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BY B.J. RAINS
[email protected]
The 16,300 fans at Allen Fieldhouse
for the Jayhawks Nov. 18 game against
Florida Gulf Coast wont be the only wit-
nesses to the raising of the 2008 National
Championship Banner into the rafters.
The banner will be lifted live on ESPN
during a special live broadcast of ESPN
College GameDay airing from Chapel
Hill, N.C., before North Carolina hosts
Kentucky later that night.
Its going to be really exciting, sopho-
more center Cole Aldrich said. Its going
to be a special night.
A temporary commemorative banner
will be raised during Late Night in the
Phog on Oct. 17 and will remain in the
south rafters of the fieldhouse all season.
The official banner which will look
identical to the four national champion-
ship banners and will read National
Champions 2008 will be raised along-
side those banners in the north end of the
fieldhouse during a pregame ceremony
before the Jayhawks host Florida Gulf
Coast in the second game of the CBE
Classic.
Even seeing the temporary banner
go up at Late Night is going to be sweet,
Aldrich said. I mean, thats one of the rea-
sons why I came here, to help Kansas win
a national title. We had a great year last
year. It was the most fun Ive ever had play-
ing basketball. Seeing the banner go up is
going to be special.
ESPN is airing a special on Nov. 18,
showing 23 consecutive hours of live
college basketball games, starting with
Memphis hosting UMass at 11 p.m. In all,
the ESPN family of networks will televise
14 games, including one womens game,
Iowa at Kansas, which will be at 1 p.m.
ESPN was planning that special day,
and we told them what our plan was and
they were all for it, Associate Athletics
Director Jim Marchiony said. It will be at
some point during the show, we dont have
that worked out yet.
Aldrich and the Jayhawks hope this
wont be the only national championship
banner they see raised during their time
at Kansas.
Coach Self told us at the ring ceremony
that once you win one, you get greedy and
want to get another one, Aldrich said.
Once you get that second one, youre
going to want a third. Once you reach that
top pinnacle in sports, you always want
to get back, and thats what were trying
to do.
Edited by Mary Sorrick
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Lifing of national championship banner to air live on ESPN
lAWRenCe
BY ANDY GREENHAW
[email protected]
The owners of The Gaslight Tavern
announced last week that it would shut
down within the next two months, punc-
tuating the last remnant of the 1960s
Hippie Haven.
Melanie Coen, the taverns manager,
said the owner had been working another
job and felt it was the right time to close
the bar.
It was never meant to be a place of
great profit, Coen said. The Gaslight for
him was more a labor of love.
Jeff Fortier, the bars owner, now works
on a regional and national scale as a music
promoter, and his plate is full with that,
Coen said. Fortier was unavailable for an
interview.
The Gaslight Tavern opened at its cur-
rent location, 317 N. 2nd Street, in 2001.
Coen said the owners named it after the
original Gaslight Tavern that existed where
the top level of the Kansas Union parking
garage is today.
The original Gaslight Tavern along
with the Rock Chalk Caf, which later
became the Crossing
was the corner-

stone of student counterculture in the 60s
and 70s. According to a University Daily
Kansan article from July 21, 1970, the area
was popularly known as Hippie Haven.
The Gaslight Tavern was at the epicen-
ter of one of the most chaotic racial dis-
putes in the history of Lawrence in 1970.
The state of Kansas tried to close it down
for alleged drug trafficking in 1971. It was
burned to the ground in an unexplained
fire in 1974.
The owners, Coen said, opened the
new tavern as a testament to the original
Gaslight Tavern.
It was a very important time in history
when college students were very active
politically, Coen said.

the GAsliGhts Roots
The original Gaslight Tavern was
owned by John and Sarah Fowler. Reginald
Scarbrough, a KU student from Topeka,
bought the tavern in October 1969. He
managed the bar while taking six credit
hours at the University, according to a
Kansan article from Oct. 8, 1969.
We are planning to employ girls this
year, and we are going to give away more
free beer, Scarbrough said in a 1969 inter-
view with the Kansan.
Wayne Sailor, a professor who attend-
ed the University in the late 60s, ran
an underground newspaper called The
Reconstruction Press. He said the Gaslight
Tavern and the Rock Chalk Caf were the
hangout spots for hippies and radicals.
The hippies, he said, smoked dope, grew
long hair and wore flip-flop sandals. The
radicals, he said, organized demonstra-
tions that protested racial discrimination
and the Vietnam War. Sailor said he con-
sidered himself a radical.
lAWRenCe stAte of
eMeRGenCy
Racial hostility in Lawrence reached a
boiling point that pushed the city to the
brink of civil war in the summer of 1970.
According to a Kansan article from July
21, 1970, a Lawrence police officer shot
and killed Rick Dowdell, a black former
KU freshman, as he fled down an alley
on June 16, 1970. William Garrett, the
patrolman who shot Dowdell, said in the
article that Dowdell pulled a gun and fired
at police but many students at the time,
including Sailor, thought the police shoot-
ing was a racist hate crime.
Sailor said the shooting occurred at
a time when racial tensions ran deep in
Lawrence. The Black Power movement
and the Black Panther party, Sailor said,
were extremely prevalent in the Lawrence
area and Kansas City at that time.
When Dowdell was shot, it really
sparked an outrage, Sailor said. It turned
peaceful demonstrations into violent dem-
onstrations.
Lawrence erupted into a guerilla war
zone for days as sniper attacks on police
cars and random fire bombings became a
common occurrence. The night after the
incident, police officers responded to a
shooting at 10th and Pennsylvania streets
where they found themselves in a heat-
ed gun battle against 45 armed African
Americans, according to This Week in KU
History. Unknown militants firebombed
several buildings, including District Court
Judge Frank Grays house.
Back in the Hippie Haven, Student pro-
testers and police officers clashed on July
21, five days after the Dowdell shooting.
According to This Week in KU History,
student protesters burned trash in the
streets and firebombed a building known
as The White House at 1225 Oread
Ave. They also started several other fires,
extinguishing gaslights last fame
see gaslight on pAge 6A
A Web site called CountMore.org helps
out-of-state college students determine
if their vote would be more important in
their home state. Countmore.org, partly
created by Topeka native Matt Lerner, also
provides information about how students
can register to vote and when registrations
are due in their home or school state.
Students and their families attended
the Stoufer Family Music Festival on
Saturday. Students and their families who
are residents of Stoufer Place Apartments
enjoyed a variety of music performed
by residents and music majors at the
University.
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Where students votes could count more
Families enjoy music festival
eleCtion CAMPUs
Closing of bar opens
window into 1960s
student counterculture
contributed photo by spencer research library
students protest on Oread Avenue near the original Gaslight Tavern on July 18, 1970, against the police shooting of Rick Dowdell, a black former KU freshman who police shot in what many believed to be a racial hate crime. Racial
hostility in Lawrence sparked violence as daily sniper attacks and fre bombings became common. City commissioners declared a state of emergency after Nick Rice, a KU freshman, died as student protestors clashed with police.
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the gaslight tavern, 317 n. 2nd st., will close sometime within the next two months. The bar was named after
the original Gaslight Tavern, which was located where the top level of the Kansas Union parking garage is today.
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The Jewish New Year
Celebrations Sponsored by
Chabad at KU will begin at
9:30 a.m. at the Big 12 Room
in the Kansas Union.
The brown bag lecture
Born in the USSR: Russian
Pop Culture in Search of a
Post-Soviet Identity. will be-
gin at noon in 318 Bailey Hall.
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Institute of Politics.
The workshop Employ-
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tional Students will begin
at 4 p.m. at the International
Room in the Kansas Union.
The concert KU Trumpet
Fest featuring Visiting Artist
Dai Zhonghui, Professor of
Trumpet, Beijing Central Con-
servatory and Faculty artist
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4:30 p.m. at Swarthout Recital
Hall in Murphy Hall.
The concert KU Symphony
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What do you think?
by natalie brown
Have you ever Heard of tHe Web Site JuicycampuS.com? if
So, WHat are your tHougHtS about it?
Justin KaminsKy
Hopkins, minn., junior
Yeah, I think its really funny
but it can be humiliating at times.
But I am a frequent poster.
ford WilougHby
rockville, md., freshman
Yes, I think its for people to go
trash other sororities and fraterni-
ties.
Evan JacKson
overland Park sophomore
Ive heard of it. I hear its just a
lot of name-dropping and opin-
ions of other people and things.
These forums will always exist
its just whether you want to be
a part of it. It leans toward more
negative stuf because names are
not attached.
dallas Williams
overland Park freshman
Yes, I think its rude! Personally
I wont be going to the site I
just think its a place for people to
rag on other people because they
dont have anything better to do.
KU has broken several enroll-
ment records this year, but
never has KUs enrollment
changed like it did after the
end of World War II. From 1945
to 1946, enrollment more than
doubled, from 3,808 students in
1945 to 9,004 in 1946.
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Calif. lapdogs can stay
just that in moving car
SACRAMENTO, Calif. Hol-
lywood celebrities can continue
to drive with animals nestled in
their laps.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger
is vetoing a bill to fne motorists
$35 for sharing the drivers seat
with lapdogs or other animals.
