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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
SPORTS
MONDAY. OCTOBER 11,2004
Jayhawks, fans reinvigorated after Kansas' victory
It was two weeks ago, after the Kansas football team lost its 31-30 heartbreaker to Texas Tech at home, that I heard it for the first time this year.
"All right, when does basketball season start again?"
It was just some random guy I'd never I overheard say it at a bar, and then after the 14-8 loss to Nebraska last week, I heard it even more. Usually, from my experience during my first three years at Kansas, this was something you typically heard after the second game of the season.
Be honest, most casual jayhawk gridiron followers gave up on the 2004 season after what happened in Lincoln a week ago. But now, everyone's back on the bandwagon, and with good reason.
Saturday's 31-28 defeat of Kansas State, the first time the KU football team has done so since 1992, meant lots of things.
Let's lay this out.
For one, it was the landmark victory of Mark Mangino's brief tenure. But most importantly, it salvaged the 2004 season, and has brought the thoughts of a possible bowl berth back to the rear portions of our minds as a possibility. Let's lay this out
JEAN SHORT MADNESS
The Jayhawks are 3-3, with five games remaining. They need just three more wins to qualify for a bowl game. With the nation's second-hardest schedule, as long as they hit that magic number, they're pretty much golden, no matter who it is that they beat.
RYAN GREENE
rgreene@kansan.com
With the way it looks right now, Iowa State, even though it's on the road, should be a win. Colorado, who at 3-2 is beginning to flounder offensively, at home is another very winnable game. The Oklahoma game is more than likely a loss, but it could be a closer game than most anticipate. Between Texas, who showed how overrated it really was this weekend, and
If Kansas had lost to Kansas State, again, the season would have been lost. A deflated team would have traveled to Norman in two weeks, taken a pounding and been left for dead at 2-5. But as it is now, there should be more excitement for the Kansas football season than there was when it kicked off against Tulsa.
Missouri, there should be one more win in there.
The rest of the schedule is filled with four reasonably winnable games and enough leeway for two more losses.
The Jayhawk defense has proven so far that it can handle big-time backs. Take Heisman flop Darren Sproles being held in check Saturday as a prime
example. that experience could be huge in the coming weeks when Kansas will have to face Oklahoma's superhuman freshman Adrian Peterson and Texas' sole offensive threat, Cedric Benson.
The other result that came from Saturday's mayhem is that Kansas may have finally taken "the step."
To steal from my boy Vince Vaughn in *Swingers*, they moved from PG-13 status to being an R-rated team.
It was the Jayhawks' inexperience in big-game and high-pressured situations that resulted in their previous three losses. There was the blitzkrieg drive put together in the fourth quarter by Northwestern, the long touchdown gallop by Texas Tech's Taurian Henderson on third and six, and the time after time failure to score late against Nebraska.
When Dylan Meier came in at quarterback for K-State and put his team up 21-17, I thought that after what I'd seen the previous few weeks, it was a done deal, and Kansas was as good as 2-4. But the Jayhawks stepped it up a notch and clamped down late in the game. Pardon my French, but they had balls of steel.
If the Jayhawks can keep that edge, there's more than a good chance they'll still be playing come Christmas.
Greene is a Vernon Hills, Ill., senior in journalism.
WOMEN'S BASKETBALL
Kansas to have games televised in 2004-2005
A new television package will make the Kansas women's basketball team one of the most televised programs in the country.
"This television package is among the best in the country," said Kansas coach Bonnie Henrickson. "We're excited that our fans will be able to follow us so closely throughout the season."
Four national telecasts will highlight the 18-game telecast package.
Fox Sports Net will air the Jayhawks' home game against Nebraska on Feb. 20 and their road game at Kansas State on Feb. 26.
College Sports Television
(CSTV) will air the KU-KSU contest in Lawrence on Jan. 8. CSTV will also shown the KU- Texas game on Jan. 5.
KU will play UMKC at home at 1 p.m. on the Jayhawk Television Network.
Metro Sports, based in Kansas City, will broadcast four games throughout the season. Sunflower Broadband Channel 6 in Lawrence will also broadcast the four Metro Sports games, as well as nine other home games.
Kansan staff reports
NFL
Broncos' persistence helps defeat NFC champs
DENVER — Rumblin', bum-
blin'，stumblin'，Julius Peppers looked up and saw nothing but 104 yards of Mile High air between himself and the end zone.
He only made it 101.
That pretty much defined the day for the Carolina Panthers, who came up just short Sunday, falling 20-17 to the Denver Broncos on a wild day filled with lots of strange and unexpected performances from lots of strange and unexpected places.
Lelie's touchdown — caught
Reuben Droughtns ran for 193 yards for Denver (4-1) and Jake Plummer made up for his fourth-and-goal interception to Peppers by throwing a pretty, 39-yard touchdown pass to Ashley Lelie for the winning points.
over the shoulder in the corner of the end zone, then upheld after Carolina asked for a review — was one of the few things that went to script on an otherwise crazy day.
Despite the loss, Peppers will surely get a game ball — maybe a bottle of oxygen, too
maybe a bottle of oxygen, too — for his 101-yard trek that goes down as the longest interception return in NFL history to not result in a touchdown.
Sure not to get a game ball for Carolina (1-3) is Matt Willig, who got called for unsportsmanlike conduct when he picked up a flag and chucked it downfield after the Panthers were called for false start before a tying field-goal attempt with 6:42 left.
- The Associated Press
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SAND VOLLEYBALL
TOURNAMENT
Men's Greek
Wednesday's Scores Men's Greek
Phi Delt A-2 def. Fiji Pledge (21-
18, 21-18)
CoRec
Flying Squirrels def. Law School
Dorks (2,0, 3,0)
Trichomensia def. Blue Steel (21 7.21-7)
Templin 6 def. Mountaineers (21-9, 21-9)
Contylomata def. Delta Sigma Pi (21-10, 21-4)
IM SOCCER TOURNAMENT
SCORES
Phi Psi 1 def. Sigma Chi (3-2)
Beta A-1 def. Theta Chi 1 in OT (4-
3)
Men's Open
Hawks def. Happy Hour Heroes (1-0)
Brazilian All-Stars def. Spades (7-1)
CoRec
Renegades def. Wasted Talent (1-0)
Kansas athletics calendar
Men's Greek
TODAY
Women's golf at Alvamar all day
Women's golf at Alvamar, all day
Volleyball at Iowa St. at 7 p.m.
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