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THE UNIVERSITY HAILEY KANSAN TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2007
sports trivia of the day
Q: What is the record for most television appearances in a season by the Kansas football team?
A: In 1996, following a 10-2 season, Kansas football was on television seven times.
KU football media guide
sports fact of the day
Kansas football is assured of breaking the record for most television appearances in a season because the next two games (low State and Missouri) will be televised, bringing the total to at least eight games.
sports quote of the day
KU football media guide
"Am I condemning the crew?
Hell yeah, I'm condemning the crew."
— Texas Tech coach Mike Leach on the officiating crew following his team's loss at Texas on Saturday
WEDNESDAY
Women's Basketball vs. UMKC, 7 p.m., Lawrence
Volleyball at Kansas State, 7 p.m., Manhattan, Kan.
THURSDAY
calendar
FRIDAY
Men's Basketball
w, Washburn, 7 p.m.
Lawrence
Swimming & Div-
ing, Houston Diving
Invitational, all day,
Houston
Swimming & Diving, Houston Diving Invitational, all day, Houston
SATURDAY
Volleyball vs. Iowa State, 11 a.m., Lawrence
Football vs. Iowa State, 2:30 p.m., Lawrence
Swimming & Diving,
Houston Diving Invitational, all day, Houston
The top 25 teams in The Associated Press college basketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Nov. 11, total points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote and previous ranking:
AP basketball top 25
<table><thead><tr><th></th><th>Record</th><th>Points</th><th>Previous</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>1. North Carolina (29)</td><td>0-0</td><td>1,737</td><td>1</td></tr><tr><td>2. UCLA (24)</td><td>1-0</td><td>1,710</td><td>2</td></tr><tr><td>3. Memphis (18)</td><td>2-0</td><td>1,686</td><td>3</td></tr><tr><td><strong>4. Kansas</strong></td><td><strong>2-0</strong></td><td><strong>1,566</strong></td><td><strong>4</strong></td></tr><tr><td>5. Georgetown (1)</td><td>1-0</td><td>1,503</td><td>5</td></tr><tr><td>6. Louisville</td><td>0-0</td><td>1,394</td><td>6</td></tr><tr><td>7. Tennessee</td><td>1-0</td><td>1,386</td><td>7</td></tr><tr><td>8. Indiana</td><td>0-0</td><td>1,172</td><td>9</td></tr><tr><td>9. Washington State</td><td>1-0</td><td>1,142</td><td>10</td></tr><tr><td>10. Marquette</td><td>1-0</td><td>1,026</td><td>11</td></tr><tr><td>11. Oregon</td><td>2-0</td><td>1,003</td><td>12</td></tr><tr><td>12. Michigan State</td><td>0-0</td><td>976</td><td>8</td></tr><tr><td>13. Duke</td><td>1-0</td><td>917</td><td>13</td></tr><tr><td>14. Gonzaga</td><td>1-0</td><td>779</td><td>14</td></tr><tr><td><strong>15. Texas A&amp;M</strong></td><td><strong>1-0</strong></td><td><strong>693</strong></td><td><strong>16</strong></td></tr><tr><td><strong>16. Texas</strong></td><td><strong>0-0</strong></td><td><strong>684</strong></td><td><strong>15</strong></td></tr><tr><td>17. Arizona</td><td>0-0</td><td>581</td><td>17</td></tr><tr><td>18. Arkansas</td><td>1-0</td><td>558</td><td>19</td></tr><tr><td>19. Pittsburgh</td><td>3-0</td><td>413</td><td>22</td></tr><tr><td>20. Stanford</td><td>3-0</td><td>389</td><td>23</td></tr><tr><td>21. N.C. State</td><td>3-0</td><td>382</td><td>21</td></tr><tr><td><strong>22. Kansas State</strong></td><td><strong>2-0</strong></td><td><strong>297</strong></td><td><strong>25</strong></td></tr><tr><td>23. S. Illinois</td><td>0-0</td><td>282</td><td>24</td></tr><tr><td>24. Villanova</td><td>1-0</td><td>190</td><td>—</td></tr><tr><td>25. Butler</td><td>1-0</td><td>122</td><td>—</td></tr></tbody></table>
Others receiving votes: Syracuse 118, Clemson 99, Xavier 95, Connecticut 56, Florida 54, Davidson 55, Ohio St. 55, Mississippi State 51, Va. Commonwealth 25, West Virginia 22, Notre Dame 21, Wisconsin 21, Virginia 18, Kentucky 16, Alabama 15, Vanderbilt 11, BYU 10, Maryland 8, **Missouri 8**, Gardner-Webb 7, Nevada 6, Washington 6, Akron 5, Oklahoma 5, Mercer 4, Providence 4, Southern Cal 4, George Mason 3, Houston 2, San Diego State 2, Southern Miss. 2, Illinois 1, W. Kentucky 1.
