FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2005
SPORTS
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN 9A
ATHLETICS CALENDAR
TODAY
Vollleyball at Montana State (BYU/UVSC Challenge)
1.1 p.m., Provo, Utah
- Soccer vs. Arkansas, 5 p.m., Jayhawk Soccer Complex*
- Volleyball at BYU (BYU/UVSC Challenge), U.p., Provo, U.M.
- TOMORROW
- Cross Country Bob Timmons Invitational, 9 a.m., Rim Rock Farm
Football vs. Florida Atlantic, 6 p.m., Memorial Stadium
INTRAMURAL SCOREBOARD
FLAG FOOTBALL SCORES
Men's Competitive:
* Theta T1 chief, All-Stars (15-6)
* Sig Ep 1 def, Jeffco (20-0)
Women's:
Alpha Chi Omega def. tri DT13 (12-3)
Delta Gamma def. ADPI (20-14)
CoRec:
- Fiery Asian Pistols tied Suan Copeland (0-0)
* Rajin Cajun dens, battfan Tandell/Miller Muscle (18-6)
FOOTBALL
Further honors for junior cornerback Charles Gordon
The accolades continue for junior cornerback Charles Gordon as he was named to espn.com's preseason, first team All-American yesterday.
The list was created by Ivan Maisel for espn. com and Gordon was one of four selections from the Big 12 Conference.
Gordon led the nation last season in interceptions with seven and was a third team All-American selection after last season by The Associated Press.
Other Big 12 selections are Texas defensive tackle Rodrigue Wright, Texas A&M safety Jaxson Appel and Colorado place kicker Mason Crosby.
— Ryan Colalanni
Rangers pitcher gets first win since serving suspension
MLB
This Weekend's Games
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Kenny Rogers won and Rod Barajas homered twice and drove in four runs to lead the Texas Rangers past the Kansas City Royals 5-4 last night. Making his fifth start since serving a 13-game suspension, Rogers allowed four runs in seven innings.
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games
- Colorado State at Colorado
- TCU at Oklahoma
- Texas A&M at Clemson
- Baylor at SMU
- Florida Atlantic at Kansas
- La-Lafayette at Texas
- Notre Dame at Pittsburgh
- Boise State at Georgia
- Missouri vs. Arkansas State
- Floridat Int. at Kansas State
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Time to pick some games
O' BROTHER
KELLIIS ROBINETT AND TRAVIS ROBINETT
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Kellis: The first week of college football is upon us, and that means it's time to pick some games. I just wish we had some better opening games. Out of all these match-ups only half are debatable. The other five are just boring.
Travis: We just have to get those games out of the way for now. In the coming weeks we'll see some better match-ups. At least the chancellor is picking with us; he should make things pretty interesting.
TCU.
Travis: There's no question about that. I'm taking Texas A&M over Clemson. The Aggies are from the tougher conference, and they have senior quarterback Reggie McNeal, who's ready to lead his team to victory.
Kellis: Indeed. I'm going to start off taking Colorado State. Colorado is a slow-starting team and this rivalry game is always a good one.
Travis: Colorado is riding high after being picked to win the Big 12 North by the media. They're not going to blow it on their home field.
Kellis: I agree with that. It's going to be a lot closer than most people think, though. It's never easy to play in Death Valley.
Kellis: I've got Oklahoma beating
Travis: Texas A&M will win by at least 10 points.
Kellis: Clemson for sure covers the spread. Now here's a tough one: Baylor at SMU.
Travis: They both suck, but I'm taking Baylor for one reason only. I went to an SMU game against Louisiana Tech last year and there were only about 500 students there. The Mustangs were losing so bad that I left at halftime.
Kellis: That's funny. I'm using another SMU game to pick against Baylor. I remember Kansas walking into SMU a few years back and getting absolutely smoked. The Bears are probably the better team, but I say the Mustangs win because they'll be fired up knowing this is
their best chance at a victory.
Travis: It's Baylor's best shot too, though.
Kellis: Touché.
Travis: Next game up is Florida Atlantic at Kansas. Duh, Jayhawks win easily.
Kellis: I'd hope that's who you're taking. Here's another doozy. Louisiana-Lafayette at Texas.
Travis: Longhorns.
Kellis: By a wide margin. Let's go to a better game. Notre Dame at Pittsburgh.
Travis: I'm taking Pittsburgh, because Notre Dame has a new coach, Charlie Weis, and the Irish are on the road. It's the new coach's first game in a tough road environment, against a semi-rival. Pittsburgh isn't bad and I say the Irish go down.
Kellis: That new coach is coming off a Super Bowl victory, though. Weis hasn't been there all that long, but I'm picking him to lead Notre Dame back to respectability and leave Pittsburgh with a victory.
