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Freshman guard Angel Goodrich prepares to slip a pass inside the lane.
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her well.
"There's always room for improvement," Goodrich said.
At Sequoyah High School in Tahlequah, Okla., Goodrich led her team to three AAA state titles and one runner-up finish. She also earned All-State honors as a spinner for the track team in 2006. After her senior year in 2008, averaging 14 points, six assists, five steals and four rebounds per game, Goodrich was hyped as one of the top point guard recruits. But her highly anticipated freshman season at Kansas was cut short after she tore her ACL in just the second practice of the season.
"I was crushed," Goodrich said.
"I couldn't believe it."
Goodrich was a redshirt player last year, which preserved her four years of eligibility while she rehabilitated from reconstructive surgery. While on the sidelines, she earned a spot on the 2008-09
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"My parents always said, 'Under a "B". no sports', Goodrich said.
Now she's taking her wisdom back to the court, completely healthy and ready to lead Kansas to supremacy.
"She has a very high knowledge of the game of basketball," Morris said.
And many believe that Kansas hasn't even seen the best Goodrich has to offer. Despite her advanced maturity on the floor, Goodrich's game should continue to develop.
"There's no telling how much better she can get." Morris said.
Just make sure you don't ask the freshman to pass the ball. By the time you're done demanding, it'll already be there.
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Rams try to stay positive despite dismal 1-10 start
ST. LOUIS — St. Louis Rams coach Steve Spagnuolo believes players are still listening to his message and staying upbeat despite the team's 1-10 record. But he won't deny a day off Tuesday will be beneficial.
Spagnolo plans on sticking with his game plan the rest of the way for a rebuilding franchise that's 6-37 the past three seasons. He's counting on veteran team leaders to step up and show character the last five games.
The coach said the true test of players' continuing commitment will come Wednesday when the team returns to practice in preparation for Sunday's game at Chicago.
Former player ordered to pay for back child support
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Former linebacker Dwayne Rudd has been ordered to pay 10 percent of his income for failing to pay more than $540,000 in child support.
U. S. District Court Judge John Nixon gave Rudd a five-year suspended sentence Monday.
Because Rudd's income has changed substantially, he will return to court later after Nixon pinpoints how much back support he owes.
Rudd had been ordered to pay $7,500 per month and he hasn't paid anything since 2004, with the exception of one $10,000 payment which he had been planning on paying for another child.
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bench — like Conner Teahan and
Jordan Iuenmann — deliver.
It lets the players in front of them know they are ready to step up whenever they aren't. Teahan said.
"If we have some guys that aren't playing well or executing, you can be subbed out pretty easily," Teahan said. "You have to always be ready on the bench."
Teahan hit two of his three three-pointers in the last game against Tennessee Tech and finished with eight points in nine minutes. That
kind of performance off the bench may not be enough to get a spot in the rotation late on, but Teahan said he will make the most of it regardless.
"I don't know where it puts me in the future, but I know if I get in there. I'm going to take advantage of everything," Teahan said.
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NBA Raptors can't handle Jamison and Wizards
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Chris Bosh had 22 points and 14 rebounds, Andrea Bargnani had 20 points and 11 rebounds and Jose Calderon added 20 points for the Raptors, who have lost four straight and eight of 10.
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TORONTO — Antwann Jamison had 30 points and 12 rebounds, Gilbert Arenas had 22 points and nine assists and the Washington Wizards defeated the Toronto Raptors 106-102 on Tuesday night.
Arenas had been held below 10 points in each of his past two games, the first time he failed to score at least 10 in back-to-back games since his rookie season in 2002.
Caron Butter scored 19 points, and Brendan Haywood had 15 points and nine rebounds for the Wizards, who have won three of four.
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Boston Celtics' Kendrick Perkins fouls Charlotte Bobcats' Stephen Jackson in the first half in Charlotte, N.C., Tuesday. The Celtics won 108-90.
