THE UNIVERSITY DAIRY KANSAN
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 2008
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Two Kansas players named to the All-Central Region team
BY ANDREW WIEBE awiebe@kansan.com
A little more than three weeks after Kansas' season ended with
a second round loss in the NCAA Tournament.
Two of Mark Francis' players received postseason honors for their play in 2008.
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Junior midfielder Monica Dolinsky and junior defender Estelle Johnson were selected to
the National Soccer Coaches Association of America All-Central Region team. Johnson was named a first-team defender.
Johnson became the first jayhawk named first team all-region since 2004. She started all 22 matches in 2008 and played 2,110 minutes, the most of anyone on the team. Johnson scored her first collegiate goal at Oklahoma State in a 3-2 defeat.
Dolinsky was named to the All-Big 12 First Team in addition to her regional accolades. Dolinsky paced Kansas with nine goals and 28 points, the fourth-highest point total in team history. She also set a postseason record with three assists in a 4-2 victory against Texas A&M in the Big 12 Championship quarterfinals.
Seventeen of the 33 players named to the All-Central Region team came from the Big 12 Conference.
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and Dolinsky earned secondteam honors as a midfielder.
MEN'S BASKETBALL Freshman guard named rookie of the week
The Big 12 Conference honored freshman guard Tyshawn Taylor with the Phillips 66 Big 12 Rookie of the Week award Monday.
Taylor started in all three of Kansas's games last week and posted a career-high 23 points in Wednesday's 100-79 victory against New Mexico State. He
also recorded a career-high 11 assists in the 86-62 victory against Jackson State Saturday
For the week, Taylor averaged 15 points and five assists.Overall this season, he is averaging nearly 12 points and four assists.
It was the 13th time a Jayhawk won the award. No Kansas players, however, won it last year. The last time came on January 2006 when Brandon Rush took home the honor.
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WOMEN'S BASKETBALL McCray honored with her first Player of Week award
Junior guard Danielle McCray would have liked the Jayhawks to win both games last week. Still, individually McCray had an impressive week on the court. She was named Big 12 Women's Basketball Player of the Week.
McCray averaged 21 points and nine rebounds in Kansas' two games — a victory against San Jose State and a loss at Marquette. The award is the first Player of the Week for McCray.
Through six games, McCray leads the Jayhawks in points, rebounds, steals and made three-pointers.
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Former KU player earns PGA Tour Card
BY BRYAN WHEELER
bwheeler@kansan.com
Former Kansas golfer Gary Woodland has made it to the big leagues.
Edited by Lauren Keith
With a 10th place finish in the PGA Qualifying Tournament, Woodland, a former Jayhawk, earned his 2009 PGA Tour Card. Players who place in the top 25 in the tournament gain membership to the tour for the following season.
"It's unbelievable. To make the tour in his first tournament is quite a feat," Kansas coach Kit Grove said. "To now get to play with and be considered one of the top 150 golfers in the world is something."
Woodland came from 24 spots behind on Sunday in the fifth round of the tournament to tie for ninth place for the tournament's final round.
Woodland had finished 20 strokes under par and recorded 31 birdies in six rounds.
Woodland last played for the Jayhawks in 2007. His career was highlighted by two invitations to the NCAA Regional tournament. Woodland also had four victories and 10 other top 10 finishes at Kansas.
Woodland, a Topeka native, was also a three-time state basketball player at Shawnee Heights High School. Before attending Kansas, Woodland played one season at Washburn as a guard and averaged six points.
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Arizona Cardinals' Kurt Warner celebrates with fans as he leaves the field after the Cardinals victory against the St. Louis Rams on Sunday. The Cardinals defended the fares 34-10 to clinch the NFC West division title.
Cardinals still savoring their NFC West championship
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GLENDALE, Ariz. — This is all so new to the Arizona Cardinals, except for their quarterback.
Kurt Warner has gone far beyond a mere division title — yet he knows Arizona's NFC West championship was a long, long time coming.
"What's so special about this is where we've come since I've been here, what this organization was when I got here and the perception of it and the work we had to do," Warner said. "Now is sweet."
Sweet it was for the Cardinals on Sunday as the final seconds ticked away in a 34-10 victory over St. Louis that gave them their first division championship in 33 years.
Warner completed 24 of 33 passes for 279 yards against a Rams team he once led to a Super Bowl title. He reached 347 completions for the season, breaking the Cardinals' record of 345 set by Neil Lomax in 1984.
"My coach was like, 'Act like you've been there before, act like you've been there before,' defensive tackle Darnell Dockett said. "I said, 'Coach, I ain't been there before. I don't know how to act right now."
"He's a leader," St. Louis defensive end Leonard Little said. "He knew how to win because he was here winning with us for so long."
Long the league's doormat franchise with just one winning season in the last 24 years, the Cardinals earned their first playoff berth since 1998 and first divisional title since they won the NFC East in 1975.
As NFC West champions, the Cardinals will host a playoff game for the first time since, as the Chicago Cardinals, they defeated Philadelphia to win the NFL title in 1947.
"It's hard to put into perspective what this means to people who have been here for 20-some years, working for this, that have laid the groundwork for this," Arizona coach Ken Whisenhunt said.
Arizona's defense scored both of the team's second-half touchdowns, including a team record-tying 99-yard interception return by rookie Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie with 3:11 to play.
"He looked like a blur." Whisenhunt said.
Arizona (8-5) beat St. Louis (2-11) for the fifth straight time and extended the Rams' losing streak to seven games. After losses to the New York Giants and Philadelphia Eagles, the Cardinals improved to 5-0 against NFC West foes.
Michael Bidwill, the team's president and son of longtime owner Bill Bidwill, raised both fists in triumph as he trotted off the field. In the locker room, players donned T-shirts and hats with "NFC West Champions" emblazoned on them.
Bidwill said his father "is very, very happy. This is the first time he's gotten a hat, you know. He likes his hat a lot."
Even running back Edgerrin James, who has asked to be traded after being benched, said he felt good for everyone involved.
"It's unfortunate the situation with myself," he said, "but at the end of the day you're happy for the city of Phoenix, you're happy for the fans, you're happy for the Bidwills and (general manager) Rod Graves."
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