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QUOTE OF THE DAY
"We got the team spirit up again and we just really looked into what K-State does. We got to watch them play Nebraska this past Thursday. I think we are very ready, and we have a few more practices this week just to get everything corrected and make sure we're on the same page."
- Kansas wide receiver Daymond Patterson on the Jayhawks 'bye week.
FACT OF THE DAY
*Kansas is 3-1 against Kansas State*
*in its last four meetings.*
- - — KU Athletics
TRIVIA OF THE DAY
Q: When was the last time Kansas started 0-2 in conference play?
A:2006
-KU Athletics
NHL
NEWARK, N.J. — Alex Goligoski and Mark Letestu scored goals within a three-minute span covering the first and second periods to lead the Pittsburgh Penguins to a 3-1 victory over the undermanned New Jersey Devils on Monday.
Devils off to worst start since 2001
The Devils fell to 0-2-1, their worst start since the 2001-02 season.
The Devils played the game with a franchise-low 15 healthy skaters due to injuries to Anton Volchenkov and Brian Rolston. They also waived forward Pierre-Luc Letourneau-Leblon just as he was supposed to begin one-game suspension.
Associated Press
'Slaughter rule'isn't acceptable
MORNING BREW
While covering the Kansas softball team last week, I saw Kansas work hard, play smart and slaughter Johnson County Community College.
And when I say "slaughter," I mean the game was called because of the lead that Kansas had amassed.
As a reporter, I was excited to include this feat in my article.
As a sports fan I was thoroughly disappointed.
I think it is beyond ridiculous that at the college level, games are being called for a lack of offense.
I do agree with the "slaughter rule" when it pertains to kids in Little League games. As far as kids go, it's acceptable in my book to protect children from suffering a terrible loss that could discourage them from any sport.
But at the ages of 18 and up, it's time to start approaching the game as adults.
These players do not need to be babied. From a historical standpoint, how can there be record books if the games aren't even
BY BLAKE SCHUSTER
bschuster@kansan.com
able to be finished?
Imagine if in the midst of a no-hitter during Phillies-Reds playoff game, the home-plate umpire came up to Roy Halladay and said, "Look Roy, you're throwing a great game, but today is clearly not Cincinnati's day. We're just going to end its misery now."
Furthermore, who is to say a team can't make a comeback? Just because some scores can make players wonder why they ever wanted to play the game doesn't mean a comeback isn't plausible.
I believe that once a game is started and the players have committed to it, it's their responsibility to finish the game and play to
the best of their ability. They owe it to the fans who come to watch, but more importantly they owe it to themselves, as they devote their time to the sport.
This is not to take away from Kansas. The softball team played an all-around great game, and it deserved the win. But it should be celebrating the win after the ninth inning, not the seventh.
If players and referees can't hold themselves to that standard, it's time they find a new activity to fill their time.
Edited by Anna Nordling
Senior honored after Iowa State win
VOLLEYBALL
BY IAN CUMMINGS icummings@kansan.com
ors. Freshman defensive specialist
The league office named senior defensive specialist Melissa Manda the Big 12 Volleyball Defensive Player of the Week Monday afternoon.
It's the second time this season that a Kansas volleyball player has earned player-of-the-week hon-
Brianne Riley was named Big
12 Rookie of the Week Sept.
20.
M a n d a
reached a personal best of 32 digs in Saturday
Manda
night's match against No.10 Iowa
State, tying the record for any Big 12 player this season. The match marked the first time the Kansas volleyball team has defeated a top-10 opponent. Manda was perfect in all 32 service receptions Saturday and helped limit Iowa State's offense.
Beyond her remarkable performance on defense, Manda contributed three assists and
the two consecutive service aces that closed out the second set for Kansas in its 3-1 victory.
The last time two Kansas players earned player-of-the-week honors was in 2008, when senior outside hitter Karina Garlington and junior sister Nicole Tate earned weekly awards.
