2008-02-26

BY ANDY GREENHAW
agreenhaw@kansan.com
Students will lose 222 parking spots as a
result of the newly constructed Anderson
Family Complex south of Memorial
Stadium.
Although the Athletics Department and
the Design and Construction Management
Department had originally guaranteed
the replacement of all 667 parking spots,
only 445 spots will be replaced said Donna
Hultine, director of the parking department.
It was presented to me that they would
replace spot-for-spot what they took,
Hultine said. My understanding was that
wed be getting them all back.
The problem is that there are no sites
for additional parking available said Dennis
Crupper, project manager of the DCM
department.
If someone could find a suitable site that
blends in with the topography and the land
then it would be considered, Crupper said.
That hasnt happened yet.
Hultine said she receives an average of
two phone calls per day from students who
complain about the lack of parking.
Chance Management Associates, a nation-
ally renowned parking consultant, released
a study in April 2005 that said student
parking on campus was inadequate and the
University had the tendency to build or
expand buildings without thinking about
parking until later, or not at all. This infor-
mation was released before the construction
of the new football complex began.
Since the beginning of the project, the
DCM department has built three lots to the
west and southwest of the stadium, which
have a total of 227 parking spots to replace
the ones that were lost.
Hultine said the DCM department esti-
mates that it will also be able to keep 218
additional parking spots once the Anderson
Family Complex is complete. Mark Reiske,
DCM associate director, said he expects
these spots to be available by next fall.
Right now its sort of being used as part
of the construction site, but a lot of that will
come back, Hultine said.
Jim Marchiony, associate athletics direc-
tor, said he didnt think parking was a big
issue on campus.
Ive never really heard anyone complain
about it, he said.
Marchiony said hed rarely seen lot 94,
east of the stadium, filled to its capacity.
Id be interested to see someone take
pictures of the lot to see if it ever fills up, he
said. If those spots arent being used then I
kind of see it as a non-issue.
Hultine said thats only true during the
spring semester.
It doesnt fill up that often during the
spring, but it usually fills quickly up during
the fall, she said.
Crupper said one potential site for a park-
ing lot is the area northeast of the stadium.
If the track and throwing area moved
to a different location, that could open up
some suitable land for parking, he said.
However, I dont think there are any plans
to do that at this point.
While Hultine said she was disappointed
that the Athletic Department and DCM
department wouldnt be able to follow
through with their stated goals, she said she
wouldnt hold it against them.
I dont blame them for wanting to have a
great facility, Hultine said. It just happens
to take up a bunch of our parking lots.
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campus. Other events will continue throughout the week, including free water and granola bars at the Student Fitness Recreation Center Tuesday, a presentation by Stacy Prussman, an eating disorder survivor, Wednesday and Celebrate Food Day
Thursday, at the Kansas and Burge Unions and residential dining halls.
A student group is starting an ini-
tiative to integrate KU e-mail with
Gmail. Google offers a free applica-
tion to integrate e-mail, and schools
like Arizona State and Northwestern
have already taken advantage of it.
The schools with integrated e-mails
save money because Google provides
technical support as well as the server
space for the e-mails.
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Parking
Schol hall
security
increases
Safety
lot 94 pro-
vides
18 new
parking spots
Around the
stadium, 667
spots lost,
but 218 new
spots can
be expected
from the area
surrounding
Anderson
family
football Com-
plex construc-
tion site
lot 65
added
61 spots
lot 56
added
84 spots
lot 57
added
82 spots
These three
lots were
added in the
summer and
hold 227 cars
total
Security across campus housing
has been on the rise. KUID Scanners
have been installed in the resi-
dence halls. Scholarship halls will be
upgraded as well.
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stories from Kansan.com:
1. Kansas falls out of rhythm
in Oklahoma
2. Two Jayhawks experience
family tragedies
3. Keefer: Cowboys give
Jayhawks the boot in ugly
showdown
4. Rains: Referees busy
schedule brings new meaning
to Love of the game
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The workshop Conducting
Unclassifed Professional & USS
Searches will begin at 9 a.m. in
103B Carruth-OLeary Hall.
The lecture Whats wrong
with this Picture? Analyzing
Russia via Blogs will begin at
noon in 318 Bailey Hall.
The workshop Ofce 2007:
Making the Switch will begin
at 12:30 p.m. in the Anschutz
Library instruction center.
The seminar Behind the
Rainbow: Judy Garland & the
MGM Musical will begin at 2
p.m. at the Edwards Campus.
The Faculty Executive Com-
mittee meeting will begin at 3
p.m. in the Regents Room on
the second foor of Strong Hall.
The flm Tokyo Olympiad
will begin at 7 p.m. in Alder-
son Auditorium in the Kansas
Union.
The panel discussion
Straight From the Trail: Part
I will begin at 7:30 p.m. at
the Robert J. Dole Institute of
Politics.
The concert Faculty Recital
Genaro Mendez, tenor will
begin at 7:30 p.m. in Swarthout
Recital Hall in Murphy Hall.
The concert KU Symphony
Orchestra will begin at 7:30
p.m. in the Lied Center.
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stop sign stolen from University
and Emery Streets on Saturday
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Saturday morning.
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with
Professor Ann Rowland
English Department
&
Q
A
By Kelci Shipley
kshipley@kansan.com
You have attended and taught
at colleges throughout the U.S.
and out of the country. Was
education diferent depending
on demographics?
I attended Yale for my BA and my
PhD; I attended Oxford in between
my undergraduate and graduate
years at Yale and got a masters
in philosophy there. I was never a
student at Harvard. I was on the
faculty there before moving here,
although it was my frst job, so I was
learning an awful lot. I must say,
these institutions were more alike
than diferent, even Oxford. I loved
my time at each of them, but they
draw on basically the same pool of
people for students and faculty. It
can start to seem like a very small
world after a while.
Where was your favorite place
and why?
Yale when I frst arrived as a
freshman was the most exciting
place and exciting experience. I
went there having never been east
of Chicago, growing up in Sioux
Falls, S.D. and going to a public
high school. Suddenly I was being
exposed to all sorts of new ideas,
new people, classes in art history,
music, literature, history, even my
economics class seemed mind-
blowing. Id go back to the dining
hall after a class and wed continue
the conversation from class! I had
spent my high school years hiding
how much I liked academics in
a desperate attempt to be cool
and now all the cool kids were
smart and happy to talk about
Derrida versus de Man, or various
interpretations of the civil war. It
was a thrilling time. Being just a
train ride away from New York City
didnt hurt either.
How did you end up at the
University?
I was eager to get back to the
Midwest and to teach at a public
institution and really happy when
KU advertised a job in my feld. My
husband grew up in Kansas City,
so I was familiar with the area and
very impressed with Lawrence and
KU. I got really lucky when the job
was ofered to me: this was exactly
the sort of institution and depart-
ment I had been hoping to land in
and we were able to move back
home in a way so that my kids
would have their grandparents,
aunts, uncles, cousins near by.
How did you become inter-
ested in English?
I loved to read as a kid I was
one of those kids who was con-
stantly reading a book. Walking
around reading, reading in the car.
When I learned to drive, I would
have to throw my book in the back
seat to stop myself from reading
while driving. When I realized in
college that I could get paid for
reading and for talking about what
I read become an English profes-
sor, in other words it seemed too
good to be true.
Did you ever think that you
would become a professor?
My father and both my sisters
are medical doctors. I knew I didnt
want to do that, but somehow
thought the best alternative was
becoming a lawyer. It wasnt until
college and being exposed to pro-
fessors and the academic life that I
thought I might be able to do that.
Whats your favorite thing
about teaching?
I love introducing students to
these incredible novels and poems
and getting to hear what they think
as they read them for the frst time.
Whats your favorite subject to
teach and why?
Romantic poetry is probably
my favorite, with gothic literature
a very close second. They are my
favorites because I know the most
about them have thought longer
and harder and read more in these
felds than others and I love the
chance to communicate and share
my ideas and enthusiasm, love to
hear what the students think and
to have them question or chal-
lenge my take on things. Talking
about what you love, sharing it
with others, convincing them that
its worth their close attention and
hard work that is the joy and
challenge of teaching for me.
Whats your favorite book at
the moment?
Ive been reading childrens nov-
els for fun lately probably a sign
that Im regressing or something
in my old age latest read: Freddy
the Detective by Walter Brooks.
Are you currently working on
any writings?
Im fnishing a book manuscript
on eighteenth and nineteenth-
century images of children and
childhood in Britain.
Do have any hobbies?
I ride saddlebred horses.
Do you have special talents or
skills?
Getting dinner for four on the
table before 7 p.m. when Ive just
arrived home at 6 p.m. and have
worked all day does that count?
Edited by Mandy Earles
JournaliSm School
Students win sports
writing Hearst awards
Two University of Kansas
students placed in the top 10
in sports writing for the William
Randolph Hearst Foundations
Journalism Awards Program.
Thor Nystrom, a Baxter,
Minn., senior, placed third and
won $1,000 in the competitions.
Brian Lewis-Jones, a Lenexa
senior, placed seventh and won
$500.
Nystrom won for his article
on ticket-scalping, which ran
in The Kansan in Spring 2008.
Lewis-Jones won for a feature
article on cage fghting, which
ran in Fall 2007.
The Universitys school of
Journalism is placed frst in the
Intercollegiate Writing Competi-
tion. By CALEB SOMMERVILLE
Feelin the heat
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BERKELEY SPRINGS, W.Va.
L.A. residents have the tastiest
tap water, according to the judges
of the worlds largest and longest-
running water tasting contest.
The 18th Annual Berkeley
Springs International Water Tast-
ing was held Saturday, with more
than 120 waters competing for top
honors.
Sparkling, tap and bottled water
from 19 states and nine foreign
countries, including New Zealand,
Romania, Macedonia and the
Philippines, were judged by 10
journalists and food critics.
Judges based their rankings
on taste, odor, mouth feel and
aftertaste.
correction
Mondays article Meet your
Student Senator misidentifed
Joseph Pinaire and Ray Wit-
tlinger. The article featured Jo-
seph Pinaire, junior/senior CLAS
senator, not Ray Wittlinger.
clarification
Mondays article KU on
Wheels deep in debt showed in
a sidebar that the $62,000 left
of the debt would go unpaid. If
another method is not found,
this amount will be paid for out
of the KU on Wheels reserve
account.
Taylor Miller /KANSAN
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news 3A tuesday, february 26, 2008
BY BRENNA HAWLEY
bhawley@kansan.com
A student group is trying to
combine the Universitys e-mail
system with Google.
Connect, a student coalition
running for seats in next years
Student Senate, announced its
second initiative Sunday. The
initiative adds a free application
offered by Google to the Outlook
Web Access system used by the
University.
The application would allow
KU e-mail sign in to stay the same
but change the e-mail to the for-
mat of Googles mail system.
Google offers a free e-mail appli-
cation, called Gmail, to accredited
nonprofit kindergarten through
12th grade schools and universi-
ties. It gives each user technical
support and 6.5 gigabytes of space,
which is 65 times the amount of
space currently available to stu-
dents. The application is integrated
with the schools existing e-mail.
Mohsin Iman, account strategist
for the Google applications educa-
tion team, said Gmail and Google
were started by two students from
Stanford and now are on the cut-
ting edge of technology. He said
offering free e-mail to schools was
a Google initiative.
This is one way
for Google to give
back to education,
Iman said.
Iman said when
a school decided to
integrate Gmail into
its school e-mail
accounts, all student
e-mails would be
hosted on Google
servers, which
would save money
for schools.
He also said no advertisements
would appear on student, faculty
or staff e-mail accounts. He said
that if schools offered e-mail to
alumni, advertisements would
appear on their accounts.
Max Davis-Johnson is the asso-
ciate vice president for technol-
ogy development at Arizona State
University, which has integrated
its e-mail system with the Google
application. He said Google
approached the school in October
2 0 0 6
and it
switched
to Gmail
t w o
w e e k s
later.
H e
said the
s w i t c h
h a d
saved the
s c h o o l
a lot of
money. It no longer has to main-
tain servers or support staff.
From a support standpoint, we
are out of the business of student
e-mail, Davis-Johnson said.
He said the Web service Arizona
State used before Gmail was three or
four years old and that Gmail pro-
vides a better service to students.
Austin Kelly, Lawrence junior
and president of Connect, said his
coalition introduced the new ini-
tiative because it thought e-mail
at the University was a pressing
issue and the coalition could make
it better.
Everyone wants KU e-mail to
be the best it can be, Kelly said.
