THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THURSDAY, MAY 3, 2012
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NAISMITH FROM PAGE 1B
"There was a sense among the upper class that young men were effeminate because there was less of a need to do manual labor." Zogry said.
The influence of Muscular Christianity can still be seen today through organizations like the Fellowship of Christian Athletes and Athletes in Action. Athletes like Tim Tebow and Jeremy Lin, who openly share their beliefs, are examples of contemporary athletes who might have been a part of this movement.
He said the religious influence on Naismith is still evident today through Naismith's legacy.
"The commemoration of Naismith has this reverent aspect to it," Zogry said.
Zogry points out that a brochure where the Naismith Memorial Committee called a precursor to the Basketball Hall of Fame, "The Naismith Temple of Basketball." When the hall of fame was finally built, it included a room full of mock stained-glass windows that honored important figures in basketball history. Naismith's window is on display in the Booth Hall of Athletics.
Zogry said items from Naismith's life are collected and then auctioned off, which he said is an interesting phenomenon. He said there is a memorial to Naismith in the cemetery across the street from where Naismith is actually buried here an in Lawrence. Despite the fact that Naismith's body is not actually there and the memorial is slightly separated from the rest of the cemetery, a few families have chosen to have plots immediately adiacent to it.
"Is it religious, is it not religious? I don't know, but it's on the line," Zogry said. "There's obviously a very important reason that that's where they wanted to be."
Zogry said he expects his book to be published in 2016.
Edited by Bru Roach
Astros complete series sweep against the Mets
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Houston Astros' Jed Lowrie (4) welcomes teammate Chris Johnson (23) at home plate after Johnson hit a three-run home run against the New York Mets in the second inning of a baseball game Wednesday in Houston.
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HOUSTON — Chris Johnson had a pair of homers among his four hits and drove in a career-high six runs to back up another solid outing by Wandy Rodriguez, and the Houston Astros beat the New York Mets 8-1 on Wednesday to complete a three-game sweep.
The win gave Houston its first series sweep of the season and first series win since the opening three games.
Johnson's first homer of the season off Chris Schwinden (0-1) was a three-run shot to the Crawford Boxes in left field that put Houston up 3-0 in the second inning. Jed Lowrie and Brian Bogusevic reached on consecutive singles.
Johnson went deep again in his next at-bat, this one a two-run homer to left center that pushed the lead to 5-0. It was the first career multihomer game for Johnson and first by an Astro this year.
Rodriguez (3-2) yielded six hits and a run in seven innings to lower his HRA to 1.64. He has won three in a row and allowed just three runs combined in those starts, after opening the season with two consecutive losses.
Schwinden allowed six hits and five runs in four innings in his second start of the season. He also pitched four innings in his other start this season, an 18-9 loss at Colorado in which he received a no decision.
The Astros tacked on three runs in the fifth inning with an RBI double by Bugusev, and run-scoring singles by Johnson and Jason Castro Johnson added a single in the seventh, but Castro grounded into a double play to end the inning.
Houston piled up 15 hits, including three from Lowrie and two apiece from Carlos Lee, Boguevic
and Castro.
David Wright walked in the fourth inning, stole second base and scored on a single by Andres Torres to leave Houston up 5-1. Wright tripled with one out in the eighth, but
reliever David Carpenter retired the next two batters to leave New York empty-handed.
The Mets had trouble stringing hits together against Rodriguez. They got more than one in an inning just once while he was pitching. A single by Kirk Nieuwenhuis followed a double by Scott Hairston in the sixth, but Rodriguez retired the next two batters to get out of the inning.
INTERNATIONAL
Website tracks a crash just past Mexican border
SAN DIEGO — An American yacht destroyed while racing from California to Mexico ended up on the rocky shore of an island just past the border, according to a website that tracks boats by GPS, potentially undercutting the theory that it was crushed by a large ship.
Coast Guard investigators have not
recovered the GPS device but will consider the coordinates as they try to determine what caused the crash of the 37-foot Aegean that killed three sailors and left one missing, agency spokesman Lt. Bill Burwell said Tuesday.
Investigators are also scrutinizing the sailboat's debris, interviewing race participants and seeking records of any large ships in the area. Burwell said.
The GPS tracking information shows the
boat landed on Mexico's Coronado Islands at 1.36 a.m. PDT Saturday at a speed of 6 knots. The coordinates were the last posted by the ship a day after it left from Newport Beach, where the 124-mile race to Ensenada, Mexico, began.
The maker of the device was Spot LLC, a unit of Globalstar Inc. Its palm-sized gadgets track movements of sailors and other outdoor enthusiasts.
Michael Patton, a spokesman for the
yacht owner's family, noted the tracking shows the GPS device landed on the rocks but not necessarily the boat. He dismissed the theory that the boat hit rocks because debris found just offshore was too small.
"Look at the destruction of it all," Patton said. "You're talking about it being squished."
Eric Lamb, who found the wreckage Saturday while on safety patrol, said debris strewn over 2 square miles looked as
if the boat had "gone through a blender," with some of it a quarter-mile from the shore.
The San Diego County medical examiner said Kevin Eric Rudolph, 13, of Manhattan Beach and William Reed Johnson Jr., 57, of Torrance, both died from blunt force injuries. Rudolph's injuries were to his head and neck.
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