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quite compare with the first teamers at Missouri, Nebraska or Texas.
But teams are also more prepared in the Big 12, a result of facing opponents on a regular basis. Execution, then, develops into an even more important ingredient to success.
"It's more difficult because you play against most of these teams every year as opposed to playing against Duke every now and then," former wide receiver Dexton Fields said. "A lot of the teams that you play, they've seen your schemes and they know the ins and outs of what you're trying to do."
Kansas takes its first step into conference play this Saturday with a home game against Iowa State - a team that is reeling after a last-second loss to K-State.
The Cyclones haven't had much success in the last two years, but Mangino said the Jayhawks won't make the same mistake as they did last season.
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"I don't think we're going to have that mindset this Saturday, that's for sure." Mangino said. "I think we'll find out more and more about ourselves as we go through conference play now"
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STILLWATER, Okla. — Kickoff time is now set for Oklahoma State's homecoming football game against Missouri.
The two Big 12 teams will kick off at 8:15 p.m. Oct. 17 at Boone Pickens Stadium.
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DALLAS — Vince Carter scored 21 points in his Orlando debut to lift the Magic to a 110-105 victory over the Dallas Mavericks in the preseason opener for both teams on Monday night.
Carter, who was acquired by the Magic in an offseason trade with the Toronto Raptors and the New Jersey Nets, scored 15 points in the third quarter.
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BY DOUG TUCKER
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Just as the Kansas City Chiefs were running out of the tunnel onto the field this past Sunday, a horse used in pre-game ceremonies did what horses do.
Right on the 12-yard line. While
many in the crowd roared, a man in a bright red shirt came running out and cleaned up the mess.
A few minutes later, Jamal Charles fumbled the opening kickoff and the New York Giants
"We've got to understand the second quarter of the season begins today."
"We've got to understand the second quarter of the season begins today." Haley added. "It's all even, and that's the only way we can think. That's the way I think our team is going to think and that's
how we're going to prepare."
"We are 0-0 as far as I'm concerned, and that's what we've got to do as a team," Haley said Monday, a day after the 27-16 loss that kept the Chiefs winless at 0-4 with Dallas coming in next week.
grabbed a quick 7-0 lead in a game that suggests the guy trailing the horse and Chiefs coach Todd Haley have something in common.
TOOD HALEY Kansas City Chiefs coach
Kansas City Chiefs coach Todd Haley, center, argues a call during the fourth quarter of an NFL game against the New York Giants. Oct. 4 in Kansas City, Mo. The Giants won the game 27-16.
Haley is also trying to clean up a mess as quickly as possible.
The Chiefs are 2-29 going back to 2007 and last in the NFL in third-down conversions. The problems here run deep.
The defense seems to have improved a bit from last year's 2-14 debacle with the addition of linebacker Mike Vrabel, who came over from New England along with quarterback Matt Cassel.
But a killer for the offense game after game has been an inability to convert on third down. It's a
statistic in which the Chiefs rank dead last among the 32 NFL teams.
They have converted just nine of 51 third days, less than 18 percent. While being dominated in the past two weeks, they've been a combined 2 for 26 - 0 for
11 against Philadelphia and 2 for
15 on Sunday against the Giants.
"Third downs, they are all determined based off first and second down," said wide receiver Bobby Wade. "Our first and second downs have to be a lot better. Coach reiterated that to us last week and I'm sure it will be an emphasis this week."
"On fourth down, we were 75 percent, which I factor into the equation," he said. "At least we were reasonable counting those. But that doesn't help you on third down. We put an emphasis on it last week... "I thought we did an excellent job in practice in that area. It didn't translate to the game. We've just got to keep chopping wood."
Haley had thought progress was being made.
With an offensive line that's been struggling and a quarterback who's been missing open receivers, the Chiefs have managed only 986 total yards in four games. Only Oakland is worse.
Holding the near-helpless Oakland offense under 200 yards in the second week has kept Kansas City from being last in the NFL in total defense. Instead, they're 28th, giving up a total of 1,516 yards.
on three Super Bowl winners for New England, said the Chiefs are still struggling to find their identity.
