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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2009
QUOTE OF THE DAY
"Ive come to accept that the life of a frontrunner is a hard one, that he will suffer more injuries than most men and that many of these injuries will not be accidental."
— Pele
FACT OF THE DAY
-Kansas Athletics
Senior Julie Hanley's 15 shutouts as goalkeeper of the women's soccer team is tied for second most all-time by a Jayhawk.
TRIVIA OF THE DAY
Q: Who owns the school record for shutouts in a career?
A: Meghan Miller with 28 shutouts from 2001-04.
CORRECTION
The inappropriate demo- graphic term "Mexican" was used on page 1B of the sports page. The correct term is peoples of Hispanic or Latino descent. Sincere apologies to those offended.
MLB
MLB Cardinals announce 2010 season schedule
ST. LOUIS — The 2009 season still has a couple of weeks to go but the St. Louis Cardinals have announced their schedule for 2010.
The schedule announced Tuesday shows the Cardinals opening on the road for the first time since 2006, with a game in Cincinnati on April 5.
The home opener is April 12 against Houston.
The Cardinals play in-state rival Kansas City in just one series next season, at Kansas City June 25-27.
Associated Press
Web site replaces sports paper
MORNING BREW
There is simply nothing like it. You bifurcate now.
You leisurely pour yourself a cup of coffee, glugging with every drop, emitting a searing cloud of steam from a chestnut waterfall. With your cup in hand, you perch yourself in a deep, cozy chair, fulfilling all comfort requirements one could compile. You reach out your other, knowledge-seeking hand to pick up the morning paper. Gazing upon a valley of familiar writers painting canvases of black words on gray backdrops, you turn the page and hear a crinkle of colliding creases. Your uninformed mind has suddenly gotten its fix.
However, the nostalgic routine of reading the morning paper was further jeopardized by the launching of ESPNBoston.com this past Monday. Released by sports media mammoth ESPN, the Web site will cover all the needs of a New England sports fan by providing stories, blogs and videos of the Red Sox, Patriots, Celtics, Bruins. Revolution and many colleges and high schools in the area, such as Boston College and Harvard. The site joins alreadyrun Web sites for Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles and New
York in ESPN's goal of spreading localized online hubs for everything sports. Other,notable sports cities soon to receive a similar fate include Washington,D.C., Atlanta and Pittsburgh, among others.
The Web sites are unquestionably a strong step toward ESPN's aim of near monopolization of the sports world. Yet as the bigbellied Goliaths of Bristol clink cups and cackle in their triumphs, the lowly stalwarts of the newspaper industry can only weep in dismay. These localized Web sites are simply reeling in the final days of the newspaper as an outlet for sports information.
Of course, with every beginning there is always a conclusion looming close by. With the arrival of ESPNBoston.com, the Boston Globe suffers a punishing blow: the loss of revered Patriots beat writer Mike Reiss. Reiss joins an
all-star cast at the new Web site, featuring other esteemed writers Peter Gammons, Michael Smith and Bill "The Sports Guy" Simmons. It now seems inevitable that Boston, one of the greatest sports cities in the world, will soon be subjected to sports news on a computer screen, and a computer screen only.
The move is now yours. Never allow the memory of reading the morning paper slip through the crevices of your mind. Keep reading the paper, letting us preserve the tradition of print news and maintaining the digital world as an option and not the only way.
When I first heard DJ Shadow's "Endtroducing..." I was 13 years old, alone on a train heading west. The train departed at the crack of dawn and there wasn't another person in sight. However, these details became irrelevant as soon as the first key was struck in "Building Steam With a Grain of Salt." Immediately, Shadow catapults the listener into a mysterious world of unclassifiable sonic textures. While the album contains certain influences from hip-hop.
MUSIC FROM THE VAULTS
jazz and soul, the result is an ethereal sound never heard before. The percussion is the backbone of the piece, drilling the ear with violent punches of snare and bass drums and crashing cymbals. Add in spooky transmission samples and Premo-like scratching and the result is horrifying. This 1996 epic will scare and enlighten you, but the whole time you'll be rocking your head to the beat. Wait for darkness to strike and treat your ears to "Organ Donor," "The Number Song" and "Stem."
