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what we heard
"She wanted the public to talk about the victim being sexually promiscuous and poison the jury pool." —Wendy Murphy, a former prosecutor and a professor at the New England School of Law, on the legal tactics of Pamela Mackey, Kobe Bryant's attorney
2B the university daily kansan
off the bench
monday, October 13, 2003
commentary
Ryan Greene
rgreene@hansan.com
Greene depressed about bad weekend
There are not even words to describe how bad I did this week.
Unreal. Inconceivable. Mystifying.
No, not even those will suffice.
A 3-9 record is nothing you want to mention to anyone besides yourself.
However, in hindsight, they were all smart picks. The gods looked down Saturday on the college football world and decided to play mind games with everyone.
Wisconsin shut down Ohio State. Florida showed signs of life and embarrassed LSU.
And Missouri defeated Nebraska? Come on. Nothing short of a day in bizarro world could
Instead of Separation Saturday making the top-25 clearer, it just made things 10 times worse.
explain the parity that went on Satur day.
10 times worse.
The most heartbreaking of all was Kansas' 50-47 loss in Colorado. It was painful to look at the faces of the fallen Jayhawk warriors walking off the field after playing with everything they had for more than 60 intense minutes.
All one can do now is feel bad for Baylor, who will be the victim of Kansas' revenge-filled wrath next Saturday at Memorial Stadium.
The winner this week was Jared Schreiner, Topeka senior, with a mind-blowing record of 10-2.
How the heck do you go 10-2 in a week like this without the help of Miss Cleo?
As a Kansas student, he should not have been allowed to win for picking against the Jayhawks, but I'll cut him some slack just because of my crappy record.
"I felt like if we had to lose one it would be better to lose at Colorado than to Baylor at home." Schreiner said. "The ball couldn't keep bouncing our way forever, so we were sort of due for a loss."
If a week like this ever happens to me again, I may honestly have to consider my resignation from this weekly contest to save both myself and The University Daily Kansan some dignity.
Until next week, keep kicking.
■ Greene is a Vernon Hills, Ill., senior in journalism.
Cold stare
Jordan Egertson, Chesterfield, Mo., freshman defender, watched as his teammates battled the Southwest Missouri State bears Friday, Oct. 10. The game concluded with a 4-3 defeat. Look in tomorrow's sports section for more on the hockey team's efforts to establish a hockey program at Kansas.
Marlins quash Cubs in game 5
The Associated Press
MIAMI — Josh Beckett and the Florida Marlins put history on hold, at least for a couple of days.
With the Chicago Cubs set to clinch their first World Series trip in 58 years, Beckett buzzed Sammy Sosa in pitching a two-hitter and leading the Marlins to a 4-0 victory yesterday in Game 5 of the NL championship series.
Ivan Rodriguez, Mike Lowell and Jeff Conine homered and the Marlins played the role of ultimate spoiler — at least to thousands of Cubs fans at Pro Player Stadium and millions nationwide — in closing their gap to 3-2 and sending the series back to Wrigley Field.
Even with nearly a century of failure in their past, the Cubs are not about to panic. At least not yet.
Mark Prior is set to start in Game 6 Tuesday night. If he's needed, fellow ace Kerry Wood would pitch Game 7 the next day as Chicago tries to reach the Series for the first time since 1945.
The Cubs already had made arrangements with the Marlins to use champagne chilling in the Florida clubhouse for a celebration, if necessary. It wasn't
Instead, Florida had its bags packed for Chicago well before the game began. And the Marlins looked for any edge to prolong the season, as evidenced by their yesterday morning chapel service at the stadium.
"It was a little more motivational than usual and we had a lot more people there," team chaplain Chris Lane said.
At 23, the hard-throwing righty pitched the best game of his young career, striking out 11 and allowing only two singles and a walk. He shut down a Cubs team that had totaled 33 runs in the first four games of the series.
Not that the Marlins needed any extra help, not with Beckett on the mound.
