THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 2011
COLLEGE FOOTBALL
PAGE 9
Texas defeats A&M in last Lone Star Showdown
ETHAN PADWAY
epadway@kansan.com
In the final Lone Star Showdown for the foreseeable future, the Aggies took a 16-7 lead into the locker room at haftime. The Longhorns jumped right back into the game after cornerback Carrington Byndom intercepted a Ryan Tannehill pass and took it 58 yards to the end zone for the touchdown. The Longhorns scored 10 more points in the third quarter for an eight-point lead heading into the fourth. The Aggies took the lead back with less than two minutes left on a 16-yard touchdown pass to Jeff Fuller, but the Longhorns got the last laugh as Justin Tucker kicked a 40-yard field goal to give them a one-point victory as time expired on this storied rivalry.
klahoma 26, Iowa State 6
State thought it could continue its magic once after upsetting then second-ranked Oklahoma State. They took a 6-3 lead in the first quarter on a 10-yard touchdown pass. But that was the last noise the Cyclone offense would make all day, as the Sooners shut them out and scored 23 unanswered points to finish the game, 20 of which came in the second quarter. Quarterback Blake Bell carried the ball eight times for 14 yards and two touchdowns. Bell is becoming the Sooners major short-yardage back, he has nine rushing touchdowns in his last four games.
Baylor 66, Texas Tech 42
The Bears and the Red Raiders combined for more than 100 points in a game where neither teams' offenses rolled. Baylor quarterback and Heisman Trophy candidate Robert Griffin III played only one half because of a concussion, but junior quarterback Nick Florence stepped in and completed nine of his 12 passes for 151 yards and two touchdowns. Senior running back Terrence Ganaway carried the ball 42 times for 246 yards and two touchdowns for Baylor. The Bears put up 617 total yards of offense, 360 of which came on the ground. Junior quarterback Seth Doege threw for 355 yards, three touchdowns, and two interceptions for the Red Raiders, as the team failed to become bowl eligible and lose their fifth consecutive game since defeating then undefeated Oklahoma on Oct. 22 in Norman, Okla.
NBA
Players, NBA prepare 10-year agreement
MCCLATCHY TRIBUNE
Across the NBA, preparations are hastily being made for a season that almost was lost.
A tentative 10-year agreement between the NBA and the players was reached at shortly after 3 a.m. EST on Saturday after a 15-hour bargaining session between commissioner David Stern and NBA Players Association executive director Billy Hunter.
The framework of the deal includes a virtual 50-50 split of an estimated $4 billion in revenue, compared with 57 percent in the previous pact. That translates into $300 million less for the players to share in the first year of the agreement, which covers almost all of what the league said its teams lost last season.
Players could get as much as 51 percent if revenues exceed expectations, but their share also could be cut to 49 percent if revenues fall short of projections.
Once details are ironed out, the season will open on Dec. 25 with the Knicks hosting the Celtics at Madison Square Garden.
"We are very pleased that we have come this far," Stern said. "There is a lot of work to be done in a lot of places, with a lot of committees and player groups and the like, but we are optimistic that it will hold and we will have ourselves an NBA season."
The agreement signaled the end of the NBA lockout, though it will not officially end until a deal is finalized. Neither Stern nor Hunter believes the ancillary issues will be a major stumbling block to finishing
the process in time to begin training camps Dec. 9 and start a regular season on Christmas Day.
The salary-cap system will remain a soft cap, meaning teams can go over the cap but will be penalized for doing so with a more punitive luxury tax than before. The owners made several concessions to allow more player movement in free agency. Teams may sign a player to a full mid-level exception contract (five years, $5 million per) as long as the contract keeps the team less than $4 million over the luxury-tax threshold. Beyond $4 million, the mid-level exception is three years for $3 million. Sign-and-trades also are universally permitted.
"I think that there is still a lot of, shall we say, other issues to finish because we have the broadest outline," Stern said, "but I think both sides are optimistic that this will yield a full-blown series of agreements."
The sides took four months to move on their respective stances, as the players reduced their take to 52.5 percent to 51 percent and finally to a 50-50 concept. The owners moved off the hard cap and agreed to maintain the soft cap from the previous agreement, with added restrictions to curb payroll spending.
The owners also have discussed a revenue-sharing program that is not a part of this agreement but will be more robust than in previous years. High-revenue, big-market teams such as the Knicks and Lakers will kick in as much as $50 million each per season to assist the low-income small-market teams.
Before the deal can be completed,
there are some small hurdles. There
is a union to re-form, lawsuits to be withdrawn and workouts for players to organize before they are allowed back into team facilities.
After the exhausting negotiation that began Friday and went into yesterday morning, the sides went their separate ways later yesterday to get their respective houses in order.
The league already has begun the process of putting together a regular-season schedule, using most of the dates already in place from the original 2011-12 schedule. The league will extend the regular season into late April and the NBA Finals will start a week later than usual. The NBA All-Star Game, hosted by the Orlando Magic, will take place as scheduled in February.
On the players' side, there is a lot more work to be done. First, the NBPA has to re-form as a union and the deal has to be ratified by the 420-plus members. The players also are expected to request a voluntary dismissal of the class-action antitrust lawsuit filed last week in Minnesota district court against the NBA and its owners. Hunter and the players' legal team, led by David Boies, began that process Saturday.
"We are going to turn it all over to the lawyers here and let them work out the details and we'll then be able to talk further as that process proceeds." Hunter said. "It could be a matter of three days to a week."
GOLF
History may prove that after the collective-bargaining process broke down, the move to dissolve the union might have helped push the sides together for an agreement.bus playing as soon as possible.
Matt Kuchar, right, of the U.S. and teammate Gary Woodland hold their cup after winning the World Cup golf tournament at the Mission Hills Blackwater course in Haikou, Hainan province, southern China Nov. 27.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Former Jayhawk wins golf World Cup in China
ASSOCIATED PRESS
HAINAN, China—Matt Kuchar and former Jayhawk golfer Gary Woodland ended the United States' 11-year drought in golf's World Cup by shooting a 5-under 67 on Sunday to win by two strokes.
The American pair fired six birdies in the alternate-shot final round at Mission Hills Blackstone course to finish at 24-under, 264 overall, notching the 24th U.S. win in the history of the tournament.
English pair Ian Poulter and Justin Rose had the final day's best round with a 63 to tie for second at 22-under with Germany's Martin Kaymer and Alex Ceika (69).
Ireland's Rory McIlroy and
Graeme McDowell led by two strokes going into the final round but could only manage an even-par 72 to finish tied for fourth with Australia, the Netherlands and Scotland.
The American victory was the first since Tiger Woods and David Duval claimed the title 11 years ago. The event was annual up until 2009, and this year's tournament was the first in the new biennial format.
"We really clicked. It's fantastic to win for the U.S.", said Woodland, who played for Kansas from 2003 to 2007.
The U.S. duo built a two-point lead over Germany midway through the round and after a rare
slip with a bogey at the par-3 11th, the Americans responded with birdies on the next two holes and then pars the rest of the way to claim victory.
"Undoubtedly the shots on the 12 and 13th were key. It was a great moment and to shoot a par when you expected a bogey," Kuchar said.
World No. 2 McLroy was well below his best, hitting some loose shots, including a putt on the 18th which would of given Ireland a share of the runner-up check. The tournament favorites had a run of misfortune, including a penalty stroke on the 6th and four bogeys on the card.
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