SPORTS / TUESDAY, MAY 4, 2010 / THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN / KANSAN.COM
QUOTE OF THE DAY
- Elvis Presley
"Man, I really like Vegas."
FACT OF THE DAY
The men's basketball team will play in the Las Vegas invite on November 26-27 against Ohio University and Arizona.
TRIVIA OF THE DAY
Q: When was the last time Kansas played in a tournament in Las Vegas?
A: 2006 Kansas beat Ball State in the semifinals and knocked off No.1 Florida in the championship game 82-80 in overtime.
-Kansas Athletics
SCORES
NBA PLAYOFFS:
Boston 104, Cleveland 86
Series tied 1-1
San Antonio, Phoenix, late Series tied 0-0
NHL PLAYOFFS:
Philadelphia 2, Boston 3
Boston leads 2-0
Vancouver 2, Chicago 4
Series tied 1-1
MLB BASEBALL:
Kansas City 1, Chicago Sox 5
Toronto 5, Cleveland 1
Baltimore 1, NY Yankees 4
St. Louis 6, Philadelphia 3
LA Angels 8, Boston 17
NY Mets 2, Cincinnati 3
Arizona 9, Houston 1
Detroit 4, Minnesota 10
Texas, Oakland late
Colorado, San Diego, late
MLB
Twins get to Tigers' starter Scherzer
MINNEAPOLIS — Wilson Ramos had another three hits in Joe Mauer's place and Michael Cuddyer added a three-run homer to lead the Minnesota Twins to a 10-4 victory over Detroit on Monday night, snapping the Tigers' five-game winning streak.
Ramos had two doubles and an RBI and Scott Baker (3-2) allowed three runs on seven hits with six strikeouts in seven innings for the Twins.
Detroit starter Max Scherzer (1-2) gave up 10 runs on eight hits with four walks in 41-3 innings in his second straight poor outing against the Twins. This time, his offense couldn't bail him out.
Austin Jackson had three nts to raise his average to. 377, but the Twins were up 7-0 after two innings against Scherzer, who has given up 18 hits and 16 runs in his last two starts against Minnesota.
Associated Press
Crawford makes awful calls
MORNING BREW
Calling a referee blind is a classic case of sports talk drifting into the realm of hyperbole — usually. But every once in a while, a call is made that is so unbelievable, so atrocious, that you can't help but wonder: Is it possible that he is actually blind?
Joey Crawford's latest controversial whistle invites such a question.
The Phoenix Suns were attempting to finish off the Portland Trail Blazers at home on Thursday, and had a 65-58 lead with just under five and half minutes to go in the third quarter. Steve Nash dribbled the ball casually, then proceeded to flip a one handed pass to Amare Stoudemire.
Then, to the surprise of everyone in the building, a whistle sounded. At first, it appeared as if Blazers star, Brandon Roy, was the guilty party. He had actually been near a Suns player, after all. But no, Roy was innocent.
Marcus Camby committed the foul, Joey Crawford proclaimed — Camby's fourth. Now Camby may have actually come in contact with Grant Hill, the man who set the screen to free up Stoudemire. Maybe, the contact, if it occurred at all, was as innocent as could be, but at least it may have occurred. Had Crawford thus sent Hill to the line, this call could be filed away as merely awful.
But "awful" doesn't even begin to do this call justice, because Crawford didn't
BY ALEX BEECHER abeecher@kansan.com
anont Hill the foul shooter. Instead, he pointed to Nash, and declared that he had been fouled. Clearly, this surprised Nash as much as anyone. Not only had Camby not fouled Nash, he hadn't even touched him. Lanky as Camby is, even he couldn't manage to foul a player from more than ten feet away.
Nash, consistently one of the NBA's best four shooters, knocked down both free throws. And never before has the word "free" been more appropriate a term. Nash has never had to do less to — ahem, excuse me — "earn" a trip to the stripe.
So we, the viewing public, are left with several options as to why Crawford made the call. Maybe he simply mixed up Hill and Nash. But there's about a five inch difference in the two men's height, and they happen to be of different ethnicies — so that's probably out. Perhaps Camby possesses latent telekinetic abilities, enabling him to foul Nash with his
mind. I think we can write that explanation off too.
That leaves us with two possibilities:
A) Crawford whistled Camby for a foul out of malice or some personal grudge; or B) Crawford is in fact blind, and just makes calls at random.
Given Crawford's history of questionable technical fouls — most notably involving Tim Duncan, during the Spurs vs. Mavricks game April 15 — option A appears sady viable. But there is hope still, hope that Crawford's mistake was just that — whether he's actually blind or just occasionally clueless.
To see the play in question, and decide for yourself, search "The Worst Foul Ever" on YouTube. As crazy as it sounds, that title may not be harpyulous.
— Edited by Kristen Liszewski
THIS WEEK IN KANSAS ATHLETICS
TODAY
DAY No events scheduled
WEDNESDAY
Softball
at Drake, Des Moines,
Iowa. 4 p.m., 6 p.m.
FRIDAY
THURSDAY
No events scheduled
SATURDAY
Baseball vs. Missouri, 7 p.m.
Softball vs. Iowa State, 2 p.m.
Baseball vs. Missouri, 6 p.m.
SUNDAY
Softball vs. Iowa State, noon
Baseball vs. Missouri, 1 p.m.
