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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2011
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
QUOTE OF THE DAY
“If you are in a pocket game, and you run a bluff, and the bluff works, you’re a hero. If someone calls your bluff, you lose. I think the owners overplayed their hand.”
- Attorney David Boies, who represents the NBA players in the lockout
Q: What percentage of NBA games have been canceled?
A: 26 percent
Upcoming early-season tournaments
MORNING BREW
Every season college basketball kicks off the year with a host of enticing tournaments. This year Kansas is headed to the Maui Invitational, but don't forget the rest of the great early-season tournaments. The NIT, 2K Sports Classic and even the Puerto Rico Tip-Off provide wonderful matchups for late November entertainment.
Here is a look at the pre-season tournament lineups.
2K Sports Classic
2K Sports Classic Madison Square Garden, New York City
By Trevor Graff editor@kansan.com
With a lineup including Akron, Arizona, Duquesne, Mississippi State, St. John's, Texas A&M and Valparaiso, this tournament could serve up a big-time championship game in Madison Square Garden.
The semi-final games will feature 19th-ranked Texas A&M against Mississippi State and St. John's against 16th-ranked
Arizona. The finals will likely feature A&M facing Arizona.
Progressive CBE Classic Sprint Center, Kansas City, Mo.
The CBE Classic field has been narrowed down to 25th-ranked Missouri against Notre Dame and 24th-ranked California against Georgia.
The finals should include a California versus Missouri matchup in the Sprint Center, but don't be surprised if Notre Dame upsets the Tigers.
DirectTV Charleston Classic TD Arena,Charleston,S.C.
The Charleston Classic features a lineup of Georgia Tech, LSU, Northwestern, Saint Joseph's, Seton Hall, Tulsa, VCU and Western Kentucky. Not bad for a relatively new tournament.
The first game tips off on Nov. 17 at 11:30 a.m. between Tulsa and Western Kentucky.
This tournament will provide quality matchups for both the big schools and small schools in the bracket. Northwestern, Tulsa, Seton Hall and Georgia Tech are likely to play in the semifinals, but don't count out VCU. The game between Seton Hall and VCU is the most intriguing first-round matchup.
5-hour Energy Puerto Rico Tip-Off
Puerto Rico Tip-Off
Coliseo de Puerto Rico,
San Juan, Puerto Rico
The Puerto Rico Tip-off will give the world a good look at the Returning Robbie Hummel and the Purdue Boilermakers. Other teams include Alabama, Colorado, Iona, Maryland, Temple, Western Michigan and Wichita State.
Game one tips off at 9:30 a.m.
between Temple and Western
Michigan. The first round game to watch, however, comes at 4 p.m. on Nov. 17 between Maryland and Alabama. Look for Purdue to assert its dominance in this tournament.
Old Spice Classic
Old Spice Classic
Disney's Wide World of Sports, Orlando, Fla.
The Old Spice Classic features Arizona State, Dayton, DePaul, Fairfield, Indiana State, Minnesota, Texas Tech and Wake Forest.
The tournament kicks off with Texas Tech and Indiana State at 11 a.m. on Nov. 24. Key first round matches include Minnesota against DePaul and Dayton against Wake Forest.
The lineup features Syracuse, Oklahoma State, Oral Roberts.
N. I.T. Season Tip-Off Madison Square Garden, New York City
Stanford, George Mason and more. Look for Syracuse and Oklahoma State to excel in this bracket, but don't count out the solid mid-majors Oral Roberts, George Mason and Stanford.
The Semifinals tip off Nov. 23 at 6 p.m. with the final on Nov. 25 at 4 p.m. The grandfather of all early-season tournaments will not disappoint this year.
Edited by Sarah McCabe
THIS WEEK IN SPORTS
Sport Thur. Fri. Sat. Sun. Mon. Tues. Wed.
Football vs. Texas A&M 11 a.m. College Station, Texas vs. Kansas State 7 p.m. Manhattan
Volleyball
Track
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Georgetown EA Sports Maui Invitational 11 p.m. CT Maui, Hawaii UCLA/Chaminade EA Sports Maui Invitational 11 p.m. CT Maui, Hawaii Finals EA Sports Maui Invitational 11 p.m. CT Maui, Hawaii
M. Basketball
W. Basketball
vs. Wake Forest 1 p.m. Winston-Salem, N.C.
Swimming
Nebraska-Omaha 11 a.m. Lawrence
NCAA Championships 10 a.m. Terre Haute, Ind.
Cross Country
NATIONAL
Email details alleged Sandusky shower attack
ASSOCIATED PRESS
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) -- A day after the former Penn State assistant football coach who is charged with sexual abuse of boys declared his innocence in a television interview, an email surfaced from a key witness against him, saying he stopped an alleged attack in the team's showers.
Mike McQueary, the graduate assistant who a grand jury report said saw Jerry Sandusky allegedly sodomizing a boy in the locker
room, said he stopped the act and went to police. That added confusion to the already emotionally raw situation that has enveloped Penn State University and resulted in the firing of coach Joe Paterno, the ousting of president Graham Spanier and charges of perjury against the athletic director and a former senior vice president.
The Nov. 8 email from McQuaye to a friend, made available to The Associated Press, said: "I did stop it, not physically ... but made sure it was stopped when I left that locker
McQuary is a former player and current assistant coach who was placed on indefinite paid leave last week after school officials said he had received threats. Emails sent to him seeking comment were not immediately returned.
room ... I did have discussions with police and with the official at the university in charge of police ... no one can imagine my thoughts or wants to be in my shoes for those 30-45 seconds ... trust me."
He told the friend that he felt he was "getting hammered for
Former Penn State lootball defensive coordinator Gerald "Jerry" Sandusky, right, arrives in handcuffs at the office of Centre County Magisterial District Judge Leslie A. Dutzschl while being escorted by Pennsylvania State Police and Attorney General's Office officials on Nov. 5. In state College, Pa. Sandusky is charged with sexually abusing eight boys.
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handling this the right way ... or what I thought at the time was right
... I had to make tough impacting quick decisions"
The grand jury report issued Nov. 5, the day Sandusky was charged with 40 criminal counts for alleged sexual abuse against eight boys over 15 years, goes into considerable detail about the March 2002 incident. McQuery was putting sneakers into his locker late on a Friday night when, the jury said, he saw Sandusky having sex with a
He left, "distraught," and contacted his father and then head coach Joe Paterno, jurors said. McQueary later met with athletic director Tim Curley and vice president Gary Schultz to describe what he had seen, the grand jury said. Curley and Schultz are charged with not alerting authorities to the report and lying to the grand jury. Paterno lost his job last week, but has not been charged and is not considered a target of investigators.
young boy.
state prosecutors have said.
As a result of the scandal, Curley and Schultz have left their posts, and university president Graham Spanier was also forced out of his job. U.S. Steel said Tuesday Spanier has resigned from its board, where he had been a director since 2008.
On Monday night, Sandusky said in an NBC television interview that he showered with and "horsed around" with boys but was innocent of criminal charges.
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