2B THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
SPORTS
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2005
ATHLETICS CALENDAR
Vollleyball vs. Virginia Commonwealth University, pong, Hornsby Family Athletics Center
Cross Country, KSU Wildcat Invitational, 6.30 p.m.
Manhattan
Voleyball vs. Michigan State, 7 p.m., Horeisi Family Athletic Center
Soccer at San Diego, 9:30 p.m., San Diego
TOMORROW
- Volleyball vs. Temple, 1 p.m., Horejsi Family Athletics Center
Football vs. Appalachian State, 6 p.m., Memorial Stadium
After enduring emergency intestinal surgery Wednesday morning at Lawrence Memorial Hospital, Kansas athletics broadcaster Max Falkenstien is not expected to return to the broadcast booth until mid-October.
ATHLETICS
"Malignancies were removed," Falkenstien said, "but my physicians and I are optimistic for a full recovery."
Department officials said he would be hospitalized for a week.
Falkenstien's recovery keeps him out of broadcasting booth
Falkenstien said he anticipated a 4 to 6 week recovery period before getting back to the broadcast booth. The Hall of Fame broadcaster began his 60th and final season of broadcasting Kansas athletics last weekend.
— Ryan Schneider
FOOTBALL
Plane celebration no longer scheduled for takeoff
Kansas Athletics Department officials announced that the Air Force KC-135 Stratotanker scheduled to fly over Memorial Stadium before the football game against Appalachian State has canceled.
The Air National Guard canceled the event because of a current stoppage of aircraft flyovers for sporting and other events through the end of the month.
The event was scheduled as part of the athletic department's "Heroes Night," in recognition of local armed forces, firefighters, EMS personnel, law enforcement members and teachers.
The flyover could be rescheduled, but no date has been set.
Ryan Schneider Mascot Challenge comes to Memorial Stadium
The Capital One Mobile Mascot Challenge will come through the hometown of Big Jay this weekend. Big Jay will be at the FunZone on the south side of Memorial Stadium during the pregame events before Kansas takes on Appalachian State on Saturday at 6:05 p.m.
Fans will have the opportunity to take pictures with Big Jay and vote for him in the challenge.
Big Jay will be matched up with a different opponent every week until Nov. 21, when the regular season of the mascot challenge is complete. For the first week, which ends Sept. 12, Big Jay is in head-to-head competition with the Washington State Cougar.
At the end of the competition, the mascots with the top six overall records in head-to-head match ups will advance to the playoffs, which will consist of three rounds of single eliminations.
KICK THE KANSAN
Kansas State at
Tulsa at Okla-
- Iowa at Iowa*
State
♦ Annalachian
State at Kansas
Kellis Robinott
Sports Editor
6-4
Missouri.
- Notre Dame at Michigan
- Wake Forest at Nebraska
- Texas at Ohio State
- New Mexico State at Colorado
- LSU at Arizona
Eric Sorrentino
Associate Sports
Editor
6-4
LSU at Arizona State
Daniel Berk Big 12 Football 6-4
Marshell
Oklahoma
Iowa
Kansas
Missouri
Michigan
Nebraska
Texas
Colorado
LSU
Kansas State
Oklahoma
Iowa St.
Kansas
Missouri
Michigan
Nebraska
Texas
Colorado
Arizona State
Drew Davison
Soccer/
Volleyball
8-2
Ryan Colsianni
Football
7-3
Kansas State
Oklahoma
Iowa
Kansas
Missouri
Michigan
Nebraska
Ohio State
Colorado
Arizona State
Michael Phillips
Women's Basketball
7-3
Marshall
Heather Riffel Intramurals 7-3
Tim Hall Columnist 5-5
Marshall
Oklahoma
Iowa
Kansas
New Mexico
Michigan
Nebraska
Texas
Colorado
Arizona State
Kansas State at Marshall:
Marshall walked into Manhattan two years ago and upset Kansas State. This time
To help you in your efforts, we're even offering you advice on this week's games
Kansas State
Kansas State
Oklahoma
Iowa
Kansas
Missouri
Michigan
Wake Forest
Texas
Colorado
Arizona State
The Kansan's weekly edition of football picks will work a little differently from now on. Students across campus now have the chance to pick alongside sports reporters at www.kansan.com/kickthekansan. Any student that finishes the week with a perfect record or out does all 16 sports reporters—not all of them are pictured—will replace a sports reporter the following week. So you're literally trying to kick the kansan off the sports page.
