THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAS
2B SPORTS
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 22, 2007
quote of the day
If you make every game a life-and-death thing, you're going to have problems. You'll be dead a lot."
Dean Smith
sports fact of the day
Kansas' largest margin of victory in a conference football game was 55 points, when they defeated Kansas State 55-0 in 1947.
End Zone Bound
Andrew Wacker/KANSAN
Nick Peterson, Austin, Texas, sophomore, avoids a tackle from Tom Willger, Lawrence freshman, at their scholarship hall intramural football practice. Despite the heat, students remained active.
sports trivia
Q. Who holds the Kansas Football single-season record for most interceptions?
A: Ray Evans, who had 10 picks in 1942.
PGATOUR
PGA TOUR Tiger Woods absent from FedEx Cup playoff rounds
HARRISON, N.Y. — Tiger Woods has played four straight weeks on the PGA Tour only five times in his career, and two of those stretches came in 1996 when he was a 20-year-old rookie trying to avoid going to Q-school.
So his absence from the first of four playoff events in the FedEx Cup should have come as no surprise.
Nor should it be a problem.
Once the inaugural "PGA Tour Playoffs" head toward a conclusion, no one will remember that Woods skipped The Barclays. Even if he doesn't win the FedEx Cup, odds are he's in the running. And that beats any interest golf used to have in the fall, which was next to nil.
Truth is, Woods might have done the tour a favor.
Considering how he has been playing lately (two straight victories), and how he finished last season (six straight PGA Tour victories), it was conceivable the world's No.1 player could have wrapped up the FedEx Cup and gone home before the Tour Championship.
Which would have looked worse: Woods skipping what amounts to a wild-card game or sitting out the Super Bowl?
"Maybe he figured he had a first-round bye," Woody Austin said Tuesday on a dreary day of rain at Westchester, which seemed to set the mood for those who believe the playoffs already are a bust because one guy didn't show up.
Associated Press
MLB standings
AL East
Boston 75-50
NY Yankees 70-55 (5 games back)
Toronto 63-61 (11.5 games back)
Baltimore 57-65 (16 games back)
Tampa Bay 47-77 (27.5 games back)
AL Central
Cleveland 68-55
Cleveland 68-55
Detroit 67-57 (1.5 games back)
Minnesota 62-62 (6.5 games back)
Kansas City 55-69 (13.5 games back)
Chicago White Sox 55-69 (13.5 games back)
AL West
LA Angels 73-51
Seattle 70-52 (2 games back)
Oakland 62-64 (12 games back)
Texas 54-69 (18.5 games back)
AL Wildcard
Seattle 70-52
Seattle 70-52
NY Yankees 70-55 (1.5 games back)
Detroit 67-57 (4 games back)
NL East
NY Mets 70-53
Philadelphia 65-58 (5 games back)
Atlanta 66-59 (5.5 games
back)
Florida 56-69 (15 games back)
Washington 56-69 (15 games back)
NL Central
Chicago Cubs 63-60
Milwaukee 64-61
St. Louis 59-62 (3 games back)
Houston 56-69 (8 games back)
Cincinnati 54-70 (9.5 games back)
Pittsburgh 53-70 (10 games back)
NL West
Arizona 71-55
San Diego 66-57 (3.5 games back)
LA Dodgers 64-60 (6 games back)
Colorado 63-61 (7 games back)
San Francisco 55-70 (15.5 games back)
NL Wildcard
San Diego 66-57
Philadelphia 65-58 (1 game back)
Atlanta 66-59 (1 game back)
LA Dodgers 64-60 (2.5
games back)
MLB.com
Because of time restraints, some of last night's results may not be included in the standings
rowing tryouts
Who: The KU rowing team needs more athletes.
What: Informational meeting about walk-on trouts
When: 5 p.m. on Wednesday,
When: 5 p.m. on Wednesday,
Aug. 22, or Thursday, Aug. 23
Where: Hadl Auditorium in
Wagnon Student Athlete Center between the west side of Allen Fieldhouse and Anschutz Sports Pavilion
Contact Jennifer Myers at jmyers@ku.edu or 785-864-4207.
CARNIVAL
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SATURDAY AUGUST 25
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