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QUOTE OF THE DAY
"You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them."
Michael Jordan
FACT OF THE DAY
Kansas has a five-game winning streak against Iowa State. That is the longest winning streak against an opponent that still has a football team.
TRIVIA OF THE DAY
Q: Who was the last Big 12 team Kansas beat?
A: Iowa State in last season's conference opener.
Nugent ties for sixth helps KU tie for fifth
—KUathletics.com
WOMEN'S GOLF
Junior Katy Nugent sits tied for sixth place, while Kansas sits in a three-way tie for fifth place overall, after day one of the Palmetto Intercollegiate.
Nugent finished the day with a two-round combined score of 144. Kansas finished the day a collective 296-286-592 +24.
The only other individual Jayhawk in the top 20 is freshman Thanuttra Boonaksasat who is tied for 20th with rounds of 76 and 71.
Blake Schuster
OOTBALL
Colorado game won't be televised
Make that two consecutive weeks of Kansas football not being televised. The Kansas game against Colorado on Saturday, Nov. 6, won't be broadcast on television.
The kickoff time is 1 p.m.at Memorial Stadium, the first home afternoon kickoff of the season.
The Jayhawks go to Ames, Iowa Saturday to play Iowa State. It is also a 1 p.m. kickoff and won't be televised.
Corey Thibodeaux
Early season hope disappoints
MORNING BREW
I rescued underneath the tree searching for any tags that read "To: Jackson." I scanned the presents, looking for a particular shape that would fit the gift I was looking for. My eyes flew from one box to the next, and finally, there it was. I picked up the package and started feeling it to make sure it was what I was hoping for, a Brian Urlacher jersey. After closely examining the package, I was positive on Christmas morning I would be donning a No. 54 jersey. I went around for the next couple weeks telling my friends how psyched I was that I was going to get the jersey I wanted.
Christmas morning came and I was excited, to say the least. After watching everyone else open presents, it was finally my turn to open my soon-to-be prized possession.
I grasped the perfectly wrapped gift and tore the paper to shreds to reveal what I had been waiting weeks to see. Sweaters?
My parents had given me two sweaters that cruelly felt like a jersey when wrapped. I threw on my best fake smile and said, "Thanks," although I would have liked to say a lot of other words.
I feel like this year Kansas football has given me sweaters. I would have never expected a jersey on Christmas morning, if it would have been wrapped in a box and disguised instead of just
BY JACKSON DELAY
idelav@kansan.com
wrapped in wrapping paper. I could have guessed, but I wouldn't have had the same hope.
Likewise, with a new coach and a dismal season last year, I didn't expect a great season from Kansas in football this year, especially after the first game. However, the Jayhawks had to follow that humiliating loss with a win over a ranked team. They had to win a game that resulted in me, and most of the student body, storming the field; a win that truly sparked an excitement in me for the football team that wasn't there before.
The Kansas football players did something by upsetting Georgia Tech that they can't take back: they gave fans hope. By showing how hard, and at times how well they can play, Kansas gave the fans foolish hope that had everyone
remembering when the Jayhawks made their storied run to the Orange Bowl.
So there was the hope, sitting underneath the tree, waiting for conference play. Finally the day came, a road game against Baylor for a Kansas team still trying to earn respect. I think we all know how the rest of the story goes, so I'd rather not go into details
Kansas followed that with uninspiring performances against rival Kansas State and Big 12 foe Texas A&M. The illogical hope that Kansas will perform as well as they did in week two still enters my mind each week, no matter how hard I try to rationalize with it. For some reason, even though I know the odds are stacked against the Jayhawks, this hope makes me think one of these games they will return to their
electrifying form and win a Big 12 game. By knocking off Georgia Tech early in the season, the players gave the fans a standard to hold the team up to, one that was too high, and that they have failed to achieve.
At least for now, this hope is still stuck in my head. However, if Kansas doesn't start competing, I wonder how long the student body and myself will still believe that the magic from that second game can come back to Memorial Stadium. And if it can, how long will we have to wait?
— Edited by Leslie Kinsman
Questions arise for World Series
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So hot youd swear he had been traded to the Texas Rangers.
