2B SPORTS
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
MONDAY, MAY 5. 2008
trivia of the day
Q: Who holds the major league baseball record for most consecutive games with an extra-base hit?
atlantabraves.com
At Tied between Atlanta Braves third baseman Chipper Jones and former Pittsburgh Pirate right fielder Paul Warner. Jones tied the record of 14 straight games two seasons ago, which Warner had held alone for 79 years.
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fact of the day
chipperjones.com
Chipper Jones grew up in the small Florida town of Pterson, which is known as the "Fern Capital of the World." Fern growing is the primary industry in the town and is exported worldwide.
quote of the day
"There's something about this clubhouse and this uniform. We walk out on the field and expect to win. I know other teams walk out on the field and they're hoping to win. And there's a big difference. We expect to win."
Chipper Jones
Freshman third baseman Tony Thompson blows a bubble with his gum while throwing to first base.
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on tv tonight
MLB:
Boston at Detroit, 6 p.m. ESPN
Orlando at Detroit: NBA
—Los Angeles Angels at Kansas City, 7 p.m., FSN
NBA:
KENTUCKY DERBY
Arena Football:
—Orlando at Detroit: NBA Playoffs Second Round Game 2, 6 p.m., TNT
Chicago at Tampa Bay, 7 p.m., ESPN2
San Antonio at New Orleans:
NBA Playoffs Second Round Game
2, 8:30 p.m., TNT
calendar
WEDNESDAY
Baseball vs. Oral Roberts, 6 p.m., Lawrence
There won't be a dramatic fight for life this time around. No national day of mourning for a brave horse who wouldn't give up.
Eight Belles euthanized on race track after collapse
BY TIM DAHLBERG ASSOCIATED PRESS
She ran with the big boys in the
Schoolchildren won't be sending cards.
Eight Belles is examined on the track after the 134th Kentucky Derby Saturday, at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky. Ey. Belles was euthanized after breaking both front ankles following a second-place finish in the Kentucky Derby.
The people who cried for Eight Belles got it out of the way at the track. They had no choice, because the business of racing goes on.
race of her life. She ended up paying for it with her life.
One moment she was flying down the stretch at Churchill Downs racing against all odds to become the first filly to win the Kentucky Derby in 20 years. The next she was thrashing in the dirt, trying desperately to get up before the decision was made to spare both her and us any further misery.
that eventually cost him his life. Two weeks from now they'll run the Preakness, and Eight Belles will barely get a mention.
Barbaro was the exception, a horse and a story that allowed us to get all warm and fuzzy and forget for a time that these 1,000-pound beasts are bred and raised for maximum
Racing is a brutal business because it has to be. If we mourned every horse that lost its life early on the track or in the barn, wed have no time left to cheer on those who can still run.
Two years ago we were transfixed by the fight to save Barbaro, who became a national icon as he struggled to recover from injuries
speed, not maximum life spans.
The cool efficiency that marked the end of Eight Belles was more the norm, a cruel reminder on the biggest of all stages that racing can be a deadly sport.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Say what you will about the sport of kings, but don't say they aren't prepared. They've done it enough to know the drill, and they performed it quickly enough so that the untimely demise of Eight Belles didn't interfere with Big Brown's victory ceremony or the hawking of tacos and fried chicken on national television.
the track and seeing that, it's got to make them think, 'Man, why would I want to go out there and see that happen to a horse?' It's got to be very disappointing to anyone who loves horses."
Fellow trainer Nick Zito was just as philosophical.
"It was a very unfortunate thing yesterday, but again, in sports it happens a lot at high levels," Zito said. "People get hurt, people lose their careers."
People do, and sometimes they die, too. They are killed crashing cars into each other on the racetrack, or trading punches in the ring.
Most came to the same conclusion: Breakdowns and deaths have always been and will always be a part of the sport.
for the stress that running around a track at 45 mph with someone clinging to your back causes, and how synthetic tracks might or might not help save some of them.
The equine ambulance came out, and screens were thrown up to spare the crowd from watching. The track veterinarian reached for the needle that is always nearby.
After all, they don't shoot horses anymore, do they?
"No matter what happens, you're always going to see horses break down on the track. That is part of this game. It's a very sad part of the game, but you have to go through it," said Big Brown trainer Rick Dutrow Jr., who should have been spending the day celebrating his horse's big win. "For people coming out to
The animal activists, of course, will raise an outcry over it all. They will call for a ban on the sport, and compare the fate of Eight Belles with that of the dogs Michael Vick and his cohorts euthanized in their own special ways.
Those in the industry, meanwhile, will debate what it all means, a process that had already begun Sunday morning in the stables at the famed track. Trainers talked how horses are bred too fragile these days
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OLYMPICS Torch travels through China with no protests
Protests are relatively rare in Macau, a tiny city on China's southern coast, and the relay went smoothly with no disruptions as two columns of police in blue shorts jogged on each side of the torch bearers.
Spectators waved flags, cheered wildly and chanted "Go Chinal" as the flame toured the former Portuguese enclave that returned to Chinese rule in 1999 and is the only place in the country where casino gambling is legal
MACAU — Runners carried the Olympic torch past glitzy Las Vegas-style casinos and pastel colored colonial buildings on Saturday in the Chinese city of Macau — the world's most lucrative gambling center.
The torch arrived from Hong Kong, where it completed a relay Friday that also was not disrupted by protesters — a contrast from many other stops during the torch's 20-nation tour. In several cities, the torch run was marred by pro-Tibet protesters and others demonstrating against China's human rights record.
The torch parade here often seemed to be more about Chinese pride than the Olympics. One group of students from mainland China wore white T-shirts that said, "I love China." Others posed with the Chinese flag in front of colonial-style buildings.
Another group held a banner that said, "Love the Chinese race. Build up our country's reputation."
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