KANSAN.COM / THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN / FRIDAY, APRIL 30, 2010 / SPORTS
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QUOTE OF THE DAY
"I don't know.I don't want to do it but if my coach decides I'm dominant (over the 100m and 200m) and let's try something new,I'll definitely try to put my heart into it."
--- sprinter Usain Bolt on trying the long jump
FACT OF THE DAY
Source: Kansas Athletics
The Jayhawks have eight athletes and one relay team currently ranked in the top 48 in the nation.
TRIVIA OF THE DAY
Q: Where does the men's track and field team rank in the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association Division I national team rankings?
A: No. 23. It is Kansas' best showing so far in the 2010 outdoor season.
Kansas Athletics
NBA PLAYOFFS:
Dallas 87, San Antonio 97
SCORES
Phoenix, Portland, late
Phoenix leads 3-2
NHL PLAYOFFS:
Detroit, San Jose, late
Detroit leads 0-0
MLB:
Kansas City 1, Tampa Bay 11
Detroit 3, Minnesota 0
Detroit 4,
Atlanta 4, St. Louis 10
Chicago Sox 7, Texas 5
Arizona 13, Chicago Cubs 5
NY Yankees 4, Baltimore 0
Oakland 3, Toronto 6
Cincinnati 4, Houston 2
MEN'S BASKETBALL
Josh Selby is Rivals' new top prospect
BY COREY THIBODEAUX
cthibodeaux@kansan.com
Kansas men's basketball recruit Josh Selby is now the top prospect in Rivals.com's Rivals 150 class of 2010 rankings.
His display in the Jordan Brand Classic was enough to set him apart from the noks.
from the pack.
"I just think he shows the complete package." Shay Wildeboor from Rivals.com said. "Playing point guard, you have to do
Selby
more than just score. If anyone who saw him play in that game, you saw behind-the-back, no-look passes. He's almost unguardable. If he wants to get to the basket, he'll get there."
Wildeboor said Kentucky signee Brandon Knight, who previously held the top spot and is now sixth, didn't do anything wrong. The other players have just been improving.
The top five consists of Selby, Harrison Barnes (committed to North Carolina), Enes Kanter (Kentucky), Kyrie Irving (Duke) and Jared Sullinger (Ohio State).
"If I'm starting a team, I want Josh Selby," Wildeboor said. "But you couldn't go wrong with Harrison Barnes either."
Edited by Cory Bunting
Nielsen math comes up short
MORNING BREW
Sports owes a lot to mathematics. Counting the number of bench reps by an athlete at the combine approximates his strength. Simple arithmetic allows us to calculate how many strikeouts a pitcher has per nine innings. Mathematics and statistics allow us to quantify the excellence we see on the diamond, the hardwood or the ice rink.
But it appears that The Nielsen Company got it all wrong.
See, the company released a study that says the Cleveland Indians — yes, the Cleveland Indians — are the most hated team in baseball. The Indians are in the Royals' division, haven't won a World Series since 1948 and rank 24th in the MLB in payroll for the 2010 season.
The Nielsen formula helped determine whether online consumers have positive, negative or neutral reactions to brands in their online messages.
If you somehow quantified all the hate from baseball fans in this country toward particular ballclubs, I can guarantee you two things.
One: So many people would forget the Indians that they wouldn't crack the top five most hated.
Two: The New York Yankees would finish first.
I realize that New York has a national fanbase filled with bandwagon-jumpers and former New York residents. If the study was done in the East Coast, the Yankee-Red Sox feud would bring about the most combined hate, but it would be split between the clubs and the Yankees
BY CLARK GOBLE
cgoble@kansan.com
twitter.com/clarkgobble
might not finish first.
But a national poll that places the Cleveland Indians at the top of the most-hated teams list and the Yankees fourth shouldn't carry much weight.
The Yankees pay their 25-player roster $145,129,422 more than the Indians. The Chicago Cubs, the team with the third-highest payroll behind Boston and New York, spent a total of $146,859,000.
Simply, the difference between New York's payroll and Cleveland's payroll is approximately the Chicago Cubs.
