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SPORTS / MONDAY, AUGUST 30, 2010 / THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN / KANSAN.COM
QUOTE OF THE DAY
"What does a mama bear on the pill have in common with the World Series? No cubs."
— Harry Caray
FACT OF THE DAY
Mark Mangino lost his first game as Kansas coach 45-3 to Iowa State. Turner Gill's debut is Saturday against North Dakota State.
Kansas Athletics
TRIVIA OF THE DAY
Q: Turner Gill is the 10th head coach in the last fifty years of Kansas football. What is the record of the previous nine coaches in their first career game?
A: 2-7. The only wins belong to Terry Allen and Don Fambrough. KANSAS ATHLETICS
Kansas Athletics
MLB
Red Sox fall further back in AL East race
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Carlos Pena and Carl Crawford homered to back James Shields and help Tampa Bay retain a share of first place in the AL East with a 5-3 victory over Boston on Sunday night.
Keeping pace with the New York Yankees, the Rays rebounded from losing the opener of a crucial weekend series to win two straight and drop the third-place Red Sox 6½ games behind in the division and wild card.
Associated Press
Rapper drops Jayhawk anthem
MORNING BREW
Consider Krizz Kaliko's "Game On" a well-rapped gift for Kansas Athletics.
The single, released as a free MP3 download last week, will already be heard by fall tailgaters. It's also easy to imagine lines like "Ball in my right hand/left hand a school book" booming as pre-game jump shots fall in Allen Fieldhouse.
So, Athletics, invite Kaliko to perform the track at Late Night in The Phog. The song has been received with a pop by fans young and old. Even Missouri fans have been caught admiring its flow. Better, the Kansas City rapper jumped at the idea when discussing it last Thursday.
"I'm very open to it," Kaliko said. "I would love to partner up with them."
would love to partner up with them. I sat down with Kaliko, his cousin Makzilla and Strange Music label-mate Tech N9ne in the lobby of Spring Hill Suites a few hours before they took the stage at The Granada.
Kaliko and Makzilla, also a longtime Jayhawk fan, wrote the song last spring. Last week's release was as much the product of a chance encounter as it was carefully thought out timing.
"We just shot the video 'Elevator' in Vegas this weekend and when Tech and myself and Travis (Guinn) were flying back, we were on the plane with Bill Self," Kaliko said. "And so when I saw him I was like, 'this has got to be meant to be.'"
Kaliko caught up with Self and told him he had a KU anthem for him. Self had Kaliko send him a copy through e-mail and the song soon hit the web just days before their Lawrence concert.
Tech N9ne and Krizz Kaliko are two of the most successful independent hip hop artists on the planet. That sentence would
BY STEPHEN MONTEMAYOR
montemayor@kansan.com
be a healthy dose of hyperbole were it not true. "Game On" is a song that can be played in good conscience for all ages at a given game. As mentioned, its musical quality even draws praise from ardent Mizzou supporters. Even, admittedly, Tech N9ne.
"That song is a no brainer, dude," Tech said. "I can listen to it before a show."
Let's have some fun with this. Late Night in the Phog seems a perfect opportunity. That doesn't make it the only one.
"I don't want to force anything on them," Kaliko said. "But if they want to reach out to me, I would probably want to do all kinds of stuff from videos to performing a halftime show or before they come out."
So there it is. Full reign given to Athletics to do what it will with a KU anthem that caught like wildfires out west this time of year. Unsolicited advice from these quarters suggests a phone call be made (if it hasn't already) inquiring into Krizz Kaliko's availability on Oct. 15.
Fans and players would be plenty amped. Need further persuasion? I'm sure Self's recruits attending that night would be pressed to not find it another reason to be wowed.
Edited by Tim Dwyer
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Krizz Kaliko performs at The Granada, 1020 Massachusetts
St. Thursday. His new song references KU basketball.
THIS WEEK IN KANSAS ATHLETICS
Matt Galloway
The service will run two hours before kickoff and one hour after the game ends. Each bus will display "#11 Downtown/Football Service" on the front.
NFL
of the Riverfront parking garage, located at the 600 block of New Hampshire. From there, fans are charged a $1 per passenger fee for round-trip service.
TODAY No events scheduled
TODAY
Roethlisberger to meet with Goodell
SDAY Volleyball vs. UMKC 6:30 p.m.
DENVER — Ben Roethlisberger gave way to his backups after a quick night's work. Now, he can get ready to make his case for a shortened suspension, too.
FRIDAY Volleyball vs. Akron 12:00 p.m.
NFL spokesman Greg Aiello confirmed during Denver's
Volleyball vs. Arkansas 7:00 p.m.
Soccer at Northwestern 7:00 p.m.
Cross Country
Bob Timmons Classic
9:00 a.m.
Lawrence, Kan.
Volleyball
vs. Chattanooga
1:00 p.m.
Football vs. North Dakota State 6:00 p.m.
The Downtown-to-Memorial Stadium service, a bus route from the 900 block of New Hampshire to the stadium, will be available for all seven home games.
Parking will be free of charge at the New Hampshire Street parking garage and at the ramps
Shuttle runs from downtown to game
SUNDAY
Soccer Illinois State 1:00 p.m. Normal, Ill.
TRANSPORTATION
Students looking for a safe way to and from Memorial Stadium this fall have an affordable designated driver to help their commute.
Men's Golf Turning Stone-Tiger Intercollegiate All Day Verona, N.Y.
34-17 win over Pittsburgh on Sunday night that commissioner Roger Goodell and Roethlisberger will meet soon, but he declined to say when or where the meeting would take place.
Roethlisberger was suspended for six games after being accused of sexually assaulting a Georgia college student in March.
Associated Press