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QUOTE OF THE DAY
"I don't think the discus will ever attract any interest until they let us start throwing them at each other."
AI Oterer, four time Olympic champion in the discus throw
FACT OF THE DAY
Freshman thrower Mason Finley was named the Co-Male Big 12 Athlete of the Week on Tuesday.
Source: Kansas Athletics
TRIVIA OF THE DAY
Q: Where does Finley's season-best discus throw rank among the NCAA?
A: Third. He threw a season-best 59.84 meters to finish second among collegiate athletes at the Triton Invitational.
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SCORES
NBA Basketball:
Boston 96, Miami 86
Boston wins series 4-1
Cleveland 96, Chicago 94
Cleveland leads 3-1
Dallas 103, San Antonio 81
San Antonio leads 3-1
Oklahoma City, LA Lakers, late Series tied at 2-2
NHL Hockey:
Detroit 6, Phoenix 1
Series tied at 3-3
MLB Baseball:
Kansas City, Seattle
MLB Baseball:
Kansas City, Seattle
Baltimore 5, New York (AL) 4
Minnesota 2, Detroit 0
Boston 2, Toronto 1
San Diego 4, Florida 1
Tampa Bay 8, Oakland 6
Texas 4, Chicago (AL) 2
Washington 3, Chicago (NL) 1
Cincinnati 6, Houston 2
Pittsburgh 7, Milwaukee 3
St. Louis 5, Atlanta 4
Colorado 12, Arizona 1
Cleveland, Los Angeles (AL), late
Philadelphia, San Francisco, late
MORNING BREW
NHL jerseys light up Liberia
Hockey holds a different meaning in Liberia.
This poor, sub-Saharan African country is without ice and in many circles, water. There are no hockey sticks, rinks, pads or Zambonis. Most civilians know nothing about the sport at all.
But they've got jerseys.
The exchange of used clothing from North America has created an underground market in Western Africa. Liberia still suffers from the aftermath of its second civil war, which ended in 2003 and claimed 150,000 casualties. So Americans and Canadians donate their unworn or under-appreciated threads to a cause that they see on television or read in magazines. Then the giant blocks of clothing are shipped off on a boat and unloaded to coastline towns in Africa. Liberia happily rakes in the goods and hockey jerseys are its hottest commodity.
A National Post photo gallery captures the meaning of the hockey jerseys in Ganta, a small town in Liberia. One boy stops for a picture while transporting chopped watermelon on top of his head. In the picture he wears a turquoise San Jose Sharks jersey that matches his similarly colored shorts.
In another picture, a vendor sits
BY MAX ROTHMAN
mrothman@kansan.com
behind his pineapples and wears a white Toronto Maple Leafs jersey. Never mind that these long sleeved sweaters only worsen the effects of the humid tropical temperatures. Many Liberians, such as the pineapple vendor, treasure the fine materials and sleek color arrangements of these jerseys enough to disregard the heat.
In perhaps the most powerful photo of the gallery, a slight man blankly stares into the audience's eyes. The emaciated villager wears a bright red Chicago Blackhawks jersey, whose logo is an overtly racist depiction of a Native American (feathers, war-paint, etc.). The man does not know the rules of hockey, nor the implications of his jersey's logo. To him, he is simply a part of a rarity — a classy fad in a near wastedland.
Western culture has taught us to
treasure material goods such as clothing. American sports fans love nothing more than rocking their favorite team's jersey. But for a sport that sits far from the forefront of our nation's attention, hockey's merchandise often means something else. Our ability to distance ourselves from an already produced jersey provides someone in Liberia with possibly the finest article of clothing of his or her life.
Don't allow that old jersey to grow gray hairs in your closet. Instead, donate it and illuminate the pineapple vendor. If it's a good enough stitch, he won't mind the heat.
Edited by Taylor Bern
CAMPUS
BY NICOLAS ROESLER
The KU men's ultimate frisbee team, The Horror-Zontals, will be traveling to Austin, Texas, this weekend for the Ultimate Players Association South Regionals Championship.
The HorrorZontals are
entering the weekend's competition as a number two seed after placing in Sectionals April 3rd and 4th
Their first game will be Saturday at 9 a.m., and the championship game will be Sunday at noon.
Notable competitors in the HorrorZontals bracket include Missouri
and Arkansas, whom the 'Zontals could face in the third round. The 'Zontals defeated both teams earlier this season.
