"This year's voting farce clearly demonstrates unfairness to first-year players from Japan." Yankee's owner George Steinbrenner after the Royals Angel Berroa was named American League Rookie of the year
what we heard
friday november 14,2003
off the bench
the university daily kansan 9A
Columnist picks against Kansas, sides with Kansas State, Missouri
Kansas vs. Oklahoma State
Greene's Pick: Oklahoma State
Last week, I picked against the Jayhawks for the first time this year, and I went 9-1. I'll go with the karma this week.
Michigan vs. Northwestern
commentary
When I think of Northwestern playing Michigan, I'm reminded of my heart being ripped out four years ago when Anthony Thomas' fumble cost the Wolverines the game. Michigan's been playing well lately, and there's no reason to believe they'll slow down this week against an awful offense.
Greene's Pick: Michigan
Brigham Young vs. Notre Dame
I've always been a fan of BYU coach Gary Crowton's high-flying offense, ever since he was with the Chicago Bears. However, Notre Dame needs this win badly, and BYU is terrible against the run. Look for Notre Dame's Julius Jones to have a monster afternoon in a tight game.
Ryan Greene
rgreene@kansan.com
Greene's Pick: Notre Dame
Purdue vs. Ohio State
I want Ohio State to win this week so Michigan's romping over the Buckeyes next weekend in Ann Arbor will be that much sweeter.
Greene's Pick: Ohio State
Michigan State vs. Wisconsin
As much as I have always hated Michigan State, I've got a lot of respect for what quarterback Jeff Smoker has done this year after his off-field problems a year ago. They've lost two straight, but I'd like to see them get back on the winning track.
Greene's Pick: Michigan State
Kansas athletics calendar
tomorrow
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I can't believe that Kansas is going to take away Phoen Allen's grandchildren's tickets. What is going on with that? Where is the fairness?
Cross Country at Midwest
Regional Championship,
Stillwater, Okla.
Football at Oklahoma State 1 p.m.
Boone Pickens Stadium,
Stillwater, Okla.
Volleyball at Iowa State 7 p.m.
Ames, Iowa
sunday
Women's Basketball vs. St. Louis Goldstar (exh.) 2 p.m. Allen Fieldhouse
Holla. I would just like to say that I am in love with Jeff Hawkins.
KU basketball rocks.
Hockey resumes action against Southern Illinois
After losing its last two games two weekends ago against the University of Missouri-St. Louis, the KU ice hockey team (4-7-1) will try to regain its confidence and add to its victories against the Southern Illinois Cougars in Edwardsville, Ill., tomorrow and Saturday.
Pittsburgh vs. West Virginia
Two weekends ago, the 'Hawks played Missouri-St. Louis in a pair of high-scoring games, with KU coming up short in both, 9-6 and 9-7. But the sweep couldn't keep the spirits of all the KU players down.
Iowa is college football's most overrated team, and for some odd reason I really have a soft spot for the Golden Gophers this season.
Greene's Pick: Minnesota
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Pittsburgh's Larry Fitzgerald is not only the nation's best wide receiver but he's the country's best pla
period. The rea
son I like him is
because he's
a good kid
who carries
himself the right way.
"It was nice to go home to play a game," Jeff Engel, St. Louis senior, said. "I haven't played there since I started at KU."
Minnesota vs. Iowa
In a tiring weekend, the 'Hawks also faced Lindenwood University in St. Charles, Mo., in two exhibition games.
Free for All
Lindenwood (13-0-0) is a nationally ranked team in the American Collegiate Hockey Association that competes in exhibitions with teams from outside the ACHA. The unbeaten Lions gave the Jayhawks a taste of what it is like to be a top 10 team by beating them 12-2 in one game and 16-3 in the other. Lindenwood has smashed other teams this season, including one 14-0 victory
"Lindenwood is an amazing team, but playing four games in one weekend was physically and mentally exhausting," Jeff Evans, Omaha, Neb., junior said.
After getting last weekend off and having several practices to stay focused on the task at hand, the Jayhawks will head to East Alton Ice Arena to face the Cougars' Gold team Saturday and their Silver team Sunday, KU already faced the Silver team in a previous matchup, winning 7-1. The Gold squad has a winning record of 10-3-0 compared to the Silver team's 2-9-0 record.
liked Pittsburgh too much, but he's just what college football needs.
Greene's Pick: Pittsburgh
Picking SEC games this year is a complete crapshoot. I know that whoever I pick here will lose, so I'll pick against the team I want
Auburn vs. Georgia
Christina Kessler
to win.
Kansas state vs. nebraska
Nebraska really failed to
impress me this week. This is very
hard to do, but it's only right.
Greene's Pick: Georgia
Kansas State vs. Nebraska
stick with my statement of a week ago that Texas will not lose again this year. Greene's Pick: Texas
Texas Tech vs. Texas
Greene's Pick: Kansas State
Picking Kansas State, Michigan State, Ohio State and Missouri in the same week is my ticket straight to hell.
Texas A&M vs. Mis-
Greene's Pick: Missouri
Waldorf College vs. Drake
I'll take a university over a college any day.
mlb
Greene's Pick: Drake
San Francisco's Jason Schmidt was second with two first-place votes and 73 points. Chicago's Mark Prior got the other first-place votes and was third with 60 points.
He is the only pitcher to reach 50 saves in more than one season and has converted 62 consecutive save chances since failing to hold a lead against Arizona on Aug. 26, 2002, a major league record.
Gagne, a 27-year-old right-hander, was 2-3 with a 1.20 ERA and had 137 strikeouts and 20 walks in 82 1-3 innings. He was converted from a starter to a reliever after the 2001 season and had 52 saves in 2002.
He is just the second Canadian to win a Cy Young, following Ferguson Jenkins of the Cubs in 1971.
