KANSAN.COM / THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN / TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 2011 / SPORTS / 9A
QUOTE OF THE DAY
"Every year we have a good team and since Coach has been here we have been winning the Big 12, but to never win there is very surprising. My freshman year we didn't win there, but we still won the Big 12, so maybe it's just a jinx or something."
-Junior forward Marcus Morris on Bill Self never winning in Lubbock, Texas.
FACT OF THE DAY
The Big 12 is the only conference with every team listed in the top 100 NCAA RPI (Rating Percentage Index).
Big12sports.com
TRIVIA OF THE DAY
Q: What was the record of teams in the top 25 last week?
A: 22-20
Kansas Athletics
Snow days turn competitive
MORNING BREW
Winter is a pretty sad time for intramurals here on campus. Sure, there are sports like basketball, ractetball, indoor soccer, and some exotic-sounding sport called Wallyball, but there's really no way to satisfy your competitive spirit in the great outdoors.
But what can you do? It's not like there are any outdoor sports to play in Lawrence — that's just how winter is, right?
Wrong. As the 15th Winter X Games demonstrated last week, a little cold and snow is no reason to confine sports to the indoor. In fact, it would be tragic to waste the opportunities that come with glorious snowfall.
Now, maybe we don't exactly live in a place like Aspen, Colo., where there are no shortages of winter extreme sports venues. But with a little creativity, this campus could be full of thrilling outdoor competitions that take advantage of blizzard conditions instead of shying away from them. Here are just a few examples of the intramural events that should be happening today.
Sidewalk luge: Don't tell me you've never looked at the hill behind Watson Library and imagined taking a tiny sled down the sidewalk. All it would take is a little icing of the sidewalk and wed instantly have a perfect luge run. Start on Jayhawk Boulevard a.d. run all the
BY JOEL PETTERSON jpettterson@kansan.com
way through the neighborhood to 19th street. The luger who makes it down in the fastest time without hitting any pedestrian wins a coveted intramural champion t-shirt.
Campus biathlon: This is more of an Olympic sport, but it'd work great at the University. It's that bizarre competition that combines two completely unrelated skills - skiing and rifle marksmanship - on a long-distance course. Targets could be set up along the length of campus, ending with a thrilling downhill finish. Periods between classes would be especially exciting as competitors would need to take extra care not to shoot fellow students near the targets.
Big-air sledding: The most sensational events of X Games are the Big Air competitions - when perfectly sane people take skis, snowboards and snowmobiles off of ridiculously huge jumps and earn points for doing tricks and not breaking limbs. Stick a giant ramp at the bottom of Daisy Hill, grab some sleds, and we could have our very own Big Air competition. It would surely be a crowd-pleaser, plus med students could get some practice setting broken collarbones.
Parking garage ski cross: Ski cross, or "Skier-X" is a relatively new competition that puts five or six skiers on a narrow, high-speed course and waits to see who can get to the bottom first. It's essentially NASCAR on ice. No wonder it's so fun to watch. The Kansas Union parking garage is useless in snow anyway, so it would be ideal for this sport. Since no one in Kansas can ski to save their lives, the multi-skier crashes would be fantastic. I'd stand out in negative wind-chill to watch that.
So there's no reason why winter should be any less fun than any other season. Recreation Services, the ball's in your court.
Edited by Marla Daniels
COLLEGE BASKETBALL
Wildcats' turmoil continues with Wally Judge's departure
Kansas State coach Frank Martin says forward Wally Judge has quit the team.
Martin announced the departure of the 6-foot-9 sophomore Monday afternoon, quoting Judge as saying he was unhappy.
Judge had been in and out of the Wildcats lineup this season.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
He played in 17 of Kansas State's 22 games, averaging 5.5 points, 3.8 rebounds and 15.2 minutes. He started 11 games early in the season but missed five for personal or disciplinary reasons.
Martin said he wasn't surprised.
"I kind of saw it coming with some of his emotional situations," Martin said at his regularly scheduled news conference. "He just has
not been enjoying it. He told me today that he thinks it's time for a change."
His departure is the latest tremor in what started as a promising year for the Wildcats (14-8, 2-5 Big 12), who began as preseason favorites to win the conference but now rank only above 1-6 Iowa State in Big 12 play.
Freddy Asprilla, a 6-10 junior
college transfer who had been expected to add heft and offense inside this year, abruptly quit the program last week in early January.
The Wildcats are 5-6 overall since Dec.21, when senior guard and acknowledged team leader Jacob Pullen was suspended for three games and forward Curtis Kelly for six after questions were raised about clothing they had obtained at
a Manhattan department store.
Kansas State won 29 games last year and advanced to the quarter-finals of the NCAA tournament.
Judge
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