8B THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
SPORTS
WEDNESDAY, MAY 3. 2006
Always count on getting a little wet at the beach
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Kevin Campbell, Leawood freshman, takes a plunge during Sigma Chi fraternity's "Dunk-A-Sig" on Wescoe Beach Tuesday. During the event, people were able to pay to throw tennis balls at a target in an attempt to dunk a Sigma Chi member into a pool of water. The event was part of the fraternity's week long "Derby Days" celebration. Dunk-A-Sig and other Derby Days events are held to raise money for the Children's Miracle Network and the Huntsman Cancer Institute.
FOOTBALL
Chiefs lineman ready for one last run at title
BY DOUG FUCKER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Willie Roaf's mammoth body just turned 36 and he's feeling spry as a cat.
No more sore hamstrings. No more aching knees. And, most importantly to Kansas City fans with dreams of a Super Bowl — or at least their first playoff win in 13 years — no more thoughts
of retirement.
If Larry Johnson is going to rush for 2,000 yards and the Chiefs' aging offense is going to make one last run at a championship, then the Pro Boil left tackle does not want to be left out.
"I feel good," he said. I'm working with the young guys. I'm still strong. I just have to make sure I keep running and take care of my conditioning."
He's even working about as hard as he ever did in postseason conditioning drills. Stopping for an interview on Tuesday after a vigorous workout, his massive
upper torso was drenched with swpat.
going to be his 14th season of trading body blows with very large, very aggressive men who every year seem to get younger and younger.
He's also impressed with first-year head coach Herm Edwards. It was a conversation with his new boss that helped persuade Roaf — who turned 36 on April 16 — to come back for what is
"I had a meeting with coach Edwards. He's a great coach," Roaf said. "He's been around, played in the league a long time. It made sense to come back next year and give it another chance. Talking to him, I just thought we had some unfinished business."
Golfer's book spares little
BY DOUG FERGUSON THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
That would be "Sierra," as in Sierra Tucson, the Arizona clinic where Daly spent three weeks in January 1993 after trashing his Colorado house so badly the police were called.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Typical of how he plays, John Daly holds nothing back in his new book.
Clearly, this isn't the stock variety of PGA Tour player autobiographies.
"John Daly: My Life In And Out of the Rough" will be in bookstores Monday, and no one will mistake it for Ben Hogan's book on the fundamentals of modern golf.
"It's the truth. I'm not going to sidestep anything," Daly said Tuesday. "It brings back memories of stupid stuff I've done in my life, and good stuff. It was honest."
But all anyone really needs to know about Daly is this — he named his second daughter after a rehab center.
PGA
There are stories of how he lost 60 pounds in college by drinking a fifth of whiskey and smoking three packs of cigarettes per day. One of the longest chapters is devoted to sexual exploits with his four wives and a woman he calls "Almost Ex No. 4." In a harrowing account, he writes about the time his father put a gun to Daly's head in a drunken rage.
And it is sure to enhance his grip-and-rip-it reputation.
Some highlights:
— He got disqualified from a junior event in Atlanta when officials found a bottle of whiskey in his bag.
— Forced to lose 60 pounds at Arkansas if he wanted to play on his college team, he once went three days without hardly any food, drinking four bottle-
of whiskey until he passed out in his room and had to be taken to the emergency room.
"But you know what? My cigarettes-popcornwhiskey diet worked." Daly wrote. "The pounds just peeled right off. By Christmas, I lost 65 pounds, I probably ought to have written a diet book or something."
He said he has lost between $50 million and $60 million during 12 years of heavy gambling and owed $4 million to casinos until he won the 1995 British Open, which enabled him to pay off the debt. Daly says Callaway Golf took care of a $1.7 million gambling debt when he signed an endorsement deal in 1997, after his second stint in alcohol rehab.
The second trip to rehab was the Betty Ford Center. For those wondering, Daly's next child was a boy.
No doubt, the book is causing great consternation at PGA Tour headquarters, where commissioner Tim Finchem rarely misses the chance to talk to players about upholding their clean image. Finchem called Daly on Monday to discuss the book. Daly called their conversation "positive," whatever that means.
"It's tough to match what the tour wants with what the publisher wants." Daly said.
Finchem said Monday that nothing in the book violates PGA Tour regulations. The only violation in question falls under "conduct unbecoming a professional," although such conduct isn't spelled out in the players' handbook.
Even if it were, Daly has an answer for that, too.
"My life is unbecoming of a professional," he said. "It's hard to state it in anybody else's words."
Will the book cost him any fans?
"I hope not," Daly said
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