Kelly said his coalition had
spoken with administrators at KU
Information Technology about the
e-mail integration. He said they
were willing to work to address
student needs, and if that need
was Google integration they would
consider change. To show student
needs, Connect plans to increase
membership in the Facebook
group about the project and also
petition for student support.
Bill Myers, spokesperson for
KU information services, said
that Information Technology had
considered Google applications
before for integration. He said that
when it looked, the Google con-
tract didnt offer everything the
University needed. He said the KU
Portal allowed e-mail access that at
this point Gmail would not be able
to handle.
We need an integration that
will capture all the needs we have,
Myers said.
Jarrod Morgenstern, Overland
Park senior and Connect member,
said that this idea is different from
a platform. Morgenstern said that
a platform is an idea that a coali-
tion promises to fill during its time
in office, whereas an initiative is an
idea a coalition works on before it
is elected to office.
Connect will announce anoth-
er initiative on March 9. Its first
initiative was WiKUpedia, a Web
site similar to wikipedia.com that
focuses on groups and activities at
the University.
Edited by Katherine Loeck
Initiative may upgrade accounts with Gmail technology
E-Mail
BY CALEB SOMMERVILLE
csommerville@kansan.com
University of Kansas students liv-
ing on campus may feel safer this
year.
Security in campus housing, which
has ranged from desk assistants to
hand scanners, has undergone major
changes this year.
At the begin-
ning of the school
year, scholarship
halls moved to a
system where the
doors were locked
24 hours a day.
Residence halls
are in the process
of having KUID
scanners installed.
They also have
desk assistants that
watch the door 24
hours a day.
Diana Robertson, director of
student housing, said she sees no
problem with the scholarship hall
security. She said the keypad system
was installed long before the keycard
system was installed at the residence
halls.
She also said the closeness of the
community helped with security.
The scholarship halls are also
a close-knit community of only 50
people per building, so everyone
knows one another in the build-
ing, meaning that the monitoring of
security takes place on a more indi-
vidualized level there, Robertson
said.
Liz Winter, president of the All
Scholarship Hall Council, agreed
with Robertson.
She said that she knows all the
friends of the residents in Douthart,
the hall she
lives in.
I feel real-
ly safe here,
Winter said.
She said
that each hall
has a keycode
that only resi-
dents of that
hall know. The
residents of
each hall must
escort guests
24 hours a day.
Winter said security varies from
hall to hall. Some halls have people
on phone duty in the front room,
and residents of Douthart can buzz
in guests from their rooms.
There havent been any security
issues at any of the scholarship halls,
Winter said.
She also said that residents feel
safe; some dont even lock their
doors.
Since the residence halls have
recently upgraded to the keycard
scanners for entry, Robertson said
the scholarship halls will upgrade
soon as well. The scholarship hall
upgrades are part of the same safety
additions that the residence halls
are part of. She said the upgrade
will most likely happen in the next
school year.
Justin Fredrick, the complex direc-
tor for the scholarship halls, said the
scholarship halls were in a phase of
the KUID scanner upgrade.
Edited by Nick Mangiaracina
safety features
Residence Halls:
-Lockdown after 11 p.m.
-KUID scanners
-Desk attendants
Jayhawker Towers:
-KUID scanners
-24 hour locked doors
Fraternities and Sororities:
-Varies from keycodes to
hand scanners
Scholarship Halls:
-Keycodes
-24 hour locked doors
SEcurity
Safety measures increase in scholarship halls
aSSociatEd PrESS
WASHINGTON The invasion
of new bee populations has attract-
ed attention in recent years with the
spread of so-called Africanized, or
killer bees moving north.
When a new strain of bees
invades a region already populated
by honey bees, they interbreed and
gain benefits from the genes of their
predecessors, researchers report in
this weeks edition of Proceedings of
the National Academy of Sciences.
Charles Whitfield, an assistant pro-
fessor of entomology at the University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
studied the genes of bees.
Whitfields team found that
when invading bees were inter-
breeding with those already pres-
ent, the combined genes were not
just joined randomly.
When the African honey bees
mated with the western European
honey bees that had been in South
America for centuries, one might
expect that the hybrid offspring
would randomly pick up both the
functional and nonfunctional parts
of the genome, he said.
But actually what we found was
there was a preference for picking
up functional parts of the western
European genome over the non-
functional parts.
Study reveals mix of benefcial traits in bees
EntoMology
The scholarship halls are also a
close-knit community of only 50
people per building...
DIana RobeRTSon
director of student housing
Image courtesy of Arizona State University
This is one way for Google to
give back to education.
MoHSIn IMan
account Strategist for the Google
applications education Team
The Leffel Award is not restricted to graduating seniors
The Agnes Wright Strickland Award
The Class of 1913 Award
*The Rusty Leffel Concerned Student
The Donald K. Alderson Memorial
The Alexis F. Dillard Student Involvement Award
The Caryl K. Smith Student Leader Award
The University of Kansas
Ch a n c e l l o r s S t u d e n t Awa r d s Co mmi t t e e
Nomination and application forms are online at: http://www.vpss.ku.edu/
Nominations must be received by Friday, February 15, 2008, at 5:00 p.m.
Applications must be received by Friday, February 29, 2008, at 5:00 p.m.
Now accepting nominations and applications for the following graduating senior awards:
NEWS 4A tuesday, february 26, 2008
NEW YORK The Oscars are a
ratings dud.
Nielsen Media Research said
preliminary ratings for the 80th an-
nual Academy Awards were 14 per-
cent lower than the least-watched
ceremony ever, which was in 2003.
Only 33 million viewers tuned in
for that show.
Nielsen said Monday that over-
night ratings are also 21 percent
lower than last year.
ROCKY RIVER, Ohio John Mc-
Cain said Monday that to win the
White House he must convince a
war-weary country that U.S. policy
in Iraq is succeeding. If he cant,
then I lose. I lose, the Republican
said. He quickly backed of that
remark.
Let me not put it that stark, the
likely GOP nominee told report-
ers on his campaign bus. Let me
just put it this way: Americans
will judge my candidacy frst and
foremost on how they believe I
can lead the county both from our
economy and for national security.
Obviously, Iraq will play a role in
their judgment of my ability to
handle national security.
If I may, Id like to retract Ill
lose. But I dont think theres any
doubt that how they judge Iraq
will have a direct relation to their
judgment of me, my support of the
surge, McCain added. Clearly, I am
tied to it to a large degree.
The fve-year-old Iraq confict
already is emerging as a fault line
in the general election, with the
Arizona senator calling for the U.S.
military to continue its mission
while his Democratic opponents
urge speedy withdrawal.
While most Republicans still
back the war, many independents
and Democrats dont. That presents
a signifcant challenge for McCain
and an opportunity for either
Barack Obama or Hillary Rodham
Clinton.
EntErtainmEnt
80th Academy Awards
receive low Nielsen rating
prEsidEntial ElEction
McCain focuses on the war
for campaign vitality
LOUISVILLE, Ky. , A new travel
Web site has been launched for
baby boomers at www.boomero-
pia.com.
I happen to be a baby boomer
and I felt like the fun side of me
wasnt being catered to and mar-
keted to, said Web site founder Liz
Dahl, 59, in a phone interview from
her ofce in Louisville. I was get-
ting ads for medication and hear-
ing aids and no one was appealing
to my fun side.
So she created Boomeropia as
an information site, listing interest-
ing trips and tours in 30 categories,
from adventure to pet travel to
beaches and bed-and-breakfasts.
Other categories include cruises,
culinary travel, golf, fshing and
glamping, which means glamor-
ous camping or camping trips
where the tour operator does all
the hard work for you, with com-
fortable tents and catered meals.
Click on botanical tours and youll
read about a trip to Kazakhstan
in search of alpine plants; click on
volunteer for details on an Ameri-
can Hiking Society trip to work in a
park in the Chilean Patagonia.
There is also a forum section
where readers can post photos and
share their thoughts.
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Web site for people her age
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versity Dr. Call 748-9807 or 766-0244.
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Available Mar 1, 2008. 550-9319 $825
2 BR, 1 1/2 BA avail. 8/1 for quiet non-
smoker at 3707 Westland Pl., $725 plus
deposit, C/A, gar., fenced yd, 1 yr. lease.
785-550-6812 or 785-842-3510.
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campus. Hardwood foors, W/D, no pets.
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830-8008.
3 BR apt. 2901 University Dr. Newly re-
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on KU bus route. Move-in Special: 1st
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competitive salary and benefts package,
and is an equal opportunity employer.
Please submit resume to Erica Souter,
Landmark National Bank, 2710 Iowa St.,
Lawrence, KS 66046.
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use? I would be happy to pay $10 for it.
If it is Region Free I will pay $30. Send
me a note jtquinn@ku.edu hawkchalk.-
com/783
Wanted, used laptop. Wireless internet
ready. Nothing too advanced needed. I
am thinking in the $200 range. - jtquin-
n@ku.edu hawkchalk.com/784
Attention College Students!
We pay up to $75 per survey.
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Alvamar Golf Course is now accepting ap-
plicants for beverage cart and outside ser-
vices positions. Apply at 1800 Crossgate
Dr. or call David at 785-842-1907.
Babysitter for 6mo old baby girl. Tuesday/
Thursday from March-May. Hourly pay
$9. Refrence and previous experience re-
quired. Please call 766-9077.
Earn $800-$3200 a month to drive brand
new cars with ads placed on them.
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Get Paid To Play Video Games!
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HEY STUDENTS!! Secure your spring
and summer job now. Shadow Glen the
Golf Club is about to start training for
server and bartender positions. Enjoy
free meals and earn golf privileges in a
fun atmosphere. Flexible scheduling for
students, 15 min. from campus off K-10.
Will train. Call 913-764-2299
Group Daycare needs morning/afternoon
helpers. Must be reliable. 3 or 5 morn-
ings/wk. Good pay. 842-2088
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sponsible & bright person who enjoys
helping others. Fax resume
913-451-3292.
Hiring PT front desk and weekend room
attendants. Front desk $7.50/hr, Cleaners
$8.50/hr. Apply at the Hampton Inn.
Now hiring for positions in our
nursery and preschool rooms. Weekly
Thursday mornings from 8:45AM-12:-
00PM. $6.50-$7.00/hour. Please call Liz
at 785-843-2005 ext. 201 to schedule in-
terview.
Servers Wanted!
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off of 435 between K10 and I-70. GREAT
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Part Time Babysitting. Looking for caring
person to babysit for 18-month-old girl.
Tues & Thurs morning to early afternoon.
Hours can be somewhat fexible. Must
have toddler experience and references.
Call Karen for more info 542-9358.
SOFTBALL UMPIRES
Lawrence Parks/Recreation has openings
for summer adult sports softball umpires.
Excellent pay/fexible schedule. Appli-
cants must be at least 18 years old, pos-
sess background/experience in softball.
Training provided/required. Work avail-
able April thru October. Contact Adult
Sports offce, 832-7920 ASAP if inter-
ested; training starts immediately.
Sushi House in Olathe
New restaurant opening.
30 minute commute.
Great money and work environment.
Hiring servers, bartenders, servers assis-
tants, chefs, cooks.
Apply in person Mon-Sat. 10-5pm.
14178 W. 119th St.
913-780-1777
Undercover Shoppers Earn up to $70
per day. Undercover Shoppers needed to
judge retail and dining establishments
EXP. Not RE. CALL 800-722-4791
Web Programmer Assistant
.NET,php,JavaScript, SQL, Photoshop,
Flash. 20-25 hr/WK, fexible schedule
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Camp Counselors needed for great
overnight camps in NE Pennsylvania.
Gain valuable experience while working
with children in the outdoors. Teach/assist
with waterfront, outdoor recreation, ropes
course, gymnastics, A&C, athletics, and
much more. Offce & Nanny positions also
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413 W. 14th Street
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AUTO STUFF JOBS LOST & FOUND FOR RENT
ROOMMATE/
SUBLEASE SERVICES CHILD CARE TICKETS TRAVEL
SPRING BREAK SOLVED
Beachgate Condos. Right ON the Beach
in Port Aransas. In the center of the ac-
tion. 2 pools & spas, shuffeboard & more.
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Licensed daycare has openings for chil-
dren. PT or FT, infants/toddlers. For more
info, Call 785-856-1940/785-317-7450.
