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SPORTS
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
FRIDAY MAY 4, 2007
FRIDAY, MAY 4, 2007
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"Iowa State was not playing well, and looking at scores and talking to people recently, they are a different ball club."
TRACY BUNGE
Softball coach
werent the same team they saw earlier this season.
"Iowa State was not playing well, and looking at scores and talking to people recently, they are a different ball club." Bunne said.
The Jayhawks face the Cyclones at 2 p.m. Saturday and noon Sunday.
"They're playing with confidence, and they're kind of a dangerous ball club here at the end of the year."
Kansan sportswriter Evan Kafarakis can be contacted at ekafarakis@kansan.com.
— Edited by Trevan McGee
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time of 11.58 seconds in the 100 meters at the Kansas Relays gives
her a regional mark in that event, and she'll try to improve that while adding a regional time in the 200 meters.
Butler already owns a regional time in the 400-meter hurdles, and this weekend she'll compete in the 400-meter
hurdles is the third-best time in the Big 12 and it's just one hundredth of
Eric Babb will look to improve upon his season-best long jump of 25-02. The mark is currently second in the Big 12 and represents the No. 11 long jump in the country.
dash and attempt to get under the regional cutoff time of 54.61 seconds.
a second off of the school record.
Scheduled to compete in the hurdle events are juniors Ashley Brown and Julius Jiles.
Jiles also has the third-best time in the Big 12. At the Kansas Relays he ran a career-best 13.89 seconds in the 110-
Brown's season-best time of 13.33 seconds in the 100-meter
meter hurdles. Both times regionally qualify the duo.
Other athletes headed to Arkansas are a group of middle distance runners, led by juniors Matt Baysinger and Maresia Pencil and senior Clif Mitchell. All three are set to compete in the 800
meters.
Pencil won the 800 meters at last weekend's UMKC Invitational, while Baysinger's season-best time of 1.51.74 is just 1.74 seconds away from a regional mark.
Pole vaulters Laura Gjerde, Libby Harmon, Brittain Parker and Jordan Scott will all compete on John McDonnell Field. Harmond and Gjerde took the top two places at the UMKC Invitational.
Kansan sportswriter Taylor Bern can be contacted at tbern @kansan.com.
— Edited by Kelly Lanigan
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PROJECTION: LOSS - 5-3 (1-3)
sive line anchored by 324-pound tackle Red Bryant should disrupt the Kansas running game and challenge undersized center Ryan Cantrell. When the Jayhawks come calling in late October, the Aggies may still be undefeated. When the Jayhawks leave College Station, the Aggies will most likely still be undefeated.
Kansan sportswriter Asher Fusco can be contacted at afusco@ kansan.com.
Edited by Will McCullough
TRIPLE CROWN
Curlin will fight history to win Kentucky Derby
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Curlin will have to overcome 19 rivals and a lot of history if he is to win the Kentucky Derby.
The unbeaten colt was installed as the slight 7-2 favorite after drawing the No. 2 post position. Affirmed was the last Derby winner to win from that post, and he went on to sweep the Triple Crown in 1978.
Winner of the Arkansas Derby for his third straight victory, Curlin will be ridden by Robby Albarado in a full field of 20 3-year-olds going 1 1/4 miles
Saturday.
Curlin has two big things going against him; he didn't race as a 2-year-old and has run only three races in his career. It's been 125 years since Apollo won after skipping his 2-year-old season, and not since the filly Regret in 1915 has such a lightly seasoned horse worn the blanket of red roses.
Tampa Bay Derby winner Street Sense was made the second choice at 4-1. Street Sense, last year's 2-year-old male horse of the year, will try to end the Juvenile jinx: no Breeders' Cup Juvenile winner has ever gone on to win the Derby, an 0-for-23 drought.
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Bonds gains another one
HOME RUNS
ASSOCIATED PRESS
San Francisco Giants' Barry Bonds, right, swings on his two-run home run to score Rich Aurilia off of Colorado Rockies' Jeff Francis in the fourth inning of a baseball game in San Francisco on Wednesday. It was Wonds' career home run number 743. At least is Rockies' Chris Jannetta.
Barry Bonds worked on the home run record early and then helped the Giants rally with a late hit that staved in the park.
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Bonds hit career homer No. 743 in the fourth inning, then delivered a go-ahead two-run single in the eighth inning to lead San Francisco to a 5-3 victory at home over the Colorado Rockies.
