2B THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
SPORTS
FRIDAY. OCTOBER 28. 2005
ATHLETICS CALENDAR
TODAY
- **Soccer vs. Missouri, 3 p.m., Jayhawk Soccer Complex**
- **Swimming vs. Missouri, 6 p.m., Robinson Center Natatorium**
Cross Country, Big 12 Championships; time TBA, Waco,
Texas
SATURDAY
Football vs. Missouri, noon, Memorial Stadium
- Volleyball vs. Texas, 7 p.m., Moretti Family Athletics Center
* Rowing, Head of the Iowa, twa TBA, Iowa City, iowa
WEDNESDAY
Voleyball vs. Colorado, 7 p.m., Horesei Family Athletics Center
ROWING
Rowers go head-to-head against top-ranked teams during regatta
The KU women's rowing team will travel to Iowa City, Iowa this Saturday to compete in the Head of the Iowa Regatta.
Kansas will compete against top-ranked teams such as Wisconsin, Minnesota and Iowa, which were ranked in the top 20 last year. Kansas will also compete against in-state rival Kansas State. Events start at 10 a.m. Sunday with the women's novice four competition. Kansas will compete with two boats in this race. Three KU boats are entered in the women's varsity four at 11 a.m.
The rest of the races will continue in the afternoon with the women's open at 1:30 p.m., followed by the women's novice eight, the lightweight women's race and the women's open eight. Most of the women will compete in at least two of these races. Rower Kris Lazaar will be one of them.
"We get a lot of racing in at regattas like this; she said. "It's still about improving our fitness and improving everything we can. In the fall, we get a lot of experience, so it's all about going out there and racing."
Kristen Jarboe
INTRAMURALS
This weekend's
Victory leads to tournament play
After defeating the Lime Green Machine 35-33 in the championship game of the intramural flag football men's open division, Clint Brown earned the right to play in the regional tournament in Lincoln. Neb.
The games will be held on Nov. 19 and 20.
TALK TO US
Names:
◆ Missouri vs. Kansas
◆ Oklahoma vs. Nebraska
◆ Texas Tech vs. Baylor
◆ Colorado vs. Kansas State
◆ Iowa State vs. Texas A&M
◆ Texas vs. Oklahoma State
◆ Michigan vs. Northwestern
◆ Georgia vs. Florida
◆ Clemson vs. Georgia Tech
◆ Wake Forest vs. Duke
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Daniel Berk
Big 12 Football
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7-3
Missouri
Nebraska
Texas Tech
Colorado
Texas A&M
Texas
Michigan
Florida
Georgia Tech
Wake Forest
Kick the Kansan
Ryan Colaiani
Football
54-26
7-3
Kansas
Oklahoma
Texas Tech
Kansas State
Texas A&M
Texas
Michigan
Florida
Georgia Tech
Wake Forest
Drew Davison
Big 12 Soccer/Volleyball
56-24
8-2
Kansas
Nebraska
Texas Tech
Colorado
Texas A&M
Texas
Northwestern
Florida
Georgia Tech
Wake Forest
Antonio Mendoza
Antonio Inc.
Cross Country
53-27
9-1
Missouri
Nebraska
Texas Tech
Colorado
Texas A&M
Texas
Michigan
Florida
Georgia Tech
Wake Forest
Heather Riffel
Intramurals
52-28
7-3
Missouri
Nebraska
Texas Tech
Colorado
Texas A&M
Texas
Northwestern
Georgia
Clemson
Wake Forest
Columnist
54-26
7-3
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Nebraska
Texas Tech
Colorado
Texas A&M
Texas
Northwestern
Georgia
Clemson
Wake Forest
Ryan Schneider
Sports Admin.
53-27
6-4
Missouri
Nebraska
Texas Tech
Colorado
Texas AM
Texas
Northwestern
Florida
Georgia Tech
Wake Forest
Eric Sorrentino
Associate Sports Editor
54-26
7-3
Missouri
Oklahoma
Texas Tech
Colorado
Texas A&M
Texas
Michigan
Florida
Georgia Tech
Wake Forest
LIVIN' THE DREAM
Football's one shining weekend Record left at the door for Border Showdown game
For one weekend during the football season. Kansas becomes a football school.
That weekend is now.
The Missouri Tigers will be visiting Lawrence tomorrow for the 113th installment of the classic rivalry that is now called the Border Showdown.
der Snowdown.
The rivalry is so intense that the two schools can't even agree on the overall series record. Missouri lists the overall record versus Kansas as 52-52-9, while Kansas lists its overall record as 53-51-9.
DANIEL BERK
DBERK@KANSAN.COM
The discrepancy came in 1960, when Kansas defeated Missouri 23-7 at Missouri, but later had to forfeit the game because it used an ineligible player. The NCAA gives credit to Kansas for the victory, but Missouri still claims the victory in its record books.
There is simply nothing better for Kansas and Missouri fans than this rivalry. Earlier in the season, when Kansas was preparing to face Kansas State, junior running back Jon Cornish referred to Kansas State as the team's second biggest rival.
No one had to ask who No.1 was
Whether the game is in Columbia, Mo., and the entire Faurot Field crowd is yelling
obscenities at the Kansas team or the game is in Lawrence, and the city is full of Muck Fizzou T-shirts, the rivalry is alive and well.
After Kansas defeated Missouri two years ago at Kansas, Jayhawk fans threw various objects at the Missouri team bus on the way out of Lawrence and let the Tigers have an earful for their loss.
On the flip side, Kansas no longer sends its band to Columbia, because Missouri fans threw whiskey bottles at the members.
When rivals such as Missouri and Kansas play each other, people always say throw out the record books. Truer words have never been spoken.
It doesn't matter if one team is 0-7 and the other is 7-0, the game is almost always guaranteed to be a classic battle.
Three seasons ago, Kansas was 2-6 on the season and lost to Missouri in Columbia, 36-12, and Missouri players were on the goalposts tearing them down with the student body. When it's Missouri vs. Kansas, a victory
is a victory despite how the other team is faring during the season.
Last season, Kansas' bowl chances were gone and there was nothing else to play for other than ruining Missouri's season. Kansas did win — on the road — and prevented Missouri from going to a bowl game and possibly sharing the Big 12 North Championship.
This season, Missouri is again atop the standings in the Big 12 North, and Kansas' bowl chances are fading quickly. But, the 2005 Jayhawks would like nothing more than to screw up Missouri's season once more, and a victory on Saturday could salvage Kansas' season and potentially lift the team to a bowl game.
The bottom line is there will be a lot to play for this Saturday. Memorial Stadium will be rocking and likely will approach a sellout crowd.
Houses across Missouri and Kansas will be divided for three and a half hours. In the end, either the Missouri team will have a bus ride home it will never forget, or the goalposts from Memorial Stadium will be floating in Potter Lake.
Either way, Kansas will be a football school for one weekend.
Berk is a St. Louis senior in journalism.
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