thursday, september 4. 2003
sports
the university daily kansan
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The punter is the best player on the KU football team. Why can't he play quarterback?
Does anyone else think that the athletic director looks like Uncle Fester from the Addams Family, but without all of the fat? I saw a picture of him and that is what I was thinking.
Kansas athletics calendar
Somebody needs to tell the freshmen that the Rock Chalk chant is used when we clearly have won a game and not when we are down 14 to zero.
Friday
Soccer at Wisconsin — Milwaukee, Wisc., 4 p.m.
Volleyball at Minnesota Tournament, Minneapolis, Minn., 10 a.m.
Saturday
Cross Country hosting Bob Timmons Invitational, Rim Rock Farm, Lawrence
Football vs. UNLV (Band Day)
Memorial Stadium, 6 p.m.
Volleyball vs. Marquette 10 a.m.
at Minnesota Tournament, Minneapolis, Minn.
Volleyball vs. Dayton 5 p.m. at Minnesota Tournament, Minneapolis, Minn.
KC ends slump defeats Rangers
Soccer at University of Wisconsin sin Madison, Wisc., 1 p.m.
The Associated Press
ARLINGTON, Texas — Jimmy Gobble got off to a shakys start, but the Kansas City Royals liked the way the rookie left-hander finished.
Gobble gave up a leadoff homer
Sunday
Gobble up a leisure to Michael Young, but shut out Texas over the rest of his seven innings as the Royals snapped a four-game losing streak with a 3-1 victory over the Rangers last night.
"I had to get it out of my mind quick," Gobble said of Young's 12th homer. "They had some tough hitters coming up. I had to work through it. I knew I had to be aggressive and just keep my team in the go
Gobble my team in the game.
Gobble (5-3) allowed one run and four hits, struck out a career-high six and walked two after being called up from Triple-A Omaha on Tuesday to join the expanded roster. He had five starts for the Royals in August, winning his first two.
Gobble was facing the Rangers for the first time, and he was especially effective against veteran sluggers Alex Rodriguez and Rafael Palmeiro, who were a combined 0-for-7.
innings in losses to the New York Yankees and Anaheim Angels.
He struggled in his last two starts, however, allowing a total of 13 runs and 17 hits over 10 1-3
Curtis Leskanic gave up one hit in a scoreless eighth, and Mike MacDougal got the final three outs for his 27th save in 35 chances as Kansas City salvaged the finale of the three-game series. The Royals had won the first six against the Rangers before this series.
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each had RBIs in a three-run fourth to help the Royals move within one game of both Chicago and Minnesota for the AL Central lead.
Mike Sweeney, Joe Randa and Carlos Beltran
"This was a very important game for our ballclub," Pena said. "We'd lost four, and they were tough losses. But you have to be happy where we are. We're only one out. It's going to be close all the way to the end. We took some punches, but we're not knocked down yet."
Wednesday's University Daily Kansan contained an error.
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Correction
The article "Cross country starts year with Timmons Invitational" stated that runners Angela Pichardo and Chris Jones were freshmen, Benson Chesang, D.J. Hilding and Megan Manthe were sophomores, and that Laura Lavoie and Paige Higgins were juniors. Chesang is a freshman; Pichardo is a sophomore; Hilding, Jones and Manthe are juniors; and Lavoie and Higgins are seniors.
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Houston vs. Michigan
Washington St. vs.
Florida vs.
Miami
NC State vs. Wake Forest
Maryland vs. Florida State
Oklahoma vs. Alabama
BYU vs. USC
Missouri vs. Ball State
Baylor vs. North Texas Colorado vs. UCLA
Bethune Cookman vs. Alabama State
women's soccer
University of Kansas soccer player Caroline Smith, Edina, Minn., sophomore, was named Big 12 Offensive Player of the Week by conference officials Tuesday.
Soccer player awarded
"I think it is a great honor for her, considering there are some great attackers in the Big 12 Conference," coach Mark Francis said.
Smith recorded her first three-goal game in the Jayhawks' season opener against Northwestern. Smith was also credited with an assist in the 4-1 Kansas victory.
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Smith recorded two more goals in a 2-0 victory against
Smith is one goal away from trying the KU career goals record of 18, with 12 goals last year and five this season. Smith is averaging 2.5 goals and 5.5 points per game through the first week of play.
The Jayhawks play this weekend in Wisconsin, Friday at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and Monday at the University of Wisconsin.
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