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Junior Tony Pierson (3) carries the ball while breaking a tackle during Saturday's game against Texas Tech. Pierson went down with a concussion during the game. Junior Brandon Bourbon will take Pierson's place in the game against TCU this Saturday.
Football Notebook
Weis talks depth chart, offensive line for TCU game
JOEY ANGUIANO
janguiano@kansan.com
At Tuesday's press conference, Kansas football coach Charlie Weis focused on the depth chart. He addressed issues with the running game, the offensive line and, of course, what he thinks about the team's upcoming foe, the TCU Horned Frogs.
Facing TCU
Weis said the Horned Frogs have one of the best defenses that his Kansas squad will face all season. What makes the TCU defense so good? The team is known for its physical play. TCU doesn't make a
lot of mistakes and it never tries to win with schemes and confusion
it simply overpowers its opponents. Weis also talked about his plan for attacking TCU's defense, saying that Kansas was going to look to throw a few long balls, but they will make sure not to get caught up chasing the home runs. Additionally, he said that the mental errors the offensive line made last Saturday against Texas Tech would hopefully be taken care of.
Line struggles
The offensive line was the second most stressed issue at the press
conference because of a shake up in who is playing where. While the line is made up of the same members, they have once again been switched around in search of a winning combination — kind of like a game of musical chairs. The guards stayed the same, but junior Pat Lewandowski, who was at center, is now playing left tackle. Lewandowski played at left tackle for the majority of the spring practice session with success, so Weis is hoping to replicate those results.
Since Lewandowski shifted to left tackle, former left tackle senior Aslam Sterling slid over to right tackle. Filling Lewandowski's void
left at center is senior Gavin Howard. Weis talked about how the center position has been "holding us hostage" this season, and that it's one of the hardest positions to play on the field because you have to focus on not only snapping the ball, but getting ready to block someone the second you snap the ball. It's hard to focus on both the exchange and the block at the same time, which has led to a few exchanges that Weis said "looked like me snapping, and I was never very good."
Back to the ground Weis hopes that the changes on
the offensive line will jump-start the lackluster running game that just lost a big piece in Tony Pierson. Brandon Bourbon will jump right into the role that was vacated when Pierson went down with a concussion against Texas Tech. The good news is that Weis is very confident Pierson will return to the backfield before the end of the season, but the team will make sure to err on the side of caution. Weis also said that Bourbon is up to the challenge of carrying a bigger load, especially with the help of James Sims and the rest of the running back core.
Next chance
Overall, it seemed that coach Weis couldn't stress enough that the first quarter of the Texas Tech game should offer a little bit of hope. Weis said he'd be more worried if the first quarter hadn't happened the way it did, if Kansas came out and was dominated the entire game. He said the players are ready to get out there and hopefully prove that they can play with — and win against — high caliber teams.
— Edited by Emma McElhaney
MLB
Tigers rally past A's 8-6 to force Game 5 in American League
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DETROIT — Max Scherzer escaped a major jam in relief and the Detroit Tigers — helped by two fans who reached out to try to reel in Victor Martinez's disputed home run — rallied past the Oakland Athletics 8-6 on Tuesday to force a decisive fifth game in their
Playing catch-up most of the way, the Tigers tied it first with Jhonny Peralta's three-run homer in the fifth inning and then on Martinez's solo shot in the seventh. A couple of fans attempted to catch Martinez's drive and at least one of them bobbled the ball as he reached over
the railing above the wall — preventing right fielder Josh Reddick from having any chance at a leaping grab. The umpires upheld the home run after a replay review.
Scnerzer, making his first relief appearance since the 2011 post-season, had already given up a run in the seventh. With the Tigers
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ahead 5-4, he allowed a walk and a double to start the eighth, but after an intentional walk to load the bases, manager Jim Leyland left his 21-game winner on the mound. Detroit, which had no hits through the first four innings, added three runs in the eighth on a wild pitch and a two-run double by Omar Infante that made it 8-4. Oakland hasn't announced a starter for Game 5. It is Bartolo Colon's turn in the rotation, but rookie Sonny Gray could also come back on normal rest after a brilliant performance in Game 2.
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Crisp had four hits and three runs for the A's, who led 3-0 and 4-3 but couldn't close out the defending American League champions. The Oakland bullpen hadn't allowed a run all series until Tuesday.
After Crisp put the A's ahead 4-3 with an RBI single off Scherzer in the seventh, Martinez lifted a fly to right against reliever Sean Doolittle.
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championship series at Yankee Stadium. Umpires left the field for the review and when they returned the call was upheld.
But it was a close call — one that brought back memories of Derek Jeter's fan-aided homer against Baltimore in the 1996 AL
Peralta followed with a double, and Jackson — who was 1 for 14 with 10 strikeouts in the series to that point — managed a broken-bat single to put the Tigers ahead 5-4.
It appeared Detroit was in big trouble in the eighth, but Scherzer was able to protect the one-run lead and the Tigers eventually added to it.
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