KANSAN.COM / THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN / TUESDAY, JANUARY 26, 2010 / SPORTS
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QUOTE OF THE DAY
"There are really only two plays: Romeo and Juliet, and put the darn ball in the basket."
— Abe Lemons
FACT OF THE DAY
Source: Big 12 Sports
The women's basketball team has the second lowest scoring margin in the conference play, just ahead of Kansas State. The Jayhawks average scoring margin is +7.6 and K-State's average margin is +3.2.
TRIVIA OF THE DAY
Q: Danielle McCray is second in the league in points per game in conference play. Who is first?
A: Oklahoma State senior guard Andrea Riley. She has scored 25.9 points per game in conference play.
Source: Big 12 Sports
SCORES
NCAA Men's Basketball:
No. 2 Kansas 84, Missouri 65
No. 4 Syracuse 73, No. 11
Georgetown 56
NCAA Women's Basketball:
Purdue 63, No.4 Ohio State 61
No.15 North Carolina 81, NC
State 69
NBA Basketball:
NBA Basketball:
Indiana 109, Philadelphia 98
Boston 95, LA Clippers 89
Cleveland 92, Miami 91
Memphis 99, Orlando 94
Atlanta 102, Houston 95
Chicago 98, San Antonio 93
Denver 104, Charlotte 93
Utah 124, Phoenix 115
Portland vs. New Orleans, late
NHL Hockey:
Pittsburgh 4, N.Y. Rangers 2
Calgary, St. Louis, late
Vancouver vs. Buffalo, late
VOLLEYBALL
Former player signs with Slovakian team
Former Kansas volleyball player, Savannah Noyes, has signed a contract to play professional volleyball this spring for the Bratislava club team based out of Slovakia. Noyes played middle blocker for Kansas from 2005 to 2008.
Noyes left Kansas with 54 solo blocks, ninth all-time at Kansas, 434 sets played, fourth all-time at Kansas and a .251 hitting percentage, fifth all-time at Kansas. Former setter Emily Brown also played on the same Bratislava club team in the spring of 2008.
-Zach Getz
MLB
Royals announce changes to outfield
KANSAS CITY, Mo. The
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Kansas City Royals are reshaping their entire outfield and making Jose Guillen their full-time designated hitter.
While introducing newcomer Rick Ankiel on Monday, general manager Dayton Moore said the injury-prone Guillen would be replaced in right field by David DeJesus, last year's left fielder.
The 30-year-old Ankiel will play center and Scott Podsednik, another newcomer, will be in left. Guillen is slated to make $13 million this season.
Ankiel agreed to a free agent contract last week after an unusual career in St. Louis, where he came up as a pitcher but converted to the outfield in 2006.
He was doing well until running into an outfield wall last May, and his production declined after that.
Ankiel says he picked the Royals to sign with as a free agent because they offered him an opportunity to play center.
Associated Press
Never trust a'Moose'man
MORNING BREW
When a man goes by the assumed name of "Moose" you know he's only ever
going to produce brilliant ideas. At least that's what I'd have told you, until recently. Because, in shocking news, a man who calls himself Moose proposed something that, if we're being generous, may be the dumbest thing in the history of the world: A professional basketball league which will require all its players to be "naturally born United States citizens with both parents of the caucasian race."
Now before you go shouting "racist" Moose would like to clarify a few things. First of all, he doesn't hate minorities. He says so himself, and as a former independent professional wresting promoter, you know he's Abe Lincoln levels of honest
Moose simply asserts that white players need somewhere to ply their fundamentally sound trade, free of the bird-flipping and crotch-grabbing shenanigans which he seems to think dominate NBA games.
Moose calls his baby the All-American Basketball Alliance. Aside from the promoting the league, Moose also claims to be the commissioner. Surely he beat out a number of fantastic candidates for that honor, presenting himself as the man to lead this KKK rec league to the owners... Which as of now, is no one.
BY ALEX BEECHER abeecher@kansan.com
Not only are there no owners, there aren't any teams either. Nor are there any cities which have showed the slightest inclination to have one. But perhaps most damningly of all, there aren't even any players yet.
Which may be the most shocking news of all. If Moose is correct, then there ought to be legions of bounce pass-loving, pick-setting, floor-slapping, charge-taking white boys just dying to play in the AABA.
In what other league could JJ Reddick return to national prominence? Come to think of it, Moose could try and comprise an entire squad of ex-Dukies. I can hear it now: At center, Shavlik Randolph! Goosebumps.
Local heroes Kirk Hinrich and Nick Collison could reunite in the AABA as well. Then, Hinrich wouldn't have to take a back seat to Derrick Rose
any longer, and Collison's footwork might finally be appreciated.
But, then again, maybe Hinrich and Collison are content where they are. You know, pulling down millions of dollars a year, competing on the world stage at basketball's highest level, not being complicit in outright bigotry, stuff like that.
No, Moose's league, if it ever exists at all, can only aspire to guys who try way too hard during pickup basketball games. So if you like that sort of thing — sweatbands, floor slapping, yelling "shot!" whenever anyone shoots the ball, Fred Hoiburg, more floor slapping — and happen to be a vitriolic racist, Moose has got the league for you.
Edited by Kristen Liszewski
THIS WEEK IN KANSAS ATHLETICS
TODAY
No events scheduled
WEDNESDAY
Women's basketball vs. Colorado, 7 p.m.
THURSDAY
No events scheduled
FRIDAY
Track
Jayhawk Invitational,
all day
SATURDAY
Women's tennis at Drake, 10:00 a.m.
Women's basketball at Missouri, 5:00 p.m.
Men's basketball at Kansas State, 6:00 p.m.
SUNDAY No events scheduled
An honorable mention
MONDAY
No events scheduled
ASSOCIATED PRESS President Barack Obama receives a personalized jersey from Los Angeles Lakers guard Kobe Bryant, in the East Room of the White House in Washington, D.C. Monday. The presentation was part of a ceremony honoring the Lakers, who were the 2009 NBA basketball champions.
MEN'S BASKETBALL
Wildcats top AP poll by unanimous vote
Kentucky is on top of The Associated Press' college basketball poll, and the Wildcats are a unanimous No.1.
The only unbeaten team in Division I, Kentucky (19-0) received all the first-place votes from the 65-member national media panel Monday, its first time at No.1 since the final poll of 2002-03.
Texas, which was No.1 for two weeks, dropped to sixth after losing to Kansas State and Connecticut.
gan State all moved up one place from last week.
The Wildcats, No. 2 Kansas, Villanova, Syracuse and Michi-
North Carolina (12-7), the defending national champion and loser of three straight, did not receive a vote and dropped out of the poll for the first time since January 2006.
Georgetown, Duke, West Virginia and Purdue rounded out the top 10.
Associated Press
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