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GOLF
Both teams anticipate strong return
Women's team welcomes back all last season's stars, men's team returns key players
Head Coach: Erin O'Neil, sixth season
Key Losses: None
The jayhaws certainly don't lack experience.
Key Returners: Seniors Emily Powers and Meghan Gockel, juniors Grace Thiry and Meghna Bal
After a 2008-2009 campaign without a single senior, the Jayhawks have now have two, Emily Powers and Meghan Gockel, leading the charge for the 2009 fall season. Kansas opens the season Sept. 14 in Lincoln, Neb., at the Chip-N-Club Invitational. Last year the Jayhawks finished sixth in the event, with then-sophomore Grace Thiry
carding a 54-hole total of 223 to finish 10th individually and lead the team. Two weeks after the opening weekend the Jayhawks will make their way to Manhattan, where last year they were able to clinch a top-5 finish on the strength of an Emily Powers 54-hole total of 223, which was good enough for her first career title. Also returning is junior Meghna Bal, who tied with Powers with a team-high 31 rounds scored. Her scoring average of 78.71 was second only to Powers' 76.45.
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MEN'S GOLF
Head Coach: Kit Grove, fourth season
Key Losses: Brandon Hermreck, Walt Koelbel, Zach Pederson, Andrew Strom
Key Returners: Seniors Bryan Hackenberg, Bobby Knowles and Patrick Roth, Junior Nate Barbee, sophomores Ian Anson and Blake Giroux, freshmen Chris Gilbert, Alex Gutesha and Dan Waite
Though a few weeks out from the start of its fall season, the men's golf team was well represented at the 99th Kansas Amateur earlier this month. Seven of nine current and former Jayhawks advanced to match play, four to the second round, and junior Nate Barbee and recently graduated Andrew Storm advanced to the Mission Hills tournament's quarterfinal round. Among current Kansas golfers, senior Patrick Roth was the next highest finish, bowing out of competition in the third round. Roth
was defending his Kansas Amateur championship earned one year before. Barbee led the team in scoring average in 2008-09 with a 73.12 stroke average and recorded three Top 20 finishes on the year. He opened the season with a tie for fourth at a rain-shortened Fairway Club Invitational followed by a sixth-place finish at the Kansas Invitational. The layhawks turned in their most impressive performance collectively at the Big 12 Championship. The recently graduated Zach Pederson finished in seventh place to lead the pack. As a team, the layhawks entered the competition seeded No. 11 but led at times during the first round before finishing the event in seventh place.
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Then-freshman Iananson watches his putt roll across the green before falling in the hole for a bide at the lajayhawk invitational last season. Anson is one of nine returning key players for the men's team. The team lost four other players, a sharp contrast to the men's team, which welcomes back all of its key players.
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Vick could fill a new offensive position for the Eagles
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In this video frame grab provided by CBS News/60 Minutes, Michael Vick, right, listens to NFL Today anchor James Brown during a 60 MINUTES interview in Arlington Va., Aug. 10. The segment aired on 60 MINUTES yesterday on the CBS Television Network. It is the former NFL star's first interview since he admitted to dogfighting and went to prison. He was reinstated to the NFL last month.
BY ROB MAADDI Associated Press
PHILADELPHIA — Michael Vick is back in the NFL. When he finally gets in a game, it might be at a new position.
Looking to add a new dimension to their offense, the Philadelphia Eagles gave Vick a one-year deal with an option for a second year.
Vick wasn't brought in to compete with five-time Pro Bowl quarterback Donovan McNabb for a starting job, but the two could end up on the field together.
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Commissioner Roger Goodell conditionally lifted Vick's suspension on July 27, allowing him to sign with a team, practice and play in the last two preseason games. Once the season begins, Vick can
"He's an unbelievable athlete, both running the ball and
"He's an unbelievable athlete, both running the ball and throwing it."
cess, they deserve a second chance," Reid said. "He's got great people on his side; there isn't a finer person than Tony Dungy. He's proven he's on the right track."
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throwing it," Eagles coach Andy Reid said. "I'll think of something for him."
"He can definitely make a lot of plays," Eagles cornerback Sheldon Brown said.
The most likely scenario would be for the Eagles to use Vick in a variation of the Wildcat offense that the Miami Dolphins made popular last season. Vick also is familiar with the West Coast offense, though he ran a different version with Atlanta than the one Philadelphia uses.
The deal was announced during Thursday night's preseason opener against New England. Suddenly, no one cared about Tom Brady's first game in 11 months.
The 29-year-old Vick, once the NFL's highest-paid player, has been out of action since 2006. The former Falcons star was convicted in August 2007 of conspiracy and running a dogfighting ring, and served 18 of a 23-month sentence in federal prison. He also was suspended indefinitely by the NFL.
"I'm a believer that as long as people go through the right pro
participate in all team activities except games, and Goodell said he would consider Vick for full reinstatement by Week 6 (Oct. 18-19) at the latest.
The Eagles reached the NFC championship
game last season under McNabb, but are still looking for their elusive first Super Bowl win.
