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SPORTS
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2008
THE UNIVERSITY OF DAILY KANSAN
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2008
quote of the day
"They went crazy in the locker room. I'm glad I didn't get Gatoraded."
Missouri football coach Gary Pinkel, Kansas City Star
fact of the day
Missouri, who clinched the Big 12 North football title on Saturday, had not won consecutive division or conference titles since 1941 and 1942.
KU sports schedule
Today No events
Tuesday
Women's Basketball: Iowa, 11 a.m. (Lawrence)
Men's Basketball: Florida Gulf Coast, 8 p.m. (Lawrence)
Wednesday No events
Thursday No events
Friday No events
Saturday
Saturday Volleyball: Texas, 6:30 p.m.
(Austin, Texas)
Sunday
Releford resembles T.I. in multiple ways
Women's Basketball: New Orleans, 2 p.m. (Lawrence)
First off, props to my friend Tommy for coming up with this comparison. Freshman guard Travis Releford resembles rapper T.I., especially how T.I. looks in the movie "American Gangster"
No word on whether Releford is a T.I. fan or not, but how could he not be? The rapper's songs "Live Your Life" and "Whatever You Like" are ranked No. 1 and No.
Releford
2 on the Billboard Hot 100, and feature a sample from the Numa Numa Internet phenomenon, choruses that stay in your head for days and an earnest attempt by T.I. to turn the word poverty into a verb. What more could you ask for?
Few artists have ever had the
top two songs in the country at the same time, but considering T.I.'s circumstances, the feat is even more impressive. T.I. starts serving a one-year prison sentence in March for
possession of unregistered machine guns and silencers. He's definitely the most successful artist in music history who's on the brink of entering prison.
Usually, impending prison sentences spell doom for musicians.
Foxy Brown had to put an album on hiatus. Scott Weiland's group
The Stone Temple Pilots disbanded while he was in legal limbo.
NASCAR Johnson takes the title, but Edwards wins the race
HOMESTEAD, Fla. — Nothing could stop Jimmie Johnson's drive into the NASCAR record books. Not even a final, furious push by Carl Edwards.
His series-high ninth win of the year wasn't enough to wrest
Edwards led a race-high 157 laps, ran out of gas as he crossed the finish line, but still won Sunday's season-ending race at Homestead-Miami Speedway.
away the Sprint Cup title from Johnson.
Johnson locked up his third consecutive championship with a solid 15th-place run, beating Edwards by 69 points to Join Cale Yarborough as the only drivers in NASCAR history to win three straight titles.
Reletford has a long way to go before he reaches a T1. level of success, but he's on the right path in the early part of the season. He's averaged 6.5 points a game for the first two exhibitions, and earlier this fall led the team in scoring during its Canada trip.
A flurry of first-half kicks ended their season.
ARE NON-REVENUE SPORTS RETURNING TO PROMINENCE?
Stanford scored three goals in seven minutes and like that, the Jayhawks' bid for an upset was finished. They lost. Badly. But this season was still a sign of progress
Johnson's titles have been won in the glitzy new Chase to the championship format, where the best 12 drivers compete over a 10-race sprint to the title.
for the soccer team and a much-needed boost for non-revenue sports at the University.
Lew Perkins has won awards, sat in a Super Bowl suite and gained national attention as an athletics director building basketball and football champions, but he hasn't built a solid stable of non-revenue sports.
The soccer
Associated Press
Outside of men's cross country and soccer this fall, non-revenue sports haven't achieved success at a national level in the last two years. The baseball, softball, women's basketball and volleyball teams have all finished at or near the bottom of the conference in that time.
The baseball and softball teams made the NCAA Tournament in
2006, but only after winning the conference tournament. Neither team has returned since. The last time the volleyball team made it was in 2005, and the women's basketball team hasn't made the tournament since 2000.
team's NCAA Tournament appearance is a start for KU non-revenue sports to get back to prominence. Perkins and the Athletics Department had better hope it's the start of a turnaround for several of the teams, because non-revenue sports need to improve.
Horns hooked him
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Fox Sports Network sideline reporter Jim Knox nods a children's Texas helmet and joins fans in the stands at Memorial Stadium during Saturday's game against Texas. Texas defeated Kansas 35-7.
Edited by Kelsey Hayes
KICK THE KANSAN: WEEK ELEVEN
Pick games. Beat the Kansan staff. Get your name in the paper.
1. No. 2 Texas Tech at No. 5 Oklahoma (pick score)
2. No. 15 Michigan State at No. 8 Penn S
3. No. 17 Brigham Young at No. 7 Utah
4. No. 21 Pittsburgh at No. 22 Cincinnati
5. No. 19 Florida State at Maryland
6. Iowa State at Kansas State
7. Oregon State at Arizona
8. Illinois at northwestern
9. West Virginia at Louisville
10. Washington at Washington State
10. Washington at Washington State
E-mail:
Name:
Year in school:
Hometown:
1) Only KU students are eligible.
2) Give your name, e-mail, year in school and hometown.
3) Beat the Kansan's best prognosticator and get your name in the paper.
4) Beat all your peers and get your picture and picks in the paper next to the Kansan staff.
5) To break ties, pick the score of the designated game.
Submit your picks either to KickTheKansan@kansan.com or to the Kansan business office,
located at the West side of Stauffer-Flint Hall, which is between Wescoe Hall and Watson Library.
--picking eight of the weekend's 10 games correctly. Kansas has a bye week this weekend, but Kick the Kansan will be back for its second to last week. Don't forget to send your picks to KicktheKansan@kansan.com.
KICK THE KANSAN: RESULTS
With two weeks left in the Kick the Kansan season, readers Dan Holmes, Olathe senior, Justin Anderson, Laurel, Neb., senior, and Max Wescoe, San Diego junior, continue to lead the pack, Holmes, Ai derson and
Wescoe all finished 8-2 — good enough for the top of the readers standings, but not good enough to "Kick the Kansan". University Daily Kansan football writer B.J. Rains had his best showing of the season while
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