THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
WEDNESDAY, MAY 2, 2012
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they blew those away, so I'm very happy for them."
As a forward in his freshman and sophomore years in high school, McLemore didn't have to create shots or defend quick dribblers. When he became a guard as a high school junior, he started to learn how to shoot with range, dribble and drive.
These are still the areas that McLemore is working on. He practices two-ball dribbling and coming off screens with the left hand. He shoots every day and lifts weights multiple times a week.
While he wasn't able to help the Jayhawks on the road to New Orleans this season, he said it was valuable to practice against Robinson's strength and Tyshawn Taylor's speed. McLemore said he will use what he learned against both players to prepare himself for future opponents.
And, if that means getting schooled by Taylor, so be it.
While McLemore has struggled to defend both Robinson and Taylor, that doesn't mean it's a one-sided show. There was one practice, McLemore said, when he was unstoppable.
"They don't like trying to chase me around," McLemore said of his teammates in practice.
Both Robinson and Taylor are gone. Now McLemore has his time to lead the Jayhawks, Elijah Johnson, Jeff Withey, Travis Releford, Kevin Young, Justin Wesley and Nadar Tharpe will return. Newcomers will include Perry Ellis, Andrew White, Landen Lucas, Zach Peters and Anrio Adams.
Kansas won't change because it lost Taylor and Robinson. Self will still preach the importance of defense, but most of the Jayhawks' struggles this season were on the offensive side of the ball.
McLemore, who will be eligible to play, wants to be the answer — with his improved ballhandling and a smoother jump shot. He's had a full year on the sideline to picture it.
"Now I can say I'm here," McLemore said. "I'm fully a Kansas basketball player now."
— Edited by Corinne Westeman
Pettitte testifies against Clemens
BASEBALL
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Andy Pettitte leaves the Federal Court in Washington on Tuesday. Pettitte took the stand in the retrial of Roger Clemens on charges that Clemens lied when he told Congress in 2008 that he had never used steroids or human growth hormone.
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WASHINGTON — Andy Petittie and Roger Clemens sat some 20 feet apart, Petittie on the witness stand and Clemens at the defense table trying to avoid going to jail. The topic: a remark about human growth hormone Petittie recalled hearing from his longtime teammate, mentor and workout partner a dozen years ago.
"Roger had mentioned to me that he had taken HGH," Pettitte testified. "And that it could help with recovery, and that's really all I remember about the conversation."
It's a conversation that Clemens has famously claimed that Pettitte "misremembers."
The right-hander on trial who won 354 major league games and the lefty on the stand with 240 wins had an awkward reunion Tuesday, Day 8 in the retrial of charges that Clemens lied when he told Congress in 2008 that he never used steroids or HGH.
Pettitte's appearance enlivened the proceedings and came
without warning. The government interrupted testimony from the trial's first witness to call Pettitte just before noon.
Pettitte testified mostly with his hands clasped in front of him and rarely looked at Clemens, even during the lengthy delays when lawyers held conferences at the judge's bench. Clemens frequently took notes. The two haven't spoken recently because of the trial, but Pettitta nevertheless said he found it difficult to testify because he still considers Clemens a good friend.
Pettitte is crucial to a government case that will otherwise rely heavily on the testimony of Brian McNamee, who worked as a strength coach for both Clemens and Pettitte and has said he injected both men with performance-enhancing substances. The government showed the jury photos of the three working out together in Texas during happier times — "Mac, Roger and me", as Pettitte put it.
Pettitte has acknowledged he received HGH from McNamee; Clemens has not. Pettitte said
he used HGH one other time, in 2004. He said he regretted it both times he tried it, that he doesn't think it helped him physically and that it has tarnished his name.
"I wish I never would've" taken HGH, he said. "If I hadn't done it, I wouldn't be here today."
LEGAL
Pettitte will return to the stand on Wednesday.
Clemens' lawyer, Rusty Hardin, spent the morning trying to challenge the merits of the 2008 hearing, specifically honing in on whether the questions asked of Clemens had anything to do with Congress' stated mission of passing laws.
But Hardin was walking a fine line. A substantial challenge to the validity of the hearings could open the door to allow the government to introduce more evidence about the widespread use of steroids and HGH in baseball — something Clemens doesn't want the jury to hear for fear of guilt by association.
Homicide trial continues for former NFL star's wife
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MINNEAPOLIS — A jury began deliberations Tuesday on the crucial questions of whether the wife of former Minnesota Viking Joe Senser knew she had struck and killed a stalled motorist on a freeway exit ramp — and when she knew it.
Prosecutor Deborah Russell told the jurors in closing arguments that the evidence proves Amy Sensor had to have known she hit Anousone Phanthavong, was probably drunk, concealed evidence and failed to notify authorities about the fatal accident. She urged them not to take Sensor at her word but to balance her testimony against
all the other evidence presented during the seven-dav trial.
"The evidence in this case demonstrates she knew she hit Mr. Phanthavong at the time she hit him," Russell said.
After deliberating more than four hours Tuesday, the jury recessed for the night without a verdict just before 7 p.m. CDT. Deliberations were scheduled to resume at 9 a.m. Wednesday.
But defense attorney Eric Nelson accused prosecutors of rushing to judgment because Sensor and her husband, the former Vikings tight end-turned-restaurateur, are well known in the community.
"Amy Senser is a public figure. Joe Senser is a public figure. We want to make an example (of them)," Nelson said.
If she's convicted one or all of
Amy Senser, 45, of Edina, is charged with three felony counts of criminal vehicular homicide plus a misdemeanor count of careless driving stemming from the Aug. 23 incident. To get a conviction on the first felony count, the prosecution had to prove that she knew she hit a person. On the second count, the prosecution needed to prove that not only did she know she struck someone but that she failed to report it as soon as reasonably possible. The third requires the jury to conclude she acted with gross negligence, not just ordinary negligence.
the felony counts, the state's sentencing guidelines recommend a prison sentence of four years. The misdemeanor count carries a maximum of 90 days in jail and a $1,000 fine.
Senser testified Monday that she thought she had hit an orange construction barrel or a pothole when she heard a bump as she drove up an exit ramp off Interstate 94 in Minneapolis just after 11 p.m. last Aug. 23. She said she was not looking forward and never saw Phanthavong, a 38-year-old restaurant cook who had run out of gas and was filling it on the side of the road. She testified she was lost but not under the influence of alcohol.
front right corner of her husband's Mercedes SUV was damaged until the next morning. Although she said she was certain she wasn't involved in the fatal accident even after she learned of it through a news report, her husband contacted an attorney, who turned the car over to the State Patrol the night of Aug. 24. She did not acknowledge she was the driver until Sept. 2.
"Ms. Senser did not know what she hit on August 23rd. She did not know what she hit on August 24th. And she's struggling with accepting it to this day," Nelson said.
She said she did not see that
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