what we heard "The thing that happened in the Colorado game was that everything went our way." Baylor football coach Guy Morriss on defeating Colorado, then losing to Texas A&M 73-10
thursday, October 16,2003
off the bench
the university daily kansan 9A
men's basketball
Wayne Simien named preseason All-American
Wayne Simien, Kansas junior forward, is one of 21 players named to CollegeInsider.com's preseason All-American list.
Joe Dwyer, Collegeinsider.com's editor in chief, said that the Web site had no issues about putting Simien on the list despite last year's season-ending shoulder injury.
"If you look at his talent, his presence on the list should go without saying," he said. "I just think he's the next line of big time post players for Kansas."
The Big 12 Conference is well represented on the list. In addition to Simien the roster includes Missouri's Ricky Paulding, Texas Tech's Andre Emmett and Colorado's David Harrison.
Dwyer said the preseason list, which has been in existence since 1995, was a combination of a number of Top 25 coaches' opinions and the Web site staff's opinion.
"It's not an exact science, and a lot of it is based on speculation," he said. "We take in account what a guy did last year, and what we have heard about offseason workouts."
Chris Wintering
The CollegeInsider.com preseason All-American team
Name
Dee Brown
ike Diogu
Andre Emmett
Raymond Felton
Channing Frye
Francisco Garcia
Ben Gordon
David Harrison
Julius Hodge
Luke Jackson
Jaime Lioreda
Jason Maxiel
Jameer Nelson
Emeka Okafar
Rickey Paulding
Darius Rice
Romain Sato
Wayne Simien
Chris Thomas
Hakim Warrick
Bracey Wright
School Year
Illinois So.
Arizona State So.
Texas Tech Sr.
N. Carolina Sr.
Arizona Jr.
Louisville So.
Connecticut Jr.
Colorado Jr.
N.C.State Sr.
Oregon Sr.
LSU Sr.
Cincinnati Sr.
St.Joseph's Sr.
Connecticut Jr.
Missouri Sr.
Miami Sr.
Xavier Sr.
Kansas Sr.
Notre Dame Jr.
Syracuse Jr.
Indiana So.
Jayhawks take fourth in spite of bad weather
Wind and rain couldn't stop the Kansas women's golf team.
women's golf
The team placed fourth out of 12 teams in the Marilynn Smith Sunflower Invitational at Kansas State University on Tuesday.
volleyball
Kansas will host Iowa State at 7 p.m. tomorrow in the Horesei Family Athletics Center.
Kansas volleyball loses to No. 22 Texas A&M
The Jayhawks have never won in 16 chances against the Aggies. With the loss Kansas falls to 12-7 overall and 4-4 in the Big 12 Conference.
The Kansas volleyball team fell just short of its first ever victory against Texas A&M last night, losing 3-2 in College Station, Texas.
Sophomore Josi Lima led the Jay-
hawks with 17 kills and 16 digs, and senior
Sarah Rome added 16 kills. Kansas
lost 18-30, 34-32, 24-30, 31-29 and 11-15.
This was the second time the Jayhawks finished fourth in a tournament this year. The first was at the Mary Fossum Invitational at Michigan State University Sept. 20-21.
"I was proud of our balanced offense with four players having 12 or more kills, and how they really battled in such a hostile environment," Kansas coach Ray Bechard said.
Vesper Sep 14th
The Jayhawks had a total score of
944. K-State finished first at 925, while
Nebraska placed second with 935 and
Southern Methodist placed third with
938.
The Jayhawks stayed high in the rankings throughout the tournament, taking fifth place at the end of the first day.
"We're always pleased when we are able to move up a position or two in the final day," coach Megan Menzel said in a press release.
Freshmen Jill Womble and Amanda Costner had top-10 finishes in the tournament. Womble took eighth place with a career-high score of 234. Costner tied for ninth place with a score of 235.
Sophomore Chelsey Pryor tied for 26th place; sophomore Tiffany Woods tied for 30th place; senior Jennifer Bawanan tied for 32nd place.
Menzel said she was proud of everyone's performances, especially Womble's and Costner's.
Jayhawks who competed as individuals included sophomore Kendall Schwerman sophomore, who placed a career-high 41st; junior Merideth Winkelmann tied 45th place, a careerhigh.
Strong winds and rain dampened the second round of the tournament, but cleared up for the third round.
"I feel there's still some things we need to work on, but I'm pleased with taking fourth place." Menzel said.
"Iwish the weather was better yesterday. I felt a lot better today and was happy with my finish," Womble said in a press release.
The Jayhawks' next tournament will be Nov. 3-4 at the Edwin Watts Palmetto Invitational in Kiawah, S.C.
— Mike Bauer
Mike Norris
Kansas athletics calendar
tomorrow
voneyball vs. Iowa State, 7 p.m., Horesei Family Athletics Center
swimming at big 12 Conference Relays,
Ames, Iowa
Soccer at Colorado, 6 p.m., Boulder, Colo.
Basketball, Late Night in the Phog, doors
open 7 p.m, Allen Fieldhouse
saturday
Swimming vs. Iowa and Northern Iowa, 1 p.m., Iowa City, Iowa Football vs. Baylor, 1 p.m., Memorial Stadium
Soccer at Nebraska, 1 p.m., Lincoln, Neb.
sunday
wednesday
Volleyball vs. Texas, 7 p.m., Horejsi Family
Tennis at the Omni Regionals, Salt Lake City, Utah
Marlins 9—Cubs 6
Marlins complete comeback win NL championship title
The Associated Press
Given one final chance to beat the demons of their past and the Marlins, the Cubs couldn't get it done. Kerry Wood failed to hold an early lead and Wrigley Field fell silent as Florida capped its stunning NLCS comeback with a 9-6 win in Game 7 yesterday night.
