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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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MONDAY AUGUST 25, 2008
quote of the day
"If people want to say we're a one year wonder, they can say whatever they want. We'll come out here working hard every day, and we'll play the best that we can. And we will, we'll be ready to go every game. Whatever happens, happens."
—Todd Reesing,
at Kansas football media day on Aug. 5
fact of the day
Kansas football has won its last four home games by a combined score of 152-47. The Jayhawks last opening game loss came in a 28-20 home loss against Northwestern in 2003. Kansas crushed Central Michigan 52-7 in the Jayhawks' home opener last season.
trivia of the day
—Kansas football media guide
Q: Who scored Kansas' first offensive touchdown of 2007?
A: Former tight end Derek Fine scored on a three yard pass from Todd Reesing in Kansas' home opener against Central Michigan. Kansas would go on to score a school-record 556 points in 2007.
MLB
Angels beat Twins, split the series
ANAHEIM, Calif. — Francisco Rodriguez earned his 50th save, and the Los Angeles Angels got RBI triples from Vladimir Guerrero and Gary Matthews Jr. in the eighth inning to rally past the Minnesota Twins 5-3 Sunday for a split of their four-game series.
Trailing 3-0, the Angels got on the board when Mark Teixeira led off the sixth with his third home run of the series and seventh in 23 games since joining the AL West leaders.
Jason Kubel hit a high, arching drive down the right-field line that was called a home run by first base umpire Hunter Wendelstedt in the Twins eighth. While Kubel rounded the bases, Mike Scioscia came running from the Angels dugout to ask Wendelstedt to get help from his crew.
The ruling was overturned, and Kubel struck out against reliever Jose Arredondo (6-1).
White Sox beat Rays in tenth inning
CHICAGO — Alexei Ramirez singled home the winning run in the 10th inning after A.J. Pierzynski's bizarre trip around the bases, and the White Sox rallied to avoid a sweep.
Jim Thome hit his 534th homer, Carlos Quentin also connected and the White Sox tied it at 5 in the ninth on pinch-hitter Paul Konerko's two-out single off fill-in closer Dan Wheeler.
Pierzynski led off the 10th with a single against Jason Hammel (4-4), then tagged up and went to second on a flyout to center.
Reed, Aldrich are 'two wild and crazy guys'
Their reality show would be called "The Unbelievably Simple Life"
Meet Tyrel Reed and Cole Aldrich, the most low-key, chill roommates in the history of this school. They roomed together in the Jayhawker Towers as freshmen last year and are doing the same for their sophomore years.
Reed is a devoted Christian. His favorite musician is Jeremy Camp, a contemporary Christian artist. By comparison, Aldrich is a regular James Dean.
How rebellious is Aldrich? He ene
sill dives on pizza.
This summer, you couldn't get these guys away from Allen Fieldhouse. Reed and Aldrich were there almost everyday, lifting weights whenever they could squeeze time out of a day filled with summer classes and pick-up games.
When that got to be too much, and Reed just had to have some fun he went home. Back to Burlington.
"It's a small town." Reed said. "I just kind of relaxed."
Aldrich, the party animal that he is, actually said he spent one or two days "shooting the breeze."
"I was spotted at Clinton Lake
once or twice",
Aldrich said.
Aldrich
So, did you water ski or anything?
"No," he said. "I used to when I was a kid but now it's just basketball."
As recent news items have shown, not everyone else on the team is quite as laid-back and well-behaved as Aldrich and Reed.
DROP THE CHALUPA
Still-ineligible freshman Markieff
Morris was ordered to appear in court for allegedly firing BB at another student-athlete's mother at the Towers. His lawyer has said Morris was innocent. It will be a while before anyone knows the truth, but Morris' incident brings back memories of other ridiculous crimes involving KU athletes. Here's a quick rundown of some of the strangest, or dumbest.
Jeff Hawkins, former basketball guard, gets a point for timeliness for this one. About a day before a home game against Baylor in February 2006, he cut-off a woman's car in the McDonald's drive-through on
Sixth Street and struck her car. The woman told police Hawkins blamed her for the accident before leaving. Kansas coach Bill Self suspended him for the game.
