FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2011
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY &ANSAN
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Every time I think of my ex-girlfriend, I get a raging headache.
I told my girlfriend it wouldn't taste bad because she had a stuffy nose. I didn't consider the breathing part
That's right girl sitting two rows below me at the KU basketball game. Pretend that confetti is dollar bills.
Thomas Robinson should be allowed to play basketball shirtless.
Just saw a man with a Missouri shirt and a badass beard. I wanted to punch his face while shaking his hand.
I just got asked out on a date to admire the beautiful KU campus. Wow, there really are good guys out there!
Yes, yes I did just trip on the huge, obvious crack in the sidewalk. But, I'm going to pretend like it never happened, and keep walking.
I just don't care what Mariah Carey wants for Christmas anymore
Let's just say the sex was about as bad as our football team.
Whoever keeps on taking hot showers at Hashinger, I'm coming for you and there will be pain involved.
Best thing about winter break no papers to write.
Editor's note: I feel you.
Am I the only one who is disturbed to see basketball players' faces on condoms? It's just wrong!
Will guys find it intimidating if I ask to play Modern Warfare with them?
The 6 a.m. lottery is a giant cluster of bad breath.
Baby Jay might be taller than No.2 from FAU.
I heard an old lady today on the phone telling the person she wanted a young man who knew what he was doing.
We must treasure this clean-shaven month and prepare for the devastation of Manuary rearing its hairy head.
You know you're a poor college student when you use a toothpick to scrape all the lip balm out of your chapstick instead of buying a new stick.
If you've used Blackboard to email your entire class of 400, you are a jackass.
Hey roomie, apparently it's
roommate night. Could you try not
to walk in on me for just this week?
Thanks
Victoria's Secret Fashion Show The day fraternities everywhere stood still
Soccer's popularity rising in America
SPORTS
Can soccer supplant baseball as America's pastime?
By Jarod Kilgore jkilgore@kansan.com
As baseball loses popularity and people become more apathetic toward the slow-paced former pastime, more children fall in love with the beautiful game. For decades, it was said that, "soccer would become huge in the US", but it never happened. That is all changing now and the future is bright for soccer.
To some people, baseball will always be slow, boring and old-fashioned. Those people shouldn't expect change any time soon. These complaints have been charged against baseball since the modern age began in 1901, and it would be foolish to think these qualities would now be the downfall of the game. As Craig Calcaterra of NBC Sports once said, "The first professional baseball team was established
in 1869. Two weeks later, someone probably wrote a column about how baseball was dying, on its way out and utterly, utterly doomed."
"Change" is not a word often spoken in baseball circles — maybe you heard me when I said the "Modern" Age began in 1901?
There are some new problems in this age however. Predicting how long a game will last can be a crapshoot, and a potential problem in the age of DVRs. In comparison, soccer comes in at a nearly clean 90 minutes — sometimes less time than it takes Robinson Cano to step back in the damn batter's box.
Soccer has been predicted to take baseball over in popularity for decades, with most pointing to its surge in youth teams as the determinant factor, but it still hasn't happened. Television ratings are often used as a barometer when
describing America's waning interest in baseball, but this is actually a poor method. Baseball is consumed on the local level, not national like football or international like soccer's World Cup. Much better measuring sticks are ticket sales and actual in-stadium attendance, where MLB drew its fifth highest total of all-time in 2009, in the middle of an economic recession.
The same characteristics contributing to the impressions of those who don't like the game are also those that make baseball peaceful, full of strategy, impressively difficult and rife with tradition. The game isn't changing to adjust to our modern generation, and because of it, it's not going anywhere.
— Kilgore is a junior in film and media studies from Lenexa.
Billy McCroy bmccroy@kansan.com
Soccer has major sporting potential
Soccer, also known as football or futbol internationally, is the world's most popular sport. Every four years, the world's best come together to take part in the FIFA World Cup, but there was always one country that it seemed, would never be soccermad. America. However, over the past two decades, popularity has risen in spectatorship and youth athletics.
Soccer was popular in this country in the early 20th century; however, it went into the wilderness until the 1994 World Cup. That World Cup, hosted here in the States, broke all previous attendance records, a feat which won't likely be broken until the United States hosts again. When the U.S. received the World Cup bid, Major League Soccer was formed in response to the requests of FIFA, the world soccer governing body. That league has survived to this day, many of us in this area will have know of the local club's playoff run. Television figures have soared, not only for the World Cup every four years, but also
for European domestic leagues, such as the Premier League in England and La Liga in Spain, and European domestic cups, like the Champions League.