McNabb has led the Eagles to five NFC title games and one Super Bowl appearance in the last eight years and was rewarded with a $5.3 million raise in the offseason. The Eagles tore up his old contract with two years remaining, and gave him a new deal worth $24.5 million over the next two seasons.
Philadelphia is a surprise landing point for Vick. It was among 26 clubs that said there was no interest in him, but that may have changed when backup Kevin Kolb strained a knee ligament earlier this week. Kolb's injury isn't serious and he's expected to return next week. The Eagles also have veteran A.J. Feeley.
"There won't be a quarterback controversy." Reid said.
Reid consulted with McNabb before signing Vick, who went to three Pro Bowls in six seasons with the Falcons.
"I pretty much lobbied to him here," McNabb said. "He's no
threat to me, not for Kolb. We had the opportunity to add another weapon to our offense."
When news of Vick's signing circulated in the press box during the first half of the Eagles' preseason opener against the Patriots, even the team's public relations staff seemed surprised.
was a joke.
surprised
"There won't be a quarterback controversy."
"It doesn't make any sense" said
Michelle Harlan, a mother attending her first NFL game with a young son.
The crowd quickly caught on at Lincoln Financial Field. Fans standing on the concourse were in disbelief. One guy wondered how quickly he'd be able to buy a Vick jersey. Another asked if this
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hurt behind what happened."
Vick said he felt "some tremendous" what happened.
He said he should have taken "the initiative to stop it all ... I didn't."
"Football don't even matter."
Asked if he was more concerned about his playing career or the dogs he hurt, Vick replied,
The animal rights group, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, wasted no time reminding people exactly what Vick had done.
"PETA and millions of decent football fans around the world are disappointed that the Eagles decided to sign a guy who hung dogs from trees. He electrocuted them with jumper cables and held them under water," PETA spokesman Dan Shannon told The Associated Press.
"You have to wonder what sort of message this sends to young fans who care about animals and don't want them to be harmed."
Reid believes most Eagles fans will accept Vick.
"This is America. We do make mistakes," Reid said. "This situation is a chance to prove he's doing the right things. He's been proactive speaking across the country."
Since Reid became the head coach in 1999, the Eagles have avoided players with character issues. The lone exception came in 2004 when Philadelphia acquired wide receiver Terrell Owens.
That move paid off when Owens helped lead the Eagles to the Super Bowl in his first season. But T.O. quickly wore out his welcome, criticizing management over a contract dispute and feuding with McNabb. He was released midway through the 2005 season.
SKATEBOARDING
The Eagles must be hoping they won't regret this one.
Kessler dies at 48 after suffering a heart attack
BY ULA ILNYTZKY
Kessler died Monday after suffering a heart attack following an allergic reaction to a wasp sting, said Moose Huerta, a close friend and fellow skateboarder.
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NEW YORK — Andy Kessler, a trailblazer during New York City's nascent 1970s skateboarding scene and a designer of skate parks who was admired by boarders on both coasts, has died. He was 48.
He was dismantling old wood on
Kessler got his start in the 1970s with a loose-knit group of skateboards and graffiti artists known as the Soul Artists of Zoo York. They skated all over Manhattan's Upper West Side, where Kessler lived.
a shack in Montauk, Long Island,
when he was stung, said Tony
Farmer, a skateboarding friend and
West Coast native who now lives in
Brooklyn.
In the 1990s, Kessler persuaded the city's Parks Department to build a skateboard facility in Riverside Park. He went on to design other
In addition to his love for the sport, Huerta said Kessler's first big success was orchestrating the building of the city's first skate park, near the Hudson River. At the time of his
"The two groups are completely different from each other," he said. "But the level of friends, and how he transcended age and demographics with the people he touched, was amazing."
skate parks in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Montauk.
Huerta said Kessler also developed a real for surfing.
death, he was trying to update the Montauk skate park he had designed about a decade earlier, Huerta said.
On Friday evening, surfers planned to paddle out together and circle around Ditch Plains Beach in Montauk in remembrance of Kessler, Huerta said. Friends also planned a get-together Saturday at the Autumn Bowl, a semiprivate warehouse facility in Brooklyn that was one of Kessler's favorite hangouts.
Kessler's burial is scheduled for Sunday at Cedar Park Cemetery in Paramus, N.J.
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Convicted felon indicted, accused of selling firearm
A federal grand jury in Nashville,Tenn., on Wednesday charged Adrian J. Gilliam Jr. with one count of being a felon in
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A convicted felon accused of selling the gun used to kill ex-NFL quarterback Steve McNair has been indicted on a firearm charge.
possession of a firearm.
Gilliam, of La Vergne, is accused of selling a loaded 9 mm pistol to McNair's mistress, Sahel Kazemi, for $100 two days before McNair was shot.
Police said the 20-year-old waitress shot McNair at his downtown condo July 4 before turning the gun on herself.
Gilliam remains in federal custody and faces 10 years in prison if convicted.
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