Republican Assemblyman
Bill Maze says the practice is dis-
tracting. He introduced the bill
after seeing a woman driving
with three dogs on her lap.
Schwarzenegger says hes
signing only bills that are the
highest priority for California.
Associated Press
odd news
Moviegoer loses lawsuit
over unpopped popcorn
NEW YORK Movie munchers
beware! A New York judge says
popcorn purchasers worried
about breaking a tooth on
unpopped kernels should nibble
carefully or eat something
else.
Insurance broker Steve Kaplan
says he encountered a double
dud while watching the movie
Superbad at the AMC-Lincoln
Square Cinema a year ago: His
tooth hurt and the movie was
awful.
Kaplan sued the theater to
recover $1,250 for dental repairs.
But Manhattan Civil Court Judge
Matthew Cooper ruled that
Kaplan could not reasonably ex-
pect every kernel to be popped.
Kaplan and the theaters
attorney did not return calls for
comment Monday.
Associated Press
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Residents of Watkins Scholarship Hall take a break at the Student union activities carnival on Saturday night. back row: emily Hrenchir,
paola freshman; mandie Nech, Larned senior; Katie Hunt, memphis, tenn., senior; madeline Johnson, overland park sophomore; megan Krogh,
St. Louis park, minn., senior. front row: dory cochran, manhattan senior; Jennifer Hamil, Lenexa senior; and abby brandenburg, palmyra, mo.,
sophomore. Students can submit their photos to [email protected] to be published on 2a.
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Godfrey Riddle, Olathe sophomore, talks to a group of prospective Ku students and their families during a walking campus tour on monday afternoon. the tour was part of the university's
Senior days, an event run through the ofce of admissions and Scholarships that is designed to introduce high school seniors to the university.
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WASHINGTON In a vote
that shook the government, Wall
Street and markets around the
world, the House on Monday
defeated a $700 billion emergency
rescue for the nation's financial
system, leaving both parties and
the Bush administration scram-
bling to pick up the pieces. The
Dow Jones industrials plunged
nearly 800 points, the most ever
for a single day.
"We need to put something back
together that works," a grim-faced
Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson
said after he and Federal Reserve
Chairman Ben Bernanke joined
in an emergency strategy session
at the White House. On Capitol
Hill, Democratic leaders said the
House would reconvene Thursday,
leaving open the possibility that it
could vote later in the week on a
reworked version.
All sides agreed the effort to
bolster beleaguered financial mar-
kets could not be abandoned.
But in a remarkable display on
Monday, a majority of House mem-
bers slapped aside the best version
their leaders and the administra-
tion had been able to come up
with, bucking presidential speech-
es, pleading visits from Paulson
and Federal Reserve Chairman
Ben Bernanke and urgent warn-
ings that the economy could nose-
dive without the legislation.
In the face of thousands of
phone calls and e-mails fiercely
opposing the measure, many law-
makers were not willing to take
the political risk of voting for it just
five weeks before the elections.
The bill went down, 228-205.
The House Web site was over-
whelmed as millions of people
sought information about the
measure through the day.
The legislation the administra-
tion promoted would have allowed
the government to buy bad mort-
gages and other sour assets held by
troubled banks and other financial
institutions. Getting those debts off
their books should bolster those
companies' balance sheets, mak-
ing them more inclined to lend
and ease one of the biggest choke
points in a national credit crisis.
If the plan worked, the thinking
went, it would help lift a major
weight off the national economy,
which is already sputtering.
In the meantime, Paulson said
he would work with other regula-
tors "to use all the tools available
to protect our financial system and
our economy."
Stocks started plummeting on
Wall Street even before Monday's
vote was over, as traders watched
the rescue measure going down on
television. Meanwhile, lawmakers
were watching them back.
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BY SACHIKO MIYAKAWA
[email protected]
A variety of music and a mix
of different languages character-
ized the first-ever Stouffer Family
Music Festival. Students and their
families who live in the Stouffer
Place Apartments gathered at the
Burge Union for the concert on
Saturday evening.
Eric Williams, a student liv-
ing in the apartments, stood in
front of the audience with his wife
and two children. He sang with
his 3-year-old daughter, Zoe. Zoe,
who wore a denim one-piece and
pink tights that she picked out
herself, overcame her shyness for
her performance of Im a Little
Teapot.
The concert, sponsored by
the Stouffer Neighborhood
Association, featured 20 groups
of resident-performers and stu-
dents pursuing music majors at
the University.
Stouffer Place Apartments is
home to 280 families. Students
must be married or have children
to live in the apartments.
Seyool Oh, Seoul, Korea,
graduate student and president
of the Stouffer Neighborhood
Association, said most of the resi-
dents were nontraditional students
living with their families. He said
the concert allowed their children
to enjoy live music and encour-
aged residents to get to know each
other.
Williams, Wichita law student,
practiced singing with Zoe in his
spare time between studying and
housework.
Williams said he chose to live
at Stouffer Place because of its low
rent and location close to campus
and the Hilltop Child Development
Center. He said his family also
benefitted from the close-knit
community of residents.
No kids are strangers in our
community, Williams said.
Williams said he also liked the
diversity of the residents.
My children have friends from
Ethiopia, Bangladesh and Beijing,
Williams said.
Oh said almost 90 percent of the
residents were international stu-
dents and their families. He said
many international students wor-
ried about adapting to American
culture smoothly. The interna-
tional community at Stouffer Place
helps ease the concerns of students
who are new to the apartments,
he said.
The diversity of the residents
was reflected in the perform-
ers and audience members, who
spoke their native languages and
wore the clothing from their home
countries.
Linda Tsevi, Accra, Ghana,
graduate student, was one of the
performers. Tsevi, who came to
the United States a year ago to
study education at the University,
sang a Christian song in her native
language, Twi.
Despite the unfamiliar lan-
guage, the audience of more than
180 people clapped along.
The audience enjoyed a variety
of music in the concert, including
a piano sonata by Mozart, Over
the Rainbow and Beauty and the
Beast. Some songs were sung in
different languages.
Barbara Williams, Eric Williams
wife, said she liked the diversity of
performers in the festival.
It is great to hear music from
all over the cultures, she said.
Edited by Becka Cremer
BY JESSE TRIMBLE
[email protected]

This election season, the
Universitys 1,964 students who are
originally from swing states could
cast the most important votes for
president.
A Web site called CountMore.
org helps students attending col-
lege out of state choose the state
where their votes will matter most.
In swing states, determining the
electoral votes could come down to
a few hundred ballots. CountMore.
org also provides information for
students about how to register if
they havent yet and when regis-
trations are due in their home or
school state.
Matt Lerner, originally from
Topeka, helped create the site as an
employee of Front Seat, a software
company in Seattle.
Liz Feigenbaum, Boston junior,
said she registered to vote when she
turned 18. This year, Feigenbaum
decided to request an absentee bal-
lot from Massachusetts.
Lerner said the idea to create
CountMore.org came from his
work registering voters on college
campuses during the 2004 election.
I would ask students if they were
aware that their vote counted more
back in Ohio, their home state,
than their school state, Lerner said.
Most students had no idea their
vote actually mattered that much.
But Lerner said it was a big deal,
especially when certain states, such
as Ohio and Florida, can be deter-
mined by fewer than 600 votes, as
was the case in the 2000 election
between George W. Bush and Al
Gore.
Keith Campbell, deputy clerk for
elections in Douglas County, said
the site neglected the importance of
local elections.
Obviously, the Web site is
focusing on the presidential elec-
tions, but what I think is more
important for students to realize is
that who they vote for locally could
have more of an impact on their
daily lives than who they vote for as
president, Campbell said.
According to CountMore.org,
the 2004 election results for Kansas
were a margin victory of 25.73 per-
cent. Bush had 736,456 votes, and
John Kerry had 434,993. Kansas has
six electoral votes, but Feigenbaums
home state of Massachusetts has
12. When comparing Kansas to
Massachusetts, CountMore.org
said that it was a toss up between
both states, because neither is con-
sidered a swing state.
KU is 14th on the list of schools
that arent in swing states them-
selves, but have a lot of students
from swing states, Lerner said.
Feigenbaum said students would
be less likely to vote if they knew
their state wasnt a swing state.
I think, generally speaking, if a
student has evidence that their state
doesnt matter as much as another
state, that it would make them less
inclined to vote, she said.
Lerner said students were in a
unique voting position.
They are the only group of peo-
ple that can really choose which
state they want to vote in, and I
think most students dont realize
what a huge choice that is, Lerner
said.
But, Campbell said, students
needed to think about the local
issues and ask themselves what
affects them and what was most
important to them. He gave the
Lawrence Transit System, also
known as the T, as an example
because the sales tax could increase
to maintain bus service if voters
approved the ballot questions.
He said that because students
paid sales taxes in Douglas County,
it was an important issue to con-
sider.
It is the students decision to vote
only for the president, Campbell
said, but the local issues are just as
important, if not more.
