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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
WFDNESDAY.FEBRUARY 13.2008
sports trivia of the day
Q: Who does Atlanta Braves pitcher John Smoltz regularly play golf with while he attends spring training in Orlando?
atlantabraves.com
A: Tiger Woods and Annika Sorenstam. Smoltz, who is an even-handicap golfer, has never beat Woods in 10 tries but did beat Sorenstam by two strokes once, five years ago.
sports fact of the day
John Smoltz is the only pitcher in Major League Baseball history to record 200 wins and 150 saves in his career. Smoltz set the record on May 24th of last year when the Braves beat the Mets, who started ex-Brave pitcher Tom Glavine in the game, 2-1.
- espn.com
sports quote of the day
"He's beyond a Hall of Famer. He's amazing. It was awesome. It's amazing to catch someone like that."
- Atlanta Braves catcher Brian McCanan on smoltz after he won his 300 career game.
on tv tonight
Men's College Basketball:
— Maryland at Duke, 6 p.m., ESPN
— St. Johns at Cincinnati, 6 p.m., ESPN2
— Iowa State at Oklahoma, 7 p.m., NBC
— Kansas State at Texas Tech, 8 p.m. ESPN2
Women's College Basketball:
Dancing for glory
Colorado at Kansas, 7 p.m. Sunflower 6
NBA:
Phoenix at Golden State, 8 p.m. ESPN
NFL
Bill Parcells cuts Trent Green from rebuilding Dolphins
first major player
MIAMI — In the Miami Dolphins'
first major player purse since Bill Parcells took charge of football operations, the team parted ways with quarterback Trent Green, wide receiver
wide receiver
Green
Marty Booker and seven other players, ushering in the start of what's expected to be a massive offseason shakeup by the rebuilding franchise, which finished 1-15 last season.
Associated Press
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Meryd艾丽和Charlie白《The United States perform》 during a practice session of their ice dancing program for the International Skating Union Four Countries Figure Skating Championships 2008 in Goyang, west of Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday. About 99 participants from 16 ISU members will attend the championships held from Feb 11-17.
COLLEGE BASKETBALL Mizzou starting player dismissed from team
COLUMBIA,
Mo. — Missouri
guard Stefhon
Hannah, the central figure in a nightclub fracas
COLUMBIA.
Hannah
that led to the suspensions
of five players, was kicked off the team on Tuesday.
Hannah's jaw was broken outside the Athena nightclub about 1 a.m. Jan. 27, hours after Missouri's victory against Colorado. Hannah, a senior and Missouri's leading scorer was dismissed a day before the Tigers' game at Nebraska on Wednesday.
Associated Press
》 MLB
Royals sign new pitcher
SURPRISE, Ariz. — Mike Maroth, who won 25 games for the Detroit
BY ALAN ESKEW
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Tigers in 2004-05 showed up at the Kansas City Royals training camp Tuesday knowing the team is looking for a left-handed starter.
Maroth
"That's why I'm here," said Maroth, who signed a minor
Maroth, 30, has pitched six years in the majors, most of them with the Tigers. After winning 14 games for Detroit in 2005, he began the next season with a 5-2 record and a 2.45 earned run average. In a May 25, 2006, start at Kansas City, Maroth gave up six runs on six hits, including three home runs, in a third of an inning and left with a sore left elbow. After undergoing elbow surgery to remove bone chips, he was out until September 2006.
league contract with the Royals on Friday with an invitation to spring training. "It's a great opportunity."
"You could see something had to be done. Obviously, there were different scenarios, but we had a surplus of starting pitchers," Maroth said.
It was after he went to the Cardinals that he noticed something was different. In his first start, he held the Mets to one run and two hits in 7 1-3 innings. After that, his performance deteriorated.
He began last season with a 5-2 record, but then the Tigers traded him to the St. Louis Cardinals on June 22, after Kenny Rogers came off the disabled list.
"You could clearly see I wasn't the same pitcher I had been in the past. Then I ended up getting tendinitis in my forearm," he said.
St. Louis put him in the bullpen in August. Maroth finished 0-5 with a 10.66 ERA in 14 games, seven of them starts.
After he arrived at the Royals' training camp Tuesday, it didn't take long for pitching coach Bob McClure to find a flaw in Maroth's delivery.
"I threw my first side today and Mac pointed out something," Maroth said. "I threw three pitches and he stopped me. It had to do with the way I was landing on my front foot. I made an adjustment. I could feel a difference after a few pitches of trying to get a better landing. You could see a difference clearly in the way I was finishing pitches. It's a great sign."
Maroth said his velocity is the same as it was before the surgery, "I've never been a hard thrower," he added.
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