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SPORTS / THURSDAY, APRIL 15, 2010 / THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN / KANSAN.COM
QUOTE OF THE DAY
"If you're not a member of a major league baseball team, your errors, unless they are truly spectacular, probably don't show up in the morning paper."
Jane Goodsell
FACT OF THE DAY
Kansas leads the league in passed balls with 14. Nebraska is second with 12 and Texas Tech is third with 11.
Big 12 Sports
TRIVIA OF THE DAY
Q: Where does Kansas' fielding percentage (.970) rank in the Big 12?
A: Third. Oklahoma State has a .982 fielding percentage and Texas has a .980 fielding percentage.
Biq 12 Sports
SCORES
MLB Baseball:
Kansas City 7, Detroit
3 Los Angeles 5, New York 3
Boston 6, Minnesota 3
Tampa Bay 9, Baltimore 1
Milwaukee 6, Chicago 7
Pittsburgh 0, San Francisco 6
Texas 6, Cleveland 2
Washington 7, Philadelphia 14
Chicago 11, Toronto 1
Cincinnati 3, Florida 5
Houston 1, St. Louis 2
New York 5, Colorado 6
Atlanta, San Diego (late)
Oakland, Seattle (late)
Arizona, Los Angeles (late)
NBA Basketball:
Cleveland 83, Atlanta 99
Milwaukee 106, Boston 95
San Antonio 89, Dallas 96
New Orleans 123, Houston 115
New Jersey 86, Miami 94 (OT)
Detroit 103, Minnesota 98
Philadelphia 111, Orlando 125
Memphis 105, Oklahoma City 114
Indiana 97, Washington 98
New York 113, Toronto 131
Chicago 98, Charlotte 89
LA Lakers, LA Clippers (late)
Golden State, Portland (late)
Phoenix, Utah (late)
NHL Hockey:
THE HITCHKEY
Senators 5, Penguins 4
Flyers 2, Develis 1
Red Wings, Coyotes (late)
Avalanche, Sharks (late)
MORNING BREW
Pujols hits another milestone
St. Louis Cardinals first baseman Albert Pujols hit his 371st career home run Monday. It was a four-bagger with historical significance. Pujols has had more home runs through his first 10 seasons than the first 10 seasons of anyone else in Major League Baseball history.
The scary thing is that because he did it so early in his 10th season that you could say Puols has more home runs in his first nine seasons plus one week than anyone else had through 10 entire seasons.
According to Nick Scala of blogs. vgazette.com, the list looks like this before Wednesday's game:
Player, career home runs through 10 seasons, (all time home runs, all time rank)
*still active
*san active*
1. Albert Pujols 371 + (371*, 67th)
2. Eddie Mathews 370 (512, T21st)
3. Ralph Kiner 369 (369, 69th)
4. Ken Griffey Jr. 350 (630*, 5th)
5. Alex Rodriguez 345 (583*, T8th)
6. Hank Aaron 342 (755, 2nd)
7. Ernie Banks 335 (512, T21st)
8. Frank Robinson 324 (586, 7th)
9. Ted Williams 323 (521, T18th)
10. Mickey Mantle 320 (536, 16th)
BY MAX VOSBURGH
mvosburgh@kansan.com
twitter.com/MVSPort
It didn't take long before I knew the kind of Hall of Fame potential I saw in Pujols. And there's a habit some people have when you go to a baseball game and look forward to watching guys you know will be in the Hall of Fame one day. Who wouldn't want to say they saw Babe Ruth play or Tom Seaver pitch?
My sentiments were perfectly illustrated in a line from a 2009 commercial for Major League Baseball promoting Albert Pujols: "Your grandfather never misses a chance to tell you he saw Joe DiMaggio play the field. Or maybe it's your dad telling you he saw Hank Aaron go deep. Now it's your chance to tell your kids that you saw Albert Pujols do everything."
Even if you look through his first nine years and pick out the worst batting average, home run and RBI totals of his career, you'd still have a guy with a batting average of .314 (2002) and who hit 32 home runs (2007) and 103 RBIs (2007). So far, Pujols has won the National League MVP award in 2004, 2005 and 2009, made the All-Star game every year but 2002 and led his team to a World Series championship in 2006.
It was after a game in 2001, Pujols' rookie year, when I remember my dad asking me, "So how about Pujols?"
No one really asks that anymore. Every time he does something great, it's more like, "There he goes again."
Edited by Jesse Rangel
COLLEGE BASKETBALL
Knight and Gilchrist sign on with Kentucky
MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE
As recruiting analysts saw in Kentucky sent a message to college basketball on Wednesday. Two messages, actually, when arguably the best prospects in the high school junior and senior classes committed to the Cats.
The commitments declared that Kentucky's few years of wan-
Knight
ding the basketball wilderness were over. These commitments on the first day of the month-long spring signing period signaled that no matter the loss of talent, or maybe because of it in this age of so-called one and d-
Gilchrist
Kentucky could remain an elite program.
"He simply reloads," analyst Brick Oettinger of the Prep Stars service said of UK Coach John
Calipari, "by getting the same caliber players he lost."
A severe test came earner this month when, as expected, UK announced that five players, including the four freshman jewels of last year's No. 1-rated recruiting class, would enter their names in the 2010 NBA Draft.