And this is where mathematics fails. There is no real way to quantify the hate of the Bronx Bombers from small-market baseball fans. The Brew didn't have the time to conduct extensive research, but if you ask the fans of the bottom 10 teams in payroll which team they hate the most, I bet a majority answer "The Yankees." If you ask those same fans about their feelings for the Cleveland Indians, I bet you get more references to "Major League" than that.
They sit in second in the top-heavy AL East. They won the World Series last year.
Are the Yankees good? Absolutely.
But that only adds to the hate.
but that only adds to the hate.
An Indians blogger told the Wall Street Journal that he could believe the Indians' ranking because the team alienates its fans. Cleveland can alienate its fans as much it wants; the Yankees do enough alienating by spending $50 million more than any other team.
FRIDAY YOUTUBE SESH
It appears that the math has failed.
I am not a bald, middle-aged St. Louis Cardinals fan.
But this guy's rant after the Yankees won the World Series speaks for small-market baseball fans everywhere.
Search "Why I Hate the New York Yankees" on YouTube and relate to this guy's frustration.
Edited by Cory Bunting
THIS WEEK IN KANSAS ATHLETICS
TODAY
Baseball
at Oklahoma State,
6:30 p.m.
Tennis at Big 12 Championships, all day
Track
at Arkansas Twilight,
Fayetteville, Ark., all day
KDAY Baseball at Oklahoma State, 2 p.m.
SATURDAY
TENNIS
Softball at Oklahoma, 2 p.m.
Tennis at Big 12 Championships, all day
straight loss, beating the Braves 10-4 Thursday.
The Braves wrapped up an 0-7 road trip, their first winless swing of seven or more games since September 1949 when the franchise was located in Boston
Rowing
at Big 12 Championships,
Oklahoma City, Okla., TBA
ST. LOUIS — Rookie David Freese homered, doubled and drove in six runs as the St. Louis Cardinals sent Atlanta to its ninth
MLB
Cardinals win 10-4 and sweep Atlanta
SUNDAY
Softball at Oklahoma, 12 p.m.
Baseball at Oklahoma State, 1 p.m.
Kansas falls to Oklahoma, 4-0
KATHLEEN GIER
kgier@kansan.com
RESULTS
The Kansas tennis team ended its season with a 4-0 loss to No. 39 Oklahoma in the first round of the Big 12 Championship tournament, Kansas entered the game as the No. 12 seed against No. 5 Oklahoma.
No.5 Oklahoma 4,
No.12 Kansas 0
—Edited by Kelly Gibson
2. Eckel/Kalashnikova (OU)
def. Dorn/Lazarevic (KU). 8-4
3. Radan/Huet (OU) def. Martinez/Khanevskaya (KU), 8-2
The Jayhawks end their season 9-14 and 1-11 in conference play.
The layhawks started additional matches but did not complete them because the Sooners had already clinched the decision winning the best of seven. Of the completed matches, senior Kuni Dorn and freshman Sara Lazarevic lost 8-4 and junior Maria Martinez and freshman Vika Khanevskaya lost 8-2 in doubles. In singles, Lazarevic, Martinez and Khanevskaya all lost in straight sets.
DOUBLES
SINGLES
1. Constanienus/tSert-svadze (OU) def. Morozova/ Wilbert (KU), 6-3 (DNF)
5. Kristina Radan (OU) vs.
Erin Wilbert (KU), 7-6, 2-0 (DNF)
6. Tara Eckel (OU) def. Victoria Khanevskaya (KU), 6-0, 6-3
2. Marie-Pier Huet (OU) det.
Sara Lazarevic (KU), 6-1, 6-1
1. Ana Marie Constantinescu (OU) vs. Ekaterina Morozova (KU). 6-3, 5-4 (DNF)
4. Maria Kalashnikova (OU)
vs. Kunigunda Dorn (KU), 6-2,
3-2 (DNF)
3. Teona Tsertsvadze (OU)
def. Maria Martinez (KU), 6-4,
6-0
and went 0-8 in Philadelphia and Brooklyn.
Adam Wainwright (4-1) worked six solid innings as the Cardinals completed a four-game sweep.
Associated Press
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