Student ticket needed for K-State mens
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blush@ku.edu. hawkchalk.com/795
WANTED: 2 to 4 tickets to the KU/K-
State game on 3/1/08. Please! Will pay
$$.shanep@ku.edu or 417 294-5775
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CHILD CARE
TICKETS
TRAVEL
SERVICES
Sublease at Legends Apartments for June
and July. $400/mo includes all utilities,
washer/dryer, own bathroom, pool and
hot tub. Contact Amy at 913-481-8147
hawkchalk.com/787
Sublet 2 bdrm ASAP thru May 08 !!!
$250/bdrm/mo, cats allowed
5 min walk to KS Union, 15 min downtown
1 twin size bed included
Monica 316 992 6370 Megan 913 940
8825. hawkchalk.com/781
Sublet at The Reserve available ASAP
through July 2008. $315 includes fully fur-
nished apartment,cable TV, Internet,
washer/dryer, Contact at (913) 220-6070.
hawkchalk.com/816
2 BR Sublease in 4 BR w/loft $329 mo.
low util. 1145 Louisiana Great Location
and Spacious Available June thru Dec
2008 Contact scottieb@ku.edu
9139080274 hawkchalk.com/797
2-3 roomates to share 4 BR 2 BA town-
home close to KU & bus system. $450/mo
includes util. W/D, DW, CA, patio & 2 car
garage. 816-807-9493 or 785-979-4740.
1 Bedroom apartment for lease over the
summer at Tuckaway apartments. Con-
tact Tuckaway at 785-838-3377.
hawkchalk.com/805
1bd in a 2bd 1ba for lease at Highpointe,
6th and Iowa, until the 31st of July. Feb,
March, and April rent paid! Interested con-
tact cook887@gmail.com or 913-226-
1834 hawkchalk.com/786
No rent until April! Need roommate for our
2bd/1ba apt. Free business & ftness cen-
ter, pool & tanning. On KU bus route.
$365/mo incl. all util. Call Kelly @ 620-
2BD/1BA $770 W/D Free internet and ca-
ble. Somone to sublease starting March
or April. Call 913-731-5971 hawkchalk.-
com/809
2BR, 1.5bath Townhome at 23rd & Al-
abama. $570/month. Sublease May 23-
July 31. All inquiries please call 785. 841.
5797 Mon-Fri before 5pm. Or call 785.
248.8300. hawkchalk.com/800
3 Bed 2 Bath Townhouse available for the
summer. Starting the end of May possibly
before. Call 816-729-2041 for details.
W/D, Garage hawkchalk.com/817
3BR,1BA,Nice,close to campus,big yard
w/shed,driveway,W/D, frig & more. pets
under 30 lbs ok with dep., availmarch,
$850/mo+utilities&deposit.2031 Kentucky.
816-853-8968 hawkchalk.com/796
Legends Sublease $500 w/ utilities, cable,
internet, carport included. Move in May
17, pay ONLY June/July rent. Call (949)
Roommates wanted: 4 bedroom, 2 baths,
covered parking, washer and dryer, dish-
washer, 10 minute walk from campus.
Contact Abbey 816-522-3625. $300 per
month. hawkchalk.com/788
ROOMMATE/SUBLEASE
ROOMMATE/SUBLEASE
Sunrise Village & Sunrise Place
Sunrise Village
660 Gateway Ct.
3 & 4 bedroom
townhomes
Newly Remodeled Lawrence Luxury
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$ 855 - $920 at Sunrise Village
$520 - $720 at Sunrise Place
Sunrise
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Call us at 841-8400
Located on KU Bus Route, Pool, Tennis,
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Very Spacious, up to 1500 sq. ft! Half o Deposit!
Up to $400 Free Rent!
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837 Michigan St.
2 bedroom townhomes
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FREE Wireless Internet Gated Community
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FREE Tanning Bed KU Bus Runs Every 8 Minutes
FREE Business Center Credit Cards Accepted
NEW Clubhouse 24/7 Emergency Maintenance
Indoor 1/2 Court Basketball Court On-Site Management
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Lease with us by 3/17/08 & you
could win a Wii!
4BR 2BA House W/D Must See! Circle
Drive. 1941 Kentucky St. $1300/mo
Aug 1 785-760-0144
Avail. in late May cute 1 BR apartment
in renovated older house, wood foors,
dishwasher, front porch, window a/c,
antique tub, 1300 block Vermont, $499,
cats ok call Jim & Lois 785-841-1074
5 - 7 BR Victorian Houses close to cam-
pus Available August. All amenities. rain-
bowworks1@yahoo.com 785-842-6618
7 BR 2 BA house 2 blocks from campus &
downtown. Hardwood & tile foors. Newly
remodeled bathrooms & kitchen. Large
deck. CA. Ample parking. Avail. in Aug.
$2,975/mo. Please call 785-550-0426
Avail. Aug. nice 2 BR apartment in ren-
ovated older house on 1300 block Ver-
mont, wood foors, dishwasher, w/d,
a/c, dogs under 10 pounds and cats
ok, $799 call Jim & Lois 785-841-1074
Beautiful 2, 3 & 4 BR homes.
Available immediately. We love pets.
Call for details. 816-729-7513
Brand new 10 BR house ready for Aug
lease. Other houses available for May.
Close to Downtown/KU Campus. Call
816.686.8868 for more info.
Great House! 6-8 BR 1221 Tennessee.
Hardwood foors, W/D included, front
porch and large deck! Rick 913-634-3757
Large 4BR Townhomes available for Au-
gust, include dishwasher, microwave,
washer/dryer, freplace, back patio, two
car garage. Range from $320-$400 per
person. Please call 785-766-6302.
Leasing for Summer & Fall 2, 3 & 4 BDR
apartments & townhomes. Walk-in clos-
ets, swimming pool, KU & Lawrence bus
route, patio/balcony cats ok. Call 785-843-
0011 or view www.holiday-apts.com
NEWER CONSTRUCTION!
Close to campus. 1-4 BRs available.
Call 785.841.5444.
NOW LEASING FALL 2008 ?Downtown
Lofts & Campus Locations ?785-841-8468?
www.frstmanagementinc.com
Tuckaway Management now leasing for
spring and fall. Call 785-838-3377 or
check us out online at www.tuck-
awaymgmt.com for coupon.
3BR 2.5BA avail. Aug. 1 @ Williams
Pointe Townhomes $1050 cable & inter-
net paid, gym, rec room, no pets, call 312-
7942
3BR 2BA 5th & Colorado Off-street park-
ing. Close to campus. W/D. $750/mo.
Patio. Small pets ok. Call 785-832-2258.
3bed/2.5bath 3 yr old townhome. Open fr
plan w/ loft 1504 sq ft. w/appliances.
149,900 call David 785-218-7792
3BR 2BA W/D Lg. Living Space. Walk to
Allen Feild House. 1436 19th Terr.
$1050/mo Aug 1 785-760-0144
3BR Townhome special, Lorimar Town-
homes. For August. $270/month/person.
($810/month) 785-841-7849
3BR, 1.5BA Townhome, 2301 Ranch
Way. Garage, DW, CA, MW, W/D, Pets
Okay, Available NOW. $770/mo. 785-842-
7644
4 BR 3BA avail. June 1 & Aug 1 @
LeannaMar Townhomes, Open House
WThF 3-7 & Sat 11-2, internet & cable
paid, W/D, new appliances, freshly remod-
eled. Move-In Specials $1160 no pets,
call 312-7942
FOR RENT FOR RENT FOR RENT FOR RENT FOR RENT
Briarstone
1010 Emery Rd.
832.8200
Mackenzie Place
1133 Kentucky
841.8486
Coldwater Flats
413 W. 14th Street
841.8468
Arkansas Villas
911-941 Arkansas
841.8468
NOW LEASING FOR FALL!
First Management is
Proud to Announce
We Are Now Managing
the following Campus
Locations:
entertainment 6a Tuesday, February 26, 2008
10 is the easiest day, 0 the most
challenging.
RANDOM THOUGHTS
Jaymes and Sarah Logan
NUCLEAR FOREHEAD
Jacob Burghart
HOROSCOPES
PARENTHESES
Chris Dickinson
Aries (March 21-April 19)
Today is a 6
Careful computation is required,
and a good eraser. There may be
a few items youll have to take
away from your list. Set priori-
ties, so you can maintain hope
youll get them later.
Taurus (April 20-May 20)
Today is an 8
Set up your team to win. Make
sure they know what needs
to be done. Provide constant
encouragement; this isnt going
to be easy.
Gemini (May 21-June 21)
Today is a 6
Youre into the diffcult part. Your
goal seems impossible. Dont
lose faith and toss it out, make
it into smaller chunks. Get there
one step at a time.
Cancer (June 22-July 22)
Today is an 8
Jointly held fnances are a hot
topic now. This includes the
household money, loans and
investments. Dont even mention
speculation. Dont risk security.
Leo (July 23-Aug. 22)
Today is a 6
Somebody can fnd disagree-
ment with just about everything
thats said. Dont get into the
middle of the confict unless you
must, to keep the peace.
Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)
Today is an 8
Youre good at telling the differ-
ence between fact and fantasy.
You may also fnd a few superfu-
ous things you could do without.
Exercise good judgment.
Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)
Today is a 6
Not a good day to gamble. Dont
even kid around. The odds are
too high youd trip over your own
feet and hurt yourself. Watch
where youre going.
Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)
Today is a 7
Taking a little risk seems to be
a worthwhile endeavor. It isnt,
though. Wagers you make now
are more likely to go the other
way. Better zip your lip.
Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)
Today is a 5
Its good to make long lists.
Youre still in control, how-
ever. Situations change. You can
scratch things off without ever
achieving them. Theyre your
lists.
Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)
Today is a 7
Beware of false friends who are
after your money. They may try
to sell you something you dont
need. Dont take their word for it;
do your own research.
Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)
Today is a 5
Not a good time to offer fanciful
suggestions. Keep your dreams
to yourself, for now. Keep work-
ing the job and youll get there,
eventually.
Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20)
Today is an 8
Expand your search, but keep
private what youre actually fnding.
You dont want to encourage a lot
of competition. Hold onto your
advantage.
ACADEMy AwARDS
Whoopi missing in montage
AssociAted Press
NEW YORK Whoopi Goldberg
seemed sad on The View Monday
when her fellow co-hosts discussed
how she was not included in a mon-
tage featuring previous Oscar hosts
during the Academy Awards.
The 52-year-old Goldberg has
received two Oscar nominations,
winning for her role as Oda Mae
Brown in 1990s Ghost. She hosted
the event in 1994, 1996, 1999 and
2002. She did, however, appear as an
Oscar winner in a separate montage
Sunday night.
Goldberg appeared stumped that
the academy would leave her out of
the one clip and repeat host Steve
Martin.
Maybe they accidentally lost a
clip of you hosting. ... But I think its
wrong, Elisabeth Hasselbeck said.
Joy Behar said being slighted is
never fun. Sherri Shepherd won-
dered if Goldberg had made some-
one mad.
Undoubtedly, Goldberg said,
smiling. Undoubtedly I (bleeped)
somebody off yet again. You know
what, I dont I dont know.
Hey, we think youre a great
host, reassured Barbara Walters, the
creator of the ABC chatfest.
I think we should do our own
montage of you to make up for it,
Hasselbeck said.
ASSSOCIATED PRESS
Whoopi Goldberg expressed disappointment
for not appearing in the montage of Academy
Award hosts, which was shown Sunday.
The Eternity
o the Poem
H U MA NI T I E S L E C T U R E S E R I E S 2 0 0 7 2 0 0 8
Additional Event
A Conversation with Paul Muldoon
February 28, 10: 00 a.m.
Hall Center Conference Hall
Paul Muldoon
February 27, 2008 | Woodruff Auditorium | 7:30 p.m.
Winner of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize, Muldoon has been called the most
signicant English-language poet born since the second World War.
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This series is co-sponsored by Kansas Public Radio.
Partial funding for the Humanities Lecture Series
is provided by the National Endowment for the
Humanities 2000 Challenge Grant.
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trying to compensate for your
inferiority complex, you make
me laugh.
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I saw something upsetting on
the news recently.
Punxsutawney Phil, the famous
groundhog from Pennsylvania,
saw his shadow. That apparently
means winter is not going to end
for a few more weeks.
Isnt that wonderful?
Sure, spring seems like it should
be getting ready to make an
appearance soon, but a pampered
marmot stood in the right angle
under the sun, so this infuriatingly
cold weather is sticking around for
a while longer.
Too bad Phil does not live in
Kansas, where trying to predict the
weather without fancy equipment
is about as logical as assuming the
Wildcats are actually going to live
up to their potential in basketball.
People are, however, just
as annoying as observing every
morning as you leave your apart-
ment that it is still really cold out,
even though it was supposed to get
into the 50s today.
