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GAME DAY
Oklahoma State (9-1)
OFFENSE
Sophomore wide -Out Justin Blackmon in领着 the Cowboys offense in receiving with 1430 yards (158.9 yards per game), 16 touchdowns on 84 receptions. Last week at Texas, Blackmon totaled 145 yards on 9 receptions, with his longest reception at 67 yards.
Blackmon
DEFENSE
Senior Andrew McGee has made a team high five interceptions this season. The team as a whole has made 13 interceptions and returned 1 for a touchdown.
McGee
SPECIAL TEAMS
Justin Gilbert has 368 yards returning punts with one return for a touchdown.
Gilbert
COACHING
Mike Gundy, who played four years at Oklahoma State, is 1-0 lifetime coaching in Memorial Stadium, his win came in 2006 when his Cowboys beat the Jayhawks 42-32.
Gundy
MOMENTUM
The Cowboys are riding a 3 game win-streak after losing at home to Nebraska. The Cowboys have won their past two games by margins of 27 and 17 respectfully.
— Blake Schuster
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OKLAHOMA STARTING LINEUP
Offense
Pos. Name Number Year
QB Brandon Weeden 3 Jr
IR Josh Cooper 25 Jr
IR Bo Bowling 9 Sr
WR Justin Blackmon 81 So
WR Isaiah Anderson 82 So
LT Nick Martinez 75 Jr
LG Jonathan Rush 70 Jr
C Grant Garner 74 Jr
RG Lane Taylor 68 So
RT Levy Adcock 73 Jr
FB Bryant Ward 37 Sr
Defense
Okahoma State is 5-1 in Big 12 play this season. A win at Kansas would preserve its one game lead on Oklahoma University, assuming OU wins.
Pos. Name Number Year
DE Jamie Blatnick 50 Jr
DT Chris Donaldson 95 Sr
DT Shane Jarka 46 Sr
DE Ugo Chinasa 91 Sr
SLB Shaun Lewis 11 Fr
MLB Orie Lemon 41 Sr
WLB Justin Gent 42 Sr
CB Andrew McGee 6 Sr
SS Markelle Martin 10 Jr
FS Johnny Thomas 12 Jr
CB Brodrick Brown 19 So
48, Kansas 17
AT A GLANCE
PLAYER TO WATCH
Junior Quarterback Brandon Weeden has passed for 3391 yards this season, with 27 touchdowns, and is looking to add to his totals.
Will the Cowboys be baffled by the new coaching strategy that first year coach Turner Gill has in place with the Jayhawks?
Weeden
QUESTION MARKS
BY.THE NUMBERS
16 Touchdowns rushed for by Senior Kendall Hunter
Amount of points the Jayhawks beat the Cowboys by the last time they played in 2007
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DAILY KANSAN
However, the company's founders still aren't convinced their product is unsafe for consumers.
Four Loko is sold in a 23.5 ounce can, has an alcohol content of 12 percent by volume and contains 135 milligrams of caffeine. That's the same amount of alcohol in four to five beers and the caffeine content of a Red Bull and an espresso shot.
"If it were unsate, popular drinks like rum and colas or Irish coffees that have been consumed safely and responsibly for years would face the same scrutiny that our products have recently faced," the founders said in a statement on their website.
The company's statement said if Four Loko was unsafe, the Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau, the federal bureau that approves alcoholic beverages, should not have approved the products.
Nationally. Four Loko isn't the only drink causing worry.
HISTORY OF CONTROVERSY
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The Food and Drug Administration recently announced it was warning four companies that produce caffeinated, alcoholic beverages that their products are unsafe.
Health officials have raised concerns about mixing caffeine and alcohol. Jenny McKee, health educator at the Wellness Resource Center at Watkins Memorial Health Center, said that mixing the two can lead to problems.
The FDA has been examining these products since November 2009 and concluded that caffeine is an "unsafe food additive."
Alcohol slows down bodily functions like heart rate and breathing while caffeine increases heart rate and alertness. The combination could potentially be heart stopping. McKee said.
alcohol content of the students ranged from 0.12 percent to 0.35 percent. According to blood-alcoholcontent.org, a BAC level of 0.40 can be lethal for more than half of adults.
Caffeine is a stimulant and alcohol is a depressant. The two have opposite effects.
Following these incidents, several states made moves to ban the drink. Lawmakers in New York City and Pennsylvania started asking liquor stores to remove Four Loko from their shelves. The beverage has been officially banned in four states: Washington, Michigan, Utah and Oklahoma.
Freda Warfield, a spokesperson for the Kansas Alcoholic Beverage Control, said the state had been monitoring Four Loko closely.
"We will take any actions necessary to keep our Kansas safe," Warfield said.
Mckee said the drinks could pose health risks even if they do not contain caffeine. She said that some people still might not understand how much alcohol the drinks have, especially Four Loko.
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However, in order to ban the drink in Kansas, legislation would need to be passed. The Kansas Legislature reconvenes January 11.
REACTION
Mike Hathaway, manager of Cork and Barrel, 2000 W. 23rd St., said he expects a spike in sales as a result of Four Loko going decaf.
A problem, McKee said, is that one container isn't one drink.
"I suspect that sales will go through the roof here until they're all gone," he said.
Brad Wandell, a junior from Ellicott City, Md., said he's surprised by the controversy. He said he has been drinking Four Loko for about six months, but never had any problems with the caf-
"If it has three to four drinks, spend three to four hours sipping on it," she said.
pie are having it with it," he said.
"But it's only a matter of time before another product will replace it," he said.
Liston said he thought the buzz around Four Loko would die down soon.
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"We're all going to miss Matt," Cole said. "A day is never going to go by that I don't think about him."
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"There's going to be a hole in a lot of our hearts for a while, including mine," said Cole, a senior from Boston. "Matt was a huge part of all of our lives. He left a hole that's going to be difficult to fill."
Matt was an effortless comedian and everyone's favorite jokester. Even in death, memories such as Cole's could still make people laugh.
Edited by Clark Goble
The circumstances of Matt's death make filling that hole all the more difficult. Ashley Brown, one of Matt's closest friends from high school, expressed her frustrations in a poem she recited from the lectern:
ate a new and outrageous memory together. The laughter that filled the church meant everyone understood at least that much.
The freshman from Baltimore faces a nine-game suspension and a sizable fine for taking impermissible benefits as prospect.
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