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Baylor place kicker Daniel Andino put the finishing touches on the victory as he connected on a 33-yard field goal with one second left that iced the Baylor victory.
This is the second weekend in a row that the Kansas defense has allowed the opposing offense to effectively move the ball and score points in the fourth quarter.
On Sept. 28 against the University of Tulsa, the Jayhawk defense relaxed in the final quarter and the Golden Hurricane scored 14 points to turn a Kansas blowout into a 43-33 victory.
Even with the defensive struggles, Mangino keeps tuting his team's improvement, and he thinks Kansas can gain positive experience from the Baylor game.
"We're playing more disciplined football, we have the fewest penalties in the conference, we're starting to make strides in turnover margin, and we're moving up the middle of the game pretty well," Mangino said. "Our kids are continually playing hard and with great enthusiasm. There is a lot of great things to build on from this Baylor game."
—Edited by Katie Teske
Recruits
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Coaches who don't follow the tight restrictions are punished, as coach Williams knows, but at no fault of his own.
The NCAA imposed a three-year sanction against the University for illegally recruiting a transfer student in 1986 and banned the Jayhawks from postseason competition for three years and prohibited all paid recruiting visits for one season.
In the fall of 1988, during his first-year, Williams faced sanctions because of illegal recruiting by his predecessor, Larry Brown.
Kansas athletics representatives bought airline tickets and clothing for the recruit, gave him free equipment and paid him for work he never performed. The violations totaled $1,244.
— Edited by Andy Samuelson
Men's golf
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31st place after finishing the day with a total score of 146 (two above par), including rounds of 74 and 72.
Freshman Peter Krsnich is in a tie for 35th, competing only as an individual, with a two-round score of 147 (three above par), with rounds of 72 and 75.
Freshmen Jason Sigler and
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Ryan Rainer are both tied for 40th place with two-round scores of 148 (four above par).
Randall said yesterday that they are in good position for today's competition.
"My second round felt great," Rose said. "I was hitting the ball solid, which helped me on every shot. I also felt that I was putting great which helped me make a seven shot turnaround."
Freshman Chelsey Pryor had a two-round total score of 157 (+13) to put her in a tie for 51st place.
"I think the team made some good improvements late in the second round," he said, "And that is what we need to go back into this thing tomorrow."
Ryan Greene
Senior Kristy Straub is in a tie
for 65th place after scores of 84 (+12) and 76 (+4), for a total score of 160 on the first day.
Currently 26 strokes behind Kent State in first place, Kansas tees off in the final round of action this morning.
-Edited by Andrew Vaupel.
Oklahoma State ready for Wildcats
The Associated Press
STILLWATER, Okla. — Les Miles doesn't expect his Oklahoma State football team to lack confidence heading into this week's game with No. 19 Kansas State.
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boys should be encouraged about their prospects for winning, considering their near miss last weekend against Texas.
On the road against a team ranked No. 2 in the nation, a team that had beaten Oklahoma State 45-17 last year, the Cowboys almost pulled off the upset before losing 17-15.
"I think they gained some understanding there," Miles said. "We've played a series of teams pretty well. Texas, in my short tenure well, has not been one of
them. We played them with an opportunity to win this year and that was a step in the right direction."
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before Tatum Bell scored on a 45- yard run. A botched extra point made it 17-9. Josh Fields' 33-yard touchdown pass to John Lewis made it a two-point game with 4:04 to play, and the Cowboys came up short on their 2-point conversion pass.
Oklahoma State had one last possession and drove into Texas territory before an interception ended the threat.
"Going into that last drive, I think everyone thought we could pull it out." Fields said.
"I think we definitely will get some confidence from it," he said. "We've just got to take it as
a learning experience. It's unfortunate that we lost, but we've got to take all of our mistakes, correct them and go into the next game."
Miles talked last week about making it a four-quarter game against Texas. Last year, the Cowboys lasted about two quarters — a 17-point scoring blitz late in the second quarter gave Texas a 31-10 halftime lead.
Miles said his team lost its poise and fell apart in last year's game. This time, the Cowboys did a better job, although they committed 11 penalties and had three passes intercepted.
Kansas State (4-1, 0-1) opened conference play last week with a 35-31 loss to Colorado. The Buffalooes ran for 194 yards and threw for 289 against a team now ranked 15th nationally in total defense. On offense, the Wildcats feature a strong running game led by quarterback Ell Roberson and running back Daren Sproles. Roberson had a
career-high 178 yards rushing last week.
Kansas State has won eight in a row against the Cowboys, and the Wildcats have only lost back-toback games twice in a season since 1993. So Oklahoma State has its work cut out.
But it also has plenty of confidence.
"It just all comes down to executing and making the play. You've got to do that." Fields said. "We've come so far. I think we've gotten better each week of this season so far."
COWBOY NOTES: Oklahoma State hasn't played in the state of Kansas since losing to the Wildcats 52-20 in October 1998. ... Rashaun Woods has caught at least two passes in 23 straight games. ... Cole Farden averaged 43 yards on his eight punts last week and put three of his four kickoffs out of the end zone. Nineteen of his past 25 kickoffs have gone for touchbacks.
