6B = THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
SPORTS
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 6,2002
wednesday
OPEN MIC NIGHT
Hawks Nest
7:00-9:00 pm
kansas union, Level 1
thursday 7
FEATURE FILM
Reign of Fire
7:00 & 9:30 pm
Woodruff
Auditorium
kansas union, level 5
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ILL TISDALE
GALLERY RECEPTION
7:00-9:00pm
kansas union, LEVEL 4
8LH
PHOTO CONTEST
Film due to SUA Office
kansas unton, LEVEL 4
FEATURE FILM
Reign of Fire
7:00 6 9:30 pm
Woodruff
Auditorium
kansas union, Level 5
spectrum film series:
Scratch
8:00 pm
Woodruff
Auditorim
kansas union, level 4
kansas union
gallery
WORKS BY
Rachel Schmidt
November 11-November 26
9:00am-4:00pm
TUESDAY
12th
comedy troupe
8:00 pm
Woodruff
Auditorium
kansas union, level 4
COLLEGE BOWL
TRIVIA NIGHT
7:00 pm
Hawks Nest
kansas union, level 1
ALL TICKETS FOR MOVIES are $2.00 at the hawk shop, level 4 kansas union or FREE WITH AN SUA MOVIE CARD.
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This Week at the Union.
[Open Study]
Hawks Nest Level 1
50% Coffee after 1st cup at WheatWavers
[Schticky Situation Improv]
7pm Hawks Nest Level 1
Mozzarella Sticks and drink $2.99
LAVEOFF
MARRIAGE
unched
[Billards Night]
75¹ a game
7pm Applied English Center
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[Touchdown Tuesdays]
KU Bookstores Level 2 (both Unions)
5% off for every KU Touchdown
HAWKS
NEST
[2-for-1 Bowling]
3-30-6pm Jaybowl Level 1
$1.99 Pretzel & Fountain Drink at WheatWavers
SUA College Bowl Trivia Night
[Open Mic Night]
7pm Hawks Nest Level 1
50c Coffee after 1st cup at WheatWavers
[Brown Bag Classics]
Free Concert with Free Coke
12:30 Alderson Auditorium Womens Chorale
[Thursday Afternoon Tea Hour]
3-4pm Level 4 Lobby
Free Teas and Treats
[Spend a Little Time with "Friends"]
7:00pm Hawks Nest* Level 1
$1.99 Pizza and Fountain Drink
[Free Billiards]
7-10pm Hawks Nest Level 1
$2.99 Chicken Tender and Drink at WheatWavers
Up on Campus Cards are punched twice use cards at All Hawk Stops, Both Hawk Shops, the Market, Wesco Terrace, Crimson Cafe
[Double Punch Day]
[College Football]
Hawks Nest Level 1 Big Screen
$1.99 Hot Dog & Fountain Drink
Graves
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weighed close to 290 pounds nearly 40 pounds overweight. At Kansas' media day in early October, Williams would not comment on Graves, stating only that he was not an official member of the team. Graves did not participate in the Late Night scrimmage and he was not introduced as a player on the team.
"It remains to be seen whether I would continue playing him when the regular season gets here if he hasn't passed his test yet," Williams said. "He'll run it several times and when he decides to make it he'll make it and life will be a lot easier. If it was me I'd just go ahead and make it and get it off of me."
But when he entered the game on Monday, it seemed as if Graves had finally passed the conditioning test that had hampered him.
Apparently, though, he has not.
Kansas sophomore Wayne Simien said that Graves' play on Monday was what he expected,
"I think he played well, but he still has a lot of things to work on."
"I think he played well, but he still has a lot of things to work on." Simien said. "Coach and a lot of other people have been riding him. He's progressing along pretty well and he'll definitely be able to help us throughout the season."
but the team wanted Graves to contribute more when he joins the team.
Wayne Simien
Sophomore foreward
But until Graves gets himself in Division I shape, Williams said he would continue — no matter the weather — running the 12-minute test.
"It will be a long winter out there 'cause it's cold as the dickens," Williams said. "We try to make it good and cold and windy and sleet and freezing rain. I'm not going to give in so he might as well just go ahead and make it."
- Edited by Amanda Sears
Jared Soaren/Kansan
Jeff Graves takes aim after being fouled. Graves hit both free throws and kept up the Jayhawks' momentum as one of the bench players who contributed to Monday night's victory.
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urdy against Kansas State. Mangino put him in the game after the Wildcats led the Jayhawks 30-0.
After making the fourth-most tackles for Kansas in the game, the Kansas coaching staff
named Kane defensive player of the week.
Defensive honors were commonplace for Kane at Rockhurst - he was named all-state his senior year after his school record of 116 tackles.
Now that Kane has made the jump to the Big 12 Conference from high school football, he
said he was still adjusting to the increased ability of the athletes.
"The guys are so much bigger and faster at this level," Kane said. "The other thing is the time issue that goes into preparing for all these games."
For Kane, walking out of the tunnel at Lincoln's stadium will conjure up memories of his
childhood cheering for the Big Red, but he will be all business once the whistle blows.
"I'm sure it will hit me when I get there," Kane said, "but I'm going to go in there, have a good time and hopefully play as good as I can do."
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Berlin
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son to watch Kansas football this season.
Next year, Whittemore will be a senior and will likely be even better — if Mangino will let him heal enough to get there.
"If I could convince our medical staff, I'd wheel him out there next week if I could," Mangino said after Kansas State blasted the Whittemore-less 'Hawks 64-0 last Saturday. "I think there's a chance it may happen. If there's a chance he can (play) without any further injury, he'll be out there."
There's, um, a few problems with this line of thinking. First of all, does Mangino know his team is 2-8? The season is over. Not
only are the Jayhawks mathematically eliminated from bowl consideration, Saturday's game at Nebraska wouldn't be winnable if Kansas had Kurt Warner under center.
If everything broke right, the Hawks could conceivably pull an upset in the season finale against 4-4 Oklahoma State. So essentially, Mangino is willing to risk his most important player's long-term health for the glory of finishing 3-9.
Second, what good is a medical staff if Mangino can "convince" them to change their medical opinion? Why doesn't Mangino just make the diagnosis himself?
Third, of course there's a chance Whittemore could play without further injury. There's
also a chance that if you get shot in the torso,you may not die,but most people would decline the chance to find out.
Whittemore's injury is nothing to be fooling around with. The medial collateral ligament, or MCL, is a band of tissue on the inner part of the knee that helps prevent the leg from moving sideways. There are three types of MCL sprains, ranging from a Grade I ligament stretch to Grade III, a complete ligament tear.
No one on the Kansas staff has specifically described the severity of Whittimore's MCL tear, but at this point, it doesn't matter. Players with a "torn" anything should not be playing in meaningless games.
Mangino's handling of his
quarterbacks in his first season has been unbelievably poor. First, he somehow concluded that Zach Dyer was more worthy to begin the season at starting quarterback than Whittimore.
But throwing a crippled Whittemore back onto the field would be the worst decision of all — it would suggest Mangino is incredibly shortsighted and doesn't have the patience needed to build a football program from scratch.
Berlin is a Leawood senior in journalism.
Attention!! Faculty, Staff and Students.
Who: The Parking Commission
What: Public Hearing
When: 3:00p.m., Wednesday, November 13th
Where: Alderson Auditorium, Kansas Union
Why: To hear your comments on the Parking Department's policies, rules, or fees.
(Individuals may speak at the meeting or send written comments to the chair, Prof. Allen Ford at 315 Summerfield or aford@ku.edu.)
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