2B / SPORTS MONDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 2010 / THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN / KANSAN.COM
QUOTE OF THE DAY
"Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records"
William A. Ward
FACT OF THE DAY
Kansas played on natural grass for the first time this season when it traveled to Ames, Iowa.
- Kansas Athletics
TRIVIA OF THE DAY
Q: How many players made their first career start for the football team this weekend?
A: Three: Quarterback Quinn Mecham, wide receiver Erick McGriff and cornerback Greg Brown
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Tidbits for fantasy footballers
MORNING BREW
It's the middle of the fall and I've come down with a horrible case of fantasy mid-season blues.
I am not undefeated in any of my leagues, and some of my "genius" picks, Jay Cutler and Marques Colston, have fallen a little short. My players are dropping like flies. I have Addai in two of my leagues, Alex Smith in one, and I've already had Mark Clayton get put on injury reserve. With my bad luck and the pile of midterms and papers I've gotten in the past few weeks, fantasy football has started to fall by the wayside.
BY SAM ANDERSON sanderson@kansan.com
the waysite.
I feel like my discontent is shared by millions of fantasy owners around the globe. However, there are a few things that you can do to keep yourself in the game.
Start looking for players that have been out a while on injury. I picked up Matthew Stafford a few weeks ago and I'm glad I did, because one of my quarterbacks, Alex Smith, is injured, and the other, Jay Cutler, has a bye week. Starting with Alex Smith's backup and Matthew Stafford may not be the perfect scenario, but hopefully they can get me a few points.
Another player to think about is Reggie Bush. He should be returning in the next few games. He probably won't be back this week — Pittsburgh's run defense is not
exactly a warm welcome — but he'll return soon. Pierre Thomas is still out, so he will probably see increased touches when he's back on the field.
Make a schedule. All throughout me you've had authority figures telling you to schedule your time — to do your homework at x time every night and spend x minutes practicing an instrument or sport. Well, give yourself a weekly schedule. I always look on Tuesdays for any pickups I could make that I might have missed on Sunday. Thursdays I check my lineup and I make a few last-minute tweaks Saturday afternoon.
afternoon.
It's not to say that my schedule system is foolproof. Once, I completely forgot about one of my teams and left half the roster empty. Needless to say, I lost.
Stay optimistic. Miles Austin, one of the top fantasy sleepers of last year, really didn't have a big game until week five, and wasn't consistently good until week 12. Before you completely give up on your team, remember that this season's Miles Austin could be sitting on your bench.
It may be hard to continue to care once you've lost a few games in a row, but if you don't try you'll never win. You never know when the Marques Colstons of the league may actually start producing.
—Edited by Michael Bednar
CROSS COUNTRY
Jayhawks take seventh place in Big 12
The KU teams traveled to Stillwater, Okla., to compete in the championship during Halloween weekend
BY LAUREN NEWMAN
lnewman@kansan.com
On Saturday the cross country team traveled to the Big 12 Championship in Stillwater, Okla. Both teams took seventh place overall. Junior Rebeka Stowe led the way for the women's team, while junior Donny Wasinger was the best Kansas runner for the men's team.
Wasinger crossed the finish line first for the layhawks for the 5th consecutive meet. He placed 13th overall, and finished with an 8K time of 24 minutes 40.04 seconds. Right behind him was senior Nick Caprario who had a career-best time of 25:17:02 and took 28th place. Rounding up the top three was junior Austin Bussing who took 48th place overall with a time of 25:48:96.
Other men runners that competed in the Big 12 meet were sophomore Josh Baden, freshmen Jose Luis Munoz and Nikki Trooien-Smith.
top 20 during her entire junior season. Taking second place for the Kansas team was sophomore Natalie Becker, who clocked in at 21:41:64, placing 39th overall.
On the women's team Stowe proved her abilities in the field once again, leading the team with 6K time of 21:1:64, taking 12th place overall. This marks Stowe's capabilities of being able to cross the finish line in the
Turcotte, junior Windisch, and sophomore Kyra Kilwein.
