MONDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 2002
NEWS
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN - 5A
Fans live out football fantasy
By Kelly McNearney
kmcnearney@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
In the National Football League, only 32 people own a football team. In fantasy football, however, anyone can live the dream.
Fantasy football, the online fan-based football league, gives NFL fans the opportunity to own and manage their own fantasy team made of real professional football players.
For the die-hard sports fans, the Internet is a haven for anyone with the time to take up a fantasy sport. A Yahoo search for fantasy football brought up more than 1.3 million Web sites.
"It's like a real football team," said Brian Peterson, Columbus.
Ohio, senior. "It's like you're a general manager making moves and trades to make your team better."
Peterson is a member of a league through Yahoo Fantasy Football. His league has 12 teams competing against one another.
"I'm in first place right now, but we were undefeated a couple weeks ago and then we lost two in a row." Peterson said. "Now we're struggling."
Peterson said he lucked out with his pick of quarterback Drew Bledsoe of the Buffalo Bills. Bledsoe has 18 touchdowns and over 3,000 yards in his 10 games this season. He is Peterson's best player.
Each team owner picks a quarterback, two running backs, two
The owner also picks the entire defense of one professional team and one kicker to play each week. Results and points are based upon the actual performances of players in real NFL games.
receivers and other offensive players in a simulated draft.
ESPN.com Fantasy Football takes all necessary steps to simulate a real football league. It supplies team owners with multiple draft methods, live box scores, unlimited waivers and trades, free agency, custom team injury updates and sortable stats for all players.
Nate Roberts, Overland Park senior, participates in fantasy football on CBS SportsLine, but is not having much luck with his quarterback.
"I've got Donovan McNabb
and now he's hurt." Roberts said. "He broke his ankle. I've got Tim Couch as a backup, but McNabb was my man."
"I was doing it before anyone knew what it was," he said.
Roberts has been playing fantasy football since was 8 years old. He's now 21.
Fantasy football leagues are available on such Web sites as ESPN.com, NFL.com and Yahoo.com. Each Web site has its own leagues and pools.
Each of the 12 teams in Peterson's pool paid $50 to enter. The top two teams will come away with cash prizes at the end of the season. The winner of Roberts' CBS SportsLine pool will win $600.
- Edited by Chris Wintering
Kwanzaa
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responsibility, cooperative economics, purpose, creativity and faith. These principles are described as the building blocks for community.
According to the Kwanzaa Information Center's Web site, http://www.melanet.com/kwanzaa/, Kwanzaa was initially designed to help address quality of life concerns African Americans had over the commercialization of Christmas.
"A review of the major holidays celebrated in the United
States would reveal that not one relates specifically to the growth and development of African Americans," the Web site states.
Minor said, to him, Kwanzaa had always meant hospitality toward others.
Kiya Hillbeard, Kansas City, Mo., freshman, said students should learn about and understand other cultural celebrations during the holiday season.
"If we don't step out of our comfort zone; we'll never truly get to know one another," she said.
Edited by Jessica Hood
Scholars doubt artifact's supposed link to Jesus
The Associated Press
TORONTO — The French scholar who discovered the purported burial box of Jesus' brother, James, strongly defended the artifact's identification Sunday against skeptical religious scholars.
The panel discussion, attended by 800 people, involved mainly crucial technical points such as the forms of handwriting on the inscription, which reads "James, son of Joseph, brother of Jesus."
The words appear on a 1st century bone box known as an "ossuary," a form of Jewish burial that ended in 70 A.D. The New Testament identifies James as
Jesus' brother and the leader of Jerusalem's early Christians.
If experts decide the inscription refers to Jesus of Nazareth rather than some other Jesus, and is not a forgery, the box would rank as a monumental archaeological discovery.
Since Andrew Lemaire reported the box's existence last month in Biblical Archaeology Review, some have suggested the Jesus phrase could have been added by a forger, more likely in ancient than in modern times.
Some scientific questions about the box, on display at the Royal Ontario Museum through Dec. 29, may be clarified when the Israel Antiquities Authority conducts further examination.
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joined a local activist group Animal Outreach of Kansas which is where she found support because its members shared her ideals.
Julia Franklin said she never had a problem satisfying her hunger while abstaining from meat and dairy products. "Analogue" products — such as chickenless nuggets and soy ice cream — often cost more than their traditional counterparts but can provide comfort with their familiar taste when she went vegan. The many restrictions haven't stopped her from eating at restaurants.
"It's just like having a food allergy," she said, adding that she always asked waiters how the food had been prepared.
Cutting the meat and dairy has cut the fat from Julia Franklin's diet. Before making the switch to veganism, she said she carried a little extra weight. Since then, she has lost 40 pounds almost unconsciously, she said.
Ann Chapman, coordinator of nutrition services at Watkins Memorial Health Center and registered dietitian, said she had coached students trying to keep a balanced vegan diet. Educating oneself is key to succeeding and staying healthy, she said.
"I feel a lot better and don't get sick as often now," she said.
"I don't feel asicky, I guess."
about it to know what's going to be lacking in your diet," she said. "It can be an adequate diet if you know what you're doing."
She said vegans should take special care to include essential vitamins and minerals, such as B12, iron and riboflavin, all of which could easily be overlooked.
One student converted to a vegan diet with different goals in mind. Nick Ray, Burlington sophomore, converted this July not to stop animal cruelty but to improve his health.
"Iget a lot of bad stigma with it because a lot of vegans are doing it for animal rights," he said. "I still wear leather shoes."
"You have to have read
Around mid-September, Ray said he cheated once and ate a slice of American cheese. He said the cheese made him sick.
Ray, who shops for salad ingredients for Stephenson Scholarship Hall, said the biggest challenge was eating in a group living situation.
"It is pretty hard because you have to cook all your own meals and sometimes it's definitely a struggle," he said.
After five months of veganism, Ray said he planned to continue the diet indefinitely. But the longer he goes as a vegan, he said, the more he will have to keep himself from slipping into an unhealthy diet.
"Eventually people get careless and are malnourished," he said.
- Edited by Chris Wintering
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