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2B SPORTS
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
MONDAY SEPTEMBER 29,2008
"I'm from Iowa. We don't know what cool is."
quote of the day
— Ashton Kutcher
Kansas' football team hasn't allowed an opponent to rush for 200 yards in 30 consecutive games.
trivia of the day
— Kansas Athletics
Q4 How many games has Kansas football coach Mark Mangino won at Kansas?
A: 40. Mangino became the fourth coach in school history to win 40 games when Kansas defeated Sam Houston State, 38-14, on Sept. 20. He is 40-37 since taking control of the Kansas program.
KU sports schedule
'City kid' finds beauty in rural Kansas plains
Men's Golf: Louisville Invitational, first day (Louisville, Ky.)
Women's Golf: John Ims Invitational, first day (Columbia, Mo.)
Men's Golf: Louisville Invitational,
final day (Louisville, Ky.)
Women's Golf: Johnie Imes
Invitational, final day (Columbia,
Mo.)
Today
Tuesdav
Wednesday
Volleyball: Kansas State, 7 p.m.
(Lawrence)
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year, and it shouldn't. Last weekend's thrilling upsets provided a resounding answer for why college football doesn't need a playoff. The BCS system works because it makes the regular season count.
Swimming: Pentathlon, 4 p.m.
(Lawrence)
Soccer: Texas Tech, 4 p.m.
(Lawrence)
Thursday No Events
Friday
tors on them, there are no complications.
So go past the old farm houses.
Go find Main Street. Go west. Go south. Go see the beauty.
Florida, Southern California and Georgia lost to an underdog this last week and might have lost their opportunity to play in the national championship, too. None of it would matter if there was a playoff. These games would be as meaningless as any December college basketball game.
At work, business types will escape from their cubicle, crowd the coffee pot and vent. At school, we'll talk to the kid sitting behind us reading the sports page. The topic will be the BCS. The system is flawed. It needs to go, everyone will say.
It's beautiful.
Softball: Western Illinois, 10 a.m.
(Iowa City, Iowa)
Softball: Iowa, 12:30 p.m. (Iowa
City, Iowa)
Soccer: Colorado, 1 p.m.
(Lawrence)
rere are LSATs and MCATs and projects and John Stuart Mill. There are teachers and papers and textbooks and the Internet bill. It's tough sometimes.
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Softball: Western Illinois, 11 a.m.
[Avenue City, Iowa]
Saturday
Near the signs that say find God and the pebbly roads with trac-
The mugshot that ran
Corn stalk jungles stretch across farms in rows and columns. The stalks shroud the ground, creating a green sea of mystery. Pickup trucks rest on dirt roads outside farm houses, and nothing moves in the afternoon sun except for a boobbing oil derrick or two.
The BCS ensures that from August to November, the games count. Three months of meaningful football is better than a three-week playoff.
The discussion happens every
junior soccer player Shannon McCabe on Friday in the Friday Gridlock feature was incorrect.
Sunday
Science says you can see about five miles to the horizon if the ground is perfectly flat. In Kansas, sometimes it seems like you can see forever.
and its own stories. There's nothing quite like it anywhere else. Every few miles, another town pops up — Pratt, Claffin, Larned, McPherson, Florence, Sublette — there are tons
McCabe
Softball: Western Illinois, 11 a.m. (Iowa City, Iowa)
Football: Iowa State, 11:30 a.m. (Ames, Iowa)
Softball: Iowa, 4 p.m. (Iowa City, Iowa)
Volleyball: Texas Tech, 7 p.m. (Lubbock, Texas)
Cross Country: OSU Jamboree, TBA (Stillwater, Okla.)
Rowing: Head of the Oklahoma, all day (Oklahoma City, Okla.)
In two months, the columns will come. Every newspaper will feature one. Every Web site. Every magazine.
The small towns come and go, each one offering its own Main Street
was actually junior rower Lexie Peterson.
LOVINGTHE BCS
Here's a shout-out to anyone from Pretty Prairie, located about 30 miles south of Hutchinson. That has to be the best name of any town in this country, except for Kokomo, Ind.
City kids tend to think the state of Kansas is boring. Anything south or west of Lawrence that's not called Wichita must be the end
of civilization I'm from the city and maybe used to have those same thoughts every once in a whille.
Take a drive,
and it will change
your mind. Kansas
soothes.
Edited by Ramsey Cox
Life gets complicated here in the city, here at the University.
of them and they all offer a different sort of charm.
PRETTY PRAIRIE
KICKTHE KANSAN: WEEK SIX
Pick games. Beat the Kansan staff. Get your name in the paper.
This week's games:
1. No. 13 Auburn at No. 19 Vanderbilt (predict score)
2. No. 7 Texas Tech at Kansas State
3. No.14 Ohio State at No.18 Wisconsin
4. Florida State at Miami (Fla.)
5. No. 23 Oregon at No. 9 USC
6. Stanford at Notre Dame
7. washington at Arizona
7. Washington at Arizona
8. UNLV at Colorado State
9. South Carolina at Mississippi
10. Nevada at Idaho
Name:
E-mail:
Year in school:
Hometown:
2) Give your name, e-mail, year in school and hometown.
