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MONDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2013
QUOTE OF THE DAY
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
"I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living."
— Dr. Seuss
Dr. Seuss: American Icon (2004)
FACT OF THE DAY
Harry Douglas is only owned in 22% of NFL Fantasy Leagues, even though he is the new number one receiver for the Falcons.
Q: Who has the most fantasy points among standard NFL Fantasy leagues?
TRIVIA OF THE DAY
A: Peyton Manning
THE MORNING BREW Why your fantasy team sucks
So it is the seventh week in the NFL and more importantly to you, the seventh week in your fantasy football league. You wake up daily, check your waiver wire. You try to find the guy that can't even tell you what a running back does and offer him your worst player, for his best player. You even signed up to be an ESPN insider and write fan mail to Matthew Berry! But there is one problem. Your fantasy team resembles the lacksonville Jaguars.
There may be a few reasons why your team can't win in a pretend game.
"And with the first pick in the draft, the jamal I Do Is Win's select, Alex Smith."
In every league there is hometown team guy. The guy who takes Alex Smith with the first pick in the draft because "This is the year." Hometown guy disregards every stat projection and even level of talent but due to a love of the home team, he will never
remove Miles Austin from a starting squad.
The injury bug is always going to bite your team at some point. It's football; it's about big, fast guys hitting each other really hard. So maybe you are the guy who takes Michael Vick, Danny Amendola and Austin Collie, and ends up having more fantasy concussions than touchdowns. You have to realize that ESPN, NFL and Yahoo do not add into the preseason prediction that a
player may implode.
Overhyping a player is bound to happen every year. There are many "break out star" or "high risk, high reward" guys in the league every year. So instead of drafting 12 guys like the former Peyton Hillis, draft a guy who is boring like Ben Jarvus Green-Ellis who you know will always get you a few points.
One reason why you may be struggling may be because you drafted Colin Kaepernick like I did. Like seriously dude, why tempt us with 430 yards in your first game and then give us nothing since. Players like this are bound to pop up on your team. Big name, big potential, bigger bust.
Speaking of big names, some guys think that even though their favorite star is 35 years old and hasn't had a great season in at least three years, he can still turn it on and
return to greatness.
Sorry buddy, Michael
Turner just isn't the best
fantasy option anymore.
There are also bigger reasons why you may not be so hot, and they are self explanatory. You missed the draft, you have never changed your lineup, or you traded your best player for a bag of
Chex Mix. That's probably why you can't get more than two touchdowns a week. These are all mortal sins in fantasy football and if you have committed one of these, you are doomed to lose.
This week in athletics
Edited by Evan Dunbar
Monday
Women's Tennis ITA Regionals All day Norman, OKla.
Tuesday
Men's Golf Herb Wimberly All day Las Cruces, N.M.
Men's Golf Herb Wimberly All day Las Cruces, N.M.
Wednesday
Volleyball
Iowa State
6:30 p.m.
Lawrence
Thursday No Events
Women's Soccer Texas Tech 7 p.m. Lubbock, Texas
Men's Golf
TEP Price's Gim 'Em
Five Invitational
All day
EI Paso, Texas
Friday
SOCCER
Men's Golf
TEP Price's Give 'Em
Five Invitational
All day
El Paso, Texas
Saturday
Football
Baylor
6 p.m.
Lawrence
Sunday
Soccer Oklahoma State 12 p.m. Stillwater, OKla.
Men's Golf
2013 Palmetto
Intercollegiate
All day
Kiwaah Island, S.C.
EMILY WITTLER/KANSAN
The women's soccer team celebrates a 2-0 home victory against Baylor on Sunday, Oct. 20.
Win ends scoring drought
hnelson@kansan.com
HEATHER NELSON
Senior Caroline Kastor scored both of the goals for the laweyhs.
The Kansas women's soccer team ended its four-game scoring drought in a 2-0 win against Baylor at home last night.
"Based on the fact that every player sprinted 100 yards to come celebrate explains it all," Kastor said. "There's obviously been a lot of pressure and we've kind of had a scoring drought so, that felt great to get a goal."
