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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
INSIDE SPORTS
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 2. 2004
FOOTBALL
Missouri coach says Nash to start again this weekend
COLUMBIA, Mo. — Missouri coach Gary Pinkel yesterday reinstated tailback Damien Nash, ending a one-game suspension apparently spurred by negative comments Nash made about the team's play-calling.
Pinkel did not say if Nash, a junior who leads the team with 610 yards rushing and eight touchdowns, would be in the starting lineup Saturday when the Tigers (4-4, 2-3 Big 12) host Kansas State (3-5, 1-4).
"He'll play," Pinkel said during the Big 12 Conference's weekly media teleconference. "How much? We'll make the decision on Thursday."
Pinkel suspended Nash indefinitely two days after Missouri's 20-17 loss to Oklahoma State on Oct. 23. After that game, Kansas City Star columnist Jason Whitlock quoted Nas as being critical of the play-calling in a game in which the Tigers blew a 17-0 lead and were shut out in the second half.
got worse Saturday at Nebraska. The Tigers could muster only 51 yards on 35 rushing attempts in a 24-3 loss, Missouri's third straight.
Starter Marcus Woods gained 22 yards on seven carries. Freshman Tony Temple, playing for the first time, had 13 yards on six carries and left the game with an Achilles' tendon injury early in the fourth quarter.
Pinkel would not discuss Temple's status.
- The Associated Press
Singh's' rags-to-richest' story brings attention to PGA
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — The mayor wanted a picture with him. The owner of the Jacksonville Jaguars wanted a word with him. Civic leaders simply wanted to shake his hand.
GOLF
Vijay Singh was the star attraction yesterday at a luncheon where the PGA Tour announced $2.25 million in charitable giving from The Players Championship. It was another example of just how far the 41-year-old Fijian has come.
He stood before the lunch crowd in a downtown hotel as the No. 1 player in the world and the first $10 million man in golf, a rags-to-richest story unlike any other on the PGA Tour.
He was a club pro in Borneo in 1985, making minimum wage plus $10 a lesson and practicing in his free time. He was a bouncer in Scotland two years later, stashing away money to play in a two-bit tournament in Africa, the first small step toward a European tour card, then a PGA Tour card.
The crowd listened intently when Singh was asked what he thought about this week's Tour Championship, where he can join Sam Snead, Ben Hogan and Byron Nelson as the only players to win 10 times in one year.
"I'm really thinking of taking this week off," Singh said as the room erupted in laughter, they knew better.
S. Mishra, daughter, they knew better: Despite reaching No. 1 in the world two months earlier, Singh continued to work out in the gym and on the range, sometimes before and after his round. Small wonder that he captured the Chrysler Championship at Innisbrook Sunday, his ninth victory of the year.
It was his fourth PGA Tour victory in his last five starts. The other time he finished second.
Going for it
The season finale is East Lake in Atlanta, where he won two years ago.
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Chad Spencer, Rossville freshman, tries to run for a touchdown yesterday evening. Spencer and his friends played in front of Allen Fieldhouse.
Chiefs back in division race
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The last two weeks, Trent Green,
Priest Holmes, Tony Gonzalez and an overpowering offensive line have helped Kansas City amass 1,030 yards and 101 points. The Chiefs swamped two teams with winning records,
Atlanta and Indianapolis.
At one point, the Chiefs were 1-4. Now they are 3-4 and headed for what would appear to be winnable road games against Tampa Bay and New Orleans before coming back home for a Monday night game against New
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The hottest offense in the NFL has pulled the Kansas City Chiefs away from the brink and propelled them right back into the AFC West race.
"It's very huge for us," said Green, who passed for 389 yards and three touchdowns against the Colts. "Right now we not even at 500, so even though we've gotten two big wins in a
England.
Also helping are the Denver Broncos, who have lost two in a row and dropped into a first-place tie in the AFC West with San Diego at 5-3.
The Chiefs are only 1.5 games behind and have home games left against the Chargers and what could be a key Dec. 19 date with the Broncos.
Kansas City even got a taste of revenge Sunday with a 45-35 victory against Indianapolis, the team that knocked the Chiefs out of last year's playoffs.
row that we feel really good about, we have to continue to get back to .500 and that all starts (this) week."
"Obviously, the offense played very, very well," Vermail said yesterday. "When you do what they've done two weeks in a row you have to give a lot of credit to (offensive coordinator) Al Saunders and the coaching staff. They've done a great job. Players have been, for the most part, executing very well against some pretty good football teams."
Coach Dick Vermeil said it is hard to imagine an offense being much sharper.
Since 1970, only one NFL team has scored more than 101 points in consecutive games: the 2000 St. Louis Rams with 102.
