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QUOTE OF THE DAY
"If the NBA were on channel 5 and a bunch of frogs making love was on channel 4, I'd watch the frogs even if they were coming in fuzzy."
Bob Knight
FACT OF THE DAY
The highest scoring NBA game in history was on December 13, 1983, when the Detroit Pistons defeated the Denver Nuggets, 186-184. (in three overtimes)
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TRIVIA OF THE DAY
Q: What player holds the career record for stealing home plate?
A: Ty Cobb stole home plate 54 times during his career. On four occasions, he went so far as to steal second, then third, then home plate in the same inning.
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NFL life will be a shock to rookies
MORNING BREW
The NFL Draft's first round will be held on Thursday night, which is one of the few bits of positive news involving the NFL these days. But although the newly-drafted athletes will finally achieve a goal they've been working toward for years, the ongoing lockout is sure to cast a pal over the three-day event.
I still think the NFL won't lose any games this year. It was recently announced that the NFL has structured the 2011 season so that there are open weeks available later in the season for the NFL to reschedule games that get locked out. Both the owners and the players are smart enough to realize how damaging missed games would be to the sport's reputation, so I anticipate them eventually reaching a compromise and ending the lockout.
Nevertheless, the draft figures to be an awkward procedure. More than 250 players will hear their names called at Radio City Music Hall at some point during the three-day event held Thursday through Saturday. By hearing their names called, these players are effectively being told that they either have a job or the right to compete for one. Except they don't. They can still train individually, and the team they were with before the lockout still owns the rights to them, but they really don't have a job. They
BY GEOFFREY CALVERT gcalvert@kansan.com
are all just waiting to get their jobs back from the owners. For many teams, these same owners have a large say in which players their team selects, and which player that owner gets to lock out.
The tension that will be present at the draft underscores one of the many differences between college and professional athletics. In college, these athletes were most likely pampered, and quite possibly some of them may have been given illegal benefits. It's going to be a shock come Thursday night when the players realize exactly what they are leaving behind. Instead of being the kings of campus, they're quickly thrust into the harsh realities of real life and real business. One of the points of contention between the players and the owners is the size of rookie contracts. Eventually the
lockout will end and the players will get their contracts, but the contracts probably will not be as large as they previously would have been.
Whichever players are lucky enough to get drafted at some point between Thursday and Saturday are in a position many Americans envy. Lots of those players will receive a hefty contract that us peasants can only dream of. But that still doesn't make the business aspect of the game any easier or any less stressful for these involved. And for the rookies, business in the NFL is sure to be a wild difference from how their college teams operated.
Edited by Dave Boyd
THIS WEEK IN KANSAS ATHLETICS
TODAY
Baseball vs. Creighton 6:30 p.m. Omaha, Neb.
Men's Golf
Big 12 Championship
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WEDNESDAY
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vs. Wichita State
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Men's Golf
Big 12 Championship
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