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Vick placed on Eagles' active roster
NFL
The Philadelphia Eagles elevated Vick to the team's 53-man roster Tuesday, a move that allows the quarterback to practice with the team.
PHILADELPHA — Michael Vick can throw passes to his teammates instead of ball boys.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
against the Kansas City Chiefs. Vick will begin practicing with the team Wednesday, though he cannot play in Sunday's home opener against the New Orleans Saints. Vick was suspended for the first two regular-season games as the final league penalty for his role in running a dogfighting ring.
Wide receiver Hank Baskett was released to make room for Vick, who is eligible to play Sept. 27
Kevin Kolb is expected to take the snaps with the starters Wednesday because Donovan McNabb has a cracked rib. Jeff
Vick was brought in to give the Eagles another dimension on offense. He ran Philadelphia's version of the wildcat offense and took some snaps as a traditional QB under center in two preseason games.
Garcia was signed to back up Kolb in case Mnabb can't play.
gible to play this week. Eagles coach Andy Reid has maintained all along that Kolb is McNabb's backup.
Baskett was one of seven receivers the Eagles carried on their 53-man roster through Week 1. He became expendable after Philadelphia selected Jeremy Maclin in the first round of April's draft and added Brandon Gibson in the sixth round.
Vick hasn't played in a regular-season game since Dec. 31, 2006 when he was with the Atlanta Falcons. It's highly unlikely he would have started even if he were eli-
Baskett had 1,052 yards and six touchdowns in 48 games with the Eagles.
THIS WEEK IN KANSAS ATHLETICS
TODAY
Volleyball:
Missouri, 6:30 p.m.
Columbia, Mo.
THURSDAY No events scheduled.
FRIDAY
Swimming:
Alumni Meet,
4 p.m.
Soccer:
San Diego, 5 p.m.
FOOTBALL
FOOTBALL Fans can buy two new football ticket packages
Kansas Athletics has made two new ticket packages available.
A second "All The Hawks You Can Watch" ticket package that will run from Oct. 19 through Nov. 19 and "The Ultimate Jayhawk Weekend" that runs from Nov. 13-15 will be offered, Kansas Athletic announced Tuesday.
The "All The Hawks You Can Watch" package will cost $249 and will allow fans to attend 15 sporting events during that period: two home football games (vs. Oklahoma and Nebraska), two home soccer games, four volleyball matches, three women's basketball games and four men's basketball games.
Earlier this year, the first such package was offered for $99 and runs through Sept. 4. through Oct. 4.
This second package is the only other way, aside from season tickets, in which fans can now obtain tickets to football's games against Nebraska and Oklahoma.
"The Ultimate Jayhawk Weekend" will be available for $150 and includes a general admission ticket to men's basketballs Nov. 13 game against Hofstra, reserved tickets to the Nov. 14 Nebraska football game, the Nov. 14 Baylor volleyball match and the Nov. 15 Oral Roberts women's basketball game.
— Stephen Montemayor
Leonard Zeskind
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Behind the Lines: What White Supremacists Think About What They Do
Thu September 17,3:30-5 p.m. Alderson Auditorium
This event is free and open to the public. No tickets are required. Co-sponsored by American Studies and the Department of Sociology
Leonard Zeskind is a leading expert on white supremacists and the extreme right. In his new book, Blood and Politics: The History of the White Nationalist Movement from the Margins to the Mainstream (2009), Zeskind ties together seemingly disparate strands—from neo-Nazi skinheads to Christian identity churches and militias—to offer a wide-ranging historical account of the white supremacist movement. His work has appeared in The New York Times, Rolling Stone, The Nation, and The Los Angeles Times. He is a recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship.
KU HALL CENTER FOR THE HUMANITIES The University of Kansas
www.hallcenter.ku.edu 785-864-4798
Tuesday, October 6, 2009 Lied Center of Kansas 7:30 p.m. University of Kansas
$6 Student Saver
$10 KU Students with KUID
$15 General Public