"We have to become a team," he said. "When we are playing a complementary-style game, that is when we can be successful. Now it seems like we are just putting plays together. It doesn't look like a team. Sometimes we get caught up in one play or the next as opposed to the big picture of how we need to play
A frustrated Vrabel, who played
each week to win."
Vrabel has told his younger and less experienced teammates not to worry about the constant roster turnover.
"We can't be concerned with who is coming or coming out," he said. "You have to worry about yourself and the job you are doing. That is the business. You are searching for guys who are going to help us win, and that is going to go on throughout the year."
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Dallas not living up to standards
IRVING, Texas — A month into this season, the Dallas Cowboys have mastered mediocrity.
They're 2-0 against teams that haven't won, 0-2 against teams that haven't lost.
They're 2-0 when Tony Romo holds onto the ball, 0-2 when he turns the ball over.
They've won once by throwing and once by running. Their defense keeps getting better, but isn't good enough to carry them, especially not with DeMarcus Ware still seeking his first sack.
Looking for one thing they've done really well all four games?
"I still think our special teams are playing solid for us," coach Wade Phillips said Monday.
Being stuck in the middle is
nothing new for Dallas. Since starting 11-1 in Phillips first season replacing Bill Parcells, the Cowboys are 12-12, or 12-13 if you count a playoff loss.
After failing to make the playoffs last season, things were supposed to be different this time. With three-fourths of the season to go, that could still happen, but something's going to have to change.
"We are good enough to win, but we are not good enough (to win) making too many mistakes," Phillips said.
Phillips noted that Dallas beat Tampa Bay and Carolina by at least 10 points and went down to the wire in losses to New York and Denver. That's either encouraging or agonizing, depending on your perspective.
on the final play of the game, blowing a lead they'd just regained and spoiling the debut at their fancy new stadium. Against the Broncos, they didn't trail until there was 1:46 left and had two short throws into the end zone that could've tied it in the closing seconds.
The Cowboys lost to the Giants
"You're kind of like, 'OK. Where are we? What is our identity?" linebacker Bradie James said. "Our identity is we're 2-2. In order for us to continue to win and not be an up-and-down team, we have to win those tough games. That's just it."
Romo threw three long touchdown passes in the opener and had another TD toss the next week. Now he's gone two straight games without a touchdown pass, the first time that's happened since he became a starter in 2006.
Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo throws a pass during the team's NFL training practice in San Antonio July 29. Romo has vowed to take fewer gambles after having at least one turnover in 11 of 13 games last season.
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Rams making many mistakes
ST. LOUIS — One thing the St. Louis Rams do not have is a quarterback controversy. They've been shut out twice — once with Marc Bulger taking the snaps and again on Sunday with Kyle Boller getting the start.
The winless Rams (0-4) have been outscored 108-24 and are making far too many mistakes under a rookie coach that has stressed fundamentals from Day 1, committing three turnovers that produced touchdowns for the 49ers in a 35-0 whitewash Sunday. Steve Spagnuolo told the team Monday, as he has every week,
to separate the upcoming game against Minnesota from the past failures of a franchise that has an NFL-worst 14-game losing streak and overall 5-31 record since 2007.
"It's going to sound like a broken record, but it's not going to change." Spagnuolo said. "Once we start winning, it's not going to change then, either.
"I don't know any other way to do it."
True to those words, Spagnuolo said offensive tackle Alex Barron would likely be back in the lineup this week. Barron, a first-round pick in 2005, was benched near the end of the half after getting penalized for lining up behind the line of scrimage.
Spagnuolo didn't say what else prompted the benching. He spoke with Barron on Monday and reminded him of the team's expectations for a player who was expected to become the dominant tackle after Orlando Pace left.
"I have my reasons for what I did, and they've been expressed to the team as well as Alex." Spagnuolo said. "Just like I told Alex, it's over, it's done, we move on."
The Rams are hoping that offensive tackle Jason Smith, the second overall pick of the draft, can return after missing two games with a sprained left knee.
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