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2B SPORTS
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2009
QUOTE OF THE DAY
"I always turn to the sports section first. The sports page records people's accomplishments; the front page has nothing but man's failures."
— Earl Warren
FACT OF THE DAY
Kansas, which moved from 20th to 18th in the Associated Press poll, has a six-game winning streak dating back to last season.
— Kansas Athletics
TRIVIA OF THE DAY
Q: What is the longest winning streak in Kansas football history?
A: 18 games from 1907 to 1909.
Kansas Athletics
LASVEGAS — A weekend benefit concert raised nearly $8 million to support retired tennis star Andre Agassi's public charter school in Las Vegas.
Officials say Agassi's foundation, used to support the Andre Agassi College Preparatory Academy, also received a pledge of $7.5 million over five years from the Engelstad Family Foundation.
The Saturday concert at the Wynn Las Vegas casino featured comedian Dane Cook, rock band Daughtry, country musician Tim McGraw and R&B singer Brian McKnight.
Officials say the $7.5 million gift will be used to establish a campaign to try to raise student funding in Nevada.
The K-12 school uses the concert funds for its operating budget. The school has roughly 600 students.
CRIME
CRIME Former baseball player charged with assault
HOUSTON — Former major leaguer second baseman Chuck Knoblauch has been charged with assaulting his common-law wife.
A judge set Knoblauch's bond at $10,000.
According to a criminal complaint, Knoblauch's wife told police he hit her in the face and then choked her at their west Houston home on Friday.
Knoblauch's attorney did not immediately return a telephone call Tuesday.
the 41-year-old former infielder is a Houston native and a four-time All-Star who played for the New York Yankees, Minnesota Twins and Kansas City Royals.
Associated Press
MORNING BREW
Famous fights redirect attention
As the muck of last week's brawl washes away, another smear spatters from the world of miscued fighting in sports. About a month after spilling his desire for a trade, Golden State Warriors forward Stephen Jackson rekindled his belligerent past. In an effort to direct our attention away from the fights on campus and with help from Jackson's words, today's Brew will revisit some of the greatest fights in sports history that simply weren't like the rest. With all three of these rivalry fights there was a little something special. Keep your dukes up and your head down, and let's get ready to rumble. Ding ding!
THE MALICE AT THE PALACE
In a sweltering rivalry game in 2004, The Detroit Pistons and Indiana Pacers bashed skulls on the court and then off it. After a fan threw a cup of beer at former Pacer Ron Artest, the specialist jumped into the stands and started going at it with who he believed was the beer chucking fan. Jackson and former Pacer teammate Jermaine O'Neal also jumped into the stands, punching many other fans. The brawl resulted in nine different suspensions including 86 games for Artest and 30 for Jackson. The fan who threw the beer was forever banned from the Pistons' home games. Said Jackson of the memories: "I don't have a regret about anything I've done. I don't have a regret about going in the stands with Ron Artest."
PEDROVS. ZIMMER
In game three of the 2003 ALCS between bitter rivals the Boston Red Sox and the New York Yankees, a standard clearing of two benches soon evolved into one of the most memorable baseball-
less battles ever. After the regular umpire warnings (seen game after game in the rivalry), former Red Sox outfielder Manny Ramirez and pitcher Pedro Martinez helped spark a mid-game melee. The only difference in this fight was that withered 72-year-old Don Zimmer, former bench coach for the Yankees, decided that he wanted in on the fun. With his perfectly pasty and circular noggin gleaming in the scintillating sun, Zimmer charged at Martinez with all of his might (his might level being highly debatable). With game-ready reaction time, the Dominican ace smoothly stepped to the side and used two hands to escort the elder to the ground face-forward. Like a bowling ball rolling down Martinez's lane, Zimmer spun a full 720 degrees on the infield grass, forever branding a hilarious image on the minds of Red Sox nation. In case you weren't sold on the hype this rivalry collects, a senile coach coach battaling a Cy Young hurler with Richard Pryor-like wits should settle all of that nonsense.
TYSON VS. HOLYFIELD
"My main objective is to be professional, but kill him," boxer Mike Tyson once said of opponent Lennox Lewis. For those who were not aware, Tyson is not only one of the most feared fighters in sports history — the guy is absolutely off his (John) rocker. Forever solidifying this truth was what took place in the rematch of Tyson and Evander Hollyday. In their
first bout, Holyfield was a heavy underdog but knocked Tyson out in the eleventh round. After successive head-butting by Holyfield throughout the first match, Tyson felt as though he had to stick up for himself and his family in the second fight. In the rematch, Tyson tried to begin the third round without his mouthpiece, but was promptly redirected by the referee. Halfway through the same round, the two were tangled and Tyson bit off a chunk of Holyfield's right ear. Holyfield immediately grabbed his耳 with his glove in pain. Tyson eventually got to both of Holyfield's ears and even an angry fan that night, but was disqualified from the fight, faced fines and suspension and temporarily lost his boxing license for his insane actions. A bloody chunk of Holyfield's right ear was found in the ring after the fight.
MUSIC FROM THE VAULTS
With a light helmet, a pickaxe and a duster, Music from the Vaults readers will voyage though the deepest and darkest musical caverns known by crate diggers and cult revivalists.