That is just the way the weather
works in Kansas.
If you are not a meteorologist,
your guess as to how it is going to
feel outside is as good as anyones.
Except for meteorologists.
Im pretty sure theres some-
thing they arent telling us.
One of my strangest memories
of growing up in a state that claims
to be as big as I think (on a
side note, the states public rela-
tions people really would not be
happy with) was the blizzard that
occurred when I was in the first
grade.
What was so strange about this
blizzard? It was in the middle of
October.
Yes, thats right. The people of
Topeka got a respite from raking
leaves that day so that they could
shovel their driveways.
It was quite a shock to me then.
I was too young to under-
stand the concept of unseasonal
weather or that the snow would
be gone without a trace in time for
Halloween.
Since that fateful, albeit con-
fusing storm, Ive observed every
type of weather in this state, from
extremely hot Novembers to cold
Marches, and occasionally, Mays
that provide the showers that then
give way to June flowers, appar-
ently because April was lazy and
somebody had to pick up the slack
for it.
Im starting to think we are due
for a plague of locusts sometime
soon.
It has been clearly established
that Kansas weather does not meet
any typical definitions of normal.
But why not?
Some people may tell you that
various storm systems from all
over the country tend to cross the
Midwest, occasionally mixing and
producing big storms and that these
systems may very well be strength-
ened by the effects of global climate
change.
Unfortunately, we live in Kansas,
where science is a scary subject
matter, so a different, less feasible
explanation must be brought into
the discussion.
My suggestion is that Kansas is
being punished for some random
misdeed committed within what
would eventually become its bor-
ders a few centuries ago.
Go ahead. Try and prove that
that never happened.
We could always do some
research, and find out exactly what
this state-cursing event was and
attempt to set it right, but what
would that actually accomplish?
I, and many others, have com-
plained about the weather in
Kansas, but it does seem to be part
of its character.
And Kansas needs all the char-
acter it can get.
It fills the void left by all the
space between our few hills.
And really, what would we actu-
ally gain from having normal, sea-
sonal weather?
Nobody could build jack-o-lan-
tern/snowman hybrids, nor could
they occasionally wear shorts in
January.
The cold is annoying now, but
remember, it could always be
worse.
Who knows what other tricks
that groundhog has up its sleeve?
Cohen is a Topeka junior in
political science and English.
Max Rinkel
Groundhog perpetuates winter
Commentary
Ben Cohen
Claims that a two-party politi-
cal system leans toward fascism not
only ignore a plethora of historical
examples to the contrary, but they
also misunderstand the causes for the
rise in extremist political groups.
The fascist governments that arose
in Germany and Italy during the first
half of the 20th century arose despite
multi-party democracies. They arose
largely because the multi-party gov-
ernments of that time period could
not effectively deal with the crip-
pling economic and social problems
plaguing these societies, resulting
in people turning toward extremist
groups that offered real change and
an end to political deadlock.
Certainly the rise in extremist
groups can hardly be attributed to a
single cause, but to suggest that fas-
cism looms ominously on the hori-
zon for the United States requires
more evidence than a rant about
American politics.
To likewise suggest that American
political parties lack diversity is to
misunderstand what these political
parties represent.
In the United States, political par-
ties represent coalitions of interests,
not a single-minded entity with a
dedicated ideology.
When the parties are divided on
an issue, people complain that parti-
san politics tear the country apart.
When the parties come together
on an issue, people complain that
they cant tell the difference between
the two parties and that we are
approaching fascism in America.
The problem with American
politics isnt political parties. It is
American citizens who dont under-
stand the political process and want
easy solutions to complex issues, par-
ticularly solutions that dont require
any more effort than cynical com-
plaining.
I suspect that some people dont
understand that fascism is a very
specific ideology, rather than simply
a society in which one political party
dominates the political process.
The United States has never been
a fascist country nor is it leaning
toward fascism.
To suggest otherwise is little more
than angry lashing out and frankly
is insulting to the people who were
forced to or continue to live under
such a system.
Just because you cant elect an
official who represents your interests
perfectly doesnt mean the system
is broken or leading toward brutal
dictatorship.
There are 300 million Americans,
all with their own ideas of a perfect
world, and most likely no one will be
completely satisfied.
Americas politics seem distant
from its people, but you cannot
simultaneously complain about gov-
ernment control mechanisms and
restrictions on freedom while calling
for that government to implement
control mechanisms to facilitate the
rise of a multi-party political system.
Freedom doesnt always mean
choice. The very freedom to form
political parties, businesses or other
organizations sometimes leads to
monopolies that restrict choice.
Americans need to understand
that if they want their choices pro-
tected, some freedoms must be
restricted.
Freedom to engage in an activity
means the freedom to suffer the con-
sequences of that activity.
For better or for worse, this
includes American political parties.
Sincerely,
Andrew Stangl
Senior in political science, inter-
national studies, French and history
America has
avoided road
to fascism
whats happening to
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How did I snag my dose of silly
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BY MARY SORRICK
msorrick@kansan.com
In the basement of the Natural
History Museum lies a 130-million-
year-old fossil that could reshape
popular theory about the evolution
of birds flight.
Thats where two University
researchers developed a theory
about the bird, called a Microraptor,
that has earned them a spot on an
upcoming episode of the PBS show
NOVA.
Larry Dean Martin, curator of
paleontology at the Natural History
Museum, and David Burnham, dino-
saur preparator at the museum, cited
a well-preserved Microraptor fossil
from China as evidence that flight
did not develop on the ground, as
many paleontologists believe, but in
the trees.
The NOVA episode, which airs
on channel 11 at 7 p.m. tonight, will
explore that and other theories about
the Microraptor.
The Microraptor, a four-winged
dinosaur-like bird, lived during
the early Cretaceous period, which
spanned between 145 million and 65
million years ago.
Paleontologists thought that the
bird flew by gaining acceleration
from running on the ground.
But based on the Microraptors hip
joints and feather position, Martin
and Burnham proposed that it was
a tree-dwelling animal that flew by
gliding from tree to tree.
These animals are pretty much
going to get eaten if they land on the
ground, Martin said.
In defense of the Microraptor, a
reconstruction of the birds skeleton
led Martin and Burnham to the con-
clusion that the Microraptors legs
pointed outward like wings.
The animals hip joints, which
Martin said fit the model of an ani-
mal that sprawls its legs, would have
made it difficult for the Microraptor
to move quickly on the ground.
Martin said that even if the
Microraptor had downward-pointing
legs, its feathers would have tripped it
and prevented it from gaining enough
ground speed to actually fly.
Despite this, Martin and Burnham
said many paleontologists were still
wed to the idea that the Microraptor
was a terrestrial dinosaur.
Burnham said part of the miscon-
ception was because of the belief that
dinosaurs were animals that moved
on only two feet.
He said paleontologists continued
to advocate their origin of flight the-
ory at the expense of other evidence.
In nature, simpler is better,
Burnham said. Physics, anatomy,
the fossil record are all being modi-
fied because they are convinced they
have the right answer.
Martin and Burnham also built a
life-sized Microraptor glider. When
thrown, the glider moves through the
air in a way that supports the tree-
dwelling theory about the nature of
the Microraptor.
Burnham said that Microraptor
theory supported the idea that birds
did not evolve from dinosaurs but
represent their own evolutionary
line. He said several prominent pale-
ontologists, including Bob Bakker,
a consultant for Jurassic Park, also
have begun to support their idea.
Although the researchers didnt
know how much screen time they
would get in the NOVA special,
Burnham said he was optimistic.
Just the fact that were in it, we
win, he said.
Edited by Sasha Roe
Kristin Hoppa/KANSAN
Larry Martin, curator of vertebrate paleontology, left, and David Burnham, dinosaur preparator, right, display their model of the Microrap-
tor in the Natural History Museum, Monday. Martin and Burnhamwill be featured in a NOVA special airing tonight on PBS at 7 p.m.
KU researchers explain fight theory on NOVA
AssociAted press
CANTON, Ohio A former
police officer sobbed and apolo-
gized for killing his pregnant
lover and their unborn child
as he appealed Monday to the
jury that convicted him to spare
his life.
I accept responsibility,
Bobby Cutts Jr., 30, said from
the witness stand. Cutts was
convicted Feb. 15 of aggravated
murder in the death of the near-
ly full-term fetus and of murder
in the death of Jessie Davis, 26.
He could receive death, life
in prison without parole or life
with parole after 20, 25 or 30
years. If the jury recommends
death, the judge can reduce it
to life, something that has hap-
pened just seven times in Ohio
in 27 years.
Reading from handwrit-
ten notes, Cutts said he could
not express in words how he
felt knowing that he had killed
Davis and the unborn girl, who
was to be named Chloe.
If I could do anything to
bring them back
to you, I would,
Cutts, sitting
at the witness
stand just steps
from Davis
teary-eyed par-
ents, said.
I pray that
you find peace
and you some-
day find room
for forgiveness, he said during
his roughly six minutes on the
witness stand. He said he never
intended to harm Davis or their
baby.
Two weeks ago, Cutts sobbed
on the witness stand as he testi-
fied during the trial that he had
accidentally killed Davis with an
elbow blow to the throat during
a disagreement and dumped her
body in a park in a panic.
Cutts also apologized to his
family and to community mem-
bers who searched nine days
for Davis before Cutts finally
admitted that he knew where
her body
was.
U n d e r
court rules,
Cutts could
not be
questioned
by prosecu-
tors after
giving his
statement.
Prosecutor
Chryssa Hartnett said Cutts
deserved to die for what he did.
Cutts attorney, Myron
Watson, said the defense accept-
ed and respected the verdict but
asked jurors to listen closely
to defense witnesses called to
appeal for his life.
Certainly, Mr. Cutts life is
important, Watson said.
Cutts divorced parents, his
sister, an ex-wife and a fellow
officer testified, describing an
upstanding individual who was
attentive to his family and chil-
dren and the residents whose
neighborhoods he patrolled in
Canton.
Prosecutors told the jury
that Cutts killed Davis and the
unborn baby last June at her
Lake Township home to get out
of child support payments for a
fourth child.
The couples two and a
half-year-old son Blake, who
was found home alone, gave
investigators their first clues
to his mothers disappearance
when he said, Mommys cry-
ing. Mommy broke the table.
Mommys in the rug, and later,
Daddys mad.
For more than a week, Cutts
denied knowledge of her where-
abouts as thousands searched in
the area. He finally led authori-
ties to the body, wrapped in a
comforter. Cutts has resigned
from his job.
Jury returns to hear Cutts pleas, consider life or death
If I could do anything to bring
them back to you, I would.
BoBBy Cutts Jr.
Former police ofcer
Ex-cop appeals for his life
triAl
fossils
ASSOciAtED PrESS
convicted murderer Bobby cutts Jr., second fromright, stands with his attorneys Myron
Watson, left, Carolyn K. Ranke, second fromleft, and Fernando Mack at the end a sentencing
hearing Monday in Canton, Ohio. A jury will decide if Cutts deserves the death penalty for the
murder of Jessie Davis and her unborn child last summer.
cONtriBUtED PHOtO
David Alexander, assistant professor of biological sciences, tests a model Microraptor. The model, based on a Microraptor fossil, supports the idea
that Microraptors glided fromtree to tree.
As days go, Saturday wasnt a great one
for Kansas basketball. The Jayhawks slogged
through a foul-filled disaster of a loss at
Oklahoma State with the deaths of fam-
ily members of two players tugging at their
focus.
The defeat pulled Kansas and its fans one
rung down on the Big 12 Conference stand-
ings ladder and a step behind Texas in the
race for the conference title. Throw in two
potentially tough road games at Iowa State
and Texas A&M, and for Kansas diehards the
rest of the season could be as unpleasant as a
trip to the dentist.
Dont be too quick to fret: Even if the
Jayhawks dont draw a No. 1 seed come tour-
ney time, theres plenty to smile about across
college basketball.
Around the nation, there are under-the-
radar teams building their rsums and
prepping for NCAA tournament runs. Oral
Roberts University, at 15-1 in the Summit
League, is a team Kansas might not want to
face in late March. Does the name Marchello
Vealy ring a bell? Drake captured the
Missouri Valley Conference regular season
crown on the small shoulders of point guard
Adam Emmenecker, a former walk-on.
Out on the left coast, Saint Marys has
usurped the title of the Wests best mid-
major from Gonzaga. On the other side of
the country, North Carolina A&Ts basket-
ball team isnt very good, but the atmosphere
inside the Corbett Sports Center is greatits
known as the Crunkest Gym in America
for a reason. Visit YouTube to find out why.