Soccer has grown in popularity as a spectator sport, and there are more children playing than ever before. According to their websites, the United States Youth Soccer Association boasts more than 3 million players between the ages of five and 19, while American Youth Soccer Organization has more than 300,000 players between the ages of four and 19. That is more than any country in the world. High schools are switching to soccer because of its relatively low costs of operation. It is a perfect way for children to play a sport that is relatively safer than American football and involves constant running. As more and more Latin immigrants enter this country, soccer will only become more popular. With a population like the United States has, there is a potential powerhouse in the making.
McCray is a junior in economics from Des Moines, Iowa.
CARTOON
Mohammed
FASHION
Debate rages over leggings
By Lizzie Marx
lmarx@kansan.com
Leggings have been a fashion controversy for several winter seasons now. European soldiers started wearing trews, an early edition of the modern day legging, in the 13th century to keep their legs warm while on the battlefield. In the 1960s, the leggings as we know them by today became popular mainly for exercise. It was not until the 1980s when the leggings became a fashion staple. More recently, during the spring 2010 Fashion Week, Marni debuted leggings for men, something very avant garde.
1, for one, am a fan of leggings. They are a great go to "pant" for an early morning class when you have slept in a little longer than planned. With little to no thought or effort required, many girls can create a trendy outfit consisting of leggings and a chunky sweater and head of the door looking like they stepped out of a magazine.
But with leggings, you either love them or you loathe them.
However, as with any controversial topic, there are always negative side effects. Nausea may occur when you spot someone wearing the leggings in incorrect taste. I do not care if you have the body of Gisele or Rosie O' Donnell. No one, I repeat, no one, should ever reveal the shape of his or her derriere in public. When walking down Jayhawk Boulevard, show a little respect to your classmates and if you choose to wear leggings, wear them appropriately.
When paired correctly with boots and an oversized sweater, leggings are a great substitute for jeans, only, and I mean only, if they provide full coverage. In order to have a tasteful yet fashionable outfit with leggings, the top or sweater must fall to the mid thigh. This helps create a balance and proper set of proportions to an outfit when paired with leg skimming leggings.
Kim Kardashian set herself up for misfortune when she was spotted the day before her blink-of-aneye wedding wearing see-through leggings. With a mistake like this, we all should have known the marriage was doomed.
Recently, Pipppa Middelton was spotted wearing leggings. However, a royal scandal did not occur since she wore them with an oversized green coat and boots. Her famous bum was completely covered, leaving fashion followers in amaze with her style sense.
Even if you still are not a fan of leggings, their relative, the jegging, could be a better alternative for you. The jegging allows you to still have a skinny pant leg that is perfect with flats or boots, however, since they are constructed out of lightweight denim, they give you the look of the legging with the comfort and coverage of the jean.
With all controversy, it always comes down to a matter of taste and respect. Yet, who knew that this stretchy spandex could be such a persnickety pant.
My favorite look is to pair leather leggings, also known as liquid leggings, with a menswear inspired blazer and classic stilettos. This outfit is the epitome of city chic and is sultry while still remaining tasteful.
— Marx is a sophomore in journalism from St. Louis.
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Fashion promotes unrealistic values
It's that time of the year again when unrealistic girls prince around in anything but clothes down the runway as every girl in America watches with envy (ak.a. the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show). Most likely the guys are swarmed around the television, drinking beer and fantasizing about each model as she does the casual wink and blows a kiss. I on the other hand was enjoying a cream cheese pizza to myself and finishing it off with a large coke. I wonder who the envious ones are now? But what I'm getting at is the Victoria Secret fashion show gives false perception of what every girl should strive to be. Besides those models, I don't know of one person who really looks like that and I hope to keep it that way. The percentage of girls with eating disorders is unbelievable and I wouldn't doubt that this fashion show sparked a
few more. We all want to feel good in our own skin and be confident with who we are, but going to extremes in order to look like these women isn't worth it. So to all those girls out there who are skipping meals and hating their bodies simply because you don't compare to the 100 pound girl on TV; stop. We all are beautiful in our own ways and that sounds cliché, it's true. We're too young to let our self image over power our every day lives, so next time you find yourself crowding around the TV wishing you looked like the walking skeletons, just remember that their diet most likely consists of water and barfing. So enjoy your pizza and drink your beer, because in their eyes, we're all fat.
- Julie Stremme is a freshman from Overland Park.
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