6B
SPORTS
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
FOOTBALL
THURSDAY, AUGUST 21, 2008
Hoge leaves Kansas football team
BY B.J. RAINS
rains@kansan.com
Another day and another transfer for coach Mark Mangino and the Kansas football team.
Kicker Stephen Hoge has left Lawrence and returned home to Oklahoma City to focus on getting
medical school,
his mother
Carolyn Hoge
confirmed to
the Kansan.
"Football just took a lot of his time and he just really felt like his career needed to come first."
ing his senior year of high school in 2006 when he went a perfect 16-16 on extra points and hit 12 of 16 field goals. Hoge, who had contemplated the decision the past few weeks, was battling sophomore Jacob Branstetter and transfer Grady Fowler for the kicking position during camp and appeared to
"It was not an easy decision but it's something that he felt he needed to do."
Carolyn Hoge said. "He has plans to get into met school. It was a decision he made, but he made it with our support. We told him we would support him in whatever he decided. It was not an easy decision but it's something that he felt he needed to do."
CAROLYN HOGE Mother of Stephen Hoge
He was named a Prepstar Magazine All-American follow-
Kansas kicker Stephen Hoge has decided to leave the football team so he can focus on his career goals. Hoge was projected to be the starting kicker for this year's team.
Hoge, a 6-4, 227 pound redshirt freshman who was listed as Kansas' starting kicker on the preseason depth chart, will take classes at a local community college this fall before enrolling at Oklahoma in the spring.
have a leg up on the job.
Ryan McGeeney/KANSAN
According to reports, Branstetter is facing eligibility issues stemming from his transfer from the Air Force Academy and may not be eligible to play
either. He appears to be five credit hours short of being eligible but his parents have filed paperwork with the NCAA in hopes of getting him cleared to play.
If Branstetter is ineligible to play, that would leave Fowler, a transfer from Butler County Community College, as the only kicker on the team's roster.
Fowler was an honorable mention All-America selection during his one season at Butler County but connected on just eight of 12 field goals. He did hit 53 of 55 extra points and scored 77 points on the season.
Hoge joins running backs
Carmon Boyd-Anderson and Donte Bean as players who have transferred in recent days, but he appeared to be the only one of the
three who could have seen signifi cant playing time.
Edited by Scott Toland
OLYMPICS
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Jamaica's Usain Bolt celebrates as he wins the men's 200-meter final with a world record during the athletics competitions in the National Stadium at the Beijing 2008 Olympics in Beijing, Wednesday.
Bolt wins 200m, sets world record
BY EDDIE PELLS ASSOCIATED PRESS
BEIJING — Arms churning high, face twisted in pain as he sprinted toward the finish line, Usain Bolt kept glancing at the clock.
Showing just what he can do when he goes all out start to finish, Bolt forged the greatest race ever run Wednesday night under the hazy lights at the Bird's Nest, heaving his chest toward the finish line — not simply to beat someone for the gold, but to become a part of track's glorious, and sometimes troubled, lore.
The win in the Olympic 200 meters was a given, his second gold medal of the Beijing Games assured. This was now about a world record. About racing against history.
He finished in 19.30 seconds to break Michael Johnson's 12-year-old world record, one of the most venerable in the books.
that he had versatility. If he could become the number one or two quarterback then he would stay there, but if that didn't happen, we were going to try and test him out somewhere else."
STEWARD (CONTINUED FROM 1B)
Steward's teammates voted him the funniest player on the team but he is also, as Mangino said, one of the most competitive.
say I'm a sore loser. I just want to win at all times, and I hate losing. I just want to help the team and do whatever I can do to help the team be successful."
"I'm a different person when I get on the field," Steward said. "I hate lossing. I guess you could
That chance looks to come this fall. Mangino and Warinner both said they expect Steward to contribute to the offense this season.
—Edited by Brenna Hawley
winter about the position change after it became apparent that his chances were slim at the quarterback position. He had fallen to fourth on the depth chart behind Todd Reesing, Kerry Meier and freshman Kale Pick.
"We just felt like you can only play one quarterback, and you need one quality backup so let's see what else he can do," Warinner said. "When we recruited him, in our minds all along, we knew
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