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NEWS
THE UNIVERSITY DIRY KANSAN
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2008
quote of the dav
"A leader is someone who helps improve the lives of other people or improves the system they live under."
—Sam Houston. Sam Houston State Kansas' football opponent this Saturday, is named after him.
—Brainyquotes.com
fact of the day
Sam Houston was elected commander-in-chief of the Army of Texas in 1836. Soon, Texas declared its independence from Mexico. Houston fought at the Battle of the Alamo and led a successful attack against Santa Anna and his troops, securing Texas' independence.
schedule
Today
No events
Friday
Saturdav
Volleyball: Iowa State, 1 p.m.
(Lawrence)
Football: Sam Houston State (Band Day and Family Day), 6 p.m. (Lawrence)
Tennis: UNM Fall Invite, second day (Albequerque, N.M.)
Sunday
Soccer: Florida, noon (Gaines ville, Fla.) Tennis: UNM Fall Invite, final day (Albequerque, N.M.)
Monday
Women's Golf: Marilynn Smith Sunflower Invitational, first day (Lawrence)
Tuesday
Women's Golf. Marilynn Smith Sunflower Invitational, final day (Lawrence)
Sports not life or death,but still important
Fort Riley - The soldier, dressed in full battle rattle body armor, gun slung
over the shoulder, corners a man against a wall. He glances at his interpreter and begins to ask the man questions.
"Where are you from? Why are you here?"
The interpreter begins to translate ...
Sometimes stories come real easy. And sometimes they don't. After all, words have limitations. If I could write a sentence that told you exactly what it's like to sit
out in the Riley County sun and watch the U.S. Army run through detainee operations training, and if these soldiers could explain exactly what it's like to carry out the real mission in Iraq, well, what would be the point of living?
And that's where the story starts. Sometimes journalists get themselves into funny situations. Scratch that. Sometimes people get themselves in funny situations. Funny in the peculiar, or funny in the unexpected sense.
"Welcome to beautiful scenic Camp Funston," Sgt. Ken McCooye said, as 1 stepped off the bus at Fort Riley, tucked away somewhere along the edge of the Flint Hills.
Tuesday was one of those situations.
I was here to embed into a Military Transition Team - they call them MiTTs here. These teams made up of 10-12 people - have
the difficult mission of traveling to Iraq and Afghanistan and training the Iraqi and Afghan militaries. They're half-coach, half-humanitarian, and always a soldier.
They'll train 60 days at Camp Funston, get 15 days leave and then ship out to Iraq or Afghanistan. They'll stay for a year.
On Wednesday, I watched a MiIT team search for a person of interest in a mock Iraqi village. Locals from nearby communities were role players, playing Iraqi soldiers or citizens. Essentially, they try to make it as real as possible.
It all makes sports seem pretty trivial, silly even. Sports take over our minds, they take over our hearts, even our souls sometimes.
But analogies aside, this stuff is real.
But the soldiers talk sports too.
Funny thing is, sports are never far from the surface. Sit in on a briefing, and you'll hear instructors refer to certain scenarios as "slam dunks" — safe and easy — and others as "foul balls" — not so safe and not so easy.
Major Brian Rau, a native of the area around Tampa, Fla., wants to talk about triathlon training. He's serious about it. After being stationed at Fort Leavenworth, he participated in his first triathlon earlier this year in Lawrence. He's just shy of 40 years old.
He says his goal is to work himself into great shape while he’s in
Iraq.
There's not much else to do for recreation.
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"I'll be ready for tri-training when I get back."
"No. KU."
"So you're from Kansas State?" he said.
After the training was finished, and after Rau's MitTT went through their initial critique, another soldier looked over in my direction.
"Yeah. it's pretty nice."
"Oh. I love it that KU has a better football team than K-State right now," he added.
"Me neither.
"I'm from Texas," he said. "I'm not a big fan of K-State."
"Well nice talking to you," he said, walking off. "Maybe I'll see you in a year when I get back."
— Edited by Arthur Hur
Count on it brother.
No wimps allowed
Ryan Waggoner/KANSAN
David Curtin, Overland Park junior, chases down Jason Wern, Denver freshman, during KJ Men's Club lacrosse team practice on Tuesday evening at Shenk Sports Complex, Curtin, who is in his third season with the team, says his favorite part of lacrosse is, "The pure violence that comes with it."
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O. J. Simpson and his attorney Yale Galanter watch a video monitor during Simpson's armed robbery- kidnapping trial Wednesday at the Clark County Regional Justice Center in Las Vegas. Simpson is charged with 12 counts including kidnapping, armed robbery and assault with a deadly weapon stemming from an alleged incident involving the theft of his sports memorabilia.
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Audio tape complicates O.J. trial
LAS VEGAS — An FBI expert
testified via videotape Wednesday in
lectibles broker Thomas Riccio to record the alleged robbery last year didn't have advanced features that would ensure the security of the
O. J. Simpson's armed robbery trial that it's impossible to tell whether an audio tape of the hotel room confrontation was altered, but the judge said she still might let jurors hear the recording.
"I hope they don't just have to go by what I say. All they have to do is listen to my tapes."
THOMAS RICCIO Collectibles broker
FBI forensics audio examiner Kenneth Marr said in prerecorded testimony that the tiny digital recorder secretly used by col-
information on it.
But Marr did authenticate another tape that Riccard said he obtained with a separate analog recorder at a pool at the Palms hotel and casino. That record
was made several hours before the conflict between the former football star and two sports memora-
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Prosecutors say the analog tape includes the voices of Simpson and several other men planning to confront the memorabilia peddlers, Bruce Fromong and Alfred Beardsley.
Marr's appearance was videotaped Aug. 25 because he was scheduled to be out of the country. Asked by Clark County District Judge Jackie Glass if he could say whether the digital recording contained edits or manipulations, Marr replied: "I could not determine if those files had been altered or not."
A key question is whether any of the tapes contain mention of guns being used. Both Simpson and codedefendant Clarence "C.J." Stewart saw they saw no guns.
Stewart's defense lawyer, Brent Bryson, lost a bid to have both recordings disqualified as evidence because of problems including who had custody of them. The digital recorder was kept from police for eight days while Riccio sold the tape to an Internet gossip site.
"The device itself is inherently untrustworthy," Brisson said.
Glass said she would allow the poolside recording and let the recording from the hotel room be used if the voices on the tape could be individually verified.
Simpson's lawyer, Yale Galanter,
said he wants jurors to hear all 10 hours of Riccio's recordings but has questions about a written transcript that will be given to jurors.
Simpson and Stewart have pleaded not guilty to 12 charges including armed robbery, kidnapping, assault with a deadly weapon and coercion. A kidnapping conviction could result in a sentence of life in prison with the possibility of parole. An armed robbery conviction could mean mandatory prison time.
Riccio, who was waiting Wednesday to testify, has said that prosecutors told him to expect to be on the stand for as long as a day and a half.
"I hope they don't just have to go by what I say," he told The Associated Press in a telephone interview Tuesday. "All they have to do is listen to my tapes."
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