875, and Becky Tutka, who hit a 9.825 in the second meet. These gymnasts have contributed to a beam lineup that is fifth in the See GYMNASTICS page 8 |
