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Oklahoma State running back Joseph Randle breaks away from Kansas State cornerbacks Emmanuel Lamur and Ty Zimmerman on Saturday in the 24-14 victory for OSU.
Wildcats give up win
By Justin Nutter
Kansas State Collegian
K-State lost 24-14 to Oklahoma State.
The K-State offense was coming off back-to-back games with 40-plus points and had a home game for the first time in almost a month. It was Homecoming against a team that didn't win in Manhattan since 1988. But fans and players seemed lethargic from the opening kickoff.
This game should have been a high-scoring shootout. Oklahoma State entered the contest ranked second nationally in scoring offense, and neither team has a defense worth writing about. It looked as though the Cowboys were ready to roll when they took the opening kickoff and marched right into K-State territory, but the drive stalled and they were forced to punt. Their next two drives ended with turnovers — the first on a fumble and the second on a down.
The Wildcats weren't just keeping Oklahoma State off the scoreboard; they were setting themselves up to grab an early lead, and a big one at that. There was just one problem, though: K-State's offense looked and played like it was asleep. Four times the Wildcats had a chance to jump in front. Four times they were forced to punt the ball away.
On its fifth attempt, K-State finally drew blood on a 10-play, 62-yard drive capped off by running back William Powell's eight-yard
touchdown run. The defense came up big once again, forcing another Cowboy punt on the ensuing drive. With 4:15 left in the first half, the Wildcats had the opportunity to run out the clock and take a two-score lead into the break. Instead, they gained one yard on three plays and punted once again.
The defense allowed Oklahoma State to tie the game just six plays later. The Cowboys tried to give K-State the lead once more when they picked up 35 yards in penalties on the first drive of the second half. The Wildcats got inside the Oklahoma 10-yard line, but threw away more free points when kicker Josh Cherry came up wide on a 24-yard field goal attempt.
There's no point in sugarcoating it. This game was the Wildcats' to lose, and they lost it. Countless Oklahoma mishaps put K-State in position for an upset, but frankly, nobody in a purple jersey seemed interested in taking the bait. I'm not saying the K-State players didn't care, but the lack of emotion on the sideline was noticeable.
The Wildcats have shown they have the tools to move the ball and score points. They've also shown they can come up with big defensive stops. Sooner or later, both will happen in the same week, and it will make for a pretty good football team. But until that happens, they'll have to find ways to manufacture wins, particularly by capitalizing on chances opponents give them.
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Oklahoma Sooners
Colorado's Travon Patterson, left, is brought down by Oklahoma defensive tackle Adrian Taylor, right, in the first quarter trips him up Saturday in the 43-10 victory.
Broyles' yards earn win against Sooners
By Clark Foy The Oklahoma Daily
Colorado had no answer for junior wide receiver Ryan Broyles as the Sooners won 43-10 on Saturday in Norman, improving to 7-1 overall, 3-1 in the Big 12
For the third time this season and the fourth time in his career, Broyles gained more than 100 yards in the first half of a game. Broyles would finish with nine catches, 208 yards and three touchdowns. His performance gives him 29 career receiving touchdowns and moves him past former OU tight Jermaine Gresham's 26. Broyles is currently second on the OU career touchdown reception list behind Mark Clayton's 31 career touchdown grabs.
However, neither Broyles nor the OU offense got off to a quick start Saturday night. The Sooners put up just three points in the first quarter, scoring on a 33-yard field goal by sophomore kicker Jimmy Stevens with just over eight minutes left in the first. That field goal would be the only score by either team in the quarter.
Stevens would strike again at the beginning of the second quarter. Although the offense compiled 122 total yards in the first, they made it to the red zone just twice, going three-and-out both times, leading to two field goals.
But that was just the beginning as Broyles
scampered into the end zone two minutes later off a 16-yard pass from sophomore quarterback Landry Jones. One drive later, Broyles and Jones connected again for an 81-yard touchdown pass—a career long play for both.
It would take the dynamic duo just three plays to connect again in the second half, this time for a 64-yard touchdown. On the three-play, 80-yard drive, Broyles and Jones accounted for 76 yards.
After the first quarter, it seemed the OU offense was off to a mediocre start at best. Two quarters later they looked like they were in pristine form as they gained a school-record 488 passing yards.
"We started out going sideways a little bit," Broyles said of the offense's switch to a more vertical passing game.
Despite Broyles' big numbers, he said he isn't doing any more than people have expected of him during his career.
"You know, people have compared me to Mark Clayton from the beginning, so I feel like that what I have to do is fill his shoes and I have another year left so I'm trying to make the best of it" Broyles said.
Another year? So the star receiver has decided that he's going to play his senior year? Not exactly.
"I know I have another year left." Broyles clarified. "Whether I take it or not, I know it's there."
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Senior kicker Jacob Branstetter celebrates with strength coach John Williams after Kansas recovered an onside kick during the fourth quarter. Kansas scored five touchdowns in the fourth quarter and recorded its first Big 12 victory of the season. After losing the previous four games, the Jayhawks beat the Buffaloes 52-45. The game will air on local FOX television stations this Wednesday and Friday. See pages 48 and 5B for a rewind of the game.
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Kronos, the classic Greek god (Billy Clark, a junior from Topeka) and his assistant (Jeanne Klein, professor of the Children and Drama class) try and figure out what happened after he was kidnapped. The class hosts an environment in which the children can display their individuality through improvisation.
Local kids play, act at KU
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The Lawrence Public Schools do not offer drama classes to middle school children. That is why Klein began this free class for local kids when she arrived at the University.
with seven countries all vying for territory, sparkles and a bigger population. Each of the children have created their own character names and have aligned themselves with various countries
This may sound like a political science experiment or an economics lesson, but it's actually a drama lesson for Lawrence kids. Every semester for 27 years, professor Jeanne Klein has brought in middle school children to act and play with University of Kansas students in her class, Children and Drama, taught through the theater department.
LaLa Land was created by this semester's group of fourth through sixth graders. It's a world
The Floating Isle of Terror declared war on New York. Meanwhile, the country of Gumenheimer sat back and watched these two warring lands come to an agreement of boundaries and shared resources like a peaceful adviser.
There is conflict in LaLa Land, a small world created every Thursday in a classroom in Murphy Hall.
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Graduate Jennifer Kongs ate only foods located within a 100-mile radius of Lawrence for one month last year for a class.
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Jayhawks take win over Lady Blues
BASKETBALL | 1B
With a confident offense, all players scored against Washub.
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