Travis: He won't get his players
to buy into his system that quickly.
Kellis: His players will listen to those Super Bowl rings.
Travis: I really wanted to pick Boise State in the next game, but Georgia is at home and they're from a tougher conference. I went with the bigger name team here, but Boise State could end up making a fool out of me.
Kellis: Boise State is the best of all the mid-major teams, and the Broncos will give the Bulldogs all they can handle. But I too went with Georgia because of their home-field advantage.
Travis: I wish I could pick against Missouri in its game with Arkansas State, but I can't. Maybe at a later date.
Kellis: The real question is how many people show up at Arrowhead Stadium to watch this lame match-up.
Kellis Robinett is an Austin Texas, senior in journalism. He is Kansan sports editor. Travis Robinett is an Austin, Texas, junior in journalism. He is a Kansan staff writer.
Nothing to spare
Ryan Mundziak, Overland Park, sophomore, attempts to earn a spare during his elective bowling class yesterday morning in the Kansas Union. Mundziak estimated that no bowls an average of 195, but his classmate Ira Ulrich jokingly disaged. "We're competitive," Mundziak said.
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CROSS COUNTRY
Teams start season at home
BY ANTONIO MENDOZA
amendoz@kansas.com
KANSAS SPORTSWRITER
The Kansas cross country team will officially start its season at 9 a.m. Saturday in the Bob Timmons Invitational.
The meet will take place at the Rim Farm Farm in Lawrence.
Last season, the men's team placed first out of nine schools, while the women's team placed second out of eight teams. Kansas placed six out of the top 10 players in last season's invitational. On the women's side, three runners finished in the top 10.
"As our athletes know what to expect more and prepare better, hopefully the team will place better in their meets," Kansas cross country coach Stanley Redwine said.
This year, the men will run an 8K and the women will run a 5K. This will translate into five miles for the men and over three miles for the women.
Redwine enters his sixth season with the Jayhawks. He will return 12 men and eight women runners from last year. The men look to build on a fourth place finish in the Big 12 Conference Championship last season. The women finished tenth last season in the conference championship.
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meet.
The team uses Rim Rock Farm as its primary practice facility. The Jayhawks will look to use this to their advantage in the
Junior runner Tyler Kelly said although Kansas was familiar with the territory, the hills could present challenges.
"We know where the tough spots are and know how to prepare for them in the race," senior runner Angela Pichardo said.
"Right before the four mile mark is the killer because it's so late in the race," Kelly said. "That is the make or break point for some people, just because it's real steep."
Winners of the race are determined on a point scoring system. The first four finishers for each team will be designated a certain amount of points, but the lower the score, the better. For example, if a runner came in first place overall, that runner would receive one point. If another runner for the same team finished fourth, he or she would receive four
Participating teams in the Beb Timmons Invitational:
- University of Kansas
- Allen County C.C.
- Bethany College
- Butter Country C.C.
- Cloud Country C.C.
- Coffeyville Community
- College (M)
- Garden City C.C.
- Haskell Indians Nation
- University
- Lincoln University (W)
- University of Missouri – Kansas City
- University of Missouri – Rolla
- Neosho C.C.
- Oral Roberts University
- Grinnie Collage
Source: www.kuathletics.com
points. The total will be added up and the team with the lowest score will place first, second lowest will place second, and so on.
A total of 14 schools will compete in the meet.
Women's cross country will start at 9 a.m., and the men will start at 10 a.m. The race is free to the public.
Edited by Erick R. Schmidt
NFL
Green won't play tonight in St. Louis
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Doctors have placed a stent in an artery in Trent Green's lower left leg and put the Kansas City quarterback on blood-thinners in an effort to restore full circulation.
Green, who underwent four surgeries in his left knee six years ago, will not play in tonight's exhibition game at St. Louis but does plan to be ready for the Sept. 11 season opener against the New York Jets.
It may be related to the succession of surgeries Green required after his knee injury in the 1999 preseason. But
Doctors were not able to say with certainty what caused the condition that led to numbness and lack of feeling in the leg and foot and caused him to come out of last Saturday's game against Seattle in the first quarter.
"By Wednesday, I'll be able to do everything full-go and be ready to go with no complications or problems for the opener," he said yesterday. "That was one of the things I wanted to find out."
doctors are not pointing to football contact as the cause
"That's the hard part for me is not knowing how it happened," said Green, who underwent the surgery on Tuesday. "I really haven't taken any sort of hits or uncomfortable twists or turns or anything like that that could have done it."
Anything that keeps Green on the sideline could be disastrous for the Chiefs. His backup, Todd Collins, has a hand injury and probably won't be ready by the season opener.
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