A night earlier, the Cubs romped 8-3
and roughed up Dontrelle Willis. Having been run out of his own ballpark, the lively rookie was jogging around the stadium early yesterday, virtually unnoticed by fans in the parking lots. He had a big smile, and so did everyone else wearing teal-and-black a few hours later.
Only three times in LCS history and five times in World Series play have teams come back from a 3-1 deficit to win a best-of-seven series.
The Martins got closer when Lowell hit a two-run homer in the fifth off Carlos Zambrano in the fifth, and Rodriguez and Conine later connected.
When he batted in the eighth, Beckett drew a standing ovation from the towelwaving Marlins fans in the crowd of 65,279.
Then he went out and finished for the first complete game of his 51 starts in the majors. The two-hitter tied an NLCS record for fewest allowed in a complete game.
Beckett allowed only one ball beyond the infield before the Cubs got their first hit, a soft single by Alex Gonzalez with two outs in the fifth. Moises Alou also singled in the seventh.
Kansas athletics calendar
Monday
Women's golf at Sunflower/Marilyn Smith Invitational, Manhattan
tuesday
Women's golf at Sunflower/Marilyn Invitational, Manhattan
wednesday
Volleyball at Texas A&M, 7 p.m., College Station, Texas
friday
iowa
Soccer at Colorado, 6 p.m., Boulder, Colo.
Volleyball vs. Iowa State, 7 p.m., Horejsi Family Athletics Center
saturday
Soccer at Colorado, 6 p.m., Boulder, Colo.
Basketball, Late Night in the Phog, doors open
7 p.m. Allen Fieldhouse
Swimming at Big 12 Conference Relays, Ames,
Iowa
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.
Free for All
Call 864-0500
Yes, Christian Moody has a girlfriend. It is me, so step off.
--game, one right after the other
The Yankees suck.
Support women's sports. Come to Wescoe on Monday at 11:30 and receive free candy.
Screw the Cubs.
Hey Mangino, do you realize how many games Johnny Beck has lost for us? Get that guy out of here.
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My high school kicker is better than Johnny Beck.
I am here at the Colorado/Kansas game, and the fans are doing the wave. How weak is that?
You know, what is killing our football team is the kicking. Johnny Beck you are terrible. You missed the chance to get us about 10 points against Colorado.
Chiefs dominate Packers 40-34 after deficit
The Associated Press
GREEN BAY, Wis. — For once, the Kansas City Chiefs' wild finish didn't involve Dante Hall.
Even with their star kick returmer being kept out of the end zone for the first time in a month, the Chiefs overcame a 17-point fourth-quarter deficit to force overtime, then came on top after a crazy closing sequence to beat the Green Bay Packers 40-34 Sunday at Lambau Field.
Here were the final three plays of the
Cletidus
Hunt blocked
Morten
Andersen's
48-yard field
goal attempt
with 9:09 left
in OT to give the Packers (3-3) possession at their 39 and the wind at their back.
On first down, Packers running back Ahman Green — who ran 26 times
for 139 yards — fumbled the ball, and Kansas City recovered.
Chiefs quarterback Trent Green threw a 51-yard touchdown pass to Eddie Kennison with 8:42 left in the extra period.
Simple as that, Kansas City improved to 6-0.
"First off, it doesn't tell me anything I didn't already know. There's a special profile about this team," Chiefs coach Dick Vermeil said. "At no time on our sideline did anyone think we'd lost this
football game."
Free safety Jerome Woods, who had a 79-yard touchdown interception return in the fourth quarter, knocked the ball loose from Ahman Green. It bounced right into the hands of linebacker Mike Maslowski.
"It stuck in my arms." Maslowski said.
Then, with the Packers expecting run, Kennison juked Bhawoh Jue along the right sideline and caught Trent Green's pass for the winning score. Jue was in the lineup because starter Mike McKenzie sat out the second half with back spasms.