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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN MONDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2008
quote of the day
"Most people run a race to see who is fastest. I run a race to see who has the most guts."
Distance runner Steve Prefontaine,
January 25, 1951 - May 30, 1975
fact of the day
trivia of the day
Ethiopian Halle Gebruselassie set the men's world record in the marathon on Sept. 28 in Berlin. Gebruselassie finished the marathon in 2:03:59.
Q: When did the women's marathon become an Olympic sport?
A: 1984, at the Los Angeles Olympics.
KU sports this week
Wednesday
Wednesday
Volleyball: Missouri, 6:30 p.m.
(Columbia, Mo.)
Thursday
Thursday
Tennis: ITA Central Regional
Tournament (Salt Lake City,
Utah)
Friday
Swimming & Diving: Arizona State, 3 p.m. (Tempe, Ariz.) Soccer: Texas A&M, 4 p.m. (Lawrence) Tennis: ITA Central Regional Tournament (Salt Lake City, Utah)
Saturday
Saturday
Swimming & Diving: Northern Arizona, 11 a.m. (Flagstaff, Ariz.)
Volleyball: Oklahoma 7 p.m.
(Lawrence)
Football: Oklahoma, 2:30 p.m.
(ABC) (Norman, Okla.)
Tennis: ITA Central Regional Tournament (Salt Lake City, Utah)
Cross Country: NCAA Pre-Nationals Invitational, TBA (Terre Haute, Ind.)
Running clears one's mind and sole
The Waddell and Reed Kansas City Marathon, Half-Marathon and 5-K take place this Saturday. Several KU students will run it. So will elite runners. So will senior citizens.
That's the best part about running. Anyone can do it. It's a sport in which you challenge yourself and try to beat your own best times, and especially a sport for college students.
The college years really are the
best of our life. We're young and surrounded by thousands of other people in the same age group who share similar interests.
We go to parties, pay $1.75 for gigantic beers at Louise's on the right night, watch national-championship basketball and walk down tree-lined Jayhawk Boulevard during the fall as the leaves change into red, yellow and orange.
But it's still tough. There are midterms, essays, Ramen noodles and occasional bouts of homesickness. At times, college isn't so fun.
Running takes away the stress. When you run, you lose your mind in a good way. You can pound out all the negative thoughts from a day of studying or worrying about a boyfriend or girlfriend by throwing on the headphones, stepping out
Famous poet Rudyard Kipling said it best when he wrote about the power of running in his poem "IF"
side and running for 20 minutes.
"If you can fill the unforgiving minute/With sixty seconds worth of distance run./Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it./And — which is more — you'll be a Man, my son!"
ALL ABOUT ROB SCHNEIDER
Well, everyone in the student section yelled the expletive-laced ode to Rob Schneider during kickoffs at Saturday's football game. Mark Mangino's speech obviously didn't work the first time through.
I'm sure everyone is sick about the media spectacle surrounding the chant, but when the University
of Kansas becomes synonymous with Rob Schneider, something needs to be done.
Don't know Schneider well enough? Here's a sampling of the countless movies that he's made a fool of himself in.
"The Animal!" "Deuce Bigalow;
European Gigolo." "Little Nicky"
"Little Man." "You Don't Mess
With the Zohan." And last but not least,
"The Hot Chick."
It gets better. "The Animal" was so bad that distributor, Sony Pictures, invented a critic so it could feature a positive blurb on the movie poster.
Forget about the profanity. Just think about those movies. Think about Schneider. Think about how he hasn't said anything funny that isn't about making copies.
Worst of all, when that ball gets kicked in the air and you pause for one second and then let loose with the Rob Schneider special, you are endorsing "The Hot Chick."
Every time you say that chant, you affiliate yourself and the University with Schneider. You sound trashy, just like the characters Schneider plays in all his movies.
That alone should make us stop.
Edited by Ramsey Cox
Bonjour, Chalmers
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Former Kansas Jayhawk and modern Miami Heat guard Mario Chalmers, right,
passes past New Jersey Nets guard Chris Douglas-Roberts during the first quarter of an pre-
season game Thursday in Paris. Chalmers played 25 minutes and finished with eight points.
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This week's games:
Pick games. Beat the Kansan staff. Get your name in the paper.
1. No. 11 Missouri at No. 1 Texas (score)
3. No.16 Kansas at No.4 Oklahoma
2. No. 12 Ohio State at No. 20 Michigan State
4. Kansas State at Colorado
5. No. 22 Vanderbilt at No.10 Georgia
6. No. 13 LSU at South Carolina
7. No.18 North Carolina at Virginia
9. No.25 California at Arizona
8. No.21 Wake Forest at Maryland
10. Oregon State at Washington
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WEEK SEVEN RESULTS
Max Wescoe, San Diego, Calif., junior, took home the Kick the Kansan crown in week seven. Wescoe, a Kick the Kansan all-star who has finished on top twice this
Wescoe was the only University student to correctly predict that Texas would defeat Oklahoma, and
year, correctly predicted eight of the week's 10 games.
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On the opposite end of the spectrum, Dani Hurst, Overland Park senior and Kansan managing editor, suffered a cataclysmic Kick the Kansan week. Hurst finished 2-8.
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