1) Only KU students are eligible.
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.
Either submit your picks to KickTheKansan@kansan.com or to the Kansan
Either submit your picks to KickTheKansan@kansan.com or to the Kansan business office, located at the West side of Stauffer-Flint Hall, which is between Wesco Hall and Watson Library.
WEEK FIVE RESULTS
Max Wescoe, San Diego, Calif., junior, took home the Kick the Kansan trophy in week five. Wescoe earned his title by correctly picking six games out of ten.
Wescoe tied with four others who also finished 6-4, but his predicted score of 28-21 for the
Fresno State — UCLA game was the closest to the actual score, 36-31.
In honor of Wescoe's triumph, here's a quick spotlight on Wescoe's hometown of San Diego. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, San Diego had a population of 1,266,731 in 2007.
Home to the NFL's San Diego Chargers and MLB's San Diego Padres, San Diego is also the hometown of fictional movie character Ron Burgundy, played by Will Ferrell in Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy.
MLB
Brewers make it to the playoffs Milwaukee beat the Chicago Cubs Sunday winning the AL wildcard
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Already standing tall, CC Sabathia climbed on top of the Brewers dugout and sprayed fans with bubbly.
A vintage scene, indeed.
For the first time since 1982, when it was a member of the American League and well before wild cards even existed, Milwaukee is going to the playoffs.
"It's our time," Sabathia said.
Nathan said.
No such luck for the New York Mets. They lost on the field — and the out-of-town scoreboard — and again were eliminated by Florida on the
after beating the Cubs 3-1 Sunday.
On Monday afternoon, Detroit visits Chicago in a makeup from a September rainout. If the White Sox win, the would host the Twins in a one-game tiebreaker Tuesday for the AL Central title.
Then on Wednesday, the playoffs begin with three games: Manny Ramirez, Joe Torre and the Los Angeles Dodgers take on the Chicago Cubs, the wild-card Brewers travel to Philadelphia and the World Series champion
"We failed. We failed as a team. There's no excuses. We as a unit didn't get the job done."
DAVID WRIGHT
New York Mets third baseman
final day. Making it worse, a farewell-to-Shea Stadium followed.
"We failed. We failed as a team," star David Wright said after a 4-2 loss. "There's no pointing fingers. There's no excuses. We as a unit didn't get the job done."
No telling yet about the Minnesota Twins and Chicago White Sox. They still haven't sorted out their AL Central scramble.
So while workers at Wrigley Field and Tropicana Field put up the postseason bunting, this year is going to extra innings.
One slot left,guys.
"It's kind of an ongoing joke that it seems like nobody wanted to win the Central, so this is kind of probably the way it should go down, going into a game tomorrow when the season's supposed to be over," Twins closer Joe
Boston Red Sox play the 100-win Los Angeles Angels.
O n
Thursday,
the Tampa
Bay Rays
make their
postseason
debut when
they host the
White Sox or
Twins.
Before the Rays beat Detroit 8-7 in 11 innings Sunday, manager Joe Maddon held a brief team meeting.
"Joe just said to keep everything normal — like any other game. There's no reason to start showing up five hours before the game now. It's another game and we need to prepare like it's another game," pitcher James Shields said.
Inside their clubhouse at Comerica Park, there also was a note on a dry erase board. Wear your AL East champs shirts on the flight back home, it reminded the Ravs.
The White Sox hoping to join the Rays this week. They gave themselves a chance with a 5-1 win over Cleveland while Minnesota was beating Kansas City 6-0.
ROWING
First rowing regatta shows improvements
Kansas rowing competed in its first regatta of the season at the Head of Des Moines. Although, rivals Kansas State beat Kansas in both the Collegiate Eight and the Collegiate Four races, the team made a strong effort and large
improvements from last year. It was a close race between the instate rivals as the Jayhawks' boats finished second and third, only thirty seconds after the number one Wildcats in the Collegiate Eight race.
It was even closer in the Collegiate Four, where Kansas finished two seconds shorter than Kansas State coming in third place. The
Get it DUNN with our new study hours!
—Whitney Hamilton
Jayhawks will continue its fall season next weekend at the Head of Oklahoma in Oklahoma City, Okla.
MEN'S GOLF Team competes today, looks for consistency
The men's golf team will compete in the Cardinal Intercollegiate in Simpsonville, Ky. today and tomorrow. The three-round, 54-hole event is hosted by the University of Louisville will be the last tournament before the team finishes its fall season in the Baylor Invitational Oct. 27-28.
Barbee
sistency and will have the same starting five it has had all season
Leading the Jayhawks will be sophomore Nate Barbee, who has had two top-10 finishes this season. Also competing for the Jayhawks
will be seniors Walt Koelbel and Andrew Storm and freshmen lan Anson and Blake Giroux. Koelbel and Anson are both coming off of 12th place finishes in the Kansas Invitational.
— Bryan Wheeler
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