Edited by LaurenKeith
Campus
ELECTION
How to make
the most of
your next vote
Students, families attend Stoufer Family Music Festival
Michelle Sprehe/KANSAN
Eric Williams, Wichita lawstudent, and his 3-year-old daughter, Zoe, listen to a per-
formance from"The Sound of Music" at the Stoufer Family Music Festival in the Burge Unioin
on Saturday. "Hopefully the kids will be inspired by the music," said Don Claus, vice president
of the Stoufer Neighboorhood Association.
ECONOmy
Stocks plunge after House defeats $700B bailout
how Kansas representatives voted
Congressional leaders
didnt get much help from
Kansas lawmakers Monday in
their efort to pass emergency
legislation addressing the na-
tions fnancial crisis.
Democratic Rep. Dennis
Moore, of Lenexa, was alone
among the states four House
members in voting for the
$700 billion rescue plan. The
measure that top lawmakers
spent all weekend negotiating
failed 228-205.
Opposing the measure
were Democratic Rep. Nancy
Boyda, of Topeka, and Repub-
lican Reps. Todd Tiahrt, of the
Wichita area, and Jerry Moran,
of western Kansas.
Associated Press
ASSOCIATED PRESS
This video image provided by the House of Representative shows the voting by the
House on the emergency fnancial rescue package. The House defeated a $700 billion package,
ignoring urgent pleas fromPresident Bush and bipartisan congressional leaders to quickly bail
out the staggering fnancial industry.
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10 is the easiest day, 0 the
most challenging.
HOROSCOPES
ARIES (March 21-April 19)
Today is an 8
You wont have to say very
much to get your point across.
Let the other person talk
herself around to your point of
view. This will be lots of fun.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20)
Today is a 5
How are you as a manager?
Would you rather simply do
the job yourself, to get it right?
You may not have that option.
Practice being an inspiration
to others.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21)
Today is a 10
Make up a list of your hopes
and wants, and then forget
about it. Do good deeds for
others and youll be amazed at
what happens for you.
CANCER (June 22-July 22)
Today is a 5
Follow a whim. Do this at
home, however, not out in the
big, wide world. Be wild and
crazy _ in a secure environ-
ment.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22)
Today is an 8
Youll soon be skillful enough
to relax. Be careful now, how-
ever. Its easy to make mistakes
when youre not sure what
youre doing.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)
Today is an 8
You can aford to get some-
thing nice for your family.
Decide what you want, and
what its worth, so youll know
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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)
Today is a 9
Think for a moment before you
take action. You can fgure out
exactly which way to go. Your
hunches should be right on.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)
Today is a 5
The time you spend lost deep
in thought can lead to great
rewards. You have a lot of
details to sort, and you need
your quiet time. Protect your
privacy.
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Today is an 8
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hear, especially regarding
money. Errors will be the rule,
not the exception. Estimates
will be too high or too low. Get
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facts.
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saying at the top. Some of this
information you can use to
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Today is a 9
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down, confdent in your team
and your ability to handle
whatever might occur. The
odds are in your favor for a
marvelous, successful journey.
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Today is a 5
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whacked if you fnd that youve
taken a loss. You will have
enough to get by. You can trust
yourself for that. Youll always
think of something.
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Erich rEinhard/uwirE.cOm
why wont red cross
take my viable blood?
FrOM THe drAWinG BOArd
Passion is the most important
thing to consider when choos-
ing a degree. Degrees are stu-
dents passes into the professional
world, but they are not all-access.
Whatever students choose to
study in college will in some way
limit what they can do when
theyre done.
KU officials have stressed that
students should pick a major early
and stick with their choice. This
will save money and time for stu-
dents who know what
career they want, and
events like the Career
Fair will help put more
students in that cat-
egory.
However, if profes-
sional happiness is finding a job
people truly care about, they must
keep an open mind in college
until they discover a degree that
fulfills its requisites. An unaccept-
able major for the job we want
might as well be called S.O.L., not
just B.A. or B.S.
For most students, college is a
transition between the required
standardized education of high
school and finding their place in
the convoluted maze that is the
real world, and students often
need more than a few semesters
filled with 100-level requisites to
discern their futures. Even if that
time extends past the four-year
graduation goal of the Universitys
Four-Year Tuition Contract, the
cost of an extra semester or two
pales in comparison to the 40
years of happiness choosing the
right career path can give them.
Many people mistakenly
assume undecided students do
not have passion, but some just
have too much passion for too
many things. Narrowing passion
to one field and interest is the
hard part.
Long before
this generation started
producing more col-
lege students than ever
before, a college degree
used to be more univer-
sally applicable, so appli-
cable that any major could land
a person a variety of jobs. The
majors students pick will likely
determine 40 hours of every week
of their lives, at least until they
find new career paths. Students
need to be careful and choose the
degrees that lead to the profes-
sions that would mean the most
to them, however long it takes.
Some students may still think
rushing out in four years as more
important than correctly dis-
cerning the right degree for their
career of passion.
Ray Segebrecht for the
editorial board
Never in my life have I been so
proud of being rejected.
Last Friday, I attempted to give
blood at the KU Blood Drive. I
knew the rejection was coming
because Id been rejected about
two years ago. The Red Cross has
blacklisted me because Im a male
who has had sexual contact with
another male, even once, since
1977.
The FDA regulates the Red
Cross policy, which has been in
place since 1992, and I understand
the need for that policy. After all,
sexually active homosexual men
made up 68 percent of all men
living with HIV in 2005, and only
about 5 percent to 7 percent of
men in the U.S. reported having
sex with other men, according to
the Centers for Disease Control.
What I dont understand, though,
is why recent data is not taken into
consideration for donation guide-
lines.
CDC released a report this past
August that said 56,300 HIV infec-
tions occurred in 2006, a sub-
stantially higher number than the
40,000 estimate. Among the infec-
tions, 53 percent were caused by
male-to-male sexual contact, and
31 percent by high-risk hetero-
sexual contact.
The Red Cross needs a new
donation guideline, maybe some-
thing like, Are you a male or
female who has had a question-
ably high amount of sexual contact
with the opposite sex since 1977?
Im not sure what that amount
would be double or triple digits
maybe?
This has been done in some
places already. The Red Cross of
Thailand donor screening process
was even reworded in April to ask
about risky sexual behavior rather
than sexual orientation.
HIV still cant be detected 100
percent of the time. One of every
2 million HIV positive tests get
through, and with 20 million blood
transfusions occurring every year,
the FDA said it couldnt take the
risk.
I was tested for HIV last week.
I get tested every six months or so.
Because Im gay, I know I need to
be more cautious of the risk of HIV
than if I were straight.
I tested negative. I knew I would
Id had only once sexual partner
in the past six months (it takes two
to 24 weeks for HIV antibodies to
show up), but I was being cautious,
just as the FDA is.
I dont know what to do to prove
that I have good, viable, life-saving
blood. After I apologized to the
nurse for wasting her time during
my screening, she looked more
disappointed than I was. She said
I could call the number on my
second rejection letter and explain
that no risky sexual contact actu-
ally occurred and that I was con-
fused by the guideline. I told her
no thanks.
Im not in denial, but its obvious
that the FDA is.
While exiting the donation van,
another nurse saw my rejection
letter and offered me a Red Cross
T-shirt and snacks.
I wore the shirt that night, and
many of my gay friend commented
that I couldnt donate blood. I wasnt
offended by my friends remarks.
My friends care and know, unlike
the FDA, that I am safe, which
results in one pint of blood that
wont ever help save a life.
Hirschfeld is an Augusta
senior in journalism.
This chick in my class today
told me that she actually lived
on the same block as Chuck
Norris. That is awesome.
n n n
I punched a hole in my
roommates car, and now Im
going to his girlfriends baby
shower. Is that a bad thing?
n n n
Jayhawk Bookstore is lame. A
Pepsi for $1.30? Who carries
that kind of change around?
n n n
My cigarettes are menthol on
command. This is amazing!
n n n
To the people who gave me a
dirty look when I bursted out
singing Bleeding Love: You
only wish you had enough
self esteem to sing in public.
n n n
What boys name starts with
I? My apple stem just told
me Im going to marry him.
n n n
Thursday night I decided to
get drunk and go home and
make a yogurt: Raspberry
Yoplait with a brownie and a
Glacier Freeze Gatorade.
n n n
On Thursday, when I ate
my Yoplait, my spoon was
deformed.
n n n
Hookah bars are nasty.
n n n
Youre never getting Bruce
back!
n n n
Why dont you go ahead and
throw my bitchin, OK?
n n n
To the Ninth foor RA: You and
your beauty are the reason I
get out of bed in the morning.
n n n
Blast the rim!
n n n
I took mescaline on Friday
night quite an interesting
experience. Its a cactus and
it makes you high for a long
time!
n n n
Would the government bail
me out as well?
n n n
Commitment to academics
my ass. How many computer
labs have they built in the
past year or two? How many
new sports facilities have they
built in that same amount of
time?
n n n
My roommate doesn't wash
her clothes. I lined her dresser
with air fresheners, and noth-
ing helped.
n n n
Four months with the same
guy. This is getting scary now.
n n n
My desktop is so festive!
n n n
dont rush to pick
out your degree
Stewart is a Wichita senior in
journalism.
