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USA's Rulon Gardner waves the American flag following his gold medal win against three-time Olympic gold medalist Alexandre Kareline, Russia, in the Greco-Roman 130 kg final wrestling match at the XXVII Summer Games in Sydney in 2000. Gardner and two Uttah men were rescued by a Lake Powell fisherman Sunday after surviving a small plane crash near Good Hope Bay on Saturday.
Gold medal wrestler survives plane crash
SALT LAKE CITY — Olympic wrestling champion Rulon Gardner lost a toe to frostbite after being stranded in the wilderness, impaled himself with an arrow and was involved in a serious motorcycle accident.
BY DOUG ALDEN ASSOCIATED PRESS
In his latest escape from death, he survived a plane crash over the weekend into the aptly named Good Hope Bay on the Utah-Arizona border.
"I think I'm really lucky," Gardner told CNN on Monday, "after everything I have been through."
Gardner and two Utah brothers were rescued by a fisherman Sunday after swimming more than an hour in 44 degree water and spending the night without shelter.
None suffered life-threatening injuries, authorities said.
"It takes only about 30 minutes for someone swimming in 44-degree water to start suffering the effects of hypothermia, so the fact that they swam in it for an hour, not to mention surviving the plane crash and the night without fire or shelter, is pretty amazing," said Steven Luckenstein, a district ranger at Glen Canyon National Recreation Area. "If these guys were a cat with nine lives, they
just used up three of them."
Since delivering one of the great Olympic upsets at the 2000 Sydney Games, the 35-year-old Gardner has had a history of harrowing escapes.
In 2002, he became stranded while snowmobiling in the Wyoming and lost a toe. Then in 2004, he was struck by an automobile while riding a motorcycle. Back in third grade, he punctured his abdomen with an arrow at a class show-and-tell.
In his latest brush, Gardner was a passenger in a Cirrus SR 22 with pilot Randy Brooks and brother Leslie. They were looking at a houseboat from the air when the plane dipped into the water, Garfield County public information officer Becki Bronson said.
The lesson, Gardner said, is "hopefully teach people to be smarter about the choices they make."
"The plane went from 150 mph to none in about 2 seconds," Gardner told CNN. "Within about a half a second is when we knew that things went from a beautiful day, a beautiful afternoon, all the way to a pretty bad situation."
Authorities were uncertain of the exact location of the crash and were investigating the cause.
Once they were rescued, Gardner and the brothers called a relative to take them for medical attention.
tonight is highly unlikely, they will have to quiet the hitters.
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"We played them my first year," Price said. "We beat them two out of three, but they've won their conference like nine years straight."
Junior third baseman Tyler Warmerdam went 2-4 with one RBI in the Golden Eagles' last game to bring his average to 250.
Oral Roberts has no. 300打击 threat, but they have plenty with potential. Senior first baseman Chad Rothford leads all of this afternoon's players with three home runs. The All Mid Continent Conference first team performer also leads his team with a pair of doubles and is tied
Kansas packed a few weapons of its own.
Junior left fielder John Allman went a solid 7-15 against Stanford this weekend, spiking his team-leading batting average to .410, while fellow outfielder Kyle Murphy continued to follow Allman's lead.
for the lead with six RBI.
the senior Murphy tagged a career-high four hits against Stanford on Sunday and went 5-12 in three games, trailing Allman slightly in the batting average race at .394.
Nevertheless, Price and his team will come out swinging tomorrow. Price said that getting some of his guys back on track is a goal for tomorrow's match-up, probably much like Oral Roberts.
Marcel (1-0, 4.50) will get the nod tomorrow afternoon for Kansas. In Friday's loss to Stanford, Marcel came in to relieve starter Nick Czyz. Marcel allowed one run off of two hits while retiring just two batters.
Allman and Murphy are the only jayhawks hitting over .300. Kansas is hitting just .267 as a team, which should match up fairly evenly with Oral Roberts .235队 average.
Kansan sportswriter Alissa Bauer can be contacted at abauer@kansan.com.
Freshman left-hander Wally
"They need a win as bad as we do." Price said. "They've also had a tough two weeks opening up."
Edited by Joe Caponio
NFL
Rams let stalwart guard go Super Bowl teammate plans to keep playing football
BY R.B. FALLSTROM ASSOCIATED PRESS
ST. LOUIS — The St. Louis Rams on Monday released guard Adam Timmerman, a team stalwart who played in two Super Bowls for the team.
Timmerman was informed by Rams coach Scott Linehan that he was being released from the club, his agent, Mark Bartelstein, said.
Timmerman, 35, has no plans to retire.
"I think they just wanted to make a change," Bartelstein said. "It's a difficult thing for Adam. He feels great and he's looking forward to having a great season.
"His body feels great and he's ready to go. This is a tough part of the business."
The Rams were expected to announce the release on
Wednesday.
Timmerman had both shoulders operated on after last season and ended this season with a rib injury.
Bartelstein, based in Chicago, said it could happen as early as Tuesday. Linchan was at the NFLs annual scouting组合 in Indianapolis.
away from Green Bay in free agency after the 1998 season.
The Rams signed Timmerman
He became part of the starting lineup at right guard and stayed there the next eight seasons, playing in 10 playoff games and two Super
season and playoff, since his rookie season in 1995 with the Green Bay Packers. He missed the Rams' last three games with cracked ribs, ending that run.
The Rams brought in a young offensive line interior that included Richie Incognito at Timmerman's right guard spot.
"He feels great and he's looking forward to having a great season. His body feels great and he's ready to go."
Timmerman built a streak of 204 consecutive games, both regular
Bowls for the Rams and earning two Pro Bowl berths.
MARK BARTELSTEIN Adam Timmerman's agent
Incognito will have that spot at the start of training camp.
Rams offen- sive coordi nator Greg Olson said in January that the team has some "aging veterans up front who
have done a tremendous job for the team," but who eventually would be replaced.
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like Billy Gillispie has at Texas A&M. The entire starting lineup can hit shots, and they play great defense.
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So who should Kansas hope to play? Kansas would love to play anyone from the Big Ten conference, even Ohio State led by Greg Oden. That conference does not impress me and I don't know how it impresses recruits. The game scores are usually in the 40s or 50s and it must be difficult for the fans to get excited for 15 straight possessions of passing the ball around the perimeter, leading to a clanked three. There are some great coaches in that league, just not good players. If you watched Ohio State's 49-48 win over Wisconsin on Sunday, you were probably just as bored as I was.
Colaiani is a McLean, Va. senior in journalism and political science.
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