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SPORTS / TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2010 / THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN / KANSAN.COM
QUOTE OF THE DAY
"I was like, 'They're acting like we haven't won a game in like 10 years.' Then I was like, 'Wait a second..."
Steven Johnson
FACT OF THE DAY
Kansas plays Southern Mississippi this Friday and it will be the first time Kansas football has ever traveled to the state of Mississippi.
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TRIVIA OF THE DAY
Q: When is the last time the Jayhawks played a non-Saturday, non-conference road game?
A: In a 37-34 loss to Southern Florida in 2008.
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CORRECTION
In Monday's football rewind, Kale Pick was listed as 18-of-29 for 179 yards, three touchdowns and an interception, and Jordan Webb was listed as 0-for-1 with no touchdowns or interceptions. The stats were flipped. The Kansan regrets the error.
FOOTBALL
Springer honored by Big 12 Conference
Senior linebacker Justin Springer had a career week against Georgia Tech on Saturday. Now, the Big 12 is recognizing his performance.
The conference named Springer its Defensive Player of the Week on Monday. He recorded a career-high 15 tackles, three for loss,
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in the 28-25 victory against the No.15 Yellow Jackets.
Averaging 11.0 tackles per game, Springer ranks second in the Big 12 and is tied for 20th in the NCAA.
Now at 22 tackles in two games, he is already just three tackles shy of his 2009 total.
The last Jayhawk to receive the honor was Maxwell Onygebule for his game against UTEP in Sept. 2009.
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Vick shouldn't be undervalued
MORNING BREW
Michael Vick deserves the chance to start. Yes, he was the financial backbone of, and willing participant in, the infamous Bad Newz. Kennels dog-fighting ring, but he has served his debt to society (just an hour away in Leavenworth) and is now financing the rehabilitation of many of the dogs rescued from his home in Surry County, Va.
On Sunday I saw him take over for the injured Kevin Kolb against my beloved Packers. Immediately, I was worried. Vick's legs gave him a dimension previously unseen among the ranks of NFL quarterbacks. His play yesterday was reminiscent of the Vick who became an icon in Atlanta.
When Kolb was under center the Eagles offense faltered, the players barely being able to move the ball. And when the pocket collapsed Kolb couldn't escape the pressure brought by the Packers. Kolb faltered, put up only 24 yards passing and was sacked twice.
Vick also took a few sacks, but was able to escape even more and then scrambled down field dodging tackles on his way to leading everyone on the field with 103 rushing yards.
Currently the Eagles want to use Kolb as the main play caller, and spell him for Vick when they want to change the pace up.
BY ETHAN PADWAY epadway@kansan.com
This is a complete waste of Vick's talents. At the end of the fourth quarter the Packers' defense was visibly gassed from chasing Vick all over the field. And with Vick under center defenses have to dedicate defenders to try and keep Vick from running, which takes defenders away from covering explosive receivers DeSean Jackson and Jeremy Maclin.
Vick reminded me of Willie Beamen, the explosive QB played by Jamie Foxx in Oliver Stone's 1999 film, "Any Given Sunday," especially in the scene in which Beamen tells a reporter how he is unstoppable when he gets his "invisible juices" flowing.
Eagles coach Andy Reid, Vick's coach, is kidding himself if he believes that Kolb gives the Eagles a better chance to win.
If Vick gets another game or two under
his belt we will see his "invisible juices" start to flow. And he will turn the Eagles into the team to beat in the NFC East.
Or Reid can try and develop the young Kevin Kolb and prepare for the future. But even though Vick is 30, his football age is because he missed two years of the NFL while he was incarcerated. And last season a certain someone up in Minnesota proved that age might actually just be a number.
COLLEGE FOOTBALL
Michael Vick is a once-in-a-generation talent and it is time he is let out of the doghouse and back onto the football field.
Edited by Michael Bednar
Cyclones fail early test against rivals
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AMES, Iowa — Iowa State will get plenty of chances to test the program's progress this season.
The Cyclones failed the first test miserably.
"They physically manhandled the line the scrimmage for the first 30 minutes," Iowa State coach Paul Rhoads said. "We had no chance to establish
No. 9 Iowa whipped the Cyclones every way it could on Saturday, Iowa State lost 35-7 on an afternoon that showed just how far Iowa State has to go if it hopes to hang with the nation's top teams.
