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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
INSIDE SPORTS
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2004
SOCCER
Kansas goalie receives Player of the Week again
Senior goaltie Meghan Miller was selected as the Big 12 Conference Defensive Player of the Week after shutting out Oklahoma State and Oklahoma last weekend.
MILLER
It is the third time Miller has received the award this season.
She currently leads the Big 12 Conference in shutouts (10), and goals against average (0.32).
With one more shutout, Miller will
tie the single-season school record, which she set in 2003 with 11 shutouts.
The rest of the country is also taking notice of the Kansas women's soccer team; it owns its best ranking in school history.
The Jayhawks are ranked sixth in this week's NSCA4 poll, up two spots from last week when they reached their previous high in the poll.
Kansas is riding a six-game winning streak and sits at 6-1 in Big 12 play with a14-2-0 record on the season.
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Mariners hire manager after worst season in 21 years
SEATTLE — Mike Hargrove was hired yesterday to manage the Seattle Mariners and turn around the team after its worst season since 1983.
Hargrove, previously the manager of the Baltimore Orioles and Cleveland Indians for 13 seasons, agreed to a
three-year deal through 2007.
"He has a tremendous resumé
and is battle-tested in every facet of
industry experience.
league club," Mariners general manager Bill Bavasi said. Hargrove replaces Bob
Melvin, who was fired Oct. 10, a day
after Seattle ended the season at 63-99.
That was the third-worst record in the majors and the Mariners' worst since going 60-102 in 1983.
All of Melvin's coaches except pitching coach Bryan Price were fired, too.
Hargrove had been an assistant to Indians GM Mark Shapiro.
He has a career major league managerial record of 996-963, including 721-591 with the Indians from 1991-99.
He led the Indians to five consecutive Central Division titles in 1995-99, and World Series appearances in 1995 and 1997.
He managed Baltimore from 2000-03.
Hargrove was fired by both the Indians and the Orioles, with Baltimore letting him go after its 91- loss season 2003.
Raising the bar
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Zeke Afair, Wichita freshman, bench presses at the Student Recreation Fitness Center. He worked out yesterday, adding that he's a regular at the recreation center.
K-State, Sproles don't live up
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MANHATTAN — Kansas State broke a 15-year tradition when it put Darren Sproles' picture on the front of its media guide and set up a Web site touting him for the Heisman Trophy.
Never before had coach Bill Snyder allowed one player to get so much attention.
Now, Sproles' senior season — and the Wildcats — are collapsing under the weight of huge expectations.
Targeted by opposing defenses and increasingly marginalized by the Wildcats' game plans, the All-American running back has yet to produce big numbers in a big game.
Sproles doesn't show the disappointment in public, just as he tries to avoid discussing the pain of losing his mother, Annette, to cancer in April. But it's there. Snuder said.
As his production has fallen off, so have Kansas State's fortunes.
of bowl appearances.
The Wildcats entered the season ranked 13th and favored to contend for a conference title. Instead, they're 2-4 overall, 0-3 in the Big 12 and two losses away from breaking an 11-year string
His 211 yards in the season opener came against Western Kentucky, which plays in Division I-AA.
"He just wants so badly to help this football team, and if his numbers are not substantial, he envisions it as not providing as much help as he can." Snyder said. "I would say yes, he probably has some frustrations."
Sproles, who led the nation last season with 1,986 yards rushing in 15 games, has 718 yards and three touchdowns this season. But those numbers, while respectable as a whole, mask a series of sub-par performances against high-level onponents.
Two weeks later, Sproles set a school record with 292 yards against Louisiana-Lafayette from the Sun Belt
Conference. In the Wildcats' four losses against Fresno State, Texas A&M, Kansas and Oklahoma, he has failed to get close to 100 yards.
In one three-game span, he fumbled six times — losing four of them — and muffed two punts. The second muff, against Kansas, set up a score for the Jayhawks and led Snyder to relieve Sproles of his punt return duties.
Last week, against No. 2 Oklahoma — the same team Sproles shredded for 235 yards when Kansas State beat the Sooners 35-7 for the Big 12 Conference title — he had 34 yards on 13 carries in a 31-21 loss.
"I'll do whatever I have to do out there to help the team," he said. "But I would like the ball."
Sproeles didn't sound angry with his coaches after the Sooners' 31-21 victory
Snyder would like to give it to him more. But when opponents crowd eight or nine defenders into the box, that can be difficult.
TODAY
Tennis at ITA Regionals, all day, Tulsa, Okla.
Kansas athletics calendar
TODAY
TOMORROW
Soccer at Texas A&M, 7 p.m., College Station, Texas
Tennis at ITA Reganals, all day, tuna, Okla.
Men's Golf at Stanford, all day, Palo Alto, Calif.
SATURDAY
Men's Golf at Stanford, all day, Palo Alto, Calif.
Football at Oklahoma, noon, Norman, Okla.
Tennis at ITA Regionals, all day, Tulsa, OKa.
Intramural Scoreboard
SOCCER
Men's Open
Fantastic Return of OH def. Team Hydro (1-0)
Battetron def. Team Rodeo (6-3) in shootout
**Men's Greek**
Delta Ch 1 def. Sig Ep 1 (6-1)
Phi Daf def. Phi Kappa Theta (1-0)
CoRec
Sonic Death Monkey def. Renegades (1-0)
The Trans def. Stiff Competition (5-2)
Men's
FLOOR HOCKEY
Pearson sed sigma Ch 2 (4-4)
LCA det. Beta Freshman Sig (3-0)
The Enforcers det. SIG 2 (4-3)
CoRec Kappa Psi def. Jayhawks (18-21, 21-19, 15-9)
CoRec
Psi P1 1 def. Top Gun (21-15, 21-19)
Tchai Thi 1 def. SAE 2 (21-11, 21-19)
Sig Ep 1 def. DU 2 (22-20, 21-19)
IM SOCCER
Men's:
Mets Open
Fantastic Return of OH def. Team Hydro (1-0)
Battenfeld def. Team Rodeo (6-3) in shootout
THU
Men's Greek
**Men's Greek**
Dhi Chi 1 def. Sig Ep 1 (6-1)
Phi Delt def. Kpi Phappa Theta (1-0)
Sonic Death Monkey def. Renegades (1-0)
The Titans def. Stiff Competition (5-2)
CoRec
Men's
IM FLOOR HOCKEY
Pearson tied Sigma Chi 2 (4-4)
LCA def. Beta Freshman (3-0)
The Enforcers def. Sig Ipsilon (3-0)
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COLLEGE FOOTBALL
Big Ten's top teams will not play each other this season
Purdue can do Wisconsin a favor when the team plays Michigan.
The Boilermakers will try to stay in the Big Ten title race, but they can also help the Badgers to first place in the conference by defeating Michigan — something Wisconsin won't be able to do themselves.
Thanks to the Big Ten's rotating schedule, the Badgers (7-0, 4-0) and Wolverines (6-1, 4-0) — the only Big ten teams still unbeaten in conference play — don't meet this season.
It's been a problem for the Big Ten since it added Penn State in 1993.
In 2002, Ohio State won the national title, but shared the Big Ten crown with Iowa when both teams finished with perfect conference records.
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