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SPORTS / WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 2010 / THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN / KANSAN.COM
QUOTE OF THE DAY
"Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you."
Baseball Hall of Famer Satchel Paige
FACT OF THE DAY
The first time Kansas football went 0-2 to start the season was in Mark Mangino's first year as head coach in 2002.
Kansas Athletics
TRIVIA OF THE DAY
Q: How many home games have the Jayhawks lost in their past 227?
A: Four, including three straight.
— Kansas Athletics
WOMEN'S BASKETBALL
Fox Sports to show three games on TV
The women's basketball team will play in three televised games this season, all on Fox Sports Network. The Big 12 Conference announced the telecast for this season yesterday.
Kansas will host two of the televised games, one against Oklahoma on Jan. 23 and the other against Kansas State on March 5. FSN will also show Kansas at Nebraska on Jan. 19.
In all, FSN will be covering 19 regular season games and seven of the Phillips 66 Big 12 Women's Basketball Tournament match-ups this season.
Kansas will start its season on Nov.14, with a game against South Dakota. The Jayhawks return seven letter winners, including three starters from the 2009-2010 season.
Kathleen Gier
STATE
High school RB scores 10 touchdowns in win
JETMORE — Hodgeman County High School running back Evan Kreger could not have had a much better game in the first contest of his senior year.
Kreger scored 10 touchdowns in Hodgeman County's 74-8 win over Pawnee Heights Friday night. And he scored in all phases of the game — running, returning an interception and taking back a punt.
That's a Kansas eight-man record and ties a national eight-man record, according to the National High School Record Book.
Kreger's scores all came in the first half, and the game was called at halftime.
Associated Press
Football gets a woman's touch
MORNING BREW
W here is the right place to make a pre-game speech when coach isn't allowed in the
locker room?
Natalie Randolph is a woman and also the new head football coach at Calvin Coolidge Senior High School in Washington, D.C..
Sure, there's never been a female football coach for high school boys before. And sure, there are doubters everywhere, from parents to newspaper readers to now-transferred players. But that doesn't stop Randolph from firing up her football team like Mike Ditka on a Sunday in '85.
ESPN's "Outside the Lines" recently documented the science teacher-turned-coach's tale. The piece one-on-one interview depicts everything that one might expect out of someone, well, completely dissociated from football, actually.
Randolph's voice squeaks and chimes. Her hair beams from a golden dye. Her earrings glisten and her demeanor is upbeat and peppy. And her goal is clear: academics then football.
"All of the other candidates promised me a winning season, jackets and all," Coolidge principal Thelma Jarrett said. "I'm thinking, that's not what I want."
Randolph impressed Jarrett with a sevenpoint academic plan that included progress reports, behavior contracts and a list of consequences for disobedience.
Alas, the hiring of Randolph came with many of the hardships of a pioneer.
BY MAX ROTHMAN
mrothman@kansan.com
After showering her starting quarterback with tutorials and an expensive visit to a summer passing camp (funded by alumni donations), he transferred to a rival school. So did many others. They simply didn't think they could win with Randolph, a woman, at the helm.
"I knew that was going to happen," Randolph said. "It's a man's sport so far."
But others are going along with the new script and it just might pay off. Team captain and national merit scholar Daniel West pushed his skepticism aside. He now plans to apply to Yale and Columbia to play football.
"She could care less if we won a game, she just wanted me to do something with my life." West said.
District coaching legend Bob Headen, who has sent 14 players to the NFL, was also impressed with Randolph's tale. At age 70, Headen came out of retirement to become a part of her staff.
"When you look at this young lady,"
Headen said, "you're looking at history"
Randolph also has more of a football mind than you might think. Randolph can describe the periodic table in a flash and walk you through the Krebs Cycle with ease, but she also knows about X receivers, men in motion and 3-4 defenses. After all, she once kicked some serious ass playing for the D.C. Divas of the Independent Women's Football League.
Then known for her speed and special teams savvy, Randolph claims that she couldn't have even become a science teacher without playing first.
Football was her confidence booster, and now it's her trail to blaze.
All there's left to do is ...win one for the
grip-ette.
Edited by Joel Petterson
Boise State is talk of college football
ASSOCIATED PRESS
More AP Top 25 voters are buying into Boise State as the No.1 team in the country.
Boise State gained seven firstplace votes and closed in on No. 1 Alabama and No. 2 Ohio State as the top three teams in the first regular season Associated Press football poll held their spots from the preseason.
The Broncos remained third after a thrilling 33-30 victory against Virginia Tech on Monday night, receiving eight first-place votes and 1,399 points from the media panel, 13 points behind the Buckeyes.
Ohio State received four first-place votes and 1,412 points.
Alabama had 47 first-place votes, down seven from the preseason poll, and 1,484 points in the rankings released Tuesday.