Big 12 looks forward to the weekend
The Associated Press
After nearly stumbling the week before the big game, either second-ranked Oklahoma or No. 3 Texas is about to pull ahead in the race for the Big 12 South title.
Let the hvpe officially begin.
And it almost wasn't, thanks to Oklahoma State and Missouri. But the Longhorns got by the Cowboys 17-15 and the Sooners rallied to beat the Tigers 31-24, leaving the showdown at the Cotton Bowl intact.
Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops said he wasn't worried about the close call at Missouri. Last year, the Sooners had edged Kansas State the week before beating the Longhorns 14-3.
"We went into this game after beating Kansas State 38-37 at home. It's a similar situation," Stoops said. "We're excited for
this game and confident going in.
I imagine we'll be ready to compete when we go down the ramp."
Just a few years ago, these traditional powers had slipped outside the circle of national championship contenders. But for the second year in a row, both are unbeaten and ranked in the Top 10.
UP IN THE SKY: The Sooners and Longhorns play in this weekend's Big 12 headliner, but Texas Tech at Iowa State could be a close runner-up.
Fans might consider squeezing in a nap Saturday afternoon. The Red Raiders and Cyclones' game starts at 6 p.m. CDT and with two of the two top passing teams in the league, it's probably going to be a late night.
Texas Tech's Kliff Kingsbury was 49-for-59 (83.1 percent) for 474 yards, five TDs, and one interception last weekend in the Red Raiders' 48-47 overtime win over Texas A&M.
"We're going to have to do all we can to try to slow them down, but it's going to be hard. I sure haven't seen anybody doing that recently," Iowa State coach Dan McCarney said.
McCarney's quarterback, Seneca Wallace, leads the league with a passing percentage of 64. His 1,653 passing yards are second in the league only to Kingsbury's 2,134.
HAPPY DAYS: Baylor coach Kevin Steele said he savored his first Big 12 victory for all of a couple of hours. Then it was back to business. Baylor's 35-32 comeback victory over Kansas snapped the Bears' 29-game conference losing streak.
It didn't take long for the feedback to reach Steele, who is 1-24 against Big 12 teams in his four seasons with Bears.
"I heard a student, unrelated to the program, just a student that happened to go to the game, say that Saturday night on campus
was the liveliest environment that he'd ever been around," Steele said. "Everybody was just walking around smiling and feeling like winners. We need that in this program desperately."
TIME FOR OVERTIME:
About each coach during Monday's conference call weighed in on the pros and cons of overtime.
While nobody wants to get sucked into a marathon like Tennessee's win over Arkansas, which took six overtimes to decide, the alternative isn't any better.
"I like the overtimes. I don't particularly like to get into overtimes, but it is so much better than ties," said Texas A&M coach R.C. Slocum, whose Aggies lost in overtime to Tech on Saturday.
Kansas coach Mark Mangino said the current system of giving each team a shot from the 25-yard line was frustrating because it essentially takes special teams out of the game plan.
Broncos start season 'defensively'
The Associated Press
DENVER - The Denver Broncos defense has forced opponents to become one-dimensional.
Denver has consistently taken away the run second-best in the league at 56 yards per game which has forced opponents to pass more than they would like.
The Broncos worked the scheme to perfection in a 26-9 victory over San Diego on Sunday, holding
LaDainian Tomlinson to just 48 yards — 78 below his average — and forcing the Chargers to go almost exclusively to the pass.
The early dominance has prompted Mike Shanahan to call this year's defense the best he's seen in eight years as Denver's coach.
"Right now I believe that," Shanahan said Monday at his weekly news conference. "I don't think yesterday was one of our better games. I thought we did some good things, but looking at the film I think we can even get a lot better, which is a good sign."
San Diego tried to establish Tomilinson early and had some success, but coach Marty Schottenheimer all but gave up on the run after halftime.
Tomlinson, the league's leading rusher, carried 13 times for 38 yards in the first half, but ran the ball just once in the second as the Chargers passed on 33 of 34 plays.
Even Schottenheimer agreed with Shanahan's assessment, comparing them with the defense that took Denver to its first Super Bowl in 1977.
It was the 19th straight time Denver didn't allow a rusher to reach 100 yards.
Twins, Angels likely to face off
MINNEAPOLIS—One team wasn't supposed to be there. The other wasn't supposed to be anywhere.
The Associated Press
naheim and Minnesota are
Anaheim and Minnesota unlikely contenders in the AL championship series, which opens Tuesday night in the boisterous Metrodome.
Until now, the Angels have been known mostly for the
mouse mascot of their corporate parent and their past playoff failures. The Twins were a prime exhibit of a small-market team unable to compete, a franchise unwanted by its owner and designated for execution just last November.
Hev big spenders, look who's still playing.
"The country wants to see the poor teams win and play," Minnesota outfielder Torii Hunter said. "1
Before this year, the teams in the top half of payroll standings won 219 of 224 postseason games since 1995.
They've done a masterful job. There's no question about that," commissioner Bud Selig said Monday from his Milwaukee office. "The question is how long can they keep those players? The very teams we are talking about are the ones worrying about that."
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