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the university daily kansan
off the bench
wednesday, march 10, 2004
Free for All
Call 864-0500
For all of you David Padgett haters:
What now? Also, good block Christian Moody.
David Padgett, you got lucky. You still suck.
Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you.Happy birthday Wayne Simien.Happy birthday to you.
Nick Bahe is the sexiest guy on the KU basketball team. I am in love with him and I want to have his baby.
Kansas athletics calendar
TODAY
Baseball vs. Tabor, 3 p.m.
TOMORROW
Men's Basketball at Big 12 Tournament, TBA
FRIDAY
Men's Basketball at Big 12 Tournament, TBA Track and Field at NCAA Indoor Championships, all day.
day
Swimming and Diving at Zone D Diving
Chrominance all day.
Tennis vs. Oklahoma State, noon
Tennis vs. Arkansas-Little Rock 3 p.m.
Baseball vs. Arkansas-Little Rock 3 p.m.
SATURDAY
Men's Basketball at Big 12 Tournament, TBA Track and Field at NCAA Indoor Championships, all day
swimming and Diving at Zone D Diving Championships, all day
Softball at Southern Illinois Tournament, TBA Baseball vs. Arkansas-Little Rock, 1 p.m.
SUNDAY
Men's Basketball at Big 12 Tournament, TBA
Swimming and Diving at Zone D Diving Championships, all day
Tennis vs. Texas Tech, noon
Softball at Southern Illinois Tournament, TBA
Baseball vs. Arkansas-Little Rock, 1 p.m.
LACROSSE
Lacrosse team brings home overtime win, shut-out defeat
The University of Kansas women's lacrosse team split two games at the University of Iowa last Saturday.
In the first game of the day, Kansas defeated Lindenwood University 5-4 in double overtime.
Lindsey Johnson, St. Louis, Mo., junior, scored three goals and Karen Schmletz, Overland Park sophomore and Jessica Wright, Derby sophomore, scored the other two.
In the second game, Kansas lost 8-0 to Wisconsin. Wisconsin fired four early goals in the second half to seal the victory. This was only the second time the Kansas women's lacrosse team has been shut out. The other was in 2000 against Truman State.
The Jayhawks' next game is Saturday, March 13, in St. Charles, Mo. Kansas will play the University of Minnesota-Duluth and the University of Missouri. Kansas has never played Duluth before and is 0-5 against Missouri.
Kansan staff reports
BASEBALL
Gobble fighting for roster position as starting pitcher
SURPRISE, Ariz. — Jimmy Gobble couldn't be doing much better in his efforts to make the Kansas City Royals pitching staff.
Gobble, a 22-year-old left-hander from Bristol, Va., is 1-0 and has not allowed a run in his first two appearances.
He has held opposing batters to a. 118 average, walking none and striking out four in five innings.
There are at least two vacancies in the Royals' rotation and Gobble has the early lead to secure one.
The Royals needed Gobble's help last August when they had five starters on the disabled list late in the season.
They summoned Gobble from Class AA Wichita, where he was 12-8 with a 3.19 earned run average in 22 starts.
Gobble allowed just one hit in three innings Monday in picking up a victory against the San Francisco Giants.
Gobble won his first two big league starts against Tampa Bay, while not allowing a run in 12 innings. He finished with a 4-5 record and a 4.61 ERA in nine starts.
Left-handers Darrell May and Brian Anderson are assured rotation spots, while Jeremy Affeldt, another lefty, is a cinch for one of the top three spots if the finger blister problems that have hampered him the past two seasons don't reappear.
The Associated Press
Whooooosh!
Matt Lammert, Seattle senior, threw a pitch to batter Lantz Tolson, McPherson sophomore, while they played Whiffle ball in front of Watson Library yesterday afternoon. "We're preparing for our summer games," Lamert said.
KitLeffler/Kansan
University unorthodox but successful
The Associated Press
PHILADELPHIA — Practice was in full swing, with Jameer Nelson leading a three-on-one fastbreak and Delonte West charging up the wing. A perfect picture of what makes Saint Joseph's run so well.
Just beyond the baseline, three little girls in frilly dresses crayoned their coloring books.
Near midcourt, two dads parked baby strollers.
Then again, it's hard to argue with the results on Hawk Hill: a 27-0 record, the first No.1 ranking in school history and
Over in a corner, some tots tossed a tennis ball off the wall, occasionally dodging loose rebounds.
Is this any way for a top-ranked team to hold a scrimmage?
a chance to become the first team to
Piling players into a van, taking them to a high school gym and letting anyone wander in?
Sure would be hard to imagine Bob Knight, Jim Calhoun or Coach K doing it like this.
enter the NCAA tournam ent unbeaten since UNLV in 1991.
Pretty nifty for the Jesuit university with only 3,400
undergrads, no athletic dorms and a cramped, cinderblock home court that looks more like an intramural gym.
Tucked in west Philadelphia, the campus sits across the street from a Dollarland store and is bounded by Overbrook Avenue — as in Overbrook High, where Wilt Chamberlain rose to fame.
"I'm getting all I deserve here. I can't ask for more," star point guard Jamee Nelson said. "I'm not greedy. I would love to play in a 15,000-seat gym, but that doesn't matter to me. That 3,500 seems like 35,000."
The NBA, however, has not drafted anyone from Saint Joseph's since 1987.
And when the Atlantic 10 needed
Alumni Memorial Fieldhouse for its women's tournament, Martelli gladly moved his workout.
"the whole thing, it's like a movie," athletic director Don Dijlaja said.
But which movie — Hoosiers, where the tiny school overcomes all odds to win, or that Philly classic Rocky, where the sentimental favorite loses in the end?
Then there's the Hawk, of course. The mascot starts flapping its wings in warm-ups and does not stop — even for the national anthem — until the final buzzer, about 3,700 times a game.
Three years ago, Sarah Brennan was inside the costume when a Drexel cheerleader knocked her down. Bruised and lying on her side, she kept flapping one arm.
"My beak hit the floor and cracked," she said last week. "But we're just relentless."
And then she repeated the battle cry of all Saint Joseph's fans: "The Hawk will never die!"
True:
Still, this is no Duke or Stanford. No
Dean Dome, Rupp Arena or Pauley Pavilion is in sight.
Pawtucket. "We don't have everything they have," Martelli said. "But the locker room doesn't play the game. The coach's office doesn't play the game. We are what we are."
Usually. that's unflappable.
In January, though, Martelli snapped and called a St. Bonaventure fan a "nitwit."
When he got home, the coach wrote her an apology.
Picked No. 17 in the presesion poll, the Hawks beat Gonzaga in their opener and kept winning.
opener and keep open.
Their next game is Thursday night in the quarterfinals of the Atlantic 10 tournament, against the St. Bonaventure-Xavier winner.
With a team that sometimes plays four guards and was outrebounded 984-904 this season, the Hawks have plenty of doubters.
How far they go depends on Nelson and West, along with their opponents inside game.
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