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Strength coach Andrea Hudy spots Kansas women's basketball player Kaylee Brown during a preseason workout. Hudy came to Kansas in August after a long career at the University of Connecticut, where she worked with both the man's and women's basketball teams. The team's strength training and conditioning is essential to boost the endurance of its small roster.
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Training no picnic for women's basketball
BY PAUL BRAND
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KANSAN SPORTWRITER
During the offseason, the women's basketball team's conditioning workouts last one hour. Once the season begins, though, practices will become much longer.
In order to prepare for the grueling season,athletes must first learn to tolerate difficult training
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"Its designed for the
One of the most important ways to ready the women's team to endure the tough regular season schedule is through
sport of basketball in terms of injury prevention. It's designed to help you become a better athlete and, therefore, a better basketball player."
Andrea Hudy Strength coach
a comprehensive weights and conditioning program.
doing program. "I'm trying to prepare them for a three-hour practice that's going to be very intense," Andrea Hudy, strength coach, said.
Hudy, who works with both the women's basketball and volleyball teams, runs the basketball training sessions. Arriving at Kansas in August, Hudy came from the University of Connecticut where she worked as the associate strength and conditioning coordinator for 10 years. During her time at Connecticut, Hudy worked with both the women's and men's basketball teams.
Just a month into its workouts, the women's team has already seen a difference in working with the new strength coach.
and it's for more information NCAA offseason limitations allow players eight hours of practice time per week, with two hours being used for skill workouts. The remaining six hours are spent with Hudy who divides the time between conditioning and weights sessions.
"It is a lot more weight than we're used to," junior guard Kaylee Brown said. "There's a lot more conditioning and it's a lot more intense."
The strength sessions are especially tailored for action on the hardwood, to include both the pace and the content of the program.
"It's designed for the sport of basket- ball in terms of injury prevention." Hudy said. "It's designed to help you become a better athlete and, therefore a better basketball player."
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Breaking the streak
'Hawks face 'Cats, 11 consecutive losses
By MIRANDA LENNING
mlnening@kansan.com
KANSAN SPORTSWITER
Kansas safety Jerome Kemp takes Nebraska fullback Dane Todd down in the third quarter of the game Saturday in Lincoln, Neb. Kemp had two solo tackles and one assist. "Our defense got turnovers and did a good job tonight and against both the run on the pass," coach Mark Mangino said. "Our defense played well enough to win. The bottom line is that Nebraska's offense ran into a good defense, and our offense ran into a good defense."
The Jayhawks continued their streak of consecutive losses to Nebraska on Saturday.
This Saturday, they will revisit another losing streak when the Kansas State Wildcats come to town.
wincas has not defeated its in-state rival since 1992, an 11-game skid that began when coach Mark Mangino was still an assistant coach at K-State.
In the two years since Mangino became the Jayhawks coach, the Wildcats have outscored them 106-6 in the last two years, including a 64-0 shutout in 2002.
"Ive coached a lot of teams in my time, and this is one of the gutsiest, hard-nosed, tough-minded group of kids I have ever been around," Mangino said.
the losing streak against Nebraska — adding another tally to the loss column — but the Jayhawks played more competitively against the Cornhuskers than they have in a decade.
Kansas was unable to end its 35- game losing streak against Nebraska — adding to tolls to the
their losing streaks behind them and focus on defeating K-State.
"We've got a lot more games left," junior linebacker Nick Reid said. "It will be a huge game, it being at home and our homecoming. We will be ready."
Mangiiano said. The players said they needed to put
This may be the most vulnerable K-State team that Kansas has faced since 1993, when the Jayhawks lost by only one point, 9-10. Since that loss more than 10 years ago, the Wildcats have outscored the Jayhawks 400-79.
The Wildcats, an early favorite to win the Big 12 North, now post a 2-2 record, coming off a 42-30 defeat against Texas A&M.
against. Texas A&M If the lafhawks can score at least 23 points, they will be in good shape to snap the 11-game losing streak.
Kansas is 33-0 against K-State when they have scored 23 or more points. The Kansas offense averages about 28 points per game this season.
In both of their losses this season, KState's defense has allowed more than 40 points — Fresno State scored 45 and Texas A&M scored 42.
