2B SPORTS
THE UNIVERSITY OF DARLEY KANSAN MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2009
QUOTE OF THE DAY
"In life, as in a football game,
the principle to follow is: Hit the line hard."
Theodore Roosevelt
FACT OF THE DAY
Junior wide receiver Dezmon Briscoe's 117 receiving yards Saturday gave him sole possession of first place on the Kansas career 100-yard receiving games list with nine.
Q: Who did Briscoe surpass on the career 100-yard receiving games list?
-Kansas Athletics
TRIVIA OF THE DAY
A: Willie Vaughn, who played from 1985-88.
Kansas Athletics
Jay Haas takes his first Greater Hickory Classic
PGA
CONOVER, N.C. — Jay Haas overcame a slow start to shoot a 7-under 65 on Sunday winning his second Greater Hickory Classic by two shots over Russ Cochran and Andy Bean.
Haas, who also won the Champions Tour event in 2005, set a tournament-record of 18-under 198 at Rock Barn Golf and Spa's Robert Trent Jones course. His three-day total broke the mark set by R.W. Eaks in 2007 by one shot.
It also made the 13-time winner on the 50-and-over tour the second repeat winner in the tournament's seven-year history. Eaks won back-to-back titles in 2007 and '08.Cochran and Bean also shot 65 on Sunday.
Associated Press
Live Tweets from the press box
FOOTBALL
Many thanks to those who followed along this weekend as we live-tweeted Kansas football's 44-16 victory against Duke. In spite of my laptop's decision to die in the press box, I was able to crank out a decent discussion on the tiny keys of my phone.
Hope to see more of you following along and adding your own thoughts as the weeks go on. In case you missed it, here are some highlights from Saturday's live-tweeting.
9:04 a.m.: Entering the stadium to the sounds of Sweet Emotion. Good start...
11:27 a.m.: Kansas wishes Greg Paulus played for Duke's football team instead. Coldplay is better than that defensive effort.
11:33 a.m.: We're under attack! Briscoe sets off the cannon with 14 yd TD catch. Does that get you on the terror watch list?
11:49 a.m.: Something is indeed
up w/ Sharp. All Opurum out there. Sharp wearing black sleeve on left calve, Odds Mangino explains: NEGATIVE INFINITY. (Ed: Fortunately, I was wrong on this. See Jayson Jenk's game story).
11:56 a.m.: On 3rd & 4 Drew Dudley come up w/ the sack to kill Duke's drive. The sack attack is back for KU. Defense starting to outplay offense again.
12:01 p.m.: Yet another punt. Perhaps Sharp is the team's MVP bc aside from the TD earlier, offense just not making it happen. Need that versatility. (Freshman running back Toben Opurum's 122 total yards and two touchdowns would eventually help
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12:09 p.m.: Max O makes it 3
sacks for Kansas. Again on 3rd
down. BTW, Daymond Patterson's
taking one back today. Bet on it.
(Hope you didn't.)
mightily.)
12:33 p.m.: That was cannon worthy. Reeing slings a sidearm to an outstretched Meier. PAT good this time. KU 20, Duke 7.
1:05 p.m.: Max O just took back an interception for a 48-yard score. Wow. 27-7 KU, FTW.
1:42 p.m.: Crowd is getting awful thin. Will there be five fans left in the fourth to receive a prize? (Fans still not keen on sticking around for games well decided.)
1:55 p.m.: Thinking of what laptop to get next & how to
1:58 p.m.: I'm a PC & I'm
f@#1ed. (Here's the thing, I get
home, plug in my computer ...
and it works! I give up.)
destroy my old one...
2:30 p.m. IN THE FACE! IN THE FACE! (When a Duke pass drills a referee in the head. This unintentional bit of comedy barely made it as the game would end minutes later).
As always, keep following along. Cheers.
Edited by Brenna M. T. Daldorph
MEN'S BASKETBALL
Aldrich, Kansas receive top preseason rankings
BY COREY THIBODEAUX
cthibodeaux@kansan.com
Kansas is the unanimous preseason No. 1 team in the nation, according to the Blue Ribbon College Basketball Yearbook.
Also getting high mention were junior center Cole Aldrich and senior guard Sherron Collins. Blue Ribbon voted both players to first team All-American, joining Kyle Singler (Duke), Luke Harangody (Notre Dame) and Evan Turner (Ohio State).
The preseason player of the year went to Aldrich.
"We're happy to announce that
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Thibodeaux
at twitter.com/
c_thibodeaux.
Cole Aldrich is Blue Ribbon's choice as national preseason player of the year." Blue Ribbon editor Chris Dortch said in a statement released Friday. "We've watched with great interest his development from high school through now, and we've always thought he had the potential for greatness."
