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SPORTS
THE UNIVERSITY BABY KANSAN
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 18.2006
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crossed, media guides and newspapers and stat sheets spread out all over the bed, doing, 'Bob Davis, 980, KMBZ sports.' And I'd look over and say, 'if people could only see this.' And he goes, "don't tell anybody."
Respected among peers
Those who work with him - Newton, his football broadcast partner David Lawrence and Jayhawk Radio Network general manager
Angela Haar – all say the same thing about Davis: he's great at what he does.
"He doesn't make mistakes so it's hard to get a mistake to tease him on because he's just really good at what he does." Lawrence said.
Newton and Lawrence both said even though Davis is so talented, he doesn't let it go to his head. Davis has gotten to where he is by knowing his place in the broadcasts.
"I've always thought the game was the thing," Davis said. "People might like an announcement but they really
But don't let Davis fool you; when people tune in to hear a Jayhawk broadcast, they're going to be entertained – as he admits when he calls himself a "journalist" and an "entertainer."
tune in to hear the game. And that's what they're interested in - not so much hearing your head rattle"
Davis is also entertaining off the air. His co-workers said on road trips he always tells stories and makes them laugh. He used to get Max Falkenstien, his former partner in the booth, laughing so hard that
Falkenstien would tell him, "Don't make me laugh. I'm going too hoarse. I'm not going to be able to talk during the game."
Davis said he's the same person on and off the air.
"You've just got to be yourself," he said. "I listened to a lot of people growing up and I don't think I cautiously patterned myself after anybody. But I think the thing about sports casting is there are probably about as many ways to do it as there are people doing it.
"And I don't think you can be
somebody you're not. If you have enthusiasm, I think it has to be genuine and not forced. I know some guys who rarely get excited or are excited at a time when it's really not time to be. I just think you have to be what you are and hopefully it works."
Davis doesn't try to hide that he's a Jayhawk fan, but he's a broadcaster first.
"I think he's got the perfect balance of being a homer and being a journalist," Newton said.
When the jayhawk score a touchdown, one of their biggest fans can
be found in the radio booth - leaping out of his chair and excitedly telling the world.
"His heart and soul are in those broadcasts." Haar says. "He's as fired up as those people in the stands are - if not more. He's got that same energy as the people taking the goalposts down."
Kansan staff writer C.J. Moore can be contacted at cjmore@kansan.
com.
Edited by Mindy Ricketts
COLLEGE FOOTBALL
Florida International, Miami punish players for on-field brawl
BY TIM REYNOLDS ASSOCIATED PRESS
MIAMI — Amid the pushing, punching and posturing during the sideline-clearing brawl between
Miami and Florida International, some actions were deemed worse than others. The punishments reflected the differences in severity.
FIU kicked two players, Chris Smith and Marshall McDuffie Jr., off
Miami and Florida International players brawl during the third quarter of a football game in Miami on Oct.14. Miami won 35-0.
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The universities found that:
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—Reddick ran across the field in the opening seconds of the fight, helmet raised high before he struck at least one FIU player. That merited "additional measures" Atlantic Coast Conference Commissioner John Swoffford said.
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There were many other violent acts committed during the fight, yet those were the ones that the schools apparently deemed the most grievous.
"What was envisioned as an opportunity for two hometown teams to provide an evening of athletic competition resulted in a brawl that brought embarrassment to the teams, our universities, and our community," Miami president Donna Shalala wrote Monday in a letter posted on the school's Web site.
Shalala will meet with FIU president Mitch Maidique on Thursday to determine if next season's game between the teams will be played. An
announcement will be made by the weekend, Shalala said.
Miami ordered each of its other 12 players suspended along with Reddick to serve community service, plus said it "re-emphasized" the importance of sportsmanship to coach Larry Coker and members of his staff.
The brawl was the third on-field incident in Miami's past seven games;
the Hurricanes also fought with LSU after losing last season's Peach Bowl and trampled Louisville's midfield Cardinals logo before playing there last month, an act widely viewed as taunting.
Former Miami player Lamar Thomas lost his TV analyst job with Comcast Sports SouthEast over comments he made during the brawl. CSS will also edit out those
comments before replaying the game later this week.
"You come into our house, you should get your behind kicked," Thomas said during the fight. "You don't come into the OB playing that stuff. You're across the ocean over there. You're across the city. You can't come over to our place talking noise like that. You'll get your butt beat."
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