THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2008
SPORTS
3B
KICKTHE KANSAN: WEEK FOUR
Pick games. Beat the Kansan staff. Get your name in the paper.
This week's games:
1. Kansas State at Louisville (Predict Score) [Wednesday]
2. No. 21 West Virginia at Colorado [Thursday]
3. Baylor at Connecticut [Friday]
4. Troy at No. 13 Ohio State
5. Notre Dame at Michigan State
6. No.18 Wake Forest at No.24 Florida State
7. No. 6 LSU at No.10 Auburn
8. No.15 East Carolina at North Carolina State
9. Miami (FL) at Texas A&M
10. No. 4 Florida at Tennessee
Name:
E-mail:
Year in school:
Hometown:
Rules:
1) Only KU students are eligible.
2) Give your name, e-mail, year in school and hometown.
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 business office. Located on the West Side of Coffee Fountain
Kansan business office, located at the West side of Stauffer-Flint Hall, which is between Wescoe Hall and Watson Library.
KICK THE KANSAN WEEK THREE RESULTS
Props to Maxwell Wescoe, San Diego, Calif., junior. Wescoe is this week's Kick the Kansan champion after correctly predicting eight of ten games this week.
Like all but one entrant, Wescoe picked Kansas to beat South Florida, but he recovered to sneak out the victory. Wescoe was one of three entrants who
finished 8-2, but emerged victorious by virtue of the scoring tie breaker. He predicted a 24-21 Kansas victory.
Kansan sports editor Rustin Dodd also correctly predicted eight games correctly.
Wescole correctly predicted BYU's dismantling of hapless UCLA and Wisconsin's narrow road victory against Fresno State.
In honor of Wescoe's victory, lets take a look at the weather he is missing in glorious southern California while Kansas does its best Seattle impression. Today's forecast in San Diego calls for a high of 79 degrees with scattered clouds.
NFL
Rams get battered again Super Bowl champ Giants blowout St. Louis 41-13
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The Philadelphia Eagles' Sean Considine stops St. Louis Rams running back Steven Jackson, bottom, in the third quarter last Sunday in Philadelphia. The Rams lost that game and lost again on Sunday to the New York Giants.
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ST. LOUIS — Two blowout losses in two weeks have the St. Louis Rams groping for answers.
The Rams (0-2) were dreadful in a 38-3 opening-game loss at Philadelphia. They stayed with the Super Bowl champion Giants into the fourth quarter Sunday before three straight New York touchdowns turned a close game into a 41-13 loss in St. Louis' home opener.
Everything that could go wrong did. St. Louis quarterback Marc Bulger was sacked six times. Giants defensive end Justin Tuck blocked a fourth-quarter pass, caught it, and returned it for a touchdown. Passes were dropped. Big gains were negated by penalties. Bulger, on the rare occasions he had time to throw, missed wide-open receivers.
The defense was no better. Defenders missed several tackles. The Giants had a 441-201 advantage in total yards. In two games, St. Louis has been outgained 963-367.
"This isn't the only two good offenses we're going to play," Rams coach Scott Linehan said. "We're
going to, play a lot more, and we're going to have to stop people. We're going to have to score points on offense and stop people on defense, and we're not doing it."
The Rams had high hopes entering this season despite a 3-13 showing in 2007. The offensive line was relatively healthy again and Al Saunders, the offensive coordinator behind Kansas City's powerful teams in the early 2000s, joined the coaching staff.
So far, the results have been
disheartening. Even the lone St. Louis touchdown was something of a fluke, a 45-yard jump-ball pass from Bulger that defender Kenny Phillips tipped and Torry Holt caught while sprawled on the ground in the end zone.
"It's very shocking and disappointing we've played like this," running back Steven Jackson said. "We have to have that confidence that we can fight and play with anybody. It's going to happen."
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