Kick the Kansan
<table><thead><tr><th></th><th>Last Week</th><th>Total</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>Thor Nystrom</td><td>8-2</td><td>76-24</td></tr><tr><td>Erica Johnson</td><td>7-3</td><td>68-32</td></tr><tr><td>Eric Jorgensen</td><td>7-3</td><td>66-34</td></tr><tr><td>Rustin Dodd</td><td>8-2</td><td>64-36</td></tr><tr><td>Emily Muskin</td><td>9-1</td><td>64-36</td></tr><tr><td>Mark Dent</td><td>6-4</td><td>63-37</td></tr><tr><td>Travis Robinett</td><td>7-3</td><td>62-38</td></tr><tr><td>Matt Erickson</td><td>7-3</td><td>62-38</td></tr><tr><td>Case Keefer</td><td>6-4</td><td>61-39</td></tr><tr><td>Ashlee Kieler</td><td>7-3</td><td>61-39</td></tr><tr><td>Pat Tefft</td><td>8-2</td><td>61-39</td></tr><tr><td>Kelly Breckunitch</td><td>5-5</td><td>60-40</td></tr><tr><td>Scott Toland</td><td>6-4</td><td>59-41</td></tr><tr><td>Bryan Wheeler</td><td>7-3</td><td>59-41</td></tr><tr><td>Erick R. Schmidt</td><td>8-2</td><td>59-41</td></tr><tr><td>Taylor Bern</td><td>5-5</td><td>58-42</td></tr><tr><td>Asher Fusco</td><td>8-2</td><td>58-42</td></tr><tr><td>Tyler Passmore</td><td>6-4</td><td>57-43</td></tr><tr><td>Shawn Shroyer</td><td>7-3</td><td>56-44</td></tr><tr><td>Mark Stevens</td><td>8-2</td><td>56-34*</td></tr><tr><td>Drew Bergman</td><td>8-2</td><td>56-34*</td></tr><tr><td>Bill Walberg</td><td>8-2</td><td>54-36*</td></tr></tbody></table>
*Did not pick for week 1
Best of the rest: Salina senior Cole Roe, Overland Park freshman Gabrielle Hages, and Topeka junior Brett Benedict each went 9-1, but Roe's tie-breaking score prediction of the Arizona State versus UCLA game was better than the rest.
Kicked the Kansan: Three students tied Emily Muskin's 9-1 record this week. Will anyone ever kick the Kansan? There are only two weeks left to try.
Seahawks fly high, win 24-0
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Streaky teams demonstrate league's parity Saints, Chargers among squads with rapidly changing fortunes
The St. Louis Rams went into New Orleans at 0-8 to play the Saints, who had won four in a row after an 0-4 start. The Rams won 37-29, and it wasn't that close.
Three hours later, the Lions, winners of three straight, were beaten by the Cardinals, who had lost three in a row.
"We had a couple of big plays called back because of penalties," Giants center Shaun O'Hara said after Sunday's 31-20 loss. "Against mediocre teams you will be able to overcome that, but not against teams like these guys."
Seattle Seahawks defensive lineman Patrick Kerney, left, knocks the ball loose from San Francisco 49ers quarterback Alex Smith during the first quarter of the Monday night NFA game in Seattle. The Seahawks recovered the fumble and drove down the field for a 20-yard field goal.
—New England (9.0). Why create when you have talent that's a level above everyone else and the league's best coaching to boot? There's a decent chance the Patriots will be the first team ever to go 19-0.
