MONDAY. MARCH 6, 2006
SPORTS
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN 7P
COLLEGE BASKETBALL
ED PRESS as she dog
Tar Heels knock off Blue Devils
North Carolina's David Noel slam dunks during the first half of the Tarheels game against the Blue Devils Saturday in Durham, N.C. North Carolina beat Duke 83-76.
Freshmen lead team to victory
BY KEITH PARSONS THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
DURHAM, N.C. — North Carolina's precocious freshmen earned another victory on the road, in perhaps the toughest setting.
Tyler Hansbrough scored 27 points, fellow rookie Danny Green came up with the key defensive stop and the 13th-ranked Tar Heels held off No. 1 Duke 83-76 Saturday night in the final home game for J.J. Redick and Shelden Williams.
They ruined Senior Night at Cameron Indoor Stadium.
Bobby Frasor, yet another first-year player, converted two clutch free throws with 23 seconds remaining, and Hansbroun later made two more. That made it a five-point game, and the Blue Devils (27-3, 14-2 Atlantic Coast Conference) were done when DeMarcus Nelson's three-point shot missed everything on the other end.
Marcus Ginyard, the fourth freshmen in the rotation for North Carolina (21-6, 12-4), added 12 points and Frasor finished with 10. Green stripped Duke's Sean Dockery on a drive in the final minute when the margin was only three points.
Redick scored 18 points despite missing 15 of his final 16 shots, and Williams had 18 points, 15 rebounds and six blocks.
The Blue Devils completed the regular season with their first loss to the Tar Heels in Cameron since 2001, and will almost certainly drop from the top spot in The Associated Press poll on Monday.
Even though Duke already wrapped up the No.1 seed for the ACC tournament, they head there having lost two in a row.
Florida State upset them earlier in the week.
GOLF
Tiger hangs on for Doral title
BY DOUG FERGUSON THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Despite a bogey-bogey finish on the Blue Monster, Woods closed with a 3-under 69 for a one-shot victory over David Toms and Colombian rookie Camilo Villegas in the Ford Championship at Doral, his second PGA Tour victory of the year and the 13th time he has successfully defended a title.
MIAMI - Tiger Woods played his best golf when he finally got some competition Sunday at Doral, then was at his worst when it no longer mattered.
Woods finished at 20-under 268 and never lost his lead on a breezy afternoon, and after Toms closed to within one shot with two straight birdies on the back nine, Woods found another gear.
He holed a 12-foot birdie on the 11th, then became the only player to reach the 603-yard 12th in two shots for a birdie to restore his lead to three shots.
Toms made it easier for him
at the end.
Woods, who hit a wedge over the 17th green to make his first bogey of the final round, was in the right rough on the daunting 18th hole, leading by one shot.
He watched Toms run a 60-foot birdie putts some 10 feet past the hole, then miss the par putt for his first three-putt of the week.
Woods only needed a bogey, and it showed. He hit his approach well right into a bunker, blasted out to 12 feet and two-putted for a bogey.
"Anywhere inside the bleachers and I'm fine ... just as long as I can make bogey," Woods said. "A 'W is a 'W.'"
Woods' 48th career victory enhanced his reputation as golf's best closer.
He now is 34-3 when he has at least a share of the 54- hole lead, and he has never lost in 20 tries when leading by at least two going into the last round.
He became the first repeat winner at Doral since Raymond Floyd won in 1980 and 1981.
MEN'S BASKETBALL
Texas takes top seed in Big 12 tournament
DALLAS - Texas and Kansas shared the Big 12 regular season title, but the Longhorns will be the No.1 seed in the conference tournament.
The Longhorns (25-5, 13-3 Big I2) got the No. 1 seed because of the head-to-head tiebreaker, their 80-55 victory against the Jayhawks (22-7, 13-3) on Feb. 25. Both teams will get first-round tournament byes along with Oklahoma (20-7, 11-5) and Texas A&M (20-7, 10-6).
There are four more games Friday, with the first-round winners playing the bye teams, followed by the semifinals Saturday and the championship game Sunday.
The tournament starts Thursday at the American Airlines Center in Dallas with four games.Texas Tech (14-16, 6-10) plays Kansas State (15-12, 6-10) and Colorado (19-8, 9-7) plays Baylor (4-12, 4-12) in the afternoon session; Oklahoma State (16-14, 6-10) plays Iowa State (16-13, 6-10) and Nebraska (17-12, 9-7) takes on Missouri (12-15, 5-11) in the night session.
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ORAL HISTORY WORKSHOP
Learning to Hear the Stories VIII:
HEALING NARRATIVES UNDYING WORDS
Monday, April 10, 2006
Ballroom. Kansas Union
8:00 am - 5:00 pm
Free lunch provided if you
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PLENARY LECTURES
"Shattered Dreams? An Oral History of AIDS Doctors and Nurses in Post-Apartheid South Africa"
Ronald Bayer, Columbia University; Gerald Oppenheimer, Brooklyn College and City University of New York
"Legacies of Health Care Deficit in Under-represented Communities"
Frances C. Henderson, University of Mississippi Medical Center