TCU from the Mountain West Conference moved up two spots to No. 4, marking the first time since the Bowl Championship Series was implemented in 1998 that two teams from conferences without automatic BCS bids have been in the top five. Boise State is the defending Western Athletic Conference champion.
Texas remained No. 5 and received one first-place vote.
Oklahoma fell three places after
Utah State 31-24.
The rest of the top 10 is Nebraska at No. 6, followed by Oregon, which moved up four spots after beating New Mexico 72-0. Iowa is No. 9.
No. 13 Virginia Tech dropped three spots after Boise State scored a touchdown with 1:09 left to beat the Hokies at FedEx Field in Landover, Md.
No. 8 Florida dropped four spots after a sloppy 34-12 victory against Miami (Ohio) and No. 10
Falling out of the rankings after close opening losses were Oregon State, Pittsburgh and North Carolina. Moving in were No. 20 Utah, No. 24 South Carolina and No. 25 Stanford.
But the big story is Boise State and the Broncos very well could be the talk of college football all season.
Boise State jumped to a 17-0 first-quarter lead, watched that lead evaporate, then needed a two-minute drill capped by a 13-yard touchdown pass from Kellen Moore to Austin Pettis to win its 15th straight game.
They entered Monday with their best preseason ranking and a legitimate chance to be national championship contenders — if they could beat the Hokies and then flawlessly navigate a schedule with no games more difficult than the first.
week. " (The Broncos) outgained Virginia Tech and hung 33 on the Hokies. The last two teams to score more than 30 against (defensive coordinator) Bud Foster's defense — Alabama in 2009 and LSU in 2007 — went on to win the national title.
"This was no fluke," said voter Brett McMurphy of AOL Fanhouse, who had Boise State No. 1 this
"Will Boise? Who knows, but the Broncos deserve the top ranking for this week anyway."
AP TOP 25
The Broncos have finished the last two regular seasons with perfect records, but neither time was it enough to earn them a spot in the national championship game. They beaten out by teams from the so-called power conferences with BCS automatic bids, teams like Alabama from the Southeastern Conference and Ohio State from the Big Ten.
This season could be different. Boise State doesn't have to climb over scores of teams to get into position to contend for a spot in the BCS title game, spots determined in large part by the coaches' poll and the Harris poll.
1. Alabama
"We've just got a long tough hard season, and the bull's-eye will continue to grow, and it's just going to be one game at a time," coach Chris Petersen said.
Boise State was third in the coaches' poll this week, moving up two spots. The coaches also had Alabama first and Ohio State second. The Harris poll is not released until October.
2. Ohio State
3. Boise State
4. TCU
5. Texas
6. Nebraska
7. Oregon
8. Florida
9. Iowa
10. Oklahoma
11. Wisconsin
12. Miami (FL)
13. Virginia Tech
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14. Arkansas
15. Georgia Tech
16. USC
17. Florida State
18. Penn State
LSU
19. LSU
20. Utah
21. Auburn
22. Georgia
23. West Virginia
24. South Carolina
25. Stanford
THIS WEEK IN KANSAS ATHLETICS
TODAY
No Events Scheduled
FRIDAY
Volleyball vs. Winthrop 12:00 p.m.
Soccer
at Cal State Northridge
6:30 p.m.
Las Vegas, Nev.
SATURDAY
Volleyball Northern Iowa 7:00 p.m.
RDAY
Football
vs. Georgia Tech
11:00 a.m.
Volleyball
vs. Arkansas-Little Rock
4:00 p.m.
Cross Country
Missouri Cross Country
Challenge
TBA
Columbia, Mo.
SUNDAY
Soccer
Oregon
12:30 p.m.
Las Vegas, Nev.
MONDAY
Women's Golf
2010 Chip N Club Invita tional
All Day
Lincoln, Neb.
Men's Golf
Fairway Club Invitational
All Day
Nebraska City, Neb.
Selby attends class still can't join team
MEN'S BASKETBALL
Josh Selby attended classes at the University of Kansas for the first time Tuesday, even though he's still not cleared to play for the Jayhawks. Coach Bill Self said he
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hoped something can be figured out within the week.
"I'm hoping that we know something sooner rather than later," Self said. "Sooner
would be this week."
The talented freshman was rated No.1 overall by Rivals.com, but his amateur status is up in the air because of a relationship with Robert "Bay" Frazier, the manager of the NBAs Carmelo Anthony, all of whom are from Baltimore. The questions about the relationship revolve around whether Selby has entered into an illegal verbal agreement to hire Frazier as his manager when he enters the NBA.
"It anticipated that there could be a situation where things could be looked into, absolutely. No question," Self said. "But I didn't think it was going to last until after classes had started."
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