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Webb was the special teams selection.
Mangino named senior quarterback Jason Swanson the team's offensive player of the week. Swanson went 26-for-50 for 291 yards and a touchdown. Senior defensive Jermial Ashley was named as the team's defensive player of the week, and sophomore kicker Scott
Mangino said senior quarterback Brian Luke was not expected to practice until Thursday at the earliest. Luke was injured during last week's game with an apparent leg injury. Mangino said all medical tests came out negative but Luke was not at 100 percent.
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As if the list of injuries wasn't a large enough setback, Rantala had only a maximum of two years of eligibility with the team.
She transferred to Kansas from the University of South Alabama with Kansas soccer coach Mark Francis in time for the 1920
When added together, injuries and transferring from another school, Rantala had fewer than 30 games to accumulate the 19 assists — an accomplishment that Francis classified as "phenomenal."
for the 1999 season, her junior year.
"It's a shame that she can't play on this team, because she would have
The former and current all-time assist leaders may have never played together, but what each brought to the field is much the same. Not only do they share the passion for the game,but also the two rank in Kansas' top five in categories such as points, game-winning goals and goals scored.
had much better supporting players," Francis said. "Hilla has such a good soccer brain that, at the time, a lot of the players that she was playing with couldn't read the things that she was doing. A lot of what she was able to do got wasted a little bit."
ing her younger playing days. She thought Americans might play the sport for the glory, not so much for the love of the game itself.
Rantala attributed much of her knowledge and love of the game to her European upbringing.
Rantala has not stepped on a soccer field since 2001.
When she's not teaching, she has time to look back on her own career and analyze the careers and play of others.
At the conclusion of her senior season, she had reconstructive surgery on her knee that prevented her from playing again.
She explained how she and her childhood teammates grew up with the game, and how little importance was put on personal success.
Seeing the game from that angle, purely wins and losses, and playing out of a love of the game but not for individual gain, sounds strikingly similar to another talented Jayhawk forward.
She couldn't even recall structured stats being recorded dur-
"I'm a student of the game," Smith said. "I love watching soccer. I love playing. I understand the game because I enjoy it so much."
Rantala said she could easily see that quality in Smith when watching her play. She said she did her best to attend all of the Jayhawks' home games, even though
"It was rough for a while. I miss it, and I got too nervous watching the games. It was still pretty close to me," Rantala said.
none of her teammates were still playing.
The former and current all-time assist leaders may have never played together, but what each brought to the field is much the same.
Not only do they share the passion for the game, but also the two rank in Kansas' top five in categories such as points, game-winning goals and goals scored.
But what does the past think of the present?
"She's a lot faster and better than I was," Rantala said of Smith. "I really enjoy watching her play. People can see that she scores goals and has assists, and I hear a lot them say that she is always in the right place at the right time. That's because she reads the game so well."
Sweet sixteen
Edited by Becca Evanhoe
Houston Astros' outfielder Jason Lane hits a game tying double in the eighth inning of the third game of the World Series on Tuesday. The game, against the Chicago White Sox, was tied 5-5 going into the 14th inning.
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Chiefs' Warfield starts again
BY DOUG TUCKER
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Eric Warfield is finally back as a starting cornerback, so maybe Kansas City's supposedly improved defense will begin to play one.
Their 4-2 record after six games would suggest an upgrade from last year when they were 2-4. And the run defense is obviously improved, with an average yield of only 95.5 yards per game that ranks in the top 10 in the league.
While finishing 7-9 last year, they were 31st in total defense and dead last in pass defense. Going into Sunday's game at San Diego, they're near the bottom in total defense, giving up almost 360 yards per game.
And their pass defense, statistically at least, is still poor. With Warfield playing only in last week's 30-20 victory over Miami, the Chiefs have given up 263.7 yards passing every game — which is not exactly what they had hoped for after bringing in safety Sammy Knight and cornerback Patrick Surtain.
Nevertheless, coach Dick Vermell remains upbeat.
"I believe they are (getting better)," he said Tuesday. "Of course, I always see things as getting better. Sometimes I'm a little blind, but I just feel we are getting better."
Warfield sat out the first four games under NFL suspension for DUI and then was left inactive for the fifth game of the year, possibly because he was still in
the coaches' doghouse for an uninspired training camp. But the veteran cornerback made his first start at Miami and will get another start on Sunday at San Diego.
"It's different," Warfield said. "You can go out and do all sorts of conditioning workouts. I thought I was 100 percent ready to get in there and give it my best. And even though I did go play a pretty decent game, when I finally got onto that field and the whistle blew, I realized there were a few little things I needed to work on to get back to where I used to be."
He discovered, as some veterans had warned, that the only way to get into top football shape was to play football.
"You have to be in a game," Warfield said. "You can watch
all the film and do all the conditioning you want to do. But if you're not in the game getting the feel of it, you're just not going to have it."
The 2004 defense gave up an average of 132 yards rushing, almost 40 yards more than the 2005 unit has allowed the first six games.
Improved speed at linebacker has made an obvious difference there.
"Once we started putting the pads on in training camp you had the idea we were going to be pretty successful in that aspect," said defensive end Eric Hicks. "We need to clean some things up, but we're working hard on that. Everybody knows it's a one-gap defense and everybody is playing to the best of their ability."
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