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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
TUESDAY, AUGUST 26, 2014
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QUOTE OF THE DAY
"Playing with the U.S. national team has given me a great connection with the American fans, and I'm looking forward to playing in front of them every weekend."
Jermine Jones mlssoccer.com
FACT OF THE DAY
Jermaine Jones is the third marquee U.S. national team player to join MLS in the last year, Clint Dempsey and Michael Bradley being the other two.
Washington Post
TRIVIA OF THE DAY
Q. Jermaine Jones scored a goal in the United States' World Cup game against Portugal. What was the final score of that game?
A:2-2
THE MORNING BREW
New England Revolution signs US National Team player Jermaine Jones
The wait for Jermaine Jones to sign with an MLS team is finally over, and it ended just as bizarrely as it started. The 33-year-old defensive midfielder is heading to the New England Revolution after being allocated to the team in a "blind draw" Jones had previously played for FC Schalke 04 in Germany, and even more recently for Turkish club Besiktas, but did not sign a new contract after the previous season.
Speculation that Jones would join an MLS team finally ended with New England's addition. The defensive midfielder was expected to join an MLS team for at least the past two months. NBC Sports reported at the beginning of August that he was close to joining the Chicago Fire. Jones tweeted on a couple occasions that rumors that he had turned down offers from Chicago were not completely correct. At the time it was reported he had turned down a two and a half year deal worth $6 million, according to Goal USA.
Goal USA also reported that the Revolution will pay Jones $4.5 million
per year over the rest of the 2014 season as well as the 2015 season with an option for another year.
With the United States in this summer's World Cup, Jones had an amazing tournament. His goal against Portugal in the group stage might have won the match for the U.S. if not for Silvestre Varela's last-gasp goal to tie.
Jones is one of many notable United States national team players to join MLS teams recently. Clint Dempsey's blockbuster deal with Seattle in 2013 made him the highest paid player in the league, a deal worth $32 million over four years according to ESPN —
the same amount David Beckar was paid with the LA Galaxy.
USA midfielder Michael Bradl joined Toronto FC before the beginning of this season for $6 million per year, according to ESPN. MLS does not disclose salary amounts, so these num are not positively correct, but reliable based on the outlets report them.
Jones joined New England as a result of a "blind draw" conducted by league officials, according to MLS-soccer.com. The draw was between Chicago Fire and New England, the two teams willing to offer him a contract. This is a new player allocation mechanism in MLS.
MLS rules state that a U.S. national team player is allocated to a team by the allocation ranking, which puts teams in a certain order and gives the top team first right of refusal to sign the player, like the NFL draft. MLS teams can trade these allocation rankings for players, money, or other things. The Bradley and Dempsey
signings ignored the allocation anking, and compted LS to add designatedayers of a tain threshold determined League - are object to allocation ranking" to the rulebook. Designated players are players whose contracts do not count against the cap, and each team can sign three of these players.
MLS had to bend the rules once again to make a huge signing, but New England will improve greatly if Jones is anything like what he was for the United States during this year's World Cup.
This week in athletics
— Edited by Alex Lamb
Tuesday No Events
Wednesday
No Events
Thursday No Events
Friday
Friday
Volleyball
Utah Valley
11:30 a.m.
Lawrence
Volleyball
Lipscomb
7:30 p.m.
Lawrence
Saturday
Cross Country
Bob Timmons Dual
Classic
9 a.m.
Volleyball
Creighton
2:00 p.m.
Lawrence
Sunday Women's Soccer Wake Forest 1 p.m.
Monday No Events
New coach helps cross-country team prepare for season
JOEY ANGUIANO
@KansanSports
While the season doesn't start for the University of Kansas cross-country team until this Saturday, Aug. 30, the team has been hard at work all summer. A new strength coach, Jeff Kipp, assisted coaches Stanley Redwine and Michael Whittlese
with training the athletes this summer and its led to fantastic results so far.
"I think Jeff will come in and make an immediate impact on the team, and help us get to the next level," Redwine said at fall sports media day.
Redwine also discussed the impact the new facilities at Rock Chalk Park had on the team since it opened last
spring for the Kansas Relays.
"People were still talking about the experience, and how nice it [Rock Chalk Park] was." Redwine said. "Recruits talk to me about Rock Chalk Park. It's a great place to be."
With the state of the art facilities, the team is looking to compete on that kind of level as well. The team's goals include not only performing
well in the conference and the region, but on an NCAA postseason caliber.
With a young team on the women's side that features no seniors, the team is looking to the juniors and sophomores for leaders on and off the track to try to accomplish their goals.
"All eyes are on nationals"
junior Evan Landes said.
One of those juniors is Haley Francis, who feels she needs to perform well at the Big Twelve Championships.
"Rim Rock is a great course, and when you're running on your home course, you want to do really well, especially with such big stakes like a conference championship," Francis said.
As the teams gear up for this
weekend's Bob Timmons Dual Classic on Aug. 30, look out for fresh young faces hoping to impress the coaches with their first meet of the season, and possibly their careers.
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