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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2004
SPORTS
Mangino reflects on bond with Oklahoma coach
BY JONATHAN KEALING
jkealing@kansan.com
KANSAN SPORTSWINTER
More than 20 years ago, Kansas coach Mark Mangino had his first encounter with the family of Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops.
At that time, Mangino was a young, inexperienced high school assistant coach. On the other side of the field was Ron Stoops Sr., a veteran of many high school campaigns and father of Bob Stoops.
It was just a scrimmage, but Ron left an impression on Mangino at that event. Ron was worried about his defense. He confided in Mangino, because it was just a scrimmage, that his defense was not going to be as good as it had been in years past.
"They weren't as fast as they'd been, he said. They had a lot of new players, and he was just really worried." Mangino said. "That night, I don't think we crossed the 30-yard line."
Growing up just 20 minutes apart, it seemed certain that
"We have similar backgrounds," Mangino said. "We're both from steel towns across the Ohio-Pennsylvania border."
Mangino and Bob Stoops would cross paths.
"We spent a lot of time together, and we would say. 'When I get my chance I'll do this. When I get my chance I'll do that,' Mangino said.
Mangino's first chance to work with Stoops was at Kansas State. As assistants, they developed a close friendship.
Mangino did. When Stoops took the head coaching job at Oklahoma, Mangino left with him.
Stoops got his chance before
There, Mangino and Stoops rebuilt a program that had been steadily declining. Stoops said that makes facing Mangino different.
"Mark was with us in building this program," he said.
The friendship the two coaches formed also extends to their families, including the children.
"When our kids came around the office or functions, Bob and
Carol always made a big fuss over them." Mangino said.
stoops invited Mangino's son Tommy to join him when Oklahoma took on K-State last weekend.
"Bob took an active interest in him," Mangino said. "Bob invited him to stand on the sidelines last weekend, took him into the locker room."
While Mangino and Stoops both acknowledge a special relationship, it'll be business as usual when kickoff comes, Mangino said.
Stoops agreed.
Stoops agreed.
"Once you get on the field, I never look at anything, no matter who we are playing, as anything personal," Stoops said.
Mangino and Stoops' bond is especially evident when Mangino is asked to recall their times together.
"Those were fun years," Mangino said. "A lot of the guys at K-State were close. That's where we developed our friendship."
- Edited by Bill Cross
Women's basketball fans to get perks for attendance
By Paul BRAND
pbrand@kansan.com
KANSAN SPORTSWITER
While thousands of students spent hours in the cold this week waiting to pick up their men's basketball tickets, the Kansas women's basketball program is still struggling to find ways to boost game attendance.
Its newest marketing strategy relies on one central idea: College students love free stuff.
The Rock Chalk Rewards program provides an incentive to students who attend games by giving them gifts.
Students can obtain a Rock Chalk Rewards card at any home game and present it upon
entrance to Allen Fieldhouse. Students already get into home games for free with a valid KUID.
For attending three games, students will obtain free food coupons, and attendance at each additional set of three games will bring new rewards: T-shirts, KUStore.com gift certificates, hats and autographed team basketballs.
Students who attend all 18 home games will receive lunch with the coaching staff and team, plus a chance to win two tickets to the women's Big 12 Tournament in Kansas City, Mo.
Although attendance has been low in the past, Henrickson said student support was essential to the team's success.
recorded an average attendance of 1,539 at each of their 12 home games. They finished 9-19, with a 5-7 record in Allen Fieldhouse.
"If you choose not to come, then you become our opponent," Henrickson said. "You become K-State."
Attendance has been a problem for the program in recent years. The 2003-04 Jayhawks
The Jayhawks open the 2004 05 season with an exhibition game against Fort Hays State at 7 p.m. on Nov. 9. Kansas' regular season begins on Nov. 21 with a 1 p.m. tip-off against UT-Arlington.