Top 9 reasons i wont
take male birth control
Ross stEwARt
CAPITOL
POLITICS
mAtt hiRschFELD
FRUIT
FOR
THOUGHT
Our
VieW
editorials around the nation
what viewers didnt
see at the debate
After several months
of exchanging gripes over
non-issues (lipstick on a
pig and John McCains real
estate ignorance come to
mind), Fridays presidential
debate had the potential
for both candidates to
clearly make their case
before the nation. While
portions of the debate
were tied up in aimless
rhetorical jockeying, it did
provide the undecided or
uninformed voter a win-
dow into both candidates
positions.
But what Americans
did not see on Friday
should be considered,
as well. Amid the inces-
sant repetition of the Wall
Street and Main Street rif,
neither candidate staked
out a frm position on the
pending bailout and its
consequences. When asked
what programs they would
cut, both McCain and
Obama provided vague
answers that failed to spe-
cifcally emphasize what
changes they would have
to make to their economic
governance. Both men
also showed unreasoned
refexive pandering on the
issue of Israel and unorigi-
nal statements reiterating
familiar foreign policy talk-
ing points, as though the
political situation through-
out the world has been
unchanging for the past 18
months.
Furthermore, in spite
of Jim Lehrers best ef-
forts, McCain and Obama
seldom spoke directly to
one another and contemp-
tuously refused to even
look at each other. In the
end, nobody walked away
a clear victor, but voters
who were looking for a
general illustration of how
each candidate would run
the country should not
have been disappointed.
If nothing else, the debate
showed two very diferent
philosophies.
Minnesota Daily at the
University of Minnesota
Sept. 29 editorial
aSSOciaTEd prESS
THe ediTOriAL BOArd
Theres research being conducted on a male con-
traceptive pill here at the University. The pill would
efectively brings a mans sperm count to zero. Heres
why Im weary of the idea:
9.
I could always just buy a condom.
8.
I dont think I have enough sex to
warrant bringing my sperm count
to zero. And if I did, Id probably
be so worn out that Id want less
sex or require a condom to keep
chafng to a minimum. (Also,
that much sex would be so physi-
cally wearing that I would be so
mentally tired that Id forget to
take the pill anyway).
7.
The girl could always buy the pill,
which means I can continue not
having a real job.
I could not have sex. Wait, did I
really just suggest that?
6. 5.
I dont want to embarrassingly
drop my male birth control pack-
et in front of my female friends
and shyly have to pick it up.
When my sperm count starts to
regenerate, I wont be able to
stand to think about how lonely
it could be down in my testicles.
What will the frst sperm think to
itself? Itll either fnd existence
frightening or will look at its ex-
istence with excitement because
theres no competition.
If I ever want a political career
and it gets out that I used to take
the male contraceptive pill, Ill
look like a harlot. Then again John
Edwards wouldnt have had so
much press about his afair if he
had used this pill.
4.
What if my sperm count doesnt
go back up? If I had wanted that
to happen, I wouldve drank a lot
more Surge in middle school.
3. 2.
I dont want my roommate to ask
me how it feels to shoot blanks
when my girlfriend sleeps over.
1.
NEWS 6A Tuesday, sepTember 30, 2008
opened a fire hydrant and flipped
over a red Volkswagen on Oread
Avenue.
Police attempted to quell the
mayhem by shooting tear gas into
the crowd. Protesters pelted police
and firemen with rocks, bricks and
tomatoes. A gunfight broke out
as people fled south toward the
Gaslight Tavern. A stray bullet hit
and killed 18-year-old Nick Rice, a
Leawood freshman who, according
to a 1970 Kansas Alumni article,
wasnt involved in the demonstra-
tion and was on a date at the time.
He was carried inside the Gaslight
Tavern where he died before an
ambulance could arrive.
He was the innocent victim of
a stray bullet, Sailor said. It was
never determined who shot him.
City commissioners and Gov.
Robert Docking declared a state
of emergency. They called in 25
troopers from neighboring areas
and enacted a curfew.
KU traffic and security officers
manned roadblocks at campus
entrances to ensure none of the
Lawrence hostility spilled onto
campus. After about two weeks,
tensions subsided significantly,
and the curfew was lifted.
It was never determined what
actually happened the night
Dowdell was killed. According to a
Kansan article from July 24, 1970,
The question of what happened in
Lawrence may never be answered
to the satisfaction of everyone. But
a more important question is the
continuing one What is hap-
pening in Lawrence?
Kansas cracKs down
The Gaslight Tavern found
itself at the center of another con-
troversy a year later when Kansas
Attorney Gen. Vern Miller tried to
shut it down for alleged drug traf-
ficking.
Sailor said that marijuana was
rampant in Lawrence during the
60s and 70s and that a syndicate
known as the Kaw Valley Hemp
Pickers grew most of the weed and
sold it all over town.
Things were much more liberal
back then, Sailor said. There was
even a huge movement to legalize
it at the time.
Coen said marijuana was
smoked openly at the original
Gaslight. She said she heard sto-
ries from former Gaslight regulars
about a community bag of weed
tacked up near the entrance for
smokers to borrow from. A sign
near the bag instructed customers
to keep it filled with weed dona-
tions. Coen said she was unsure
whether those stories were true.
Miller tried to close down the
tavern for marijuana trafficking
after he conducted a citywide drug
raid in 1971. He filed charges a
month later, asking the Douglas
County District Court to declare
the Gaslight a nuisance and shut it
down.
According to an article written
in the Kansan on Oct. 27, 1971,
then-Lawrence Mayor J.R. Pulliam
accused Miller of acting without
the authority of city officials.
As far as I have determined,
there is no city ordinance that spe-
cifically cites the sale of drugs a
reason to declare an establishment
a public nuisance, Pulliam said in
the article. The man is enforcing
laws, but I do wish people would
realize the difference between
marijuana and heroin.
Douglas County Court Judge
Floyd Coffman eventually dis-
missed the charges after a hear-
ing, saying the states evidence did
not prove that the owners of the
Gaslight knowingly participated in
illegal activities at the tavern.
THE GasLIGHT
BUrns down
The University bought the
lease to the tavern in 1974 with
the intentions of tearing it down
because University administrators
saw it as a nuisance, Coen said.
The tavern inexplicably burned
down the day the University took
it over on July 15, 1974. No one
knows exactly how it happened
but according to the legend, Coen
said, students burned it down as a
way of protesting the Universitys
takeover.
Im really not sure whether the
legend is true or not, but its a cool
way of remembering the Gaslight
Tavern, she said.
THE GasLIGHT Today
Coen said she would always
remember the new Gaslight
Tavern as a place where anyone
could drink, listen to music and
feel comfortable. The bar, she said,
featured an atmosphere that fos-
tered open-mindedness.
The owner wanted to create a
place where the spirit of the old
Gaslight lived on, Coen said. I
believe it has served its purpose.
The present-day Gaslight
Tavern has featured hundreds
of bands in its six-year lifetime,
including nationally recognized
bands such as The Shins, Carlos
D. and Bus Driver. It regularly fea-
tured such local bands as Deadman
Flats, Truckstop Honeymoon and
Murphys Law. Coen said the tav-
ern served as a jumping point for
local bands to start their careers.
Alex Law, guitarist and lead
singer of Deadman Flats, said his
band played its first show at the
tavern and had since played shows
all over Kansas. He said he peri-
odically returned to play at the
Gaslight Tavern, which he consid-
ered his favorite bar.
The place is small so you could
have only 20 or 30 people here, and
it gets rowdier than larger venues,
Law said before performing at the
tavern on Sept. 22. When this
place closes, it will be like a huge
chunk of Lawrence is gone.
Before the bar shuts down,
Coen said shes encouraging bands
that have historically played at the
Gaslight Tavern to play in fare-
well shows that will feature in the
months ahead.
She said student bands that are
interested in playing can contact
her at the Gaslight Taverns Web
site on MySpace.
Edited by Lauren Keith
GasliGht (continued from 1A)
Julianne Kuefer/KaNsaN
Deadman Flats performs in the Winfeld Hangover Party at the Gaslight Tavern on Sept. 22.
Alex Law, guitarist and lead singer (far right), said his band played its frst concert at the tavern.
When this place closes, it will be like a huge chunk of Lawrence is gone,Law said.
Contributed photo by spencer Research library
Kansas attorney Gen. Vern Miller (center) fled charges against the original Gaslight Taverns owners in 1971 for alleged drug trafcking. Miller claimed undercover agents bought marijuana and smoked it inside the tavern. Douglas County
Court Judge Floyd Cofman later dismissed the charges. I am not convinced the proprietors permitted any of these sales to go on with their knowledge,Cofman said in a June 28, 1972, Kansan article.
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BY B.J. RAINS
[email protected]
Earning a college degree typically takes
four years. For some, it takes five. Not for
back-up center Brad Thorson.
Thorson arrived on campus for train-
ing camp this fall after graduating from
the University of Wisconsin in only two
years.
I had quite a few AP credits from
high school so that helped me out a lot,
Thorson said.
Regardless, completing a degree in two
years while battling the rigorous schedule
as a Division I athlete is almost unheard
of. Thorson did it, and then decided that
he wanted to leave Wisconsin and try to
play somewhere else.