Theres no better place to find charismatic
players, coaches and analysts than college
basketball. ESPNs sometimes grating and
always over-the-top announcer Dick Vitale
is back from throat surgery, and the world is
better off with him sitting courtside. Admit
it, you missed the guy.
Its hard not to love Tennessee coach
Bruce Pearl. Hes at the helm of the top team
in the nation, unafraid to shout, frequently
flails about with rabid enthusiasm during
games, has appeared shirtless and painted in
public, and looks his best when hes sweating
through an orange suit. Pearl is truly all that
is man.
How about that Michael Beasley guy?
The Kansas State forward isnt held in the
highest regard among Kansas fans, and he
didnt quite live up to his guarantee of a
50-point showing last week at Nebraska,
but he is downright special. In less than a
week, Allen Fieldhouse will play host to
Beasley, Bill Walker and their motley crew
of offensively-challenged teammates. Dont
miss this one because Beasley is better than
Kevin Durant.
Need another reason to look forward to
Saturday? ESPN is bringing its traveling cir-
cus, College GameDay, to Lawrence. Wake
up from your Saturday-morning stupor early
enough and you can head over to Allen
Fieldhouse to hoist hilarious signs behind
analysts Rece Davis, Digger Phelps, Jay Bilas
and Hubert Davis. Also, Erin Andrews
usually works as the courtside reporter for
ESPNs game of the week. That seems like
ample reason to get to bed early on Friday.
Looking past Februarys finish should
make any college basketball fan giddy, if
not euphoric. Conference tournaments are
on the horizon: the Big East and its oodles
of teams at Madison Square Garden, the
Missouri Valley under the arch in Saint
Louis, and the Big 12 squarely in Kansas
backyard, Kansas City.
Next, its on to Selection Sunday (the best
day on the sports calendar) and true March
Madness. This year, the tournament gets off
to its start during spring break, meaning
students wont even have to skip class to take
in the opening round action.
Even if Kansas finishes its season on a
sour note, even if Oral Roberts becomes this
years Bradley or Bucknell, cherish college
basketball. Rejoice for the absence of steroid
scandals and the lack of bowl-season silli-
ness. Strap yourself in and prepare to savor
the next month its guaranteed to fly by
all too fast.
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A step in the wrong direction
MENS BASKETBALL
By Asher Fusco
afusco@kansan.com
CoMMENTAry
By shAWN shroyer
shroyer@kansan.com
With the baseball season finally under-
way, teams will begin to feel the effects of
the universal start date imposed by the
NCAA.
The rule forced teams to wait three extra
weeks to play their first games, condensing
schools 56-game schedules into a much
tighter time frame of 12 weeks, rather than
15. One of the biggest differences coaches
anticipate is greater significance on mid-
week games.
As always, teams must win most mid-
week games if they hope to reach the
NCAA tournament. However, teams will
need to play their midweek games as sched-
uled or risk having to drop them from
their schedules. Given three fewer weeks
of wiggle room to reschedule rainouts,
coaches are keeping their fingers crossed
for a dry spring.
Those games are as important as the
weekend series are at the end of the sea-
son if youre going to win 40 times and
get an NCAA tournament berth, Kansas
coach Ritch Price said at last weeks Kansas
Baseball Media Day.
Kansas plays its first midweek game
Wednesday at Arkansas. Later this season
Kansas also plays at Missouri State, at No.
20 Wichita State and at Kauffman Stadium
against No. 5 Missouri. Three other times,
Kansas will play Tuesday-Wednesday mid-
week series between weekend series.
Given the distance Kansas will have to
travel for some midweek games and the
short time between some weekend and
midweek series, few gaps exist to resched-
ule games in the event of rainouts.
Basically, there is none, Price said. If
you lose a Tuesday-Wednesday game, your
only alternative would be to play that on a
Thursday before a conference series and I
dont see many people doing that.
Further restricting Prices scheduling
flexibility is Kansas 10-day missed class
policy. The policy restricts players from
missing more than 10 days of class for
games and Kansas has already filled the
10-day limit on its schedule.
Judging by last weeks Big 12 Coaches
Teleconference, Price isnt the only Big 12
coach feeling pressed for scheduling free-
dom. Among others, Baylor coach Steve
Smithwho wasnt opposed to the rule
changesaid scheduling conflicts could
have been avoided if the end of the season
had been pushed back.
Smith said, The vast majority still sup-
port itthat the end of the season would
be pushed back a couple of weeks. The
NCAA board of directors slammed the
door on that immediately and the thing
was too far down the legislative pipeline to
really go back and reverse track. Nobody
ever intended to cram 56 games into the
weeks that weve got.
countdowns
1
Day until conference tourna-
ments begin with the Big South,
Horizon and Ohio Valley
4
Days until Kansas vs. Kansas
State at Allen Fieldhouse
19
Days until Selection Sunday
23
Days until the NCAA tourna-
ment begins
41
Days until the National
Championship
Jayhawk fans should celebrate Tourney time
Shorter season leaves no
room for makeup games
rescheduling hard, as athletes can only miss 10 school days
BASEBALL
By rusTIN DoDD
rdodd@kansan.com
Everyone seems to have a prescription to
cure Kansas basketball strugglesincluding
the players.
We just have to stay tough-minded,
senior guard Russell Robinson said. Stay
focused on the game and do what we need
to do to contribute to the team.
Senior forward Darnell Jackson thinks the
Jayhawks need to get on the same page.
You have to know your role every game,
Jackson said. You cannot come into one
game and not know what to do. Everyone
has to bring something to the table.
Kansas players have solutions, but still
some wonder: What is the matter with
Kansas?
The Jayhawksonce seemingly unbeat-
able at 20-0have stumbled to a 4-3 record
in their last seven games.
The swagger displayed so prominently in
every early season blowout seems to have
vanished into the Allen Fieldhouse phog.
Bill Self said he sees this every year. Top-
ranked college basketball teams always seem
to get caught looking ahead to March and
the NCAA tournament.
If thats the reason for Kansas shocking
61-60 loss to Oklahoma State on Saturday,
Kansas coach Bill Self is not happy about it.
It really is a sad commentary if its occur-
ring with us, Self said.
For one, Kansas is aiming for a fourth
consecutive regular season titleone that
seemed guaranteed a month ago. But after
Kansas loss to Oklahoma State, the Jayhawks
find themselves looking up at Texas in the
Big 12 standings. The Jayhawks, at 9-3, are
one game behind the 10-2 Longhorns.
Right now there are a lot of teams where
the regular season doesnt mean much, Self
said. But to us it means a ton. We are
playing for an opportunity to win a league
championship.
But as Kansas tries to refocus, Self admit-
ted Monday that Kansas weaknesses have
been magnified during the last few weeks.
I got a list, Self said.
That list includes defensive breakdowns,
closing out games and committing turn-
oversproblems that were on full display
against Oklahoma State.
The reason we are not playing near as
well right now is strictly intangibles, Self
said. Things that have nothing to do with
putting the ball in the basket. It has a lot to
do with the mindset of putting the ball in
the basket.
A prime intangible is confidence and
Jackson said the Jayhawks confidence had
lowered.
I think we are still confident, but not at
the level where we used to be at the begin-
ning of the season, Jackson said.
With their confidence shaken, sopho-
more Darrell Arthur said he saw only one
solution.
We have to go back into the gym and get
back to work, Arthur said.
Jon Goering/KANSAN
A shocked and distraught coaching stafprepares for the long road home in the second half of saturdays game at oklahoma state. the Jayhawks lost by one point. self attributed the loss to focusing too much on the future.
Hawks go 4-3 late in
season after 22-0 start
jayhawks add top recruit
Kansas added another commitment to its 2008
recruiting class. Point-guard Tyrone Appleton,
who is playing this year at Midland Commu-
nity College in Midland, Texas, committed to
Kansas Monday. Appleton, a 6-foot-3 point
guard, chose Kansas over Kentucky and Iowa
State. With the addition of Appletonthe
third ranked JUCO player in the countryKan-
sas will now boast a six-person recruiting class
for next seasonincluding four high school
seniors and two junior college players.
The others include:
Mario Little - 6-5, 210, G/F, Chicago, Ill.
(Chipola (Fla.) CC)
Marcus Morris - 6-8, 220, F, Philadelphia, Pa.
(Prep Charter HS/APEX Academy (N.J.))
Markief Morris - 6-10, 230, F/C, Philadelphia,
Pa. (Prep Charter HS/APEX Academy (N.J.))
Travis Releford - 6-5, G/F, Roeland Park. (Miege
HS)
Quintrell Thomas - 6-8, 235, F, Elizabeth, N.J.
(St. Patrick HS)
Appleton
sports 2B Tuesday, February 26, 2008
trivia of the day
fact of the day
quote of the day
Q: Who is the only person
that is in both the Professional
Football and Baseball Hall of
Fames?
A: Robert Cal Hubbard.
Hubbard was a standout ofen-
sive lineman for the New York
Giants and Green Bay Packers
from 1929 to 1936. He retired
from football and became an
umpire. In 1958, he was named
umpire-in-chief of the American
League.
profootballhof.com
Baseball umpires used to sit
in a padded rocking chair while
calling games. This was com-
mon practice until 1859 when
the rules were changed.
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Boys, Im one of those um-
pires that misses em every once
in a while so if its close, youd
better hit it.
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on tv tonight
Mens College Basketball:
-Ohio State at Indiana, 6 p.m.,
ESPN
-Southern Illinois at Bradley,
6 p.m., ESPN2
-Drake at Missouri State, 7
p.m., Metro Sports
-Tennessee at Vanderbilt, 8
p.m., ESPN
NHL:
-Dallas at St. Louis, 7:30 p.m.,
FSN
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Carl Edwards backfips of of his car after winning the rain-delayed NASCAR Sprint Cup Auto Club 500 on Monday at the Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, Calif.
Sweet success
calendar
TODAY
Mens Golf, The All-Ameri-
can, all day, Houston
Womens Golf, Fresno
State Invitational, all day,
Fresno, Calif.
WEDNESDAY
Swimming & Diving, Big
12 Championships, all day,
Austin, Texas
Baseball vs. Arkansas, 3
p.m., Fayetteville, Ark.
Mens basketball vs. Iowa
State, 6 p.m., Ames, Iowa
Womens basketball vs.
Texas, 7 p.m., Lawrence
AP mens top 25
The Associated Press mens college basketball top 25, with
frst-place votes in parentheses, records, total points and pre-
vious ranking.
Team Record Points Prev.
1. Tennessee (69) 25-2 1,797 2
2. Memphis 26-1 1,682 1
3. North Carolina 26-2 1,668 3
4. UCLA 24-3 1,593 6
5. Texas 23-4 1,478 7
6. Kansas 24-3 1,368 4
7. Duke 23-3 1,344 5
8. Stanford 22-4 1,264 9
9. Xavier 24-4 1,228 10
10. Wisconsin 23-4 1,175 11
11. Georgetown 22-4 1,101 12
12. Indiana 23-4 969 15
13. Louisville 22-6 828 18
14. Butler 25-3 752 8
15. Connecticut 21-6 688 13
16. Purdue 21-6 655 14
17. Notre Dame 21-5 630 21
18. Vanderbilt 23-4 627 20
19. Michigan State 22-5 625 19
20. Drake 24-3 621 16
21. Marquette 20-6 389 25
22. Washington State 21-6 364 17
23. Kent State 23-5 125 NR
24. Gonzaga 21-6 94 NR
25. St. Marys 23-4 77 23
Others Receiving Votes: Miami (FL) 62, Davidson 40,
Clemson 26, Texas A&M 21, Brigham Young 20, South Ala-
bama 14, Kansas State 14, Arizona 11, USC 11, Mississippi
State 8, Pittsburgh 7, Stephen F. Austin 7, Virginia Common-
wealth 4, Western Kentucky 3, Kentucky 3, Florida 3, Arizona
State 1, Cornell 1, UAB 1, New Mexico 1.
AP womens top 25
The Associated Press womens college basketball top 25,
with frst-place votes in parentheses, records, total points and
previous ranking.
Team Record Points Prev.
