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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN WEDNESDAY, APRIL 16, 2008
trivia of the dav
Q: Which college football team has the longest winning streak in history?
A: The Oklahoma Sooners.
From 1954 to 1957, the Sooners won 47 straight games.
—bcsfrenzy.com
fact of the dav
23,306 people showed up to watch Oklahoma's annual Red/ White spring football game last weekend. That's 13,000 more than showed up at Memorial Stadium for Kansas' spring game Monday.
— soonersports.com
quote of the day
"Things aren't just going to happen for us. We have to show up and make them happen. We learned that from last year."
— Kansas junior quarterback Todd Reesing
on tv tonight
NBA:
— New Orleans at Dallas,
6:15 p.m., ESPN
— Utah at San Antonio,
8:45 p.m., ESPN
MLB:
— Boston at New York Yankees, 6 p.m., ESPN2
— Kansas City at Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, 9p.m., FSN
calendar
TODAY
Softball vs. Missouri, 3 p.m., Columbia, Mo.
Softball vs. Missouri, 5 p.m., Columbia, Mo.
Baseball vs. Missouri State, 6 p.m., Lawrence
Track & Field, Kansas Relays, All day, Lawrence
THURSDAY
Track & Field, Kansas Relays, All day, Lawrence
NFL
Chiefs' losing streak may continue into'08
Stopping the streak there could be difficult.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Kansas City Chiefs ended 2007 with a nine-game losing streak.
The Chiefs open the 2008 regular season on the road for the second straight year with a matchup against the New England Patriots.
And Kansas City's schedule doesn't get much easier from there, with four other games against teams that made the playoffs in 2007: at home against Tampa Bay and Tennessee, and twice against San Diego.
The Chiefs, coming off their second-worst record (4-12) in 30 years, follow the season opener in New England with a home game against the Oakland Raiders on Sept. 14, then travel to Atlanta for the first time since 1997.
Another long streak ends two weeks later when Kansas City plays its first regular-season game in Carolina since 1997. An even longer interlude ends on Nov.2, when the Buccaneers play at Arrowhead Stadium for the first time since 1986 — the second-longest active streak in the NFL.
The Chiefs catch a short break in the schedule with home games against New Orleans and Buffalo at the end of November, but that's followed by road games against AFC West rivals Oakland and Denver.
Kansas City closes the season against Cincinnati on Dec. 28 after a pair of home games against San Diego and Miami.
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OLYMPICS
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Maurice Greene reacts after falling while competing in the 60-Meter Dash event of the 100th Millrose Games at Madison Square Garden in New York in 2007.
Former medalist cleared of charges
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"With every ambassador we do an immediate check with the doping department," Davies said by telephone from IAAF headquarters in Monaco. "In this case they said, 'No, we don't have anything.'"
International Association of Athletics Federations would continue to use Greene as one of its goodwill ambassadors to promote the sport in the run-up to the Beijing Olympics.
BRUSSELS, Belgium — Track and field's world governing body dismissed doping allegations against former Olympic sprint champion Maurice Greene, throwing its support behind the man who once held the 100-meter world record.
Greene also denied the accusations, which were made by a witness in a U.S. government investigation into sports doping and reported this past weekend in the New York Times.
Greene won the gold in the 100 meters at the 2000 Sydney Games and was part of the winning U.S. 400-meter relay team.
Nick Davies said the
MLB
Bite-less Tigers slumping
Jacque Jones of the Detroit Tigers reacts after striking out against the Chicago White Sox during the ninth inning Sunday in Chicago. The White Sox won 11-0, sending the Tigers to a major league-league 2-9 record. Detroit has the worst ERA in the majors at about six runs a game.
DETROIT — Edgar Renteria joked that he didn't know English when asked to talk about the struggling Detroit Tigers.
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The reporter then replied in broken Spanish: "You said this was like a Dream Team in Lakeland. Why are the Tigers 2-10?"
In any language, the team with baseball's worst record and second-highest payroll is stumped for answers.
The Tigers found out hitting would help their problems.
"I don't know," Renteria said Monday before Detroit rallied to beat the Minnesota Twins 11-9.
They set a season high in runs and hits (16) to win for the first time in seven games at home. But at 3-10 overall, they still have baseball's worst record.
"You give a lineup like that some confidence and they're going to get you," said Matt Guerrier, who gave up five runs — four earned — to boost Detroit's comeback.
The Tigers were a popular pick during spring training not only to play in the postseason, but to win their first World Series title since 1984.
History is not on their side.
No team that started 2-10, as Detroit did, has won a World Series and just three rallied from such a rough start to even be in the playoffs: the 1951 New York Giants, 1974 Pittsburgh Pirates and 2001 Oakland Athletics.
