2B
@
SPORTS
---
POOH
QUOTE OF THE DAY
THE UNIVERSITY OF DAILY KANSAN
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 2009
"He probably pulled a couple down and ran that he didn't have to."
Coach Mark Mangino on quarterback Todd Reesing's rushing performance Saturday
FACT OF THE DAY
Reesing's two rushing touchdowns gives him 11 for his career and was the first game in his career that he recorded multiple rushing touchdowns in a game.
— KU Athletics
TRIVIA OF THE DAY
Q: Reesing ran for 79 yards Saturday. Where does that rank for his single-game rushing performances?
A: Third behind the 90 yards and 84 yards he rushed for against Colorado in 2006 and 2007 respectively.
KU Athletics
BIG EAST
Cincinnati Bearcats
defeat Rutgers 47-15
PISCATAWAY, N.J. — Tony Pike threw for a career-high 362 yards and three touchdowns, and Cincinnati used its high-speed offense to hurry past Rutgers 47-15 on Monday
The defending Big East champion Bearcats got a jump on the conference race by improving to 4-0 against Rutgers since joining the league.
New Scarlet Knights starter Domenic Natale threw three first-half interceptions and the senior left open the possibility that his first career start could be his last. Highly touted fresh man Tom Savage played the second half.
Coach Brian Kelly began his third season with the Bearcats as a rising star in the business.
With the luxury of a returning starter at quarterback for the first time at UC, Kelly unleashed his fast-paced, Oklahoma-style offense.
Pike completed 27 of 34 passes, Gilyard caught eight passes for 89 yards and a score and Isaiah Pead scored two touchdowns.
With Pike directing traffic at the line of scrimmage, the Bearcats burned down the field on the opening drive of the game, covering 81 yards in 2:29 without an incomplete pass. Pead capped the drive with a 2-vard TD run.
Rutgers' response to UC's speed was a methodical, 20-play, 78-yard touchdown drive, that took more than 10 minutes and was capped by a 5-yard run by Joe Martinek.
Ultimately, though, the team breaking in a new quarterback was no match for the one with a seasoned veteran.
Tweets serve as the new play-by-play
MORNING BREW
First things first, I'll refrain from starting today's Brew by using the most overused and maddening phrase to find itself in newsprint and Web pages in years:
"In this age of Twitter..."
Are you kidding me? Is that the best you can come up with?
In one fell swoop, a single term used by those young and old make us sound like a bunch of out of touch curmudgeons just getting acquainted with the Internets.
But ANYWAY, the weekend's opening slate of college football
at least in conferences not the SEC> saw the first outbreak of live tweets during the game. I'm not entirely sure fans were as excited as the media were during the game as the press box was filled with clicks and giggles
during Kansas' home opener.
I hope that what you found from The Kansan was to your liking (follow @jaysonjenks, @halliemann11 and myself, @smontemayor during games) and that you didn't "unfellow" us by the second quarter. At any rate, here's a retweet on what became a history-making night for my Twitter account.
3:12 p.m.: "I'm so elated that it's game day that I'm not above crying in public eventually tonight."
6:43 p.m.: "There goes the shut...
Nevermind. Michael York goes
wide right on a gimme attempt."
6:23 p.m.: "Oh no! The chant is back...cue the outrage. Who will mail in a Mariotti esque diatribe?"
6:44 p.m.: "Promise that tweet was supposed to happen minutes ago. My computer is as efficient as an FCS place-kicker."
6:46 p.m.: @TaylorBern
@smontemayor: "Not cool man.
My mother was killed by the inef-
ciencies of a I-AA place-kicker."
7:00 p.m.: @TaylorBern I apologize for the sick, tasteless joke. I promise to spread awareness of I-AA place-kickers & those hurt by them.
7:17 p.m.: "The clown suit has been placed snugly on Northern Colorado. The culprit: Todd Reesing's legs."
8:03 p.m.: "Did I just hear
"She Wolf" over the speakers? It's
Shakira She's trying to tell me
something."
8:14 p.m.: "The KU Fan Cam: Putting people in awkward situations since 2001."
8:17 p.m.: "Stay tuned later when I confront our photo editor for leaving porn on my computer in the newsroom. I'm channeling my inner LeGarrette Blount."
8:19 p.m.: "I can see him on the field right now. Feeling safe and unaware of the wrath I'm bringing in just an hour or two. Yes Wes, ves."