1. Connecticut (39) 26-1 1232 1
2. North Carolina (2) 25-2 1170 2
3. Tennessee (1) 25-2 1116 3
4. Rutgers (8) 22-4 1084 5
5. Maryland 28-2 1076 4
6. LSU 23-3 1023 6
7. Stanford 25-3 996 7
8. Baylor 23-3 883 9
9. California 23-4 812 8
10. Oklahoma 20-5 784 11
11. Old Dominion 24-3 751 10
12. Duke 21-7 702 12
13. West Virginia 22-4 677 13
14. Notre Dame 21-6 559 14
15. George Washington 22-5 489 17
16. Utah 23-3 462 18
17. Oklahoma State 21-5 407 16
18. Ohio State 20-6 324 20
19. UTEP 23-2 321 19
20. Texas A&M 20-7 305 21
21. Kansas State 18-8 299 15
22. Georgia 20-7 178 24
23. Vanderbilt 20-7 150 25
24. Wyoming 22-4 94 NR
25. Marist 26-2 82 NR
Others Receiving Votes: Virginia 68, Syracuse 60, Louis-
ville 44, Liberty 32, Pittsburgh 16, Arizona St. 12, DePaul 11,
Hartford 8, Michigan St. 5, Chattanooga 4, Montana 4, Illi-
nois St. 3, SMU 3, Iowa 2, TCU 1, Wis. Green Bay 1.
Health issues weaken seasons start
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right, during a teamworkout on Sunday on the feld at the Red Sox baseball spring training facility,
in Fort Myers, Fla. Francona agreed to a contract extension through 2011 after leading the Boston
Red Sox to two World Series championships in his four seasons as manager.
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Even before the start of spring
training games, Brad Lidge and Mark
DeRosa left the field with health con-
cerns.
Lidge hurt his surgically repaired
right knee Saturday when he caught a
spike in the mound on his first pitch
of batting practice. The Philadelphia
Phillies new closer limped away after
talking with team trainers, and the club
hoped to know more about the injury
Sunday.
It was my push-off leg, Lidge said
in Clearwater, Fla. I threw the pitch
but it felt like I pulled something in
the knee.
Doctors removed torn cartilage
from the knee in October.
It swelled up a little, but Im opti-
mistic that I just pulled some scar tis-
sue loose, Lidge said.
Philadelphias biggest offseason
addition, the right-hander was acquired
from Houston in a November trade
and penciled in as the Phillies new
closer. That allowed them to strengthen
their rotation by making Brett Myers a
starter again.
DeRosa, the Chicago Cubs second
baseman, was taken to a hospital with
an irregular heartbeat before being
released Saturday evening. He began to
have a problem while taking ground-
ers, shortstop Ryan Theriot said.
DeRosa, who turns 33 on Tuesday,
was sitting up on a stretcher as he was
wheeled out of the Fitch Park complex
around midday. Some of his team-
mates were still on the field winding up
a day of workouts in Mesa, Ariz.
Marks doing fine, manager Lou
Piniella said shortly after practice. He
came in with a rapid heartbeat from
doing the things on the field and was
having a little trouble breathing, so
they called in the medical team.
Hes completely stable, but better
be safe than sorry. With the irregular
heartbeat and so forth, they sent him
to the hospital to test him and evaluate
him. But hes fine.
Piniella said DeRosa had experi-
enced irregular heartbeats before.
I talked to him. He was a little
nervous and outside of that hes OK,
Piniella said.
A team spokesman said DeRosa felt
faint but never lost consciousness.
It wasnt any one particular thing,
Theriot said. It started to speed up
on him, and I think he started to get a
little worried.
He was fine through the whole
thing. I think it was just one of those
deals. He was more scared than any-
thing.
At Peoria, Ariz., Brian Giles passed
a big test when he did some cutting on
the basepaths in San Diegos practice.
The right fielder is attempting to come
back from offseason microfracture sur-
gery on his right knee.
Everything is going good, Giles
said. Im going through full workouts.
No setbacks so far since the surgery
and that is a good sign.
The Padres hope the 37-year-old
Giles can start playing by the third full
week of spring training games.
Hes getting the reps in the cage
and all the fundamental stuff done,
manager Bud Black said. He may not
be doing every drill the outfielders do,
but he is progressing to a point where
he should be in games by the middle of
March and that will give him enough
game conditions to hopefully be ready
by opening day.
At Tucson, Ariz., the NL cham-
pion Colorado Rockies took the field
together for the first time since getting
swept by Boston in the World Series.
Theres good days at the ballpark
and theres great days, and this is always
a great day, manager Clint Hurdle said
after a three-hour workout that began
with last years top draft pick, reliever
Casey Weathers, donning a fake beard
and cowboy hat to sing Charlie Daniels
Drinkin My Baby Goodbye.
BY ANDREW WIEBE
awiebe@kansan.com
Here are Big 12 womens basketball reporter Andrew Wiebes Big 12 power
rankings. Every Tuesday the Kansan will rank Big 12 teams based on last
weeks performance and the next weeks schedule. Last weeks ranking is in
parentheses.
oNE (1)
No. 8 Baylor 23-3 [11-2]
Last week: at Iowa State (W)
This week: Colorado, at Texas A&M
Baylor went to Hilton Coliseum and came away with
a victory, something not many teams have done this season. The Big 12
regular season championship is theirs to claim as long as the Bears take
care of business on the road.
tWo (3)
No. 10 Oklahoma 20-5 [10-3]
Last week: at Kansas State (W), Oklahoma State (W)
This week: at Texas Tech, Texas
Oklahoma is the hottest team in the conference. Last
week the Sooners avoided a sweep by in-state rivals while also grabbing a
win in Manhattan over a stumbling Wildcat squad. If Oklahoma can keep
the streak going, they could end the season as conference champions.
thREE (4)
No. 17 Oklahoma State 21-5 [9-4]
Last week: Texas (W), at Oklahoma (L)
This week: Texas A&M, Texas Tech
Despite the disappointing loss in Norman, the Cowgirls are still one
of the Big 12s most dangerous teams. It will be difcult to get wins over
Texas A&M and Texas Tech, but playing in Stillwater works to Oklahoma
States advantage.
fouR (2)
No. 21 Kansas State 18-9 [10-3]
Last week: Oklahoma (L), at Colorado (L)
This week: Nebraska, Missouri
Although the loss to Oklahoma wasnt disastrous, losing to Colorado
may have ended Kansas States chances of winning a Big 12 Champion-
ship. Its not over for the Wildcats, though, as their remaining schedule is
much easier than the other contenders.
fIvE (5)
No. 20 Texas A&M 19-7 [8-5]
Last week: Iowa State (W), at Texas (W)
This week: at Oklahoma State, Baylor
Texas A&M just keeps winning, which isnt
surprising considering the veteran presence on
Gary Blairs team. Junior forward/guard Danielle Gant was last weeks Big
12 player of the week and she will have to continue to perform at an all-
conference level this week against two tough Big 12 South opponents.
sIx (6)
Nebraska 18-9 [7-6]
Last week: Missouri (W), at Texas Tech (L)
This week: at Kansas State, Colorado
The Cornhuskers found out the hard way how
difcult it is to win in Lubbock. Nebraska is perilously
close to a losing conference record, and if it wants to hold onto a NCAA
tournament spot, getting at least one victory this week will be key.
sEvEN (6)
Iowa State 16-10 [5-8]
Last week: at Texas A&M (L), Baylor (L)
This week: at Missouri, Kansas
After a nightmare schedule last week, things get
substantially easier for the Cyclones this week with
matchups against two conference bottom teams.
Kansas is a completely diferent team at home, and Missouris only two
wins are in Columbia so Iowa State will have to play well to emerge
unscathed.
EIght (7)
Texas 16-11 [4-9]
Last week: at Oklahoma State (L), Texas A&M (L)
This week: at Kansas, at Oklahoma
A week on the road doesnt bode well for the Longhorns. Kansas is no
pushover and winning the Red River Shootout in Norman will take the
performance of the year for Texas.
NINE (10)
Colorado 15-11 [4-9]
Last week: Kansas State (W)
This week: at Baylor, at Nebraska
A week of and playing in Boulder certainly
worked wonders for the Bufaloes. This weeks schedule wont be so kind.
Colorado will be lucky to pick up a victory in Waco or Lincoln, but stranger
things have happened.
tEN (11)
Texas Tech 16-11 [4-9]
Last week: Kansas (W), Nebraska (W)
This week: Oklahoma, at Oklahoma State
Teams go to Lubbock and they tend to leave
with a loss, but Oklahoma is a diferent squad from the ones who have
lost in southwest Texas. Transfer forward Dominic Seals won her third Big
12 honor of the year, and she will continue to be crucial to the Lady Raid-
ers chances for victory.
ElEvEN (8)
Kansas 15-11 [4-9]
Last week: at Texas Tech (L), at Missouri (L)
This week: Texas, at Iowa State
Two losses to teams from the bottom of the Big
12 isnt an encouraging sign as the Jayhawks look to close the season out
strong. Kansas is a prime example of how difcult it is to play on the road
in the conference as theyve lost all seven games away from Lawrence.
tWElvE (12)
Missouri 8-16 [2-10]
Last week: at Nebraska (L), Kansas (W)
This week: Iowa State, at Kansas State
The relief on the Tigers players faces after beating the Jayhawks
Sunday was noticeable. At this point their season is about building con-
fdence to carry into 2008. Guard Alyssa Hollins went of for 22 points in
the second half against Kansas. She will have to continue that form to get
Missouri a third victory.
sports 3b Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Womens BasketBall
Bears remain Big 12 standout
assoCIateD PRess
TUCSON, Ariz. The tim-
ing of the announcement was
the only surprise.
Rockies manager Clint
Hurdle, who usually keeps play-
ers guessing until mid-March,
pulled left-hander Jeff Francis
aside before Mondays workout
and informed him hed get the
opening-day start March 31 at
St. Louis.
What else do we need to
go through this spring before
we decide to give Jeff the ball?
He doesnt need to compete.
Without a doubt, for everybody
internally that I talked to, hes
our guy, Hurdle said. Basically,
from the second half of the
season all the way through the
playoffs he was our No. 1 guy.
The 27-year-old Canadian
went 17-9 with a 4.22 ERA last
year and then went 2-1 in the
playoffs.
Its just the next proper step
for him, Hurdle said. Hes
earned this opportunity. I really
felt good about giving him this
opportunity. Its another first
for him and
hes just very
deserving.
F r a n c i s
said he was
s u r p r i s e d
when Hurdle
informed him
of his deci-
sion 48 hours
before the
teams first
e x h i b i t i o n
game.
I guess its nice to get it out
of the way, theres not going to
be speculation, you guys arent
going to be speculating for the
whole month, Francis said. So,
its nice to know.
Hurdle said the usually even-
keeled Francis was excited by
the news.
As Ive said before, hes more
like a lava lamp, but this had
some significant meaning to
him, Hurdle said.
Francis, who is 47-34 with a
4.68 ERA in four major league
seasons, called it a great honor
but insisted it wouldnt go to
his head.
When your career is over,
you think back and you can say
you were the opening-day start-
er, Francis told The Associated
Press. But were trying to do
greater things. And once the
season gets going, its just one
guy going out there every fifth
day.
Last spring, Francis narrowly
lost out on the first-day start to
right-hander Aaron Cook, who
said last week he was anticipat-
ing Francis getting the nod this
time.
He gave me a big hug, the
same way I did for him last
year, Francis said. Thats the
way we work together. Whoever
wants to be labeled the ace, we
really dont look at it that way.
Cook said he was thrilled for
Francis, who matched the clubs
single-season record for wins
in 07.
He totally deserves it. It
couldnt happen to a better guy,
Cook said. And I told him I
look forward
to sitting and
watching that
first game
instead of hav-
ing to pitch
it. I think
hes really
excited. One
of your goals
as a starting
pitcher is to
finally work
your way up
to get the opening-day start.
Its just awesome. I know how
it feels.
Francis is scheduled to pitch
two innings Wednesday when
he starts the Rockies spring
training opener against the
Chicago White Sox.
Itll be nice, Francis said.
You can only throw so many
bullpens until it gets old.
mlB
Rockies announce
new starting pitcher
AssociAted Press
colorado rockies Jayson Nix, right, and Marcus Giles chat during baseball spring training
Tuesday, Feb. 19, inTucson, Ariz. Giles, who played last year with the San Diego Padres, signed a
minor league deal with an invitation to spring training with the Rockies, who lost free agent Kaz
Matsui to Houston. On Monday Rockies manager Clint Hurdle told Jef Francis he would get to
pitch on opening-day on March 31.
I really felt good about giving
him this opportunity. Its an-
other frst for him and hes just
very deserving.
CLINT HuRDLe
Rockies manager
Jeff Francis gets to open the season
assoCIateD PRess
Tennessee surged to the top
of The Associated Press college
basketball poll for the first time
Monday on the strength of its vic-
tory over Memphis in a Nos. 1-vs.-
2 matchup.
