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QUOTE OF THE DAY
KnuteRockne, Bleacher Report
"I've found prayers work best when you have big players."
FACT OF THE DAY
— Rivals.com
Mark Mangino's staff has already received three commitments from four-star recruits for the class of 2009 with another four-star prospect expected to sign tomorrow. That is the most four-star recruits Mangino has signed in his tenure at Kansas.
TRIVIA OF THE DAY
Q: Which 2009 Kansas recruits his father hit 49.3 home runs in Major League Baseball for the Toronto Blue Jays and Atlanta Braves among other teams?
A: Three-star receiver Erick McGriff is the son of Fred "Crime Dog" McGriff.
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The Give and Go: Cereal, Batman and Robin, and Brittany Spears. What more could you ask for in a women's basketball podcast? Oh yeah, there's some good anime to
Courtside: Everyone's just trying to hang with the Sooners, and they keep dominating.
Also check out Clark's early picks for the All-Big 12 team.
BEWARE OF "THE BLOG"
"Blog" Allen: Missed yesterday's game against Baylor? Check out Baylor "Double Overtime" for everything you may have missed about Kansas victory in Waco.
Time to give Chalmers his due
COMMENTARY
We're going to play a quick game.
Which NBA player is having the better season: Player A or Player B?
Player A is 22 years old. He's averaging 9.8 points, 4.6 assists and 1.9 steals per game.
He's started 47 games and he's playing 31 minutes per game at point guard for a team with a record of 26-21. He's shooting 42 percent from the field and 37 percent from the three-point line.
Player B is 20 years old.
He's averaging 15 points, 4.9 assists and 1.4 steals per game.
He's started
He's started 31 games and he's playing 31 minutes.
per game at point guard for a team with a record of 11-37. He's shooting 41 percent from the field and 31 percent from the three-point line.
So which one is having the better season? Oh, one more thing:
Player A is making $700,000 this season, while Player B is making $3,493,680.
Does that make a difference?
Which player would you rather have?
out, Player A is Mario Chalmers and Player B is former UCLA guard Russell Westbrook Chalmers,
As you may have figured
Channels of course, fell to the second
Chalmers
round of the NBA Draft. The Miami Heat snatched him up with the 34th pick and he has proved to be one of the steals of the draft.
Conversely, the Oklahoma City Thunder took Westbrook with the fourth overall pick.
the brew goes digital
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I bring this up because there seems to be a large contingent of Kansas fans who believe that Chalmers got jobbed when he wasn't selected to play in the NBA's annual Rookies vs. Sophomores game during the NBA's All-Star weekend.
Chalmers, who has always been shy around reporters, didn't hide his disappointment.
Still, Chalmers and former K-State star Michael Beasley joined a cast of veterans in Miami and they've re-energized the Heat franchise. We're talking about a team that went 15-67 last season.
The Brew can see it both ways Gordon and Westbrook are having solid rookie seasons, and Rose and Mayo have shown All-Star potential.
NBA assistant coaches voted on the teams and passed over Chalmers for the Bulls' Derrick Rose, the Grizzlies'O.J. Mayo, the Clippers' Eric Gordon and the aforementioned Westbrook.
So did Chalmers get jobbed? Probably not. But if The Brew owned an NBA team, wed definitely take the cheaper Chalmers over Westbrook and his $3.4 million salary. After all, these are tough economic times.
"I thought I'm having just as good a year as they are," Chalmers said last week to the Florida Sun-Sentinel.
Now one year later, Miami is 26-21 and in fifth place in the Eastern Conference.
Speaking of the recession, let's take a moment to raise our coffee mugs to Manny Ramirez.
THURSDAY
YOUTUBE SESH
Manny turned down a one-year, $25 million contract from the Los Angeles Dodgers on Tuesday.
And anytime somebody has
We scoured YouTube for a worthy video of Manny and we found this one: It's Manny translating an interviewer's questions for former Kansas City Royals shortstop Angel Berroa. Of course, nobody told the poor reporter that Berroa speaks English.
the cajones to turn down that much skrill during one of the worst economic downturns ever, well, we have to raise our mugs and salute
Ramirez
Type "Manny and Angel Berroa" into YouTube and enjoy.
THIS WEEK IN KANSAS ATHLETICS
Edited by Brandy Entsminger
TODAY
Women's basketball Colorado, 7 p.m. Lawrence
Men's golf
Hawaii-Hilo Invitational
Kona, Hawaii
THURSDAY
Men's golf
Hawaii-Hilo Invitational
Kona, Hawaii
FRIDAY
Tennis
Illinois, 2 p.m.
Champaign, Ill.
Softball UTEP, 2:30 p.m. Phoenix, Ariz.
Softball
Arizona, 5:30 p.m.
Phoenix, Ariz.
Swimming & diving
Iowa State, 6 p.m.
Lawrence
Track & field
New Balance College
legiate Invitational
New York, N.Y.
— Nicholas Weber
Men's golf
Hawaii-Hilo Invitational
Kona, Hawaii
MEN'S GOLF
MEN'S GOLF Golfers will open season at invitational in Hawaii
The Kansas men's golf team will open its spring schedule today at the Hawaii-Hilo Invitational in Kamuela, Hawaii as they have for the past eight years.
Kansas hopes to build on a successful fall 2008 campaign in which the team placed in the top five in two of the four tournaments it played.
The invitational runs through Thursday with 17 teams competing, including Big 12 foes Colorado, Oklahoma and Texas Tech.
"We are very excited to get the season going," coach Kit Grove said in a statement. "With our new building the guys have been able to get far more work in than they have in years past."
MLB
Citigroup confirms deal for Mets stadium rights
NEW YORK — The New York Mets and financially troubled Citigroup said Tuesday that their $400 million naming rights deal for the team's new stadium is still on, despite a published report that Citi may be looking to back out.
was exploring the possibility of backing out of the 20-year marketing partnership, which includes naming the new ballpark Citi Field. The report quoted unnamed people familiar with the matter as saying Citigroup had made no final decision.
The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday that Citigroup
Citigroup Inc., which has received $45 billion in federal bailout aid and late last year said it planned to cut 53,000 jobs worldwide, said in a statement: "Citi signed a legally binding
agreement with the New York Mets in 2006." The bank said that none of the bailout money would be used for Citi Field.
Mets Chief Operating Officer Jeff Wilpon said, "Citi is fully committed to their contract. We're fully committed to them. There's no change in status whatsoever."
Associated Press
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