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QUOTE OF THE DAY
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2009
"Football is easy if you're crazy as hell."
BoJackson
FACT OF THE DAY
Kansas' 3-28 total rushing yards against Northern Colorado was the highest total since Mark Mangino became head coach.
- KIlAtPaletics
TRIVIA OF THE DAY
Q: When was the last time Kansas recorded 300 or more rushing yards before Saturday?
A: 2001 when it rushed for 310 yards as a team against Texas Tech.
KU Athletics
SOCCER Dolinsky honored by Big 12, Soccer America
The accolades keep coming infor the Kansas soccer team.
Senior midfielder Monica Dolinsky was named Big 12 Offensive Player of the Week and was also named to the Soccer America National Team of the Week.
Kansas is also ranked 13th in this week's Soccer America poll. It is the team's highest ranking since Nov. 9,2004. They are also ranked 22nd in the National Soccer Coaches Association of America poll behind Big 12 teams Texas A&M (13), Oklahoma State (19) and Colorado (20).
Dolinsky scored two goals and picked up two assists in the wins over Long Beach State and Rhode Island this weekend.
Soccer America, a monthly magazine, releases a Top 25 poll as well as a national team of the week.
Kansas takes on Denver Friday in the Colorado College Invitational in Colorado Springs. Kickoff is scheduled for 2:30 p.m.
— Clork Goble
NFL
NFL Kyle Orton hopes to start season for Denver
ENGLEWOOD, Colo. — Kyle Orton is testing his injured right index finger at practice for the first time since getting hurt nine days ago.
The Denver Broncos are eager to see if he can complete passes despite a dislocated knuckle.
Orton declined to comment before practice, but he scheduled to speak with the media on Wednesday, asign the Broncos expecthimto start at Cincinnati.
Associated Press
MORNING BREW
Lions set to make a comeback this season
SportsCenter, the mecca of sports programming, abuses its right to repetition as it casts an insurmountable shadow on the little guy.
Before his final days in a uniform, Barry Bonds' home runs and steroid allegations were featured on the show more than most anchors. Another beaten-to-bloody-death favorite was the Terrell Owens saga, as he wept his way from San Francisco to Philadelphia to Dallas and now to Buffalo. Today, the masses suffer from SportsCenter's latest exhausting cycle: the daily doses of Brett Favre and Michael Vick.
Do not worry, my fair readers! This is not a further analysis of Favre's supposed cracked rib or Vick's potential as a slot receiver. Instead, this is a breath of fresh air. With multitudes of developing stories across the NFL, sometimes the Favre and Smokescreen hazes all the good stuff. Allow me to polish a diamond-in-the-rough tale as we take a less conventional look around the league and visit football business in the impoverished Motor City.
This is the question your team never wants to ask itself. How do you bounce back from a winless season? Hmm, win a game perhaps. Just one would be fine, really.
pocket presence for a rookie. He threw behind a wretched offensive line at Georgia, leading to weekly pressure from the SEC defensive monsters such as LSU, Alabama and Florida. So the kid is used to taking a hit and tossing bullets in the middle of a crowd.
So the Detroit Lions considered that phenomenon for the first time since the departure of Barry Sanders. They hired former Tennessee Titans defensive coordinator Jim Schwartz as their new head coach and drafted their quarterback of the future (again) with the first overall selection of the 2009 NFL draft — Georgia juggernaut Matthew Stafford. Stafford possesses a right arm capable of saving a city, surprising mobility for his 237-foot frame and advanced
Just this week, Stafford won the starting quarterback job over the always overrated rogue Danne Culpepper. (Isn't it odd how Culpepper has struggled since losing Randy Moss and Cris Carter?) Unlike the gloomy recent history of the Lions, this team actually possesses some handy weapons for the rookie to get on the right track. Calvin "Megatron" Johnson has the natural skills to be the best receiver in the league. Kevin Smith's boring name matches his game, but is nonetheless a sturdy and efficient option at running back, something the Lions haven't had since Barry Sanders. Add in the newly-drafted train of a tight end, Brandon Pettigrew from Oklahoma State, and all of a sudden things don't look so hopeless.
As for the defense — well, the future isn't quite as glistening. As the oldest defense in the league, this unit is in need of a revelation or two. But you've got to start somewhere, and the offense is just that.
Season Projection: The Lions will falter to the tune of a tough schedule, but claw their way to a season with a promising path. After all, the only way to go from winless is up. 5-11.
MUSIC FROM THE VAULTS
Out of nowhere, a brandished, street-wise form of poetry changed East Coast hip-hop. There were no lavish hype promotions from Diddy. It didn't sound like the Chronic. Instead, 1994's "Illmatic" juxtaposed the drug-infused, poverty-stricken struggles of New York City with the wise and rebellious perspective of a young Nasir Jones.