The football team at Tennessee
has been ranked No. 1 during four
seasons, including two national
titles. The womens basketball pro-
gram has been a regular atop that
poll since 1977, winning seven
national championships under
coach Pat Summitt.
Now its the mens turn.
The Volunteers (25-2) were a
runaway choice, receiving 69 first-
place votes and 1,797 points from
the 72-member national media
panel after a 66-62 victory at
Memphis. Tennessee is the 53rd
school to hold the No. 1 ranking
since the poll began for the 1948-
49 season.
The response has been over-
whelming here, Tennessee coach
Bruce Pearl said Monday. The
game Saturday, therell always be a
lot of talk of where were you when
they beat Memphis to become No.
1? It was that kind of event so it
will have some staying power, but
for us there will be little staying
power because we have to go play
at Vanderbilt on Tuesday where
they have won 17 straight games.
The fact that mens basketball
was able to get to this point just
brings us in line with the other
sports here, mens and womens,
like softball and track and field.
This is the expectation at Tennessee
and that you can point to those dif-
ferent sports is why Tennessee is
one of the finest athletic programs
in the country and this only adds
to that.
Memphis (26-1), which lost for
the first time this season when
Tennessee ended its 47-game home
winning streak, had been ranked
No. 1 for the past five weeks, the
last three as a unanimous choice.
The Tigers were No. 2 and received
1,682 points.
North Carolina (26-2), which
was No. 1 in the preseason poll and
for the first 10 weeks of the regular
season, stayed third after wins over
North Carolina State and Wake
Forest. The Tar Heels received two
first-place votes, while UCLA (24-
3), which jumped from sixth to
fourth after wins over Oregon State
and Oregon last week, was No. 1 on
one ballot.
There was some history made
near the bottom of the rankings as
well Monday with Kent State (23-5)
moving into the Top 25 for the first
time. The Golden Flashes were No.
23 after their 65-57 victory at Saint
Marys, Calif., on Saturday night.
Texas moved up two spots
to fifth. Kansas, which lost at
Oklahoma State on Saturday, and
Duke, which snapped a two-game
losing streak with a win over St.
Johns on Saturday, both dropped
two spots to sixth and seventh,
respectively. Stanford, Xavier and
Wisconsin rounded out the top
10.
Georgetown moved up one
place to 11th and was followed
by Indiana, Louisville, Butler,
Connecticut, Purdue, Notre Dame,
Vanderbilt, Michigan State and
Drake. The last five ranked teams
were Marquette, Washington State,
Kent State, Gonzaga and Saint
Marys.
Gonzaga (21-6) was the weeks
other newcomer. The Bulldogs,
who were 14th in the preseason
poll, returned after a nine-week
absence. They have won 12 of their
last 15, with the losses coming
to Tennessee, Memphis and Saint
Marys.
Kent State entered the poll hav-
ing won nine of 10, the loss com-
ing at Toledo. Two of the Golden
Flashes losses this season were to
North Carolina and Xavier.
Texas A&M (20-7) dropped out
from 23rd, its first time out of the
poll this season. The Aggies, ranked
as high as No. 9 this season, have
lost three straight Oklahoma
State, Texas and Nebraska, the first
and last at home.
Kansas State (18-8) was ranked
for eight weeks this season, includ-
ing the last four in a row. The
Wildcats fell out from 24th, having
lost three of four, including losses
to Nebraska and Baylor last week.
nCaa BasketBall
Tennessee moves to
No. 1 in AP poll
AssociAted Press
MARANA, Ariz. The closest
anyone came to a perfect season on
the PGA Tour was Ben Hogan.
He won every major champion-
ship he played in
1953, and every
official tourna-
ment he entered
except for the
Seminole Pro-
Am Invitational,
where he tied
for second. Then
again, Hogan
only played six
times that year
because of bat-
tered legs from a
bus accident.
Tiger Woods will play no more
than 17 events on the PGA Tour
this year, so a 2-0 start might be a
little early for anyone to get excit-
ed.
Even so, expectations were as
high as the desert sun at noon when
Woods left Arizona with yet anoth-
er victory. It was his fourth in a row
on tour since early September, all
done in record fashion.
He set a 72-hole scoring record
at Cog Hill outside Chicago and
won by eight shots at the Tour
Championship and the Buick
Invitational, both record margins.
On Sunday, he smoked Stewart Cink
eight and seven in the Accenture
Match Play Championship, the big-
gest blowout in the finals in 10
years of a tournament that Woods
considers the toughest to win this
side of a major.
I think this certainly is the best
stretch Ive every played, Woods
said.
Strong words downright scary
considering that Woods won
nine times, including three straight
majors, in 2000 and that he won six
consecutive PGA Tour events at the
end of 2006, a streak that reached
seven until losing in the Match Play
the following year.
Woods, who
also won in
Dubai earlier
this month, has
never before
started a sea-
son with three
straight vic-
tories, and it
is hard not to
speculate how
long he can
keep winning
given his his-
tory at some of the tournaments
coming up.
Next is the Arnold Palmer
Invitational March 13-16 at Bay
Hill, where Woods won four straight
times from 2000 to 2003. The week
after that is the CA Championship
at Doral, where he has won the last
three years.
Then the
Masters April
10-13.
He just
morphs his
game into the
courses, Cink
said. So I dont
think theres a
course thats
going to present
him with a real
obstacle as far as
him not being a favorite.
Woods did little to squash the
notion of a perfect season when
someone asked him if winning
them all was within reason.
Thats my intent. Thats why
you play, Woods said after col-
lecting his 63rd career tour vic-
tory and his 15th title in the World
Golf Championships. If you dont
believe you can win an event, dont
show up.
But it also is his intent to make
every putt and hit every shot just
how he wants. No one does that,
of course. No one wins every tour-
nament. Byron Nelson holds the
record with 11 straight victories
during a year in which he won 18
times in 30 events. That means he
lost 12 times that year.
A perfect season in golf?
I do find that laughable, Hal
Sutton said Monday. Anybody who
knows golf knows that aint going
to happen. You can only own this
game for a certain period of time.
Even if your name is Tiger Woods,
you dont own it forever.
Sutton was among those who
beat Woods during a time when the
worlds No. 1 player looked unbeat-
able, going head-to-head with him
at The Players Championship in
2000 and winning by one shot.
He watched part of the champi-
onship match Sunday until I got
bored.
C u r t i s
Strange is
among those
who played in
the prime years
of Woods and
Jack Nicklaus,
and he said it
is pointless to
compare gen-
erations. But he
also found spec-
ulation of a perfect season to be a
little over the top.
He is by far and away the best
player, Strange said. Weve never
had a player this much better than
the second-best player. Hes unbe-
lieveable, really. But hes not unbeat-
able. Lets not get ahead of ourselves
just because he beat Stewart Cink
eight and seven.
As usual, the best comparisons
are to Woods
himself.
Most consider
his best golf to
be from late 1999
through the 2001
Masters, when
he won 16 of
32 times on the
PGA Tour and
four consecutive
majors. Dating to
the 2006 British
Open, Woods has
won 15 of his last 24 events, a 63
percent clip.
He just has this strong sense of
belief in himself that hes just never
out of it, Cink
said. Hes
never going to
mess up.
The more
he talked, the
more Cink
made Woods
out to be a
machine.
I think
maybe we
ought to slice
him open to
see whats inside there, Cink said.
Maybe nuts and bolts.
Not many thought Woods could
ever produce better results than
2000. Woods, however, has been
saying all along his plan was to
get better. With each victory, what
seemed impossible is not unthink-
able.
Woods was fortunate to win
the Match Play. He rallied from
3 down with five holes to play
against J.B. Holmes by winning four
straight holes with three birdies and
a 35-foot eagle. In the third round,
Aaron Baddeley twice stood over
putts inside 12 feet to win before
Woods prevailed on the 20th hole.
AssociAted Press
BEIJING Pingpong and poli-
tics meet once again.
In what is believed to be the
first international appearance for a
sporting team from Kosovo since it
declared independence, the former
Serbian provinces paddlers took the
floor Monday at the 2008 World
Team Table Tennis Championships
in southern China.
The teams participation con-
jured up reminders of 1971, when
American table tennis players visited
China and paved the way for nor-
malization of relations between the
nations, launch-
ing the phrase
p i n g p o n g
diplomacy.
For the com-
petitions orga-
nizers, however,
its just part of
the game.
We dont
speak about poli-
tics, of course. Its
not news for us.
Maybe for you,
but not for us, International Table
Tennis Federation media officer Hubert
Gueriau said in a telephone inter-
view from the
tournament in
Guangzhou.
S i n c e
its declara-
tion Feb. 17,
Kosovo has
been rec-
ognized by
the United
States, Britain
and France.
Tournament
host China
has said it was gravely con-
cerned by the move.
But it was accepted as an
International Table Tennis
Federation member in 2003.
So for ITTF, for the other
teams in table tennis, its not an
event that Kosovo is playing table
tennis in Guangzhou, Gueriau
said, pointing out that it was
the fourth world championship
appearance for the team.
Politics aside, Kosovo wasnt
expected to make much of a
splash: The mens team is ranked
No. 114 in the world, behind
Nepal, while the women are mar-
ginally better, ranked No. 112
behind Costa Rica.
Members of the Kosovo team
could not be reached for com-
ment. The delegation was small
and did not include an official
who could handle interview
requests. Gueriau said the team
rarely attracts much media atten-
tion.
Of course, everybody respects
all the teams, but they are not one
of the top teams, he said.
The Kosovo squad consisted
of just six players three men
and three women according
to rosters posted on the tour-
nament Web site. In Monday
play, the men were shut out by
Yemen while the women defeated
Iceland 3-1.
The tournament also features
a team from Serbia, which has
refused to give up Kosovo. Serbs
view Kosovo as the cradle of their
culture and of their Orthodox
Christian faith.
PGA
Tigers victory sparks perfect season talk
You can only own this game
for a certain period of time.
Even if your name is Tiger
Woods, you dont own it forever.
Hal Sutton
PGa Golfer
Thats my intent. Thats why
you play. If you dont believe
you can win an event, dont
show up.
tiGer WoodS
accenture Match Play Champion
tABLe teNNis
Politics bounces into contest
We dont speak about politics,
of course. Its not news for us.
Maybe for you, but not for us.
HuBert Gueriau
international table tennis Federation
oLYMPics
Activists push for international boycott
AssociAted Press
BANGKOK, Thailand Pro-
democracy activists in Myanmar
called Monday for the world to boy-
cott this years Beijing Olympics over
what they said was Chinas continu-
ing support of Myanmars military
dictatorship.
The 88 Generation Students
group, which was instrumental in
last years pro-democracy demon-
strations in Myanmar, urged citizens
around the world ... to boycott the
2008 Beijing Olympics in response
to Chinas bankrolling of the mili-
tary junta that rules our country
of Burma with guns and threats.
Myanmar is also known as Burma.
joined a growing group of critics
urging an Olympic boycott over
complaints ranging from Beijings
human rights record to its failure to
more actively press Sudan where
China is a major oil buyer to end
violence in the Darfur region.
Hollywood director Steven
Spielberg quit earlier this month as
an artistic adviser for the Beijing
Olympics, saying China was not
doing enough about Darfur.
accused China one of Myanmars
key trading partners of arming
their countrys junta and failing to
facilitate a meaningful dialogue
between it and detained pro-democ-
racy leader Aung San Suu Kyi and
her National League for Democracy
party.
Our constructive outreach to
China has been met with silence and
more weapons shipments, the group
said in a statement.
A Myanmar government spokes-
man could not immediately be
reached for comment.
Myanmar has been under mili-
tary rule since 1962 and has not
had a constitution since 1988, when
the army violently suppressed pro-
democracy protests and the current
junta took power.
In September the junta crushed
peaceful protests that were triggered
by rising food prices but expanded
to include demands for democrat-
ic reforms. The U.N. estimates the
crackdown killed at least 31 people,
and thousands more were detained.
Under intense international pres-
sure, the junta announced plans this
month for a referendum in May on
a proposed new constitution written
under military guidance, to be fol-
lowed by general elections in 2010.
The juntas domestic and interna-
tional critics, however, say the plans
are undemocratic because they do
not involve open debate and bar Suu
Kyi, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate,
from taking part in the elections.
During a visit to Singapore on
Monday, U.N. special envoy for
Myanmar Ibrahim Gambari and
Singapore Foreign Minister George
Yeo hailed the planned referendum
and election.
