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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
TUESDAY APRIL 28 2009
QUOTE OF THE DAY
"Hopefully the seniors will enjoy playing a world-class course in a conference tournament. We just need to play it the way it was designed and accept what the golf course gives you."
KU men's golf coach Kit Grove
Kansas' winning score of 857 in 1999 was the third-lowest score in Big 12 conference tournament history. Only Oklahoma State (851 in 2000) and Texas (850 in 2002) shot lower scores to win the Big 12.
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TRIVIA OF THE DAY
Q: When is the last time a team not from Oklahoma won the men's golf conference title?
A: Texas won in 2004, wrapping up a three-year title run. Since then, Oklahoma State has won the title in 2005, 2007 and 2008 while Oklahoma took the crown in 2006.
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Through the Uprights: Stay current with all the offseason football moves at Through the Uprights.
First Pitch: Baseball writers Tim Dwyer and Josh Bowe keep you updated on Kansas' doubleheader against Chicago State today.
NASCAR
NASCAR Organization defends standards after crash
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Despite injuries to fans from flying debris, NASCAR's satisfied with its safety standards, saying the fence at Talladega Superspeed way did what it was supposed to do — keep Carl Edwards' car out of the grandstands.
In a spectacular last-lap accident, Edwards' car sailed upside-down into the front-stretch fence, which bowed but held, before the battered vehicle returned to the track. Blake Bobbitt, one of seven injured by debris, remained hospitalized Monday with a broken jaw.
"One of our primary goals over the years is to build a retaining fence that keeps the cars and parts and pieces out of the spectator areas. Nothing is bullet proof," NASCAR spokesman Jim Hunter said Monday. "The retaining fence did what it's supposed to do. There was some debris that went into the grandstand, that fortunately did not invoke serious injury. If there is something we come up with as we analyze this accident .. we'll make it as safe as we humanly can."
Draft tweets dominate Twitterverse
COMMENTARY
Though the Bill Cosby/ Quan Cosphy/Erin Andrews/des beds had
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Andrews debacle had the blogosphere all atwitter this weekend*, those both involved with and detached from the NFL Draft were plenty plugged in.
*And really, what segment with Erin Andrews isn't these days? Search the tags "ERIN ANDREWS," "HOT," and "OMG" and you'll soon have all you need to start your own blog.
Commissioner Roger Goodell "tweeted" between announcing teams' draft selections for the first time while some teams made their picks public via Twitter before Goodell popped open the envelope.
But as Mike Florio of Pro Football Talk reported, Missouri quarterback Chase Daniel enticed a Twitter war with a sports talk host from Washington, D.C. as the completion of a free agent contract with the Redskins neared.
As the seventh round wound down Daniel "tweeted:"* "Hearing redskins possibly! Who knows! Free agent might be better!"
Apparently interpreting this as an affront to the 'Skins, WJFK talker Chad Dukes invited
Daniel to come on air and defend his comments.
*I don't know how much longer I can do this. Tweet is one of the silliest words you can use but what choice do we have?
I almost believe the Twitter suits did this by design, so when we want to report on the latest tech darling, we can't do so without sounding preposterous. Whatever comes next, please don't use the word "moxie" in your name. PLEASE!
But as Florio observed, the comment was more of a compliment to Washington than anything else. Undrafted free agents are allowed to choose among a number of teams and select the best fit for them.
In suggesting free agent might be better and subsequently ink ing a deal with Washington. Daniel effectively indicated his preference of competing for a spot with the Redskins.
One year after the Jayhawks saw four players drafted in the first round, the Missouri Tigers were better represented. With six selections in the draft, the Tigers saw more players drafted than any Big 12 team this year. The Kansas City Chiefs selected tackle
BORDER (SHOWDOWN)
SHENANIGANS
Colin Brown in the fifth round.
in the fifth round.
Now, I generally don't advocate scanning the comments sections of local newspaper
Web sites for insightful analysis — crap flinging at the Topeka Zoo suffices as analogy — but one post in rebuttal to Tiger fans' boasting proved especially astute.
We'll give this poster the hypothetical handle ChokeDaniel69 Mr. Daniel69 observed that, in essence, Mizzou's hopes of a Big 12 title and BCS contention now reside on NFL rosters. With enough talent to see six players drafted, including wide receiver Jeremy Maclin (19th overall) and defensive tackle Evander "Ziggy"
Hood (32nd), the Tigers were routed in consecutive Big 12 title games and eked out an underwhelming Holiday Bowl win against Northwestern to send off the class. Oh, and last November's date at Arrowhead ensured bragging rights would stay on the right side of the border for at least a year.
And to a pair of undrafted free agents who, to my knowledge, have yet to have their comments misinterpreted by a sports talk radio host, James Holt and Mike Rivera best of luck.
That's all for now.I guess we must put the draft behind us and move on to other things that don't involve sitting and watching people sit and talk for eight hours.
Edited by Brandy Entsminger
WOMEN'S BASKETBALL Jayhawks hand out 2009
team awards at reception
The Kansas women's basketball team handed out its season awards last Thursday for a season
that ended in the NWIIT championship game. For the third consecutive season, senior guard Katie Smith received the
Smith
Ms. Jayhawk Award, given to the player who embodies the spirit and vision of the Kansas women's
basketball program. Smith's senior season ended after she injured her knee against Kansas State in March.
Manhattan.