Kastor's first goal found the net in the first half, after redshirt sophomore Liana Salazar played her the ball following a defensive clear. The
second came similarly. Junior Jamie Fletcher passed the ball off to Kastor, who cut past the defenders to earn her second goal.
Kastor said the team anticipated the game, and needed a win at home. She and Coach Mark Francis said they hoped the win would be the turning point in their season.
The Jayhawks kept control of the ball, and momentum, for much of the game.
the game.
Only around the 19th minute, did it seem that Baylor would take the momentum from the Jayhawks. The first of two controversial offsides were called against the Baylor Bears. Both calls overturned goals, which could've potentially put
Baylor in front of Kansas.
Both of Kansas' goals followed numerous chances; they seemed to control possession for much of the game. The Jayhawks defense was a solid force as well. Redshirt junior Kaitlyn Stroud saved seven shots from the Baylor Bears.
"Stroud's been solid the whole season. I thought today, again, the way they played they're going to put a lot of pressure on you, especially on set pieces," Francis said. "Collectively it was a great effort by our kids."
Kansas will look to continue Sunday's success against Texas Tech in Lubbock, Texas on Friday.
VOLLEYBALL
Edited by James Ogden
Fresh faces help Jayhawks overcome early struggles
BLAIR SHEADE
bsheade@kansan.com
No. 23 Kansas (17-4) escaped a close one against West Virginia (16-5) that ended the two-game road trip on Saturday night in Morgantown, W. Va.
In the first game, Kansas battled down to the final points with the Mountaineers, just to lose 26-28.
"I think we just went out on a slow start. Lately, we have been getting into a slow start, then we'll kind of get on a run," senior setter Erin McNorton said. "The consistency wasn't there."
After the first game, Kansas pulled a 180-degree turn and came back to win games two, three and four.
"We dug a hole in the second set and made some plays to get it one apiece. We weren't at our best, but West Virginia is so much improved, and played with a lot of purpose tonight," coach Ray Bechard said. The Jayhawks needed some help from unfamiliar faces to lift them over the Mountaineers, because senior middle Caroline Jarmoc, who usually leads the team in kills, had a quiet night.
McNorton said that redshirt
freshman setter Maggie Anderson, who has only played in nine of the Jayhawk's 21 games, sparked the game-two comeback.
Maggie came in and served on a big run for us," McNorton said. "The second game, when we made that comback, she has always done that for us. When she comes in she gets us on runs. She stepped up tonight."
Anderson, a Lincoln, Neb. native, played in all four games against the Mountaineers, and recorded two assists and two digs.
The other spark plug for the Jayhawk's offense was redshirt senior outside hitter Catherine Carmichael.
Carmichael, who earned the start over sophomore Tiana Dockery, led the team with 18 kills on a team high 55 attempts, and many of those were timely.
those were well," said Bechard. "She has been practicing well. Their (WU) right sides were a big part of their offense and we wanted to be more physical blocking wise. Cathy came through with a big match for us."
Carmichael's 18 kills on Saturday tied her season high, but she was
just one shy of her career high.
the any of her career high. "Cathy did a really good job." McNorton said. "Right off the bat, she got the very first point of the game, and then got into a rhythm from the start."
Carmichael was accompanied by junior outside hitter Sarah McClinton at the top of the kills leaderboard. McClinton, who struggled early in the match, ended the match with 12 kills on 38 attempts. McClinton's .53 hitting percentage was her worst of the season.
"I was trying to work in different shots," McClinton said. "I wasn't always getting the outcome I wanted, but I was really able to rely on some of my other teammates."
The Jayhawks struggled Saturday, but found ways to pull out each set to win their last six out of seven conference games.
"We didn't play our best volleyball,but we survived it,"Bechard said.
Kansas comes home to host the Iowa State Cyclones at the Horejsi Family Athletics Center on Wednesday, Oct. 23 at 6:30 p.m.
Edited by James Ogden
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