8:25 p.m.: "SACKTAD!!!"
8:56 p.m. "A Kansas tight end makes a catch! This may only happen five more times this year. Appreciate the moment."
9:07 p.m.: "And another
Follow Kansan writer Stephen Montemayor at twitter.com/smontemayor.
MLB
Oprum TD. Get that man another steak! 49-3"
— Edited by Amanda Thompson
Associated Press
Giants win 9-4 against Padres Juan Uribe contributed two home runs
ASSOCIATED PRESS
SAN FRANCISCO — Pumped-up Brad Penny dazzled in his home debut and Juan Uribe homered twice, tripled and drove in five runs as the San Francisco Giants beat the San Diego Padres 9-4 on Monday.
Uribe and Edgar Renteria hit back-to-back home runs, helping the Giants remain two games back of the Rockies in the NL wild-card race. Colorado beat Cincinnati.
Penny (2-0) didn't give up a bit until Will Venable's triple
leading off the fifth.
The Padres certainly didn't want a repeat of Jonathan Sanchez's improbable no-hitter against them here on July 10.
Clayton Richard (4-2) to put the Giants ahead, then homered in the team's five-run third. After Uribe's two-run shot, Renteria gave San Francisco its fifth set of consecutive home runs this season.
Uribe hit a three-run shot in the seventh for his eighth career multihomer game.
Penny struck out six and walked one
Nick Hundley hit a two-run homer off Alex Hinshaw with two outs in the ninth for the Padres.
After the home run, Penny retired the final five batters he faced
Pablo Sandoval and Bengie Molina also drove in runs for the Giants, who started off a key homestand against the division.
over seven innings in his first start at AT&T Park. He won at Philadelphia in impressive fashion Wednesday, two days after he signed with the Giants following his release by Boston.
Adrian Gonzalez hit a towering solo home run off Penny in the sixth, the slugger's second in as many games.
Uribe hit a three-run shot in the seventh for his eighth career multihomer game.
Gonzalez admired his drive to dead center before starting a slow trot. Penny apparently took issue with that and pumped both arms in the direction of San Diego's dugout two batters later after a called third strike to Venable ended the inning.
Uribe tripled to start the second and scored on a wild pitch by
The first-place
The first-place
Dodgers come
to town this
weekend
followed by the
Rockies early
next week. In all,
San Francisco is
in a stretch with
21 of 25 games against NL West foes — more remaining against the division than both the Dodgers and Rockies.
San Francisco bounced back after losing 2-1 in 12 innings Sunday at Milwaukee on Prince Fielder's game-ending homer.
Freddy Sanchez had a pair of singles for the Giants in his return from the disabled list after missing 19 games with a strained left shoulder.
With Sanchez back at second base, Uribe moved to third base and Sandoval to first — a lineup manager Bruce Bochy says he may stick with for a while. Uribe has been hitting so well Bochy said he can't afford not to keep him in there.
Jolly Jayhawks
Justin Petty, Olathe sophomore, cheers as the 2009 KU football team is announced at the home opener Saturday evening. The Jayhawks defeated Northern Colorado 49-3 in front of a record crowd of 52,530.
Ryan Waggoner/KANSAN
KU CONTINUING EDUCATION Independent Study
www.lenahaneyedoc.com
Class Closed?
KU Independent Study offers more than 150 courses online and through distance learning.
- KU credit courses
- Stay on track to graduate in four
- Enroll any time
THE
MLB
TORONTO — For once, good pitching and hitting clicked on the same day for the Minnesota Twins.
Major league batting leader Joe Mauer got three more hits and keyed a five-run first inning that sent Minnesota over the Toronto Blue Jays 6-3 Monday.
Minnesota Twins win with solid hitting and pitching
"That's kind of been our thing all year, that's why we've been pretty much around. 500 is we haven't really hit for a long stretch of time when we've pitched for a long stretch of time," first baseman Justin Morneau said. "It's kind of been a little inconsistent at both ends."
Kar ning
Mauer doubled and singled twice, boosting his average to .369. He delivered a two-run single in the first inning.
Blue Jays second baseman Aaron Hill left the game after three innings and took a flight home to Palm Harbor, Fla., after learning that wife Elizabeth had gone into labor with the couple's first child.
Making his second major league start, Jef Menship couldn't hold on long enough for his first career win. He allowed three runs and seven hits in 4 1-3 innings.
Associated Press