Kansas virtually retains last year's entire roster, which went 27-8 (14-2 in the Big 12 Conference) and made it to the Sweet 16. With the addition of the talented freshman class, Blue Ribbon has high expectations for the team.
Aldrich averaged 14.9 points and 11.1 rebounds per game last
year and led the Big 12 in blocked shots. He recorded Kansas' first triple-double against Dayton last year with 13 points and set career highs with 20 rebounds and 10 blocks.
BLUE RIBBON'S TOP FIVE TEAMS
"We think Bill and his staff have put together a team that more than justifies the lofty preseason consideration it's been receiving."
1. Kansas
2. Michigan State
3. Texas
4. Villanova
5. North Carolina
Dortch said. "I'll be interesting to see how the season plays out, but we strongly believe Kansas starts off as the team to beat for the national championship."
- Edited by Alicia Banister
Men's Golf
Jim Colbert
Intercollegiate,
All day,
Manhattan
THIS WEEK IN KANSAS ATHLETICS
MONDAY
Men's Golf
Jim Colbert
Intercollegiate
All day.
Manhattan
Women's Volleyball vs. Okhloma, 6:30 p.m.
WEDNESDAY
MLS
Wizards defeat FC Dallas for victory in Kansas City
Kansas City (8-11-6) trailed 2-1 after 75 minutes, but Josh Wolff tied it in the 77th and Conrad's sprawling header three minutes later gave the Wizards their first home victory since a 3-1 win over New England on June 12. Dallas (7-12-6) has won just once in its last five names.
KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Jimmy Conrad atoned for two defensive mistakes with an 80-minute goal, and the Kansas City Wizards earned their first home win since mid-June with a 3-2 victory over FC Dallas on Saturday night.
Santiago Hirsig scored his first MLS goal in the ninth minute, putting the Wizards up 1-0 with a header off Claudio Lopez's corner kick, before Dax McCarty and Jeff Cunningham each turned a mistake by Conrad into a goal.
ROLLER DERBY
Associated Press
Economic downturn forces some to hang up their skates
BY ALLEN G. BREED Associated Press
RALEIGH, N.C. — There are some pretty horrific images in the Carolina Rollergirls' online injury archive: The purple-black bruise on Kristi Kreme's thigh; the nasty case of "rink rash" on Shirley Temper's
X-ray of the shattered shoulder — and cobalt chrome implant — that ended Harlot O'Scara's roller derby career.
The recession.
Unlike her provocatively- nicknamed fellow competitors, Kelly
the economy is tougher. I mean, it put me out of business."
Laid off twice in the past year,
with no health insurance, Delthelfs
"The economy is tougher," Dethlefs, 28, said after skating in last week's Wicked Wheels of the East tournament, her last derby event for the foreseeable future. "I mean, it put me out of business."
ABBEY DETHLEFS Carolina Rollergirls
Clocksem has managed to skate by with just a few bruises and the odd skinned knee. In her nearly three years around the oval, the feisty 5-foot-2 skater — real name, Abbey Dethlefs — has taken down some pretty tough opponents, but there's one that proved too much for her.
is one of a half-dozen Carolina players who've had to hang up their skates since the economy went sour. Others have had to bow out of road trips with the all-star team because they couldn't afford to travel or take the time off.
And other leagues
And other leagues and players elsewhere are feeling the same pinch — even as roller derby as a whole is prospering and actually enjoying a kind of mini-Renaissance with next month's release of a skater film starring Drew Barrymore and Ellen Page.
What most people don't realize
is that roller derby — an amateur affair, with nonprofit, skater-owned teams competing for fun and bragging rights — doesn't pay.
On the contrary, it costs skaters hundreds, even thousands of dollars a year for the privilege of knocking each other around on the track.
"It's gas. It's baby sitters. It's equipment," says Amy Caller, spokeswoman for Baltimore's Charm City Rollergirls. "It's all these things."
"We're making choices about what we spend our money on," says Linda Riker, aka Devil Kitty, co-captain of The Detroit Pistoffs, a member of the Detroit Derbygirls league. "I no longer have cable at my house. I don't have the Internet at my house. I've moved to a smaller apartment. I had to get rid of a bunch of my furniture to fit."
Unemployment in the Detroit metro area recently hit 17.7 percent, and Riker says the league has lost about a dozen players because of the downturn.
Abbey Dethiefs, aka Kelly Clocks'm, readys her skates before her game during the Women's F-track Roller Derby Tournament Friday in Raleigh, N.C. Tough economic times have rocked the sport, with some athletes being laid off.