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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
FRIDAY, APRIL 18, 2008
Sportin' Jayhawks
trivia of the day
Q: Who holds the single-season record for steals in Kansas City Royals history?
kansascityroyals.com
fact of the day
Through 13 games, current Royal Joey Gathright has stolen seven bases. If he could keep this pace all season, Gathright would steal 87 bases and break Wilson's record.
quote of the day
"There are some guys who get on base and just run."
Joey Gathright
calendar
TODAY
— Tennis vs. Nebraska, 2 p.m., Lawrence
— Baseball vs. Nebraska,
6:35 p.m., Lincoln, Neb.
— Kansas Relays, All Day,
Lawrence
Soccer vs. Washburn, 10 a.m., Lawrence
SATURDAY
Softball vs. Texas A&M
2 p.m., College Station,
Texas
Baseball vs. Nebraska,
3:35 p.m., Lincoln, Neb.
Kansas Relays, All Day,
Lawrence
SUNDAY
— Rowing, SIRAs, All Day, Oak Ridge, Tenn.
— Tennis vs. Iowa State,
11 a.m., Lawrence
— Softball vs. Texas A&M,
Noon, College Station,
Texas
— Baseball vs. Nebraska,
1:05 p.m., Lincoln, Neb
— Rowing, SIRAs, All Day,
Oak Ridge, Tenn.
on tv this weekend
Friday:
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MLB:
Kansas City at Oakland, 9 p.m., FSN Saturday: —Cleveland at Minnesota,
—Chicago White Sox at
—Cleveland at Minnesota,
2:30 p.m., FOX
Tampa Bay, 6 p.m., WGN Sunday:
—Los Angeles Dodgers at Atlanta, 12:30 p.m., TBS
—Kansas City at Oakland, 3
p.m. FSN
Alamonte, 12.25 p.
—Pittsburgh at Chicago
Cubs. 1 p.m., WGN
—First Round Playoffs:
Saturday:
Washington at Cleveland, 11:30 a.m., ESPN
—First Round Playoff: Phoenix at San Antonio, 2 p.m., ABC
at New Orleans, 6 p.m., ESPN
—First Round Playoffs: Utah
First Round Playoffs:Dallas at New Orleans, 6 p.m., ESPN
at Houston, 8:30 p.m., ESPN
Sunday:
First Class Ticket
First Round Playoffs: Toronto at Orlando, 11:30 a.m., TNT
—First Round Playoffs:
Denver at Los Angeles Lakers, 2 p.m., ABC
—First Round Playoffs: Philadelphia at Detroit, 5 p.m., TNT
—First Round Playoffs: Atlanta at Boston, 7:30 p.m., TNT NHI:
Saturday:
—Playoffs: Philadelphia at Washington, Noon, NBC
PGA Tour:
Saturday:
—The Heritage, 2 p.m., CBS
Sunday:
—The Heritage, 2 p.m., CBS
LPGA Tour:
Saturday:
—Ginn Open, 12:30 p.m., CB
Arena Football:
— Colorado at Kansas City, 5
p.m., MYTV
Horse Racing:
Saturday:
—Lexington Stakes, Tesio
Stakes, 4 p.m., ESPN
College Softball:
Saturday:
—Arizona at Arizona State,
3:30 p.m., FSN
Head and shoulders
Everton's Steven Piennaar, left, vies with Chelsea's Paulo Ferreira during their English Premier League soccer match at Goodison Park Stadium, in Liverpool, England, Thursday. Chelsea won the match 1-0 with a goal by Michael Essen.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
OLYMPICS
China finds national hero Amid rising tensions, former athlete carries torch
BY CARA ANNA ASSOCIATED PRESS
SHANGHAI, China — She's been portrayed as the "smiling angel in a wheelchair," just the hero that China needed to rally national pride in the face of the embarrassment suffered over Olympic torch relay protests.
Jin Jing, a disabled, little-known fencing athlete, is now a household name here, riding a wave of sympathy and state media publicity after clinging stubbornly to the torch while a Tibet supporter tried to wrestle it away during the Olympic torch relay in Paris on April 7.
Ten days later, Jin seems overwhelmed by the publicity and said she still doesn't understand why protesters wanted to take the torch. Until the incident in Paris, she said she had never heard that some Tibetans want independence from China.
