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THE UNIVERSITY RAILY KANSAN
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2006
BIG 12 FOOTBALL
Injuries keep players out for regular season
BY STEPHEN HAWKINS ASSOCIATED PRESS
DALLAS — Oklahoma won its first game without Big 12 rushing leader Adrian Peterson. Now, the Sooners face a Missouri team that will play its first game without one of the league's top defenders.
Tigers defensive end Brian Smith, the school's career sack leader, broke his right hip last weekend and is done for the regular season. Coach Gary Pinkel still can't explain how the injury occurred.
"If you saw that film, you'd say there's no way in the world he even got hurt," Pinkel said Monday on the Big 12 coaches teleconference. "He just kind of turned and kind of stumbled. There was not hardly any contact at all. It was just as freakish as you could ever imagine."
Since he has to be on crutches for six to eight weeks before any kind of rehabilitation, it's unlikely that Smith would be able to return and play in a bowl game. The senior is tied for third in the Big 12 with 7 1/2 sacks this season, and has 31 1/2 in his career.
Smith got hurt in the second half of Missouri's 41-21 victory over Kansas State on Saturday, the same day the Sooners beat Colorado 24-3 in their first game since Peterson broke his collarbone falling into the end zone.
No. 19 Oklahoma (5-2, 2-1 Big 12), which will need help to win the Big 12 South because of its loss to Texas, plays at Saturday at No. 23 Missouri (7-1, 3-1), the North co-leader with No. 20 Nebraska (6-2, 3-1).
Peterson, who hopes to return for a bowl game, was on the sideline last weekend in a hooded sweat shirt and cap. The 2004 Heisman Trophy runner-up was encouraging teammates and his replacement, Allen Patrick, who ran 35 times for 110 yards and a touchdown.
"As much attention as Adrian gets, he's not a selfish guy and is more team-oriented," coach Bob Stoops said. "He realizes he still has a place on the team being a leader. He's just doing what's natural to him."
The Sooners keep moving forward, even after losing Peterson and starting quarterback Rhett Bomar before the season began.
"That's just a great program," Pinkel said. "It's not a surprise. They have great athletes. When they lose somebody, somebody else steps up their game. They're impressive. They keep getting better and better."
Especially on defense.
After holding Colorado to a season-low 113 yards, the Sooners have the Big 12's top-ranked defense (267 yards per game).
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Derkotch was charged with aggravated assault and other offenses. He did not immediately return a call to his home Monday.
A referee accused of throwing a punch at a man was also arrested on assault charges, police said.
Coach suffers third seizure since 2001; cause unknown
2 hospitalized Sunday after having a seizure shortly after taping a weekly television show, according to the university
CARBONDALE, III. - Southern Illinois football coach Jill Kwil
Tests performed on Kill, 45, at Carbondale Memorial Hospital came back normal, the university reported in a press release, citing his wife, Rebecca. She said her husband was resting comfortably Sunday afternoon and hoped to return to work soon.
On Saturday, Western Kentucky (3-4, 3-1 Gateway Conference) beat Southern Illinois (5-2, 2-2) 27-24 in Carbondale.
The coaching staff will continue to prepare for Southern Illinois' next game at Missouri State on Saturday. Salukis defensive coordinator Tracy Claes said.
The sixth-year head coach had a seizure a year ago during a game
"You've got a city like Detroit, you've got a city like St. Louis enjoy this, and it would be neat to get something finalized because it's good for the game," Chicago White Sox designated hitter Jim Thome said.
While baseball had eight work stoppages from 1972-95, the new deal guarantees labor peace through the 2011 season.
"Baseball is at an all-time high point right now," Detroit left fielder Craig Monroe said before Game 2 of the World Series. "You've got low-market teams doing well and different teams winning every year. Getting this done couldn't have come at a better time."
"Everybody's pretty happy with the industry. In baseball, everybody's making out pretty well," Cardinals reliever Jason Isringhausen said.
Most of the key provisions of the current contract will be continued with minor modifications, such as revenue sharing and the luxury tax. With the luxury tax set to expire on Dec. 19, there was pressure on management to make a deal to ensure that the 2007 season would be played with the tax in place.
Since baseball's first labor contract in 1968, there have been strikes in 1972, 1980, 1981, 1985 and 1994-95, and management lockouts in 1973, 1976 and 1990. The last strike lasted 7 1/2 months and wiped out the World Series for the first time in 90 years, and for many teams it took years to rebuild attendance.
Dec. 19, was agreed to on Aug.
30, 2002, just hours before players
were set to strike. That contract
was the first since 1970 achieved
without a work stoppage, and
this marks the first time the sides
reached agreement before the
expiration of the previous contract
Lawyers were working on drafting language for the new deal Sunday, and hoped to put the finishing touches on it Monday or Tuesday. Once that happened, commissioner Bud Selig would announce it in St. Louis at the World Series.
operating officer, and union head Donald Fehr declined comment
history of bitter negotiations to reach a tentative agreement on a five-year contract, the first time the sides have achieved labor peace before their current
Before taking the job at Southern Illinois, Kill coached at Emporia State and Pittsburg State in Kansas, Saginaw Valley in Michigan and two years at Webb City High School in southwest Missouri.
Kill also had a seizure in Novem ber 2001 shortly after the Salukis lost to then-Southwest Missouri State. He returned to coach the following week.
The sports information director at SIU told the school's student newspaper, the Daily Egyptian, that doctors have not established a link between the cancer and the seizures.
deal expires.
"I don't think they can clearly say the kidney cancer and seizures are related," Tom Weber said. "They've never told him that the two go hand-in-hand."
DETROIT — Baseball players and owners set aside their long
Labor negotiations end;
all sides pleased by results
The agreement was struck during bargaining in New York on Friday night and Saturday, and is subject to the sides putting the deal in writing, a person with knowledge of the negotiations told The Associated Press on Sunday. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the agreement had not been finalized.
against Illinois State and returned to the sidelines a week later. Kill was later diagnosed with kidney cancer.
The current deal, set to expire
Bob DuPuy, baseball's chief
Associated Press
Playing the field
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Holly Currie, Overland Park junior, tosses the lacrosse ball away from a Nebraska player on Sunday afternoon's match.
athletics calendar
career-high
WEDNESDAY
Volleyball vs. Oklahoma, 7 p.m., Horejsi Family Athletics Center
Player to watch: Sophomore Savannah Noyes recorded a
22 kills and led the Jay-hawks with a .385 hitting efficiency against Texas A&M last Saturday. The Aggies
Noves
FRIDAY
swept the Jayhawks 3-0.
Soccer vs. Colorado, 3 p.m.
Jayhawk Soccer Complex
Cross Country, Big 12 Championships, 10 a.m., Rim Rock Farm
Swimming & Diving at Missouri, 6 p.m., Columbia, Mo.
Men's golf, 2006 Landfall Tradition, TBA, Wilmington, N.C.
Volleyball vs. Texas Tech, 7 p.m., Horejsi Family Athletics Center
Women's golf, The Derby Invitational, all day, Auburn, Ala.
■ Football vs. Colorado, 1 p.m., Memorial Stadium
SATURDAY
Men's golf, 2006 Landfall Tradition, TBW, Wilmington, N.C.
Men's golf, 2006 Landfall Tradition, TBA, Wilmington, N.C.
Women's golf, The Derby Invitational, all day, Auburn, Ala.
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