"Momentum is huge in recruiting," Meyer said. "Everybody saw the success John Wall, DeMarcus Cousins, Eric Bledsoe and Daniel Orton had. That's very attractive to prospects."
Knight represented the fourth straight No.1 rated point guard to commit to Calipari. He expected to assume Wall's starring role. He follows Wall and Memphis' Tyreke Evans and Derrick Rose.
"He's helped them nurture their talents and get better," Knight said during his nationally televised news conference at his high school. He liked all the schools on his final list but said, "I feel I can get better at Kentucky."
While Evans and Rose both left for the NBA after one season under Calipari at Memphis and Wall looks headed that way after starring at UK as a freshman, Knight doesn't exactly fit the "one-and-done" mold.
His basketball talents aside, Knight also has a history of academic excellence and has regularly emphasized his desire to be a successful college student.
Knight has a 4.3 grade-point average at Pine Crest and his mother recently said he's on pace to graduate from high school with all As for his entire academic career.
"He is a student athlete in every sense of the word," Miami Herald reporter Fabian Lyon told ESPN last week for a story on Knight. Last month, Knight joined LeBron James and Greg Oden as only the two two-time national Gatorade Player of the Year. In the McDonald's All-American Game on March 31, Knight hit the game-winning three-pointer with just three seconds remaining.
Kanter, a 6-foot-10 center who set a record with 34 points at last week's Nike Hoop Summit, signed with Kentucky as expected earlier Wednesday.
days to replace as many as eight departing Wildcats.
He will be playing in Saturday's Jordan Brand Classic in Madison Square Garden with Terrence Jones, Josh Selby, Doron Lamb and C.J. Leslie, all uncommitted seniors with Kentucky listed among their final schools. "They can't say, 'There's too many players at Kentucky, you won't play.' Calipari said. "We're looking at possibly bringing in five or six more players in this class."
Calpari is expected to add several more players in the coming
Gilchrist's commitment gave Kentucky a giant step ahead in recruiting the high school class of 2011.
Gilchrist praised the UK fans after announcing his decision: "They have a lot of energy. It's really crazy there."
It is believed Gilchrist has wanted to play for Calipari since he was in middle school, but the timing of Wednesday's announcement was a bit of a surprise.
"I see a guy who has a significant ceiling," Scout.com's Dave Telep told the Philadelphia Inquirer. "I see a guy who has unmatched desire to win. I see a young kid that has so much more room to get better."
Gilchrist said making the announcement on April 14 had special importance. That's the birthday of his father, who died when Gilchrist was 2 years old. The UK commitment said he would No. 14 at UK in his father's honor.
"It's not for me," Gilchrist said.
"It's for him."
THIS WEEK IN KANSAS ATHLETICS
Softball
at Creighton, 3 p.m.
5 p.m.
TODAY
Track at Kansas Relays all day
FRIDAY
Women's tennis vs. Oklahoma State, 2 p.m.
Baseball at Nebraska, 6:35 p.m.
Track at Kansas Relays, all day
SATURDAY
Softball
Women's soccer vs. South Dakota State, 2 p.m.
Softball vs. Oklahoma State, 2 p.m.
Baseball at Nebraska, 4:05 p.m.
Track at Kansas Relays, all day
SUNDAY
SUNDAY
Women's tennis
vs. Oklahoma, 11 a.m.
Softball vs Oklahoma State, noon
Baseball
Baseball at Nebraska, 1:05 p.m.
WEDNESDAY Baseball
vs. Missouri at Kauffman Stadium, Kansas City, Mo., 7 p.m.
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New coach Kiffin makes moves at USC
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LOS ANGELES — Lane Kiffin has implemented a number of changes at USC since taking over as coach in January.
On Tuesday, he really switched things up _ to the delight of one player and the chagrin of two others.
James Boyd, a 6-foot-5,
250-pound redshirt freshman,
was moved from defensive end to quarterback, a position he starred at for Los Angeles Jordan High.
Junior cornerback T.J. Bryant and sophomore receiver De'Von Flournoy were clearly less enthusiastic about their situations after Kiffin stripped both of jersey No. 1.
"This is what I wanted when I came out of high school," said Boyd, who participated in only a few drills and acknowledged that it would take time to learn the playbook. "I knew the opportunity was going to come. I just didn't know when... I got it, so now it's time to run with it."
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ALPHA DELTA PI presents 5k Race for Ronald
Saturday April 17,2010
Registration at 8:15 am Race Starts at 9 am
Registration: $15 Students
$20 Adults
Raffle Prizes and free t-shirts!
Located at the South Lawrence Trafficway & Iowa Street, near the Hollywood South Wind 12 Theaters and the Holiday Inn Express
10th Annual Lawrence Earth Day Celebration
Earth Day
Saturday, April 17th
Free Admission!
(weather permitting, no rain date)
11:00 am: Parade down Massachusetts St. (7th to 11th)
Parade hosted by KU Environments
11:30- 4:00 pm: Celebration in South Park
♦ Food Vendors
- Live music
- *Informational booths*
- Butterfly garden demonstration
- Children's activities
More Earth Day activities listed at:
www.LawrenceRecycles.org
.