That's standard in the NFL, where 26 of 32 teams have had winning or losing streaks of three or more games this season. New Orleans, San Diego and Buffalo have had both.
Miami (0-9). Lack of talent, plus injuries to Trent Green, Zach Thomas and Ronnie Brown, among others. Add awful personnel decisions over the last decade that drop the Dolphins below parity to parody.
A look at some of the streaks:
It's another facet of parity.
But the streaks are not only at the top and bottom of the NFLs they are also in the middle, as with the Saints, who lost four, won four and then lost at home to a winless team.
In other cases, streaks are determined by the schedule, or by injuries or the lack of them. The Colts, a top-end team, went into San Diego without seven starters and lost four more players, one reason they lost their second straight after seven wins to open the season.
The Giants can beat bad teams, but not good ones. Their six straight wins were over teams with a combined record of 15-38; Washington (5-4) was the only victim currently over .500. Their three losses are to 8-1 teams: Dallas twice and Green Bay.
Yes, the unbeaten Patriots, the Cowboys, the Colts and the Packers have been able to run off long streaks because they are simply better than the opposition. And the Giants won six straight until they lost Sunday to Dallas in part because they were in a lengthy soft spot of their schedule, which included another consistently bad team, the Jets, who are 1-8.
The Lions, who had a three-game winning streak snapped Sunday when they fell 31-21 in Arizona, are a good example.
Their six wins are the most they've had in a full season since Matt Millen took over as team president in 2001, but they are streaky in a way typical of teams that play indoors: 4-0 at home, but 2-3 on the road, where they have allowed 121 points in the three defeats.
—Dallas (8-1). Only loss is to the Patriots. Tony Romo might be up there with Tom Brady, Peyton Manning and Brett Favre among the top QBs, making the Cowboys the NFL's second-best team right now.
-Buffalo (5-4). Four straight
-Buffalo (5 wins on pure prit; two quarterbacks, subs for subs as injury replacements, but the luck to be in the AFC East, where the Jets and Dolphins, a combined 1-17, are two of their victims during the three-game winning streak.
tory. The injured players include Marvin Harrison and Dallas Clark, plus Dwight Freeney, who went out during the game.
— St. Louis (1-8). Talk about injuries. The Rams spent the first half of the season shuffling and reshuffling the offensive line, which lost Orlando Pace, its best player, in the first game. QB Marc Bulger missed two games
Streak buster New England is next.
The streaks are not only at the top and bottom of the NFL; they are also in the middle, as with the Saints, who lost four, won four and then lost at home to a winless team.
—Indianapolis (7-2). Seven straight wins, now two straight losses, the second in the game against the Chargers that included two eyepopping improbabilities: six interceptions from Manning and a potential game-winning 29-yard field-goal attempt missed by Adam Vinatier, the best clutch kicker in NFL his-
Saints coach Sean Payton said after Sunday's game. Fair comment.
and played several others with broken ribs, and Steven Jackson, the league's fifth-leading rusher last season, missed four games with a back injury. "They had four or five games that could have gone their way."
age team can sustain a streak only so long.
—New Orleans (4-5). The loss to St. Louis was a typical let-down by a team playing a less player. With four straight wins after four losses to open the season, Payton was spreading rat traps around the practice facility last week to warn "trap game." Didn't work, demonstrating that an aver-
Cleveland (5-4). Clearly one of the league's most improved teams, the Browns won three straight going into Pittsburgh and took a 21-6 lead, threatening to tie the Steelers for the AFC North lead. The Browns finally lost because of Ben Roethlisberger's heroics and very strange clock management late in the game by Romeo Crennel. They probably proved they will remain a playoff contender, but the improvement may also simply get them somewhere around .500.
—Baltimore (4-5). Started 4-2 and now has lost three straight. In injuries are a factor, but quarterback is a bigger problem. The Ravens finally scored with 1:56 left against a Cincinnati team that entered Sunday's game tied for first in points allowed at 30.4 per game. Steve McNair seems done, Kyle Boller has never been the answer and the Ravens cut Derek Anderson, their sixth-round draft pick in 2005, hoping to sneak him onto the practice squad. Instead, he was claimed by Cleveland and has thrived. On the other hand, given the Ravens' history at QB, Anderson probably would have failed had he stayed.
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