R / SPORTS / WEDNESDAY, APRIL 21, 2010 / THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN / KANSAN.COM
QUOTE OF THE DAY
"They asked me to shoot jumpers and I did that -- over and over and over and over and over and over again."
— LeBron James on his willingness to shoot jump shots when prodded by the Chicago bench
FACT OF THE DAY
Kirk Hinrich is averaging 40 minutes a game in two playoff games, almost seven minutes more than his season average.
Source: NBA.com
TRIVIA OF THE DAY
Q: In what playoffs did Hinrich record his highest scoring average?
A: The 2005 playoffs. He averaged 21.2 points per game in six games. He is averaging just 6.5 points per game in his two playoffs games so far.
— NBA.com
SCORES
NBA Basketball:
Atlanta 96, Milwaukee 86
Atlanta leads 2-0
Miami 77, Boston 106 Boston leads 2-0
Portland, Phoenix, late Portland leads 1-0
MLB Baseball:
Oklahoma City, LA Lakers, late Los Angeles leads 1-0
MLB Baseball:
Colorado 10, Washington 4
Millwaukee 8, Pittsburgh 1
Toronto 4, Kansas City 3
Texas 6, Boston 7
Philadelphia 3, Atlanta 4 (10)
Los Anglees (NL) 9, Cincinnati 11
New York (NL) 4, Chicago 0
Florida 5, Houston 7
Tampa Bay 1, Chicago (AL) 4
Cleveland 1, Minnesota 5
St. Louis, Arizona, late
Detroit, Los Angeles (AL), late
New York (AL), Oakland, late
San Francisco, San Diego, late
Baltimore, Seattle, late
Notre Dame QB will be wild card in draft
Picture Jimmy Clausen in a joker's hat. If there is a wild card in the first round of the draft, it is the Notre Dame quarterback.
No one disputes that Clausen will be the second quarterback selected. But no one knows where the second quarterback will go.
He could go as high as No.4 to the Redskins, though that would be a surprise. If he slips past the 49ers at 13 or 17 (they have two first-round picks), he could fall near the bottom of the first round, perhaps to the 30th spot where the Vikings could use him as a young apprentice or retirement insurance policy for Brett Favre.
McClatchy-Tribune
Dad can't vote for son's award
MORNING BREW
Dell Curry, former NBA player and current commentator for the Charlotte Bobcats' broadcasts, usually gets one vote every season for his choice of Rookie of the Year. But not this year.
Not when his own son posted 17.5 points, 5.9 assists and 4.5 rebounds in his rookie campaign and somehow managed to look good on one of the most dysfunctional teams in the league
Stephen Curry, a sharp-shooting point guard for the Golden State Warriors, is one of three front-runners for the Rookie of the Year Award.
His father Dell has been deprived of his vote for Rookie of the Year this season. The NBA claims that Dell would undoubtedly vote for his son and skew the vote.
At first glance, that seems fairly reasonable. Dell has to be proud of his son and would seemingly want nothing more than to see Stephen's hardware start piling up this year.
But who's to say that Dell won't vote for other worthy candidates such as Sacramento's Tyreke Evans or Milwaukee's Brandon Jennings?
Here are some reasons why Dell might vote elsewhere:
It wouldn't be far-fetched to say that only fellas named James, Wade and Durant can get to the hoop better than Evans.
Yeah, Jennings dropped 55 on Stephen's Warriors earlier in the season and led the Bucks to the playoffs. But have you seen Jennings' fade?
While at Davidson College,
Stephen couldn't beat eventual champion Kansas in the Elite Fight. Despite pouring in 25 points, he only shot 9-25.
BY MAX ROTHMAN
youthman@lynx.com
Dell could still be upset that he was never voted Rookie of the Year, but just Sixth Man of the Year later in his career.
There had to have been that one time when baby Steph just wouldn't stop crying in a public setting.
It would be unjust to strip a commentator of one of the few rights that he possesses. The league should allow Dell to vote for Rookie of the Year. He might look past his son's second-to-third-place season and actually vote for the deserving Evans.
MUSIC FROM THE VAULTS
In honor of all of this rookie talk, the Brew will break down five great rookie albums that have never been touched by previous Vaults (sorry Illmatic and Velvets & Nico fans).
5. Love — "Forever Changes"
A hippic copy from 1967, the summer of love, "Andmoreagain" is simply one the best tracks of the decade, but Arthur Lee's band is widely forgotten.
5. Love — "Forever Changes"
4. Talking Heads — "Talking Heads
"77"
This artistry, street-accessible debut was just the beginning of consistent excellence in unparalleled pop and funk.
No one can mirror a young and kooky
David Byrne.