Another repeat winner was senior guard Ivana Catic, who earned the Lew Perkins Leadership Award for the second consecutive season. Catic made 26 starts at point guard for the Jayhawks in
Catic
Morris
Freshman forward Aishah Sutherland was named Most Improved Player after averaging 5.9 points and 4.7 rebounds. Junior guard Sade Morris was given the Best Defender Award, and junior forward Rebecca Feickert also earned the Academic Pride Award for the third time.
Feickert
2009.
Cray — a First-Team All-Big 12
Sutherland
Junior guard Danielle Mc-
performer and Associated Press Honorable Mention All-American — was awarded the Jayhawk "Tough"
McCray
ness” Award after averaging 21.6 points and 7.7 rebounds a game.
MEN'S BASKETBALL Jayhawks to face Bruins next season for 15th time
Kansas won 22 games in 2009, finishing 6-10 in the Big 12, and was the WNIT runner-up.
It will be the 15th time Kansas has played UCLA. The last time came in the 2007 Elite Eight when the Bruins beat the Jayhawks 68-55 to reach the Final Four. UCLA leads the all-time series 10-4.
— Andrew Wiebe
Case Keefer
Kansas will travel to Los Angeles on Sunday, Dec. 6 to take on the UCLA Bruins. The game will be part of the third annual Big 12/Pac 10 Hardwood series.
The Big 12 Conference won the challenge last season with a 10-7 record.
Less than a week after Kansas landed a marquee prospect for next year's team, it announced a marquee nonconference game for next season.
Other major match-ups for next year's series include USC at Texas on Thursday, Dec. 3 and Arizona at Oklahoma on Sunday, Dec. 6.
MEN'S GOLF Pederson tied for third at Big 12 tournament
After the first 18 holes Monday morning, the KU men's golf team is tied for fourth place with a score of 298 at the Big 12 Tournament played at Prairie Dunes Country Club in Hutchinson.
Senior Zach Pederson paced the Jayhawks in the first round, firing a one-over 71 and placing him in a tie for third place overall, just three shots behind the leader
The conditions at Prairie Dunes have been tough with temperatures in the 40s and wind gusts from 15 to 25 miles per hour. The second round, played in the afternoon yesterday, finished after the Kansan went to press.
Christian Lucero
Sophomore Nate Barbee and senior Andrew Storm shot a five- over 75, good enough for a tie for 12th place while junior Bryan Hackenberg carded a 77 to tie for 31st place.
NBA
Police taser ex-star after reports of suicidal action
NEW YORK — Jayson Williams was stunned with a Taser by police in his swank hotel suite
Monday after the reportedly suicidal ex-NBA star resisted attempts by officers to take him to a hospital.
Police were called to
When officers arrived, the 6-foot-10, 325-pound Williams appeared drunk and agitated, police said. There were empty bottles of prescription drugs strewn around his hotel suite and several suicide notes.
the hotel in lower Manhattan's Battery Park City around 4 a.m. when a female friend reported the former New Jersey Nets player was acting suicidal.
Williams
Officers with the Emergency Services Unit, an elite team trained to deal with emotionally disturbed people, responded and stunned Williams with a Taser after he resisted attempts to be hospitalized.
It's the latest in a series of public troubles for the 41-year-old former NBA All-Star, who played nine seasons with the Nets and the Philadelphia 76ers before retiring in 2000.
Williams'm manager told the Daily News of New York outside a Manhattan hospital that the athlete was on the mend.
"Jayson is doing fine. He said he was fine," Akhtar Farzaie told the newspaper. "All of us are here to be by his side as friends."
Williams was a first-round pick in the 1990 NBA draft and went on to become a valuable Nets star. He was named an All-Star and ranked second in the NBA for the 1997-1998 with 13 rebounds per game and a league-high 443 offensive rebounds.
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Runners registered by April 24th will receive a free T-shirt. All participants receive a free pancake breakfast!
Race and Eat Pancakes, Keep Me In Preschool.
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THIS WEEK IN KANSAS ATHLETICS
TODAY
Baseball
Chicago State,
3 p.m.
Lawrence
To The River and Back 5K/10K Run & Pancake Feed Saturday, May 9,2009
Softball
Wichita State,
5 p.m.
Wichita
Softball
Wichita State,
7 p.m.
Wichita
benefits Lawrence Community Nursery School
Baseball
Chicago State,
6 p.m.
Lawrence
Men's golf
Big 12
Championships,
All Day
Hutchinson
WEDNESDAY
DAY
Baseball
Chicago State,
1 p.m.
Lawrence
Men's golf
Big 12
Championships,
All Day
Hutchinson
Softball
Texas A&M,
1:15 p.m.
Lawrence
THURSDAY
Softball
Texas A&M,
11:15 a.m.
Lawrence
FRIDAY
Track & field
Arkansas Twilight,
All Day
Fayetteville, Ark.
Baseball
Oklaahoma,
6:30 p.m.
Norman, Okla
SATURDAY
Rowing Big 12 Championship, 10:30 a.m. Kansas City, Kan
Baseball
Oklahma, 2 p.m.
Norman, Okla.
Softball Iowa State, 2 p.m. Ames, ames
NASCAR
KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Strong winds, rain and hall, even tornadoes weren't enough to stop Mike Skinner from giving football star Randy Moss his first win as a NASCAR truck owner.
Football star wins first race as owner despite weather
Skinner won the rain-shortened O'Reilly Auto Parts 250 trucks race at Kansas Speedway on Monday — the first victory for Randy Moss Motorsports.
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