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QUOTE OF THE DAY
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— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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"One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team."
RIVIA OF THE DAY
Q: Who was the last Big 12 player to score more than the 42 points Iowa State's Craig Brackins poured in against Kansas on Saturday?
FACT OF THE DAY
A: Kansas State freshman Michael Beasley scored a Big 12-record 44 points against Baylor in a 92-86 loss on Feb. 23. It was Beasley's third 40-point game on the season.
Beasley dropped 44, but fellow freshman forward Bill Walker lit up the Bears as well, scoring 31 points in a losing effort. The duo combined for 75 of Kansas State's 86 total points.
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BEWARE OF "THE BLOG"
"Blog" Allen: For extended analysis and game-day observations from Ames, check "Blog" Allen for an expansive wrap-up.
The Jay Report: Still high from the Hilton Magic. Case
Kansas' 82-67 victory over Iowa State while they drive back to Lawrence.
The Give and Go: Bonnie Henrickson isn't a fan of moral
victories but the guys are. Find out why they
look at Kansas' loss to K-State in a positive light. And how about that new intro music?
Courtside: Aishah Sutherland
ratings after spending most of the season with CNP next to her name on the box score. Find out why at Courtside.
The Sports Desk: Sasha Kliestan goes off on Sweden's
The Sports Desk: Sasha
Rugby goes on on Swirets
B team,
Charlie
Davies
falls flat
and the United States barely hangs on to win, but Andrew Wiebe still thinks Mexico is going down in Columbus, Ohio, on Feb. 11.
The Full Monty: With a stunning KO, Fedor Emelianenko extends his incredible win streak and MMA dominance. Stephen The FULL MONTY Mon-temayor provides a weekend recap of Affliction's card and a look ahead.
Brackins' greatness squandered in Ames
COMMENTARY
Watching a great basketball game is like watching great
All of the performers come together for a two-hour masterpiece full of superb highs, heartbreaking lows and spot on directing. Saturday's game at Hilton Coliseum was a different kind of play.
theater.
Imagine Alec Baldwin, the greatest actor of our generation, putting on a tour de force in "Guys and Dolls" with a cast of yokels from your local community theater.* That's what it was like to witness Craig Brackins' greatness swallowed up in the mediocity of every other Cyclone.
*For a real example of this, go out and rent "The Shadow". It's a 1994 cult classic and may be Baldwin's most entertaining work, in spite of or because of the awful supporting cast. You decide.
Coach Greg McDermott is an amazing recruiter for luring Brackins — a top-20 recruit with no ties to Iowa — to Ames, arguably the least interesting Big 12 town (Lubbock and Manhattan may also have a case for the title). But he's surrounded him with the brothers (Charles Boozer and Sean Haluška) of legit college players who play nothing like their basketball-witted kin
iowa State doesn't need Duke's Carlos Boozer or Iowa's Adam Haluska, but it could sure use the supporting cast with whom those guys played.
their basketball-gifted kin.
Hell, even four guys who understand that basketball can be played within the three-point line would be an improvement. Minus Brackins' numbers, Iowa State hit 8-of-36 from the field, including 3-for-21 beyond the arc.
Normally the star would use his excellence to move up to a better theater in a bigger town. Unfortunately, Brackins still has two years of duty in Ames.
Iowa State tripped on stage and
fouled up its lines all day.
Forty-two points and 14 rebounds get you headlines for a week. If Brackins wants to cut his suffering short and join the A-list in the NBA, he'll need a few more one-liners for the not-ready-for-prime-time Cyclones.
I DON'T WANT YOUR
LIFE
If anyone ever wondered what happened to West Canaan quarterback Jonathon Moxon, he's playing basketball for Iowa State.
James Van Der Beek's genre-defining character in 1999's "Varsity Blues" is alive and well in similarly named junior forward Jamie Vanderbeken.
Like Mox, Vanderbeken isn't afraid to chuck the ball deep downfield. Against Kansas, he attempted eight three-pointers.
Unlike Mox, who used his pinpoint precision to break his father's nose, Vanderbeken probably couldn't damage Barbara Stresland's schnose with a medicine ball from two feet away. He hit only two trifectas.
— Edited by Sam Speer
In other awesome name news.
Oscar Mayer is a real person and he stinks at basketball.
Not sure about the spelling, but Saturday's lucky free throw contest was a middle-aged Cyclone fan who always wanted to be a wiener.
The king of mediocre meat then proceeded to toss an air ball on his lone free throw attempt. Bologna.
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THIS WEEK IN KANSAS ATHLETICS
Men's Basketball
Nebraska, 6:30
p.m. Lincoln, Neb.
WEDNESDAY
THURSDAY No events
TUESDAY No events
SATURDAY
FRIDAY No events
Tennis
UTEP, 11 a.m.
Lawrence
Men's basketball Colorado, 3 p.m. Lawrence
NFL
PGA
Women's basketball Texas A&M, 4 p.m. College Station, Texas
Players Union narrows list of potential executives
Track and field Adidas Classic, all day Lincoln, Neb.
Stricker's bogeys help Perez in Bob Hope Classic
In what's shaping up as a contest between former NFL Players Association presidents Troy Vincent and Trace Armstrong, the union narrowed its list to five candidates to succeed the late Gene Upshaw as executive director.
LA QUINTA, Calif. — Pat Perez won the Bob Hope Classic for his first PGA Tour title, taking advantage of Steve Stricker's collapse and holding off John Merrick by three strokes Sunday in the wind-swept final round.
NFLPA president and Titans center Kevin Mawae said the next step is selecting three
The Associated Press learned that Vincent and Armstrong made the most recent cut this week, when the NFLPA pared its list from nine. A person familiar with the list but not authorized to reveal the names said the other three candidates are former Bears tackle Jim Covert; Ben Utt, who played for Baltimore and Indianapolis; and Washington-based attorney DeMaurice Smith.
finalists, who will meet with the union's 32 representatives at the NFLPA's annual general meeting in Hawaii in March. The next executive director will be selected by a vote then.
Perez finished at 33-under 327. Merrick, who began the day eight shots behind Stricker but
TODAY No events
The names of the five candidates were first reported by The Washington Post on its Web site Wednesday.
NASCAR
NASCAR Chairman prepares teams to adjust for economy
Although many teams went through offseason layoffs — it's estimated at least 600 people from various organizations have lost their jobs since November's season-ending race — NASCAR itself has been immune to staff
CONCORD, N.C. — NASCAR chairman Brian France has ordered a company wide hiring freeze and suspended executive bonuses as the sanctioning body adjusts to the economic crisis.
moved in front briefly, shot a 67.
reductions so far.
Stricker, 33-under at the start of play after rounds of 61 and 62, had a 77 to tie for third with Mike Weir (67) at 28 under. Stricker had a triple bogey on No. 7 and a quadruple bogey on No. 10, hitting into the water on both holes.
The 32-year-old Perez locked up the victory by knocking his approach shot from 200 yards on No.18 to 3 feet to set up an eagle.
But France said that open positions will not immediately be filled as NASCAR tightens its belt the same way most of corporate America has done since the economy began to falter last fall
France said he's also directed his management group to work with NASCAR teams in developing new business models that can help them withstand the current economic crisis.
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