Dodgers' Gagne wins NL Cv Young Award
The relief pitcher who con-
verted all 15 of his save chances
this year received 28 of 32 first-
place votes and 146 points to win
the honor yesterday from the
Baseball Writers' Association of
America.
NEW YORK — Eric Gagne was almost as perfect in NL Cy Young Award voting as he was on the mound.
It was just the ninth time a reliever won a Cy Young, the first in theNL since San Diego'sMark Davis in 1989.
Gagne failed to hold a lead just once this season, he allowed a two-run, go-ahead homer to Hank Blalock of Texas in the eighth inning of the All-Star game.
— Edited by Dave Nobles
"They called me the goon
Growing up in Mascouche, Quebec, Gagne started skating he was 3 and thought he was headed to a career in the NHL.
Gagne wears goggles on the mound because he can't wear contacts. His eyes have scars from getting hit by hockey sticks.
when I was younger," he said. "I thought I was a pretty good defenseman. I was pretty big. I loved to hit."
Because he was 18 days shy of being eligible for arbitration and his contract was automatically renewed by the Dodgers in March, Gagne doesn't get a bonus added to his $550,000 salary.
He figures to earn $3.5 million or more next season.
The Associated Press
MLB to punish players who fail steriod testing
NEW YORK—Major League Baseball will begin penalizing players for steroid use next season after learning that more than 5 percent of this year's tests came back positive.
Suspicions of steroid use had run high in recent times, even as bulked-up sluggers set all sorts of home run records. Stars such as Barry Bonds and Sammy Sosa denied taking the drugs.
But yesterday, the results came back and proved what many in baseball assumed, and what former MVPs Jose Canseco and Ken Caminiti had already admitted.
"Hopefully, this will, over time, allow us to completely eradicate the use of performance enhancement substances in baseball," commissioner Bud Selig said.
MLB said of 1,438 anonymous tests this season, between 5 and 7 percent were positive.
Under baseball's labor contract that took effect last fall, testing with penalties begins after any season in which more than 5 percent fail. From now on, players will be identified.
A first positive test for steroid use would result in treatment and a second in a 15-day suspension or fine of up to $10,000.
-The Associated Press
Parents of accuser see Bryant in court
The Associated Press
EAGLE, Colo. — Kobe Bryant made his first court appearance yesterday before the judge who will handle his sexual assault trial, saying nothing as the parents of his accuser sat just a few feet away.
It was the first time family members of the 19-year-old woman have attended a hearing in the case and the first time they have seen the Los Angeles
Lakers' guard in person, prosecution spokeswoman Krista Flannigan said.
Besides the parents, two brothers and a cousin of the woman were present. The family left the courthouse without commenting, though Flannigan said they told her they were glad they came.
Bryant, who played a home game in Los Angeles the night before, sat calmly through the 12-minute procedural hearing, occasionally whispering to one of his attorneys.
The defense waived Bryant's rights to be advised of the sexual assault charge against him and the penalty he faces if convicted: four years to life in prison and 20 years to life on probation. Bryant's $25,000 bail was left unchanged.
Judge Terry Ruckriegle set a pretrial hearing for Dec. 19 and another for Jan. 23 to settle various motions. Bryant will have to appear at both hearings to show he is complying with conditions of his bond, Flannigan said.
He isn't expected to enter a plea until his arraignment, which hasn't been scheduled. After a formal plea, state law requires the trial must be scheduled within six months unless Bryant waives his right to a speedy trial.
The Dec. 19 hearing will examine whether the woman's medical records and records from a rape crisis center should be given to the defense and whether anyone involved in the case has been leaking information to reporters.
The lan. 23 hearing is likely to center on issues that will shape the trial itself, experts said. Among the motions likely to be settled are requests to suppress evidence, including Bryant's statement to police, and ground rules for expert witness testimony, said David Lugert, a defense attorney and former prosecutor in Eagle.
During Bryant's preliminary hearing last month, an investigator testified the woman's blood was found on Bryant's T-shirt. The defense suggested the woman was promiseuous and that the blood came from previous sexual activity.
District Attorney Mark Hurlbert indicated yesterday that he would try to bar a defense expert from watching Colorado Bureau of Investigation experts test evidence.
Ruckriegle said the tests must be completed in 30 days and the defense must be notified before any tests that could destroy evidence.
Before the hearing began, about a dozen people rallied outside the courthouse in support of Bryant's accuser.
"We are here to remind everyone to treat this sexual assault case as a serious crime that it is, rather than as fodder for entertainment," said Robin Finegan, a board member of a victims' assistance group.
The Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO — Oakland Raiders running back Tyrone Wheatley hit a photographer outside a federal courthouse yesterday, hours prior to testifying before a grand jury probing a nutritional supplements lab.
Wheatley was one of five NFL players, including four Raiders, to appear yesterday before the panel. Others included former NFL defensive player of the year Dana Stubblefield and Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver Iohnnie Morton.
Also appearing before the grand jury was Marion Jones, who won an unprecedented five track medals in the 2000 Sydney Olympics.
Wheatley threatened and cursed at a group of photographers and TV cameramen outside the building, then raised his right fist and slapped photographer Noah Berger hard on the right
Wheatley, who appeared before the grand jury in the afternoon, declined to comment.
It's not clear what, if any, drug charges might result from the investigation. An appearance before the grand jury, or being subpoenaed to testify, does not mean an athlete is a target of the probe.
Federal officials have refused to discuss the grand jury or the scope of its secret proceedings, but two sources familiar with the grand jury have said the probe is focusing on drug use by athletes as well as possible tax evasion by the Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative.
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Berger, a freelance photographer on assignment for The Associated Press, said he was not hurt. He filed a report with the Federal Protective Service, but it was not clear whether Wheatley would be charged.
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