THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 10.2014
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QUOTE OF THE DAY
"As a society, we have to do better. We have to be better for one another, no matter what race you are. But it's more of a shout-out to the family more than anything. They're the ones that should be getting all the energy and effort." — Lebron James via
Wall Street Journal
FACT OF THE DAY
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge attended the game on Monday where both Cavaliers and Nets players wore the "I can't breathe" shirts.
USA Today
TRIVIA OF THE DAY
Q: Can players be suspended for showing their support on court?
A: No, but NBA commissioner Adam Silver was not pleased.
- USA Today
Athletes should not promote protests on social issues
THE MORNING BREW
In light of recent racially charged events, numerous professional athletes have been making public statements and stirring up controversy on the court and the field. Unfortunately, these acts are only adding fuel to the fire of an already messy problem.
On Monday, two Cleveland Cavaliers players, most noticeably LeBron James, and four New York Nets players donned "I can't breathe" shirts during warm-ups, which refer to the recent death of Eric Garner. Garner was killed after being put in a chokehold by a Staten Island police officer.
"This is more of a motion to the family more than anything," James said in a Wall Street Journal article.
By Alana Flinn
@Alana_Flinn
A week ago, five St. Louis Rams players walked onto the field with their hands raised in the air. This was to demonstrate the "don't shoot" motion Michael Brown allegedly used before being killed by a police officer in Ferguson, Mo.
Accompanied by these athletes support, thousands of protesters around the country have been staging "die-ins" on major highways and at major sporting events, posing safety concerns.
While I admire these athletes' passion for supporting the families of the victims, the fact is a grand jury found the officers innocent of any
foul play. These athletes are sparking more controversy involving national cases that need to be put behind us. I sympathize with the families who have lost their sons, but violent protests are not the way to handle it.
Even NBA commissioner Adam Silver was perturbed about the
Athletes, including James, need
performed usurped player's behavior, saying: "I respect ... all of our players for voicing their personal views on important issues but my preference would be for players to abide by our on-court attire rules." That is exactly what needs to happen.
fun
to reserve their opinions on national issues for their own social media. Sports are supposed to be about clean, family-oriented enjoyment. Dragging social issues onto the court and the field does nothing but damage the of the game.
It's the age-old adage "there's a time and a place for everything," and professional athletes need to learn that on the court and the field is not the place to take a stand on social issues.
Edited by Ashley Peralta
This week in athletics
Wednesday
Men's basketball
Georgetown
6 p.m.
Washington, D.C.
Thursday
Women's basketball
Purdue
6 p.m.
West Lafayette, Ind.
Friday
No events
Saturday
Men's basketball
Utah
2:15 p.m.
Kansas City, Mo
Sunday
Women's basketball
Arkansas State
2 p.m.
Lawrence
Monday
Track and field take 17 first-place finishes in opener
No events
Tuesday No events
AMIE JUST
@amiejust
Kansas track and field started the 2014-15 indoor season with a bang. The Jayhawks secured 17 first-place finishes at the Bob Timmons Challenge.
"For the most part I was pleased with our athletes' performances today," coach Stanley Redwine said. "We have a lot of young athletes (who) were competing for
the first time and I thought they handled whatever nerves or jitters they may have had pretty well. I was impressed with the level some of our more veteran athletes are already at so early in the year, which really has me excited to see what they will be able to do this season."
Junior All-American Sydney Conley took the gold medal home in both the long jump and the 60-meter dash.
Senior All-American Lindsay Vollmer looked to rebound from her injury at the NCAA Outdoor Championships last season. She won the 60-meter hurdles event and placed second in the high jump, behind her teammate
Senior All-American hurdler Michael Stigler ran in the first 800-meter race of his career, and won, defeating the second-place runner by roughly two seconds.
sophomore Grace Pickell. Kansas pole vaulters took home both men and women's gold medals. Junior Casey Bowen took the pole vault title with a performance of 5.31 meters, putting him among the best in the NCAA in the season. Freshman Alexis Romero vaulted 3.80 meters to secure her victory.
sophomore Grace Pickell.
Kansas throwers picked up multiple wins in the ring. Sophomore Mitch Cooper
won the weight throw, tossing the 35-pound ball 16.04 meters. Junior Daina Levy won the women's edition of the weight.throw, throwing the 20-pound ball 18.89 meters. Junior Anastasiya Muchkayev won the women's shot put and blew everyone else out of the water.Muchkayev threw the shot 15.79 meters, more than two meters farther than the second-place finisher.
Other Jayhawks winning
events in the season opener were junior Drew Matthews, seniors Teddy Oteba, Stigler and Kenneth McCuin in the 4x400-meter relay, redshirt freshman Adel Yoonis in the 3,000-meter run, Oteba in the men's 600-yard run, sophomore Adriana Newell in the women's 600-yard run and senior Sarah Kelly in the 1600-meter run.
Edited by Ben Carroll
TCU coach is Big 12 Coach of Year
Associated Press
STEPHEN HAWKINS Associated Press
FORT WORTH, Texas — Defensive-minded coach Gary Patterson knew he was going to make changes after TCU's first two seasons in the Big 12 conference. What a difference they made in year three.
The Horned Frogs last year had a 4-8 record filled with close losses before Patterson hired new co-offensive coordinators to install a more spread, up-tempo scheme. They were still one of the league's top defenses this season, but outscored opponents by 26 1/2 points a game while going 11-1
and sharing the Big 12 title
Patterson was named Tuesday as The Associated Press Big 12 coach of the year after getting 17 of 20 votes in balloting by media members who cover the league on a regular basis. The other three votes went to Baylor's Art Briles, who last season was the unanimous pick by AP voters as the league's top coach. The Bears, the only team to defeat TCU this year, claimed a share of their second consecutive Big 12 title.
Sixth-ranked TCU plays No. 9 Mississippi in the Peach Bowl on Dec. 31 after the Horned Frogs were left out of the fourteam playoff. They dropped
from third to sixth in the final College Football Playoff rankings even coming off a 52-point win against Iowa State.
While disappointed about missing the playoff, Patterson feels better than he did at the end of the 2013 season when "changing jobs and changing offenses and all the things that we had go through a year ago to get where we're getting to right now."
Patterson is TCU's winningest coach, with a 131-45 record in 14 seasons. He was the Frogs' defensive coordinator for three years under coach Dennis Franchione before that.
Led by quarterback Trevone Boykin, a unanimous pick Monday as the AP Big 12 offensive player of the year, the Frogs had 542 total yards and 47 points a game in their new offense. They scored at least 30 points in every game, including a Big 12 record for a conference game with 82 against Texas Tech.
Before moving to the Big 12 in 2012, Patterson and the Frogs won or shared seven titles in the Western Athletic Conference, Conference USA
BRANDON WADET/ASSOCIATED PRESS
"He's a great guy and he's our leader," Boykin said of Patterson. "We follow him, he's a winner."
TCU head coach Gary Patterson is doused by his players after their 55-3 win against Iowa State on Dec. 6 in Fort Worth, Texas.
and the Mountain West. TCU left the MWC after three consecutive championships without losing a conference game, including a 13-0 record in 2010 capped by a Rose Bowl victory and a No.2 ranking in the final AP poll.
The Frogs went 7-6 in their inaugural Big 12 season, finishing with a 17-16 bowl loss to Michigan State. They then had four conference losses by three points or less in 2013, three of those in the final month of the season.
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