The Hawkeyes controlled both lines of scrimage and carved up the Cyclones defense for 28 points in the first half. Iowa State was forced to put it in the air in the second half in an attempt to make a game of it, but quarterback Austin Arnaud threw three
the third quarter alone.
Iowa State had the ball for just 9:25 in the first two quarters and gained only 85 yards. The Cyclones converted just one of six chances on third down, were held to 30 yards rushing and punted four times in the first half.
during the first half at Iowa
Granted, Iowa has one of the nation's best defenses. But Iowa State's offensive ineptitude kept its worn-out defense from getting even one decent breather, and their fatigue showed as the Cyclones gave up two quick scores after Iowa's first two long touchdown drives.
Iowa State's lone score, an 8-yard touchdown pass from Arnaud to Darius Darks, came late in the fourth quarter after
"They physically manhandled the line of scrimmage for the first 30 minutes."
PAUL RHOADS Iowa State coach
The Cyclones offense, which looked solid in a 27-10 win over Northern Illinois in the opener, found little space to work with
lish the run game, and it's hard to throw the ball when they can take 11 guys and just defend your passing game."
With No. 6 Texas, No. 7 Oklahoma, No. 8 Nebraska and No. 14 Utah still left on the schedule, it could be a long fall in Ames.
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Iowa State opens Big 12 play on Saturday against Kansas State in Kansas City.
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Iowa's offensive line opened gaping holes for Adam Robinson and Jewel Hampton, including a 75-yard run by Robinson that set up Iowa's third touchdown.
Worse, Iowa State lost line-backer Matt Tauri'oou to a broken leg in the first half. He'll be out indefinitely, Rhoads said Monday, which will test a unit that was probably the thinnest of the Cyclones had to begin with.
The Cyclones allowed 275 yards rushing, on 5.5 yards per carry, and they didn't force a turnover.
Sophomore A.J. Klein will shift from outside to middle linebacker to cover for Taufoo. Six-foot, 207-pound sophomore
Matt Morton will likely make his first career start on Saturday, and Rhoads said that Morton has shown both speed and the ability to play physical despite his sleight frame.
Jacques Washington, a 200-pound reserve safety, has been pressed into linebacker duty and will back up Morton.
"I don't think you always have to be 230 pounds to play linebacker if you can be where you're supposed to be and be physical doing it," Rhoads said.
Life doesn't figure to get any easier for the Cyclones in Kansas City.
435 yards a game in wins over UCLA and Missouri State, and sensational running back Daniel Thomas has rushed for 371 yards through two games.
Saturday's matchup with the Wildcats should go a long way in telling whether the Cyclones simply had a bad day against one of the nation's top teams or if they've got glaring weaknesses that'll be tough to cover up.
Kansas State has averaged
"We didn't come as ready to play as we could have, and we gave up too many big plays," Iowa State linebacker Jake Knott said. "It kind of shows you where we're at, and that we still have a lot of improving to do."
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EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. The woman sports reporter at the center of a reported Jets' sexual harassment controversy accepted the apology of team owner Woody Johnson for the behavior of his players and coaches at their practice facility Saturday.
"He was very concerned about the situation," Sainz said of Johnson. "He told me that he expected all the members of his team to have good behavior and he is not tolerant about anything. I explained to him that I did not want to be a problem for you and for your team, and I did not want to distract anybody (from the game)."
Ines Sainz, 32, was in attendance at New Meadowlands Stadium for Monday's season opener against the Ravens.
Harrassed reporter accepts apology
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"He told me, 'No, no. I want to be responsible for that and apologize for the team. No woman needs to feel like that in the locker room."
A sports reporter for Mexico's Azteca TV, Sainz spent the pregame on the Jets' sideline and made her way to the press box once the game began.
Though she said she did not believe any comments directed at her Saturday were "sexually aggressive", Sainz acknowledged feeling uncomfortable in the situation.
"Yeah, I was (uncomfortable)," Sainz told The Record. "When you hear the players talking about you, saying something like, 'I want to live in Mexico', I know that the players are joking around. But, OK, it's not the best place to be. I'm just not going to think about it."