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TUESDAY, APRIL 7, 2009
coaches is the ability to shrug off a bad day. With so many games on the schedule, the turnaround to redeem yourself is just a matter of days.
"We've put up good offensive
numbers, we've been doing great things pitching wise," sophomore third baseman Tony Thompson said.
"It was just one day. We're going to go out there and do the
same stuff we've been doing and
im sure we'll be fine" he said.
"Obviously, we have pitched very, very well all season long," Price said. "That's the first time we've been unable to pitch at a
"It's going to happen. You just have to put it under your belt, start over, and move on to the next one."
Baylor's victory on Sunday came after a 6-0 loss to the Jayhawks on Saturday. None of the players and coaches sounded like they were ready to hit the panic button just yet, though.
Nobody's perfect, Price said.
JAMES STANFIELD Kansas shortstop
and once in a while your piting
staff has an off day.
high level."
Shortstop James Stanfield might be a freshman, but he's been around the game long enough to know that Price is right.
The best thing to do, Stanfield said, was to forget about s quickly as possible.
this game as quickly as possible.
"You just have to forget about it. That's one of those games that happens every once in awhile or once in a year," he said. "It's going to happen. You just have to put it under your belt, start over, and move on to the next one."
But if the weather reports
baseball notes
When T.J. Walz pitched his complete game shutout against then No.7 Baylor on Saturday, it shouldn't have been a surprise to Kansas fans.
the sophomore right hander out of Omaha, Neb. now leads the Jayhawks in victories, and three of his seven collegiate victories have come against top 10 teams.
Walz is tied in another category on the Kansas pitching staff.Big 12 pitcher of the week awards.
Walz was named the Big
12 pitcher of the week on Monday, the second Kansas pitcher to achieve the honor this year. Junior Shaeffer Hall earned it earlier this season. Walz was rewarded for his 6-0 shutout against the Bears. During the game he had six strikeouts and allowed only three hits and one walk.
Walz's next scheduled start, Saturday, comes against another ranked team, No. 18 Oklahoma State.
Josh Bowe
Edited by Melissa Johnson
OLYMPICS Baseball makes bid for return at 2016 Games
Hold true for today, the Baylor game might repeat sooner than expected.
WASHINGTON — Baseball will be adding a women's component to its bid to get reinstated for the 2016 Olympics, after failing to unite with women's softball.
The president of the International Baseball Federation, Harvey Schiller, told The Associated Press the change will be made in the next few days.
"The main reason is the growth of the game, and, obviously, we have a constituency which makes up women's baseball, and they're asking, 'What about us?' Schiller said in a telephone interview Monday. "We want the world to know that we have women's baseball."
The move comes a few weeks after women's softball rejected baseball's proposal for a joint baseball-softball bid. The two
sports are among seven competing for two openings for new sports at the 2016 Olympics; the International Olympic Committee will decide in October.
Schiller estimated that between 300,000 and 500,000 women and girls play baseball worldwide, a figure which includes Little League and T-ball.
Jim Glennie, president of the American Women's Baseball Federation, called news of the expanded bid "wonderful." Glennie recruits women for the U.S. national team, which competes in the Women's World Cup of Baseball.
Glennie, an assistant attorney general in Michigan, said he didn't know of any high schools in the U.S. that offer women's baseball, and that girls who want to play baseball beyondLittle League face an uphill battle.
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Spartan-in-Chief,
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the 30-year anniversary
of their historic matchup
and Michigan
State's first title.
Yes, President Barack Obama picked the Tar Heels to take it all in his much-publicized bracket.
Magic Johnson.
ROY WILLIAMS North Carolina coach
"I'm the luckiest coach in America. I can tell you that."
From there, it was pretty much all "Showtime," all the time — but not for Michigan State. Heck, Magic didn't even stick around for the end of the game. He was spotted walking up the tunnel with 3:30 remaining.
Spartans coach Tom lzzo tried to call a timeout to stop the onslaught with 6:45 left in the first half. His team came out and promptly
Goran Suton led the Spartans with 17 points, and Kalin Lucas, the Big Ten player of the year, had 14 — most scored once the game was out of hand, which was very early in this one. Michigan State pulled within 13 a couple times late in the second half, and the crowd of 72,922 — mostly pulling for the Spartans — tried to make some
turned it over — one of 14 in the first half, compared to only 12 baskets.
But for most of the game, cavernous Ford Field had the atmosphere of a Lions game, save the few thousand Tar Heel fans whose Carolina Blue team put in a much better blue-collar effort than the team that was supposed to pride itself on that.
It was, almost literally, over before it began. Ellington had a
As for that 98-63 beatdown Carolina put on Michigan State in this same building back on Dec. 37 No fluke. In fact, Detroit might want to give Ford Field a nice, long break. The Lions went 0-16 here last season, and there was no halt to the suffering on this night.
During pregame introductions, Williams walked over to shake hands with Izzo, who was distracted, drawing up a play on the greaseboard in the huddle. He jokingly showed the diagram to Williams
This one came four years after his first championship - and for the first time, with a roster full of his own recruits.
double-pump scoop layup and a 3-pointer and Hansbroughspotted up and sank a 14-foot jumper — all in the first 4.25 to put Carolina ahead 17-7. It never got closer.
Izzo conceded in the lead-up to the game that if both teams played their best, Michigan State would lose. He'll never find out if he was right because, while North Carolina was more than ready, the Spartans never showed up.
Williams, never afraid to cry at these things, joined lim Calhoun, Billy Donovan and Mike Kryzewski as the fourth active coach (13th overall) to win multiple titles.
The Spartans, meanwhile, were having trouble simply getting the ball in after Tar Heel buckets, turning it over that way twice if the first 6 minutes, part of a depressing day that didn't do justice to the effort they put in to get here.
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Vick would need to earn $7.5 million to $8 million a year to break even over the next three years.
RICHMOND, Va. — A bankruptcy judge rejected Michael Vick's Chapter 11 plan and, in light of his finances, ordered a new one.
Vick has about $210,000 but owes $1 million in fees from the bankruptcy case and about $3.7 million in legal bills — some $13,700 a day since he filed for Chapter 11 protection in July.
Vick also faces $200,000 in annual living expenses from his two Virginia homes and three vehicles. His only guaranteed income is a $10-an-hour construction job, a part of his parole.
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