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"She seemed pretty sweet to me until this went down. It was like she's a totally different person." Marcus Dixon, Georgia high school football star and former Vanberbilt recruit, on the 15-year-old girl who accused him of participating in illegal sexual actions with her. Dixon's conviction was overturned this week.
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CORRECTION
Friday's issue of The University Daily Kansan contained an error. In a cutline, the name of former Kansas track runner Charlie Gruber was misspelled.
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Kansas athletics calendar
TOMORROW
Women's Golf at NCAA Regionals, Normal, III.
FRIDAY
Baseball at Texas, 2 p.m., Austin, Texas
Softball vs. Iowa state, 2 p.m., Arrocha Ballpark
Women's Golf at NCAA Regionals, Normal, Ill
Basselst at Texas, C.30 p.m., Austin, Texas
Women's Golf at NCAA Regional, Normal, Ill.
SUNDAY
SATURDAY
Baseball at Texas, 1 p.m., Austin, Texas
Royals rack up another loss as Blue Jays win at home
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TORONTO — The Toronto Blue Jays won at home for just the second time this season, beating the Kansas City Royals 5-4 last night behind a shaky Pat Hentgen and a strong bullpen.
Hentgen (1-2) nearly squandered a 5-0 lead, allowing four runs and six hits in five innings.
Micheal Nakarnura followed with three perfect innings, and Jason Frasor finished with a one-hit ninth for his first major league save.
Darrell May (0-4), who missed his previous scheduled start because of a strained left groin, allowed five runs and seven hits in seven innings. He has lost five straight decisions.
Toronto took a 4-0 lead in the second on Chris Gomez's two-run single, Reed Johnson's RBI double and Frank Catalanotto's sacrifice fly. Johnson homeered off May in the fourth.
Kansas City closed in the fifth on Desi Relaford's RBI double, Angel Berroa's two-run double and Joe Randa's runscoring single.
Johnson ended a 0-for-11 slump with his double in the second and went 2-for4.
Toronto acquired Canadian minor league INF Stubby Clapp from the Cleveland Indians for a player to be named.
Balancing act
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Aaron Wiens, Buhler junior, struggled to keep his balance as his sparring partner Mike Bauer, North Barrington, Ill., senior tried a throw. Wiens and Bauer worked on their moves in their Judo class yesterday in the Robinson Center. The class also practiced their choke holds, arm locks and pins.
St. Louis squeezes by Philly in eighth
The Associated Press
With the bases loaded and two outs in the ninth, closer Jason Isringhausen struck out Pat Burrell swinging at a high fastball.
PHILADELPHIA — Mike Matheny saved St. Louis with a super play behind the plate, and the Cardinals held off the Philadelphia Phillies 6-5 last night.
The ball deflected off Matheny's glove, but the two-time Gold Glove winner chased it down. With no play at the plate, he fired a long throw to first, getting Burrell by a half-step and preserving the victory.
Scott Rolen and Jim Edmonds each drove in two runs for St. Louis.
Bobby Abreu hit two of Philadelphia's four homers. Jim Thome and Burrell also connected.
Five Cardinals relievers combined for four scoreless innings.
Chris Carpenter (2-1) got the win despite allowing all four homers and five earned runs in five innings.
Phillies starter Brett Myers (0-2) had another subpar outing, allowing 10 hits and six runs in 5 2-3 innings. Myers has not gone more than six innings this year. His ERA is 6.64.
With the Cardinals ahead 5-2 in the fifth, Abreu, Thome and Burrell hit consecutive home runs to tie it. It was the fifth time in franchise history the Phillies hit three in a row.
Mike Lieberhalter narrowly missed a two-run homer in the eighth when his drive off Julian Tavarez sailed several feet wide of the left-field foul pole. Lieberhalth then grounded out.
St. Louis regained the lead in the bottom half on an RBI grounder by Tony Womack that scored Marlon Anderson also a former Phillie.
Bulger signs multi-year Rams contract
The Associated Press
ST. LOUIS — Marc Bulger agreed yesterday to a four-year contract with the St. Louis Rams — a deal that could affect whether two-time NFL MVP Kurt Warner will be released next month.
The Rams did not disclose terms of the deal with Bulger, who coach Mike Martz has said would enter the preseason as the team's starting quarterback.
In a statement announcing Bulger's new contract, the Rams made no mention of Warner's status. Last week, Martz said "at this point, our focus (is) to get something done with Marc and we'll take the next step from there."
Bulger won his first six starts in 2002 and led the team to a 12-4 record and an NFC West championship last year, then was the MVP in the Pro Bowl after throwing the record four touchdowns.
in 15 starts last season. Bulger threw for an NFC-best 3,845 yards on 336-of 532 passing, with 22 touchdowns and 22 interceptions for an 81.4 passer rating.
Bulger, taken by the New Orleans Saints in the sixth round of the 2000 draft out of West Virginia, also gained 75 yards on 29 carries in 2003, with his four touchdown runs the most the most by a Rams' quarterback since Pat Haden had four in 1974.
While suggesting there's still a chance Warner could stay with the team next season, Martz said last month that discussions on a long-term deal with Bulger could impact what happened, with reaching a deal increasing the likelihood
of Warner leaving the team.
Warner's agent, Mark Bartelstein, said last night that his client expected to be released after June 1 — and that he doubted Warner would be willing to play backup to Bulger or take a salary cut to stay with the Rams.
Bartelstein said that since the Rams gave Warner permission to shop his skills elsewhere in the NFL, "we've talked to a number of teams, and there's certainly a lot of interest." Bartelstein declined to elaborate.
Expos win two in a row as Rockies lose
The Associated Press
MONTREAL — Terrmel Sledge hit his first career homer, Endy Chavez had a three-run shot and the Montreal Expos broke out of a season-long slump with a 10-4 victory over the Colorado Rockies last night.
Jose Vidro also connected for Montreal, which won consecutive games for
just the second time this year.
The Expos lost nine of 10 before a 6-4 win at Los Angeles on Sunday, when they matched their previous season high for runs. The Expos (7-20) hit three homers yesterday for the second straight game. They had a major league low — 55 runs coming in.
Sledge had his first three-hit game as Montreal got a season-high 14 hits.
Jeromy Burnitz and Royce Clayton homered off Claudio Vargas (2-1) for Colorado. The Rockies have 40 homers, including 16 in their 10 road games this season.
The Expos matched their season highs with four runs and five hits in the first inning. Orlando Cabrera put Montreal up 2-1 after Burnitz tied it.
In the fifth, Vargas sacrificed Sledge,
and Chavez hit a drive to make it 5-1.
Cabrera hit a run-scoring double after Brad Wilkerson's single.He allowed six runs and eight hits in five innings.
Sledge hit a two-run homer in the sixth to put Montreal up 8-1.
Matt Holliday hita leadoff double and scored on Brian Hawpe's RBI single to make it 8-2. Two outs later, Clayton hit a two-run homer on Vargas' 125th pitch to draw the Rockies within four.
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