TUESDAY. OCTOBER 4.2005
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN 11A
TODAY
**Women's golf at Battle at the Lake, all day, Tulsa, Okla.**
ATHLETIGS CALENDAR
WEDNESDAY
WEDnesday
Voleyball vs. Kansas State, 7 p.m., Horejsi
Family Athletics Center
FRIDAY
SATURDAY
- Soccer vs. Oklahoma State, 4 p.m.
Jayhawk Soccer Complex
- ★ Football at Kansas State, 11 a.m., Manhattan
★ Swimming vs. Minnesota, 2 p.m., Robinson
Natatorium
- Volleyball vs. Nebraska, 7 p.m., Horegs Family Athletic Center
SUNDAY
+ Soccer vs. Oklahoma, 1 p.m., Jayhawk Soccer Complex
*Softball vs. Johnson County Community College, noon, Arrocha Ballpark*
- Softball vs. Missouri Western, 2 p.m.
Arrocha Ballpark
SPORTS
K-State, Oklahoma games to be televised
The Kansas Jayhawks will make their second television appearance of the season Oct. 15 against the Oklahoma Sooners at Arrowhead Stadium.
FOOTBALL
The game will air at 6 p.m.
This is the second time TBS has aired a KU game. The first game on TBS was KU's 36-7 loss to Kansas State in 1982.
Kansas will make its first television appearance of the seasons on Fox Sports Network Saturday against Kansas State.
— Rvan Colaianni
Texas poised to upset Oklahoma in rivalry
BIG 12 FOOTBALL
Texas is ranked second in the country and is favored to beat Oklahoma Saturday,but Longhorns coach Mack Brown said that wouldn't matter much in that rivalry.
Stoops said his team's 43-21 victory against Kansas State couldn't have come at a better time.
The Longhorns (4-0,1-0) haven't beaten the Sooners (2-2,1-0) since 1999-Bob Stoops' first season with the team.
Despite losses to UCLA and Texas Christian, Brown said Oklahoma would be competitive against Texas.
"It was great timing in that it really gives us a boost and momentum and confidence coming into this game," he said.
The Associated Press
BOWLING
In the right lane for success
BY ERIC AMMERMAN
eammerman@kansan.com
KANSAN SPORTWRITER
The Kansas men's and women's bowling teams competed in Milwaukee at the 35th Annual Hammer Midwest Collegiate Bowling Championships.
Kansas bowlers took their game on the road this weekend with both teams placing in the upper halves of their divisions.
The men's team placed sixth
Leading the women's team, Natalie Bennett, Topeka sophomore, placed fifth overall with an average of 191.
Chris Dilley, Overland Park senior, lead the men's team with an average of 195 and placed 11th overall.
"Although we finished sixth in men's, it was a success," bowling coach Alan Emmons said. "This tournament had a very competitive field."
out of 39 teams, and the women placed third in a field of 19 teams.
Emmons said that both the men's and women's teams were capable of winning large tournaments and that he expected both to be ranked in the top five nationally before the end of the season.
"I felt we had good team communication, and we did well with analyzing the lanes," Emmons said.
Emmons said both teams needed to improve specific areas of play.
to work on spare shooting," Emmons said. "Also, we need to focus more on making good shots and preparing for lane conditions."
"We need to work on different releases, and we most need
The overall winners of the tournament were Vincennes University for the men's division and California State-Fresno in the women's division.
The bowling Jayhawks will travel to Wichita for the Midstates Tournament on Oct. 22.
— Edited by Theresa Montaño
NFL
Gregory Bull/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The St. Louis Rams' Roland Williams, above, goes down in the second quarter after a tackle by the New York Giants' Curtis Deloatch at Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J. Williams suffered an injury on the tackle and left the game on a cart.
Rams scramble to fill spot at tight end
BY JIM SALTER
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
ST. LOUIS — St. Louis Rams tight end Roland Williams will miss the rest of the season with a knee injury, coach Mike Martz said Monday.
Cam Cleeland, 30, who played for the Rams in 2003 and 2004, may return. He was expected in St. Louis today, but Martz wasn't certain if Cleland would be ready for Sunday's game at home against Seattle.
"He will have to have a major repair of the knee," Martz said.
Williams, a starter for the 1999 Rams team that won the Super Bowl and back in St. Louis this season after a four-year absence, tore ligaments in his right knee midway through the first quarter in Sunday's 44-24 loss to the New York Giants.
The loss sets about a continuation of musical chairs at
"I'd love to have him back on this team. I know what he can do. He can make a lot of plays for us," Martz said.
tight end. Williams, 30, spent his first three seasons in St. Louis before being traded to Oakland prior to the 2001 season. He was with the Raiders in 2001, 2002 and 2004, with a stop in Tampa Bay in 2003.
the offseason. Cleeland was not re-signed. Williams caught three passes for 21 yards this season.
Martz said his game plan for the Giants game had called for running Steven Jackson behind frequent two-tight-end sets, a plan that ended when Williams was hurt on a tackle by Curtis Deloatch less than eight minutes into the game.
Cleeland, meanwhile, played for the Rams in 2003 and 2004. He caught just seven passes for 57 yards last season, but his touchdown catch beat Seattle in the first round of the playoffs.
With Williams available in
"We had a lot of things we were excited about doing that, as soon as he was injured, were done," Martz said.
MLB
Cardinals relief pitcher injured
ST. LOUIS - St. Louis Cardinals reliever Al Reyes tore a ligament in his right elbow in the regular-season finale and will require reconstructive surgery, forcing him to miss the playoffs.
Reyes, who was 4-2 with a 2.15 ERA in 65 games with three saves, was the team's top middle reliever and was equally tough on right- and left-handed hitters. He struck out the side with the bases loaded to get the win on Friday and had 67 strikeouts in 62 2-3 innings while holding opponents to a .177 batting average.
BY R.B. FALLSTROM THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
"Al Reyes was in the middle of any situation in the last three or four innings when we were trying to close out a game," manager Tony La Russa said. "He had a great year."
La Russa said it was just another obstacle for a team that had played much of the year without four starters and also would be without third baseman Scott Rolen for the postseason. Rolen had season-ending shoulder surgery in August.
The 35-year-old Reyes had reconstructive surgery on the elbow in 1995. The injury is expected to sideline him for a year.
Trainer Barry Weinberg said Monday that Reyes had not reported any problems with the elbow before the injury in the sixth inning Sunday against the Reds, and he left the game with a 3-2 count on Felipe Lopez. An exam on Monday morning confirmed the team's suspicions, Weinberg said.
"You make too big of a thing of it and it sounds like 'How do we win without him?' and we have to," La Russia said. "It's not important who takes his spot."
Weinberg said Jim Edmonds, who didn't start the last two games of the regular season because of shoulder soreness, would be in the lineup for the opener of the Cardinals' first-round playoff series against the Padres on Tuesday.
"It's bad luck," Weinberg said.
"I'ts horrible luck for him."
"It was a one-pitch episode," Weinberg said. "He felt some discomfort and knew it wasn't right."
"He's doing much better," Weinberg said. "He'll be ready to go."