Edited by Kate Larrabee
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Red Sox run win streak to five
It was Boston's fifth straight victory in Toronto, and their fifth consecutive one-run game. The Red Sox are 4-1 in those games.
One night after the teams combined for 25 runs and 34 hits in battering 13 pitchers, starters Buchholz and Shaun Marcum gave the bollpens a break.
TORONTO — Clay Buchholz pitched eight strong innings, pinch-hitter Mike Lowell drove in the go-ahead run with a bases loaded walk and the Boston Red Sox beat the Toronto Blue Jays 2-1 Tuesday night.
lowered his ERA to 2.19.
Buchholz (2-2) allowed one run and seven hits to win for the first time in three starts. He walked two, struck out four and
With closer Jonathan Papelbon getting a day off after working in three of the past four games, right-hander Ramon Ramirez worked the ninth for his first save.
MLB
Marcum allowed one run and four hits in seven innings and has four no-decisions in five starts this season. He walked three and struck out five.
Scott Downs (0-3) replaced Marcum in the eighth inning and struck out the first batter, then gave up consecutive singles to Dustin Pedroia and Victor Martinez. Pedroia took third when Kevin Youkills flied to right and Downs left after walking J.D. Drew to load the bases. Kevin Gregg came on to face Lowell, who batted for
David Ortiz, and walked him on four pitches, his first walk this season. Adrian Beltran ended the rally with a liner back to the mound.
Boston tied it with a two-out rally in the second. Ortiz walked, went to second on Beltre's single and scored on a base hit by Jeremy Hermida.
Toronto opened the scoring in the first when Fred Lewis singled, took second on a grounder and scored on a two-out double by Vernon Wells.
Toronto put runners at first and second with two outs in the fourth and fifth but failed to score each time.
Drew doubled to begin the seventh and Beltre drew a one-out walk but Marcum fanned Hermida and got Darnell McDonald to pop out.
Wells reached second on Beltre's throwing error in the eighth but Lyle Overbay struck out looking and Alex Gonzalez flied out.
MLB
Burrell buries A's; Rays own best record
ASSOCIATED PRESS
THIS WEEK IN KANSAS ATHLETICS
Burrell's three-run homer off Ben Sheets (1-2) snapped a 4-4 tie in the third inning. Brignac's solo shot leading off the bottom of the fourth gave right-hander Wade Dawson (2-1) an 8-4 lead.
Softball
vs. Wichita State, 5,
p.m, 7 p.m.
The AL East leaders improved baseball's best record to 15-5. The victory total equals the number they had in the opening month two years ago, when they made a surprising run to the World Series.
TODAY
Tennis at Big 12 Championships, all day
The Rays have won 12 of 14 and are off to the best start in the team's 13-season history. Nevertheless, attendance for the opener of a two-game series against another first place team drew an announced crowd of 10,825 to Tropicana Field.
THURSDAY
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Pat Burrell and Reid Brignate homered Tuesday night, helping the Tampa Bay Rays match a club record for wins in April with an 8-6 victory over the Oakland Athletics.
Davis weathered a shaky five innings to win his second straight decision.
FRIDAY
Track
at Arkansas Twilight,
Fayetteville, Ark., all day
Baseball
at Oklahoma State,
6:30 p.m.
Tennis at Big 12 Championships, all day
SATURDAY
Baseball at Oklahoma State, 2 p.m.
Softball at Oklahoma, 2 p.m.
Tennis at Big 12 Championships, all day
Rowing
at Big 12 Championships,
Oklahoma City, Okla., TBA
SUNDAY
Softball at Oklahoma, 12 p.m.
Baseball at Oklahoma State, 1 p.m.
ennis
at Big 12 Championships,
all day
MLB
Twins dizzy Detroit, win 2-0 with Liriano
Liriano (3-0) struck out 10 and gave up the first of four hits in the fifth and walked only one. Jon Rauch closed the game for his seventh save.
Justin Verlander (1-2) gave up an unearned run and struck out a season-high seven over five 2-3 innings.
Left fielder Ryan Raburn dropped what would've been the third out of the sixth to let Jim Thome score from first after he walked. Second baseman Scott Sizemore made a wide throw on what should've been the final out of the seventh, allowing Michael Cuddyer to score.
Minnesota played the Tigers for the first time since beating them in the 163rd game last year.
DETROIT — Francisco Liriano pitched eight scoreless innings, leading the Minnesota Twins to a 2-0 win over the Detroit Tigers Tuesday.
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