MLB
Peavy impressive in White Sox' win
Peavy (1-2)
struck out a season-high nine batters using a sharp
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Peavy struck out a season high nine batters using a sharp fastball, and did not allow a hit until Mitch Maier singled with two outs in the fifth.
and two RBIs for the White Sox, who began a seven-game homestand after finishing a 2-4 road trip Sunday.
Scott Podsednik homered against his former team in the ninth inning inoff reliever Scott
Ramirez hit a solo home run and Andruw Jones had two hits
fastball and left to a standing ovation in the eighth inning. He didn't allow a hit until Mitch Maier singled with two outs in the fifth.
Peavy didn't surrender another hit until Alberto Callaspo singled and Jason Kendall doubled with two outs in the seventh. Peavy finished the inning by getting Maier to hit a soft liner to short-stop Alexei Ramirez with runners on second and third.
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Peavy, who only allowed four hits, was acquired in a deadline deal on July 31, 2009, despite being on the disabled list. He was 0-2 with a 7.85 ERA in five starts in April and went winless in a full month for the first time since June of 2006 (0-3, 5.28 ERA). He lowered his ERA to 6.31.
a run since the 11th inning of
saturday's 4-2 victory.
Royals starter Gil Meche (0-3) allowed five runs on nine hits in five innings — but his ERA actually lowered from 10.13 to 9.89.
Peavy gave up five runs in the first inning of Wednesday's 6-5 loss at Texas, although he recovered to retire 16 of 18 during one stretch. Peavy, who also lost his previous outing to Tampa Bay, has not dropped three straight starts since July 2007.
Ramirez homered on a 2-1 pitch in the third inning for his second of the season. One out later, Pierre reached on an infield single and stole second. Pierre then scored from second on Jones' single.
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Rondo, Celtics beat Cavs, 104-86
NBA
CLEVELAND - The window hasn't closed on the Boston Celtics. It's still wide open.
Boston, though, closed with an 11-3 spurt.
Rajon Rondo tied a team playoff record with 19 assists, Ray Allen scored 22 points and the Celtics, showing they're still very dangerous despite their years, opened a 25-point lead in the fourth and then survived Cleveland's comeback for a 104-86 win on Monday night to even their semifinal series at 1-1.
After blowing an 11-point lead in the third quarter of Game 1, the Celtics almost squandered a much bigger one. They led 91-66 with 9:08 left, but the Cavs scored 15 straight and pulled within 93-83 on LeBron James' basket with 3:13 left.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
James scored 24 and Antawn
The Celtics seemed in control with their 25-point bulge, but they got complacent and found themselves having to scramble down the stretch when they could have been resting up.
But leading 93-83, Boston regrouped. Rondo and Allen scored, then Kevin Garnett completed a three-point play to make it 100-84, allowing Celtics coach Doc Rivers to finally relax after watching his club play inspired ball most of the way before letting up.
"We were playing the clock instead of the game and got stagnant." Rondo said.
Garnett finished with 18 points and 10 rebounds, and Paul Pierce scored 14.
jamison 16 for Cleveland, out-scored 31-12 in the third.
Game 3 is Friday night in Boston.
Rasheed Wallace, called out
Up by four at halftime, the Celtics wasted no time pushing their lead to double digits in the third.
Two years removed from their 17th NBA title, the Celtics were given little chance of getting past James and the top-seeded Cavs. Despite beating Miami in the first round, Boston was thought to be too old, too slow and too reliant on the aging Big Three of Allen, Garnett and Pierce.
MLB
But the trio combined for 54 points with Rondo, the Celtics' jitterbugging point guard, setting them up with passes from impossible angles. Rondo matched the clubs postseason record for assists set by Hall of Famer Bob Cousy.
by Rivers after a lousy opener, added 17 points off the bench as the Celtics stripped the Cavaliers of home-court advantage in the series and gave them four days to think about went wrong.
Houston's losing streak at 7 with 9-1 loss to Arizona
Astros slump again
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Chris Young had three hits and drove in three runs for the Diamondbacks, who snapped a three-game skid and sent Houston to its seventh straight defeat.
HOUSTON — Cesar Valdez won his major league debut and Chris Snyder hit a three-run homer, leading the Arizona Diamondbacks to a 9-1 victory over the slumping Houston Astros on Monday night.
Valdez (1-0) was called up from Triple-A Reno on Monday and allowed one run in five innings. He gave up five hits and walked three.
Snyder's two-out shot in the fourth landed near the back of the Crawford Boxes in left field and gave Arizona a 4-1 lead.
Houston starter Felipe Paulino
Houston started the season 0-8.
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The punchless Astros have scored more than two runs only once during their current losing streak. The team started the season 0-8.
He didn't get much help from his offense. The punchless Astros have scored more than two runs only once during their current losing streak.
hitting to screen the lead off Cory Sullivan singled off Valdez with two outs in the third before the rookie retired seven of the next eight batters. He was up to 100 pitches by then and
inning to stretch the lead to 9-1.
(0-4) yielded five hits and four runs in six innings.
was replaced by Esmerling Vasquez for the sixth.
Vasquez gave up one hit in two scoreless innings.
a nifty leaping catch by Michael Bourn. The speedy center fielder chased down the ball and jumped to snag it before crashing back first into the wall of the bullpen.
Valdez got off to a rocky start, walking Bourn before
he scored on a double by Carlos Lee with one out in the first. Valdez walked Lance Berkman but got out of the inning when Pedro Feliz grounded into a double play.
A double by LaRoche drove in the last of three runs in the eighth
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