2B SPORTS
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAS
THURSDAY NOVEMBER 20,2008
quote of the day
"I don't know how the guys felt, but I got close to tearing up before the game. That was pretty cool. I thought the game day production did a fabulous job. It was pretty moving. I thought that it was pretty cool looking at all the people with their cell phones out taking pictures."
fact of the day
— Bill Self, on the banner ceremony before Tuesday night's game
The Kansas basketball program is 72-8 since losing to Bradley on March 17, 2006, in the first round of the NCAA tournament.
trivia of the day
Q: After Kansas' victory against Florida Gulf Coast, what is Bill Self's record at Kansas?
A. 144-32. Self's teams have won 81.8 percent of their games at Kansas.
KU sports schedule
Today-Friday No events
Saturday
Voleyball: Texas, 6:30 p.m.
(Austin, Texas)
Sunday
Women's basketball: St. Louis,
4 p.m. (St. Louis)
Royals buck nights and Plaza Christmas lights
Monday
Monday
Men's basketball: Washington,
9 p.m. (Kansas City, Mo.)
My friend Tank loves Kansas game days. She loves them so much that I think she cried last Saturday. She's a senior. It was her last one.
For some reason, that story came to me as I was walking on campus on Wednesday. I'm not sure why. Maybe I just like the notion that sports can bring that kind of emotion out of people. I saw more emotion on Tuesday night when Kansas dropped its 2008 championship banner. We worry so much about the big things in life that sometimes we don't enjoy the little things.
We're seven days away from Thanksgiving. So I thought I'd write the Morning Brew's first Thanksgiving column. I certainly have a lot to be thankful for. And we're off.
I'm thankful for Sherron Collins on a fast break. Todd Ressey trying to make something out of nothing. Joakim Soria standing on the mound in the ninth with a one run lead. And Tony Gonzalez over the middle. I'm thankful for Stephen Curry's joy, Roger Federer's humility and Rafael Nadal's intensity. I'm thankful for Zack Greinke's quirky remarks and the hit Darrell Stuckey put on that poor Missouri receiver.
I'm thankful for pickup basketball games with people who know how to pass and cut and warm spring days spent on the tennis court. I'm thankful for five-irons that stick seven feet from the flagstick.
I'm thankful for my last four years in Lawrence. I'm thankful for 14th and Ohio, long winding runs through campus, wings and mac n' cheese at Phi Psi and Friday lunches at the Wheel (followed by a game of darts). I'm thankful for the Friday night bar band and football gamesdays with good weather and good company. I'm thankful for professors with energy and the faces in The Kansan newsroom.
I'm thankful for my hometown — the biggest small town in the world. I'm thankful for Royals buck nights and Plaza Christmas lights, driving down Ward Parkway on a sunny day, and the Shawnee Mission South fight song.
I'm thankful for movies with Kansas Citian Paul Rudd and sports columns by Kansas City's Joe Posnanski. I'm thankful for Arthur Bryant's and 18th and Vine I'm thankful for the smell of the parking lot at Arrowhead Stadium
I'm thankful for cold pumpkin pie, homemade banana bread and hot Jose Peppers' espinaca. I'm thankful for packed Chipotle burritos with double meat and waffles with peanut butter spread on the top. I'm thankful for sushi at Yokohama and the beer at Free State. I'm thankful for Rock Chalk Lattes in the morning and Wheel pizza at night.
and the view from the top of the Mamba.
I'm thankful I have one semester of college left.
I'm thankful for dollar night and '80s music at the Wheel. I'm thankful for Tuesday nights with nothing to do. I'm thankful for the KAK and Shipwrecked.
I'm thankful for my mom, dad,
two big sisters and one big brother.
Were almost done. Now for the big finish.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Kansas City Chiefs added three more players on Wednesday to stabilize their hobbled roster.
