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KANSAN.COM / THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN / FRIDAY, APRIL 2, 2010 / SPORTS
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QUOTE OF THE DAY
"Have you ever thrown a ball 100 miles an hour? Everything hurts. Even your ass hurts. I see pictures of my face and say, 'Holy shit,' but that's the strain you feel when you throw."
Bob Gibson
FACT OF THE DAY
Source: Kansas Athletics
Don Czyz is the career leader in appearances for the baseball team with 128. He is currently pitching in the Florida Marlins' farm system.
TRIVIA OF THE DAY
Q: Which of the following isn't a team Czyz has played for in his three years in the minors: the Jamestown Jammers, the Tallahassee Tropics or the Greensboro Grasshoppers?
SCORES
A: The Tallahassee Tropics. He spent one year with the Jammers before advancing to the Grasshoppers.
NBA Basketball:
Orlando 97, Dallas 82
Portland, Denver late
NHL Hockey:
Carolina 2, Boston 1
Philadelphia 4, NY Islanders 6
Buffalo 6, Toronto 2
Atlanta 1, Washington 2
Columbus 2, Detroit 3
Carolina 3, Ottawa 4
St. Louis 2, Nashville 3
Vancouver, Los Angeles late
CAMPUS
Wednesday the Alpha Kappa Lambda Knights of Mars defeated Ginger Bear and da Old Ballz 8-7. With the win, AKL has a 2-0 record in men's rec softball.
BY KATHLEEN GIER kgier@kansan.com
AKL jumped to an early 5-0 lead before Ginger Bear and da Old Ballz tied the game at 6-6 in the top of the seventh innings. Brad Winslow, an AKL freshman from Overland Park, batted in the game-winning run.
"It is always good to win, and I am just glad I could come through for my boys out here," Winslow said.
Stewart Alloway, an AKL junior from Overland Park, helped to start the group in 2007 and helped made the decision to play softball this season.
"We came in thinking we wouldn't win anything." Alloway said. "This is our first time ever doing it, but we are having a blast."
The AKL Knights of Mars return to the field April 7 at 7 p.m.
—Edited by Kelly Gibson
Taylor featured in PBS film
MORNING BREW
Tyshawn Taylor was just as frustrating to watch in high school as he is now.
The documentary "The Street Stops Here", shown on PBS Wednesday night, proves this without a doubt. Director Kevin Shaw tries to explain the aura of St. Anthony's High School (N.J.) basketball, a program whose overall high school basketball dominance rivals the Yankees.
"The Street Stops Here" documents St. Anthony's 2007-2008 season, one in which the expectations rivaled this year's lajahwacks, Taylor and his five other Division 1-bound teammates were expected to not just win the state championship, but also the figurative high school national championship.
As part of an undefeated St. Anthony's team that won a state championship and an unofficial national championship in 2008, Taylor was possibly the team's most talented player.
But in all honesty, Taylor is the reason Jayhawk fans would watch the documentary. His roller coaster season was well documented, but one thing remains clear: Taylor is superbly talented, and also supremely frustrating.
Shaw does an admirable job capturing the essence of St. Anthony's hoops. Head coach Bob Hurley currently makes just $6,500 a year for coaching despite winning 25 state championships and coaching three NCAA All-Americans.
The good? When Taylor dislocates his finger towards the end of St. Anthony's season, Hurley rightly frets. After the first game without Taylor in the lineup, Hurley
Talk about getting your money's worth.
BY CLARK GOBLE
cgoble@kansan.com
asks his team if anyone can fill Taylor's role. Hurley admits it will be tough to accomplish the team's goals without Taylor.
The bad? On the day before the state semifinals against rival St. Patrick's and former Jayhawk Quintrell Thomas, Hurley ends the practice kicking a couple players out for laughing. After a brief rallying speech, Hurley dismisses the rest of the team.
Taylor is the last to file out of the gymnasium and receives a lashing from Hurley.
"Tyshawn [expletive] Cruising Taylor!" There are more reasons to watch the documentary than Taylor. St. Anthony's games against Tyreke Evans' and Lance Stephenson's respective teams are particularly entertaining. The recounting of the time St. Anthony's knocked off Kobe Bryant's high school team is old school basketball bliss.
The documentary also explains the financial struggles of St. Anthony's. Despite several attempts to raise funds, the school finds itself in a $130,000 deficit after the 2007-2008 school year.
Taylor is the hook. Watching him interacting with teammates, trying his hand at announcing at the Basketball Hall of Fame and calming down a hothead teammate is reason enough to spend an hour and a half on the documentary.
The tale of St. Anthony's basketball is just gravy.
