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SPORTS
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9, 2008
sports trivia of the day
Q: Who were the five players named to the 2008 NCAA All-Tournament team?
—ESPN.com
A: Junior guards Mario Chalmers and Brandon Rush and sophomore forward Darrrell Arthur were the three Jayhawks named to the team. Memphis freshman guard Derrick Rose andJunior guard Chris Douglas-Roberts took the other two spots.
sports fact of the day
Senior guard Russell Robinson recorded one assist in the National Championship game. But that one was enough to help him reach a milestone. Robinson finished with exactly 500 assists in his Kansas career, which ranks seventh all-time among Kansas players.
-Kansas Athletics
quote of the day
"I thought this would be great — and it's a lot better than I thought it'd be"
Kansas coach Bill Self
on tv tonight
MLB:
—Philadelphia at New York Metals,
6 p.m., ESPN2
NBA:
Boston at Washington, 6 p.m.
ESPN
—Phoenix at San Antonio, 8:30 p.m., ESPN
calendar
TODAY
Baseball vs. Northern Colorado, 12:05 p.m., Lawrence
Baseball vs. Northern Colorado, 3 p.m., Lawrence
THURSDAY
THURSDAY
Softball vs. Arkansas, 3 p.m.
Fayetteville, Ark.
Softball vs. Arkansas, 5 p.m.
Fayetteville, Ark.
FRIDAY
Friday
Tennis vs. Texas, 1:30 p.m.
Austin, Texas
Baseball vs. Texas Tech, 6
p.m. Lawrence
Men's Golf vs. North Carolina
State, Wallace, N.C.
football notes
SPRING SCRIMMAGE
Kansas will play its annual spring game at 1 p.m. Saturday at Memorial Stadium. Admission is free. The scrimmage will be the 15th practice of the offseason for Kansas, which has held two open practices during the spring. Several potential position battles should be on display Saturday afternoon, including tight end and both offensive tackle spots.
According to a story published by Web site profootball-weekly.com, former Kansas cornerback Aqib Talib admitted to NFL teams that he tested posi-
TALIB TESTS POSITIVE
report, Talib revealed his positive tests to professional teams at the NFL Combine. Talib faced a two-game suspension for disciplinary
tive for marijuana three times while at Kansas. According to the
Talib
reasons at the start of his sophomore season. The unanimous First-team All-America cornerback is listed as a potential first round pick by most NFL Draft experts.
—Asher Fusco
>> CANCER RESEARCH
Bayer's One-A-Day vitamins for men are marketed as a way to maintain prostate health.
Bayer partners with MLB for cure
The One-A-Day brand is among Bayer's top-selling consumer health products, with sales growing an
The deal marks the brand's first partnership with a sports organization and is "a great way to reach men for the One-A-Day products," said Jay Kolpon, vice president of marketing for Bayer Healthcare Consumer Health.
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NEW YORK — Major league pitchers will soon have added incentive to strike out batters.
Drugmaker Bayer AG will announce plans Wednesday to donate $10 to prostate cancer research for every strikeout during the regular season this year.
Major League Baseball estimates the four-year partnership could add up to a little more than $300,000 per year. There were 32,189 strikeouts during the regular season in 2007, according to the Elias Sports Bureau.
Bayer, based in Leverkusen, Germany, will give an additional $1 million to the Prostate Cancer Foundation if a pitcher sets a new record by striking out 21 batters in a game.
average of 15 percent annually for the past several years, Kolpon said.
Bayer spends about $40 million a year on media advertising for One-A-Day products.
Chicago White Sox designated hitter Jim Thome, whose family has a history prostate cancer, will be the spokesman for the campaign. The partnership will be featured in MLB-produced TV vignettes during each national broadcast of a game, Kolpon said.
MLB representatives did not immediately return calls for comment.
More than 2 million American men have prostate cancer, according to the Prostate Cancer Foundation. More than 186,000 men in the U.S. will be diagnosed with the disease this year, and more than 28,000 men will die from it, the foundation says.
Prostate cancer surgery caused Los Angeles Dodgers manager Joe Torre to miss the first 37 games of the 1999 season, when he was managing the New York Yankees.
Bayer, famed for inventing aspirin, said last month its profit narrowed in the final three months of 2007. The company's products include the painkiller Aleve and flea and tick medicine for animals Advantage.
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Charge! I mean, play ball
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Steven Tyler, lead singer of the rock group Aerosmith, raises his microphone to fans as he finishes "God Bless America" during the seventh inning stretch of the home-opener between the Boston Red Sox and Detroit Tigers at Fenway Park in Boston. Tuesday.
Masters to begin Thursday Grand Slam'easily within reason'for Tiger Woods
PGA
AUGUSTA, Ga. — Seven players stood on the first tee in the morning chill of Augusta National on Tuesday, a half-dozen more waiting on the practice green behind them. They had about 10 minutes to kill before the course opened for practice at 8 a.m. The quiet was shattered by the crack of Tiger Woods hitting his 3-wood off the 10th tee.
Defending Masters' champion Zach Johnson putts during practice for the 2008 Masters golf tournament at the Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Ga., Tuesday. The Masters tournament begins on Thursday.
He was playing alone, getting an early start before anyone in a green jacket could stop him. It was a scene that set the stage perfectly for this Masters: Tiger against the field.
Woods is a four-time Masters champion, the favorite just about every year and everywhere he
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of it comes from having won eight of his last 10 tournaments. And then there was that declaration this year that the calendar Grand Slam was "easily within reason."
But the modern Grand Slam that Arnold Palmer created on his way to the 1960 British Open means doing it in a calendar year. Except for 1971, when the PGA Championship was held in February in south Florida, that means it starts with the Masters.
Woods is the only professional to hold all four majors at the same time, sweeping them in a span of 294 days from the 2000 U.S. Open at Pebble Beach to the 2001 Masters.
And he showed up at Augusta last year going for his third straight major.
If he doesn't win this Masters, the slam is over.
"This major is so important to all of us," he said. "It's a special event. You always want to win this event. I've been lucky enough to have won it four times. But in order to win all on the calendar, you have to win here. Hopefully, I can get it done this year and move on."
"I don't think it's an impossible feat," Phil Mickelson said. "I just think it's going to be a tough one."
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