THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12. 2007
SPORTS
7B
CYCLING
Tour of Missouri success thus far
BY DOUG TUCKER ASSOCIATED PRESS
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Ivan Dominguez of Cuba fought off cramps and an unexpected hill on the final stretch to break out of a tight clump and win the first stage of the inaugural Tour of Missouri on Tuesday with a time of 3:05:37.
Dominguez, riding for Toyota-United, found himself without any team members to help as he took the lead with about 300 yards to go. Second was Each Bell of Symmetries Cycling team, followed by Kyle Wamsley of Navigators Insurance Cycling. Tour de France champion Alberto Contador of Discovery Channel was 85th among the team of international riders who made the 85-mile circuit beginning and ending in Kansas City's Country Club Plaza.
An estimated 40,000 spectators lined the streets and highways as the riders made their way through downtown Kansas City, along the Missouri River and through small towns in the sometimes-hilly country of northwest Missouri. Weather for Missouri's first foray into international racing was perfect — low
winds, cloudless blue skies and warm temperatures in the mid-80s.
Dominguez's average winning speed was 27,557 mph.
"I was not expecting to see that climb there," Dominguez said. "It put my legs under a little bit of pressure. I started getting tired. I looked, and thought, 'I'm going to go and see what happens.'
"And I started going and passing guys like they were standing there. I was like, 'Wow! this is great'"
The six-day, 600-mile race started on Kansas City's Country Club Plaza, where fans applauded cycling heavyweights including Contador and American champion Levi Leipheimer, who had to pause for several minutes early in the race to replace a chain.
The race, touted by the governor's office as the largest sporting event in the history of the state, will end on Sunday in St. Louis.
It will pass through 20 counties and about 50 cities and towns, continuing Wednesday with a leg from Clinton to Springfield. After a time trial in Branson on Thursday, the cyclists will race from Lebanon to Columbia on Friday and from Jefferson City to St. Louis on Saturday.
Royals give away victory 6-3
MLB
ASSOCIATED PRESS
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Scott Baker beat Kansas City for the third time this season, pitching the Minnesota Twins to a 6-3 victory Tuesday night that extended the Royals' losing streak to seven games.
Alex Gordon went 4-for-4 with two doubles and a walk for the
Baker, who carried a perfect game into the ninth inning of a shutout against Kansas City on Aug. 31, gave up three runs in 5 2-3 innings this time. He improved to 3-0 with a 1.59 ERA in three starts against the Royals this year, with 20 strikeouts and two walks in 22 2-3 innings.
Baker (9-7) allowed 10 hits but got help from his bullpen. Joe Nathan worked a scoreless ninth for his 32nd save in 36 opportunities.
Royals, who stranded 13 runners and equaled their longest losing streak of the season.
The Twins took advantage of errors by first baseman Billy Butler in the first inning and left fielder Joey Gathright in the sixth to score two unearned runs off Kyle Davies (2-5).
Butler's error on Joe Mauer's sharp grounder allowed Jason Bartlett to score from first.
The Royals bunched together four hits in the second to score two runs. Mike Sweeney scored on Butler's groundout, and Jason LaRue's two-out single drove in Gordon. Kansas City left the bases loaded when Baker struck out Mark Grudzielanek.
Grudzielanek and Mark Teaken hit consecutive doubles to give the Royals a 3-1 lead in the fifth, but Minnesota scored three in the sixth.
Jason Kubel, who opened the inning with a walk and went to third on Mauer's double, scored on Torii Hunter's single to left, which Gathright misplayed as the ball got past him. Mauer scored on the error while Hunter raced to third. Justin Morneau's sacrifice fly off reliever John Bale put the Twins up 4-3.
Davies pitched five-plus innings, giving up four hits while walking three and striking out four.
The Twins added a run in the seventh when Mauer's sacrifice fly scored Alexi Casilla, who had a bunt single. Minnesota scored again in the ninth on Bartlett's RBI single.
The Royals loaded the bases in the seventh, but Pat Neshek got pinch-hitter Ross Gload to ground into an inning-ending double play.
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Longhorn T-shirt spurs barroom brawl
BY SEAN MURPHY ASSOCIATED PRESS
"I've actually heard callers on talk radio say that this guy deserved what he put for wearing a Texas T-shirt into a bar in the middle of Sooner country," said Irven Box, an attorney in this city 20 miles from Oklahoma's campus in Norman.
The shocking case has set off a raging debate in this football-crazed region about the extreme passions behind a bitter rivalry. Some legal observers have even questioned whether this case could ever truly have an impartial jury.
That's exactly what touched off a bloody skirmish that left a Texashirt-wearing fan nearly castrated and an Oklahoma fan facing aggravated assault charges that could put him in prison for up to five years.
OKLAHOMA CITY — To some Oklahoma football fans, there are things that just aren't done in the heart of Sooner Nation, and one of them is to walk into a bar wearing a Texas Longhorns T-shirt.
According to police, 32-year-old Texas fan Brian Christopher Thomas walked into Henry Hudson's Pub on June 17 wearing a Longhorns T-shirt and quickly became the focus of football "trash talk" from another regular, 53-year-old Oklahoma fan Allen Michael Beckett.
Thomas told police that when he decided to leave and went to the bar to pay his tab, Beckett grabbed him in the crotch, pulled him to the ground and wouldn't let go, even as bar patrons tried to break it up. When the two men were separated, Thomas looked down and realized the extent of his injuries.
It took more than 60 stitches to close the wound, and police interviewed Thomas at a nearby hospital emergency room.
"He could see both of his testicles hanging on the outside of his body," said Thomas' attorney, Carl Hughes. "He was wearing a pair of white shorts, which made it that much worse."
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