In the end, it just wasnt a good fit for
me at Wisconsin, Thorson said. There
were a lot of things that werent working
out. Since I was finishing up my under-
grad, I had a unique opportu-
nity to go somewhere else.
Thorson called offensive line
coach John Reagan and decided
to walk on at Kansas soon after.
He arrived at the start of train-
ing camp in August and met his
teammates for the frst time on
the first day of practice.
Because Thorson graduated,
he petitioned the NCAA to allow him to
play right away and not be forced to sit
out a year, as student-athletes typically
must do when they when they decide to
transfer.
Wisconsin supported the move, and I
did well there and wanted to continue my
education elsewhere, Thorson said. The
NCAA was supportive of it, and Im just
happy that they were OK with me
playing this year.
Thorson, who had an unweight-
ed GPA of 3.67 at Homestead
High School in Mequon, Wis.,
took six AP courses at one time.
He redshirted his first year at
Wisconson and graduated the
following year with a business
degree in risk management
insurance. He is working on a sports
administration graduate degree, which is
a one-and-a-half to two-year program.
Depending on his class load, Thorson
could complete a second graduate degree
before his three years including this
season of eligibility run out.
Im just really interested in what hap-
pens behind the scenes and not just on
game day, Thorson said. Id like to be
involved with that later in life. We will see
what comes out of it.
Thorson has played sparingly on spe-
cial teams this year and is currently the
back up to senior Ryan Cantrell at cen-
ter. Thorson said he knew his time would
come next year, but with the struggling
running game, coach Mark Mangino has
hinted that possible personnel changes
on the offensive line could be coming. It
doesnt appear, however, that Thorsons
chance at center will come this year.
I think right now were playing our
best five offensive linemen to this point,
Mangino said. Can that change? Yes it
can, but is putting him in the lineup right
now the answer? I dont think so at this
point in time; Ryan Cantrell is a veteran
guy and he needs to play well, but hes
capable.
Thorson projects to be the starter at
center in 2009 so having to wait a year to
see the field doesnt bother him. In fact,
he wouldnt change a thing.
I am loving playing football and I am
loving going to school, Thorson said. I
didnt want a job. Its just a lot of fun
being here.
Edited by Andy Greenhaw
footBall
walk-on from wisconsin graduated in two years
Thorson
Imagine life without any
Jayhawk football games
Commentary
BY Alex Dufek
[email protected]
W
as the weekend a little lack-
luster without Kansas foot-
ball, or was it just me?
Yes, there were some wild upsets in col-
lege football and Major League Baseball
had some exciting play-of races, but
something seemed of.
Can you imagine life without Jayhawk
football every weekend?
At frst glance this seems like a point-
less question, but according to kuhistory.
com, at one time it came very close to
being a reality.
In January 1910, the future of football
at the University was hanging by a thread.
A proposal to eliminate the sport was put
in place by J.W. Gleed, a member of the
Board of Regents. William Allen White,
a regent at the time and the person for
whom the School of Journalism is named,
seconded the motion.
Te Regents defeated the motion, but
agreed that some changes needed to be
made to the sport. Te debate surround-
ing football continued for the next several
months.
A large majority of students and alum-
ni fought to keep football at Kansas, but
they were going against some solid argu-
ments for elimination.
Problems during the 20 years of foot-
ball before 1910 included the death of an
opposing player from Doane College in
Nebraska afer injuries sufered during a
game in Lawrence, rumors of alcohol and
drug use by players of opposing teams
before games, ineligible player activity at
the University, the fring of coach Harold
S. Weeks, who was accused of having a
relationship with a freshman girl in 1904;
and the breaking of conference rules by
the University when it spent more than
$400 on training tables for players.
It was apparent that Jayhawk football
needed help if it was going to survive. Te
conference and local citizens were aware
of it.
A cartoon in the Feb. 7, 1910 issue of
the Kansas City Star shows a man, who
represents Kansas, holding a woman,
representing football, over a clif and the
other members of the Missouri Valley
Conference running to save her.
In the end, the conference came
through and adopted new rules, and the
threat to remove Kansas football faded.
But by using the butterfy efect and
our imagination, lets discuss what life
would be like without Kansas football.
When hope seemed dim for Kansas
football in 1910, word leaked out that the
team would use spring practices to get
ready for a possible shif to rugby. Te
University Daily Kansan even wrote an
article attempting to interest students in
the game.
So Kansas, hypothetically, could have
been a rugby powerhouse. But when foot-
ball was allowed to continue, rugby faded
out of the spotlight. Today, rugby is a club
sport at Kansas, and its far away from being
one of the top two athletics revenue makers.
Te University would be vastly diferent
footBall
associated Press
iowa state coach gene chizik questions a call during the second half of an NCAA college football game against
Iowa on Sept. 13 in Iowa City. Iowa won the game, 17-5.
see Commentary on Page 4b
BY CASe keefeR
[email protected]
Kansas held its first practice of the season
Monday sort of.
Coach Bill Self s boot camp a two-week
series of practices that emphasize heavy condi-
tioning began at 6 a.m. Monday.
Boot camp traditionally marks the begin-
ning of the basketball season for the Jayhawks,
but this year theyve already practiced for 10
days and played three exhibition games.
Kansas took advantage of an NCAA rule
that allows teams to travel out of the country
for exhibition games during Labor Day week-
end once every four years. The Jayhawks prac-
ticed for nearly two weeks in Lawrence before
traveling to Ottawa, Canada, where they beat
three Canadian college teams.
But those practices werent as intense as
what the players will face this week. Basketballs
dont make many appearances at boot camp.
Self is more concerned with running drills to
get his players in adequate shape.
Players often come away from these prac-
tices with horror stories about how tough
they are. Seven of the 15 players on Kansas
roster junior college transfers Mario Little
and Tyrone Appleton and freshmen Marcus
Morris, Markieff Morris, Tyshawn Taylor,
Travis Releford and Quintrell Thomas are
attending their first boot camp.
Boot camp will run through next Friday.
The Jayhawks will then have a week to recover
before Late Night in the Phog on Oct. 17.
Self ups the intensity as
Hawks enter his infamous
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BY TAYlOR BeRN
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A period of self-refection can ease the
mind and help one see the big picture.
With a bye week before his teams Big 12
opener, Iowa State coach Gene Chizik said he
took a step back from his squad and tried to
assess their performance afer four games.
Sometimes, I think you get caught up
and you cant see the forest from the trees,
Chizik said. We backed of and looked at
it and we realized that were such a young
football team. So many of our mistakes
came from our young guys. We know were
going to go through growing pains.
Sixteen freshmen have played some
minutes for the Cyclones this season.
Eleven of those are true freshmen straight
out of high school.
Chizik said he and his staf decided to
get their young players experience now
because the coaching staf has its eye
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6. Stanford at Notre Dame
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Mens golf: Louisville Invitational,
fnal day (Louisville, Ky.)
Womens golf: Johnie Imes
Invitational, fnal day (Columbia,
Mo.)
Wednesday
Volleyball: Kansas State, 7 p.m.
(Lawrence)
Thursday
No Events
Friday
Swimming: Pentathlon, 4 p.m.
(Lawrence)
Soccer: Texas Tech, 4 p.m.
(Lawrence)
Saturday
Softball: Western Illinois, 11 a.m.
(Iowa City, Iowa)
Football: Iowa State, 11:30 a.m.
(Ames, Iowa)
Softball: Iowa, 4 p.m. (Iowa City,
Iowa)
Volleyball: Texas Tech, 7 p.m.
(Lubbock, Texas)
Cross Country: OSU Jamboree,
TBA (Stillwater, Okla.)
Rowing: Head of the Oklahoma,
all day (Oklahoma City, Okla.)
Sunday
Softball: Western Illinois, 10
a.m. (Iowa City, Iowa)
Softball: Iowa, 12:30 p.m. (Iowa
City, Iowa)
Soccer: Colorado, 1 p.m.
(Lawrence)
quote of the day
trivia of the day
Q: When did the Kansas
football team last lose against
Iowa State its opponent this
weekend?
A: 2004. Kansas lost at Iowa
State 13-7 on Oct. 30, 2004.
KU sports schedule
fact of the day
Junior wide receiver Kerry
Meier leads the nation with
9.25 receptions per game. With
37 catches through four games,
Meier is already halfway to Kan-
sas single-season receptions
record of 70, set by Richard
Estell in 1985. Meiers cur-
rent pace would give him 111
receptions by seasons end.
Source: Kansas Athletics
Its really unbelievable
what he does on the feld,
because of the amount of
time he spends working with
the wideouts is not much at
all. He still has to be ready as
a quarterback if he has to play
in certain situations. His work
at wideout is limited, so for
him to go out there and make
the plays he does game after
game is unbelievable.
Kansas quarterback Todd Reesing on
Kerry Meier
With each Big 12 Conference
team having played four games
and having finished its non-con-
ference schedule, this week is as
convenient a time as ever to stop,
gather our thoughts and hand out
some preliminary grades.
The seasons only a third of
the way over, so theres plenty of
time to improve on these progress
reports (Texas A&M and Kansas
State, Im talking to you).
