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Putting along
Joey Mundy, Mission Hills senior, reads the green on hole one at Alvamar Golf Course in the Kansas Invitational on Monday afternoon. After round one, KU was tied for third with Kansas State with a combined team score of 298. Kansas entered the tournament as three-time champions of the 16-team
all teams completed two rounds on Monday with the final round of the 54-hole tournament to be played today.
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》 GET BUSY LIVIN'
Big scores mean big savings; bookstores still good sports
After Kansas' 45-13 bludgeoning of Toledo on Saturday — its third consecutive blowout against an overmatched nonconference opponent this year — one thought popped into my head. Shouldn't coach Mark Mangino have consulted the campus bookstores before putting together this season's schedule?
The bookstores are taking a hit.
You'd think that after watching his team rack up 53 points per game and 21 total touchdowns during its first three games, Mangino could at least send an apology note.
BY RUSTIN DODD
KANSAN SPORTS COLUMNIST
RDDOD@KANSAN.COM
What? You haven't heard? KU Bookstores offer a 5 percent discount on KU apparel for every touchdown the Jayhawks score for a discount of as much as 30 percent as part of its Touchdown Tuesday promotion. The Jayhawk Bookstore offers the same discount for as
much as 35 percent for a promotion titled Monday Madness. For the past three weeks, Mondays and Tuesday have been like Christmas, Kanukahk and Kwanzaa all rolled into one.
I mean, some students are wearing so much KU athletic gear that they're starting to look like freshman walk-on basketball players, trying to make
sure everyone knows they're on the team.
As for the bookstores, they are staying positive. "We have no problem with the team scoring this many points," said Toni Retonde, an assistant store manager at Jayhawk Bookstore.
Well, sure, but every week?
sure everyone knows theyre on the team.
With 159 total points in three games,
Kansas has already topped its total of 146
points from its first five games a year ago.
"Well. I don't know if we would welcome it every week," Retonde said. "But there might be some weeks where they don't score any touchdowns."
It gets better. The most points Kansas has ever scored in a season is 384 in 13 games in 2003. If the Jayhawks keeps up their current scoring pace through all 12 games, they'll score 636 points. Obviously, Kansas can't keep up this pace all season long, but with Florida International on deck for Saturday and Big 12 doormats Baylor and Iowa State waiting down the road, Mondays and Tuesdays might continue to be prime shopping days for Kansas fans
Some students are wearing so much KU athletic gear that they're starting to look like freshmen walk-on basketball players trying to make sure everyone knows they're on the team.
This Kansas offense just looks different. And don't be surprised if it has a little more to do with the play of the 5-foot-11 wunderkind behind center than the weak defenses
I hate to be the bearer of bad news for the bookstores, but don't count on that.
Kansas has lined up against every week.
Through three games Todd Reesing has 10 touchdowns — eight away from Bill Whittimore's single-season record of 18 touch-down passes in 2003 — and the sophomore also has the 10th highest quarterback rating in the country at 174.49.
This isn't the first
time a promotion has potentially backfired. After years of success with its "12 Krispy Kremes for 12 hits" promotion, the Kansas City Royals began a new partnership with Panera Bread this year.
Fans were guaranteed 13 bagels if the Royals managed 13 hits. But the first time it happened, Panera was overloaded with customers and ended up giving out more than 100,000 free bagels, a Panera representative said.
So a big thumbs up to the bookstores for sticking with the discounts even as the Kansas offense does its best "Greatest Show on Turf" impersonation.
— Edited by Elizabeth Cattell
Don't be surprised if this offensive explosion continues into Big 12 play and we continue to see more and more KU apparel on campus.
SOCCER
Women face former teammates Hawks need to beat familiar faces to break losing streak
BY ALISON CUMBOW
cumbow@kansan.com
HIGH SCHOOL TEAMMATES
The Kansas soccer team will be given the opportunity to break its losing streak against Missouri State at 5 p.m. today at the Jayhawk Soccer Complex.
Missouri State's freshman goalkeeper Jessica Teahan and junior forward Caroline Sweeney were teammates to these Kansas players; junior forward Sara Rogers, junior
The Jayhawks also will be given the opportunity to play against some unconventional competition.
Two faces on the Missouri State team will look familiar to five KU players tonight because they played together at St. Thomas Aquinas High School in Overland Park.
midfielder Missy Geha, freshman midfielder Erin Ellefson, freshman midfielder Geneva Magness and freshman
The Bears finished fourth in the Missouri Valley Conference last season and went to the conference semifinals for the first time in three years. They have 12 returning alumni winners.
Magness and Freshman forward Taylor Blue.
on their roster this season, as well as six 2006 All-MVC players on the team.
Geha
PLAYERS TO WATCH
**Who:** Jackie Jasper
**Position:** Junior goalkeeper
**Why:** She was a first-team All-MVC pick in
the past two seasons and achieved six shut outs and saved 114 goals last year.
Who: Kate Blair
**Who:** Kate Blair
**Position:** Senior forward
**Why:** She is a four-year starter and a 2006 All-MVC second-team pick. She was also the Bears' second-leading scorer last fall.
THE COACHES
Who: Mark Francis
Record at KU: 97-65-10
Length at KU: Nine years
Who: Rob Brewer
Record at MSU: 116-101-25
Length at MSU: 12 years
Edited by Tara Smith
》 FAILURE TO COMMUNICATE
Strong batting practice gets job done Position choice buoys attempt to walk onto baseball team
Shawn Shroyer, baseball beat writer and sports columnist, is writing a series of articles about his experience participating in open tryouts for the Kansas baseball team.
If I did one thing right last week, I played the right position. Because I was the only first baseman during the Kansas baseball walk on tryouts, I've been invited back for today's tryout scrimmage.
I wish I could tell you a story about how I was one of the nine best players to try out, but the most generous analysis I can make of my tryout performance is that I picked the right position.
What I can tell you is that tryouts went nothing like I expected after my week of preparation.
WHAT DID I GET MYSELF INTO?
Less than five minutes into the first day of tryouts, that's what was going through
my head. I was struggling just to play catch.
Imagine Rick Ankiel from the 2000 playoffs, Chuck Knoblauch from 1999 on, and Rube Baker from Major League II. Put them together, and you get an idea of what I looked like trying to warm up.
I'd gotten so worked up about being perfect during my first time back on a real diamond that whatever connects my brain to my throwing hand had become unhinged. All of a sudden I was toiling to do something I'd been doing for nearly two
decades, the simplest task to do in baseball; play catch.
During the next two days I gained even more appreciation for all that Ankiel has been through and overcome as I continued to labor, putting too much thought into throwing a ball.
MY GLOVE, MY GLOVE, WHY HAST THOU FORSAKEN ME?
Tom Keegan, sports editor for the Lawrence Journal-World, wrote "The First Baseman," a book that tries (effectively, if I do say so myself) to put the kibos on the notion that first basemen are subpar defensive players. But during the course of the three-day tryout, I did little to back up his claim.
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