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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2006
NFL
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Denver Broncos linebacker Ian Gold, left, joins cornerback Darrent Williams, right, in dragging down Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver Samie Parker after he pulled in a pass for a short gain in the second quarter of a football game in Denver on Sunday.
Chiefs lose to Broncos in overtime Denver wins with field goal as neither team could score a touchdown
BY ARNIE STAPLETON
ASSOCIATED PRESS
DENVER — Rod Smith was on the sideline with a concussion, Jake Plummer was having an awful day and nothing Mike Shanahan and his offensive staff came up with seemed to work.
Javon Walker bailed them all out.
He led Denver to a 9-6 win against Kansas City on Sunday by grabbing a 24-yard jump ball to set up Jason Elam's 39-yard field goal 5:10 into overtime at Invesco Field.
"I'm finally getting back to how I used to be, I'm finally getting back to how I was in Green Bay," said
the former Pro Bowl wide receiver acquired from the Packers in the offseason after missing almost all of last year with a torn knee ligament.
Walker led Denver with five catches for 79 yards and also had a key 16-yard run on a fourth-and-1 reverse that set up Elam's first field goal. His biggest play came in overtime, when he raced down the right sideline, slyly shoved cornerback Ty Law and hauled in Plummer's pass at the Chiefs 25-vard line.
"Javon wants to make plays. He wants the ball," Shanahan said. "It's exciting to see a guy who wants to get the ball every play."
Shanahan praised Plummer's
throw, but even Plummer admitted he didn't do anything special.
"There wasn't any timing on it, there was no leading him, nothing pretty about it. I was just throwing it up there and making sure I gave him a chance to come down with the ball, and he did," Plummer said. "And that's why we got him here."
So Plummer finally quieted the calls for his benching that began with his four-turnover performance at' St. Louis and continued when he threw an interception Sunday. He guided Denver (1-1) to just six points on its first eight drives.
have met_ and the only one without a touchdown.
This was the lowest-scoring game in the 93 times the AFC West rivals
Kansas City (0-2) kept it close with an impeccable game plan, Damon Huard, starting for the injured Trent Green, completed 17 of 23 passes for 133 yards in his first start in nearly six seasons, and Larry Johnson gained 126 yards rushing and 41 receiving.
"We probably would have taken more chances if Trent Green had been playing," Chiefs coach Herm Edwards said.
Denver didn't commit any penalties for just the third time The others came in 1967 against Kansas City and 1983 against Chicago.
CRIME
Duquesne players shot after dance
Man shoots five players near dormitory, at least two left in critical condition
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PITTSBURGH Police searched for a man who shot five Duquesne basketball players on campus early Sunday after a dance at the student union, leaving at least two of them in critical condition.
Two players were walking near a dormitory and encountered a man who apparently had been disruptive at the dance, authorities said. The players tried to calm the man and walked away but were shot. Players who rushed to their aid were also shot.
The gunman and a group of people with him were not students, a university official said.
In critical condition were forward Sam Asholau of Toronto, a transfer from Lake Region State College and a cousin of former Houston Rockets star Hakeem Olajuwon; and Stuard Baldonado of Colombia, a transfer from Miami Dade College who was considered the school's best recruit.
Also hospitalized was Kojo Menshah, a guard from New York City who averaged nearly 17 points last season at. Siena College before transferring, school officials said at a news confer-
and Aaron Jackson of Hartford, Conn., a guard who is one of only two returning players from Duquesne's 3-24 team last season.
Witnesses reported seeing two guns, said university president Charles Dougherty, but he couldn't confirm whether both were fired. The second gun was seen on someone in a group with the gunman, Dougherty said.
Six to 12 shots were fired, he said. He did not know what sparked the violence.
"What motive can there be for unloading a pistol into a group of students?" Dougherty said.
James, an NBA prospect expected to be Duquesne's top player when he becomes eligible in the 2007-08 season, was shot in the foot but no bones were broken. Mensah was believed shot in the shoulder. Jackson was shot in the hand.
"The entire Duquesne University community is saddened and shocked," Dougherty said. "We're shocked because an event of this sort has never happened. It's
"What motive can there be for unloading a pistol into a group of students?"
CHARLES DOUGHERTY Duquesne University president
ence sunday. His condition was not available.
Treated and released were Shawn james of New York City, the nation's leading shot blocker last season at Northeastern University before transferring to Duquesne;
a safe campus and known to be a safe campus."
The downtown school has round-the-clock police protection, which was stepped up Sunday. Armed university police officers guarded dormitories and other buildings.
Duquesne coach Ron Everhart, formerly at Northeastern, had rebuilt the school's program after being hired in March by bringing
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