2B THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
SPORTS
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 2005
ATHLETICS CALENDAR
TODAY
♦ Baseball vs. South Dakota State, 3 p.m., Hoglund Ballpark
- Women's Basketball vs. Texas Tech, 7 p.m., Allen Fieldhouse
TOMORROW
- Baseball vs. South Dakota State, 3 p.m., Hoglund,
Ballpark.
- FRIDAY
- Baseball vs. South Dakota State, 2 p.m., Hoglund Ballpark
SATURDAY
SATURDAY at Yale, noon University Park, Pa
- Baseball vs. South Dakota State (Doubleheader immediately after first game), Hogwild Ballpark
- Tennis at Yale, noon, University Park, Pa.
* Men's Basketball vs. Iowa State, noon, Allen Fieldhouse
Track at Oklahoma, all day, Norman, Okla.
SUNDAY
+ Women's Basketball vs. Nebraska, 1 p.m., Allen Fieldhouse
INTRAMURAL SCORES
FRIDAY
FRIDAY
BASKETBALL
BASKETBALL
Men's
Blue Barracudas def. The Threemasons, 91-45
Blue Chips def. Pi Kappa Alpha, 61-60
Team One def. Sigma Nu 3, 64-20
Vermont St. Generals def. Good Fellas, 71-64
Semiinoles def. Sigma Nu 1, 60-59
Sigma Chi 3 def. Theta Chi 2, 71-58
Sigma Nu 2 def. Theta Chi 9, 22-6
Sixers ext. Extreme, 42-35
Women's
Alpha Gamma Delta def. Douthart, 46-3
*S. Onerigawa*
Alpha Gamma Delta def. Douthart, 46-3
♦ Co-Recreational
White Unit def. Title IX, 106-29
D-Unit def. Karate Explosin, 87-34
Blue Jets tied Team Zizou CoRec, 38-38
COLLEGE BASKETBALL
No let-up for Tigers after victory
BY R.B. FALLSTROM THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
COLUMBIA, Mo. — Quin Snyder knows from experience not to get carried away with one nice game.
Missouri's coach said he'll keep asking more and more from his underachievement team in tonight's game against Baylor, even if the Tigers are coming off an onset of then 16th-ranked Oklahoma.
"I'm not saying we should hold our arms up and say 'Hurray, hurray, we won a game!'" Snyder said. "I 'm not letting up on them."
"I think it's a constant thing with these guys to keepounding it in to them."
Missouri (11-13, 3-7 Big 12) twice rallied from a double-digit deficit to beat Oklahoma 68-65 in overtime on Saturday. Before that, the Tigers had lost five in a row and eight of nine.
During that disquieting slump, athletic director Mike Alden felt it necessary to confirm that Snyder's job was not in danger. But the coach knows the pressure is still on, and at halftime and with Missouri trailing by 11, he called out his team.
"I just think some of our guys needed to be called out to the mat.
"Don't tell me about it, show me, and they did." Players said the message hit home.
"I think it hit everybody." center Kevin Young said. "I think we showed that we're men, and we came together and fought together."
After the game, Snyder wanted the players to savor what they had done. And realize they could do it again.
"I asked them. 'How do you feel? Do you like this feeling?' Snyder said. "I got some smiles. You could see the satisfaction they felt."
Missouri was much more aggressive on defense and on competing for offensive rebounds than most of the season. As a result, the Tigers hounded Oklahoma into submission.
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MEN'S BASKETBALL
Rough courts ahead
Jayhawks have yet to face toughest Big 12 opponents
BY MIRANDA LENNING
mlenning@kansan.com
KANSAN KENNISI SPORTWRITER
With the game-deciding traveling call against Aaron Miles still fresh in the minds of Kansas players, Iowa State should feel lucky that its match-up with Kansas isn't until Saturday.
The Jayhawks, on the other hand have all week to think about the call that left their senior point guard with a welt under his right eye in the double overtime loss against the Texas Tech Red Raiders.
"After I got the rebound, obviously they were trying to foul," Miles said. "There was 8 seconds left, the refs didn't see it, so they called the travel, but it shouldn't have come down to that. We had possession and I turned the ball over."
When Kansas held a 79-77 lead with 7 seconds to go, Miles leapt up and pulled down a rebound. In an attempt to force him to the freethrow line, Texas Tech tried to foul Miles. He was triple-teamed underneath Texas Tech's basket. But instead of calling a foul, the referee whistled Miles for traveling.
The rest is history. Texas Tech recovered the ball and Darrrell Dora hit the game-winning three-pointer to hand the Jayhawks their first Big 12 Conference loss of the season.
"All losses are hard to absorb," Kansas coach Bill Self said. "I think it was hard to absorb because it was right there. There is so much at stake when you are talking about the league and seeding, and to lose a game like this is very disheartening."
The Kansas players have made it clear since the beginning of the conference season that winning the Big 12 Championship is one of their main goals for the season.
The good news is that at 10-1 in the Big 12, the Jayhawks still have a one-game lead over the 9-2 Oklahoma State Cowboys. The bad news is that the most difficult part of Kansas' Big 12 schedule is in front of them.