The Exploding Plastic Inevitable was a performance made possible by the ever-contemporary Andy Warhol, showcasing the haunting discordance and innovation of The Velvet Underground. Touring the United States and Canada in 1967, the show gathered only a small following because of critics scared away by the group's merciless strangling of conventions in pop music. The group's premier days with visionaries Lou Reed and John Cale and stunning German chanteuse Nico were sparse, but accomplished some of the most transcending mediums in pop and punk music history, ushering in an era of social realism and sexual awareness in music.
In 1967's The Velvet Underground and Nico, Lou Reed's droning voice melodies coo through the avant-garde territories of John Cale's electric viola, menacing piano and off kilter bass guitar. "I'm Waiting for the Man" frames a jinkie waiting on the corner for his next fix. Reed illustrates the scene singing, "There he is, he's all dressed in black, Dior shoes and a big straw hat," and "He's never early, he's always late." "Venus in Furs" is a spooky ode to S&M, with a screeching viola as the conductor to the perverted and kinky tale. On the seven minute journey of "Heroin," Reed bares every last detail of the drug, strolling through a frightening exposition of the life of a junkie over the pulsating chaos from Cale and company. He concludes the epic shrugging off his addiction and his life, repeatedly chanting, "And I guess that I just don't know." The Velvet Underground made sunglasses cool. Then they inspired the future of all left field music.
— Edited by Samantha Foster
Source of quotes: ESPN.com, michaeltson.com
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THIS WEEK IN KANSAS ATHLETICS
TODAY
Volleyball vs.Colorado, 6:30 p.m.
THURSDAY
No events scheduled
FRIDAY
SATURDAY
Soccer at Texas A&M, 7 p.m.
Cross Country
OSU Cowboy
Jamboree, 9 a.m.
Stillwater, Okla.
Volleyball at Texas A&M. 2 p.m.
Softball vs. Emporia State, 2 p.m.
Softball vs. Central Missouri St., 4 p.m.
Rowing
Boot of the Okla
homa, All Day,
Oklahoma City,
Okla.
SUNDAY
Softball vs. Washburn, noon
Soccer atTexas, 1 p.m.
Superwoman
Softball vs. Emporia State, 4 p.m.
BIG 12 FOOTBALL K-State's special teams work on improving kicker
On the good end of the spectrum stands Brandon Banks, all 5-foot-7 of him.
MANHATTAN — Special teams at Kansas State are ranging from record-breaking to ruinous through the early stretch of the season.
Making use of textbook blocking, the slippery little senior set a Big 12 record against Tennessee Tech on Saturday with two kickoff returns for touchdowns. He became the 12th man in NCAA history to take two kickoffs all the way back in one game.
On the other side is junior place kicker Josh Cherry, who's 1-for-6 in field goal attempts.
Apparently, there are no other candidates for the job. Coach Bill Snyder says he's just going to keep practicing with the young kicker.
Associated Press
Haley Hoffman, Shawnee sophomore, flies through the air during a cheer routine at the football game on Saturday at Memorial Stadium. The cheer squad practice twice per week at G-Force Athletics. 725 N. 2nd.
Ryan Waggoner/KANSAN
CONGRATULATIONS MEMBERS OF SIGMA DELTA TAU
ELYSSA AFT
WENDI ALBERT
LAURA ALLEN
BROOKE BAKER
JORIE CHROMAN
DANIELLE DAVID
VAL DONOSKY
ABBY DURHMAN
KAYLA FRENKEL
ASHLEY GILDENBERG
LAUREN GOLDSTEIN
HALIE HERSHORN
LESLIE HYMAN
JEN LEVY
EMILY MEISENHEIMEI
KIRSTEN MOORE
MOLLY RISSIEN
HAYLEY ROSENBERG
JAMIE ROSENBERG
BECCA ROSS
DANIELLE RUBIN
HANNAH RUZTICK
GILLIAN SCHULMAN
MEGHAN STEIN
HILLARY STRAUB
HILARY SURFACE
CORI VIOLA
ASHLEY WAGNER
LINDSEY WERTHEIM
SHELLEY WIDOM
DANA WILENSKY
ASHLEY ZOLT
HEALTH
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Player says supplement damaged liver,dream
WASHINGTON Jareem Gunter, a college baseball player with dreams of playing professionally, thought he had found a "diamond in the rough," a safe and legal dietary supplement that would make him healthier.
Instead, he told Congress on Tuesday, "It gave me liver failure." Gunter said the experience with Superdrol four years ago, when he was a student at Lincoln University in Missouri, left him hospitalized for weeks. He said that although he's OK now, his doctor told him the condition could come back at any time.
Travis Tygart, CEO of the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, told the same hearing of the Senate Judiciary crime and drugs subcommittee that Superdrol is a brand name for an anabolic steroid and that Gunter's experience illustrates the problem with steroids making their way into dietary supplements.
"He woke up in a hospital bed with the doctor explaining to him that he had suffered acute liver failure, a textbook effect of taking steroids orally," Tygart said in prepared testimony.
Tygart said more regulation of the multibillion-dollar dietary supplement industry is needed, and the subcommittee chairman, Pennsylvania Democrat Arlen Specter, said that was worth exploring.
"The question arises whether there needs to be a change in federal law." Specter said, specifically raising the possibility of dietary supplements getting clearance from the government before they are sold. "The whole area is really pretty much off the radar screen," he told reporters later.
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