"I want to wish my ex-teammates and the great KU fans all the best, and I hope they have a great season next year." Freshman center David Padgett following his announcement to leave the University of Kansas at the end of the semester.
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2B the university daily kansan
off the bench
triday, april 16, 2004
CAMPUS
KU Sailing regatta embarks tomorrow at Clinton Lake
Brent Carter/Kansan
Tomorrow, from 10 a.m. to around 4 p.m., Kansas is holding its KU Sailing regatta at Clinton Lake. Kansas is sending two teams of two.
Duane Bieber, Shawnee junior, used a rowing machine yesterday in front of Wescoe Hall. Bieber was participating in an orgathon which meant someone was constantly rowing for 20 straight hours. The KU Crew team used the ergathon to promote the team, recruit new members and raise money. Bieber and his teammates will have another ergathon tomorrow from 8 a.m.to 8 p.m.on Ninth and Massachusetts streets.
This is Chris LaBorde's, Shreveport La. senior, last race at the University of Kansas before nationals. He will be racing with Kelly Hollowell, Wichita sophomore. Tim Fitzgerald, Wichita freshman, and Carolyn Cornett, Wichita sophomore, will race together.
Other racers include Carly Timm, Kansas City, Kan., junior, and Joe McCorkell, Tulsa, Okla., senior, and Jesse Anderson, Kansas City, Kan. sophomore, and John Warlick, Tulsa, Okla., senior, will race together.
Schools involved will be New Orleans, Texas University, Texas A&M, Texas A&M at Galveston and many others.
Christina Kessler
College bowling championship will begin today in Oklahoma
Kansas bowling teams will play in the Intercollegiate Bowling Championships at 9:30 a.m. today at River Lanes in Tula, Okla.
The men's team took the fourth seat in its bracket after playing its 36 qualifying games yesterday. Its pin total was 6,363. It will face 13th-seated Purdue today.
The women's team will face third-seated Fairleigh Dickinson today. It took 14th seat in its qualifying rounds with a pin total of 5,499.
The championship includes two eight-team, double-elimination brackets. The top two teams from each bracket will move on to play on Saturday.
Bowlers Rhino Page, Lawrence sophomore, and Kelly Zapf, Rochester, N.Y., junior, received Honorable Mention All-American honors at an award banquet Wednesday in Tulsa.
-Jason Elmquist
Rowing on Wescoe Beach
LOCAL
manning in running for Kansas coaching spot
LAWRENCE — Danny Manning, the former two-time All-American who led Kansas to its last NCAA championship, may be moving up on coach Bill Self's staff.
self said yesterday that Manning was a possibility to fill the staff vacancy created when associate coach Norm Roberts was named coach this week at St. John's.
Manning returned to Kansas as Self's director of student-athlete development and team manager last year after completing a 15-season NBA career.
A 6-foot-10 scorer, rebounder and ball-handler, he and his teammates were known as "Danny and the Miracles" in 1988 when they beat favored Oklahoma in the NCAA title game at Kansas City's Kemper Arena. He remains one of the favorite Jayhawks of all time.
"Is Danny a possibility? You bet," Self said yesterday. "But it's also got to be a good fit for his family."
Manning, who declined interview requests, would probably move up in the staff along with everyone else.
Roberts, who had been with Self at Oral Roberts, Tulsa and Illinois, had the key job of recruiting coordinator.
"I've got a couple of guys in mind," Self said. "It depends now on what Danny wants to do. We're not even going to begin to address this until after recruiting is over. We'll probably have something by the middle of May."
Self said Manning might also decide to stay put.
He's sought to maintain a low profile with fans and media since leaving professional basketball.
"Danny can also remain in a similar capacity," Self said. "He'll be great at whatever he chooses to do.
Right now we're feeling it out."
The Associated Pres
NATION
Chicago closes 3-game series with victory over Kansas City
CHICAGO — With one swing, Maggilio Ordonez helped the Chicago White Sox sweep a three-game series against the Kansas City Royals.
against the Kansas City Chiefs, Ordonez homered on an 0-2 slider from D.J. Carrasco with one out in the bottom of the 10th inning, giving the White Sox a 6-5 win yesterday.
"I was looking to get a pitch to hit
out of the park," Ordonez said after his fourth homer of the year. "I made contact and I put a good swing on it."
Did he ever. The ball sailed deep into the left-field bleachers and gave the White Sox their third straight win over the Royals — and second straight in their final at-bat.
In both games the White Sox blew three-run leads before pulling out the win. On Wednesday, Chicago won 10-9 on Joe Crede's bases-loaded single in the bottom of the ninth. This time, Chicago blew a 5-2 lead before winning.
"I tell you what, thank God we don't have to play these guys for a little while," White Sox first-year manager Ozzie Guillen said. "They battle back."
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I was just doing a search on Yahoo and Wayne Simien has 54,300 sites with his name on it. Damn, he rocks.
If Kevin Kane doesn't start as line backer for next year's football team we should tie up Mark Mangino and dangle salami six inches in front of his face until he realizes what a mistake he is making.
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I gave up thinking about the men's soccer team for Lent. Thank goodness that's over.
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Nice article Ryan Greene. Now we know who makes all the calls about loving Omar Wikes.
I wish the seven-foot ghost would transfer.
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Only fat chicks call in to say that basketball players are cute.
Kansas athletics calendar
TODAY
TOMORROW
Kansas Relays at Memorial Stadium, all day
Kansas baseball at Oklahoma State
Kansas Relays at Memorial Stadium, all day
Rowing at Knecht Cup, all day
Baseball at Oklahoma State, 2 p.m.
Soccer vs. Tuka and SMS, 11:30 a.m. and 1 p.m.
Tennis at Nebraska, 1 p.m.
Softball vs. Oklahoma State, 2 p.m.
Baseball at Oklahoma State, 2 p.m.
Rowing at Knecht Cup, all day
Softball at Knecht State, 1 p.m.
Football Spring Scrimmage, 3 p.m.
Tennis at Missouri, 3 p.m.
SUNDAY
Frank Thomas hit a two-run homer — his first homer of the year — and Aaron Rowand had his first homer for the White Sox. Chicago scored 28 runs in the three-game series.
"We don't care what is going on when we get behind. We try our best to come back and just win close ball games," Thomas said. "We had a problem with that last year."
The White Sox have taken four of five from the Royals this season.
Chicago starter Mark Buehrle allowed five runs in six innings, and couldn't hold a 5-2 lead. He gave up a two-run double to Benito Santiago to cap a three-run sixth for the Royals that tied the game.
The Associated Press