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SPORTS / THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 2010 / THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN / KANSAN.COM
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QUOTE OF THE DAY
"The one man team is a complete and total myth."
-Don Shula, former Miami Dolphins coach
FACT OF THE DAY
Four Kansas players are averaging more than 10 points per game this season: Sherron Collins, Xavier Henry, Marcus Morris and Cole Aldrich.
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TRIVIA OF THE DAY
Q: How many players on the 2008 National Champions averaged more than 10 points per game?
A: Four. Brandon Rush, Mario Chalmers, Darrell Arthur and Darnell Jackson all averaged double digits.
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SCORES
NCAA MEN'S BASKETBALL:
No. 4 Purdue 60, No. 9 Ohio State 57
No. 6 Duke 81, Miami (Fla.) 74
No. 7 Kansas State 91, Nebraska 84
No. 8 West Virginia 88, Providence 74
No. 12 New Mexico 83, Wyoming 61
No. 15 Texas 82, Missouri 77
No. 16 Brigham Young 92, Colorado
State 70
No. 18 Butter 73, Illinois-Chicago 55
No. 20 Tennessee 69, Georgia 60
No. 21 Temple 73, St. Bonaventure 55
No. 25 Richmond 84, Fordham 56
Oklahoma State 69, Iowa State 64
Oklahoma State, Colorado 77
NCAA WOMEN'S BASKETBALL:
NCA WOMEN'S BASKETBALL:
No 3 Nebraska 60, No 13 Iowa State 50
No 6 Xavier 80, Dayton 79 (OT)
No 12 Texas 62, Kansas State 41
No 14 Georgetown 54, South Florida 50
No 15 Texas A&M 69, No 17 Oklahoma State 52
No.18 Baylor65.Texas Tech48
Athletes move on after scandals
MORNING BREW
This week, two iconic sports figures will re-enter the public eve after
different forms of cheating devastated their reputations. Mark McGwire is returning to the baseball world as a coach, and Tiger Woods will address the media tomorrow for the first time since his Nov. 27 car accident.
STEROID SCANDAL
Mark McGwire is officially back in baseball. He arrived in Jupiter, Fla., Wednesday for the start of spring training in his new job as hitting coach for the St. Louis Cardinals.
McGwire recently admitted to taking steroids during the course of his career. His career peaked in 1998 when he broke the record for most home runs in a single season.
He cheated the game of baseball.
we encounter the game of basketball.
But unfortunately, when McGwire was playing, countless others were also using performance enhancement drugs. We may never know the true extent to which Major League Baseball players used steroids in the last two decades. McGwire is a product of the time he played in. If McGwire had been a rookie in the 1960s or '70s, would he have taken steroids?
I respect McGwire for having the courage to apologize for and admit to his mistakes as a player. One thing is for sure: He could hit the ball. It will be interesting to see the kind of job he does teaching
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other players to do the same
INFIDELITY INDISCRETION
Tiger Woods will finally speak to the public tomorrow, according to his agent Mark Steinberg. It will be the first time he has addressed the media since his car accident on Nov. 27. The accident sparked an investigation into his private life and led to allegations of infidelity.
Steinberg said on espn.com that Woods "wants to begin the process of making amends, and that's what he's going to discuss."
Woods' appearance tomorrow will be very private. Only hand-picked members of the press will be allowed to attend, and Woods will not take questions. Because Woods is a role model, some people are extremely upset with the allegations that he cheated on his wife with multiple women
Woods is often referred to as the best
golfer in the world. With great power comes great responsibility, right?
However, what Woods does in his private life is his own business, and it's not our place to judge him.
He doesn't owe us anything.
Woods competes in golf tournaments for a living, and we pay to watch him. No one is forcing us to do that. If businesses want athletes to endorse their products, then they need to understand that professional athletes are faced with overwhelming temptations. As a company, you take the risk of these types of scandals ruining the reputation of your spokesman when you ask that person to endorse your product.
No one is perfect, not even the best golfer in the world.
Edited by Allyson Shaw
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Woods schedules press conference for Friday
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ORLANDO, Fla. _ Tiger Woods is set to make his first public appearance since his extramarital escapades became worldwide news, with the announcement of a Friday briefing at PGA Tour headquarters to apologize for his infidelity.
Golf's No.1 attraction will
take the podium at 11 a.m. EST on Friday at the TPC Sawgrass clubhouse, though his appearance could be very short. Reports say Woods will make a statement and will not take questions.
Attendance also will be limited to "a small group of friends, colleagues and close associates," according to a two-paragraph statement sent via e-mail.
"While Tiger feels that what happened is fundamentally a matter between he and his wife, he also recognizes that he has hurt and let down a lot of other people who were close to him," the statement continued. "He also let down his fans. He wants to begin the process of making amends and that's what he's going to discuss."