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Celtics win fifth straight game
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Ray Allen broke out of his shooting slump with 27 points, Kendrick Perkins added 21 points and 12 rebounds and the Boston Celtics cruised past the Charlotte Bobcats 108-90 on Tuesday night for their fith straight victory.
Led by Allen, the Celtics had little trouble slowing the Bobcats, who had won four straight. Entering shooting 30 percent from 3-point range, Allen took only
nine shots, but hit 5 of 6 3-pointers, including one from behind the plane of the backboard with 1 second left to give the Celtics a 62-39 halt lead.
Charlotte never recovered as Gerald Wallace scored just five points after getting into early foul trouble. Nazr Mohammed had 16 points for the Bobcats, who entered giving up a league-low 87.9 points a game.
But the Celtics, on the second game of a four-game trip that next takes them to San Antonio, scored at will inside and out quickly
ended any hopes Charlotte had of erasing memories of their embarrassing 59-point performance in Boston on opening night.
That came before the Bobcats acquired versatile scorer Stephen Jackson, and Celtics coach Doc Rivers joked before the game that they were going to "do some tic-tac-toe" to figure out if the 6-foot-5 Allen guarded the 6-8 Jackson or 6-7 Wallace.
Allen started on Jackson, who immediately posted him and scored in the lane on the first possession. But Wallace picked up
two fouls in 5 minutes and sat out the rest of the half, giving the Celtics matchup advantages.
Stephen Graham failed miserably trying to defend Kevin Garnett, who had 16 points and seven rebounds. Nobody could keep a body on Perkins, who hit 9 of 10 shots and was only five points shy of matching a career high. And the blowout took shape in the first half as Brown stubbornly kept Wallace on the bench.
Wallace entered as the reigning Eastern Conference player of the week.
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Gallinari scores 27 in Knicks victory
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NEW YORK — Mike D'Antoni's offense was as spectacular against the Suns as it used to be with them.
Danilo Gallinari had 27 points and 10 rebounds, and the New York Knicks defeated Phoenix 126-99 on Tuesday night, snapping a five-game losing streak and giving their coach a resounding victory over his old team.
David Lee added 24 points and Al Harrington had 22 for the Knicks, who rang up a season-best 71 first-half points, then blew it open when Gallinari scored seven
points in a span of barely a minute midway through the third quarter.
New York reached 100 points by the end of the third and coated to its easiest victory of the season.
Steve Nash had 20 points and eight assists for the Suns (14-4), who came in with
the NBA's best record. They had won four straight by an average of 21.3 points, but this time found
"I've got enough problems in New York that I don't really reflect on what they're doing."
themselves on the other side of a blowout.
The Suns didn't even reach 100
MIKE D'ANTONI
Suns coach
didn't even reach 100 points, the first time this season that's happened.
ways after a first-round loss to San Antonio in 2008.
He hasn't been nearly as
successful with an inferior roster in New York, where he coached his 100th game Tuesday and recorded just his 36th victory. He improved to 2-1 against the Suns, though said before the game the emotions weren't the same as they were last season.
"I've got enough problems in New York that I don't really reflect on what they're doing," he said.
Phoenix missed the playoffs last season, but has rededicated itself to playing fast under Alvin Gentry and was looking to start 15-3 for the first time since doing so under D'Antoni in 2004-05. But the Suns never slowed the Knicks down for long, even when they went to a zone in the third quarter.
By then, New York was on the way to doubling its 13-point half-time lead. None of the Knicks' previous three victories had come by more than seven points.
New York fell two points shy of its highest-scoring quarter of the season, opening a 39-28 lead. Wilson Chandler (12), Gallinari and Lee (10 apiece) were already in double figures after the first 12 minutes.
The Knicks opened the second quarter with a 9-4 burst, extending the lead to 48-32 on Gallinari's jumper. The Suns cut it to six later in the period, but New York pushed it back to 15, repeatedly getting layups and dunks, and led 71-58 at the half.
Amare Stoudemire, Jason Richardson and Alando Tucker scored 14 points for Phoenix, which ends a four-game trip Wednesday at Cleveland.