And rounding up the top three spots for the Jayhawks was senior Amanda Miller who placed 50th overall, clocking in at 21:53:93. Other teammates that competed for the women's team were sophomores Allie Marquis, Tessa
The cross country team will return to participate in the NCAA Midwest Regional Championship Nov. 13th to compete for a bid to nationals.
Edited by Roshni Oommen
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Succop's second OT kick lifts Chiefs
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KANSAS CITY, MO. — Kram Lindell had a second chance he did not want and missed. Ryan Succop had the second chance he was yearning for and made it count.
As a result, the Kansas City Chiefs escaped with a 13-10 victory over the winless Buffalo Bills as time expired in overtime.
Succop, after missing from 39 yards in overtime, made good on a 35-yarder Sunday as the final seconds ticked away, giving the Chiefs (5-2) a victory that kept them comfortably atop the AFC West and made sure the Bills (0-7) would remain the league's only winless team.
Buffalo's Lindell hit what would have been a 53-yard game-winner earlier in the overtime, but the kick was nullified because the
Chiefs had called their last time out. Forced to do it again, Lindell kicked a wobbler that hit the right upright.
Jamaal Charles rushed for 177 yards on 22 carries and added 61 yards on five catches, getting the winning drive started with a 16-yard catch.
3:38 to go in the overtime but at the last instant, the ball hooked left.
Tight end Tony Moeaki picked up 18 yards on another pass from Matt Cassel as the Chiefs moved 53 yards in eight plays to put Succop in position to
the Chiefs, facing the NFLs worst run defense, rushed for 274 yards, the third week in a row they've gone over 200.
The Bills, who lost 37-34 ir
The Chiefs, facing the NFL's worst run defense, rushed for 274 yards, the third week in a row they've gone over 200.
atone for his miss and make the Chiefs 4-0 at home one season after starting 0-4 in Arrowhead Stadium.
overtime to Baltimore the week before, are off to the third-worst start in franchise history.
Succop tried a 39-yarder with
ended in the first tie in the NFL since Philadelphia and Cincinnati were knotted 13-all on Nov. 16, 2008.
If Succop's second kick had missed, the game would have
The Bills won two challenges
in a touchdown drive that tied it 10-10 with 2 minutes, 18 seconds left in the fourth quarter.
Ryan Fitzpatrick, on fourth- and-goal from the 5, hit Stevie Johnson, who fell into the end zone, barely getting across the goal line before his shoulder touched the ground. The Chiefs challenged unsuccessfully. Earlier in the drive, the Chiefs thought they had recovered a fumble but replay showed they had not.
Late in the first half, Charles snagged Cassel's pass on a crossing pattern and went 31 yards.
Then, after forcing a Kansas City punt, the Bills got a 31-yard return by Roscoe Parrish and were close to field goal range. But Fitzpatrick's pass on first down from the Chiefs 41 sailed high and safety Eric Berry made the interception, the first turnover of the game, and forced the overtime.
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Stafford leads comeback in Lions' last-minute win
DETROIT - Matthew Stafford made the most of his return.
Statford threw four touchdown passes, including a 10-yarder to Calvin Johnson with 3:12 left, and the Detroit Lions went on to score nine points in 14 seconds to turn a close game into a 37-25 win over the Washington Redskins on Sunday.
sunday.
The Redskins (4-4) turned the ball over on downs after Johnson's career-high third score. Washington coach Mike Shanahan then put Rex Grossman in for an apparently healthy Donovan McNabb, and he fumbled on his first play with Ndamukong Suh returning it for a TD.
The Lions (2-5) were trailing late
in the game with Alphonso Smith stepped in front of McNabb's pass at the Redskins 26 to set up the goahead TD.
Stafford played for the first time since Week 1 when he separated his right shoulder on a sack at Chicago.
Chicago.
He finished 26 of 45 for 212 yards, and had an interception to go along with his TD passes.
go along with the following:
McNabbah was 17 of 30 for 210 yards with a TD and an interception and ran for 45 yards.
He started the game without running back Clinton Portis, then lost Ryan Torain in the first half with a hamstring injury.
coming off their open week, the Redskins go into their bye week with problems to ponder.
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