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QUOTE OF THE DAY
THURSDAY, JANUARY 29, 2009
"I never really understood the strip-joint thing. Why go to a place and get all excited and then have a hard time walking out?"
Ravens DT Tony Siragusa, Sports Illustrated
FACT OF THE DAY
Strip club owners and operators in Tampa Bay expect this year's game to have similar effects as the last time the Super Bowl was in town in 2001 when profits quadrupled.
Associated Press
Q: How many strip clubs will Super Bowl attendees have to choose from in Tampa Bay?
TRIVIA OF THE DAY
A:There are 43 such establishments in the Tampa metropolitan area. Ironically enough, that is one for each Super Bowl.
Associated Press
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The Jay Report: On the road
back from Lincoln,
Case Keefer and Taylor
Bern discuss Kansas' victor against Nebraska.
BEWARE OF "THE BLOG"
"Blog" Allen: Case Keefer tosses his usual wit into the "Double Overtime" coverage of Wednesday night's game in Lincoln.
MLB
New York Times Co. exploring selling stake in Boston Red Sox
NEW YORK - The New York Times Co.says it has retained investment firm Goldman Sachs to help explore a sale of its stake in the company that owns the Boston Red Sox.
Investors have been pressuring the company to sell assets as advertising revenue plummets.
The company holds a 17.8 percent stake in New England Sports Ventures, which owns the Boston baseball team as well as Fenway Park, a portion of a cable sports network and other properties.
The Times reported in December that its parent company was exploring a sale.
The announcement came Wednesday as the Times Co. reported its earnings plunged 48 percent in the fourth quarter because of lower advertising revenue in a weak economy.
Associated Press
COMMENTARY
Reminiscing about John Riggins
You'll still hear John Riggs stories from time to time.
Two men will sidle up to the bar at 'The Wheel and talk about the day Riggins broke Gale Sayers' Kansas rushing record.
They might talk about the times, when Riggins was already a world famous football player.
hed show up unannounced at The Wheel and order a beer.
And of course, there's Riggins' grandest story, that warm
Riggins
night in Pasadena in 1983 when he became immortal.
That night, with the world watching, Riggins ran for 166 yards and led the Washington Redskins to their first Super Bowl title, a 27-17 victory over the Miami Dolphins.
Riggins, who set Super records for yards and carries (38), became the first—and only—Jayhawk to be named Super Bowl MVP.
Tomorrow is the 26th anniversary of that night in Pasadena.
Now, 26 years later, the Arizona Cardinals and Pittsburgh Steelers will play in Super Bowl XIII, and someone will join Riggins, the
former Kansas All-American, on the list of Super Bowl immortals.
Yep, people still love to tell Riggins stories.
Rob Farha has one. Farha, the owner of the The Wheel, was working one afternoon in either 1985 or 1986. Riggins pulled up to the front The Wheel in a pickup and told Farha to get The Wheel's old owner, John Wooden, on the phone.
The Riggins stories don't end there. There was the time in seventh grade when he outumped a long-jump pit and broke his ankle.
"I called him and I said, 'Riggo's here.' Farha recalled on Wednesday afternoon.
"He said, 'give him whatever he wants.'"
The time in 1980 when Riggins quit football, hung around Lawrence and spent the football season hunting and fishing.
And then the time in 1981 when Riggins returned to the Redskins and simply stated, "I'm bored, I'm broke and I'm back."
There are millions of these crazy
little Riggins stories, little tales about a Kansas football folk hero. He wore a Mohawk. He negotiated his own contract with Redskins coach Joe Gibbs over a beer. When his football days were over, he acted on the television soap opera "Guiding Light."
Farha has one more story. It was just months after Riggins won the Super Bowl MVP award. Sports Illustrated wanted to do a story. They wanted to tell Riggins' story.
The man was Bill Brasky in football pads.
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"He said hed only do the interview if they did it at The Wheel," Farha said.
Riggins, who now lives on the East coast and splits his time between broadcasting and acting, isn't the only Kansas Super Bowl connection.
SUPER CONNECTIONS
Former Kansas offensive tackle Justin Hartwig, who earned secondteam All-Big 12 honors as a senior, will start at center for the Pittsburgh Steelers. Hartwig was drafted in the sixth round by the Tennessee Titans in the 2002 NFL Draft.
Hartwig, of course, played under former Kansas coach Terry Allen, who, amazingly, has another Super Bowl connection.
