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THE UNIVERSITY HARY LANSAN
quote of the day
"I truly believe that I'm the best quarterback in the conference."
Josh Freeman, at Big 12 Media Day this summer in Kansas City
fact of the day
trivia of the day
Kansas State quarterback Josh Freeman has 39 career touchdown passes and 31 interceptions.
Q: What quarterback leads the country with a completion percentage of 81.8 percent?
A: Texas' Colt McCoy, McCoy has also thrown 21 touchdowns.
ku sports this week
Today
Soccer: Missouri, 6:30 p.m.
(Columbia, Mo.)
Tennis: Florida State Invitational,
All Day (Tailahassee, Fla.)
Saturday
Football: Kansas State, 11:30 a.m. (Lawrence)
Swimming: Missouri, 2 p.m. (Columbia, Mo.)
Volleyball: Kansas State, 7 p.m. (Manhattan)
Cross Country: Big 12 Championships (Ames, Iowa)
Tennis: Florida State Invitational, All Day (Tallahassee, Fla.)
Sunday
**Women's Basketball:** Fort Hays State, 2 p.m. (Lawrence)
**Rowing:** Frostbite Regatta, all day (Wichita)
**Tennis:** Florida State Invitational, all day (Tabassee, Fla.)
CRIME
Six charged with hazing at a football camp
LAS VEGAS, N.M. — Six youths were charged with conspiracy and other crimes stemming from a hazing case at a high school football camp in which young players were allegedly sodomized with broodstorms.
District Attorney Henry Valdez announced the Children's Court charges Wednesday and said he would decide within 10 days whether to seek adult sanctions against the youths.
The charges stem from allegations of sexual assault on younger players by older players at the Robertson High School camp Aug. 11-14. A state police report said younger players were told to "take it like a man" and that their attackers ignored their pleas to stop.
One football player was expelled and five others were suspended from school for the rest of the year. Those six were never publicly identified and it was not clear if they were the same six youths charged Wednesday.
KU starting safety discusses favorite thrillers
Hello, Darrell Stuckey. I want to play a game.
On this least holy of holidays, I want to find out if Kansas football's nicest player likes horror movies.
"I love the Saw series," he said.
"All five of them were good."
That's right, the layhawks' starting safety and all-humanitarian was chomping at the bit for last week's release of Jigsaw's revenge part five. That's a twist worthy of a good M. Night Shyamalan movie, a feat unaccomplished since he became M. Night Shamillionaire.
I'm not saying that nice guys can't enjoy a good murder every now and then, but at least give me
Associated Press
“It’s not really a scary movie, it’s more of a thriller.” Stuckey said, “You don't leave there scared, you leave there thinking. 'Oh my goodness, I can't believe somebody could think of that stuff.'”
a reason.
I never realized that jigsaw was a thinking-man's killer. Wait, I guess that title doesn't really work for this titan of torture.
"He's not killing them," Stuckey said. "That's pretty creative, how he can think of ways to make people kill themselves or sacrifice themselves."
Apparently Jigsaw has many layers, kind of like an onion or an ore.
The Saw franchise, a Halloween tradition since 2004, started with a clever little flick that was filmed in 18 days. The film's popularity grew tenfold with the murder of Danny Glover, who finally got his come-ups for makin "Gone Fishin"
As Stuckey points out, this
series doesn't fall in line with the traditional cinema slashers, because the bad guy isn't doing the slashing. He's just a creepy, old pseudo vigilante with cancer. Think Bruce Wayne in 50 years with a sudden blood thirst.
Stuckey said he really enjoys the irony of the situations that Jigsaw puts his victims in. People who tried to commit suicide now fight for their lives or a hateful father murders when saving a life would end his nightmare.
Really, it makes sense. What football player doesn't like violence?
My surprise was more that Stuckey could find some highway we do it. We don't do it for revenge, we do it for correction and rehabilitation $ ^{109} $
Obviously I wasn't searching deep enough for Jigsaw's purpose, so Stuckey straightened me out with a life lesson from "Saw III."
"He got mad at one of his successors for killing people just to kill people," Stuckey said. "He said, 'That's not jigsaw, that's not the
Rehab with chains, barbed wire and the creepiest doll to ever ride a tricycle. Happy Halloween.
