"That was big. I saw history tonight, right before my eyes." Glen "Big Baby" Davis, an LSU-bound forward, about high school senior Candace Parker's landmark victory over five male competitors in the slam dunk contest of the McDonald's All-American High School Game yesterday.
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Kansas athletics calendar
TODAY
Softball vs. Nebraska
TOMORROW
Softball vs. Creighton
Men's Golf at UTSA invitational
Women's Golf at Texas A&M
FRIDAY
Baseball vs. Oklahoma
Track and Field at Texas Relays
Men's Golf at UTSA Invitational
Women's Golf at Texas A&M
SATURDAY
Baseball vs. Oklahoma
Softball vs. Texas Tech
Track and Field at Texas Relays
Tennis vs. Iowa State
Rowing hosts Tulsa and Drake
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I am just glad that the NCAA tournament is on CBS and not on ESPN so I don't have to listen to Dick Vitale talk about Duke in 64 different games.
owners agreed unanimously to lock up Tagliabue, 63, beyond the May 2005 expiration of his current contract, which pays about $5 million a year.
Seeing Wayne Simien on campus today smiling makes me even more proud to be a Jayhawk.
owners agreed unanimously to lock up Tagliabue, 63, beyond the May 2005 expiration of his current contract, which pays about $5 million a year.
I don't know why everyone is so upset about this group of basketball players because they always lose the big ones.
owners agreed unanimously to lock up Tagliabue, 63, beyond the May 2005 expiration of his current contract, which pays about $5 million a year.
If Roy Williams left then why are we still choking in the tournament?
Did Aaron Miles forget his Georgia Tech jersey the last seven minutes of the game?
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Did you know that you can watch Kansas basketball in Costa Rica?
Keep your eyes on the ball
Brittany Brown, Evansville, Ind., freshman, awaited the serve of her teammate, Kristen Steinboch, Lubbock, Texas senior, yesterday on the courts near Robinson Center. The Kansas Women's Tennis team practiced tiebreakers to prepare for their match on Saturday against Iowa State.
NFLowners re-approve instant replay
The Associated Press
Only once last season did a team have two successful challenges.
PALM BEACH, Fla. — NFL owners voted to keep instant replay for at least five more seasons, and they added a twist yesterday: A team successful on two challenges in a game will get a third.
The vote at the NFL meetings was 29.3, with Cincinnati, Kansas City and Indianapolis against the five-year extension on replay.
The owners were given several proposals on instant replay, including one that would have made it permanent. They chose to go with the five-year option and the extra challenge.
The owners also made it clear they want commissioner Paul Tagliabue around for the next few years.
Tagliabue will be offered a contract extension of as long as three years, Steelers owner Dan Rooney said. The 32
He's expected to get about $8 million a year under the new deal.
Upcoming matters the league faces are negotiations for a new network television contract — the current eight-year, $17.6 billion deal expires after the 2005 season — and an extension of the collective bargaining agreement with the NFL Players Association.
"He's taken the league to a new level," Rooney said of Tagliabue, who replaced Pete Rozelle in 1989. "The television situation is phenomenal, the relationship with the players' union is great. We're entering an important period, and we want him to continue to lead us through it. It's obvious what we think of him."
"We've had back-to-back stewardships not seen anytime before in any league," retiring Ravens owner Art Mod-
ell said of the Rozelle-Tagliabue years.
Several other rules changes will be voted on either yesterday or today.
Changing overtime to allow both teams a possession is unlikely to be approved.
An expansion of the playoffs from 12 to 14 teams won't be on the agenda after Kansas City withdrew the proposal. Although many coaches said they favor the idea, the Chiefs felt there wasn't enough support among the owners, and the competition committee was strongly opposed.
The committee also recommended instituting 15-yard penalties for choreographed celebrations and suggested some minor changes to the fair catch rule that will eliminate any returns by the receiving team once the signal is made.
and market, we are 32nd out of 32," said Irsay, who went into his own pocket to pay a record $34.5 million signing bonus to quarterback Peyton Manning, last season's co-MVP. "There has to be some way to create a shift there, and it's the issue in the NFL right now, revenue sharing."
Tagliabue predicted renewal of the NFL Trust, through which teams share revenues from the sale of licensed merchandise. Washington's Daniel Snyder and Dallas' Jerry Jones want to market their own products without cutting in others, although neither has indicated opposition to the NFL Trust. They do seek modifications.
Concern about the disparity in cash flow between the 32 teams has been a main topic of the meetings. Rooney, Buffalo's Ralph Wilson and Indianapolis' Jimmy Irsay expressed their concerns Monday.
"With our stadium and ticket pricing
That concerns small-market owners.
BOWLING
"I can't see why we're talking about selling a few more bobblehead dolls in Buffalo." Wilson said. "And I wonder how many Cowboy hats Jerry is going to sell there. There's a far more fundamental issue: the money disparity that will end up making it a league of haves and have-nots."
University bowling teams advance to championships
The University of Kansas bowling team was busy over break, qualifying for the Intercollegiate Bowling Championship April 17 in Tulsa, Okla.
The men's bowling team finished a qualifying tournament in Lexington, Ky., second with a team score of 13,078.
Kansas' women finished third at the tournament with a total of 11,292.
Kansan staff reports
Men's team member freshman Rhino Page finished second overall in the tournament and sophomore Kelly Zapf won the tournament for the women.
BASKETBALL
CBS will show documentary on Kansas basketball legend
The program will air at 3:30 p.m. during coverage of the NCAA national men's basketball championships.
Former University of Kansas basketball star Wilt Chamberlain will be the focus of a new documentary to be aired on CBS on Sunday.
The University Archives supplied about 25 hours of footage and 180 photos to the project by Black Canyon Productions.
"From a KU point of view Wilt Chamberlain is part of the KU legend," said Bill Myers, library spokesperson.
Patrick Cady
FOOTBALL
Chiefs pick up new defensive tackle from Denver Broncos
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Defensive tackle Lional Dalton agreed to a two-year contract with the Kansas City Chiefs, the team announced yesterday.
Terms of his contract were not disclosed.
Dalton, 6-foot-1, 315 pounds, had 17 tackles and one sack in 12 games for the Washington Redskins last year. He spent the 2002 season with the Denver Broncos after entering the NFL in 1998 with the Baltimore Ravens.
The Associated Press
BASEBALL
Beltran helps Berroa attempt to avoid sophomore drop-off
PEORIA, Ariz. — In his second season with the Royals, reigning AL Rookie of the Year Angel Berroa has a pair of Kansas City examples to follow when it comes to avoiding a sophomore slump.
Bob Hamelin hit .282 with 24 home runs to win the award in 1994, and was out of the majors four years later.
Carlos Beltran hit .293 and 22 home runs in 1999, and followed up his rookie of the year selection with a successful career that's expected to yield a major free-agent payday after this season.
"I don't know how it's going to be," Berroa said of 2004. "I'm just working hard and trying to get another good year. We'll see what happens."
Berroa edged out New York Yankees outfielders Hideki Matusi to win the rookie award last year, when he hit .292 with 17 home runs, 21 stolen bases and 92 runs scored. He's been working with Beltran to avoid a second-year drop-off, a fate that belfell the Royals center fielder in his second year.
"He's just not thinking about what he has to perform this year. He's just going out and playing the game, playing hard, going out and having fun," Beltran said. "That's the best way to go."
The Associated Press
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