BiG 12 South
No. 1 Oklahoma: A+ (4-0)
Oklahoma boasts a versatile
running attack with Chris Brown
and DeMarco
Murray, and
the most NFL-
ready quar-
terback in the
nation in Sam
Bradford.
No. 5 Texas:
A (4-0)
Texas pass defense hasnt had to
face any Big 12-caliber competi-
tion yet, but the Longhorns have
improved since last season: Theyre
allowing just 10.8 points per game
and are ranked seventh in the con-
ference in pass efficiency defense.
No. 7 Texas Tech: A (4-0)
Speaking of improving defenses,
Texas Tech seems to have start-
ed its metamorphosis from an
offense-only program to a well-
rounded team. The Red Raiders
held Nevada and SMU to 26 points
in weeks two and three combined.
No. 21 Oklahoma State: A-
(4-0) Talk about sneaking up
on the nation. Oklahoma State
jumped into the AP poll for the
first time this year after torching
a decent Troy squad by 31 points
last weekend.
Baylor: C (2-2) Dual-threat
quarterback Robert Griffin is one
of the most exciting players in the
nation, and the Bears narrow loss
to undefeated Connecticut looks
more impressive by the week.
Texas A&M: D- (2-2) A win
is a win, except when its a win
against Army, by four points, at
home. Pathetic.
BiG 12 North
No. 4 Missouri: A (4-0)
Chase Daniel is the most jaw-
droppingly proficient passer in the
country (sorry, Mr. Reesing), and
hes got plenty of weapons around
him. The Tigers pass defense still
has some questions to answer
heading into the Big 12 season.
No. 16 Kansas: B+ (3-1) It
hasnt looked pretty at
times this year for the
young Jayhawks, but
the results speak loud-
ly: Kansas is still a good
football team. Traveling
to South Florida (now
5-0 and ranked No.
10) and coming away
with a last-second loss
isnt anything to pout
about.
Nebraska: B- (3-1) New
head coach Bo Pelini looked like
a mastermind against New Mexico
State in week three. In a home loss
this past weekend to Virginia Tech,
not so much.
Colorado: B- (3-1) If the
Buffaloes could play every game at
home, theyd be contenders for the
conference crown. But a neutral-
site blowout loss to a so-so Florida
State team looks pretty bad.
Kansas State:
C- (3-1) For an
example of a team
with some real prob-
lems, look west to
the purple-clad
Cats, who yielded
335 rushing yards to
Louisiana-Lafayette
last Saturday.
Iowa State: C- (2-2)
The Cyclones arent any worse
than everyone thought theyd be,
but they need to at least challenge
Kansas this weekend to prove they
arent the Big 12s worst.
What Big 12 looks like as real season starts
By asher fusco
[email protected]
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. Both
starting offensive tackles were
injured, three linemen were play-
ing in spots that they didn't start
the game in and a tight end had
become the next option if some-
body else got hurt.
All that, and the Carolina
Panthers didn't give up a sack
Sunday, allowing a hobbled Jake
Delhomme to throw for 294 yards
and two touchdowns in a convinc-
ing win over Atlanta.
In their 3-1 start, the Panthers
have overcome three injuries,
including losing Jordan Gross and
Jeff Otah against the Falcons.
"It's happened twice so far in
four games," coach John Fox said
Monday. "Both times those back-
ups responded well."
But as the Panthers enjoyed
Monday off, there were concerns
about how long Gross would be
sidelined.
The former first-round pick,
who has played in all 91 regular-
season and playoff games in six
seasons, was knocked out when he
was unintentionally kneed in the
head after making a cut block in the
first quarter.
While Fox wouldn't definitively
say that Gross will miss Sunday's
game against Kansas City, concus-
sions that include a loss of con-
sciousness usually mean at least a
week off.
"We were relieved there was not
a neck injury involved," Fox said.
Otah's injury is less serious. The
right tackle twisted his right ankle
in the third quarter.
The injuries forced the Panthers
to improvise. Wharton, who had
missed the previous two games
with a sprained knee, moved from
left guard to Gross' spot.
Panthers cope with injuries
MLB
Pitcher agrees to $41
million contract
ST. LOUIS Pitcher Kyle
Lohse and the St. Louis Cardinals
agreed Monday to a $41 million,
four-year contract.
Lohse was 15-6 with a 3.78
ERA this season and led the
staff with 200 innings. His new
contract calls for a $1.25 million
signing bonus and salaries of
$7,125,000 next year, $8,875,000
in 2009 and $11,875,000 in each
of the final two seasons. He also
gets a full no-trade clause.
Lohse was a free agent
expecting big bucks after the
2007 season, despite a 9-12 com-
bined record with the Reds and
Phillies. Nothing materialized
and it wasn't until late in spring
training that Lohse agreed to a
one-year, $4.25 million contract
with St. Louis.
With Chris Carpenter side-
lined with injuries virtually all
season and Adam Wainwright
missing much of the middle of
the season with a finger injury,
Lohse became the de facto ace.
"He really became the glue of
what we needed to have happen,"
general manager John Mozeliak
said at a news conference.
The Cardinals are expected
to go after bullpen help after 31
blown saves in 2008.
Associated Press
Market crash hits sports fans
ASSOCIATED PRESS
A Chicago White Sox fan holds up a sign in reaction to the stock market plunge during a baseball game against between the White Sox and
the Detroit Tigers in Chicago on Monday. A Chicago win would force a tiebreaker meeting against the Minnesota Twins for the AL Central title.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. A dis-
appointed Tony Gonzalez wants
to know why Kansas City coaches
refused to throw a short pass his
way in the final minutes Sunday,
leaving him three yards short
of the career tight end receiving
record.
Gonzalez did have a 10-yard
touchdown catch in a 33-19 vic-
tory over Denver that snapped
the Chiefs' 12-game losing streak.
But he wanted to set the receiving
record in front of family and fans
at Arrowhead Stadium.
"I had my family out there. I
wanted to do it in front of the fans,
in a home game," said Gonzalez,
the most productive tight end in
NFL history. "It would have been
a great way to do it. I'm disap-
pointed by that, for whatever rea-
son my number wasn't called at
times."
Coach Herm Edwards said
the Chiefs did not want to take a
chance by throwing the ball with
only a short time left in what
turned into a 33-19 win.
"After it was a two-possession
game, we never got the ball back,"
Edwards said.
Gonzalez, a nine-time Pro
Bowler, uncharacteristically
declined to speak with report-
ers immediately after the game
for fear of saying something that
might be misconstrued. But on
Monday, after a private meet-
ing with Edwards, he remained
miffed.
He was thrown only a few
passes the entire day as the Chiefs
stuck mostly to a ground game
that included Larry Johnson's
running for 198 yards and two
touchdowns.
Gonzalez finished with 47
yards on three catches, including
the one that stretched his NFL
touchdown record for tight ends
to 68. His last catch went for 23
yards in a drive that ended in a
field goal and a 26-16 lead with
3:49 left.
The Broncos drove down for
a field goal with 2:06 left and
tried an onside kick. The Chiefs
got possession and Johnson car-
ried four straight times for the
clinching touchdown.
Now Gonzalez will prob-
ably get the record this week at
Carolina, far from the fans who
chanted "Ton-y, Ton-y" when
he lay on the ground, the wind
knocked out of him, after mak-
ing the TD catch.
"It was really endearing, the
way the fans were supporting
me like that," he said. "My wife
almost started crying. It was a
goose-bump situation."
When he was told he was
only 3 yards away from Shannon
Sharpe's record of 10,060 yards
receiving, he asked coaches on
the sideline if he could get the
ball.
"I asked anybody who would
listen to me at that point," he said.
He said he had "no idea" why
he wasn't thrown the ball.
"I've been trying to think about
it all last night and this morning.
There are a couple of different
answers for that, stuff I agree with
and stuff I don't agree with."
Gonzalez insisted there was "no
controversy, no bad blood" after
meeting with Edwards.
"I have ultimate respect for
Herm, and I think he has that for
me, too," said Gonzalez. "We talked
about it face-to-face, man-to-man.
It is what it is and hopefully it will
make us a better football team. I'm
still a little upset about it.
"But it's something I'll get over,"
he added. "The victory was more
important than anything."
If Gonzalez had gotten the
record, the Chiefs planned to halt
the game and make note of the
milestone.
"It's not about the record. The
record's going to come, no mat-
ter what," Gonzalez said. "It's just
that I wanted to do it in front
of the fans. I wanted to do it at
home. I wanted to do it against
the Broncos, our rivals. I felt like
we had won the game anyway and
I thought I could just go out and
get a little catch. It just didn't work
out that way."
Edwards agreed there were no
hard feelings
"Tony's fine. We wish we could
have got him the record, too,"
Edwards said. "But the game, the
way it unfolded at the end, we
really couldn't afford to throw a
pass. A minute, 47 seconds left in
the football game, it's a one-pos-
session game. You can't throw a
pass when you only lead by one
score.
"What if something bad hap-
pens when you decide to throw
that pass?"
