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what we heard "He was over in the passenger side with me.I'm sure he was having a blast." Daytona 500 winner Dale Earnhardt Jr. on his father
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I hope for some reason that it is Missouri fans calling in and saying terrible things about KU basketball because if you are a KU student saying that, you need to be hanged.
earliest, the Rangers and Yankees said. The Yankees already began planning for a Tuesday news conference in New York to introduce the first reigning MVP ever traded.
Has anyone else noticed that Giddens has an abnormally small head?
Those J.R. Giddens photos on the front of the sports page have to be the worst feature photos I have ever seen.
earliest, the Rangers and Yankees said. The Yankees already began planning for a Tuesday news conference in New York to introduce the first reigning MVP ever traded.
This is a note for Wayne Simien: KU isn't paying me a scholarship to work at Steak 'N Shake, so could you please start leaving tips? Thank you.
Christian Moody is the worst basketball player ever and always will be no matter what he does.
I hate all of the fair-weather fans that trash the 'Hawks after a loss. Stay behind your team. Rock Chalk. Jayhawk.
I am sitting here watching the women's basketball game and the reason that we suck is because we have no heart.
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No waiting for punches
Instructor Ethan Day demonstrated a Jiu-Jitsu move on David Tran, Wichita freshman, last night at the Student Recreation Fitness Center. Day teaches Gracie Jiu-Jitsu, a Brazilian martial art that uses leverage and submission to defeat opponents. "There's no such thing as waiting around for punches," Day said, explaining his strategy.
Yankees, Rangers agree on Rodriguez trade; commissioner to make decision
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — Alex Rodriguez moved one step away from playing for the New York Yankees.
New York and Texas finalized the terms of a trade Sunday, and the players' association gave its approval. The last hurdle was for commissioner Bud Selig to OK the deal, a high-ranking baseball official said on the condition of anonymity.
The Rangers will pay $67 million of the $179 million left on the AL MVP's record contract. Texas will get All-Star second baseman Alfonso Soriano and a player to be named.
Selig told the teams he would not decide on the deal until Monday at the
"I was just as surprised as the Yankee fans and the Boston Red Sox fans when I opened up my paper today." President Bush, the Rangers' former owner, told NBC at the Daytona 500. "It, obviously, is a big deal.
... A-Rod's a great player and the Yanks are going to be a heck of a team with him in the infield."
Rodriguez
Texas will wind up paying $140 million for three seasons with Rodriguez. The Yankees will owe him $112 million for seven years.
In New York, he would switch from shortstop Yankees captain Derek Jeter's position—to third base.
Under the deal, the Yankees would pay Rodriguez $15 million in each of the next three seasons, $16 million each in 2007 and 2008, $17 million in 2009 and $18 million in 2010, according to contract information obtained by the AP from player and management sources.
In each of the first four years, $1 million would be deferred without interest, to be paid in 2011.
The trade calls for Texas to pay $43 million of Rodriguez's salary over the remaining seven years: $3 million in 2004, $6 mil-
ion each in 2005 and 2006, $7 million apiece in 2007 and 2009, $8 million in 2008 and $6 million in 2010. In addition, the Rangers will pay the $24 million remaining in deferred money from the original contract, with the interest rate lowered from 3 percent to 2 percent.
All the deferred money owed by Texas $36 million, including salaries from 2001-03 will be lumped with the original $10 million signing bonus, of which $4 million is still owed. The payout schedule will be pushed back to 2016- 2025 from 2011-20.
In exchange for the alterations, which devalue the contract slightly, Rodriguez will receive a hotel suite on road trips and have the right to link his Web site to the Yankees' site.
West gets victory in All-Star exhibition
The Associated Press
In a game featuring 44 dunks and 16 botched free throws—half of the 32 that were attempted—the West defeated the East 136-132 Sunday night.
LOS ANGELES — In an All-Star game that was all about dunks, Tim Duncan's free throw — a rarity on this evening — with 2.1 seconds left provided an anticlimacial ending to the NBA's showcase event.
Shaquille O'Neal was the game's MVP with 24 points in 24 minutes _18 of them on dunks. Kobe Bryant — the other hometown player — added 20 points on 9-for-12 shooting.
"Can you dig it?" O'Neal screamed to the crowd afterward.
They dug it, all right, just not at the end. And they briefly weren't digging Bryant, either, when he casually put in a layup early in the fourth quarter despite being alone ahead of the field.
It was a rare instance of the local crowd treating Bryant poorly, though the booing was very brief and seemed a bit lighthearted.
The glamour and glitz quotient was high, the arena filled with movie stars, beautiful people and celebrities of every ilk. The players gave them a show, complete with a new twist of wearing mismatched sneakers, but the climax was not the type of Hollywood ending everyone would have preferred.
Bryant had a steal and what should have been a 3-pointer with 1:20 left, but the officials only counted it as a 2-pointer — tying the game 131-131.
O'Neal fouled Tracy McGrady with 37 seconds left, but McGrady could only make one of two from the line. The West got the ball to Duncan on its next possession for a 10-foot bank shot that put them ahead 133-132 with 26.1 seconds left.
McGrady's alley-oop pass to Jermaine O'Neal went out of bounds, and Ray Allen's two free throws with 14.4 seconds left put the West ahead by three.
The East got the ball to sharpshooting first-time All-Star Michael Redd for a 3-point attempt, but the Milwaukee Bucks' shooting guard came up short and Duncan was fouled after grabbing the rebound.
He calmly made the free throw, and that was it.
Several of the stars tried to show something out of the ordinary _ aside from the shoes _ in the first quarter. Shaq stutter-stepped as he brought the ball upcourt and took it to the hole, Yao Ming tried a 3-pointer (an airball). Allen Iverson tried unsuccessfully to take Kevin Garnett one-on-one, and Bryant showed off a few streetball moves.
The highlights of the quarter were a pair of alley-oo pass from Iverson to Vince Carter for resounding dunks, along with a lookaway underhanded lob pass from Jason Kidd to Kenyon Martin for another forceful slam.
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