Volume 124 Issue 31
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Mondav. October 3, 2011
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which ranked him 109th. This season, Webb's rating is 181.5, making him the fifth most efficient passer in the division. Along with tremendous in-game improvement this past season, Webb has done at Kansas what he had been wanting to do his whole life — lead.
"His execution, he's making better reads and he's looking down the field, and is more accurate by far," Beshears said. "He just stepped up as a leader, I think that's the biggest improvement, him stepping up as a leader."
"I've said this from day one; he has two very important, crucial traits to be successful and that's
Offensive coordinator Chuck Long has seen what sets Webb apart from some of the other Division 1 quarterbacks who also work hard during the offseason.
toughness and competitiveness," Long said. "If you have a tough competitor at that quarterback position, people will follow that."
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Webb's toughness shows on the field, where he often is not afraid to take a hit or make a play that other quarterbacks may not. Pick said Webb once wrestled 305-pound offensive lineman Duane Zlatnik after Webb had beat him in a video game, and Zlatnik continued to talk smack about it.
"It it shows that he doesn't really care, he'll go up against anybody." Pick said.
He'll be going up against the a Texas Tech Red Raiders defense this Saturday that has not faced any truly threatening quarterback. With that said, the Red Raiders' defense has only allowed an average of 184.3 passing yards in their first three games, an impressive number against anyone.
The Red Raiders run a 4-2-5 style defense. The extra defensive back makes it more difficult to throw against than a regular 4-3 or 3-4 defense. But just as Webb has done before, he'll have to overcome some adversity.
Going from a freshman in high school who was thought to be too small to play the position, to a quarterback with passer rating numbers near the top of college football is an impressive feat, but not quite impressive enough for the kid who has always had his eyes set on this.
"It's been awesome. I worked really hard, I had a lot of good people in my corner," Webb said.
"It's cool to be here, but I've got a lot more I want to accomplish."
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eight and 28 yards, respectively, the first leading to a touchdown drive. The 28-yard catch came on a spectacular tiptoeing effort on the sidelines. With two Yellow Jackets closing in on him, Biere went from steamroller to "Swan Lake" twisting and turning all of his 250 pounds in mid-air like a ballerina to keep the drive alive.
Few Jayhawk fans who attended last year's season opener against North Dakota State could have imagined this kind of raw athleticism and ability to catch a spectacular pass from Biere. In that infamous 6-3 loss to the Bison, Biere had three drops, all on third down plays. In only three games this season, the senior has eight receptions for 94 yards, almost half of his total output from his junior year.
Interestingly enough, another argument for including Biere more in the passing attack is who he was before he became a Jayhawk. Rivals.com listed Biere as the 19th-best tight end recruit
in the country when he was wooed by former coach Mark Mangino. The Omaha native chose Kansas over Nebraska and was projected to be an impact player for years to come.
With only 48 receptions and four touchdowns in his career, that impact has only been seen through flashes of brilliance. But his size alone makes him one of the few current Jayhawks that could get a flier from an NFL team after he graduates. That alone should warrant more defensive respect, especially in the red zone.
In one of his excruciatingly repetitive lines in "Madden 12," color commentator Cris Collinsworth says tight ends are like pacifiers for babies. While quarterback Jordan Webb has exceeded all expectations so far this season, he is still a sophomore. Instead of yanking Webb a dozen times per game for predictable Wildcat formations, the coaching staff should draw up more plays for the tight end.
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GOLF
Shared lead at Dunhill Links Championship
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The South African shot a 6-under 66 in excellent conditions at Kingsbarns, joining Rafael Cabrera-Bello, Markus Brier and Michael Hoey at the top of the leaderboard.
Former British Open champion Louis Oosthuizen put himself in contention for another memorable victory at St. Andrews, taking a share of the lead Thursday after the first round of the Dunhill Links Championship.
The tournament ends Sunday at St. Andrews, the scene of Oosthuizen's sensational seven-shot win in the 2010 British Open.
"There's nothing better than holding the claret jug at St. Andrews," Oosthuizen said. "Hopefully, at the end of the week, it's a different trophy. That would be special."
Former U.S. Open champion Graeme McDowell was one of six players a stroke behind after shooting a 67 at Kingsbarns, where top-ranked Luke Donald had a 69 on one of three courses at the $5 million event
Fifth-ranked Dustin Johnson, the top American in the field, was five shots back at 71, while U.S. Open
champion Rory McIlroy shot 72.
Each member of the 178-man field will play all three par-72 courses over the first three days of the pro-am. Kingsbarns hosted the high-profile contenders and had most of the low scoring on Thursday.
Seven of the top 10 on the leaderboard played their first rounds there, with Brier and Hoey (St. Andrews) and Scotland's Marc Warren (5 under at Carnoustie) the only players to make a serious mark elsewhere.
Oosthuizen missed last year's Dunhill Links — and with it a return to St. Andrews two months after his first major win — because of an ankle injury. He made seven birdies in his回身 after starting on No. 10 with his brother Rikus as a playing partner.
