THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 26, 2013
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
QUOTE OF THE DAY
"I was thinking about letting the twerk queen, Miley Cyrus, bring me out. Why not? We've got to call her the twerk queen; yes, we have to call her that."
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Mayweather cu who will be in his next fight entry.
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FACT OF THE DAY
The Mayweather-Canelo light generated $150 million in revenue from 2.2 million pay-per-view buys
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TRIVIA OF THE DAY
Q. What NBA superstar is also a client of Jay-Z's Roc Nation Sports management team?
A. Kevin Durant of the Oklahoma City Thunder.
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THE MORNING BREW Lines blur between hip-hop and sports
Iswear sports and music are so synonymous. "Cause we wanna be them, and they wanna be us."
Those are Drake's lyrics from his 2010 song "Thank Me Now." In case you can't tell, hip-hop culture and sports are becoming thoroughly fused.
Most recently, you could have caught the rapper and hip-hop icon live on ESPN's SportsCenter making an appearance and promoting the sports video game FIFA 14.
Drake's appearance on ESPN is tiny in comparison to the events of the past year where we have seen sports and hip-hop clash - though it was cool to see "October's Very Own" score some goals to give a few fans a free copy of FIFA.
While Drake has been dabbling in the sporting world, two of the most prominent figures in their fields have been crossing the lines with a much more robust approach.
Enter #TheMoneyTeam.
Floyd "Money" Mayweather, creator of the group/brand "The Money Team," - for those of you living under a rock - won by majority decision against Mexican boxer
Canelo Alvarez in the highest revenue payer-view boxing match of all time. For all the hype, Mayweather's internal confidence/arrogance/alpha dog made sure his entry was nothing short of a million-dollar performance.
wttn rapper Lil' Wayne performing "A Milli" on his right and world icon and Money team member Justin Bieber on his left, Mayweather took the ring in fashion fit for a king. He is king, though. The world champion has entered 45 fights and was victorious in each of them. Now he wants to roll into fight 46 with Miley Cyrus. No twerking, please.
Now cross over from sports icon to hip-hop icon Jay-Z.
"Hova" has spent the last few years solidifying himself as more of a businessman than artist. Though he himself claims "Best Rapper Alive" in his songs, it is an injustice to the diversity of his professional portfolio.
The basketball video game NBA 2K13 has Jay-Z's fingerprints all over it. From soundtrack to intro, there was a full production impact from Jay-Z. He also has a small percentage of ownership of the Brooklyn Nets. But that's just the tip of the iceberg.
In his 2013 song titled "Crown," Jay-Z touts his new ventures as a sports agent and his immediate success with some of sports' top names.
"Scott Boras, you over baby. Robinson Cano, you coming with me." Scott Boras, of course, being the New York Yankee star's former agent before Cano switched over to Jay-Z's new sports management branch, Roc Nation Sports.
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The proof is in the pudding, though. Because it can absolutely be argued that Jay-Z "can make a Yankee hat more famous than a Yankee can."
There are more rap lyrics in this article than cited notations in all of my research papers combined. But why listen to me try to convince you?
You should probably just pay attention to Money and HOV.
This week in athletics
Edited by Madison Schultz
Thursday
NO SCHEDULED EVENTS
Friday
Scocer
Santa Clara
9 p.m.
Santa Clara, Calif.
Saturday
Softball
Washburn University
11 a.m.
Lawrence
Softball
Labette Community
College
1 p.m.
Lawrence
Volleyball
TCU
1 p.m.
Lawrence
Sunday
Softball Cowley County Community College 11 a.m. Lawrence
Softball Butler Community College 1 p.m. Lawrence
Monday
Men's Golf Badger Invitational All Day Madison, Wis.
Women's Tennis
ITA All-American
All Day
Pacific Palisades, Calif.
Men's Golf Badger Invitational All Day Madison, Wis.
Women's Tennis
ITA All-American
All Day
Pacific Palisades, Calif.
Women's Golf
2013 Challenge at Onion Creek
All Day
Austin, Texas
Tuesday
Men's Golf Badger Invitational All Day Madison, Wis.
Women's Tennis ITA All-American All Day Pacific Palisades, Calif.
Women's Golf 2013
Challenge at Onion Creek
All Day
Austin, Texas
Wednesday
Women's Tennis
ITA All-American
All Day
Pacific Palisades, Calif.
Volleyball Kansas State 7 p.m. Manhattan
VOLLEYBALL
BRIAN HILLIX
Kansas looks to extend winning streak against Horned Frogs
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After a shaky start to the season that included three losses in seven matches, the Jayhawks (10-3) ride a six-game winning streak into its first conference match on Saturday, Sept. 28, against Texas Christian University (11-3) at Horesei Family Athletics Center at 1 p.m.
The non-conference season focused on gaining momentum for Big 12 play and gaining experience playing a variety of teams from different conferences. The Jayhawks played at least one team from every power conference (other than the Big 12) in addition to the Southland Conference champions from last season. The focus now turns to the Big 12, a conference that has five potential NCAA Tournament teams.
The Jayhawks expect big things after going 12-4 in the conference last season with just one home loss that came at the hands of eventual NCAA Champion Texas. The other losses came at Texas, Iowa State
and Bavlor.
TCU comes to Lawrence clinging to an eight-game winning streak, and, like Kansas, the Horned Frogs have swept their last two weekend tournaments. TCU won the TCU Nike/Molten Invitational on Sept. 13-14 and earned the Spartan Spiketacular title last weekend.
The Horned Frogs led the Big 12 with a .274 hitting percentage. Senior middle blocker Yvonne Igodan and junior right side hitter Stephanie Holland rank 2nd and 6th in the Big 12, respectively, in
the category.
The Jayhawks won both matches against the Horned Frogs in 2012, losing just one set overall. In the home match, redshirt senior middle blocker Caroline Jarmoc recorded a career high with 23 kills with an impressive .613 hitting percentage as the Jayhawks won 25-21, 25-20, 20-25, 25-19.
Kansas swept the match in Fort Worth, Texas, 25-18, 25-14, 25-17. Nine different Kansas players recorded a kill in the contest.
The Horned Frogs went 15-14
overall last season and 4-12 in the Big 12. In the preseason, they were picked to tie for 7th place in the conference with Texas Tech.
With nine volleyball teams in the Big 12 (Oklahma State doesn't have a team), all teams will play each other at home and on the road. The team with the best record wins the regular season championship; there is no tournament championship following the regular season. Texas won the conference outright last year and suffered just one loss in the conference-at Iowa
State.
Texas and Iowa State, as of Sept. 25, are the only Big 12 teams in the Top 25 of the American Volleyball Coaches Association poll. The Longhorns stand at No. 5 while the Cyclones hang on at No. 25. Kansas State and Oklahoma both received votes to make the poll.
— Edited by Jessica Mitchell
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