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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2012
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have as many touchdowns on offense as the Chiefs do in their last two games combined."
Kansas City Star Columnist, Sam Mellinger
Q: Which current Sporting KC player is on the United States Men's National Soccer team?
THE MORNING BREW The NFL,like all sports,needs irregularity
www.ussoccer.com
We've officially made it through six weeks of the regular season. To this point, we have learned a few things; most notably, it is incredibly difficult being a Chiefs fan. The inconsistency of the Kansas City Chiefs mirrors what we are seeing from the rest of the league.
And it's awesome. Here's why:
And its awesome. Here's why.
The NFL has been turned upside down this year by surprise teams such as the Minnesota Vikings and Arizona Cardinals. The AFC East showcases all four teams deadlocked with 3-3 records.
Two divisions in the NFC - west and east - have all four teams separated by just one game. Not only are multiple teams in contention after a third of the season, some of the perennial powers of the league have been struggling thus far.
Last year's Super Bowl runner-up, the New England Patriots, find itself tied with each of its division members. Two of its losses are to Arizona and Seattle. Former MVP Aaron Rodgers and the Packers are struggling and have lost two games to rookie quarterbacks.
It's not like we enjoy seeing this jumble in the standings. Fans love unpredictability. Great sports stories occur because no one believed that they could happen.
Raul Ibanez with two home runs after pinch-hitting for A-Rod in the bottom of the 9th in game five of the wild card round, that's cool stuff folks.
Watching Russell Wilson throw a 50-yard bomb to knock off the Patriots and Tom Brady to take a share of the division lead, that's why we watch sports.
soon read, then any way we go.
We are sulking on our couches on Saturdays and Sundays knowing the signal callers of our favorite teams are Michael Cummings and Brady Quinn - though I like what I saw from Cummings Saturday. We must have something else to watch. A story, a headline, anything; we are desperate for a reason to watch football.
The parody in the NFL gives us just that.
SPORTING KC FLYING UNDER THE RADAR
Beneath the heavy atmosphere of complaining in Kansas City, Sporting Kansas City is quietly having a fantastic season in the MLS.
While most of attention is falling on the lack of pitching on the Royals staff and the incompetent quarterback play and coaching of the Chiefs, Sporting is sitting alone atop the Eastern Conference in Major League Soccer. Sporting has already clinched a playoff spot, something that just doesn't happen much in Kansas City.
The Royals currently have the longest playoff drought of any team in the four major sports, not clinching a berth since the World Series title in 1985. The Chiefs haven't won a playoff game since the 1993 season.
That would be the first year of Bill Clinton's time as president.
Sporting KC is perfectly piecing together the best franchise in the area. The management has brought quality players and coaching to the team. The stadium experience is not tops in the metro area. Most importantly, the culmination of these things has brought success to the team, and we all know winning fixes everything. Sporting has figured that out.
In 2011, Sporting won the Eastern Division during the regular season and reached the semi-finals of the MLS playoffs and quarterfinals of the U.S. Open Cup. So far in 2012, they lead the Eastern Division, champions of the U.S. Open Cup, and have qualified for the CONCACAF Champions' Cup.
Moral of the story? Take a hint, Chiefs and Royals. You have to make moves to be a successful franchise. The Royals won't go get pitching and the Chiefs won't toss their QB and head coach.
This week in athletics
Edited by Whitney Bolden
Be proactive. That's the Sporting way
Tuesday
Women's Golf
Susie Maxwell Barming Classic
All Day
Norman, Okla.
Wednesday
Women's Volleyball
Kansas State
6:30 p.m.
Lawrence
Thursday
Women's Golf
Susie Maxwell Berning Classic
All Day
Norman, Okla.
Women's Tennis
ITA Regionals
All day
Tulsa, Okla.
Friday
Women's Soccer
iowa State
3 p.m.
Lawrence
Women's Tennis
Women's Tennis
ITA Regionals
All day
Tulsa, Okla.
Women's Tennis
Women's Tennis
KU Tournament
All day
Lawrence
Women's Rowing
Tulsa (Scrimage)
All day
Tulsa, Okla.
Saturday
Women's Swimming Minnesota 1 p.m. Lawrence
Women's Tennis
Women's Volleyball
TCU
1 p.m.
Lawrence
KU Tournament All day Lawrence
Women's Tennis
ITA Regionals All day Tulsa, Okla.
Women's Rowing
Tulsa scrimmage
All day
Tulsa Okla.
Football
Oklahoma
6 p.m.
Norman, Okla.
Sunday
No scheduled events
CYCLING
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Effects from Lance Armstrong's doping yet to be seen
It's not so much that the Lance Armstrong story was too good to be true. Now it might just be too good to let go.
Even after investigators unveiled a scathing report portraying him as an unrepentant drug cheat, Armstrong continues to confound his public with rivaling images: a rapacious, win-at-all-costs athlete or a hero who came back from cancer.
We've all heard his story before: An up-and-coming cyclist gets stricken with testicular cancer at age 25. He's given less than a 50 percent chance of surviving. Instead, he fights it off and comes back stronger. He wins the Tour de France seven times. Hobbons with presidents. Dates a rock star and pretty much becomes one himself. Uses his fame and success to raise millions to promote cancer awareness.
Even if it all really is the impossible fairy tale it sounds like one built on a brittle mountain of drugs, deception and arm-twisting — it's the narrative the world has happily listened to for nearly 15 years.
More than 1,000 pages of finely detailed evidence from the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency are now in the open, supporting its decision to ban Armstrong for life from cycling and order his titles stripped for using performance-enhancing drugs. Yet while other sports stars
who have faced drug-induced downfalls — Marion Jones, Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens — fade from memory or become objects of scorn, Armstrong keeps rolling along.
You can see it in social media. Sure, negative comments dot the landscape — people have put an "X" through the "v" on their Livestrong wristbands to make it read "Lie strong". But the tributes also keep coming: a few dozen new posts on a Facebook page
titled "Lance Armstrong Supporters," either vilify USADA or tell Armstrong they've got his back.
You can see it from the sponsors — Nike is one example that are sticking with Armstrong. You can see it in the donations to the Lance Armstrong Foundation, which have spiked since August, when Armstrong announced he wouldn't fight the doping charges.
And it also shows in the way Armstrong steadfastly goes about
his business. On Thursday, the day after the USADA report came out, he was at his foundation headquarters in Austin, Texas, looking for a place to hang a picture. On Friday, he linked to his Twitter account a shiny new slide show touting the top 15 things his foundation has accomplished since it was founded, 15 years ago this month. Star-studded anniversary celebrations are in the works.
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