THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THURSDAY,MAY 3,2007
SPORTS
3B
KEALING (CONTINUED FROM 1B)
With 2.8 passes defended per game on average, he easily eclipses the competition.
The next closest corner in 2006, in terms of passes defended, was previously mentioned Aaron Ross. He had 1.7 passes defended per game.
All of this bodes well for Talib, who has an opportunity to be the first Jayhawk taken in the first round of the NFL Draft since Dana Stubblefield, all the way back in 1994.
Did I mention Talib's only a junior? He doesn't HAVE to enter his name in the draft in 2008. But, assuming he has an injury-free junior campaign, he should.
rafib could come back for a senior season at the Kansas, but here we are back at Brandon Rush and Julian Wright.
If Talib is taken at No. 32, as
at least one draft is projecting, he stands to make almost $2 million a year immediately. The Seattle Seahawks drafted Kelly Jennings with the No. 31 pick in 2006. Also a cornerback, he signed a five-year deal valued at $9.7 million.
Don't let Jayhawk nation be known as a group of fans who are ungrateful to anyone but those who come here for all four years. You won't like the results.
If Talib goes in the first round, that's his future. If Rush and Wright go in the first round, that's their future as well. These players are all good enough to play for megabucks. They deserve your support.
Kealing is a Chesterfield, Mo., senior in journalism and political science.
— Edited by Mark Vierthaler
FOOTBALL (CONTINUED FROM 1B)
season's performance, the Florida International football program has nowhere to go but up. The fact
that the team lost its starting quarterback, top wide receiver and nearly half of its defensive starters could be reason for
optimism from Florida International
tans, Mario Cristobal steps in as the
new coach and brings an entirely new coaching staff with him. The fresh start could bring the Panthers a victory or two in their conference schedule but should not lead to success against Kansas.
PROJECTION: WIN — 4-0
kansan sportswriter Asher Fusco can be contacted at afusco@kansan.com.
Edited by Lisa Tilson
MLB
Devil Rays beat Twins in 10th
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.
— Pinch-hitter Dioner Navarro drove in the winning run with a grounder in the 10th inning after Tampa Bay rallied to tie in the ninth against Twins closer loe Nathan.
The Devil Rays scored twice against Nathan, who blew his first save opportunity, on twoout RBI singles by Elijah Dukes and Ty Wigginton.
Carlos Pena had one-out infield single in the 10th off Matt Guerrier (0-1) that hit an overhanging catwalk and landed between first and second. Ben Zobrist pinch ran for Pena and appeared to be heading home with the game-winning run but stumbled rounding third on Brendan Harris' double and had stay at third.
Zobrist then scored on Navarro's grounder when he beat a throw to the plate by shortstop Jason Bartlett.
Al Reyes (1-0) pitched a scoreless 10th for Tampa Bay.
Associated Press
》 INDIANAPOLIS 500
Hall of Fame draws visitors
BY STEVE HERMAN ASSOCIATED PRESS
INDIANAPOLIS — Peek through the doublewide wooden doors into the replica A.J. Foyt garage. Marvel at Carl Fisher's one-of-a-kind 1905 Premier, a hulking skeleton of steel that was too heavy to race. Walk through a 100-year timeline of technology and fashion, of helmets and goggles, of silver trophies and bronze sculptures and gold medallions.
For more than 50 years, the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Hall of Fame Museum has shared the history of automobile racing with the nearly 250,000 visitors who pass through each year - a third of them during May, when the 2 1/2-mile track gears up for the annual Indianapolis 500, which takes place
this year on May 27.
"What you see on display is not everything that they have," said Donald Davidson, the Speedway historian, whose office is situated inside the 96,000-square-foot building.
Heads up
The collection soon outgrew the building, and Hulman opened the current facility inside the gates in April 1976.
"Virtually everything you see on the cars is original." Davidson said. "You can trace it all the way through, so we're very, very fortunate."
Visitors can view the Borg-Warner Trophy, a 5-foot-tall sterling silver monument that bears the basi-resilf likeness of each Indianapolis winner. And then there are the cars — about 85 on display at all times.
"What you see on display is not everything that they have. There is a rotation."
The collection includes Ray Harroun's Wasp, winner of the inaugural 500 almost a century ago; Joe Dawson's 1912 National; the 1922 Murphy Special, built by Duesenberg and the only race car to win both LeMans and the Indy 500, and all four of Foyt's winning cars. There $ ^{2} $
that houses the designated National Historic Landmark.
DONALD DAVIDSON Speedway historian
"There is a rotation. They try to keep the things that you would expect to see here all the time," Davidson said. "Like the Marmon Wasp that won the race in 1911 is here virtually all the time."
The original museum, a small single-story brick building on the southwest corner of the grounds, outside the track, opened in 1956 with six vintage cars from the private collection of the late Speedway owner Tony Hulman, a Terre Haute businessman-sportsman who bought and restored the track after World War II.
also the Belond Special that won in 1957 with Sam Hanks and in 1958 with Jimmy Bryan, the only car to win with different drivers.
More than 30 of the cars are race winners. Others, such as the car driven
The oldest car is the one commissioned by Fisher, one of the Speedway's four founders, and built by Premier, an Indianapolis passenger car company. Fisher, who later drained a Florida swamp and turned it into Miami Beach, wanted to compete in the Vanderbilt Cup Race on Long Island, N.Y., America's most prestigious race at the time, but the
“It’s an honor that I could have never expected,” Guthrie said of her car's inclusion. “But 1 guess when you break a trail, 1 guess it's inevitable.”
in 1977 by Janet Guthrie, the first woman in the Indy 500, mark key events in racing history.
Premier exceeded the 2,200-pound maximum.
"So what they did was try and make the thing as light as possible," Davidson said. "They started drilling holes in the frame."
After 470 holes, they stopped drilling, fearing any more would cause the body-less vehicle to collapse. The car was still 120 pounds too heavy, forcing a withdrawal.
Fisher raced the car, which cost $15,000, only once — on Nov. 5, 1905, winning on the Indiana State Fairgrounds' 1-mile horse track.
Though heavy on Indy 500 roots, the museum also pays homage to the other races held at the track each year — Formula One's U.S. Grand Prix and NASCAR's Allstate 400 at the Brickyard. There also are midget and sprint cars and European sports cars; the NASCAR collection includes a No. 43 Pontiac driven by Richard Petty and Indiana native Tony Stewart's No. 20.
Martin Kieslich, a German exchange student, was pleased to see helmets worn by retired F1 driver Michael Schumacher during a recent visit, which included a museum-sponsored ride around the famed race track — in a shuttle bus, though, not a race car.
"You always see the Indianapolis 500," Kieslich said. "It's strange to think that you yourself are on that track."
One of the most valuable cars in the museum's collection is a streamlined 1954 F1 Mercedes-Benz. A similar car sold several years ago in England for about $10 million, Davidson said.
And one of the most exotic cars is a 1957 SS Corvette built from a stripped-down Jaguar D Type by a group of General Motors engineers who wanted to get into international competition to beat Ferrari and Maserati.
"I don't know if they even had a budget. They just started working on the thing." Davidson said.
Natacha Pisarenko/ASSOCIATED PRESS
Argentina's Velez Sarsfield's Mariano Uglessich, right, fights for the ball with Argentina's Boca Juniors's Martin Palermo during a Copa Libertadores soccer game in Buenos Aires, Wednesday. Boca Juniors defeated Velez Sarsfield 3-0.
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