Edited by Paige Worthy
Handshake ritual may make its way to NLCS
ST. LOUIS — The St. Louis Cardinals and Los Angeles Dodgers drew a lot of praise for their show of sportsmanship, shaking hands on the field after their first-round playoff series ended.
So, will the Cardinals and Houston Astros do the same thing after the NL championship series?
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Astros star Craig Biggio has said he was in favor of it, and St. Louis manager Tony La Russa supported the idea.
Houston leads 3-2 in the best-of-seven series going into Wednesday's game.
While NHL players traditionally line up for handshakes after each playoff round, and NFL and NBA players mill around after games, it's a new idea in the majors_ and one that's taking some getting used to.
"I don't like that," said Bob Watson, baseball's vice president of on-field operations. "We play 162 games. We play a different game. A lot of times, you see guys do it underneath the stands, out of sight."
Watson played 19 seasons in the majors, most of them in Houston. Another former Astros star, Hall of Famer Nolan Ryan, agreed.
"I think it’s just not my nature to do it," he said.
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Second baseman guides Astros
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HOUSTON — Jeff Kent flung his bat to the side and pumped his right fist as soon as the ball took flight, certain he was going to make a long-awaited trot around the bases.
He'd pondered the moment in his mind, watching St. Louis' Albert Pujols and Boston's David Ortiz finish postseason victories by wading into a mob of teammates at home plate.
Kent fulfilled that wish Monday night, hitting a three-run homer in the bottom of the ninth inning to give the Houston Astros a 3-0 win over the St. Louis Cardinals in Game 5 of the NL championship series.
"Watching those guys do what they're doing, knowing the emotions that they probably are going through." Kent said, "I wanted to be those guys. I wanted to feel like that."
The Astros have a 3-2 lead in the best-of-seven series, only a win away from their first World Series in 43 years of existence.
Overshadowed throughout the postseason by Houston's "Killer Bs" — Carlos Beltran, Lance Berkman, Bagwell and Craig Biggio — Kent finally seized the spotlight with his dramatic game-ending homer.
Kent perfectly imitated those Puiols and Ortiz highlights,
It was a rare display of cheerfulness from the 2000 NL MVP and four-time All-Star, who prides himself on his cool — some might call it aloof — demeanor on the field and in the clubhouse.
rounding the bases with a smile on his face before tossing his helmet in the air and jumping into the waiting arms of his teammates.
"That's the kid in me that loves to play this game," Kent said. "I want to be the other guy who's having a great time."
"I've struggled with my emotions at times to try to control them while I played his ballgame," Kent said. "I think I've been able to do that better now through the end of my career. I let my parents and my kids get overly excited. I try to keep an even keel."
He was the Astros' steadiest offensive threat this season, hitting .289 with 27 homers and 107 RBI and setting a franchise record with a 25-game hitting streak from May 14 to June 11.
He also became the NL career leader in home runs as a second baseman (278) and tied for another position record with his seventh 100-RBI season.
exercise his $9 million option for 2005.
But Kent openly mused about retirement near the end of the season, with his two-year, $18.2 million contract with the Astros coming to an end if they don't
The Astros have started grooming 2001 first-round pick Chris Burke to take over the position in the spring.
Kent will turn 37 next season and has talked often of wanting to spend more time at home with his family and more time tending to his ranch in central Texas.
He's already made plans to live there when his career is over and sold his home in the San Francisco Bay area last year.
"I've got four kids at home I have more fun with," he said a few weeks ago during a trip to San Francisco, where he played for six years before coming to Houston. "I have a trailer full of motorcycles, a ranch I've got to take care of, a motorcycle shop I want to get going, a lot of other things I want to do before I'm too old.
"I don't want to live in a locker room my whole life. There's other things I enjoy besides baseball."
"I needed guys around me to be better than me so I can be good," Kent said. "Now I'm on a team which I wanted to be on two years ago."
Kent, who helped the Giants reach the World Series in 2002, has hinted that winning it this year would be the perfect sendoff to his career.
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