THURSDAY MARCH 3. 2005
SPORTS
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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REC SPORTS
Jayhawk bags trophy black bear
Contributed photo
Cameron Manuel, Wichita sophomore, poses in Salmon River Valley, Idaho, behind the trophy black bear he killed while bow hunting.
BY CALEB REGAN
cregan@kansan.com
KANSAN SPORTSWRIVER
Editor's Note: This is a regular series that profiles recreational activities in which students take part. If you hunt, fish, climb rocks, go canoeing or are an expert spelunker, The University Daily Kansan would like to share your story, and perhaps take part. Please contact Caleb Regan by calling the Kansan sports desk at 785-864-4858 or by e-mailing him at cregan@kansan.com.
Two years ago, Cameron Manuel took down a trophy black bear.
Manuel, a Wichita sophomore, said, "I'd always heard people say they look up at you, right before you shoot. Sure enough, he did."
Manuel's kill, in Salmon River Valley, Idaho, earned him a place in the record books of Pope & Young, a bow hunters organization that accepts for records only game killed by bow and arrow. When a kill surpasses a certain score (determined by the skull width and length), the hunter is entered into the record book.
In this case, the threshold was a score of 18. Manuel's bear scored an 18.6.
Manuel said the bear weighed more than 300 pounds and stood about six feet tall.
He said his whole mind was consumed by getting off a good shot.
"People ask if I was scared, but it wasn't scary. My heart was
pounding, sure, but I did not want to miss that shot. I made the perfect shot, double lung, and hit a main vein causing him to die really quick. That's important to me, minimizing the suffering." Manuel said.
I would rather go out into the wilderness and give the animal that opportunity to face off with me. That's been a natural part of the human race. Only in the last 100 years have we become capable of living without it."
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hunting is cruel. But for Manuel, from an ethical standpoint, it's better to hunt wild game than to eat store-bought meat.
"When people tell me it's unethical, I ask when's the last time you ate meat, or used cosmetics that were tested on animals? I would rather go out into the wilderness and give the animal that opportunity to face off with me. That's been a natural
part of the human race. Only in the last 100 years have we become capable of living without it." Manuel said.
Most of the meat from grocery stores is from animals raised for the sole purpose of food. Manuel thinks that is worse than hunting.
Manuel donated his trophy bear's meat to a family in Idaho, and said it's important to utilize everything possible from game animals.
Rex Reinhardt, Lake St.
Louis. Mo., senior, agreed.
"Animals have a multitude of purposes. Food being one of them. But I don't think it's right to kill them merely for recreational purposes," Reinhardt said.
Even though Manuel shot his bear in Idaho and has hunted hogs in Arkansas, Kansas is still his favorite place to hunt.
"We have really good deer hunting here, as well as duck hunting. Lots of people dog Kansas, but I love it. Starting at the age of four, I was able to pursue these hobbies."
With springtime approaching, the time for fly fishing and turkey hunting is near. This is the time hunters and outdoorsmen love. Even those in Kansas.
— Edited by Jesse Truesdale
FOOTBALL
Study shows obesity widespread in NFL
BY LINDSEY TANNER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
CHICAGO — It's no secret that size matters in the National Football League, but a new study suggests that a whopping 56 percent of NFL players would be considered obese by some medical standards.
The NFL called the study bogus for using players' bodymass index, a height-to-weight ratio that doesn't consider body muscle versus fat. The players union said that despite the familiar sight of bulging football jerseys, there was no proof that obesity was rampant in the league.
But former defensive tackle John Jurkovic said he'd seen plenty of evidence that players had gotten not just bigger but sometimes fatter, "big as houses" in recent years because of league pressure to intimidate opponents and win.
"The NFL teams want it because it's working," said Jurkovic, who played for Green Bay, Cleveland and Jacksonville before retiring in 2000.
The theory is that bigger men, especially linemen and defensive players, are better blockers and harder to move.
But the study results suggest that bigger players don't make a team more successful. There was no relationship between teams' average player BMI and their ranking in 2003-04, the season studied. Arizona had the highest average BMI, but also the worst record in its division.
In the study, University of North Carolina endocrinologist Joyce Harp and student Lindsay Hecht used statistics on the NFL Web site to calculate BMIs for 2,168 NFL players, nearly all those playing in the 2003-04 season.
Almost all the players qualified as overweight, and 56 percent had BMIs of at least 30 what doctors consider obese. For example, a 6-foot-2 man weighing 235 has a BMI of just over 30. Nearly half of the obese players were in the severely obese range, with a BMI of at least 35, and a small percentage were morbidly obese with a BMI of at least 40.
Harp acknowledged that without measuring body composition, it was uncertain how many players were truly fat, but she said it was unlikely the high BMIs were "due to a healthy increase in muscle mass alone."
"The high number of large players was not unexpected, given the pressures of professional athletes to increase their mass. However, it may not be without health consequences," the researchers wrote, citing previous studies that documented obesity-related problems,
including sleep apnea and high blood pressure in NFL players
The study appears in yesterday's Journal of the American Medical Association.
While the study methods were not very scientific, players' growing girth "is a major concern," said Arthur Roberts, a former NFL quarterback and retired heart surgeon whose Living Heart Foundation works with the players union to evaluate heart-related health risks faced by current and retired players.
"These larger body sizes are generally associated with greater cardiovascular risks," Roberts said.
The increasing emphasis on size may be a bad influence on "all the young kids that play football around the country ... and are trying to be like their heroes," Roberts said.
Players union spokesman Carl Francis said health and
safety were "discussed all the time," and that while some players likely were obese, it was not a major problem.
NFL spokesman Greg Aiello called the study substandard and said there was no proof obesity was worse in the NFL than in U.S. society in general, where about 30 percent of adults are obese, based on BMI data. "This was not a serious medical study," he said.
Brian Cole of Chicago's Rush University Medical Center, an orthopedic surgeon who works with the Arena Football League, also questioned the study methods.
Relying on published height and weight data but not physical exams is faulty, he said.
Julie Burns, a nutritionist who works with the Chicago Bears, said combining BMI data with players' waist measurements is a better fat indicator.
Wristbands CONTRIBUTED FROM PAGE 18
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"I's one of the deals where the trend has run its course. I think it was a great promotion to run in the fall, and that's where it stands."
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bracelets have been largely equated with charity organizations.
Some college athletics departments have distributed part of the profits from wristband sales outside the athletic department. The University of Michigan's "M Go Blue for Mott" wristband sells for $2, with half of the profits going to help build a new children's hospital. The University of Illinois' "Loyalty" wristband sells for $2 with the money going to the university's library campaign.
Though KUAC didn't spread the wristband profits outside of KU athletics, Marchiony said giving money to the Williams Fund was "a good way to raise money to help student-athetes."
Funk said he was more than happy to give $1 to help attract new athletes.
"We've got a lot of seniors graduating," he said. "If it takes every student buying a wristband to get some new players, not just in basketball but in any sport, that makes the school look good."
- Edited by Kendall Dix
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