what we heard "I'd love to play traditional powers such as Kentucky, Duke, Syracuse, Connecticut, something like that." Men's basketball coach Bill Self on what the Jayhawks' schedule might look like in the future
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Red Sox victorious in calmer playoff game
The Associated Press
BOSTON — No beanballs or brawls,
just a dynamite knuckleball by Tim
Wakefield that gave the New York Yankees fits and allowed the Boston Red Sox to knot the AL championship series.
Wakefield struck out eight over seven plus innings, and Todd Walker and Trot Nixon provided the offense with solo homers, leading Boston over New York 3-2 Monday night to tie the best-of-seven AL championship series at two games aniece.
There was none of the fighting that marred Game 3 Saturday, and Wakefield beat Mike Mussina for the second time in the series, which now must return to Yankee Stadium later this week.
It turned out to be important.
Pinch-hitter Jason Varitek added important breathing room for Boston with an RBI grounder in the seventh, just beating the throw to first as the Yankees tried to complete an inning-ending double play.
Derek Jeter drove in New York's first run with a fifth-inning double that hit third base and pinch-hitter Ruben Sierra homered off Scott Williamson with one out in the ninth, ending a streak of 191-3 shutout innings for Boston's much-
maligned bullpen.
mangled bumpers. Williamson, who had relieved Mike Timlin to start the inning, struck out Dave Dellucci and Alfonso Soriano to earned the save.
The series continues at Fenway Park on Tuesday, originally a travel day. David Wells pitches for New York against Game 2 loser Derek Lowe in Game 5.
After Sunday's rainout, fans had a festive time on the warm autumn night, booing Yankees catcher Jorge Posada, who screamed Saturday at Pedro Martinez after the Boston pitcher hit Karim Garcia with a pitch. Posada went 0-for-4 with two strikeouts, leaving seven runners on base.
Still, there was at least one dispute.
They also chanted "We want Nelson," a reference to New York reliever Jeff Nelson, involved in Saturday's ninth-inning bullpen scuffle. Nelson entered to boos in the eighth inning just after Felix Heredia hit Walker in the shoulder. There was no hint of trouble on this one — Walker went directly to first base.
After Nelson's first pitch, Boston manager Grady Little came out to talk to the umpires, who then checked the pitcher's belt and glove. But they apparently didn't find anything against the rules, and Nelson got out of the inning with a double-play grounder.
Tackling becoming a lost art in conference
The Associated Press
OMAHA, Neb. — More freshmen than ever are playing. Tackling is a lost art. Spread offenses have taken over.
Those are the three reasons Colorado coach Gary Barnett gives for the dominance shown by Big 12 Conference offenses so far this season.
"I see this as a wide-open grass basket- ball kind of sport, the way it's going now," Barnett said yesterday during the Big 12 coaches' conference call with reporters.
Six of the nation's top 15 teams in scoring are from the Big 12. Oklahoma, Texas Tech, Oklahoma State and Texas are averaging 40 points or more. Last year only one team in the league, Kansas State, averaged more than 40 a game.
Texas Tech, at 621.8 yards a game leads the nation in offense and six other conference teams are averaging more than 400. Last year only three Big 12 teams generated more than 400 yards a game.
Tech, at a nation-leading 519.8 pass
ing yards, is among three Big 12 teams throwing for at least 319 yards a game. Last year Tech was the only conference team passing for more than 300 yards a game.
"The skill is just fantastic," Iowa State's Dan McCarney said. "Good luck trying to pick out who the all-conference players are based on what we've seen."
"We're not a three-yard-and-a-cloud of dust conference, as we were called in the old Big Eight," Mangino said.
Barnett said college football in general is becoming more offensive. He said the 85-scholarship limit, combined with attrition from injuries and academic casualties, has required more true freshmen to play significant roles.
Because the NCAA has restricted the amount of contact allowed in spring practice, Barnett said, the fundamentals of tackling aren't emphasized as much.
Barnett said. The influx of spread offenses has required defenses to become more athletic. Barnett said.
"It's hard for us to find guys coming out of high school who can tackle and it's hard for us now to teach them to tackle," Barnett said.
"You don't find the big linebackers that can play," Barnett said. "You play more with speed linebackers, guys who can cover on the corners. Trying to find guys who can stand up and tackle, that's hard to do."
NORTH FREE-FOR-ALL: There's a strong possibility that the North Division representative at the Big 12 championship game will have two conference losses.
losses. Kansas State went to the title game with two losses in 2000, but that was the
only time a North team has done so since the league started play in 1996. The South champion has had two losses on four occasions.
Missouri, Nebraska, Kansas and Colorado are each 1-1 in the league and K-State and Iowa State are 0-2.
"If anybody can find a way to beat some of the teams in the South, those are the ones who have the best chance of winning the North now," Barnett said.
Losing two straight to open conference play usually knocks a team out of contention. Not this year, K-State's Bill Snyder said.
Snyder said.
