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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAS
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 26, 2008
trivia of the day
Q: Who is Villanova's all-time leading scorer in basketball?
A: Kerry Kittles, who played for the Wildcats from 1992- 1996. Kittles scored 2,243 points in his career at Villanova and went to play eight years in the NBA for the New Jersey Nets and the Los Angeles Clippers.
fact of the dav
Villanova basketball media guide
Villanova is the lowest seed to ever win a national championship. In 1985, the eighth-seeded Wildcats stunned Georgetown in the National Championship Game. Three years later, Kansas won the national championship as a six seed, which is the second lowest seed to ever take the title.
—ncaasports.com
"We went through some ups and downs during the season, but we always stayed consistent about what we were trying to accomplish. The last two or three weeks, we've been playing our best basketball."
quote of the day
-Villanova guard Scottie Reynolds
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Snow stomping
Tim Jitloff reacts to winning the men's giant slalom Tuesday, during the U.S. Alpine Ski Championships at Sugarloaf USA in Carrabassett Valley, Maine.
Sox win season opener in Japan
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Boston Red Sox left fielder Manny Ramirez reacts after hitting a two-run double off Oakland Athletics' Huston Street as Athletics second baseman Mark Ellis looks on in the 10th inning of the Major League Baseball regular season opener at Tokyo Dome in Tokyo, Japan, Tuesday. Boston won the game 6-5. Ramirez was presented with an oversized check for 1,000,000 yen after being named MVP of the game.
TOKYO — Boston, Japan, it doesn't matter: Manny Ramirez strikes a winning pose for the Boston Red Sox.
In the earliest major league opener, the Red Sox started their World Series title defense with a signature Manny moment.
Ramirez stood frozen in the batter's box, admiring his 10thinning drive to center field off Huston Street, thinking it would be a three-run homer. Instead, the ball bounced off the wall for his second two-run double, good enough to lift the Red Sox over the Oakland Athletics 6-5 on Tuesday night.
A crowd of 44,628, including fans from Boston, cheered at the Tokyo Dome, which hosted baseball's opener for the third time in nine years. It was 6:10 a.m. back in Boston when the season began, and organizers tried to make it feel like Fenway Park by playing "Sweet Caroline" after the last out.
Ramirez, starting the final guaranteed season of his eight-year contract, hit a tying, two-run double in the sixth inning, and rookie Brandon Moss hit an RBI single that gave Boston a 3-2 lead and chased Oakland starter Joe Blanton.
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Jonathan Papelbon took the mound to his "Wild Thing" theme in the bottom half, but was hardly intimidating. He walked Daric Barton leading off and gave up a one-out RBI double to Emil Brown, who was tagged out in a rundown between second and third.
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Matsuzaka, pitching in Japan for the first time since joining the Red Sox last season, left after five wild innings and 95 pitches, and Jack Hannah'an's two-run homer off Kyle Snyder put Oakland ahead 4-3 in the sixth. Moss, playing because J.D. Drew hurt his back in batting practice, hit a solo homer in the ninth off Street (0-1).
After a pair of singles, Kurt Suzuki hit a game-ending ground-out, giving Papelbon the save and sealing the win for Hideki Okajima (1-0), who used to pitch for the Yomuri Giants.
Then, in the 10th, Julio Lugo
Ramirez hit a drive to deep center and was sure it would be a home run. It wasn't, and he had to hustle to make it to second. Just Manny being Manny.
reached on an infidel single leading off, Dustin Pedroia sacrificed and David Ortiz was intentionally walked with two outs.
He learned when he got to the ballpark that he couldn't use the red-barreled bat he planned on using because it would distract pitchers. So he got some new bats in Tokyo.
Life is calling How far will you go?
"Maybe if I used my American bat that ball maybe would have
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Questions surround testimony
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The top Republican on the congressional committee that investigated whether Roger Clemens used performance-enhancing drugs released a report Tuesday questioning the Democratic majority's conclusion that the seven-time Cy Young Award winner might have lied in his testimony before the panel last month.
The 109-page report, obtained by The Associated Press, contains details Rep. Tom Davis believes could challenge the credibility of Brian McNamee, the personal trainer who testified under oath he injected Clemens with steroids and human growth hormone from 1989-01.
Republican staff from the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform will pass along additional information to the Justice Department. The FBI is investigating whether Clemens lied to Congress.
The report includes portions of previously undisclosed interviews with new witnesses and addresses issues such as whether Clemens attended a party at then-teammate Jose Canseco's house in 1998; information about injections of vitamin B-12; and whether Clemens developed an abscess on his buttocks.
The report — "Weighing the Committee Record: A Balanced Reviewofthe EvidenceRegarding Performance Enhancing Drugs in Baseball" — stands as a counterpoint to the 18-page memo released Feb. 27 by chairman Henry Waxman.
That was the day Waxman and Davis asked Attorney General Michael Mukasey to open an investigation into whether Clemens committed perjury, The following day, the Justice Department told the FBI to take up the matter.
Waxman's memo to Democratic staff outlined the reasons for the criminal referral, summarizing "seven sets of assertions made by Mr. Clemens in his testimony that appear to be contradicted by other evidence before the committee or implausible."
Those areas involve Clemens' testimony that he has "never taken steroids or HGH"; that McNamee injected him with the painkiller lidocaine; that team trainers gave him pain injections; that he received many vitamin B-12 injections; that he never discussed HGH with McNamee; that he was not at Canseco's home from June 8-10, 1998, when their Toronto Blue Jays played a series at the Florida Marlins; and that he was "never told" about baseball investigator George Mitchell's request to speak before Mitchell issued his report containing McNamee's allegations.
After the Feb. 13 hearing — at which McNamee repeated his accusations and Clemens repeated his denials, both under oath and under questioning from lawmakers — the minority staff conducted interviews with additional witnesses.
Among them were a man who said he played golf with Clemens, a friend of Canseco's, and Blue Jays traveling secretary John Brioux, who say Clemens was not at Canseco's 1998 party.
Tuesday's report also points out conflicts between testimony by McNamee and Andy Pettitte, the New York Yankees pitcher who was a teammate and friend of Clemens.
And the Republicans question why the Democrats cast doubt on Clemens' testimony that he received B-12 shots because teams' medical records do not show such injections; the minority report notes that Yankees trainer Gene Monahan testified his team did not always keep records about B-12. And the report mentions interviews with two team doctors and two trainers about whether Clemens had an abscess, but no witness corroborated McNamee's testimony on that subject.