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Basketball players got mad game
By Christina Kessler correspondents@kansan.com Kansan correspondent
As college students know, finding time to relax is a priority.
If you happen to play Division I-A basketball for a national powerhouse, making time for that is even more difficult.
But junior forward Keith Langford and sophomore guard Jeff Hawkins somehow manage to do things they enjoy during their down time. Despite hectic schedules of classes, practice and games, the two have grown accustomed to filling their time by doing what many college students do in their spare time: playing video games.
Langford said he spent a lot of time taking care of his academic and athletic responsibilities. Still, he said that sometimes video games were his outlet from the pressures of school and basketball.
Langford and Hawkins have both played March Madness 2003, which features the pair in the line-up for the Jayhawks, and former Kansas All-American Drew Gooden on the cover.
"The first time I played as myself, I scored like 30 points in the first half," Hawkins said. "I couldn't believe I was seeing myself as a player in a video game, and seeing all of my teammates in a game when I can just see them in person."
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Langford is a preseason nominee for the Wooden award, but the junior forward said even being considered for honors like that couldn't compare to the thrill of playing himself in a video game.
game.
"The first time I played it, I felt like I had really accomplished something," he said.
something', he said.
Langford said a few of his other favorite games were NBA Live and Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, while Splinter Cell was his favorite night game right now.
Sophomore guard Jeff Hawkins played the Xbox game system last week in Game X Change, 800 W. 23rd St. Some basketball players spend their time off the court playing video games.
Hawkins said he preferred sports games to action games like Splinter Cell.
He said that his favorite game was MVP 2003, but that he also likes playing NBA Live 2003, NCAA Football 2004,and Halo. Halo is a favorite with the rest of the Jayhawks too, according to Hawkins.
Hawkins. "I like playing Halo with Aaron and Mike. It is the best game to play multi-player because of all the action," Hawkins said.
Langford said trying to have a winning season on NCAA Football 2004 kept him busy lately.
"A lot of people ask why I don't go out a lot," Langford said. "It is because I am doing this, playing games."
gamis. On the court accomplishments will come soon enough for this year's men's basketball team. Until then, Hawkins and Langford said they would join the rest of the team, working hard during practice, studying diligently, and finding some free time to beat the
In a video game, at least.
hell out of Mizzou.
Edited by Dave Nobles
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Vanderbilt 'shakes up' its athletics
The Associated Press
mrs. big Vanderbilt will continue playing intercollegiate sports, but the reorganization eliminates the traditional athletic department and puts sports under the central university administration, the school said Tuesday.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Vanderbilt University will merge its departments that handle varsity and intramural sports in a major shakeup designed to curb the ills of big-time college athletics.
"For too long, college athletics
have been segregated from the core mission of the university." Chancellor Gordon Gee said in a statement. "As a result, we have created a culture, both on this campus and nationally, which is disconnected from our students, faculty and other constituents, where responsibility is diffused, the potential for abuse considerable and the costs — both financial and academic — unsustainable."
No NCAA sports programs will be eliminated, but just about everything else will change under the restructuring.
That includes the elimination of the athletic director position, which Todd Turner has held for seven years.
Turner has been offered a job as special assistant to the chancellor for athletic and academic reform, a position in which he would advance "a national agenda for the reform of intercollegiate athletics."
conglate a team.
"Let there be no misunderstanding of our intention: Vanderbilt is committed to competing at the highest levels in the Southeastern Conference and the NCAA, but we intend on compet-
mg consistent with the values of a world-class university." Gee said.
Vanderbilt's sports programs have had mixed success in recent years.
The football program has lost 18 straight Southeastern Conference games and 27 of its last 28 SEC games, beating only Kentucky in 2000. The women's basketball team went to the NCAA regional tournament last year and lost in the second round while the men's basketball team finished 11-18. The men's tennis team was second in the nation.
Cyclone charged in assault of female
By Krista Driscoll Iowa State Daily Iowa State University
AMES, Iowa — Iowa State football player Tyson Smith was arrested at his home Sunday morning and was later charged with domestic assault.
Smith, a defensive end who is likely to redshirt this season after injuring his leg in the Cyclones' season-opening game against Northern Iowa, appeared in Story County District Court at 8:30 a.m.
Ames, Iowa Police arrested Smith, at approximately 11:55 a.m. Sunday after receiving a complaint from Smith's roommate, Kel-Leigh Tate.
Monday and pleaded not guilty
Commander Randy Kessel of the Ames Police Department said officers on the scene took pictures of brushes on Tate's body, but said she did not seek medical attention.
Tate said that at about 5 a.m. Saturday, Smith "pushed her from a bedroom in the residence into a hallway, where she fell down and the defendant struck her with a shoe."
According to a statement an officer took from Tate and another person, Smith "jumped" Tate from behind and pushed her. It indicated
Smith was held overnight at the Story County holding facility and released Monday morning. As a condition of his release from police custody, Smith is not allowed to go or enter his residence.
Tate and Smith have been dating for six years, according to the police report.
According to Iowa law. first
offense domestic assault is a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of $50-$500 and/or a prison term of up to 30 days. If convicted, Smith would have to serve a minimum term of two days of the sentence.
Under athletic department guidelines, an athlete charged with assault is automatically suspended.
Smith had 104 tackles, including six sacks, as a junior last season. He was the Cyclones' starter for the past two seasons.
for the past six years Smith's trial is scheduled for Oct. 10.
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