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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2008
quote of the day
"Distributing the ball to all the different skill players is our biggest emphasis. We're not a team that hands it to one guy and throws it to two. We want all five skill positions to touch the ball."
Texas Tech coach Mike Leach
fact of the day
Texas Tech senior quarterback Graham Harrell has thrown for 112 career touchdown passes, including 23 this year.
trivia of the day
Q: Who holds the NCAA Division I record for most career touchdown passes?
A: Colt Brennan. Brennan finished his career in 2007 with 131 touchdown passes.
Volleyball: Baylor, 7 p.m.
(Waco, Texas)
Swimming: Texas A&M, 6 p.m.
(Lawrence)
ku sports this week
Thursdav
Today
Swimming: Big 12 Relays, 9 a.m.
(Lawrence)
Soccer: Texas, 3 p.m. (Lawrence)
Women's golf: The Derby, first day
(Auburn, Ala.)
Saturday
Angel falls; team picks up pieces
Friday
Football: Texas Tech, Homecoming, 11 a.m. (Lawrence)
Volleyball: Texas A&M, 6:30 p.m.
(College Station, Texas)
Women's golf: The Derby,
second day (Auburn, Ala.)
Soccer: Baylor, 1 p.m. (Lawrence)
Women's golf: The Derby, final day
(Auburn, Ala.)
This isn't a ecology for Kansas' 2008-09 season. Rather, it's the last respects for the preseason excitement that was budding around Bonnie ball. We hardly knew ve.
Sunday
As a disappointing season came to its disappointing end in the NIT, I heard the prophecy that an Angel was coming to save the Jayhawks.
She was going to be a lightning rod for the jayhawk offense — the piece of the puzzle coach Bonnie Henrickson so desperately needed.
Angel Goodrich, a 5-foot-4 fireball out of Tablequah. Okla., signed with Kansas as the No. 9 point guard in the country, according to ESPN/Hoopgurls.com.
Goodrich was going to be a mash-up of Kansas' current point guards, combining LaChelda Jacobs' athleticism with Ivana
Catie's floor leadership. She flashed some of that potential at Late Night in the Phog, scoring four points and dishing a sweet assist to Danielle McCray for a crucial three-pointer.
However, my stomach turned with one text message early Tuesday morning. Three hours later Henrickson confirmed the grim news at an impromptu press conference.
"Having been excited about Late Night for about 48 hours, one hour into practice Sunday,
For the second time in less than a year, Henrickson lost a promising freshman point guard to an unpredictable practice injury.
Angel Goodrich tore her ACL," Henrickson said.
On Feb. 5, freshman Chakeitha Weldon jump-stopped to avoid a teammate and then fell to the ground in intense pain.
Weldon decided in September to continue her basketball rehab closer to home, transferring to Appalachian State. Angel's presence on the team eased the loss
At Sunday's practice, Kansas' third of the season, Goodrich crossed over to her left hand and made the jump-stop that will haunt her for six months of rehab
Weldon tore her right anterior cruciate ligament; Goodrich tore her left. Neither player made any contact with a teammate during
her injury.
It's a devastating loss for a team that hasn't played a game, and even more so for one that went through the same thing last season. Henrickson was visibly distraught Tuesday.
Goodrich isn't alone in her pain. She's the third Big 12 player to tear an ACL this preseason, and Weldon is just a phone call away if Goodrich wants a comrade-inknees to talk to.
It's a long,road back to the court and it officially begins with surgery next week. Goodrich will
"At media day I said I wouldn't hide my excitement for what I thought she could do for our program, and I'm not going to try to hide my disappointment for her," Henrickson said. "For her and her family, that's just not a very fun part of this profession."
That means prehabilitation in the preseason and a long regular season of rehabilitation.
I have no doubt that the feisty little guard will work her way out of this rut, but I don't know that this year's team will do the same.
"She'll start some rehab today," Henrickson said. "Prehab, they call it."
go under the knife in Lawrence, but before she does, she must strengthen herself as fast as possible to make the first few weeks of recovery easier.
Edited by Andy Greenhaw
Rainin' on the Rays
ASSOCIATED PRESS
B. J. Upton of the Tampa Bay Rays is sprayed with champagne after the Rays defeated the Boston Red Sox to win the American League baseball championship series in St. Petersburg, Fla., Sunday.
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1. No. 8 Texas Tech at No. 19 Kansas
3. No. 9 Georgia at No. 11 LSU
2. No. 7 Oklahoma State at No. 1 Texas
4. No. 14 South Florida at Louisville
5. Virginia Tech at No. 24 Florida State
6. Baylor at Nebraska
7. Colorado at No. 16 Missouri
8. Wyoming at No. 14 TCU
9. No. 3 Penn State at No. 10 Ohio State
10. No. 6 USC at Arizona
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NFL
49ers fire coach before bye week
BY GREG BEACHAM ASSOCIATED PRESS
SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Mike Singletary replaced his coaching mentor Tuesday with a vow to build on what Mike Nolan started with the San Francisco 49ers.
Singletary acknowledged mixed feelings when the 49ers asked him to be the interim successor to Nolan, the dapper coach whose teams never played as well as he dressed. Nolan was fired Monday night after seven games in his fourth consecutive dismal season.
Singletary, the former linebacker
who made the Hall of Fame during his stellar career with the Chicago Bears, praised Nolan's work in raising the 49ers to a measure of respectability after they arrived in town nearly four years ago to take over the NFL's worst team. After accepting the job with Nolan's blessing, Singletary said he thought San Francisco could improve quickly.
"Right now, the guys realize that we do have something here." Singletary said. "To what degree, I don't know, but we do have something special here. It's a matter of stepping in and being able to bring it together, and that's something I've done all my life."
After four straight losses culminating in Sunday's 29-17 defeat to the New York Giants, the 49ers didn't even wait until their bye next week before replacing Nolan with Singletary, who has been Nolan's right-hand man since he entered coaching in 2003. Singletary also will be a candidate for the permanent job after the season, general manager Scot McCloughan said.
The 49ers also fired offensive line coach George Warhop, one of Nolan's original assistants. San Francisco has yielded a league-high 29 sacks this season.
"I don't think there's one right time for a decision like this," McCloughan said Tuesday. "If you
Nolan restored competence to a franchise that finished with the NFL's worst record in 2004, but he has the lowest winning percentage (.327) among any San Francisco coaches who made it through more than one season with the team. He barely avoided dismissal after finishing 5-11 last season, but couldn't even make it to midseason this fall.
go off past experience and talking to people, the bye week is usually the best for this, but I think with the distractions on the outside, the most important thing this week is for us to be ready for the Seahawks"
Instead of logically delaying a decision on Nolan's fate until the bye following Sunday's home game against Seattle, McCloughan and owners John and Jed York suddenly couldn't wait another day to get rid of the family's choice to fix the 49ers, who have endured five consecutive losing seasons and haven't made the playoff since 2002.
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