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QUOTE OF THE DAY
"Everytime I get the urge to exercise,I lie down until it goes away."
- Mark Twain
FACT OF THE DAY
The Big 12 is 27-5 this season in non-conference games.
Big12Sports.com
TRIVIA OF THE DAY
Q: How many total touch-downs did Big 12 teams score last week?
A:38
— Big12Sports.com
COLLEGE FOOTBALL
Redshirts dismissed from Emporia State
EMPORIA — Three redshirt football players at Emporia State have been dismissed from the team after they were issued misdemeanor citations for marijuana possession.
The Topeka Capital-Journal reported that the university confirmed the dismissals Monday.
An Oct. 28 court date is scheduled for Miguel Johns of Newton and Jackson Bonnette and Orlando Pratt Jr., both from Corpus Christi, Texas. They were cited Aug. 28 for possession in a campus dormitory.
The paper says all three players were freshmen who were redshirt ing this season.
Johns and Pratt were wide receivers, while Bonnette was a quarterback.
Associated Press
Photography gives new angle
MORNING BREW
Watching a Kansas football or basketball game from the sideline is a unique and thrilling experience. I'm not trying to brag, I promise, but working as a photographer for The Kansan since 2008, I've seen my fair share of games from mere feet away from the action. And although many might covet this prime vantage point, I have recently realized that covering sporting events as a photojournalist has had a serious effect on my Kansas fanhood.
Let me explain. I was born in Lawrence months after Kansas won its second NCAA men's basketball national championship. Growing up in Lawrence, I was inundated with Kansas sports. Watching hundreds of football and basketball games on TV with my dad served as my training as a Kansas fan. Late Night in the Phog (back when it was actually Late Night, with the scrimmage tipping off at midnight) was one of the biggest events of the year for me. Not even an early morning date with the ACT stopped me from going my junior year of high school. And while attending games was a special occasion as a kid, some of my best childhood memories resonate from the historic confines of Allen Fieldhouse and Memorial Stadium.
Through good times and bad, my dedication to Kansas sports never wavered. I sat in the rain by myself to watch Bill Whittemore play his final game in Lawrence. I cried when Roy Williams jumped ship for North Carolina. I cried even harder after watching Kansas lose to Syracuse, Bucknell and Bradley in the NCAA tournament.
My freshman year of college I attended every home football and basketball game, and in April of 2008 my wildest Kansas sports dream came true. That fall I began working for The Kansan, and one month into my new job I got the opportunity to shoot the first football game of the season, I was estatic, but it was not until minutes before kickoff that I realized that since I was working the game, I couldn't cheer for my team, or clap to the fight song or sing the alma mater as I was accustomed to doing.
BY RYAN WAGGONER
Photo editor
rwaggoner@kansan.com
Working as a journalist, it is always important to remain unbiased no matter the assignment. That means as a photo-journalist for The Kansan, I can not show any favoritism or support for one team or another when I'm working. So standing on the sidelines of that game against Florida International, for the first time ever, I attended a Kansas sporting event and did not root for Kansas. I did my job, I took pictures, and after the game (which Kansas won 40-10), I was happy about the victory but I did not show it. And so it was for the rest of the season, and the multitude of games I have shot since that day. I've become so accustomed to not cheering for Kansas while I shoot a game, that when I'm not working, it feels strange to actually be able to wear a blue shirt and clap when The Javahaws scores.
Don't get me wrong, my feelings about Kansas sports have not changed. I'm still as big of a fan as I ever have been, but I don't seem to care as much as I used to. I came to this realization on Sept. 4 of this year. Watching the Jayhawks suffer one of their worst losses in recent memory to Division I-AA North Dakota State at
home, I stood on the sidelines feeling no remorse or pain in watching the seconds tick away as KU fell to 0-1 on the season. I didn't share the anguish of the student section and the thousands of fans pouring out of the stadium. I was more concerned about getting my work done. It wasn't until later that night that the loss sunk in, and I became aware of how little I cared about the way the team played while I was shooting the game.