"I didn't watch (the Dunhill Links) on TV last year because I was too upset that I wasn't there," said Oosthuizen, whose sole victory this year came at the Africa Open. "But it's nice to come back here and experience everything again. With the weather like this, you should take advantage of it. You never know what's round the corner here."
Cabrera-Bello squandered the
chance to take the outright lead at 7 under by bogeying the last hole. The 27-year-old Spaniard rolled in six birdies and had an eagle at the par-5 No.3.
After getting advice from former coach Clive Tucker, a refreshed McDowell returned from three weeks to make four birdies and an eagle at Kingsbarns. He had a double-boey at No. 12, his third hole.
Second-ranked Lee Westwood, Colin Montgomerie, Padraig Harrington and former amateur star Tom Lewis were among the 11 players at 4 under.
Aside from a bogey at No. 7, where he three-putted for the first time since the British Open in July, Donald was error-free. He had three birdies in five holes after the turn, just when the wind started to pick up off the North Sea in the early afternoon.
Donald is aiming for his fifth victory this year and improve his standing at the top of the European Tour money list.
Golfers hit the links for children's charity
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Jhonathon Vegas and William McGirt shot career-best 8-under 63s on Thursday to share the first-round lead in the Justin Timberlake Shriner Hospitals for Children Open.
Vegas, the Venezuelan rookie who won the Bob Hope Classic in January for his first PGA Tour title, had 10 birdies and two bogeys at TPC Summerlin in the first of four Fall Series
McGirt, also a PGA Tour rookie, had eight birdies in a bogey-free round.
Vegas, playing in hot afternoon conditions, birdied the par-4 15th and par-5 16th to reach 8 under, dropped a stroke on the par-3 17th and closed with a birdie on the par-4 18th to get back to 8 under.
"I feel like I'm hitting the ball absolutely great, which is something fun to do," Vegas said. "But the main thing was I made a lot of putts today."
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McGirl, playing in one of the last groups of the day, made seven birdies in a 10-hole stretch from Nos. 7 to 16, then parred the final two holes to match Vegas at 8 under.
"I really didn't set a number," McGirt said. "I was just trying to make as many birdies as I could. Thursday through Saturday, all you're doing is jockeying for position so that you can make a move on Sunday.
"I knew there was a 7 under posted (by Green) before I even teed off. So you knew it was out there, and it was just a matter of staying aggressive and making some putts."
Green, the leader until Vegas overtook him in the final hour, made seven birdies. The Australian won the 2009 Canadian Open for his lone PGA Tour title
"Just no mistakes, which was nice"
Green said. "No bogues, which was pretty unusual." "I didn't hit it overly close. It was just one of those steady rounds where I just managed to pick up; there's probably three or four sort of unexpected birds out there."
Jonathan Byrd, the winner last year when he made a hole in-one on the fourth hole of a playoff with Martin Laird and Cameron Percy, opened with a 71.
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Student authors offer insight, advice on amateur publishing
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KELSEY CIPOLLA
kcipolla@kansan.com
While some students refused to shave or looked forward to celebrating the holidays last November, Jason Held, a senior from Minneapolis, wrote a novel. For writers across the country November is National Novel Writing Month, an online contest that challenges participants to write 50,000 words in 30 days. Held initially held
Held initially had no intention of participating, but other members of the Jayhawk-Writers on Campus group, or J-WOC, convinced him to participate in the arduous contest.
His book, "The Write Message," follows a 15-year-old boy who hires a literary agent and pursues a publishing deal while trying to balance high school, the challenges of the industry and familial loss. Select chapters of the protagonist's own writing are also included.
"You have to go in there knowing what your book is going to be about," Held said. "I didn't have a complete outline for it, but I knew what it was about."
J-WOC teamed up with KU
"We teamed up with Hewlett-Packard a year ago to start this project and they gave us grant money to come up with ideas to encourage printing on campus," said Rachel Barnes, the KU Bookstores custom material specialist. "What we came up with was the book contest."
Bookstores to incentivize competing in the contest. Participants who met the 50,000 word minimum would have a chance to publish their book.
After months of editing and revising, Held's book was finally ready for publication. The Print-
On-Demand center, which allows students, faculty, and community members to print and bind their own works, helped produce "The Write Message."
Julie Honn, outreach and communications officer for J-WOC, and a senior from Lenexa, said Held's success is encouraging to other student writers.
"We were serving as a small scale publisher for him," said Barnes. The bookstore also coordinated selling the book in the store and through Amazon.
"It shows that it's achievable, to
achieve that balance and achieve
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Although the novel was published last April, Held is still shocked to have actually published a book.
that dream" Honn said. "That's what everybody who writes does it for, that' hope somebody reads this someday."
"It's a really strange feeling," he said. "I almost couldn't believe it, but I knew it was my story, I knew I wrote it. I had spent months on it."
Held will discuss his book today at 5 p.m. at Jayhawk Ink inside the Kansas Union. There will also be a panel discussion with other
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student writers about students' writing experiences.
Student Author Reading Jason Held will read from and discuss his new novel "The Wrote Message."
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Monday October 3,2011
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