Marshall is the home team, but Kansas State will be looking for revenge.
Tulsa at Oklahoma:
Not a single sports reporter picked Tulsa to upset Oklahoma. The Sooners are the heavy favorite, but they lost their season opener to the TCU Horned Frogs.
♦ Appalachian State at Kansas:
The Jayhawks were picked across the board.
iowa at Iowa State:
Iowa is the ranked team in this game, but Iowa State could take advantage of its home field advantage.
New Mexico at Missouri:
MISSING MEXICO AT MOISSON:
Missouri looked solid in its opener, but New Mexico is a much tougher test than Arkansas State.
★ Notre Dame at Michigan:
The Irish looked great in their opener, but the Wolverines are ranked in the top 5 and have the home field.
♦ Wake Forest at Nebraska.
Nebraska struggled to defeat
Maine in its opener. Can Wake
Forest be as competitive?
Miranda Lenning
Texas at Ohio State:
This game is looking like the best non-conference game of.
New Mexico State at Colorado:
Colorado squeaked by Colorado State last week. New Mexico State will try to hang around just as long.
the year. Both teams rolled in their openers, and the Kansan staff was split on their decision.
♦ LSU at Arizona State:
Both teams are ranked in the top 15, and LSU gave up home field at the last minute because of Hurricane Katrina. The Sun Devils' new home advantage may not be worth more than what the Tigers have to play for, though.
Wax on, wax off
Daniel Shippy, Overland Park fifth-year senior, practices his Tae Kwon Do form during George Tran's "Basic Instruction to Tae Kwon Do" class late Thursday morning in Robinson Gymnasmium. Although Shippy is in the basic instruction course he said he had been participating in Tae Kwon Do for 11 years. "I did this for fun with my girlfriend," Shippy said about the class.
Jayhawks
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4-0. They came off consecutive sweeps of Wichita State, South Florida and Ball State in last weekend's Spartan Invitational. Michigan State volleyball coach Cathy George enters her first year at East Lansing after 11 years at Western Michigan.
The Spartans will return only two starters from last year. On the surface that may sound discouraging, but Michigan State posted a 12-16 record a season ago. The team will be led by two returning seniors, libero Marley Bellwood and middle blocker Brooke Langston. Although the Spartans were picked to finish ninth in the Big 10 this year, Bechard said they might be a team to watch as the season progresses. "Michigan State is playing at a high level," he said. "They might surprise people in the big 10. They're very talented." Bechard today's slate would be trying for the Jayhawks.
"Those two matches will make for a tough Friday," he said. "Two teams of that caliber on the same day will be a challenge."
kansas will wrap up its portion of the
tournament tomorrow at 1 p.m. when it faces Temple. The Owls (3-3) are back to .500 after losing their last three matches. They were picked to win the Atlantic 10's east division this season by the league's coaches. Leading the Owls this season are sophomore outside hitter Yue Liu and senior middle blocker Zhen Jia Liu. Both garnered all-conference honors last season.
Yue Liu was named rookie of the year, and Zhen Jia Liu was a first-team performer.
Kansas solidified its lineup for the most part this season. Still, Bechard said this weekend would be helpful for contributors off the bench this season.
contributors to this tournament. Bechard said the Jayhawks would use this tournament as a chance to get ready for conference competition as well.
"We know we'll have to play well to win," he said. "Having a sustained effort for the entire match is the biggest thing for us. Some of these matches will be like Big 12 matches."
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