The documentary will be replay on PBS for at least a couple of weeks, so use your DVRs to record it.
And try to remain composed when Taylor screws up.
FRIDAY YOUTUBE SESH
St. Anthony's beat Kobe Bryant's Lower Merion (Penn.) team by 15, but that doesn't mean Bryant wasn't impressive.
Looking for more highlights, I headed to YouTube.
Search "Kobe Bryant High School" and enjoy the dunk and block montage.
Edited by Cory Bunting
MEN'S BASKETBALL
Collins named to All-American team
Senior guard Sherron Collins was selected as one of the 10 members of the John R.
Wooden
Award All-
American
team,
the Los
Angeles
Athletic
Club
announced
announced Thursday.
Collins
Collins scored 15.5 points per game and led Kansas to a 33-3 record, clinching Big 12 regular season and tournament titles in the process.The top-seeded Jayhawks lost to Northern Iowa in the second round of the NCAA tournament.
"There are a lot of great players in college basketball and to be named to this team is a great honor," Collins said in a press release. "I have to give credit to my teammates and coaches. Without them there is no way I would have done this. We had a great season that ended on a sour note, but I am very proud of our accomplishments."
Collins is the first Wooden Award All-American from Kansas since Brandon Rush in 2007 and 2008.The last Jayhawk to be a finalist for the award was Wayne Simien in 2005 and assistant coach Danny Manning won the Wooden Award in 1988.
College basketball experts and members of the media filled out ballots during the
MEN'S 2010 JOHN R.
WOODEN AWARD
ALL-AMERICAN TEAM
Name, school (Ht., Class, Position)
James Anderson, Oklahoma
State (6-6, Jr., G)
Da'Sean Butler, West Virginia
Sherron Collins, Kansas
(5-11, Sr., G)
DeMarcus Cousins, Kentucky (6-11, Fr., F)
Wesley Johnson, Syracuse (6-7 Ir F)
(6-7, Jr., F)
Scottie Reynolds, Villanova (6-2, Jr., G)
Jon Scheyer, Duke
(6-5 Sr G)
(6-5, Sr., G)
Evan Turner, Ohio State
Greivis Vasquez, Maryland
(6-7, Jr., G/F)
John Wall, Kentucky (6-4. Fr. G)
(6-6, Sr., G)
past three weeks, covering performances throughout the season up until the Elite Eight. The voters were asked to judge character as well on-court performance. All recipients had to maintain at least a 2.0 GPA.
Collins will be in Indianapolis today to attend several awards banquets, including the Naismith Trophy, of which he's one of four finalists.
— Corey Thibodeaux
Kickin'it
Jerry Wanq/KANSAN
Alex Godfrey, left, a sophomore from Kansas City, attempts to keep possession of the ball from Garrett Schmidt, a Lenexa junior, during a game of intramural soccer Thursday. Godfrey's team, the Roadhouse, was forced to forfeit against Schmidt's team, the JC Angels, because one of the three girls required to be on the team did not bring a KUID. Teammate Tom Li, a sophomore from Changchun, China, said the team was learning from its mistakes and was "ready for the work up."
THIS WEEK IN KANSAS ATHLETICS
Softball vs. Texas, 4 p.m.
TODAY
Baseball vs. Texas A&M, 6 p.m.
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Women's Golf at University of Mississippi, all day
Track & Field at Texas Relays, Austin, Texas, all day
Baseball vs. Texas A&M, 11 a.m.
SATURDAY
Women's Golf at University of Mississippi, all day
Softball vs. Texas, noon
Rowing
at Kansas Cup, Kansas
City, Kan, TBA
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Track & Field at Texas Relays, Austin, Texas, all day
Soccer at Arkansas, TBA
SUNDAY
Women's Golf at University of Mississippi, all day
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MONDAY
Men's Golf
at Diet Pepsi Shocker
Classic, Wichita, all day
TUESDAY
Men's Golf
at Diet Pepsi Shocker
Classic, Wichita, all day
WEDNESDAY
at Missouri, 4 p.m., 6 p.m.
at Creighton, Omaha, Neb., 6 p.m.
Baseball
MLB
SURPRISE, Ariz. — Gerardo Parra hit a two-run homer, Edwin Jackson pitched effectively into the sixth inning in his final spring tuneup and an Arizona Diamond-backs split-squad beat the Kansas City Royals 4-3 Thursday.
Royals lose 4-3 to Diamondbacks
Jackson threw 96 pitches - 52 for strikes - in five 2-3 innings, giving up three runs on five hits and four walks.
Mike Aviles doubled and scored on Yuniesky Betancourt's triple with two outs in the fourth for Kansas City's first run.
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