How hot has Cody Ross been?
In a postseason built around outstanding pitching performances, the Rangers have been the only team to consistently put runs on the board. They turned in the only double-digit performance of these playoffs in Game 4 of the American League Championship Series and were held under five runs only three times — twice by Tampa Bay in the division series and once by the Yankees in the ALCS.
Given the Giants' trouble scoring, the Rangers may very well celebrate a championship on home soil in Game 5 of the Series. But the Giants get the edge if their pitchers continue getting more than 80 percent of the big outs, forcing Texas into an extended series full of the low-scoring, tense games that have replaced Rice-A-Roni as the
San Francisco treat.
No question will be bigger in the World Series than this one: Can the best pitching staff stop the best lineup?
Among the other questions awaiting answers:
Tim Lincecum ... or Cliff Lee?
The Yankees won the 2009 World Series despite losing twice to Rangers ace Cliff Lee, then with the Phillies. They kept him from completely making CC Sabathia a non-factor by using Sabathia on short rest in Game 4, when he beat Philadelphia's No. 4 starter Joe Blanton. Neither Lee nor Lincecum have much of a history working on short rest, so we could get a second head-to-head meeting in Game 5. Lee is auditioning for a run at a Sabathia-sized contract in free agency and the ring that his Philadelphia teammates failed to get him last year. Losing twice to a guy who looks like he's trying to find the local skateboarding park would sting.
Who does the Molina factor
favor?
San Francisco catcher Buster Posey probably will win the National League Rookie of the Year award and could get an MVP vote or two, but the Giants have left themselves Molina-free, which could be a mistake. Texas acquired catcher Bengie Molina from San Francisco on July 1 and now hopes to enjoy the traditional Molina World Series success. Teams with one of the three Molina brothers — Bengie, Yadier and Jose — have won three World Series in four tries, the only unsuccessful trip for a Molina coming for Yadier with the 2004 Cardinals, Yadier and Jose have two World Series rings between them; Bengie is trying to pick up his second.
ed to have active are a career 0-for-19 against Wilson. Their edge could be hitting coach Clint Hurdle, who has done a great job preparing the Texans to face specific pitchers.
This is a definite yes. San Francisco closer Brian Wilson is 5-for-5 in save situations in the playoffs, and Texas doesn't have a player who has had a hit off him. The guys the Rangers are expect-
Should Texas fear "The Beard"?
Will tradition survive Texas?
Win tradition surrive Teams. There are no cheerleaders dancing atop the dugouts, but still there a feeling of an NFL-style production at Rangers Ballpark in Arlington — most notably when flag-waving team employees race across the center-field berm after runs score. By contrast, AT&T Park is the hippest place in the majors.
Ross, fact or fiction?
Claimed on waivers from Florida on Aug. 22, the Giants seemed to be as interested in blocking San Diego from adding Ross to its lineup. They probably wouldn't have gotten past Atlanta and Philadelphia without him, however, as he's hit. 324 with four home runs and eight RBIs in eight games.
THIS WEEK IN KANSAS ATHLETICS
TODAY
Women's Golf
Edwin Watts
/ Palmetto
Intercollegiate
All day
Kiawah Island, S.C.
Men's Golf Herb Wimberly Intercollegiate All day Las Cruces, N.M
WEDNESDAY
Volleyball
Missouri
6:30 p.m.
Columbia, Mo.
FRIDAY
Soccer
All-American
Championships
All Day
Pacific Palisades, Calif.
Swimming Missouri 6 p.m. Columbia, Mo.
SATURDAY
Football
lowa State
1 p.m.
Ames, Iowa
Volleyball Texas Tech 6:30 p.m. Lawrence
Cross Country
Big 12 Championships
TBA
Stillwater, Okla.
Offense struggles all across Big 12 board
BIG 12 FOOTBALL
OMAHA, Neb. — The Big 12 is coming off a downright offensive weekend.
Nine teams amassed more than 400 yards total offense. Nine scored 27 points or more.
Five of this week's top 18 offenses nationally reside in the conference.
The hottest offense going is at Baylor, which two times this month set school records for total offense.The Bears piled up 683 yards against Kansas State.
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