3. De La Soul — "3 Feet High and Rising"
Hip-hoppers with thick-rimmed glasses instead of chains and ice ushered in "the Daisy Age." The 1989 classic sparked an alternative wave of rap and hip-hop that is still around.
2. Miles Davis — "Birth of the Cool"
The man who defined cool wasn't yet experimenting with funk or rock and roll in 1956. Instead, this is a more conventional Miles piece played at a level so supreme, it's untouchable.
1. The Jimi Hendrix Experience — "Are You Experienced?"
The world formally met the greatest guitarist that ever lived on August 1, 1967. This album was his most well-rounded and featured an astonishing mix of blues, pop and psychedelic rock. Guitar playing would never be the same.
— Edited by Katie Blankenau
CAMPUS KU lacrosse team ends season 13-0
The club lacrosse team knocked off Dana College (Blair, Neb). 17-12 and Missouri 14-9, winning the Central Plains Women's Lacrosse League in St. Louis Saturday.
Missouri pulled within one goal after 3:34 during the second half of the championship, but Kansas scored five unanswered goals during the next six minutes, opening up a 13-7 lead that it wouldn't relinquish.
This is the second consecutive title for Kansas after beating Arkansas in 2009. The Jayhawks finished this season undefeated at 13-0. Their 23-game winning streak is the longest in the nation among U.S. Lacrosse's Women's Division Intercollegiate Associate teams.
Kansas had the top five point-scorers in the South division of the league this season. Brooke Carney, a freshman from Cherry Hills Village, Colo., led the way with 30 goals this season.
Clark Goble
The KU women's lacrosse team队 takes a victory pose after defeating Missouri in the Central Plains Women's Lacrosse League in St. Louis Saturday. The Jawahires finished their season 13-0, adding to their 23-game winning streak.
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The swimming club placed in the Top 10 for combined team scores, women's team scores and men's team scores in the American Swimming Association's Collegiate National Championships this past weekend.
The club flew 29 swimmers to compete in Nationals in Atlanta, Ga. and came away with an eighth place finish of 154.5 total points.
"There was some pretty good competition there," Wilson Vip, a junior from Wichita, said. "We performed as expected for how much we practice."
The team only practices
twice a week. According to Yip, some other schools practice all week.
One of the best events for the team was the men's 400-yard relay. The men's A team placed fourth with a time of 3:47.33, and earned 14 points. In the same race, the men's B team came in eighth with a time of 3:55.88 and earned six points. This gave the men a 20-point total for this single event, which propelled them to a sixth place finish for their combined team score of 105 points.
One of the standout women's performances came from senior Jordan Keglovits. She earned a combined total of 29.5 points in five of her individual races. This does not
include the other points she helped earn in relay races. The women's team placed eighth with a total of 49.5 points.
— Nicolas Roseler
THIS WEEK IN KANSAS ATHLETICS
Baseball
vs. Missouri at
Kauffman Stadium,
Kansas City, Mo., 7 p.m.
TODAY
THURSDAY
SDAY Softball at Nebraska, 5 p.m.
Track & Field
at Drake Relays/Penn
Relays, TBA
FRIDAY
Tennis vs. Texas Tech, 2 p.m.
Baseball vs. Texas Tech, 7 p.m.
**Women's golf**
at Big 12
Championships
Norman, Okla., all day
Track & Field
at Drake Relays/Penn
Relays, TBA
Men's Golf
Men's Golf at Big 12 Championship, Trinity Texas, all day
SATURDAY
Women's soccer at Minnesota, 11:15 a.m.
Football at Spring Game, 1 p.m.
Women's soccer
vs. Iowa in Minneapolis,
Minn., 2 p.m.
Baseball vs. Texas Tech, 6 p.m.
Softball vs. Texas Tech, 6 p.m.
Women's golf at Big 12 Championships, Norman, Okla., TBA
Women's rowing at Minnesota, St. Paul, Minn. TBA
Men's golf
at Big 12
championships, Trinity,
Texas, TBA
SUNDAY
Women's tennis at Minnesota,11:15 a.m.
Softball vs. Texas Tech, 12 p.m.
Baseball vs. Texas Tech, 1 p.m.
Men's golf
at Big 12
championships, Trinity,
Texas, TBA
Women's golf at Big 12 Championships, Norman, Okla., TBA
NBA
Hawks defeat Bucks 96-86 in game two
ATLANTA — With Joe Johnson and high-flying Josh Smith leading the way, the Atlanta Hawks avoided another Game 2 letdown.
Johnson took control in the fourth quarter to finish off a 27-point effort, Smith finished one assist shy of a triple-double and the Hawks ran away from the pesky but outmanned Milwaukee Bucks for a 96-86 victory Tuesday.
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They'll head to Milwaukee on Saturday night with a commanding 2-0 lead, the first time they've won the first two in a best-of-seven series since 1970.
Associated Press
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