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QUOTE OF THE DAY
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2009
"I'm not mean at all. I just try to protect myself. You'll see I don't ever pick on anybody who has a number above 30."
Mike Ditka
FACT OF THE DAY
Kansas football media guide
TRIVIA OF THE DAY
Q: Who owns the school record for most victories by a football coach?
A: A.R. Kennedy, who coached from 1904-10 and finished with a record of 52-9-4.
Kansas football media guide
PGA
PGA Woods tastes victory at BMW Tournament
LEMONT, III. — Tiger Woods has won the BMW Championship for his sixth victory of the year, assuring himself the No. 1 ranking going into the final tournament of the FedEx Cup.
A record-breaking 62 at Cog Hill to build a seven-shot lead, Woods played efficiently and didn't let anyone get closer than six shots Sunday. He closed with a 3-under 68 for an eight-shot victory over Jim Furky and Marc Leishman.
Woods won for the fifth time at Cog Hill, and it was his 10th time on the PGA Tour winning by at least eight shots.
Associated Press
MORNING BREW
Kansas remains unscathed
Todd Reesing was — 10 once in his career — wholly unspectacular Saturday. It was beautiful.
No, I'm not saying that Reesing playing "unimpressive" games, as sports editor Stephen Montemayor put it in a text, is a good thing for the Jayhawks in the long run. It would be utterly foolish to assume that.
But it must comfort the Jayhawks to know that if Reesing forgets his A game on the team bus, they can still throttle a team like UTEP. Take note, Colorado. And Oklahoma State. And Texas, in the first half. And Kansas State. And Iowa Sta ... never mind.
In a week where the Big 12 went from unquestioned second-strongest conference in the country (yes, second, until a Big 12 team can steal the crystal football from the death grip the SEC has on it right now), to a victim of the Sunbelt Conference, Kansas remained unscatched and unworried.
Colorado was embarrassed by Toledo, a week after being embarrassed by Colorado State, and all of a sudden the Buffaloes have to win out to make coach Dan Hawkins'
10-victory prediction come true.
No. 5 Oklahoma State turned Jekyll and Hyde and fell to a Conference USA team, Houston, in its home at T. Boone Pickens Stadium, where last week it knocked out the Georgia Bulldogs.
Texas went on the road to play the worst team in the Mountain West Conference and held just a three-point lead at half time before Colt McCoy remembered he was a good football player.
Kansas State dropped a game to the Sunbelt's Louisiana-Lafayette Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the second era of Bill Snyder! At least the Big 12 managed a split against the Sunbelt, as Nebraska thoroughly handled Arkansas State.
And Iowa State came in with high hopes of knocking off its in-state rival, Iowa, which needed two blocked field goals in the last five seconds to defeat Northern
So when the Jayhawks did exactly what they were supposed to and throttled an inferior team on the road, that made them one of the few in a disappointing week for the conference.
Iowa in week one.
It was the first time the Jayhawks demonstrated they could silence an offense as potent as the Miners, who were 25th in the nation in scoring offense in 2008. And they silenced them in high style, holding those disturbingly orange jerseys out of the end zone until the fourth quarter on the strength of a Justin Thornton interception, five sacks and 11 tackles for a loss.
Though Reesing didn't blow
And when Reesing was unable to dominate the Miners through the air — he finished with a respectable but not brilliant 260 yards, one touchdown and one pick — the fresh legs of the Kansas ground game did its part. Freshman Toben Opurum was again solid in extended action, carrying the ball 16 times for 69 yards and a score, but it was senior Jake Sharp's 104 yards and two touchdowns, along with another through the air, that powered the high-voltage Jayhawk offense.
anybody out of the water, it was easy to tell how nice it was to have his favorite target back in uniform. After missing the first game because of a suspension, superhuman Dezmion Briscoe hauled down eight catches for nearly half (154) of the Jayhawks' 321 yards through the air.
He also was on the receiving end of a 56-yard fake reverse pass from Kerry Meier early in the game, which led to Kansas' first three points of the game.
it was beautiful.
—Edited by Amanda Thompson
Follow Kansan writer Tim Dwyer at twitter.com/ tdwyer.
THIS WEEK IN KANSAS ATHLETICS
TODAY
Women's Golf
Chip-N-Club
Invitational
Lincoln, Neb.
Men's Golf:
Fairway Club
Invitational
Nebraska City, Neb.
TUESDAY
Women's Golf:
Chip-N-Club
Invitational
Lincoln, Neb.
Men's Golf:
Fairway Club
Invitational
Nebraska City, Neb.
Women's Volleyball:
at Missouri
6:30 p.m.
College, Mo
Filmmaker sues for right to show wheelchair matches
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NEW YORK — A New York City documentary filmmaker sued the U.S. Tennis Association on Tuesday, claiming it discriminates against wheelchair players by refusing to sell broadcast licensing rights to their matches
week's U.S. Open.
State Supreme Court Justice Michelle Weston reserved decision on a request to allow Brooklyn filmmaker Alan Rich to record the wheelchair competition at this
The wheelchair division, which features 20 of the top players, begins competition Thursday and ends Sunday.
Rich, a lawyer who is represent ing himself and seven handicapped players in the case, has been filming a documentary about the players called "Fire in the Belly." He said his immediate goal is to be permitted to film the competition and later argue in court over whether the footage can be used in his documentary.
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"No doubt, many of us in society are not comfortable watching amputees in wheelchairs play sports yet," Rich said in his court papers. "While I do not fault the broadcasters for doing what, at present, they view as commercially viable, the USTA cannot have a policy that has the result of discriminating against these outstanding athletes with
He contends that because the major networks covering the tournament — CBS, ESPN and the Tennis Channel — do not cover the wheelchair events, he should be given the rights.
Widmaier also said that two years ago, the Tennis Channel aired the wheelchair finals competition live and produced a half-hour highlights show of the tournament.
USTA spokesman Chris Widmaier said his organization limits filming of matches to the three television companies that have contracts with them. He noted international television companies have separate agreements.
"That's our policy," Widmaier said. "If Mr. Rich were to apply for a credential so he could capture some of the on-ground experience and post-match interviews, we would consider that request as we do all other newsgathering requests."
disabilities."
Rich said he expected a ruling from the judge Wednesday.