Strong Hall when the sun sets, movies with Tom Hanks, songs I can't get out of my head, Allen Fieldhouse, text messages that are waiting for me when I wake up, the dollar bills at Jeffersons, iced cappuccinos from Quik Trip, Bill Self's Oklahoma twang, YouTube, the look on Russell Robinson's face after the Memphis game, sleeping in and apples. I really like apples.
Studebaker was the third of Philadelphia's three sixth-round draft choices and spent the last 11 weeks on Philadelphia's practice squad.
I'm thankful for the way the light reflects off the windows of
Gatewood signed this year with Washington as a rookie free agent out of Vanderbilt and appeared in three preseason games before being released.
Chiefs sign two players and promote running back
NFL
Kansas City signed linebacker Curtis Gatewood and defensive end Andy Studebaker to two-year contracts, and promoted running back Jackie Battle from the practice squad. Defensive tackle Antwon Burton also was added to the practice squad.
Battle has appeared in six NFL games, getting 47 yards and a touchdown on 14 carries. The former University of Houston player started his career with Dallas after signing as a rookie free agent in 2007.
MLB
MLB Pedroia wins MVP award for American League
Edited by Brenna Hawley
NEW YORK — Boston little man Dustin Pedroia won the AL MVP award, becoming the first second baseman to earn the honor in nearly a half-century.
Pedroia easily beat out Minnesota slugger Justin Morneau and added to his ever-expanding trophy case. Generously listed at 5-foot-9, the Red Sox star was the top AL rookie last year while winning a World Series ring.
Associated Press
Ryan Waggoner/KANSAN
Serving up warm weather
Andrew Adams, Olathe freshman, returns a serve during a game of tennis Wednesday afternoon behind Robinson Center. The unseasonably warm weather Wednesday brought many students to the tennis courts.
KICK THE KANSAN: WEEK ELEVEN
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1. No. 2 Texas Tech at No. 5 Oklahoma (pick score)
2. No. 15 Michigan State at No. 8 Penn State
3. No. 17 Brigham Young at No. 7 Utah
3 No. 17 Brigham Young at No. 17 UConn
Sherri B. Brigham Young at No. 7 Utah
4. No. 21 Pittsburgh at No. 22 Cincinnati
6. Iowa State at Kansas State
5. No. 19 Florida State at Maryland
7. Oregon State at Arizona
9. West Virginia at Louisville
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Kyle Busch (18), Jimmie Johnson (48), and Kurt Busch (2) race down the front stretch during the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Coca-Cola 600 auto race at Lowe's Motor Speedway in Concord, N.C., in May. Kyle Busch and Edwards opened the 2008 season intent on knocking Jimmie Johnson from the top of NASCAR. Now NACRS teams are feeling the pressure of a downturned economy and are cutting back on team expenditures.
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NASCAR
Teams cut staffs to tighten budgets
BY JENNA FRYER
ASSOCIATED PRESS
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Kyle Busch and Carl Edwards opened the 2008 season intent on knocking Jimmie Johnson from the top of NASCAR.
They chased him all year, but never quite caught him.
The season ended just days ago, but NASCAR teams are in the midst of mass layoffs because the crisis has forced car owners to tighten their belts. The staff reductions have creeped toward the top teams and crippled the smaller organizations.
Despite a combined 17 Sprint Cup Series victories, the challengers came up short in the end when Johnson won his record-tying third consecutive championship.
All three NASCAR super teams have reduced their staffs to trim their hefty budgets.
Bill Davis Racing is down to just a handful of employees as it seeks 2009 sponsorship, and Michael Waltrip Racing joined
It's a celebratory conclusion to another long season, one that started with the usual hope and anticipation only to end shrouded in the uneasiness of the economic crisis.
"Obviously, it's very difficult ... on our whole industry," said NASCAR chairman Brian France. "But we will come out of this."
Petty Enterprises and The Wood Brothers as organizations that have let go from 18 to 30 employees in the past few days.
AndHendrick Motorsports,Joe Gibbs Racing and Roush Fenway Racing have not been immune:
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