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QUOTE OF THE DAY
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29, 2009
"It's the public that built Yankee Stadium, and even at these prices, the public has been excluded from the very stadium they built. It's a continuing disaster."
Assemblyman Richard Brodsky of Westchester, Associated Press
FACT OF THE DAY
The Yankees slashed premium ticket prices after embarrassing lackluster ticket sales through the season's first month. The price of the 48 first-row Legends Suite season seats dropped from $2,500 to $1,250, and 68 others down each foul line shrunk from $1,000 to $650.
Associated Press
TRIVIA OF THE DAY
Q: How much does the average major league ticket cost?
A: $26.74.
Team Marketing Report's annual Fan Cost Index report
Still a Jayhawk after graduation
COMMENTARY
I don't feel like a senior. It's hard for me to believe four years as a student at the University of Kansas are slowly coming to a close.
In 18 days, thousands of us surrounded by our friends and loved ones will swarm out of the Campanile and down the hill, the rest of our lives lying in wait. Some will swim against the current of a struggling economy. Others will transfer their academic pursuits to graduate school classrooms.
But we will all be layhawks. We will all remember the feeling of unbridled joy that followed Mario's Miracle. We will all remember the Fighting Manginos improbable run to an Orange Bowl victory and unprecedented national exposure.
Most of us will move on, but the memories won't. These are the three things I'll remember most.
3) PULLED PORK
SANDWICHES BEFORE
FOOTBALL GAMES
much a block party as they are a sporting event. After all — as a popular T-shirt proclaims — win or lose, we'll still booze.
But we also eat an unhealthy amount of food, and nothing is a better precursor to a KU football game than a succulent pulled pork sandwich from the family selling barbecue on Alabama Street.
What began as an innocent freshman discovery, turned into an integral part of the game day experience.
2) ALLEN FIELDHOUSE
PREGAME
There's nothing quite like watching 16,300 people staring intently at the same enormous video screen, seconds away from being whipped into an absolute frenzy.
When that music explodes from the speakers and images of James Naismith, Danny Manning, Wilt Chamberlain, Phog Allen and Mario Chalmers flash on screen, it's difficult not to get goose bumps.
Kansas football games are as
By the time the whole spectacle ends, most spectators are straddling the line between primal and civilized. You can't convince me anyone is better at the art of hype than Rock Chalk Video. Adding the decibel meter was a touch of genius, too.
Being a part of that madness is indescribable, a subtle combination of mob dynamics and the best building in college basketball.
1) FROM NEW YORK,
NEW YORK...
I can't fully explain it, but Russell Robinson is far and away my favorite KU basketball player from my time here. Darnell Jackson finishes a distant second.
Maybe it's the idea of a gritty point guard from New York City bringing his hardnosed game to Kansas of all places.
Maybe it's the way he bounced back from a freshman year during which he struggled so much that he was close to heading back East. Or maybe it's just the way the public address announcer beckoned him off the bench before every game.
Robinson was always the last to be introduced. Everyone in Allen Fieldhouse knew what was coming.
The announcer would pause, waiting for the crowd to join in, and then everyone would bellow in unison.
"And ... From New York,
New York ... Russssselllllll
Robinson."
— Edited by Brandy Entsminger
MEN'S GOLF
Performance earns team in with Kansas State
a tie with Kansas State
After a rough second round of the Big 12 Championship Monday, the Jayhawks shot 290 — a team-
low for the tournament — to earn a fifth-place tie Tuesday with in-state rival Kansas State. The third round of the tournament featured low scores from all five golfers. Junior Bryan Hackenberg and sophomore Nate Barbee both finished with a two-over 72.
Seniors Zach Pederson and Andrew Storm both posted a 73 and senior Walt Koelbel fired a 74. Pederson tied for 10th place overall and will start today's third round 11 shots behind the leader, Baylor's Bill Allcorn. Barbee and Hackenberg will begin the final round tied for 14th and Storm will attempt to improve on his tied for 31st standing. Koelbel will tee off in 54th place.
NFL
Christian Lucero
Minor-league team offers
Vick a one-year contract
Wick a one-year contract
ALBANY, N.Y. — Michael Vick has a place on a minor league football team if he can get reinstated by the NFL.
The Albany Firebirds, an arenafootball2 franchise, have offered the 28-year-old quarterback a one-year contract at the league standard: $200 a week plus a $50 bonus for a win.
Vick quarterbacked the Atlanta Falcons for six seasons before being convicted of bankrolling an interstate dog fighting business.
NFL Commissioner Roger
Goodell has not said if he will lift Vick's suspension after he completes a 23-month prison sentence. Vick goes from federal prison to home confinement next month.
The Firebirds' contract offer requires that Vick donate $100,000 to a local humane society.
A call to Vick's agent was not immediately returned.
NBA
Nuggets' victory matches biggest playoff blowout
DENVER — Take it from the man who just won the NBA's Sportsmanship Award, the Denver Nuggets' historic
dismantling of the New Orleans Hornets left more than just the losers red-faced.
"In a strange sort of way, being up by that much is kind of embarrassing for the team that's up sometimes," Billups' said Tuesday, 12 hours after the Nuggets' 121-63 shellacking of the Hornets. "
Denver's 58-point win matched the most lopsided victory in NBA playoff history, the Minneapolis Lakers' 133-75 blowout of the St. Louis Hawks in 1956.
It also put the Nuggets ahead 3-1 in their best-of-seven series.
Associated Press
Men's golf
Big 12 Championships, All Day
Hutchinson
Softball Texas A&M, 11:15 a.m. Lawrence
THIS WEEK IN KANSAS ATHLETICS
Softball
Texas A&M,
1:15 p.m.
Lawrence
THURSDAY
Track & field
Arkansas Twilight
All day
Fayetteville, Ark.
SATURDAY
Baseball
Oklahoma,
6:30 p.m.
Norman, Okla
FRIDAY
Rowing Big 12 Championship, 10:30 a.m. Kansas City, Kan.
Baseball
Oklahoma, 2 p.m.
Norman, Okla.
Softball Iowa State, 2 p.m. Ames, ames
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