Woods has not appeared publicly since late November, when he crashed his SUV into a fire hydrant and a tree outside his Isleworth driveway in an apparent hurried wee-hours departure from his home the day after Thanksgiving.
Reports quickly surfaced that Woods had carried on affairs with several women.
Skier Lindsey Vonn of the United States celebrates after winning a gold medal in the women's downhill during the 2010 Winter Olympics Wednesday.
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OLYMPICS
Lindsey Vonn wins first gold for US in downhill
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WHISTLER, British Columbia _ Forget about the bruised shin, the controversial magazine pictures and all the other hype. American Lindsey Vonn left all of those distractions along with her competitors behind Wednesday on her way to making Olympic history.
With the win, Vonn, a 25-year-old from Minnesota, became the first American woman to win the Olympic downhill with a scorching time that beat her teammate, Julia Mancuso, who happily settled for a silver medal. It was the first time American women won two Olympic medals in the same Alpine event.
"I dreamed about what this would feel like," Vonn said, "but it is much better in real life."
U. S. women's coach Jim Tracy says in six Olympics he's never had an athlete perform so well under so much
Elisabeth Goergl of Austria was third, 1.46 seconds behind Vonnis 1-minute, 44.19-second run and 0.90 seconds behind Mancuso.
"That pretty much tops it," Tracy said. "(In the past) when we did well at the big events, it wasn't expected."
"I think Americans perform well under pressure," Vonn said. "We don't hold anything back.
"I think Americans perform well under pressure. We don't hold anything back."
Her saving grace may have been the weather. The same weather the rest of the world has griped about all week and left Wednesday's course so bumpy and hard that six skiers wiped out and failed to finish.
Vonn entered the Games as America's biggest star having dominated the
Three days of weather delays couple with therapy that included applying cheese to her
LINDSEY VONN American skier
She applied numbing cream and, yes, cheese to reduce the pain and swelling before the race, but she said "it hurt the entire way down the course"
World Cup circuit the last three seasons. She stirred up controversy with a fashion-meets-the-slopes Sports Illustrated cover picture and a steamy layout in the swimsuit edition.
a pair of ski boots.
shin, helped her recover enough to reclaim her form.
But the Olympic dream suddenly seemed in doubt a week before the Games when Wonn suffered a deep shin bruise in a slalom training accident. She went a week without putting on
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Vonn and
Mancuso race again Thursday in the super combined, one downhill run, follow by a slalom run. While the slalom will be the most difficult test yet on Vonn's shin, no outcome can ruin what happened Wednesday.
"The pressure for me is gone," Vonn said. "I got exactly what I came here to get."
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THIS WEEK IN KANSAS ATHLETICS
TODAY No events scheduled
Softball vs. Sam Houston State in Houston, 1 p.m.
FRIDAY Softball vs. Louisville in Houston, 11 a.m.
Track
SATURDAY
Women's Basketball
vs. Texas, 1 p.m.
Track
ISU Classic/Tyson Invitational
Ames, Iowa/Fayett
ville, All Day
Softball at Sam Houston State, 3 p.m.
Men's Basketball vs. Iowa State, 7 p.m
Track
Softball at Houston, 7 p.m.
vs. ISU Classic/Tyson Invitational, Ames, Iowa/Fayettville, Ark., All Day
SUNDAY
vs. Iowa, 10 a.m
Softball
vs. Ohio State in Houston, Texas, 11 a.m.
Tennis
MONDAY
tennis vs. South Dakota, 3 p.m.
MONDAY
Men's Basketball
at Texas A&M, 8 p.m.
TUESDAY
Men's Golf at Rice Intercollegiate, All Day
TUESDAY
Women's basketball
at Colorado, 8 p.m.
Men's Golf at Rice Intercollegiate, All Day
WEDNESDAY
WEDNESDAY
Swimming
at Big 12 Championships,
College Station, Texas,
all day
BIG 12 BASKETBALL
Ken Starr on hand for Bears' 20th win
WACO, Texas _ Not long ago at Baylor, a 20-win basketball season was a rare occurrence worthy of a celebration.
Now it's part of a three-year streak, something that almost got lost following an 88-70 win over Texas Tech in front of new school president Kenneth Starr.
"It means a lot. It means a lot," said senior guard Tweety Carter, who remembers the hard times. "I'm loving my teammates and just enjoying the wins we're getting."
To put the recent success in perspective, the No. 22 Bears (20-5,7-4 Big 12) had recorded only three 20-win seasons in the history of the program when coach Scott Drew arrived following the tragedy and scandal of the Dave Bliss era.
Starr, the one-time Clinton-era independent counsel, took off his jacket to reveal one of the black-and-gold T-shirts worn by the "Bear Pit" fans, drawing loud applause.
"It's an honor and a pleasure to welcome our new first lady, Alice Starr, and her distinguished husband, Kenneth Starr," Briles said.
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