Rockies reliever Manny Corpas had no choice but to pitch to Bonds with the bases loaded in the eighth. The pitcher replaced Jeff Francis (1-4) with runners on first and second after singles by Ryan Klesko and Randy Winn, then walked Rich Aurilia to bring up Bonds.
"Oh, man, that's a situation you hope for," Klesko said of seeing Bonds in the batter's box with the bases loaded. "You've got to pitch to him with the bases loaded _ though I've seen them walk him with the bases loaded."
Bonds left for a pinch runner after the hit and got a standing ovation.
He moved within 12 homers of Hank Aaron's career record of 755, hitting a two-run shot to right field in the fourth inning. With four RBIs on the night, he has 1,951 for his career, tying him with Stan Musial for fourth place on the all-time list.
Bonds connected for his ninth homer of the year on the first pitch from Francis and made the score 2-0.
It was Bonds' second career homer off Francis. The seven-time NL MVP waved his cap to the crowd when he came out to play left field in the top of the fifth. He flied out to right in the first and again in the sixth.
and that's always big when you can get a walk like that."
"Obviously it puts them in a tough spot to have to face Bonds with the bases loaded," Giants manager Bruce Bochy said. "Barry had quite a night
Bonds had been intentionally walked seven times in his previous six games, including three times Friday at Arizona and twice in Monday's series opener with the Rockies.
Francis, one of 438 different pitchers to surrender a homer to Bonds, pitched effectively for 7 1-3 innings, but saw his losing streak go
to four starts.
"That pitch he hit off of Francis, there's not many guys in the game who are going to turn on that ball and keep it fair," Rockies manager Clint Hurdle said. "If (his single) is pulled 4 more feet, we've got a chance at a double play."
Brad Hennessey (1-1) pitched 1 1-3 innings for the win on a night closer Armando Benitez was unavailable because of a sore right knee.
GOLF
BY DOUG FERGUSON ASSOCIATED PRESS
Woods, MJ share spotlight
And for once, Woods felt part of the crowd.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The gallery stood a dozen rows deep and spilled down both sides of the fairway, the kind of scene Tiger Woods is used to see on the weekend at a major championship. This was only a pro-am round Wednesday at the Wachovia Championship.
This is what happens when two of the most celebrated icons in sports
are together on the golf course in a public event for the first time.
Woods, owner of 12 majors,
gladly shared the stage at Quail Hollow with Michael Jordan,
owner of six NBA titles and five MVPs.
Jordan is part-owner of the Charlotte Bobcats, and although he doesn't spend much time in town, he wanted to play in the pro-am.
Woods first played golf with Jordan in 1997 in Chicago. While they often get together on the golf course, his camp asked tournament officials if they could be paired on Wednesday.
"We know a few people," Woods said with a laugh. "No, the tournament was nice enough to put us together. He's been like my big brother, so it's been great to him be
"He's been like my big brother, so it's been great to have him be part of my life. We had a great time today."
TIGER WOODS Professional golfer
"This is great,"
part of my life.
We had a great time today. We always have a great time."
This is green.
Woods said as he waited on the 10th tee. "No one knows I'm here."
For a pro-am round, it did not lack for entertainment.
That much was clear when he walked out of the clubhouse toward the practice range and some three dozen people didn't even realize he was there because their eyes trained on Jordan pulling his car up to the valet.
rounds, and they brought the banter to Quail Hollow.
With a cigar in his mouth, Jordan made an 8-foot par put on the seventh hole, then mimicked Woods as he walked off the green, delivering a fist-pump in slow motion and holding his pose until he was sure Woods was looking.
The showmanship picked up on the back nine.
Woods was waiting for the 11th fairway to clear when Jordan walked by and kicked his ball off the tee toward a young boy in the gallery. "You can have it," Jordan told the boy.
Woods re-teed, and at the top of his back swing. Jordan cleared his throat loud enough to make Woods stop.
The world's No.1 player set up over the ball again and hit a hard draw down the middle of the fairway, locking eyes with Jordan in a mock staredown. Jordan then ripped his driver down the fairway, and as he stooped to pick up his tee, looked back at Woods and returned the stare.
The chatter was endless, and as always, Jordan was doing most of the talking. He was asked after the round how many majors Woods might have won if he had to be paired with Jordan during the final round.
"Not as many," Jordan said. "I can get in his head."
"He wins all the time," Woods said of the trash-talking battle. "I'll just throw out a jab every now and then, but basically this is my home court, so it's a little easier for me. On his court, it would be a little different deal."