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Spring brings best of sports
COMMENTARY
NCAA tournament, Major League Baseball highlight season
Opening week. Nothing tells us spring has arrived better than the arrival of Major League Baseball.
The start of the baseball season highlights the best sports week of the year, beginning with the NCAA Basketball Tournament final Monday night and the final round of the Masters on Sunday. Let's take a look at the pressing questions to answer this season while Royals' fans soak up their few seconds atop the division standings.
BY KAYVON SARRAF
KANSAN SPORTS COLUNIST
KSARRAF@KANSAN.COM
Is this the Royals' year?
That is, is this the year the Royals lose less than 100 games? Following three straight atrocious seasons, the squad put together by new general manager Dayton Moore looked impressive Monday in a victory against the Boston Red Sox. For one day at least, the Royals actually resembled a Major League caliber team. With Moore pulling the strings, it appears the Royals have solid young talent, led by 2005 No. 2 overall draft pick Alex Gordon, who will play third base, to build around a veteran core. Final record prediction: 74-88
How many bandwagon Cardinals and Cubs fans will we see on campus?
One knows the Cubs or Cardinals are in contention by strolling through campus in the fall and counting the
who had won 14 straight division championships in the playoffs last season. After completely overhauling their bullpen following a season in which they blew 29 saves, second only to the Royals, the Braves look like they can challenge the New York Mets for top position in the National League East. The Mets have the most complete lineup in the league, but their starting rotation behind Tom Glavine is a question mark. Look for both the Braves and Mets to make the playoffs, with one team snagging the wild card.
Sarraf is a Lawrence senior in journalism.
While most sports fans are already tired of seeing Bonds in the media, expect things to get even worse as he challenges Hank Aaron's all-time home run record. The "juiced Wonder" will likely break Aaron's record if he stays healthy, so fans can only hope Bonds forgets to put on his eight pounds of metal body armor as he crowds home plate. Final prediction: 760 home runs for Bonds and a sudden spike in income for human growth hormone smugglers.
Is Barry Bonds going to drive everyone crazy?
Local fans have a chance to catch the "Japanese Pedro" up close and personal in his first career start Thursday at Kauffman Stadium. The Red Sox nearly broke the bank by landing Daisuke Matsuzaka, and if Curt Schilling's performance Monday at Kansas City is any indication of his age starting to catch up with him, the Sox may need a Cy Young-like performance out of Dice-K to contend with the New York Yankees in the American League East.
number of blue and red hats. With both teams in baseball's weakest division, expect to see the number of Jayhawks suddenly cheering for these teams to quadruple next October.
— Edited by James Pinick
The baseball world seemed turned upside-down without the Braves,
Is Dice-K the real deal?
Are the Atlanta Braves going to restore order?
PRO FOOTBALL NFL to allow local stations to shoot footage on sideline
to shoot footage on sidelines
JEFFERSON CITY The
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — The National Football league will allow more local television stations to cover games from the sidelines next season under a policy change prompted by complaints from broadcast media.
Lawmakers in Missouri and Arizona had challenged an NFL policy, adopted for last season, that booted most local video cameras from the sidelines. Instead, TV stations were required to get sideline
"With one camera on the sideline, it put a heavy burden on that one station to make tapes available and share it with so many other stations?" Aiello said in a telephone interview. "We can do this in a more efficient way."
The NFL had described the camera restrictions as a way to make the sidelines safer and less crowded while also protecting the NFL's property rights to the game video. All of those goals are still met with the expanded number of sideline cameras, Aiello said.
Broadcast stations complained the policy prohibited them from zooming in on particular players for feature stories that would be of interest to their local audiences.
Under a change in policy, the NFL now plans to allow up to 10 local TV cameras—generally five from each teams' media market on the sidelines of games for its 2007-2008 season.
NFL spokesman Greg Aiello said Tuesday that the new policy was intended to address the concerns of TV stations.
footage from a pool photographer or use the network television clips.
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