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football brings in. Te commercials
played for the University during
televised games attract students
from diferent cultures and geo-
graphical regions. Tere is no
denying that sports play a factor
when some students make a college
choice. Recent achievements such
as an Orange Bowl victory and a
National Championship in basket-
ball undoubtedly had an efect on
this years enrollment jump.
Without football, Kansas prob-
ably wouldnt be a member of
the Big 12. It would have more
than likely stayed in the Missouri
Valley Conference when the Big 8
formed, and would have become
a 20,000-plus school that focused
strictly on basketball, such as
Southern Illinois University.
As a mid-major it would have
been tough for even a school such
as Kansas to achieve the kind
of success it has in basketball.
Gonzaga University is one of
only a few mid-major schools to
become a consistent threat and
even it has not reached the Final
Four. Others, such as George
Mason University, make the
Final Four for a year, but have no
consistency. Since 1966, the only
school to win a NCAA basketball
championship from a non-major
conference was the University of
Nevada, Las Vegas, in 1990.
Kansas might have become a
FBS Conference (D1-AA) foot-
ball school. Kansas fans would
have gotten to watch a structured
play-of system, similar to the
NFL, instead of the chaos that
is the BCS, so there would have
been one bright spot if that had
occurred.
Now, there is nothing wrong
with being a FCS school or having
no football team at all.
However, in my opinion,
Saturdays wouldnt be as fun
without Todd Reesings 7-second
scrambles, Dezmon Briscoes
spectacular catches, Daymond
Pattersons big returns, Mike
Riveras hard hits, Darrell Stuckeys
game-breaking plays and the fans
waving the wheat. Tats why I am
grateful to those students, faculty
and alumni who fought to keep
football alive at the University
nearly a century ago.
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missouri prepares for
Big 12 season game
COLUMBIA, Mo. Missouri
coaches and players learned an
important lesson this weekend
watching several top-ranked
teams while the Tigers spent a
bye week preparing for the Big
12 season.
With Saturday's game at
Nebraska approaching, Missouri
coach Gary Pinkel's message of
"over- preparing" rang true for his
4-0 team.
"Players have to listen because
it's all about respect and all about
preparation and it's that simple,"
Pinkel said.
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toward the future. Building expe-
rience this season should mean a
better foundation in the coming
years.
Iowa State came out of its self-
refection period with a better idea
of what led to a record of 2-2 its
the only North team with two losses
but little idea how best to fx it.
We havent been pleased with
our running game now, from our
tailback position, for a couple of
weeks, Chizik said.
Sophomore Alexander Robinson
led the Cyclones in rushing last
year with a furious fnish to the sea-
son. Tus far he and the rest of the
Cyclone tailbacks have failed to cre-
ate anything positive on the ground.
Robinson missed the frst game
because of an injury, and since then
has rushed for zero touchdowns
and 147 yards, which is second on
the team behind back-up quarter-
back Phillip Bates 166 yards.
Sophomore Austen Arnaud has
tried to counter the failing rushing
game with a balanced attack from
the quarterback position. Arnaud
has completed 65 percent of his pass-
es for 643 yards, rushed for 90 yards
and scored eight total touchdowns.
Iowa States defense, like its
ofense and special teams, has suf-
fered some youthful setbacks. Still,
the Cyclones lead the conference
with 13 forced turnovers.
Te Cyclones are also tied for
third in the conference in ofen-
sive turnovers. Chizik said thats
one of the most important areas to
address this season if the team is
going to make any strides.
As for this weekends game
against Kansas, Chizik said all the
bye weeks in the world might not
help his squad. He described Todd
Reesing as an escape artist and
praised Kerry Meier and Dezmon
Briscoe as two of the best wide
receivers in the country.
Tere are no weaknesses in
their football team, Chizik said.
Were going to have to play a per-
fect game to be in the game with
them. Tats the bottom line.
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ST. LOUIS Jim Haslett won
a division title and had a 10-6
record in his first year as an
NFL head coach, then produced
only one winning record in his
last five seasons with the New
Orleans Saints before being fired
in 2005.
Haslett believes he's a lot
better equipped for the job the
second time around as interim
head coach of the St. Louis Rams.
Game day management, person-
nel decisions, handling adver-
sity he's ready for it all after
the Rams fired Scott Linehan
Monday and handed over game-
day authority to their former
defensive coordinator.
"I always thought second-time
head coaches, if you look at the
track record, are better coaches
because of the experiences they
went through the first time,"
Haslett said. "Just look at the
guys who have second oppor-
tunities, and most of them have
been successful."
Role models for Haslett, 52,
include the Patriots' Bill Belichick
and the Colts' Tony Dungy. Big
names now, but Belichick was
fired by the Browns and Dungy
was let go by the Bucs.
"You learn things about play-
ers, how they react to situations,"
Haslett said. "Probably the big-
gest thing, how you would han-
dle things. There's a number of
things, I have a list."
Haslett was 45-51 with the
Saints, developing a fierce rivalry
with the Rams when both teams
were in the NFC West. He got
his pink slip after a 3-13 show-
ing under extremely adverse
conditions, running a team also
dealing with the aftermath of
Hurricane Katrina. He joined
Linehan's staff in 2006, believing
it would be a steppingstone to
another head coaching job.
Owner Chip Rosenbloom
chose Haslett despite a disap-
pointing start by the defense,
ranked 31st out of 32 teams.
"I think that after meeting
with Jim, he's the man that can
turn this team around," said
owner Chip Rosenbloom, who
gave Haslett a say in personnel
matters.
Haslett gets at least a 12-game
audition, with a shot at removing
the "interim" tag next season.
"You like to think so, but right
now I'm worrying about this
year," Haslett said. "Coaches live
year to year anyway. Hopefully,
we can turn this thing around."
Even though the Rams have
lost 17 of 20 and have allowed 30
points in seven straight games,
the mediocre state of the NFC
West gives him some hope. The
Cardinals and 49ers are tied for
the lead at 2-2.
"In this division, you never
know," Haslett said. "I promise
you they'll play hard. They will
play hard or they're not going to
be here.
"We're going to give it every-
thing we've got and we'll try to
keep the mistakes to a mini-
mum."
Haslett knows a few wins will
do wonders for team morale. He
realizes there will be mistakes,
and when they happen he wants
players to be tough-minded and
shrug them off.
"Something bad will hap-
pen every game, but that's the
National Football League,"
Haslett said. "How you overcome
it, how do you handle adversity,
how do you handle crowd noise
on the road, how do you handle
a fumble, how do you handle
things?
"Right now, we're not going
very well but we're going to work
on that and try to fix that because
adversity does hit in the NFL.'"
Def. coordinator named Rams interim coach
nfl
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JimHaslett speaks at a news conference naming himthe interimhead coach of the St. Louis Rams on Monday in St. Louis. The winless Rams fred coach Scott Linehan on Monday, the day after a fourth straight lopsided loss to start the season. The Rams lost at home to the Bufalo Bills 14-31 on
Sunday. Haslett, Rams defensive coordinator, will replace Linehan on an interimbasis, Rams spokesman Rick Smith said. Haslett had been the head coach of the NewOrleans Saints from2000 to 2005, where he led the teamto a 45-51 record before being replaced by Sean Payton.
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla.
Jacksonville Jaguars offensive tackle
Richard Collier, shot while sitting
in a car outside an apartment com-
plex earlier this month, is paralyzed
below the waist and his left leg was
amputated, his doctor said Monday.
Collier was on a ventilator for
about three weeks and has no
memory of the shooting, said Andy
Kerwin, a surgeon for the University
of Florida at Shands Jacksonville
hospital.
"His overall condition has
improved greatly," Kerwin said. "We
expect him to be discharged soon."
Kerwin said Collier suffered 14
bullet wounds to the back, left groin,
left legs and right buttock. In addi-
tion, a bullet severed his spinal cord,
causing the paralysis. The amputa-
tion was the result of damage to
his left leg and groin, where blood
clots formed. Five bullets alone were
removed from his urinary bladder
and the 26-year-old player also had
bouts of pneumonia, infections and
renal failure.
Still, his condition has been
upgraded to good from critical.
Collier will undergo physical
therapy to learn how to move from
his bed to a wheelchair. He will
never walk again, the doctor said.
Collier's agent Jeff Jankovich said
the player's family wanted to make
Former Jaguar lef paralyzed afer shooting, loses leg
nfl
sure Collier understood what had
happened to him before releasing
details to the public. He said they
even kept the Jaguars in the dark.
"He has extreme grief for a life-
time of dreams he won't be able to
fulfill," the agent said.
Jankovich refused to say specifi-
cally when Collier would be released,
citing security concerns.
Collier and former teammate
Kenneth Pettway were waiting for
two women outside an apartment
complex early Sept. 2 when a gun-
man fired into the vehicle, according
to the Jacksonville Sheriff 's Office.
Pettway was not injured.
The motive behind the attack on
Collier is unknown, but investiga-
tors said earlier he appeared to be
targeted. Police have made no arrests
in the shooting.
Jaguars coach Jack Del Rio and
several players attended the news
conference.
"It's a tragedy this young man
was caught up in this violence," Del
Rio said. "It's a great tragedy for a
young man who had such a promis-
ing future."