"I don't pay attention to politics," she said Thursday in her first meeting with foreign reporters, a publicity agent from torch relay sponsor Lenovo Group by her side and whispering to her at least once about the Tibet-related questions.
Jin's professed innocence is part of her appeal to Chinese, who have celebrated her ever since photos of her Paris struggle made the rounds online.
Disruptions of the torch relay in London, Paris and San Francisco shocked many Chinese, dimming a hoped-for moment of Olympic glory and inciting
a fierce, besieged nationalism.
China has sought to use the Aug. 8-24 Olympics as a showcase to demonstrate it is an open, modern country. Protesters say China doesn't deserve to host the Olympics because of its human rights record,
its harsh rule in Tibet, and its friendly ties with Sudan.
J i n
is now
known as a
defender of
search engines" online campaigns that incite acts that are committed offline.
This week, a Chinese student at Duke University was singled out for trying to negotiate peace between pro-Tibet and pro-China protesters on her campus.
"I don't pay attention to politics."
JIN JING
Chinese Olympic fencer
China's dignity, embodying a national pride hurt by the protests that overwhelmed the torch relay and the criticisms of China's crackdown in Tibet. While the first images of Jin on the Internet seemed to come from onlookers in Paris, state media soon began telling and retelling her story.
While Jin is being praised, angrier Chinese have taken to seeking revenge. Users of the Internet, where a virulent nationalism thrives, have targeted those perceived as enemies with "human flesh
She joins a list of heroes promoted by the communist government's propaganda authorities, often at times of tension with the outside world. In 2001, after a U.S. surveillance plane collided with a Chinese jet fighter off southern China, the Chinese pilot who died in the crash became a national hero. The Pentagon said the pilot's reckless flying caused the crash.
With his name, address, phone number and even a map of his neighborhood posted on some Chinese Web sites, Lobsang Gendun received so much harassment by phone and online that he moved into a hotel.
H e r
ph oto-
graph was
taken at
the face-
off, the
day the
torch re-
lay passed
through
San Francisco, and soon posted on a Web forum for Chinese students. The forum termed her a "traitor to your country" and gave her name, Chinese identification number and home address in China.
A photo posted online this week showed what was said to be a bucket of feces dumped on her parents' doorstep in the port city of Qingdao.
The "human flesh search engine" also went after the man who tried to take the torch, mistakenly accusing a 44-year-old Tibetan living in Utah.
"I told them, 'You've got the wrong person," said Gendun, a soft-spoken father of two.
MLB
Brewers defeat Cardinals 5-3 in St. Louis
ASSOCIATED PRESS
ST. LOUIS — Prince Fielder hit his first home run of the season, a two-run drive off Brad Thompson in the 10th inning that gave the Milwaukee Brewers a 5-3 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals on Thursday.
Fielder, who led the NL with 50 homers last year, needed 54 at-bats to connect for the first time this year. He also tied the score with a bloop RBI double that
capped a three-run, eighth-inning rally against Kyle Lohse and two relievers.
Milwaukee trailed 3-0 and was in danger of getting swept in the three-game series before the comeback against Lohse, who extended his scoreless streak at home to 19 innings before getting into trouble in the eighth.
The Brewers, who had three hits through the first seven innings, tied it when pinch-hitter Hernan Iribarren chased Lohse with an
RBI double, Ryan Braun hit a sacrifice fly off Ryan Franklin and Fielder had an opposite-field double against Randy Flores on a ball that barely eluded Skip Schumaker's attempt for a diving catch.
Braun, batting .228 coming in, beat out an infield hit starting the 10th against Thompson (1-1), who made his second relief appearance after two starts. Fielder homered to right on a 1-2 pitch.
Pinch-hitter Chris Duncan grounded out with two on against Brian Shouse (1-0) for the last out in the ninth. Eric Gagne got into trouble in the 10th when Ryan Ludwick doubled leading off and Yadier Molina walked, but he got his fourth save in six chances when Aaron Miles flied out, Rico Washington struck out and Cesar Izturis fouled out.
Ludwick was 4-for-5, his first career four-hit game, and homered in his fourth
straight start for the Cardinals, who had won seven in a row at home.
Lohse's two-run, bases-loaded single through a drawn-in infield gave the Cardinals a 3-10 lead in the fourth. Cardinals pitchers have seven RBIs, including a homer by Adam Wainwright on Wednesday.
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