Also in Kansas' favor is a weak K-State defense, which has allowed an average of 30 points per game this season, about 14 more points per game than the 16.3 they averaged last year.
Coach Bill Snyder said the Wildcats needed to do a better job at crucial times during the game.
"We've got to start coaching our guys
to make plays," Snyder said after Saturday's loss. "We didn't play well enough to win."
Despite its struggles against K-State, Kansas leads the all-time Sunflower Showdown 61-35-5.
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Online poker fun, risky
Students turned on to Internet gambling for convenience, money
BY FRANK TANKARD
fankard@kansan.com
KANSAN SPORTSWRIVER
Bradpitts gets a full house and knocks swodog28 out of the game. He jumps a little in his chair, making his long blonde hair swing up.
It's 11:30 p.m. Saturday. Before the night is through, Bradpitts will win the 10-person, $10 buy-in, no limit Texas Hold 'Em tournament, and the tournament's $40 prize.
Two guys in blue togas, breaking between parties, stand behind him giving advice as each card is turned by an invisible hand.
Bradpitts sits on the edge of his wooden chair, shirtless, yelling at his computer screen.
Bradpitts is one of many KU students who partake in one of the fastest growing pastimes on the Internet; virtual poker.
He asked that his online alias be used in place of his name because online poker is illegal by federal law.
"Ha ha, sucker," he said. "I'm on a hot streak."
The Federal Wire Wager Act, amended in 1994, prohibited betting over any "wire wagering facility," including the Internet, according to the Kansas Gaming Commission.
However, it is against the law for someone in the United States to wager on any site, regardless of the site's location, unless he is in a place where gambling is permitted, such as Las Vegas.
Poker Web sites have sidestepped the law by operating from places where gambling is sanctioned. PartyPoker.com is located in Quebec, Canada, and is licensed by the Kahnawake Gaming Commission of the Mohawk Territory.
Playing cards for money has a long tradition on college campuses, dating long before the Internet. David Hodges, who graduated from Oklahoma State University in 1949, said he used to play the game Pitch with friends at a local college hangout.
congress ranged. "If there was an open seat, you took it," he said. "It was an informal thing, but we'd play for a little bit of money. In those days, a quarter was a pretty good sum."
Since ESPN's broadcast of the World Series of Poker gained unprecedented popularity last year, attracting more than one million viewing households, the sport's popularity has increased among the ESPN demographic, mostlv
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young adult males.
Other television stations sought to capitalize on ESPN's success by broadcasting other poker tournaments, including the World Poker Tour on the Travel Channel and Celebrity Poker on Bravo.
Cole Robinson, Overland Park junior, said his favorite game when playing with his buddies is Texas Hold 'Em, the game usually played on television.
"It's the most exciting form of poker," he said. "In Hold 'Em, luck and skill have a nice balance. It makes for really entertaining poker."
Because getting a game together is not always easy, many poker players are turning to the Internet, where tables are available at any time.
The most visited online site,
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JONATHAN KEALING
jkealing@kansan.com
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Fans key to Hawk victory Saturday
This is a season on the brink.
Its offense has, too, only it's gone straight backwards.
In fact, during their 11-year run, the Wildcats have outscored the Jayhawks 460-97.
With a 2-3 record, including an 0-2 conference mark, every game from now until Nov. 20 is important. Few, however, may reveal as much about the team's progress as this Saturday's game against Kansas State.
"We have to be able to prove on Saturday that this rivalry can be a good one," said Kansas coach Mark Mangino.
Five games in with six to go, Kansas' defense has moved miles since last season.
Some of the defeats have been close, such as a 10-9 defeat in '93, but most have been lopsided in the Wildcats' favor.
For the last 11 years, the Jayhawks have fallen to the purple plague from just down I-70.
K-State is only 2-2 overall, 0-1 in the Big 12, and seems to be going through growing pains as it endeavors to integrate younger players into its mix, giving Kansas a chance to find success in the Sunflower Showdown.
What may be most important for Kansas this season is that the team has a defense that can face the K-State juggernaut.
This season, the KU defense has held its opponents to an average of just 16.4 points per game.
K-State coach Bill Snyder gave credit for the defensive improvements to increased speed and players sticking to their assignments.
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