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SPORTS THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2010 / THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN / KANSAN.COM
QUOTE OF THE DAY
I was enjoying every minute of it. But along the way I forgot about what was most important; I forgot about that dream I had when I was younger."
— Philadelphia quarterback Michael Vick on his new chance at football.
FACT OF THE DAY
Michael Vick is second in the NFL with a passer rating of 110.2.Peyton Manning is first with 116.9.
espn.com
TRIVIA OF THE DAY
Q: How many yards did Michael Vick run for in 2006. his last season with the Falcons?
A:1039
—espn.com
BASKETBALL
Scholarship goes to senior Connor Teahan
With an open scholarship to give, the men's basketball team decided it should go to senior Connor Tehan.
Teahan played his first three years on the team as a walk-on, but his final season will be with one of the 13 team scholarships.
Last season,
Teahan
Teahan played in 19 games, averaging 3.8 minutes per game.
— Corey Thibodeaux
Don't wait to pick up fantasy surprises
MORNING BREW
the fantasy season is three weeks in and surprise players are popu
Sometimes quarterbacks are hard to come by, especially in one of my leagues where we start two of them. I have Jake Cutler, who has proven to be a fantasy stud, and Alex Smith, who is on his way to becoming a fantasy dug. Because I'm technology-impaired, my backup quarterback, whom I originally drafted, had the same bye week as one of my other quarterbacks. I went for Matt Stafford. He is a great pick up for a backup, especially if you have a starter with a late bye week. The team's target for his return is in Week 5 against St. Louis. So, if you are desperate like me, Stafford could be a great pickup from free agency.
in and surprise players are popping up all over the place. If you get the right free agents, they can carry your team to victory. Last season, it was Steve Smith from the New York Giants and Ricky Williams that did it for me. This year my favorite grabs, so far, have been Mark Clayton and Dustin Keller. Let's go over a few key players, position by position.
BY SAMANTHA ANDERSON
sanders@sankan.com
One other quarterback that may be available is Kyle Orton. He's consistently put up great numbers and is just 11 yards behind the league leader Phillip Rivers. People doubt Orton every year, but he still has some great games and the later part of his schedule includes teams like St. Louis and Oakland.
Many of the good running backs have probably been snatched up in most leagues, but if you want to take a little bit of a gamble, I'd go with the Patriots' running back BenJarvus Green-Ellis. This isn't the first time he's been on the fantasy free agent radar — last year towards the end of the season, he was pretty popular as well. Last game he rushed for 98 yards and a touchdown.
His reps have been slowly growing since the beginning of the season, but this could be due to Fred Taylor's injury. The carries could start diminishing as Taylor recovers. The main downside is that he is competing for touches with Sammy Morris as well as Taylor, and the number of touches he gets could just depend on what Bill Belichick had for breakfast that day. He is winning the touch battle right now — Ellis got 16 touches to Taylor's and Morris's six touches — but that could change.
There always seem to be new wide receivers to pick up every week. Right now it's Lance Moore. And instead of saying go for it, I'm going to say wait a week. Moore had a great game, but with him it's a big game or nothing. I had him on my team last year and it seemed that hed get me two points whenever I started him and 20 whenever he was on the bench. I have a hard time believing he's the real deal.
The one player I'd been looking at the past two weeks, but didn't have the guts to grab, is Oakland's Louis Murphy, mainly because he's on the Raiders, and
they are, well, the Raiders. But as they get their quarterback debacle figured out, Murphy continues to improve. He has a great rapport with their current first-stringer, Bruce Gradkowski.
One word of caution, however, patience is always a virtue. You don't want to be the guy that dropped Dustin Keller right before his biggest game of the season. But it is just a game, believe it or not, and scouting free agents is half of the fun.
Edited by Clark Goble
MLB
DENVER — Matt Kemp hit a grand slam and the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Colorado Rockies 7-6 Wednesday to complete a three-game sweep.
A day after eliminating the Rockies from postseason contention, Los Angeles sent them to their fourth straight loss.
Kemp's grand slam propels L.A. past Colorado
Colorado went 1-5 on its final homestand, part of a stretch in which it lost nine of 10 overall. The Rockies finished 52-29 at Coors Field this season, but faded in the races for the NL. West and wild card.
The Dodgers, who are 78-81.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Kemp's slam capped a five-run third inning against Jhouls Chacin (9-11).
The Rockies took a 1-0 lead in the second when Kemp broke in a couple steps on a fly ball by Troy Tulowitzki, who wound up with a triple and scored on Todd Helton's sacrifice fly. Tulowitzki went 4 for 4 with a walk and scored three times.
throwing error and scored on Loney's single.
Olivo led off the third with his 14th home run and first in 124 at bats since July 31.
need to sweep their final series of the season at home against Arizona to avoid their first losing season since 2005.
Ramon Troncoso(2-3) won in relief of starter Carlos Monasterios.
Down 7-5, the Rockies loaded the bases with two out, but Jeff Weaver relieved George Sherrill and got pinch-hitter Melvin Mora to fly out on the first pitch.
Kemp's fifth career slam was one of only two hits in the Dodgers' big inning, with all five runs unearned. Chin-Lung Hu doubled, Trent Oeltjen walked with two outs and then third baseman Ian Stewart muffed Ryan Theriot's grounder. After walking James Loney on five pitches, Kemp connected.
The Dodgers added a run in the fourth on Hu's sacrifice fly, scoring Reed Johnson, who led off with a double. Los Angeles made it 7-3 in the fifth when Oeltjen was hit by a pitch, moved up on catcher Miguel Olivo's
The Rockies scored a run in the ninth, but the game ended on Olivo's lineout with runners on second and third. Ronald Belisario got his second save.
MLB
Eliminated Cards take down Pirates
ASSOCIATED PRESS
ST. LOUIS — P.J. Walters pitched seven innings of three-hit ball and Allen Craig hit a solo shot to help the St. Louis Cardinals to a 4-1 win over the Pittsburgh Pirates on Wednesday.
After allowing an infield single to Andrew McCulchen to start the game. Walters (2-0) set down the next 14 batters before
Ronny Cedeno led off the sixth with a single to center field.
Walters worked four innings of relief last Thursday in Pittsburgh, where he allowed five runs and seven hits. But he was much sharper in his fourth career start, issuing just one walk and striking out four while dropping the Pirates to 16-61 on the road.
Neil Walker drove in the Pirates' only run with a sacrifice fly in the ninth.
Having been eliminated from playoff contention the day before, the Cardinals started a lineup heavy on September call-ups and reserves. With no Albert Pujols (117 RBIs) or Matt Holliday (103 RBIs), St. Louis' starting lineup had driven in a total of 132 runs this year.
Bryan Anderson and Tyler Greene each went 2 for 4 and drove in a run for the Cardinals. Aaron Miles drove in the Cardinals' other run with an RBI single.
The Cardinals got on the board when Craig hit a 2-2 pitch just over the wall.
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