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Allen coached Kurt Warner at Northern Iowa during Warner's senior season.
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shows, and we'll get the legendary Al Michaels on the play-by-play. Unfortunately, we'll have to endure John Madden and his "state the complete obvious" stick for four quarters.
The Super Bowl returns to NBC for the first time since 1998, and The Brew thinks that's good news
and bad news.
The Steelers-Cardinals matchup should be plenty of fun, but it might be impossible for this game to top last year's epic battle between the Patriots and Giants in drama or television ratings.
SUPER BROADCASTERS
According to the Neilsen Ratings, SuperBowl XLIII was the second-most watched television event in U.S. history (97.5 million viewers) behind the series finale of M.A.S.H.
NBC will roll out Bob Costas, Dan Patrick and Keith Olbermann for the pregame and halftime
YOUTUBE SESH
OK, we know millions of people only watch the Super Bowl for the commercials. You can relive the top commercials from last year on YouTube. Type in "Top 10 Super Bowl Ads 2008" and enjoy.
RECOMMENDED READING
Morning Brew favorite Joe Posnanski, a columnist for the Kansas City Star and a Sports Illustrated contributor, wrote a wonderful essay on Bruce Springsteen for SportsIllustrated.com. Springsteen is playing at halftime of the SuperBowl, and it seems many longtime fans of "The Boss" aren't sure how to feel.
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THIS WEEK IN KANSAS ATHLETICS
TODAY (No events)
SATURDAY
FRIDAY (No events)
Tennis
UTEP, 11 a.m.
Lawrence
Men's basketball Colorado, 3 p.m. Lawrence
Women's basketball
Texas A&M, 4 p.m.
College Station,
Texas
Track and Field Adidas Classic, all day Lincoln. Neb.
SUNDAY
Tennis
Drake, 11 a.m.
Lawrence
fennis
Saint Louis, 4 p.m.
Lawrence
MONDAY
Men's basketball
Baylor, 8 p.m.
Waco, Texas
TUESDAY (No events)
Steelers' hard-nosed reputation precedes them
BY ALAN ROBINSON
ASSOCIATED PRESS
TAMPA, Fla. — Ryan Clark levels Willis McGahee and Wes Welker. Hines Ward breaks Keith Rivers' jaw. James Farrior stacks up Derrick Ward.
The Pittsburgh Steelers don't deliberately try to injure opposing players. It's just that it happens sometimes when a team is taught to hit only two ways: hard and harder.
The Steelers are as physical as it gets in the NFL, and the Arizona Cardinals understand they must be prepared to match that hit-or-beit mentality if they want to win the Super Bowl.
The Ravens-Steelers AFC championship game might have been the NFL's most punishing all season, and the Cardinals know what's ahead.
Let's get physical, indeed.
"They're definitely different," Cardinals linebacker Karlos Dansby said Wednesday. "They fly around to the ball and they play with a passion, and that's a beautiful thing when you see a team play with a lot of passion. ... You admire stuff like that, seeing people coming down, making big hits and changing the game."
Playing with toughness and an edge didn't begin in Pittsburgh with the Bill Cowher or Chuck Noll eras, either. The Steelers teams of coach Buddy Parker were rugged, hard-hitting and nasty in the late 1950s and early 1960s, too, although they didn't win like their predecessors did.
The Steelers transformed physical play into an art form during the Steel Curtain days, an image personified by Jack Lambert's body-slam hits, Joe Green's meanness, Mike Webster's blocking and Mel Blount's punishment of wide receivers at the line of scrimmage.
"The way they ran the ball in the 1970s, the way they played defense, you had to be physical," cornerback Deshea Townsend said. "Pittburgh, it's a rough city. It's a tough city.
Baltimore Ravens running back Willis McGahee (23) fumbles the ball as he is hit by Pittsburgh Steelers' Ryan Clark after a making a catch in the fourth quarter of the AFC championship football game in Pittsburgh. McGahee was injured on the play.
"A lot of hard-nosed people live in that city, so you have to be that type of team to fit in there."
Cardinals wide receiver-returner Steve Breaston grew up in Pittsburgh and was educated at length about those Steelers teams. He plays a skill position, yet he
has always tried to make his family proud by playing with toughness, too.
"The football there is smash-
mouth and a real physical style. The Steelers, that defines them right there," Breaston said. "Look at their linebackers, secondary, all
the way through. They're all making plays, getting to the quarterback.
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