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Scherzer NCAA BASKETBALI
FRIDAY, MARCH 31, 2006
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Scherzer entered this season on three preseason All-American lists, surrounded by speculation that he would be the top pick in the 2006 MLB First-Year Player Draft.
He missed his first start of the season after slamming his pitching hand in a car door, but he bounced back with three straight victories to start the season. His second victory came over then No. 1 Florida.
Scherzer's year has been rocky ever since.
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His season took another turn for the worse, though, in his fourth start. On March 10, against Purdue, Scherzer pitched well, striking out eight players in seven innings. But he allowed three runs while his offense was shut out. He took his first loss of the season and hasn't pitched since because shoulder tendinitis.
Ann Heisenbel/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Construction workers fill out the Final Four bracket on the side of the Hyatt Regency building in Indianapolis, Thursday. Indianapolis will play host to the men's Final Four this weekend.
Scherzer said he was healthy now and ready to begin facing Big 12 opponents.
Although his status was uncertain earlier in the week, Kansas coach Ritch Price fully expected to see him pitch in the series and pitch effectively.
And Scherzer's presence alone has Fairchild looking forward to this weekend's matchup more than most.
"I'd be shocked if he wasn't out there," Price said. "He's as good as advertised."
"I'm ready for the challenge." Fairchild said. "I always like it when big name guys are throwing for the other team because that gives me more incentive to go out there and pitch my game."
As for his future, Scherzer will likely be a high draft pick in this spring's MLB draft. For now he is trying to remain focused on what he needs to do as a college pitcher.
"That's really been the challenge this year for me is making sure all the things off the field, stay off the field," Scherzer said.
— Edited by James Foley
LSU success not just about team
BY PAUL NEWBERRY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
INDIANAPOLIS — Glen Davis stood next to the dying man, holding up an IV bag while doctors worked furiously to save his life.
"One of his lungs had collapsed," Davis said, his voice barely above a whisper as he recounted that awful day. "He couldn't breathe. You could see him struggling for air."
In the days following Hurricane Katrina, Davis and the rest of his LSU teammates came face-to-face with unimaginable pain and incomprehensible suffering. They saw children crying out for parents who were swept away by the floodwaters. They saw parents desperately searching for sons and daughters who would never be found. They saw battered bodies and hopeless souls. They saw people die
"It makes you appreciate life at a younger age," said Davis, the Tigers' sophomore star. "You think about the choices you make in life. You want to make sure you go out the right way."
No team at the Final Four comes in with a greater sense of purpose than LSU, which can do more than just win a national championship. The Tigers can give the people back home a reason to celebrate, a reason to believe that everything will be all right, a reason to get on with their lives.
Already, their impact has been profound.
"We've helped the state a lot," said freshman guard Garrett Temple, a second-generation LSU player. "When people watch our games, they forget they're living in a trailer instead of their house in New Orleans. It feels great to know we're making people happy."
If the Tigers are carrying more of a burden than UCLA, Florida or George Mason, they also have reason to be the loosest team in Indianapolis. When you've seen as much agony as these guys have seen,
there's no reason to get all worked up about a basketball game.
"It kind of woke us up," freshman sensation Tyrus Thomas said. "It could have been any of us."
After the hurricane slammed into New Orleans, crumpled the levees and turned the Big Easy into a lake, most of the victims fled inland to Baton Rouge. The Pete Maravich Assembly Center resembled a MASH unit, the wounded scattered all over the Tigers' home court.
That's where Davis got a chance to pitch in.
A man who was hospitalized in New Orleans after a serious car accident had been moved to higher ground, but his condition worsened on the trip to Baton Rouge. While doctors performed impromptu surgery, Davis was drafted to hold the IV bag.
"They made this huge hole in his lung," he recalled. "That was crazy. I had never experienced anything like that before. You want to collapse, but you can't collapse because you're holding the IV up. They're depending on you. That was real, real tough."
There was no getting away from the misery. Temple's mother took in at least a half-dozen of the homeless, both family members and people she barely knew. Two of them are still living with her, trying to put their lives back together.
It was all in vain. Davis watched the man take his final breath.
"We would watch the news and see how much water there was," Temple said. "I can't imagine how they must have felt to see their houses going underwater like that."
Anderson must meet demands
BY ALAN SCHER ZAGIER ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
COLUMBIA, Mo. — New Missouri basketball coach Mike Anderson will earn a minimum of $850,000 annually over the next five years — as long as he "agrees to be a loyal employee" and doesn't bad-mouth the school.
Those clauses are just some of the conduct requirements spelled out in the 22-page employment contract, which was signed Monday and released to The Associated Press on Tuesday through the state's public records laws.
Anderson, who comes to Missouri after four years as Alabama-Birmingham coach, will also be expected to:
—"maintain a mature and rational attitude, keep emotions in control and downplay defeats";
—"establish and maintain a frequent and systematic program of personal communication with the university's administration, faculty, staff and student body":
— "keep public statements complimentary to the athletic program and the university";
make a minimum of 30 public appearances annually at booster lunches, alumni dinners and similar community events.
No such behavioral requirements, nor a stipulated minimum number of public appearances, are found in the contracts of either Missouri football coach Gary Pinkel or Anderson's predecessor, Quin Snyder, who resigned in mid-February with six regular season games remaining.
Anderson's base salary is less than the $1.015 million a year Snyder earned before he left during his seventh season at Missouri.
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