Offensive tackle Tony Pashos
said the attack on Collier has been
difficult for his teammates. "I think
about him a lot," he said.
Collier was in his third year
with the NFL after graduating from
Valdosta State.
He was the third NFL player shot
in the past 18 months. Washington
Redskins star Sean Taylor was fatally
shot during what police said was
a botched burglary attempt at his
Miami-area home in November.
Broncos cornerback Darrent
Williams was killed when his rented
limousine was sprayed with bullets
minutes after leaving a New Year's
party at a club in 2007.
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drive around Kansas Speedway.
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championship, Allmendinger is
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mances Gordon was fourth,
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ninth.
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year ago.
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ENGLEWOOD, Colo.
Broncos coach Mike Shanahan
intervened on behalf of his dispar-
aged defensive players Monday,
taking umbrage at placing the
blame on them for the Kansas
City loss.
They weren't the culprits in this
case.
"Any offense that does that
to a defense, there's no chance,"
Shanahan said of the Broncos'
33-19 loss in which the offense
turned the ball over four times.
"People will point to the defense,
but that's so far from the truth."
The defense appreciates
Shanahan's support, but knows
the truth they had a chance to
bail out the offense and didn't.
"I'm disappointed. We could've
played better," safety Marlon
McCree said. "The thing about
a loss like that is it humbles you
and makes you focus and tighten
things up."
The Broncos (3-1) need to fix
their leaky defense fast. They're
giving up nearly 30 points a game
and 408.8 yards of offense.
The team is trying everything
from changing the alignment
throwing in a four-linebacker look
from time to time to tinkering
with new personnel, cutting Hamza
Abdullah and adding Vernon Fox,
who didn't dress Sunday.
So far, this defense appears no
different than the one from a year
ago, which finished near the bot-
tom of the league and led to a part-
ing of ways with defensive boss
Jim Bates.
"We've got to find a way to be
more consistent," Dre' Bly said.
"Defensively, we haven't had the
year we want to have."
Not by any stretch. Not by any
stat. Denver has the third-worst
defense in the league.
"We've got to play better,"
Shanahan said. "We've got some
work to do. But it was not quite
as bad as it looked in those final
stats."
Make no mistake, though, the
final defensive stats against Kansas
City weren't dazzling.
The Broncos surrendered just
160 yards through the air, an
improvement for a defense that
entered the game ranked last in
the league against the pass.
However, Larry Johnson ripped
through them, gaining 198 yards
and scoring two touchdowns. The
Chiefs had a season-best 213 yards
on the afternoon.
The lapse against the run was
a jolt to the team, which hadn't
allowed a 100-yard rusher this sea-
son until Johnson.
"We didn't do our normal
(thing) in the running game," Bly
said. "The first three weeks I think
we did a pretty good job in the
run."
Then again, the Broncos jumped
out to big leads in winning their
first three games, forcing teams to
throw to get back into the game.
But the Broncos' top-ranked
offense staked the defense to noth-
ing Sunday, even putting them in
an early bind with two first-half
fumbles.
"They definitely kept us in the
game," Tony Scheffler said of the
defense's effort.
That's because the offense feels
like there's no deficit they can't
overcome, turnovers aside that is.
Eddie Royal and Brandon Marshall
coughed up the football and Jay
Cutler threw two interceptions,
putting added pressure on an
already struggling defense.
However, the Chiefs scored only
10 points off Denver's miscues.
"We did a good job of staying
focused when we had short fields,"
Bly said.
That's why Shanahan defended
his maligned defense.
Now, he'd like to see more
improvement.
"I sure hope so," he said. "Yeah,
we'll be better."
Notes: Broncos RB Andre Hall
was wearing a brace on his sprained
right wrist Monday. He said it was
feeling good and expected to play
on Sunday as Denver hosts Tampa
Bay.
Shanahan and the Broncos
will see a familiar face guiding
the Buccaneers as Brian Griese
comes to town. Griese was drafted
by Denver in the third round in
1998. "I've always enjoyed Brian,"
Shanahan said. "He is as smart as
they come."
Shanahan said WR Clifford
Russell saw a neurosurgeon on
Monday. He was walking around
the locker room before the team's
light workout Monday. Russell was
immobilized and taken off the field
on a stretcher Sunday after sprain-
ing his neck on kickoff coverage.
He flew back with the team.
Denver coach blames turnovers,
lackluster ofense for loss in K.C.
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Kansas City Chiefs running back Larry Johnson crosses into the end zone ahead of Denver
Broncos linebacker D.J. Williams and teammate cornerback Dre Bly near the end of the game
Sunday. The Chiefs capitalized on four Broncos turnovers to win the game 33-19.
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Kansas City Chiefs running back Larry Johnson gets away fromDenver Broncos safety Marlon McCree as he runs for a 65-yard gain during the
frst quarter of a football game Sunday in Kansas City, Mo.
NFL
NBA
Nuggets vow to plug holes in leaky defense
ASSOCIATED PRESS
DENVER The Denver Nuggets
lost their best defenders this sum-
mer when they let Eduardo Najera
and Marcus Camby get away.
So, what was all the talk about
Monday on the eve of training
camp?
Defense.
Denver's never been known for
its D, but coach George Karl said
players and coaches alike will focus
on defense this season after spend-
ing the last two years trying to match
the Phoenix Suns' up-tempo style.
He plans to change the team's
culture with a slew of new high-
energy young players and a renewed
commitment from his veterans.
That starts with Carmelo
Anthony, whom he trusts will bring
with him the lessons he learned
from the U.S. Olympic team that
rode its tenacious defense to the
gold medal in Beijing.
"Our offense is there. Look, this
man right here's got over 20,000
points," Anthony said, motioning
toward Allen Iverson. "I know I can
score with the best of 'em. But that's
really not an issue for us right now.
We've got to stop people."
Anthony said all the stopping
starts with him.
"You will see a different me," he
promised.
Anthony still smarts when crit-
ics bring up his notoriously soft
defense. He knows as the team's
superstar, though, he sets the tone
and is its lightning rod.
"If I can stop five people out there
on the court myself, then I'd be
the best to ever play this basketball
team," Anthony said. "There's no
'I' in defense. The only thing I can
concentrate on is my man and help
the other four players on my team. I
know I can play defense."
And he's certain his teammates
can, too.
After a fifth consecutive first-
round flop in the playoffs, the
Nuggets lost Najera to the New
Jersey Nets in free agency and traded
Camby, the league's top shot-blocker
and a former defensive player of the
year, to the Los Angeles Clippers for
basically nothing in return except
salary cap relief.
"I know a lot of people are saying
that our defense left when Marcus
Camby left," Anthony said. "So, I
think that gives us motivation to go
out there and prove to everybody
that we are going to come together
as a team and play defense.
"I'm pretty sure you guys will see
a different defensive team this year
from the Denver Nuggets."
The Nuggets averaged 110 points
last season but they allowed 107,
and the porous defense led to anoth-
er first-round exit from the playoffs
when the Los Angeles Lakers ren-
dered them the first 50-win team to
get swept in the postseason.
Karl, an old-fashioned, defensive-
minded coach who has spent his last
decade in the NBA watching his
teams in Milwaukee and Denver
light up the scoreboard and more
often than not fail to sprint back to
the paint to deny baskets, said this
team is the faster, quicker and more
athletic than any one he's coached
in Denver.
Iverson, known more for his ball-
handling skills than his steals, said
he's willing to commit to playing
better defense, too.
"I've been in this league going on
my 13th year and I've been to the
finals once. I would have thought
I'd have been there five or six times
by now and won a championship,"
Iverson said. "So, obviously, the
commitment is there from me to
sacrifice my game, do whatever the
team needs me to do."
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Results after 36 holes
Team Leaderboard
T1. Denver (284-277--561)
T1. Louisville (281-280--561)
3. Eastern Kentucky (278-286--564)
4. Indiana (286-282--568)
5. Kansas (285-286--571)
Player Leaderboard
T3. Blake Giroux, Kansas (69-68--137)
T10. Walt Koelbel, Kansas (72-69--141)
T17. Nate Barbee, Kansas (68-74--142)
T56. Ian Anson, Kansas (76-75--151)
T56. Andrew Storm, Kansas (76-75--151)
MLB
Grand slam propels
White Sox to title game
CHICAGO Alexei Ramirez
spread his arms wide and raced
around the bases like a little kid.
The White Sox would play one
more day.
Ramirez set a rookie record
with his fourth grand slam of the
season, and Chicago beat Detroit
8-2 in a rainout makeup Monday,
forcing a one-game tiebreaker
against Minnesota for the AL
Central title.
The Twins will visit the White
Sox on Tuesday night, with John
Danks starting for Chicago on
three days' rest against Nick
Blackburn. The division champ
begins the playofs at Tampa Bay
on Thursday.
A day after the regular season
ended for everyone else, the White
Sox and Twins found themselves
tied at 88-74.
Washed out earlier this month,
Chicago and Detroit waited
through a rain delay of more
than three hours before starting.
Gavin Floyd (17-8) won on three
days' rest short rest has been
successful trend for many teams in
the stretch.
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(4) Princeton
(5) Mississippi State
(T6) Kansas
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