Reggie Duncan and Mario Kinsey, former football players. In the summer of 2001, a KU student reported a stolen purse, including her credit card from Bailey Hall. She found out a pizza was purchased with the card and called the pizza shop. The restaurant told her the pizza was delivered to Kinsey and Duncan's apartment. The lesson here, aside from don't steal, is please get DiGiorno and not delivery if you're using a stolen card.
Dion Rayford, former defensive end — funny how all these incidents have to do with food. Rayford must have been a hungry man on the night of Nov. 18, 1999. He was at the Taco Bell on 23rd street and when the workers forgot to include his Chalupa, Rayford, all 260 pounds of him, allegedly climbed through the window, attempting to confront the employees. He later pled guilty to a criminal damage to property charge
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and was sentenced to one year of probation.
WANT TO PLAY FOR KU?
The baseball team is holding a meeting for open tryouts this week. Those interested should meet at 4 p.m. on Thursday in Hadl Auditorium and bring proof of medical insurance, proof of a recently completed physical and a KU class schedule.
Marlins spear Diamondbacks
Edited by Ramsey Cox
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Arizona Diamondbacks' Conor Jackson jumps but misses a triple by Florida Marlins' Josh Willingham in the eighth inning of a baseball game Friday, in Phoenix. The Martins defeated the diamondbacks 5-4.
OLYMPICS
China wins gold medal race; U.S. first overall
BY DAVID CRARY
ASSOCIATED PRESS
BEIJING — China proved an acquisitive first-time Olympic host, topping the gold-medal chart with one of the most dominating and diverse performances ever. The United States, Britain and an array of small nations also had reasons to celebrate.
China's haul of 51 gold medals was the largest since the Soviet Union won 55 in Seoul in 1988. Fielding athletes groomed since childhood in sports academies, it won medals in 25 different sports, including its first ever in sailing, beach volleyball and field hockey.
Not since 1936, when Nazi Germany prevailed at the Berlin Olympics, had a country other than the U.S. or the Soviet Union/ Russia led the gold medal list.
The United States trailed well behind the Chinese in golds with 36, the first time since 1992 it didn't lead the category. But the Americans did break their own mark for total medals in a nonboycotted Olympics; they won 110 in all, two more than their previous high set in 1992 and 10 ahead of China's overall tally this year.
Britain, getting an early jump on its host role for the 2012 Summer Games, had its best Olympics in a century with 19 gold medals — good for fourth place behind the Russians. Its cyclists and sailors were the class of the field, and 19-year-old Rebecca Adlington stunned the swimming world with two golds in distance events.
It was also a satisfying Olympics for many of the world's weaker sporting nations. A record 87 nations won medals, seven more than the previous high in Sydney in 2000, and a dozen nations won either their first-ever gold medal or first medal of any color.
If there was a prominent loser at the games, it was Russia, whose team was deprived of 10 athletes due to doping accusations. The Russians finished a distant third
in both gold medals, with 23, and overall medals with 72 — down from 27 and 92 four years ago in Athens.
The United States was disappointed by its boxing team (one bronze medal) and a lack of golds by its sprinters, but was delighted by breakthroughs in lesser sports such as fencing, as well as by the historic eight golds for record-smashing swimmer Michael Phelps.
"Both on the field of play and off, this will go down as one of the greatest performances ever for a United States Olympic Team," spokesman Darryl Seibel said Sunday.
Overshadowing the entire U.S. effort, however, was a recognition of China's arrival as the dominant Summer Olympics power.
"China has been systematically targeting every single available medal, and we're going to have to do that in the future," said U.S. Olympic Committee chairman Peter Ueberroth.
China, of course, has the largest population pool - 1.3 billion people - from which to recruit athletes. Several far smaller nations distinguished themselves in medals per capita.
"The resources that they put toward their Olympic team and the population base and the dedication is fantastic," he said.
Jamaica's sprinters and hurdlers — led by triple-gold sensation Usain Bolt — won 11 medals, one for every 245,000 of its 2.7 million people.
Kenya, despite election-related unrest which killed hundreds and disrupted its preparations, had a great games with five golds and 14 medals overall. Ethiopian runners Kenenisa Bekele and Tirunesh Dibala each won rare double golds in the 5,000 and 10,000.
There were other breakthroughs — Tunisia and South Korea won golds in swimming for the first time; long jumper Mauren Higa Maggi became the first Brazilian women to win a gold in track.
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