"Iillmatic" is a short album in comparison to the rest of rap's clowns and their ongoing mouths, but its modest length refreshingly equates an album with no
time wasted. The beats are jazzy and complex, made by legends DJ Premier, Pete Rock and Large Professor, yet it's the rapid rhymes of Nas, the street-savvy poet from Queens, that are the reason for this album's prominence in the history of hip-hop. Bounce your head to "N.Y. State of Mind," "Halftime," "Represent" and "It Ain't Hard to Tell."
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Upset over Sooners propels BYU into top 10
RALPH D. RUSSO Associated Press
NEW YORK — BYU barged into the top 10 of The Associated Press college football poll, making the biggest jump of any team from the preseason rankings after scoring the biggest upset of the opening weekend of the regular season.
The Cougars jumped 11 spots to No. 9 in the Top 25 released Tuesday, three days after they stunned Oklahoma 14-13 as threetouchdown underdogs.
"For the first time there were people at the airport to greet the team. About 2,000 people were out there when we got back," he
Cougars quarterback Max Hall said the victory has energized Provo, Utah, and the BYU campus.
Brigham Young's Lee Aguirre celebrates with teammates following their 14-13 win over Oklahoma in an NCAA football game in Arlington, Texas on Saturday. In the first regular-season Top 25 poll by The Associated Press, BYU jumped 11 spots to No. 9, while Oklahoma dropped 10 spots from No. 3 to No. 13.
said. "The overall atmosphere has been really cool and we're enjoying it."
Florida was still an overwhelming No.1, receiving 56 of 60 first-place votes, two less than last week. Texas held steady
No. 5 Oklahoma State moved up four spots after an impressive 24-10 victory against Georgia. The Cowboys have their best ranking since October 1985. The loss dropped the Bulldogs eight spots to No.21.
voters to pick them as the top-ranked team in the country.
No. 6 Mississippi, No. 7 Penn State and No. 10 California round out the top 10.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
The Big 12 has six ranked teams, the most of any conference.
Oklahoma dropped 10 spots to No. 13 after losing, but all things considered the Sooners are probably feeling much better about their long-term outlook now than they were Saturday night at Dallas Cowboys Stadium.
texas field steady
at No. 2 with two
Oklahoma lost Heisman Trophy winner Sam Bradford to a shoul-
"For the first time there were people at the airport to greet the team."
MAX HALL BYU quarterback
No. 4 Alabama moved up one spot after its 34-24 victory against Virginia Tech and persuaded two
at No. 2, with two first place votes. USC will be No. 3 when it visits No. 8 Ohio State on Saturday in one of the biggest nonconference games of the season. The Trojans moved up a spot this week and the Buckeyes fell after narrowly escaping with a 31-27 victory against Navy.
der injury late in the first half against BYU. He is expected to miss two to four weeks, but will not need surgery and could be back by the time the Sooner play their next big game — against Miami on Oct. 3.
BYU is no stranger
to the top 10. The Cougars were ranked as high as eighth last season. But BYU stumbled in its biggest games, suffering lopsided losses to Mountain West Conference rivals TCU and Utah, then losing to Arizona in the Las Vegas Bowl.
"Our football team, we have three goals... winning a conference championship, winning the state championship and going to a bowl game and winning it. We didn't do any
of them," Hall said during a conference call with reporters. "Even though we won 10 games, we were upset with the way it ended."
BYU coach Bronco Mendenhall said the Oklahoma victory should give a boost to the whole Mountain West Conference, which has been fighting for more access to the Bowl Championship Series.
"I do think that the game and how we played helped our conference, helped our team and helped the exposure of the fight that we're all kind of engaged in as our
BYU travels to New Orleans to face Tulane on Saturday before playing their first home game on Sept. 19 against Florida State, one of three teams to fall out of the rankings this week.
league is trying to gain credibility" Mendenhall said.
Oregon and Iowa also fell out. Moving into the Top 25 were Miami, Cincinnati and Missouri.
LSU was No. 11 and No. 12 Boise State moved up two spots after beating Oregon 19-8 on Thursday.
Virginia Tech's opening loss
dropped the Hokies seven spots to No. 14.
No. 15 Georgia Tech, was followed by TCU and UA.
Notre Dame's 35-0 victory against Nevada helped the Fighting Irish climb five spots to No. 18.
North Carolina was No. 19 and Miami moved into the poll at No. 20 after a thrilling 38-34 victory Monday night against Florida State in Tallahassee.
The final five were Georgia, Nebraska, Cincinnati, Kansas and Missouri.
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