"Sometimes second chances are hard to come by," he said. "And it's virtually impossible to get a third chance. At least we have that opportunity. Our destiny is in our own hands."
Separation may begin this week with Colorado at Kansas State, Missouri at Oklahoma and Texas A&M at Nebraska
"It will thin itself out pretty quick," Snyder said.
园
Man, I was at the Chiefs game last week when they beat the Broncos and it wasn't even close to how big yesterday's game. 6 and 0 Chiefs. All the way.
Hey Jayhawk football players,we want our kegs back.
Shaq's closet is bigger than my entire apartment. I am really depressed right now.
Kansas athletics calendar
today
Women's golf at Sunflower/Marilyn Invitational, Manhattan
tomorrow
Volleyball at Texas A&M, 7 p.m., College Station, Texas
friday
Volleyball vs. Iowa State, 7 p.m., Horejsi Family Athletics Center
Swimming at Big 12 Conference Relays, Ames, Iowa
Soccer at Colorado, 6 p.m., Boulder, Colo.
Basketball, Night 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
sunday
Soccer at Nebraska, 1 p.m., Lincoln, Neb.
Ohio State player sues university over alleged privacy violations
By Becky Goldsmith The Lantern via U-wire Ohio State University
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Suspended tailback Maurice Clarett filed a $2.5 million lawsuit against Ohio State University on Friday in the U.S. District Court in Columbus, Ohio.
Clarett, who was suspended for the entire 2003 season by the university for accepting extra benefits from a family friend, is suing the university for a violation of the Buckley Amendment of the Family Educational Right To Privacy Act. The amendment prohibits the disclosure of a student's information without prior notification or a subpoena.
On July 7, Clarett admitted to OSU and NCAA investigators that he had exaggerated the value of items that were stolen from a car he was borrowing from a local dealership when he filed a report with campus police.
After the NCAA's investigation and Clarett's subsequent suspension, the Columbus city attorney's office charged Clarett with one count of a misdemeanor falsification for the police report.
"The university acted improperly
when it disclosed this information with the university police force and the city attorney's office," the lawsuit says. "OSU and the NCAA elicited statements from Mr. Clarett in this coercive environment and released those statements to the city of Columbus, Ohio, law-enforcement officials."
n innocent to lawsuits. Friday's lawsuit is just one of three civil cases Clarett has pending in two different states. Clarett also filed a discovery lawsuit against the university on
Clarett also is trying to prohibit the city attorney from using the information in his criminal case in which he pleaded innocent to falsification.
Sept. 18 for information that could help in his defense of the misdemeanor charge. A few weeks later, Clarett sued the National Football League for entry into its draft.
The lawsuit filed Friday seeks to add Clarett to a 1998 privacy lawsuit by the U.S. Department of Education against Ohio State, Miami University and other schools.
"The university has subjected Mr. Clarett to criminal prosecution, public loss of reputation and perhaps permanent degradation of his future potential to participate in professional athletics," the lawsuit says.
the lawsuit says. USU spokeswoman Elizabeth Conlisk and Director of Athletics Andy Geiger were both unavailable for comment, but university attorney Virginia Trethewy released a statement Saturday on behalf of the university.
"The Ohio State University has vigorously protected the educational records of this student athlete and his Sept. 18 discovery lawsuit has generated no information that would lead Mr. Clarett to believe that Ohio State violated his privacy," Trethewey said in the statement.
The Associated Press
OMAHA, Neb. — Nebraska coach Frank Solich is investigating the alleged assault of a Missouri fan by one of his football players after Saturday night's game in Columbia, Mo.
Video shows player 'decking' Missouri fan
The incident occurred as fans stormed Faurot Field after Missouri's 41-24 victory.
Solich said during yesterday's Big 12 Conference coaches conference call with reporters that he had spoken with the player who was involved. Solich did not identify the player.
Video by Columbia television station KOMU shows Nebraska's Kellen Huston knocking down the fan, reporter-photographer Ben Arnet said. Huston, a junior from Ankney, Iowa, is the team's place-kick holder.
KOMU managing editor Randy Reeves said the video shows the player "decking" a Missouri fan when the two crossed paths. The player continued running toward the Nebraska locker room while Missouri quarterback Brad Smith helped the fan get up off the ground.
No arrest was made and no complaint had been filed in the matter, said Jack Watring, University of Missouri police chief.
either. Solich said he is uncertain of the details surrounding the incident.
"We'll try to view the tape of it," Solich said. "Other than that, I don't have much knowledge of what transpired."
Solich said there was mass confusion on the field after the game and that emotions were running high. He said he tried to hurry his players off the field and that he regretted it if a fan was hurt.
"It was a situation where there were a lot of people moving a lot of different directions," he said. "Any time people charge the field, you do, as a coach, get concerned for the safety of your other coaches. You get concerned for the safety of your players. I certainly was in that mode."
mode
Missouri coach Gary Pinkel said Smith told him what he saw and that Smith was visibly upset.
"I don't know more about that other than that he saw the number of the guy who did it." Pinkel said.
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