Edited Alex Tretbar
Scoring six seconds apart breaks record
period, and the St. Louis Blues went on to a 5-1 victory over the slow-starting Anaheim Ducks on Monday.
Backes scored at 3:53 when he sneaked down the left side after an Anaheim turnover and fired in David Perron's centering pass. T.J. Oshie won the ensuing faceoff
at center ice, got the puck back from Patrik Berglund in the high slot and fed it to McDonald near the left circle.
McDonald beat Ducks goalie Jonas Hiller with a wrist shot at 3:59 to make it 2-0.
The two goals in a 6-second span broke the previous club
NHL
record of 7 seconds apart set by Don McKenney and Frank St. Marseille on Jan. 24, 1968, against the Minnesota North Stars.
ST. LOUIS — David Backes and Andy McDonald broke a 42-year-old franchise record by scoring 6 seconds apart early in the first
Matt D'Agostini scored twice and B.J. Crombeen added a short-handed goal for St. Louis.
Associated Press
Women's Golf
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All Day
Las Cruces, N.M.
WEDNESDAY
Volleyball Baylor 7 p.m. Waco, Texas
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TODAY
THURSDAY
Football
Kansas State
6:30 p.m.
Lawrence
THIS WEEK IN KANSAS ATHLETICS
FRIDAY
Swimming & Diving
Swimming & Diving
Arizona Quad Duals
Arizona, Arizona State,
New Mexico State, UNLV
2 p.m.
Tucson, Ariz.
Soccer Texas Tech 7 p.m. Lubbock, Texas
SATURDAY
Swimming & Diving
Arizona Quad Duals
Arizona, Arizona State,
New Mexico State, UNLV
2 p.m.
Tucson, Ariz.
Volleyball Oklahoma 6:30 p.m. Lawrence
Cross Country NCAA Pre-Nationals Invitational TBA Terre Haute, Ind.
HOMECOMING OCT.18-24
5-11 p.m.
3 vs. 3 basketball
Student
Recreation
Fitness Center
10 a.m.-2 p.m.
Monday Funday
Wescoe Beach
MONDAY, OCT. 18
5-9 p.m.
3 vs. 3 basketball semifinals/finals
Student Recreation
Fitness Center
10 a.m.-2 p.m.
Chalk 'n' Rock
Wescoe Beach
TUESDAY, OCT. 19
WEDNESDAY, OCT.20
10 a.m.-2 p.m.
Construction
Wescoe Beach
8:30-10:30 a.m.
Office Decorating
Contest
Various offices
2-7 p.m.
Stuff the Bus
Dillons on 23rd
Street
7:30 p.m.
Hypnotist
Frederick Winters presented by SUA
Woodruff Auditorium, Kansas
Union
6-8 p.m.
Homecom-
ing Food Fest
featuring Jayhawk
Jingles
Adams Alumni
Center
THURSDAY, OCT. 21
10 a.m.-2 p.m.
Crimson and Blue
Day
Wescoe Beach
5:30-7 p.m.
Homecoming
Reception
Adams Alumni
Center (invitation
required)
FRIDAY,OCT.22
10 a.m.-2 p.m.
Mural Contest
Wescoe Beach
2 hours before
kickoff
Pancake Breakfast
Stauffer-Flint Lawn
2 hours before
kickoff
Homecoming
Parade
Jayhawk Boulevard
SATURDAY, OCT. 23
Official Rock Chalk
Roadtrip T-shirts
can be purchased at
the Adams Alumni
Center and Home-
coming events for
$10 and $15 while
supplies last.
Halftime
Presentation
Ex.C.E.L. and
Homecoming
Awards
Memorial Stadium
Time TBA
Time IBA
KU vs, Texas A&M
Football Game
Memorial Stadium
SUNDAY,OCT.24
2 p.m.
Jayhawk Jog
Kansas Union
(kids' fun run
starts at 1:30)
THROUGHOUT THE WEEK
Scavenger Hunt KU Campus
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