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"Their bodies and arms are totally cut and they run like deer and racehorses and with attitude and passion." Lynette Woodard, Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame inductee and Kansas assistant coach, on female high-school basketball all-stars.
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What is Duke's coach's name? Coach Crymeariver.
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I just saw Christian Moody take down two Philly cheesesteaks in one sitting at PepperJax. The season may be over but it is still Moody time.
coach Iim Calhoun.
Every time I watch KU basketball, I orgasm.
I am suffering from post KU basketball syndrome. I don't know what to do.
Kansas athletics calendar
TODAY
Soccer vs. U16 Kansas City Legends Boys' team, Lawrence, 5.p.m.
HARRY E. WALKER/KRT
TOMORROW
Softball at Missouri, Columbia, Mo. 6 p.m.
Baseball vs. Wichita State, Lawrence 7 p.m.
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Tennis vs. Baylor, Lawrence, 1 p.m.
Tennis vs. Baylor, Lawrence, 1 p.m.
Baseball vs. Texas A&M, Lawrence, 6 p.m.
Men's Golf at The Intercollegiate at MacGregor Downs, Cary, N.C., all dlay
Track and Field at John McDonnell Invitational, Fayetteville, Ark, all day
Rowing in Kansas Cup vs. Cincinnati and Kansas State, Lawrence, all day
Softball at Texas A&M College Station, Texas,
11:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m.
Connecticut coach Jim Calhoun holds up the championship trophy following the Huskies' 82-73 victory over the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets to win the men's NCAA championship yesterday.
SUNDAY
Baseball vs. Texas A&M, Lawrence, 6 p.m.
Huskies defeat Yellow Jackets Dominant from start to finish, UConn wins national title
The Associated Press
SAN ANTONIO — The Connecticut Huskies really do have it all: the All-America center, the flashy guards, the coach who gets everything right, and now a national title, which they won with ease.
Led by 24 points from Emeka Okafor and 21 from Ben Gordon, the Huskies outclassed Georgia Tech 82-73 on Monday night to win the championship.
They looked like champions from the beginning, running when they wanted, controlling the middle at other times and grabbing just about every loose ball.
UConn became the first team since the 1996 Kentucky Wildcats to win the title after being ranked first in the preseason. The Huskies won thanks to a tall, quick, deep and talented roster put together by
Calhoun missed making the Basketball Hall of Fame by one vote this week. After the way he built and
guided this team, it's hard to imagine why. He coached UConn to its second championship in six seasons, and joined Mike Krzyzewski and Bob Knight as the only active coaches with multiple titles.
Some say the Huskies' success starts with Okafor, the All-American who had 15 rebounds for his 24th double-double of the season, which was marked by persistent injuries.
Early in the second half, Okafor kept his hands straight up and denied three straight Tech attempts to get the ball toward the basket. Yellow Jackets
coach Paul Hewitt buried his head in his hands and turned around toward the crowd. He couldn't believe there wasn't a
foul — or maybe he just couldn't stomach what was happening to his team.
By that point, the lead had grown to 20, and although Tech's furious rally cut the deficit to seven in the final seconds, the outcome was never in doubt.
Will Bynum led the Jackets with 17 and B.J. Elder had 14, but they simply couldn't shoot on this night. They shot just 38 percent from the field. But 12-for-21 from the free-throw line? That was a killer, and it allowed the Huskies to push the lead to double digits much more easily than they might have.
KC wins opener with big 9th inning
The Associated Press
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Kansas City Royals started 2004 even more dramatically than 2003.
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Mendy Lopez tied the game with a three-run homer and Carlos Beltran won it with a two-run shot, capping a six-run ninth inning that led the Royals over the Chicago White Sox 9-7 yesterday.
Before 41,575, the largest opening-day crowd in Kansas City records: royals 1-0 white sox 0-1
history, the White Sox took a 7-3 lead into the ninth in Ozzie Guillen's first game as White Sox manager.
Benito Santiago, who had three RBI in his Royals' debut, hit an RBI double in the ninth off Billy Koch after Cliff Polittte walked the first two batters.
Lopez homered with one out off loser Damaso Marte to tie it at 7, and Beltran hit the winning drive.
D. J. Carrasco was the winner, pitching a perfect ninth inning.
Two-time AL MVP Juan Gonzalez singled in his first two at-bats for the Royals and went 2-for-4.
Kansas City got off to a 9-0 start last year, beating Chicago 3-0 in the opener on a three-hitter, the Royals' first opening-day shutout.