"All of baseball is surprised and alarmed at what's going on with the Tigers," Twins outfielder Michael Cuddyer said. "But nobody in this clubhouse and nobody in this league is writing them off. When you know the type of players they have, you know they're not going to stay down for long."
That's what the Tigers are hoping because their payroll is nearly $139 million.
Detroit's top acquisition Miguel Cabrera — is not the only one off to a poor start, but his lack of production stands out because the team decided to pay him $152 million-plus over the next eight seasons.
Cabrera averaged 32 horners, 115RBIs while hitting. 318 the previous four seasons in Florida, sensational statistics that just Albert Pujols
The third baseman went 2-for4 with his second RBI since the opener to improve his batting average to .205 against Minnesota.
and Vladimir Guerrero matched in those categories since 2004.
"He's obviously pressing," Detroit manager Jim Leyland said. "But we haven't hit as a team. Miguel Cabrera isn't the one that hasn't hit."
Reigning AL batting champion Maggilio Ordonez was hitting .234 before going 3-for-4 Monday. Placido Polanco, Gary Sheffield and Ivan Rodriguez all had sub-.200 batting averages through Sunday.
Leyland's right.
The pitching has been bad, too.
Detroit has the worst ERA in the majors — about six runs a game — and had matched the baseball
high for walks going into the series opener against the Twins.
— Kenny Rogers, Nate Robertson and Dontrelle Willis — are a combined 0-4 with ERAs ranging from 6.52 to 7.84 after a combined seven starts.
Ace Justin Verlander 0-2 with
a 6.52 ERA. Three other starters
"That tells you how bad it's been going for us," Leyland said Sunday after the Chicago White Sox shut out Detroit for the second straight game.
The Tigers' defense had been average, ranking in the middle of the pack in errors before making three more Monday, and a miscue Sunday seemed symbolic as Cabrera tripped on the third-base umpire's foot to foil his shot at an easy catch.
Carnegie Steel Co. heiress dies at 100
OBITUARY
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STAMFORD, Conn. — Polly Lauder Tunney, the Carnegie Steel Co. heiress whose marriage to heavyweight boxing champion Gene Tunney made international headlines in 1928, has died, her family said. She was 100.
Tunney, whose husband died
Tunley, w. in 1978 at age 81, died Saturday at her home in Stamford, a son, Jonathan R. "Jay" Tunney, said Monday. One of her other sons is former Sen. John V. Tunley of California.
Polly Tunney's grandfather was George Lauder, first cousin and close business partner of industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie, founder and head of Carnegie Steel Co.
Mary "Polly" Lauder was 21 when she married Tunney in Italy in 1928, a year after he successfully defended his heavyweight boxing title against Jack Dempsey in the famous "long count" fight in Chicago.
and defender
more, with a
TKO of New
Zealander
Tom Heeney.
According to a biography published last year, he promised his fiancee he would quit boxing and defended his title just once
T he engagement of Tunney, who escaped a childhood of poverty through his boxing prowess, and his heiress sweet-
they tried to capture the couple leaving the ceremony.
John Tunney, born in 1934,
was a three-term congressman
Polly Tunney's grandfather was George Lauder, first cousin and close business partner of industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie, founder and head of Carnegie Steel Co.
A story datelined Rome had as a subhead: "Bride-to-be Quickly Hidden in Hotel as Eternal City Burns With Curiosity.
Gene Tunney is most famous for the "long count" fight with Jack Dempsey on Sept. 22,1927, in Chicago at Soldier Field in front of 104,000 fans.
heart was the source of much speculation and media attention.
The New York Times reported that after the wedding, photographers had their clothes torn and cameras smashed in "something that looked mighty like a riot" as
when he was elected to the Senate from California in 1970. defeating incumbent Republican George Murphy, a former Hollywood song and dance man.
Their late father is most famous in boxing annals for the fight with Dempsey on Sept. 22, 1927, in front of 104,000 at Soldier Field
He served one term before he was defeated in 1976 by Republican S.I. Hayakawa.
Other survivors include another son, Gene L. Tunney of Honolulu, and a daughter, Joan Cook of Arkansas.
in Chicago, a rematch of a bout won by challenger Tunney in an upset a year earlier.
Dempsey knocked Tunney to the canvas in the seventhround, but the referee delayed the
count because Dempsey did not immediately heed a new rule that it could not start until the fighter was in a neutral corner. Tunney rose at the count of nine and went on to win the match. Many fight fans and reporters contended that Tunney would have been counted out if it had not been for the delayed count.
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