"We never want to lose," Miles said. "Our goal is to win the conference."
On Saturday, Kansas will take on Iowa State (5-5 in the Big 12) at Allen Fieldhouse.
Although its .500 record appears marginal, the quality of Iowa State's recent victories is impressive.
With little time to regroup from the Cyclones, the Jayhawks will then head to Norman, Okla., on Monday for their own showdown with the Sooners. After critical conference losses to Oklahoma State, Missouri and Iowa State, Oklahoma is a team looking to rebound.
Iowa State traveled to Austin, Texas on Feb. 5 and knocked-off Texas 92-80 in overtime. Two weeks earlier, with then-No. 13 Oklahoma in town, the Cyclones snapped the Sooners' 10-game winning streak and handed them their first Big 12 defeat of the season.
With a 7-3 record in the Big 12, Oklahoma still has a shot at the Big 12 Conference title, and beating the conference leader would certainly help. The Sooners also bring one of the toughest inside duos in the conference, juniors Taj Gray and Kelvin Bookout.
Oklahoma State, which advanced
Kansas will return to the fieldhouse for back-to-back games against Oklahoma State Feb. 27 and Kansas State March 2.
David Johnson/Texas Tech Student Media Kansas junior forward Christian Moody goes up for a layup during the first quarter of Texas Tech's 80-79 victory Monday night.
David Johnson/Texas Tech Student Media
The contest against the Wildcats will be the seniors' final game in Allen Fieldhouse.
The Jayhawks will close their conference season on the road against border-rival Missouri March 6.
- Edited by Megan Claus
BASEBALL
Camps start amid steroid talk
BY RONALD BLUM THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Not this year.
Usually, the start of spring training is a time of clean slates, sun-splashed fields and endless hope. Not this year.
"It doesn't go away, unfortunately." Yankees manager Joe Torre said in Tampa, Fla.
Not this year. Steroids were the No. 1 topic yesterday, when the new Washington Nationals, the New York Yankees and the Cincinnati Reds opened camp.
Pitchers and catchers on seven more teams report today, and workouts begin tomorrow, 45 days before the World Series champion Boston Red Sox and Yankees play the major league opener April 3. The Minnesota Twins will be the last team to report, on Sunday.
The Nationals had the most complicated journey to spring training. After 36 seasons as the Montreal Expos, the team morphed into Washington's first major league team since the expansion Senators became the Texas Rangers after the 1971 season.
Ken Griffey Jr. ran for the Reds' medical staff in Sarasota, Fla., showing how far he has recovered from surgery on his torn right hamstring. Pedro Martinez, an early arrival at the New York Mets' camp, worked out in Port St. Lucie, Fla. And Trot Nixon kept up the Yankees-Red Sox sniping, saying of Alex Rodriguez: "He can't stand up to (Derek) Jeter in my book or Bernie Williams or (Jorge) Posada."
Owned by major league baseball since early 2002, the team was uncertain of its fate for three seasons before the move to the nation's capital
I think that the problems that are out there are coming to the surface, which I think is good for baseball."
Terry Francona
Red Sox manager
was finalized in December.
was initialized in December. "It's been a long journey," catcher Brian Schneider said. "We've wanted this for a while, and it's here now. We're ready for it, that's for sure."
As camps opened, there was a new steroid report. The New York Daily News said yesterday that an FBI agent in Ann Arbor, Mich., told baseball security head Kevin Hallinan about 10 years ago that Jose Canseco and other players were using illegal anabolic steroids.
"I alerted Major League Baseball back in the time when we had a case, that Canseco was a heavy user and that they should be aware of it." Special Agent Greg Stejskal was quoted as saying. "I spoke to the people in their security office, Hallinan was one of the people I spoke to."
Calls to Stejskal's office in Ann Arbor and to FBI headquarters in Washington were referred to the Detroit FBI office, where spokeswoman Agent Dawn Clenney said Stejskal and the agency
would have nothing to say.
Hallinan was traveling and did not return telephone calls seeking comment. He told the News he never was contacted then about steroid use.
"I have absolute confidence in his integrity," said Sandy Alderson, executive vice president for baseball operations in the commissioner's office. "We are looking into the situation described by the agent to see if we can figure out what exactly took place. There may have been someone else he talked to. There are a number of possibilities. We want to see if there is some reasonable view of his explanation and Kevin's."
Canseco's autobiography, published this week, accused the Yankees' Jason Giambi and others of using steroids.
"I think that the problems that are out there are coming to the surface, which I think is good for baseball," Red Sox manager Terry Francona said in Fort Myers, Fla.
Still, baseball's new drug-testing agreement — calling for harsher penalties and more frequent testing — remains in the drafting phase. Baseball management expects the new rules to be in place by the mandatory reporting date, March 1.
Baltimore shortstop Miguel Tejada, among the players accused by Canseco, denied that he used steroids.
“Any inference made by Jose Canseco that I used steroids is complete false.” Tejada said in a statement. “I barely knew Jose during his career, so it is ridiculous for him to suggest we ever had discussions regarding their use.”
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