CHICAGO — Waiting 'til next year will never, ever be so painful for the Chicago Cubs.
Destiny? Fate? The fan in Game 6? Whatever. The Cubs were unable to end their long, strange drought because Ivan Rodriguez, Miguel Cabrera and these remarkably resilient Marlins won their third straight game to clinch the National League pennant.
Now, the Marlins will head off to face Boston or the New York Yankees in the World Series starting Saturday night. In a cruel twist to the Cubs' faithful, Florida will make its second Series trip in only 11 years of existence. Chicago
has been absent since 1945, prompting the team's sad little motto of "Wait till next year."
Alex Gonzalez provided insurance with a two-run double to left-center field in the seventh inning for a 9-5 lead. The ball hopped up against the brick wall, covered with jaw that has changed
colors to orange and red.
That poison ivy will certainly be tinged with tears, too.
Even after being shut out in Game 5 by Josh Beckett, the Cubs were in excellent position as they returned home. But aces Mark Prior and Wood lost on back-to-back days for the first time this season and suddenly a sure thing had turned sour.
A sellout crowd of 39,574 minus the infamous Steve Bartman, the fan who deflected a foul ball during the Marlins' eighth-inning rally in Game 6, he was at home with a police guard, had the old ballpark shaking as Wood and Moises Alou homered for a 5-3 lead.
But Wood could only flip his glove into the stands as the wild-card Marlins rallied for three runs in the fifth. Luis Castillo added an RBI single in the sixth and Gonzalez hit a two-run double in the seventh for insurance.
Brad Penny won with an inning of scoreless relief for Mark Redman.
Bin a eckett came out of the bullpen and pitched four innings of one-hit ball on two days' rest, allowing only a homer by pinch-hitter Troy O'Leary. Ugueth Urbina worked the ninth for a save.
Home teams had won 12 of the last 13 times a postseason series went to Game 7. But the Marlins became just the sixth team to ever overcome a 3-1 deficit best-of-seven series.
Red Sox 9 — Yankees 6
Boston set for Game 7 showdown; teams meet for record 26th time
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — The resilient Boston Red Sox rallied just in time.
Trailing by two runs and nine outs from ending their season, they rebounded with a three-run seventh inning to beat the New York Yankees 9-6 yesterday and set up a whopper of a Game 7.
David Ortiz tied it with a run-scoring single and Johnny Damon drove in the go-ahead run with a bases-loaded walk in the seventh inning that tied the AL championship series.
within a victory of their first trip to the World Series since 1986.
That brings the series down to one game tonight, and it has all the makings of a classic: Roger Clemens versus Pedro Martinez, the central characters who set off fireworks and fights during Game 3 at Fenway Park.
Slumping Nomar Garciaparra had four hits, including a triple that started the three-run seventh and atoned for an earlier error. Jason Variket hit a third-inning homer off starter Andy Pettitie, and Trot Nixon added a two-run shot in the ninth off Gabe White as the Red Sox beat up New York for 16 hits and moved
New York and Boston will play for the 26th time tonight, the most meetings ever between two teams in a season. It marks the first time the championship series in both leagues will go a full seven games in the same
season
Homers by Jason Giambi and Jorge Posada, and a two-run double by Alfonso Soriano staked New York to a 6-4 lead. But reliever Jose Contreras couldn't hold it.
Boston, the top offense in the major leagues during the regular season, had been hitting just 230 in the playoffs and hadn't scored more than five runs in 10 postseason games. But the Red Sox remembered back to the first round, when they fell behind Oakland 0-2 before winning three in a row to advance.
Contreras relieved Pettitte to start the sixth and struck out the side, but his pitches got up in the seventh and he wound up the loser.
Garciaparra, who didn't get his first postseason RBI until Tuesday, hit a deep drive to center leading off the inning, and the ball gusted over Bernie Williams for a triple. Garciaparra came when the wind sent left fielder Hideki Matsui's throw to third sailing on a hop into the seats for an error.
Manny Ramirez hit a similar shot over Williams for a double, took third on a wild pitch and scored the tying run when Ortiz smashed a single off first base.
Felix Heredia relieved with one out and two on, threw a wild pitch that moved up the runners, then threw a called third strike past Nixon.
After an intentional walk to Varitek, Heredia walked Damon on four pitches, two of them close, forcing in the go-ahead run. Heredia then fanned Todd Walker.
Alan Embree, who struck out Giambi to help escape a big jam in the fifth, got the win. Scott Williamson, Boston's sixth pitcher, got three outs for his third save of the series.
Cubs fans suck. Go Marlins
Die Cubbies, die. Your fans stink. Way to rob your outfielder of an easy out. Stupid Cubs.
Maybe the Cubs would have won if they hadn't let any of their stupid fans into the stadium.
Call 864-0500
--interfered with the Cubs game tonight and keeping them out of the World Series. See you next year Cubs.
I would just like to thank the man who
Now that the Cubs got beat can we please all go back to being Royals fans since we live in Kansas?
adidas KU KU
Why the hell is everyone on campus a Cubs fan?
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