Kansas City won 16 of its first 19, staying in contention until the final week of the season, and finished 83-79, its first winning record since 1994.
Entering a season filled with hope, a standing-room-only crowd packed Kauffman Stadium under balmy skies and light winds.
Mark Buehrle, making his third straight opening-day start, gave up three runs and eight hits in 6 2/3 innings.
Royals starter Brian Anderson gave up five runs and seven hits in five innings.
MLB
Brewers 8, Cardinals 6
It's the first time the Brewers have been over.500 in two years. They haven't finished with a winning record since 1992.
ST.LOUIS — Scott Podsednik drove in four runs and Milwaukee opened the season by beating St. Louis, with President Bush watching from a box above home plate.
Ben Grieve hit a two-run homer and Podsednik had a tiebreaking, three-run shot off Matt Morris in the sixth inning for the Brewers, who began last season with six straight losses and never recovered in a 68-94 season.
Bush threw out the ceremonial first pitch, an inside strike, to Cardinals catcher Mike Matheny. Then Bush watched the first five innings from a private box.
Giants 5, Astros 4
SAN FRANCISCO—Barry Bonds hit his 699 home run Monday night, help
ing the San Francisco Giants rally for a 5-4 victory against the Houston Astros.
Bonds lined a first-pitch fastball from Roy Oswalt over the right-field fence in the eighth inning for a three-run shot that tied it at 4.
San Francisco completed the comeback in the ninth against loser Octavio Dotel, now the Astros' closer after the offseason trade of Billy Wagner to the Phillies. J.T. Snow's sacrifice fly knocked in the go-ahead run.
It was Bonds' sixth opening day homer, and it came in the same building where he tied Mark McGwire's single-season mark of 70 in 2001. Bonds went on to set his own standard at 73.
Only Ken Griffey Jr., with seven, has more opening day homers among active players.
CINCINNATI—Sammy Sosa couldn't get a hit. Kerry Wood couldn't get past the fifth inning.
Cubs 7. Reds 4
confident Chicago Cubs.
Big problems? Not for these newly
Corey Patterson homered and Moises Alou doubled with the bases loaded, leading the defending NL Central champions over Cincinnati.
After winning their first division title in 14 years, the Cubs got a good start on their next image-busting quest: back-toback winning seasons for the first time since 1971-72.
The Reds had another disappointing debut in Great American Ball Park, where 42,122 fans sat and watched a lineup missing injured Ken Griffey Jr. stumble out of the gate once again.
Pirates 2, Phillies 1
PITTSBURGH — Even if he lasted only six innings, Kip Wells showed the Pittsburgh Pirates what a No.1 starter is supposed to look like on opening day.
Wells often was overpowering in working out of two big jams and outdueling Kevin Millwood, and the Pirates rode Craig Wilson's homer and Tike Redman's tiebending double to a victory over Philadelphia.
Jose Mesa pitched the ninth for the save against his former club.
Mijwood threw six solid innings but took the loss.
Padres 8, Dodgers 2
A sellout crowd of f3,850—the largest opening-day attendance in Dodger Stadium history — booed the home team on several occasions, most vocally after the Padres broke the game open against loser Hideo Nomo by scoring six runs in the fifth.
LOS ANGELES—Brian Lawrence allowed one run in five innings, and Phil Nevin hit a grand slam as revamped San Diego opened the season by beating the Dodgers.
The Dodgers left 15 runners on base and hit into three double plays.
Tigers 7, Blue Jays 0
TORONTO — Ivan Rodriguez and Rondell White homered in their Detroit debuts to back the pitching of Jason
Last year, Detroit began 0-9 and set an American League record with 119 losses The Tigers spent the offseason trying to rebuild a franchise that hasn't finished with a winning record since 1993.
Rodriguez, a 10-time All-Star who helped Florida win last year's World Series, homered in a three-run sixth inning. White, who finished last year with Kansas City, added a three-run homer off Roy Halladay in the seventh.
Johnson, signed by the Tigers after Baltimore let him go, allowed four hits in six innings and got the win. Al Levine, Jamie Walker and Esteban Yan combined for four-hit relief for the Tigers, who had just five shutouts last season.
Halladay, the reigning ALCy Young Award winner, was knocked around for seven runs — six earned — and 10 hits in 6-2-3 innings. Halladay, who struck out nine, dropped to 9-2 against the Tigers.
The Associated Press
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