2B THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN INSIDE SPORTS FRIDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2004 Kansas athletics calendar TODAY Swimming vs. Houston/Harvard at home at 6 p.m. Volleyball at NCAA Tournament at Seattle at 7:30 p.m. TOMORROW Swimming vs. Houston/Harvard at home at 12 p.m. Basketball vs. Pacific at home at 2 p.m. Volleyball at NCAA Tournament, TBA SUNDAY Women's basketball at Minnesota at 2 p.m., Minneapolis, Minn. Smackdown Steven Bartkoski/KANSAN Dane Morris, Lawrence freshman, throws down Charlie Whitfield, Jefferson City, Mo., junior, during ki-akidow class. Whitfield and Morris took the class because of their interests and backgrounds in martial arts. Intramural scoreboard BASKETBALL **Men** Amiini def. Phi Psi 5 37-29 Leavenworth Roughriders def. Black Knights 57-45 Notathrowers def. Theta Chi 2 45-32 839 Miss def. Phil Kappa Theta 109-29 Army ROTC def. Theta Chi 4 50-16 SAE 1 def. Sig Ep 74-49 Seminoles def. SAE 2 75-44 KUEA Shotcallers def. Lewis 5 65-32 Beta A-1 def. CJ Moore 54-45 A6 def. Beta A-2 41-35 Theta C1 def. Beta A-3 48-20 LCA 1 def. Delta Chi 3 61-32 Kappa Sig 1 def. Sig Ep Soph 47-42 **Women** Delta Gamma def. Douthart 30-10 Women Delta Gamma def. Douthart 30-10 CoRec CoRec NSCS def. Naismithians 57-43 FOOTBALL Football recruits visit campus thisweekend,11 expected With the close of the last season, Kansas' football coaches have to begin to look to the next. As its schedule takes shape, the team is looking to fill the gaps left by graduation this year as well as those who will graduate during the next couple of seasons. This weekend, Kansas is expected to host at least 11 recruits on official visits. The recruits are expected to attend the Kansas-Pacific basketball game Saturday afternoon, as well as spend time meeting current football players and coaches. Players lost to graduation include senior offensive lineman Joe Vaughn, anchor of the offensive line. Kansas is expected to entertain James Stigall, an offensive lineman from Blue Spring, Mo., this weekend. He's listed as a three-star recruit, out of five stars, by rivals.com. Also graduating is senior wide receiver Brandon Rideau. James McDonald, a two-star wide receiver from Washington, D.C., is expected to visit this weekend as well. Also taking official visits are Russell Borsen, Bobby Johnson and Jacob Lacey, all two-star recruits. Three-star recruits in town will be Kerry Meier, Raimond Pendleton, Justin Thornton, Chad Washington and Wayne Wilder. Meier is the brother of Kansas State quarterback Dylan Meier. In addition to his older brother, his father also played at K-State. Kansas is listed as one of his top two choices. The lone four-star recruit is Steve Octavien, a junior college transfer from Palatine, Ill. All of these visits are as reported by rivals.com as NCAA regulations prohibit coaches and university officials from making any comments on perspective recruits. Jonathan Kealing THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Bullies tormented Chiefs player KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Two older boys who had bullied him for years were hunting Tony Gonzalez. He was years away from becoming an All-Pro tight end for the Kansas City Chiefs. On this day, he was just a frightened kid, running behind a wall and hiding. "I knew what I was doing was wrong, but I was so scared," he recalled. "My heart was just pounding." The person who finally found him was someone who loved him. "I saw the look in my mother's eyes," Gonzalez said. "I knew that she knew what was going on." His mother and older brother had set out to find him after he'd disappeared during junior high school graduation ceremonies, an event his longtime tormentors had made a special point to attend. "Ive read that your life can be boiled down to a couple of key instances, a couple of key moments," Gonzalez said. "That was a key moment for me. My whole family came walking around that corner. It was a life change, a transformation in a moment of crisis." "I was scared, but I was also angry. I thought, 'OK, I'm not taking crap from anybody. I'm never going to back down again.' And I haven't." Now Gonzalez is sharing his experiences in a book for children entitled "Catch and Connect," which also details other parts of a life that's taken him from a tough neighborhood in Huntington Beach, Calif., to stardom in the NFL. "They tell me about their experiences. I tell them to let somebody know if they're being bullied," he said. "But I know that's not easy. You don't want to look like a sissy. I remember how ashamed I felt." Through the book and personal appearances, he hopes to help youngsters cope with bullies in ways that he never could. "I tell them, 'Talk it out first. You'd be amazed at what you can get by being nice to somebody." Bullying is a serious social problem nationwide, and not necessarily confined to boys. Research has shown that self-esteem issues often follow bullied kids into adulthood — and they also appear more likely to be dominant and abusive grown-ups. "In every one of these horrible shooting incidents at schools such as Columbine, those were kids who were often targeted by bullies," said Vicky Ward, manager of prevention services at Tri-County Mental Health Services in Kansas City, Mo. "What Tony is doing is wonderful," Ward said. "A little boy can look at that big football player and say, 'Tony could have clobbered those guys, but he didn't.' Just knowing there's somebody like Tony Gonzalez who was bullied but has now achieved all that Tony has achieved will be very encouraging for kids." After that life-changing incident when his mother discovered him cowering behind a wall, Gonzalez was assigned to a different school from the ones his bullies attended. Three years later, he'd grown into one of the best high school athletes in California, standing almost 6 1/2 feet tall and weighing almost 250 pounds. One afternoon he stopped at a service station near his home. Guess who else was there — wishing he were somewhere else? "I could see the fear in his eyes," Gonzalez said. "His eyes were so big. He was a just a skinny little punk now. I towered over him. I said, 'Man, I'm not going to do anything to you.'" In another chance encounter, the second bully seemed too scared even to look his former victim in the face. He, too, was contemptuously laughed off. "I really believe everything happens for a reason," Gonzalez said. "What happened to me that day behind that wall made me what I am today." ISRAEL IS THE CANARY IN THE MINE The war between Arabs and Jews is not the cause of the war on terror, as apologists for Muslim radicals claim; it is the war on terror. Twenty-five years ago, there were two non-Islamic democracies in the Middle East: Israel and Lebanon. This was too much for Islamic radicals, Syrian irredentists and Palestinians who joined forces to destroy Lebanon and make it a base for terror. The goal of the post-Oslo Intifada is not to establish a Palestinian state alongside a Jewish state. Its goal is an Islamic umma extending "from the Jordan to the sea." That is why Oslo was rejected by Arafat even though Barak and Clinton offered him an independent state on virtually all of the land Palestinians claimed in the West Bank of the Jordan and Gaza. That is why the very birth of Israel is referred to by all the present Palestinian leadership as the "Naqba" - the "catastrophe." To Islamic radicals at war with the West, the very creation of Israel is a catastrophe. American apologists for Arab aggression are also apologists for Islamic aggression. 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