I understand now that while my feelings might have changed, I still love Kansas, just in a more subtle way. My calloused attitude while working the games has had an effect on my fanhood, but I would not trade the experiences I've had for working The Kansan for anything. Sitting courtside at Allen Fieldhouse and following Kansas' teams on road trips have served as some of my best memories from my college years and will provide more through the coming football and basketball seasons. And while I will continue to suppress my true feelings for Kansas sports while working for The Kansan, I will freely wear crimson and blue and wave the wheat after each touchdown again soon: I graduate in May.
Edited by Tim Dwyer
THIS WEEK IN KANSAS ATHLETICS
TODAY
Volleyball Kansas State 7 p.m. Manhattan
FRIDAY
Swimming & Diving
Alumni Meet
4 p.m.
Lawrence
Soccer
Missouri
6:30 p.m.
Columbia, Mo.
SATURDAY
Football New Mexico State K-Club Weekend 6 p.m. Lawrence
Volleyball
Colorado
TBA
Boulder, Colo.
SUNDAY
Soccer
lowa State
1 p.m.
Ames, Iowa
COLLEGE FOOTBALL
NFL
Michigan coach out after heart attack
EAST LANSING, Mich.
Don Treadwell will be on the field handling the head coach's duties as Mark Dantonio recovers from his heart attack.
Treadwell conducted his first practice Tuesday since assuming Dantonio's duties. Treadwell will still call plays and an assistant will go to the box to have "another pair of eyes there."
McClatchy Tribune
MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE
MEXICO CITY - The Mexican sports reporter who's at the center of a sexual harassment scandal with the NFL says those who promoted her case are setting back the cause of equal treatment for women.
"I was really surprised when they start to criticize me and my image and everything, and I said, 'C'mon, it's not the first time you've seen an attractive woman doing her job," she said in an interview with McClatchy.
Sainz offered her thoughts about the case, which she said had made her "the most popular journalist right now in Mexico and Latin America."
She spoke from the office of her production company after a whirlwind 10 days of television appearances and interviews to discuss accusations that she was the subject of sexually charged comments and behavior while she was covering the New York Jets on the
practice field and in the locker room.
A law school graduate, Sainz might seem perfectly cast to press the issue of equal rights. Instead, she's turned against fellow female sports reporters who took the matter to the NFL. In a column Saturday in Mexico City's El Universal newspaper titled "My Sept. 11 in NY," Sainz wrote that her colleagues "have turned back at least 50 years" in seeking equal rights for women.
She voiced annoyance that those who were coming to her defense never contacted her before complaining to the NFL.
"I really feel very disappointed because I really think that the first step they needed to do is to call me," Sainz told McClatchy. "They only want some kind of attention."
The president of the Association for Women in Sports Media, Amy Moritz, a sports reporter for The Buffalo (N.Y.) News, took issue with Sainz's assertion that the group didn't try to communicate with her.
"On our part, AWSM made numerous attempts to get in touch with Ines Sainz in a variety of ways, but we never received a response." Moritz said in an e-mail.
Sainz is one of Mexico's most experienced sports reporters, and her TV network has sent her around the world. She's interviewed some of the biggest names in sports, including tennis stars Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal, Kobe Bryant in basketball and baseball's Derek Jeter and Alex Rodriguez.
She entered the New York Jets' locker room after a game to interview quarterback Mark Sanchez, a Mexican-American, and later Tweeted that she was "dying of embarrassment" because some players had whistled and hooted at her.
The Association for Women in Sports Media lodged a complaint with the NFL, which last Friday reaffirmed an equal-access policy to locker rooms for female reporters, in effect since 1985, and announced a training program for all 32 NFL teams on respectful and professional treatment of female journalists.
When the scandal erupted, Sainz was in New York City with her husband, Hector Perez Rojano, the owner of a television production company. She appeared on a flurry of U.S. television news shows.
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