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The University Daily Kansan
Friday, February 26,1999
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Commentary
Senior Night hurt by fan's antics
Monday night was the incredible, magical evening that we have come to expect on Senior Night here at Kansas. As everyone has said, it couldn't have been scripted better, especially the ending. In fact, everything was so great that most people totally forgot about the complete moron who decided to degrade Kansas basketball tradition and embarrass our fans on national television.
In my column last week, I said that the students weren't visible enough and needed to be seen, but I would have preferred them to be seen in the stands and not on the court. The moron's plan was to get on national TV to impress his buddies. That's pretty cool — if you are in junior high. This absolute classless act made all Kansas basketball fans look bad and infuriated Coach Williams so much that he said he doesn't know what would have happened if he would have gotten his hands on the student.
As Roy said on his radio show, Kansas basketball is too rich in tradition, pride and class for these kind of things happen. Hopefully, it never will happen again, and if it does, the appropriate punishment should be turning over the offender to the student section to let them deal with him. I bet the punishment they would have provided would have been more severe than the disorderly conduct
Brandon Jones
sports@kansan.com
ticket he received
Kansas basketball should be considered sacred — or at least close — and these things should not occur.
things Kansas fans shouldn't do,
here are some more.
I still think Kansas fans are the best in the nation, but while we are on the topic of
The "Overrated" cheer should be removed from our list of student cheers. It is an utterly ridiculous cheer and especially the way in which we use it. The cheer is kind
of funny when a highly ranked team first takes the court or field, but not at the end of the game when Kansas is almost ready to beat it.
When the Jayhawks beat Colorado in football, the students started the cheer at the end of the game. Why? It is demeaning to our own team. The message seems to be that because we are beating them, they must be overrated. Surely Kansas couldn't beat a top 25 team could it? A more appropriate cheer would be to say that we are underrated.
Maybe you don't agree with me or are asking yourself why you should listen to me. Well, I am a nobody, but Roy Williams is the greatest basketball coach in the world, and he agrees with me. Roy rarely reacts to a student cheer. He doesn't react to "Manny sucks" or "Sit down Norm," but he always reacts to the "Overrated" cheer. He doesn't like it because it is disrespectful to his team and the other team, and he stones it every time it starts.
I love the Star Wars Darth Vader song the band plays. I especially like it when the football team needs
a big defensive stand, but what is up with the Florida Gator hand motions the students have put with it? What's next? Are we going to start doing the Florida State/ Chiefs/ Braves "tomahawk chop?"
We are too original and have too many great cheers that we invented ourselves to copy other teams. We are not like the K-State Wildcats, who steal everyone else's cheers and whose only original cheer or song is the red-neck national anthem "The Wabash Cannonball."
We have the Rock Chalk chant, the waving wheat, and the alma mater. We don't need to copy the Florida Gator cheer. I was once told that it is really the Jayhawk beak chumping down, but to me it looks like the Gator cheer. Just try clapping next time instead of doing the Gator cheer, I think it will look a lot better and more original. I don't have Roy's support on this one, or at least not that I know of, so you are going to have to trust me.
Jones is an Lyndon second year law student.
Billiards champion sinks spot at nationals
Playing pool comes easily to student, who says game is an old family tradition
By Tiffany Seeman Special to the Kansan
Plaving pool is just in his blood.
"My dad's grandpa owned a pool hall," said Clint Basala, St. Louis senior.
When Basala was young, he lived in an apartment and often played pool in the clubhouse. At 12, he began to play competitively, and by 15 he had placed 13th in the Junior Nationals.
Basaia won the University of Kansas billiards tournament Feb. 6, and last weekend placed first in the regional competition at Kansas State University, earning him a spot in the national billiards tournament in April in Knoxville, Tenn.
He continues to be a trailblazer.
"This is the first time that KU has had a student go to nationals in billiards in a long time," said Howard Lubliner, recreation coordinator for Student Union Activities
Basala has been playing pool all of his life.
"When I was little, I stood on a chair at my grandpa's house, and I didn't even use a stick," he said. "I just threw the balls."
Basala is confident he can compete against the best.
"The guy who placed second this year at K-State placed first last year," Basala said, "And he took fourth in the nationals."
Basala said that any university in Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska and Oklahoma could enter the regional competition. The regional competition was a double-elimination tournament in
This year's trip to the regional tournament was Basala's third. In 1996, he took third, and in 1998 he placed second.
which players had to win seven games.
Basala usually practices at Astros, 601 Kasal drive, but sometimes he goes to Shooters in Olathe. Shooters, he said, has better competition.
"Being an architecture student, I don't have much time to practice," he said. "But this semester, I do not have studios, so that has given me a little more time."
If Basala wins the national competition, he will have an opportunity to play in professional tournaments. But Basala said that he might just go on the road and play billiards this summer.
Balliards always has been a part of Basala's life. From his grandfather to his father to the first person who ever played the game of pool.
"I find it inspiring that the person who first played pool lived 15 miles from where I was born," he said.
- Edited by Darrin Peschka
The Jack Flanigan's ad on page 8 of the Kansan Basketball section is incorrect. The Band That Saved The World will perform Saturday night. The Kansan regrets the error and takes full responsibility for the error. The correct ad runs below.
CORRECTION PLEASE DISREGARD ADD IN BASKETBALL SECTION
Today:
Open for Lunch
$1.50 Well drinks all day
Happy Hour 2-6
1/2 Price Appetizers
Tonight:
$10.95 All-U-Can Eat Shrimp 6-10
DJ & Dancing - Retro 70's & 80's
No cover before 10pm, only $2 after
SATURDAY
The Band That Saved The World
Saturday - $9.75 14oz KC Strip Dinner - $2 Select Call Drinks Just off 23rd behind McDonalds - 749-4295
TOMORROW at 8pm at the GRANADA,1020 Mass
Tickets available at the SUA Office and on the Brazilian Table, today from 11am-2pm at the Kansas Union Lobby.
More info through our e-mail: brapo@raven.cc.ukans.edu