6B THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
SPORTS
FRIDAY, MAY 5, 2006
Anything you can do I can do better
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Mary Burch, Lawrence pharmacy student, throws Philipp Gehr, Basel, Switzerland, graduate student, onto a crash pad at the Student Recreation and Fitness Center on Tuesday night. Burch and Gehr are both members of the Judo club team that has about 20 members.
KANSAS CITY CHIEFS
Herman Edwards still counting on Priest Holmes
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — New Kansas City Chiefs coach Herman Edwards is counting Priest Holmes in for next season, despite counting him out for minicamp.
Edwards told The Kansas City Star on Wednesday that the Chiefs' three-time Pro Bowl running back will not be with the team when it begins offseason practices in two weeks because he has not been medically cleared.
"I told him, 'Hey, when you get cleared, when you get ready in your mind to get back here,
Holmes, 32, has been recovering from a helmet-to-helmet collision with the Chargers' Shawne Merriman during a midseason game in San Diego. He has been seeing a spinal specialist, Robert Watkins, and has been working out at his home in San Antonio during the offseason.
you need to be back here,"" Edwards said. "So there's no pressure on him by our people, by us, at all."
Holmes has remained mum about his chances to return next season. He was put on injured reserve in November and has been undergoing a battery of neurological tests and evaluations since.
General manager Carl Peterson said before the NFL draft that if Kansas City had to play a game, Holmes would not be cleared. "But we don't have to start today," he said, adding that doctors will evaluate Holmes again soon.
"I haven't really called (Priest) in a while, since he hasn't been cleared," Edwards said. "I would assume he'll probably show up sometime.
something.
"People can interpret what they want. Until you hear it from Priest Holmes that he's not going to play, in my mind, he's playing."
If Holmes does return, it will be as a backup to emerging star Larry Johnson.
After toiling behind Holmes for two years, Johnson rushed for more than 100 yards in each of his nine starts last season, racking up 1,750 yards and scoring 20 touchdowns.
It was enough that one of Edwards' first moves with the Chiefs was to name Johnson the starting running back entering fall camp.
Both running backs will have a veteran offensive line to run behind.
Right guard Will Shields and left tackle Willie Roaf, both 12-time Pro Bowlers who each tooyed with retirement, have decided to return for one more run.
"I thought about (retiring)," Roaf said. "I talked to Will and some of the guys. Then last year we finished so strong at the end of the year. It was great seeing Will come back. That helped."
Kentucky Derby favorite up for sale days before the big race
BY RICHARD ROSENBLATT THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Lawyer Ron was getting a sponge bath, the early morning sunlight glistening off his wet, chestnut coat. On the other side of the barn, the man he is named after was closing a deal to sell the colt, one of the Kentucky Derby favorites.
Business as usual for the four-legged Lawyer Ron.
Business as usual for the two-legged version, Ron Bamberger.
As executor for the estate of Jim Hines, which owns Lawyer Ron, Bamberger sold an interest in the colt Thursday. The sale comes two days before Lawyer
Ron attempts to win the one race Hines longed to compete in.
Asked if he thought the horse knew what was up, trainer Bob Holthus said, "He don't know anything about it." Then added, "And I'm not going to tell him, either."
As if the tale of Lawyer Ron wasn't already fraught with numerous story lines, his 71-year-old trainer was fighting the flu this week, a year after being hospitalized with congestive heart failure.
On Saturday, Holthus will take his best shot at winning with a pupil on a six-race winning tear.
The Arkansas Derby winner is the 4-1 co-second favorite in
“This is probably the best chance I have ever had or ever will have,” Holthus said, “so it would be a great thrill fulfilling what has been a long career.”
a packed field of 20 three-year-olds.
Holthus' fifth and most talented Derby horse came to him courtesy of Hines, a wealthy businessman who owned hundreds of thoroughbreds when he died Feb. 21 of an apparent accidental drowning in the indoor swimming pool at his home. He was 69.
Arkansas Derby.
Hines' death came four days before jockey John McKee guided Lawyer Ron to victory in the Southwest Stakes at Oaklawn Park, which was followed by wins in the Rebel Stakes and the
Now there are more folks with a piece of Lawyer Ron, a son of Langfuhr who has earned $1,220,008 from seven victories in 14 starts. He's 7-for-7 on dirt tracks; 0-for-7 on turf and Polytrack.
Bamberger would not give details, but said an "interest" in Lawyer Ron had been sold to Audrey Haisfield, who owns Stonewall Stallions near Sailles, Ky.
Part of the deal calls for Lawyer Ron to run in the Derby in the blue and white silks of Hines Farm.
The sale of a Derby-bound horse is far from unprecedented, but it's rare when one of the favorites is involved so close to
the race date.
In 2002, War Emblem was purchased for $900,000 less than four weeks before the Derby, and then won the race at 21 odds for trainer Bob Baffert.
"They're all worth more at this moment then ever," Baffert said. "Saturday at 6:10 p.m., most of these horses are going to be a lot less."
Through it all, Holthus has persevered. He's had plenty of practice.
In 1952, when Hill Gail was winning the Derby, an 18-year-old from Nebraska took out his trainer's license.
next winter. He hasn't left, winning 11 training titles along the way, and he's still going strong: This will be his third straight Derby starter.
Holthus, the son of a trainer, won his first race that year with a filly named Colleen, and showed up at Oaklawn Park the
Last year, Greater Good was 13th; the year before Pro Prado finished 13th, too.
"The last two years I had 30-1 shots and people came by to be nice." Holthus said.
This week, his barn is crowded every morning with visitors, from the media to the hundreds of fans allowed to wander the Churchill Downs backstretch.
Even O.J. Simpson made the rounds Thursday. His pick? Lawyer Ron. "I love lawyers, I know all about lawyers," he said, smiling.
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