2B SPORTS
THE UNIVERSITY BABY KANSAN
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 2007
sports quote of the day
"We will) make preparations for a bowl game and try and do our best and end the season on a winning note, it's been too good of a season not to finish on a winning note."
— Kansas football coach Mark Mangino
sports fact of the day
— KU Football media guide.
Kansas has appeared in 10 bowl games in its history, winning four of them.
sports trivia of the day
Q: Which is the highest ranked team Kansas has played in a bowl game?
Fenerbahçe defender Diego Lugano, of Uruguay competes for the ball with Inter Milan Argentine forward Julio Cruz during a Champions League. Group G soccer match at the San Siro stadium in Milan, Italy on Tuesday; Inter won 3-0.
Sweet kicks
— KU Football media guide
A: On Jan. 1, 1969, No. 6 Kansas lost 15-14 to No. 3 Penn State in the Orange Bowl.
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UWire Top 10
Each week, sports editors at FBS school newspapers vote on the nation's top 10 teams, with first place votes in parenthesis.
Team Record Pts. Priv.
1. **Missouri** (33) 11-1 434 3
2. West Virginia (11) 10-1 403 4
3. Ohio State (1) 11-1 345 5
4. Georgia 10-2 290 6
5. LSU 10-2 236 1
6. **Kansas** 11-1 200 2
7. Virginia Tech 10-2 197 8
8. USC 9-2 150 NR
9. Oklahoma 9-2 119 10
10. Hawaii 11-0 43 NR
Also receiving votes: Florida 38, Boston College 17, Arizona State 3.
Dropped out: No. 7 Arizona State, No. 9 Oregon
How Sports Editor Travis Robinett Voted:
2. West Virginia - This seems easy. All it takes to get to a national title is a win against Pitt. But this is the craziest season ever, so I have no idea.
1. Missouri - This Big 12 Championship game will be agonizing for Kansas fans. If Missouri wins, the Jayhawks are assured a BCS bowl berth. If Missouri loses, the Tigers don't play for the national title.
3. Georgia - Almost assured of a BCS bowl berth, and the Bulldogs didn't even win their division.
4. Kansas - The layhawks battled back to make it a close game. If they had gotten that onside kick (or made their field goals) they would have won the game.
5. Ohio State - I can't believe they might play for the national title. Where's a playoff when you need one?
7. USC - How in the world did this team lose to Stanford? Injuries did in the Troans.
6. LSU - This can still be a great season. Win the next game and get into a BCS bowl.
8. Virginia Tech - Imagine if it had won the Boston College game the first time around.
9. Boston College - The rematch should be better than the first time, but the ending won't be as exciting.
10. Hawaii - Hawaii in the Rose Bowl? If Ohio State plays for the title, yes.
Women's Swimming, Kenyon Nike Invite, all day, Gambier, Ohio
calendar
Men's Basketball vs. Florida Atlantic, 7 p.m., Lawrence
WEDNESDAY
THURSDAY
FRIDAY
Women's Swimming, Kenyon Nike Invite, all day, Gambier, Ohio
SATURDAY
Women's Swimming, Kenyon Nike Invite, all day, Gambier, Ohio
SUNDAY
Men's Basketball at USC, 1 p.m., Los Angeles
Women's Basketball at St. Louis, 4 p.m., Lawrence
NFL
Redskins' Taylor dies after shooting at his home
The type of wound suffered by Washington Redskins player Sean Taylor is among the most difficult to fix, trauma experts said Tuesday after the 24-year-old gunshot victim died in a Miami hospital.
Even in a healthy young athlete with access to top trauma care, gunfire tearing through the main artery of the upper leg and abdomen can cause quick, massive blood loss. Doctors who treated Taylor have not given details of his injury or his emergency surgery, but several experts speculate that blood loss is likely what killed him.
Taylor was shot at his Miami home early Monday by an apparent intruder and airlifted to Jackson Memorial Hospital.
The body has two femoral arteries that branch from about mid-abdomen into each thigh. They are among the body's biggest vessels, and in the groin area and upper thigh, are about as big around as an index finger.
Stopping blood loss gushing from a bullet hole in that region can be extremely challenging if the wound is close to the groin. It would be hard to put a tourniquet around it, said Dr. Gannon
Dudlar, an emergency medicine specialist at the University of Illinois Medical Center in Chicago.
An injury of this type "essentially means you can lose all the blood in your whole body within five minutes," said Dr. Mary Pat McKay, director of George Washington University's Center for Injury Prevention and Control.
Rapid blood loss can prevent oxygen from reaching the brain and vital organs, leading to death.
"Everybody last night was breathing a sigh of relief that he survived the surgery, but his body went through too long a period of blood loss," McKay said.
"Even a young healthy athlete, his body organs may be so compromised that they just can't continue," she said.
Dr. Fahim Habib, a trauma surgeon at Jackson Memorial where Taylor died, said massive blood loss sets into a motion a series of devastating events.
Blood pressure falls dangerously low, the body tries mightily to get blood to vital organs, and then the body's temperature drops below normal, said Habib, speaking generally and with no knowledge of Taylor's specific injuries.
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Prosecutors allege the heist in Las Vegas netted tens of thousands of dollars of sports collectibles that bore no connection to Simpson.
CRIME
Simpson expected to plead not guilty to heist charges
LAS VEGAS — O.J. Simpson and two co-defendants are expected to plead not guilty Wednesday to 12 charges, including kidnapping and armed robbery of two sports memorabilia dealers in a Las Vegas hotel room.
Simpson, 60, of Miami, Clarence "C.J." Stewart and Charles "Charlie" Ehrlich were bound over for trial this month after a $3/3-day preliminary hearing, which featured
Simpson's attorney, Yale Galant er, said Wednesday's arraignment should be brief.
Galanter said he would seek a date "sometime next year" but declined to be more specific.
The former football star and his lawyers contend that no guns were displayed and that he intended only to retrieve items that had
Defense attorneys lost a bid during the preliminary hearing to get any charges dismissed, despite claims they were based on accounts by con artists and crooks.
been stolen from him, including photographs, football awards and the suit he wore the day he was acquitted in 1995 of murdering his wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman.
testimony from witnesses and three former co-defendants who took plea deals.
NFL
Chiefs sign veteran Carney
to replace inconsistent kicker
Associated Press
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Kansas City Chiefs signed free agent placekicker John Carney on Tuesday, making yet another attempt to correct a series of faulty decisions that has plagued their kicking game.
Carney has played in 269 games for five teams over a productive 20-year career, ranking fourth overall with 422 field goals. At 43, he's lost distance, another factor the Chiefs and their struggling offense must
take into consideration when mapping out game strategy.
Carney replaces Dave Rayner, who was 15-of-22 after replacing Justin Medlock, a rookie the Chiefs drafted in the fifth round out of UCLA, but gave up on in September.
The Chiefs (4-7), who have lost four in a row, drafted Lockell last April over Colorado All-American Mason Crosby.
Crosby, taken by Green Bay in the following round, is 15-of-18 for the Packers. Rayner was available for the Chiefs because Crosby had
just beaten him out in Green Bay.
Carney was among several kickers the Chiefs scouted in September before going with Rayner because they liked his longer kickoffs.
"Medlock's got talent," coach Herm Edwards said. "Young kickers, they go through this. They might get cut, and their second or third year in the league, they find their way and they become good kickers."
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