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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 5, 2008
trivia of the dav
Q: When was the last time Kansas beat a conference opponent by more than 55 points?
A: February 8, 1958, when the Jayhawks beat the Nebraska Cornhuskers 102-46 in Lawrence. It stood as the Jayhawks most lopsided conference victory for 50 years until Monday when Kansas beat down Texas Tech, 109-51.
fact of the day
—Kansas basketball media guide
The 109 points scored against the Red Raiders were the most scored in the Bill Self era at Kansas. It also registered as the sixth time a Self-led team eclipsed the 100-point barrier.
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quote of the day
"I feel like someone put a meat necklace around my neck and threw me into a lion's den."
Texas Tech coach Pat Knight
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MEN'S COLLEGE
BASKETBALL:
-Duke at Virginia, 6 p.m. ESPN
-Syracuse at Seton Hall, 6 p.m., ESPN2
-Oklahoma at Oklahoma State, 7 p.m., NBC
- Iowa State at Missouri,
7 p.m., Channel 15
-Texas A&M at Baylor,
8 p.m., ESPN2
WOMEN'S COLLEGE
WOMEN'S COLLEGE
BASKETBALL:
-Kansas State at Kansas,
7 p.m., Metro Sports
NBA:
-Phoenix at Denver,
8 p.m., ESPN
NHL:
-St. Louis at Detroit,
6:30 p.m., FSN
sports calendar
TODAY
Tennis vs. Kansas State, 2 p.m.
Manhattan, Kan.
Baseball vs. Le Moyne, 3 p.m.
Lawrence
Women's basketball vs. Kansas
State, 7 p.m. Lawrence
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Australia's Andrew Symonds, foreground, checks a streaker to the ground during the second final of their tri-nations one day international cricket series against India at Brisbane, Australia, yesterday. India made 258 in their innings.
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Moss re-signs with Patriots
New England Patriots wide receiver Randy Moss resigned with the Patriots on Monday.
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BOSTON — Randy Moss is staying with the New England Patriots.
The defending AFC champions re-signed the record-breaking receiver on Monday to a three-year deal worth $27 million, his agent said. The signing was confirmed by the team shortly after Moss posted a message to fans on his Web site.
"I want to take time out to thank all of the fans for their support and for wishing me well in my return to New England," therealrandymoss. com quotes him as saying, "I'm ready to get back. We have some unfinished business to take care of."
Moss' agent, Tim DiPiero, said the deal included guarantees of $15 million, including a $12 million signing bonus to the receiver who set an NFL record with 23 touchdown catches and helped the
Patriots reach the Super Bowl in his first season with the team.
"Randy was serious about wanting to stay," DiPiero wrote in an e-mail. "Because of Randy's record-breaking year, the interest in him was very high. Randy took less than he could have to rejoin his teammates."
"What Randy did for our team last year was outstanding." Patriots coach Bill Belichick said in a statement, "He is one of our most consistent, competitive and team-oriented players and it is undoubtedly a relationship we are excited to continue."
Pairing Moss with NFL MVP Tom Brady, who broke the league record with 50 touchdown passes, the Patriots breezed through the regular season with a perfect 16-0 record. They improved to an unprecedented 18-0 before blowing a chance at the league's longest
unbeaten season with a 17-14 Super Bowl loss to the New York Giants.
Moss, 31, has caught 774 passes for 12,193 yards in a 10-year career, and his 124 career receiving touchdowns are fourth in NFL history.
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A four-time All-Pro, Moss took a pay cut to get out of Oakland and come to New England last April.
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PITTSBURGH — Talk about a comeback.
Ben Roethlisberger signed an eight-year extension Monday with the Pittsburgh Steelers that is worth $102 million and makes him one of the league's top-paid players.
The agreement comes after
"He's a Steeler and he'll always be a Steeler," team chairman Dan Rooney said.
Roethlisberger stays with Steelers
The agree.
Roothilberger re-established himself as one of the NFLs best quarterbacks last season, and nearly two years after his life and career were threatened by a motorcycle crash. The
Pittsburgh Steelers' Ben Roethlisberger speaks after signing an eight-year contract extension, Monday in Pittsburgh. The deal is worth $102 million, more than $36 million of it guaranteed, making Roethlisberger one of the NFL's highest-paid players.
"I told them I didn't want to go anywhere the day I walked in. I love Pittsburgh, I love the fans."
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BEN ROETHLISBERGER Steelers quarterback
accident happened a few months after he led the Steelers to a Super Bowl victory.
Last season, Roethlisberger threw 32 touchdown passes with only 11 interceptions in leading the Steelers to a 10-6 regular-season record and the playoffs, a major turnaround from his 23-interception season of 2006.
Roethlisberger's contract guarantees him $36 million and is easily the largest in the Steelers' 76-season history. The quarterback, who turned 26 Sunday, gets $25 million immediately as a signing bonus.
as part of the same QB class as the Giants' Eli Manning and the Chargers' Philip Rivers, won all 13 regular-season starts as a rookie, began his career 27-4 and already has appeared in two AFC title games and seven playoff games.
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"I told them I didn't want to go anywhere the day I walked in (as a rookie in 2004)." Roethlisberger said Monday. "I love Pittsburgh, I love the fans. Got probably the best organization and fans in all of the sport. I don't want to go anywhere."
not even Bradshaw, had a better start to his career; Bradshaw didn't win a Super Bowl until his fifth season.
Roethlisberger wants to be "like the Dan Marinos, like the John Elways, guys who played with one team their whole career."
Nor did the Steelers want to lose the club's most successful quarterback since four-time Super Bowl winner Terry Bradshaw. Roethilsberger, drafted in 2004
The Steelers, quiet in free agency until signing running backkick returner Mewelde Moore on Monday, felt some urgency to get a deal done with Roethlisberger. Director of football operations Kevin Colbert called it his top offseason priority.
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Roethlisberger was due a $2.95 million bonus this month that, if paid, would have put the Steelers over the salary cap. By reworking Roethlisberger's contract now, the team rolled that bonus into his new contract and can prorate his signing bonus over the eight years of the contract.
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"Ben never said, 'I need a record-breaking contract.' He never said, 'I need the most money in the history of anything,'" said Roethlisberger's agent, Ryan Tollner. "He said, 'I need a fair deal.'"
Roethlisberger, who played in his first Pro Bowl last month, is now focused on getting "a bunch more trophies."
"I believe that the guys we have on this team right now are exceptional players," he said. "I believe we all have the pieces of the puzzle, that we could be a championship football team, and I think that we know the history that we have of drafting well, we'll be able to bring guys in that will hopefully do more."
Roethlisberger was one of the leading vote-getters for the NFL Comeback Player of the Year award. By contrast, he never found a groove in 2006 after reporting to training camp only six weeks after his motorcycle crash in Pittsburgh, then needed an appendectomy the week of the season opener. The Steelers started 2-6 before finishing 8-8 during former coach Bill Cowher's 15th and final season.
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