FROM BEYOND THE GRAVE
"Saw V" director David Hackl is already signed on for "Saw VI," which will continue the succession of Halloween releases next year. That's an amazing feat considering Jigsaw SPOILER ALERT — died in "Saw III."
FROM BEYOND THE GRAVE
Stuckey endorsed "Saw V" with a rating of 7.8 out of 10. He said it resembled "Saw IV" with a plot that ties in all of its predecessors.
"Topac [died] too, but he still makes music." Stuckey said.
Stuckey has inadvertently solved America's greatest mystery. Tupac is alive and he's continuing Jigsaw's work.
— Edited by Arthur Hur
PGA
Price, Eger tied on top at Charles Schwab Cup
You can't catch me
SONOMA, Calif. — Nick Price made a 25-foot putt on the 18th hole to pull even with David Eger at 6-under 66 atop the leaderboard Thursday in the opening round of the Charles Schwab Cup Championship.
Battling intermittent rains that are expected to get a whole lot worse on the weekend, Price and Eger took a one-stroke lead over Mike Goodes in the Champions Tour's season-ending event. Tom Kite, who played a bogey-free round along with Price, and Andy Bean are two shots back in the $2.5 million tournament, which also decides the tour's season-long Schwab Cup points competition.
"Given the forecast, I guess this was the round to get your good score in," said Eger, who sneaked into the field of the tour's top 29 players after an inconsistent season
Price also is out of contention for the Schwab Cup and its $1 million annuity after playing just a part-time Champions Tour schedule.
Dan Erwin, left, Naperville, Ill., freshman, breaks away from Mike Schmidt, Evergreen Park, Ill., senior, during a tackle football game Thursday afternoon. Members of Delta Tau Delta organized the game to take advantage of the sunny weather and stay in shape.
Jerrv Wanu/KANSAN
SOCCER
AC Milan looks to sign David Beckham in loan
MILAN, Italy — AC Milan is close to signing David Beckham in a loan deal that would allow the Los Angeles Galaxy midfielder and former England captain to play in italy for a few months starting in January.
With the Major League Soccer season nearly over, Beckham is eager to join another club in Europe so he can remain in shape and keep his place on England's team for World Cup qualifying. England coach Fabio Capello has said he will not pick players who are not active.
Associated Press
KICK THE KANSAN: WEEK NINE
Pick games. Beat the Kansan staff. Get your name in the paper.
This week's games:
1. Northwestern at No. 17 Minnesota
2. West Virginia at No. 25 Connecticut
3. Wisconsin at No. 21 Michigan State
4. Kansas State at Kansas
5. No. 15 Florida State at Georgia Tech
6. No. 18 Tulsa at Arkansas
6. No. 18 Tulsa at Arkansas
7. No. 8 Florida at No. 6 Georgia
8. No. 1 Texas at No. 7 Texas Tech
10. Tennessee at South Carolina
E-mail:
Year in school:
Hometown:
Name:
Rules:
1) Only KU students are eligible.
2) Give your name, e-mail year in school and hometown.
3) Beat the best prognosticator at the Kansan and get your name in the paper.
4) Hold 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.
Either submit your picks to Kick theKansan@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.
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Men's basketball poll
For the 17th time in the last 18 years, Kansas is ranked in the preseason USA Today/ESPN Top 25 Coaches' Poll.
The defending national champions are ranked No.23 in the poll. Since the poll began in 1989, the Jayhawks have been unranked only three times. Their average starting position in the poll is seventh. Only two other Big 12 teams are ranked in the preseason poll — Texas at No.8 and Oklahoma at No.14. Baylor, Texas A&M and Oklahoma State also received votes.
North Carolina, which lost to Kansas in the Final Four last season, was a unanimous choice for No. 1. The Tar Heels return all their starters from last year's team, as opposed to the Jayhawks who return none. Connecticut, Louisville, UCLA and Duke round out the top five.
USA Today/ESPN Coaches' Poll
1. North Carolina
2. Connecticut
3. Louisville
4. UCLA
5. Duke
6. Pittsburgh
7. Michigan State
**8. Texas**
9. Notre Dame
10. Purdue
11. Gonzaga
12. Memphis
13. Tennessee
**14. Oklahoma**
15. Arizona State
16. Miami
17. Marquette
18. Georgetown
19. Florida
20. Davidson
21. (tie) USC
22. (tie) Wisconsin
**23. Kansas**
24. Wake Forest
25. Villanova
- Case Keefer
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