THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 2008
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Center out two weeks with stress reaction
McCray will need to step up as Boogaard faces recovery
BY JAYSON JENKS
jjenks@kansan.com
Coach Bonnie Henrickson has seen this before.
Last Wednesday, doctors informed Hendrickson that sophomore center Krysten Boogaard would miss at least two weeks with a stress reaction in her left femur.
Boogaard missed Sunday's game against St. Louis because of the injury.
Last season, junior Danielle McCray missed two weeks with a stress reaction in her shin.
"We're cautiously optimistic that will be the case for Krysten," Henrickson said.
Boogaard, a member of the Big 12 All-Rookie Team last season and Kansas' most talented low-
post scorer, will be reevaluated
Dec. 3.
"She was the one who was the low-post presence.She got down on the block and demanded the ball."
Untilthen, sophomore Nicollette Smith will fill Boogaard's starting position.
Smith, who averages 5.7 points per game this season, gives Kansas another three-point option: She's made three this year.
But Henrickson said Smith must improve her rebounding in Boogaard's absence.
"She has to be more active on the offensive glass," Henrickson said. "She's got to be more active getting in the lane."
The injury also slightly reshapes Kansas's offensive approach.
said, the jayhawks ran more plays designed for the guards.
And Danielle McCray, junior guard-forward, posted up her defender more often without Boogaard in the lineup.
Against St. Louis, Henrickson
McCray scored 27 points and grabbed a team-high 12 rebounds while attacking closer to the basket. That was part of the plan entering Sunday's game.
After learning of Boogaard's injury on Wednesday, Henrickson added more plays designed for McCray to post up.
BONNIE HENRICKSON Kansas coach
"She was the one who was
the low-post presence," Henrickson said about the game against St. Louis. "She got down on the block and demanded the ball."
In their first game without Boogaard, the Jayhawks were
out-rebounded 43-36 while allowing the Billikens to grab 18 offensive rebounds.
Smith and junior forward Porscha Weddington combined for just seven rebounds in 68 minutes.
Still, Henrickson remains optimistic that Boogaard will miss just one game — against New Orleans on Nov. 30.
She said she hoped Boogaard would be back in the lineup on Dec.4 when the Jayhawks play San Jose State at home.
"Well," Henrickson said, "it's just got to rest and heal."
Weston White/KANSAN
— Edited by Andy Greenhaw
Krysten Boogaard attempts to block a shot against Sacred Heart. She is out for at least two weeks with a stress reaction in her left leg.
Washington Wizards shake up coaching staff
NBA
WASHINGTON — Even without Gilbert Arenas and another injured starter, the Washington Wizards never imagined they would be as in the worst shape the franchise has ever been in.
So after opening 1-10 to match the worst start in team history, the Wizards fired coach Eddie Jordan and his top assistant Monday and gave director of player development Ed Tapscott his first NBA head coaching job.
"That's an unacceptable record, obviously" team president Ernie Grunfeld said. "We thought the change needed to be made. We needed to do things a little bit different."
With that in mind, Grunfeld phoned Jordan and delivered the news — after the coach spent Monday morning distributing turkeys during a team charity event. Grunfeld then informed Tapscott — who was at the arena, watching tape and preparing to help Jordan at practice.
Instead, Tapscott wound up running the session.
"Surreal," he said.
He was given the title of interim coach and will run the Wizards until the end of the season, when Grunfeld said he plans to "evaluate everything."Associate head coach Mike O'Koren also was fired Monday.
The coach at American University in the 1980s, and an NBA front-office employee for years since, Tapscott will make his professional coaching debut Tuesday night against the visiting Golden State Warriors.
"We're better than 1-10. we know it. But we're all responsible,"Tapscott said at a news conference, a whistle dangling from his neck.
Jordan, the Eastern Conference's coach at the 2007 All-Star game, was in his sixth season with the Wizards. He led the team to the playoffs each of the past four.
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Associated Press
GM ends endorsement deal with Tiger
BY TOM KRISHER
ASSOCIATED PRESS
DETROIT — General Motors is bailing on Tiger Woods.
Woods, a global icon in sports with his 14 major championships, has been carrying the Buick logo on his golf bag for the last nine years and still had one year left on his contract.
But General Motors Corp. was looking to cut costs and hoard cash while trying to survive the worst sales downtown in a quarter-century. And it said Monday the world's No. 1 golfer wanted more time for himself, especially with a second child on the way.
"Timing is everything," said Larry Peck, golf marketing manager for Buick. "We've had such a great partnership with Tiger. It's hard for us to walk away from that. But this frees up time for him. And it sure frees up a lot of money for us."
The endorsement deal, believed to be worth at least $7 million a year, was to expire at the end of 2009.
Woods has endorsed GM products around the world and mainly has been seen in Buick commercials as the company tried to give the nameplate a more youthful image.
"We attribute awareness of our product to Tiger," he said.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Buick's U.S. sales have dropped 54 percent from 2000, the first full year Woods worked with GM, to 2007, according to Ward's AutoInfoBank. The brand's global sales, however, rose 17 percent during that span, according to GM. Buick is particularly popular in China.
General Motors Corp. says it will not renew its endorsement deal with Tiger Woods, right, at the end of the year. GM said in a statement Monday that it was looking to reduce costs and that Woods wanted more personal time as he awaited the birth of his second child.
The average age of the brand's buyers also dropped. Around 2001, the average age was in the low 70s, but it has since fallen to 66 for Buick sedans and 53 for the Enclave.
GM has been making dramatic cuts in advertising as it tries to conserve cash. The nation's largest automaker spent nearly $7 billion more than it took in last quarter
and has warned that without federal help, it may reach the minimum amount of cash required to run the company by the end of the year.
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