The Associated Press
Miami loss alters BCS poll
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Auburn moved into third place in the Bowl Championship Series yesterday while Southern California and Oklahoma held firmly to the top two spots.
The Tigers had been in fourth place in the first two BCS standings,but they took advantage of Miami's upset loss on Saturday to creep closer to the front-runners.
California moved up four spots to fourth, and was followed by Wisconsin and Utah.
Miami and Florida State, which was also upset on the road Saturday, fell out of the BCS top five for the first time this season.
The top two teams in the BCS standings after the regular season will meet in the Orange Bowl on Jan. 4.
The Sooners, No. 2 in both polls all season, have a grade of .9648. Auburn's grade is .9238, placing third in each poll and the computer rankings.
USC, which has been in first place since the initial BCS standings three weeks ago, has a grade of .9895. The Trojans are No. 1 in The Associated
Press Top 25 and the ESPN/USA Today coaches poll. They are also tied with Oklahoma for the best computer ranking this week.
The AP media poll and coaches poll each count for one-third of a team's BCS grade. Total points received in the polls are taken into account. A compilation of six computer rankings make up the other third of a grade, with the highest and lowest computer rankings for each team thrown out.
a victory in the Southeastern Conference championship game, the Tigers might need a loss by either USC or Oklahoma to reach the Orange Bowl.
Auburn's BCS ranking is the highest in school history, but the Tigers may not have their national title hopes in their own hands. Even if they finish the season unbeaten with
There are six unbeaten teams in Division I-A — USC, Oklahoma,
Auburn, Wisconsin, Utah and Boise
State.
A difficult remaining schedule could work in Auburn's favor, if the Tigers can survive it. They're off this week before playing Georgia (ninth in the BCS) at home on Nov. 13; at Alabama on the No. 20; and the SEC title game against either Georgia or Tennessee (eighth in the BCS) on Dec. 4.
A separate strength of schedule component was removed from the BCS standings this season, but the computer rankings still take schedule strength into account, as do most poll voters.
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Utah, frpm the Mountain West Conference, could become the first team from a mid-major league to earn a bid to one of the four BCS games by finishing in the top six.
The Utes have a grade of .7429.
Texas (.7370) is seventh.
Men's golf at The Prestige 2004, all day, La Quinta, Calif.
TODAY
TOMORROW
Volleyball at Missouri, 7 p.m., Columbia, Mo.
Soccer vs. Iowa State, Big 12 Tournament, San Antonio, Texas, 11 a.m.
FRIDAY
Soccer, Big 12 Tournament, San Antonio, Texas, TBA
Sunday's intramural scores
VOLLEYBALL
CoRec
Chapstick def. Blue Steel 25-22, 25-19
Mitochondria def. B-School Skeet 25-21, 25-15
Chris CoRe 1 def. Team Sket 25-10, 25-23
Team Hello Kitty def. Ice Cold 22-25, 26-24, 21-16
Spartacus def. Hail Steel 25-15, 29-30
Women
Women
KUCIMATS def. Salt 1 — 22-25, 25-22, 21-13
Men
LCA-2 def. Phi Delt — A 1-25 11, 18-25, 21-14
The Batters def. TKE — 25-17, 25-18
LCA-1 def. Karate Explosion — 25-15, 19-25, 21-15
Beta A-1 def. Phi Delt — A 2-25 20, 25-17
FOOTBALL
Oklahoma, Texas A&M look formotivation after losses
DALLAS — Oklahoma State coach Les Miles and Texas A&M's Dennis Franchione don't have to bother flipping through motivational handbooks to find the right words to lift the spirits of their teams following agonizing losses last weekend.
Oklahoma State is going from a 38-35 loss at home to No.2 Oklahoma to a road game at No.6 Texas, Texas A&M is going from a 35-34 overtime defeat at Baylor to a home game against the Sooners.
Miles can talk about how the Cowboys were good, but not good enough to defeat a great team. Franchione could tell the Aggies that if they play again like they did last week then they could get wiped out 77-0 like Oklahoma did to them last year.
Whatever Franchione has been saying this season, it's worked pretty well. The No. 22 Aggies recovered from an opening loss at No.7 Utah to win six straight before their stunning collapse in Waco.
Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops may be challenged to get his players to fear a team they defeated by 11 touchdowns last season and that's coming off a loss to Baylor. He could always remind the Sooners that they lost to the Aggies in College Station two years ago.
If the Big 12 North seems left out of all this big-game talk, there's a good reason: The division champion may not even be bowl eligible. Nebraska has the only winning record, so a team could make the title game at 6-5.
The week's big game in the North is Nebraska and Iowa State. The Cyclones and Missouri Tigers are 2-3 in league action, making them tied for second. Colorado and Kansas State, the North champion the last four years, are 1-4, as is Kansas.
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