4B SPORTS
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2006
FANTASY FOOTBALL THURSDAY
Bringing girlfriends along leads list of fantasy football crimes
I would be remiss if I wrote a semester-long fantasy football column and didn't mention ethics. Anyone who's been offered Chris Cooley for Torry Holt knows that there are certain practices that aren't just unethical, they're practically criminal. They are as follows:
1) If a fantasy league gets together to watch the games on Sunday or Monday, bringing one's girlfriend is strictly prohibited. It's not that we don't like your girlfriend, though that may be the case. It's that a girl has no place in a room full of unshowered, unshaven guys. Furthermore, it's not fair to assume your buddies are okay with hearing "Wow, Seattle's coach has a really bushy mustache" and "No. 18 has really cute legs" while trying to calculate their points. Penalty is forcing the offender to attend next year's draft wearing a tank top, skirt and UGG boots.
2) Unethical behavior of any kind made by the commissioner will be considered criminal. My buddy Craig told me about a league where the commissioner saw that someone dropped a player he wanted, and instead of waiting for the
player to clear waivers, he changed the waiver wire rules to get the player on his team in time for the Sunday games. Penalty is making the offender wear a Kenny Rogers jersey for two weeks. The commish will, however, be encouraged to run for Congress.
3) Failure to check your lineup during the season will not be tolerated. It's not difficult to take five minutes to ensure you aren't starting any players on their bye week. If you have Willie Parker against Oakland on your bench, and Kevin Jones on his bye in your starting lineup this week, there's a problem. You would be essentially giving your opponent a free victory. Penalty is your league having the opportunity to form tackle you in the open field.
4) The league message board is to be used frequently and appropriately. It's a great tool for busting the chops of fellow league members. A post ridiculing a league member for his decision to start Reuben Droughts against Denver's defense is perfectly acceptable. What's really unacceptable is an expletive-filled post crying about a two-point loss. We know that if Alge Crumpler
hadn't dropped that pass in the end zone against New Orleans in week three you would have won. Get over it. Penalty is forfeiture of next year's second round draft pick and eight hours of anger management classes.
5) Lopsided trade offers will not be tolerated. Perhaps the most violated of all fantasy football laws, they have been troubling fantasy football managers for years. Jamal Lewis and Amani Toomer do not combine to equal the value of LaDainian Tomlinson, so stop trying. Another offense is a manager letting a trade offer sit for a week or two. This allows the opportunity, in the case that the player they would give up gets injured, to accept the stale trade and ship an injured player to another manager. Penalty is the forfeiture of trade privileges for a full calendar year and the offender will be responsible for all pizza and beer purchases for the next league gathering.
Evan Hengel is an Overland Park senior in finance.
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Down 0-2, Kansas bounced back in game three. Five serving aces carried the Jayhawks to a three-point victory against the Sooners. Williams was the star with five kills and two solo blocks.
Kansas could not match Oklahoma in the final game. Tied
at 23, the Sooners went on a 7-2 run to win the match.
"They're closing out games like they did in game four," Bechard said.
Next, Kansas will take on Texas Tech (10-11, 3-9) at 7 p.m. Saturday
in the Horejsi Family Athletics Center.
Kansan sportswriter Drew Davison can be contacted at ddavison@kansan.com.
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Athletics Department pulls in $20M more than last year
CAMPUS
The Kansas Athletics Department keeps getting richer.
revenues. This year's contributions and grants total $31,899,373, up from $16,300,747. A major cause of the increase was donations for the new football facility.
The audit was done by an in dependent firm, and the numbers represent July 1, 2005, to June 30, 2006.
An audit of the athletics department was released Wednesday at the board meeting of directors. The audit showed that the department's revenues increased by more than $20 million to $69,720,638;
however, expenses also went up by just more than $8 million to $47,139,664.
Kansas Athletics Director Lew Perkins, who said he was seeing the audit report for the first time, kept repeating, "we're healthy," Wednesday afternoon.
C. J. Moore
The biggest increase in revenues came from contributions and grants made to the department, making up almost half of the
timing or blind luck, all that matters is that Bush picked up her game at a time when Kansas desperately needed it. Before goals came consistently from Bush, the Jayhawks couldn't find the back of the net with a GPS. They scored only two goals during a six-game stretch in which they went 2-4 and fell into the middle of the pack in the Big 12. Bush said the low point came after the team got swept by Texas and Texas A&M the weekend of Oct. 6.
"The weekend stunk; it was awful that we lost to both of them," she said. "But I think a good thing happened cause we haven't lost since."
And what better a stage for Bush and the Jayhawks to show their improvement than Columbia, Mo. Bush, a Blue Springs, Mo., native, had multiple friends and family members watching. She put on a
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But statistics don't tell enough of Bush's story. To see the spark that Bush brings to the Kansas soccer team, one must observe the way she never gives up on a ball, always finds a way to be in the middle of the action and, most importantly, the emphasis she places on the winning as a team rather than her own achievements.
Freshman forward Monica Dolinsky attempted a shot that bounced off a Missouri defender toward Bush's feet. Bush collected the rebound and fired the ball off the post and into the net. Early in the second half, Bush received another Dolinsky pass in the left corner and bent it into the right side of the net for the first multi-goal game of her career in the 4-0 victory. The victory helped ruin Missouri's senior day.
"I never really thought about game-winning goals until people brought that up this year," Bush said. "At this point in the season, it's great to be like 'I scored today,' but we need goals to win."
Kansan sportswriter Mark Dent can be contacted at mdent@kansan.com.
"That game was just fun in itself, the rivalry. It was raining and their senior day," Bush said. "I think that was the turnaround for us."
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One statistic illustrates how important Bush has been throughout her career: When Bush scores, the Jayhawks are 10-0 including a 6-0 record this season.
Ninety-five of the second-half passing yards against Oklahoma State came after Kansas lost the lead.
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show that began only seven minutes into the match.
So, with a struggling passing game and Fields' big-play ability, it would seem that he could help solve Kansas' passing woes. Still, Fields doesn't get caught up in his numbers. Instead, he credits his quarterbacks for finding him, and his fellow receivers for helping him find openings in opposing defenses.
"The outside receivers, they stretch the field to make the safe
I wasn't setting any kind of expectations," Fields said. "I just wanted to do good, win, and go to a bowl game. I wasn't trying to catch the most touchdowns."
However Fields has a greater desire to win three or four more games than catch three or four more touchdown passes.
Kansas has four games left on its schedule, and its postseason hopes are faint, yet Fields is on the verge of setting school records. He needs only three more touchdowns to set the Kansas record for receiving touchdowns in a season by a sophomore. Four more touchdowns will giveFields the most receiving touchdowns in a season by any Jayhawk.
Kansan sportswriter Shawn
Shroyer can be contacted at
sshroyer@kansan.com.
ties respect the downfield game, and that opens me up," Fields said. "If it wasn't for them, I wouldn't be open."
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