NBA
Houston maintains winning streak
AssociAted Press
Tracy McGrady and his healthy
left knee have made the Houston
Rockets nearly unbeatable for nearly
a month. McGrady had 24 points and
eight assists as the Rockets extended
their winning streak to 12 games
with a 110-97 win over the Chicago
Bulls Sunday night.
With Tracy healthy and playing
well, they are a tough team to stop,
Bulls coach Jim Boylan said.
The Rockets were 7-4 when
McGrady missed 11 games with
a bone bruise, strained tendon
and patellar tendinitis in his left
knee between Dec. 28 and Jan. 15.
Since his return, Houston is 16-
1 and improved to 36-20 after a
20-19 start. Their only loss since
McGradys return was Jan. 27, when
they fell 97-89 against Utah.
They were ahead by seven early
in the fourth quarter before Bobby
Jackson scored five straight points
for Houston, capped by a off-balance
layup and a free throw followed to
make it 84-74.
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a course thats going to present
him with a real obstacle...
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Tiger Woods holds the Walter Hagen Cup as fans cheer in the background following his victory over Stewart Cink in the Accenture Match Play Champi-
onship golf tournament in Marana, Ariz., Sunday. The tournament brought Woods his 63rd career tour victory.
AssociAted Press
SURPRISE, Ariz. Joakim Soria
has gone from unknown to renown
in a year.
Soria came into the Kansas City
Royals camp last year as an anony-
mous Rule 5 draft pick who had
never pitched above Class A in the
United States.
This year, he is in camp as the
established closer after saving a
team-leading 17 games last season
more than any other rookie.
It was a big year for me last year,
Soria said. I had to prove myself.
While closer Octavio Dotel was
on the disabled list most of April and
May, Soria logged 10 saves. When
Dotel was traded to the Atlanta
Braves on July 31, Soria went back to
finishing games and got seven more
saves in the final two months.
Soria is not the typical closer with
a 95 mph fastball.
I dont throw that gas, Soria said.
But I have the confidence. I believe
in myself.
Manager Trey Hillman also
believes in Soria, who throws a fast-
ball, curveball, slider and change-
up.
Hes got multi-weapons to be
able to attack the hitters, Hillman
said. Hes not afraid to throw to
contact. He has just enough life on
the fastball and deceptiveness to the
delivery that it plays out faster than it
actually is on the radar gun. ... When
you put all those things together, it
makes it very difficult to continue to
get good swings off of him.
Royals scout Louie Medina found
Soria pitching in the Mexican Winter
League after the 2006 season. He
recommended the Royals select him
the Rule 5 draft when the San Diego
Padres left him off their 40-man big
league roster. Two days after the
Royals picked him, Soria threw a
perfect game for Obregon against
Hermosillo.
He handled spring training very
well last year, Royals pitching coach
Bob McClure said. He had com-
mand. He had aptitude. But I didnt
know where he would fit in.
He pitched his way on the team.
Hes more like the Todd Jones type
(of closer). He has the aptitude, good
stuff and command.
Given a full season as the closer,
Soria could log 35 to 40 saves.
Would it surprise me, no,
McClure said. All I know is the job
he did last year was enough for us to
say, lets do it again.
Soria, a 23-year-old right-hander,
logged 15 saves for the Mexico City
Red Devils in 2006.
I know about the bullpen, Soria
said. Ive started, but Ive been a
closer before, too. I like being in
tight games and getting a save.
sports 5b Tuesday, February 26, 2008
K.C.s second season closer throws opponents a curve
MLB
the AssociAted Press
Barry Bonds is looking for a job,
and the Tampa Bay Rays may be
interested in the home run king.
Bartolo Colon is off the market
after the Boston Red Sox snapped
up the former AL Cy Young Award
winner with a shrewd minor league
deal.
Rays manager Joe Maddon said
he knew little about what was
going on, but acknowledged some
thought has been given to adding
Bonds to the roster.
A minor discussion was thrown
out there a little bit, and its really
not gone any further than that,
Maddon said after Mondays work-
out at the teams spring training
facility in St. Petersburg, Fla. Thats
all it is right now.
The St. Petersburg Times report-
ed in Mondays edition that team
officials have conferred among
themselves about Bonds and other
veteran unsigned free agents, such
as Kenny Lofton and Mike Piazza.
Andrew Friedman, Rays vice presi-
dent of baseball operations, called
the report a non-story.
Bonds, who broke Hank Aarons
career home run record last sum-
mer, has pleaded not guilty to
perjury and obstruction of justice
charges stemming from testimony
to a federal grand jury in 2003
in which he said he never know-
ingly used performance-enhancing
drugs.
Cardinals manager Tony La
Russa said he had interest in sign-
ing Bonds the last two offseasons,
but each time the teams front office
decided against it.
La Russa, who was looking for
a power bat to protect No. 3 hitter
Albert Pujols each year, said he was
told the asking price for the slugger
was too high. This winter, La Russa
said he dropped the issue after a
discussion with new general man-
ager John Mozeliak.
It became moot as soon as I
raised it and they said no, La Russa
said Sunday in Jupiter, Fla. Once it
became apparent what the price tag
was, I said we just cant, it doesnt
make sense for our club.
Boston came up with a move that
made a lot of sense, adding Colon
to its spring training camp in Fort
Myers, Fla., with a minor league
contract.
Hes going to show up here in
camp and well do an evaluation
of how far he is away from helping
us, general manager Theo Epstein
said. It takes more than five start-
ing pitchers to get through a season.
Obviously, hes an accomplished
guy and if we can get him back to
a point where hes throwing well, he
can certainly help us.
The 34-year-old Colon, who last
pitched on Feb. 6 in the Caribbean
World Series, is expected to arrive
in camp Tuesday.
The teams medical staff will
evaluate the two-time All-Star, who
has gone 7-13 with a 5.72 ERA
while slowed by shoulder and elbow
injuries the past two seasons. He
went 6-8 with a 6.34 ERA in the
final year of a four-year, $51 million
deal with the Los Angeles Angels
last season. If he is added to the Red
Sox 40-man roster, he would get
a $1.2 million, one-year contract
and have the chance to earn perfor-
mance and roster bonuses.
Epstein said Red Sox scouts
came back with decent reports
from Colons performance in the
Caribbean Series, where the burly
right-handers fastball reached the
low 90s mph after elbow inflamma-
tion kept him off the Angels playoff
roster in the fall.
At Surprise, Ariz., Rangers right-
hander Kevin Millwood wasnt feel-
ing very good. He was scratched
from his first spring start because of
a right hamstring injury.
The 33-year-old injured the
hamstring in the final condition-
ing drill Sunday. He was scheduled
to pitch two innings Friday against
the Angels.
Its frustrating, Millwood said.
I felt like I was in really good
shape and then something like this
happens.
Millwood had a career-worst
5.16 ERA last season, and endured
two stints on the disabled list with a
left hamstring injury.
Texas manager Ron Washington
sees no reason to rush Millwood
back.
When its a hamstring you never
know, he said.
Phillies closer Brad Lidge is
expected to miss three to six weeks
after having surgery Monday on his
right knee.
The 31-year-old right-hander,
Philadelphias biggest offseason
acquisition, caught a spike in the
mound on his first pitch of batting
practice Saturday. Doctors removed
torn cartilage from the same knee
in October.
Cubs second baseman Mark
DeRosa traveled to Chicago to see a
cardiologist after being hospitalized
for a rapid heartbeat during fielding
drills over the weekend.
The Cubs said DeRosas irregular
heartbeat was not life-threatening.
DeRosa said he hoped he could be
back on the field next week.
I feel fine, actually, said DeRosa,
who turns 33 today.
DeRosa said he has experienced
an irregular heartbeat, or atrial dys-
rhythmia, since he was a teenager.
At Kissimmee, Fla., Roger
Clemens oldest son said his father
will work with minor leaguers at
Houston Astros spring training, but
didnt say when he would arrive.
Hell be down here eventually,
said Koby Clemens, a catcher in the
Astros farm system.
The Rocket has a personal ser-
vices contract with the Astros, simi-
lar to those offered to Jeff Bagwell
and Craig Biggio, that kicks in when
he officially retires. The Astros
have said Clemens is still welcome
despite the steroid controversy sur-
rounding him.
He was always coming down
here, Koby said. No matter what
happens, hes always going to want
to help out with anything he can
do. Hell come down here and throw
700 pitches eventually.
At Tucson, Ariz., Rockies man-
ager Clint Hurdle pulled left-hand-
er Jeff Francis aside before a work-
out and informed him hed get the
opening-day start March 31 at St.
Louis.
Bonds remains teamless while other players fnd new homes
MLB
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Former Los Angeles Angels pitcher Bartolo Colon is already of the market and is a newmem-
ber of the Boston Red Sox. The former AL Cy Young Award winner agreed Monday to a minor league
contract with the Red Sox, while the home run king, Barry Bonds, is still looking to be signed.
Big 12 BasketBaLL
Longhorns beat Wildcats in Manhattan
AssociAted Press
MANHATTAN D.J. Augustin
had 24 points and A.J. Abrams scored
all of his 13 in the second half, help-
ing No. 5 Texas beat Kansas State 74-
65 on Monday night, the Longhorns
eighth straight win.
Texas (24-4, 11-2 Big 12) didnt get
much production outside of its two
speedy guards, but the Longhorns
put the squeeze on Kansas State with
their stingy defense and improved
to 8-0 in February to match a school
record set in 1962-63.
The Longhorns need one win in
their final three games to match the
school record of 25 regular-season
wins, set two seasons ago.
Kansas State (18-9, 8-5) got
another big night from freshman
Michael Beasley 30 points and 15
rebounds but had trouble solving
Texas aggressive zone and lost its
third straight. The Wildcats shot 32
percent and got almost nothing from
second-leading scorer Bill Walker
to see their 10-game home winning
streak end.
Augustin gave Kansas State all
kinds of problems at the other end.
The 6-foot sophomore seemed to
get where he wanted whenever he
wanted, dribbling around the perim-
eter, poking and prodding Kansas
States defense to open up three-
pointers and drives to the basket.
Augustin had 12 points by half-
time and helped Texas to a 57-50 lead
midway through the second half,
scoring on a floater then a three-
point play after snatching the ball
from the hands of Kansas State guard
Fred Brown.
Abrams, coming off a season-
low five points against Oklahoma
on Saturday, wasnt much of a factor
early, taking just two shots in the first
half, missing both.
He didnt score until hitting a
three-pointer from the corner five
minutes into the second half, but that
shot seemed to boost his confidence.
Abrams suddenly became more
aggressive, hitting two more three-
pointers in the next two minutes,
then another that put the Longhorns
up 62-54 with just under five minutes
left.
Abrams finished 4-of-9 from the
field after going 4-for-20 with 14
points the previous two games com-
bined.
Kansas State missed 12 of its first
16 shots overall and its first eight
three-point attempts. Somehow, the
Wildcats scratched out a 30-all tie at
halftime thanks to Beasley.
Aggressive from the start, the 6-10
freshman made quick moves instead
of waiting for the defense to collapse
around him. He had Texas big men
Connor Atchley and Gary Johnson
in foul trouble in the first 10 minutes,
and had a double-double by halftime
with 17 points and 10 rebounds.
Beasley finished 10-for-21 from
the field after scoring a Big-12 record
44 points in a 92-86 loss to Baylor on
Saturday.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Texas guard D.J. Augustin (14) shoots while covered by Kansas State forward Bill Walker (12)
during the frst half of the game.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Kansas State forward Michael Beasley, right, shoots over Texas forward Connor Atchley (32)
during the second half of the game in Manhattan Monday night. Beasley scored 30 points in the
game. Texas beat Kansas State 74-65.
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AssociAted Press
FONTANA, Calif., For Carl
Edwards, its a signal. At least one
NASCAR Sprint Cup team is ready
to take on Hendrick Motorsports.
Edwards won the rain-delayed
Auto Club 500 on Monday, finish-
ing ahead of Jimmie Johnson and
Jeff Gordon. In a race that resumed
with the 88th of 250 laps, Edwards
assumed the lead for good with 13
laps left.
I hope its an indication weve
caught up with them, Edwards said
after the eighth victory of his career.
They still were second and third
and they were the guys to beat today.
I hope this is a sign were up to their
standards, to their level.
Johnson took the green flag for
the final restart in the lead with 26
laps left, but Edwards surged from
third. He then showed fine form on
his traditional victory backflip after
capturing the checkered flag in a race
that ended under caution when Dale
Jarrett spun on the final lap.
Edwards had it all but wrapped
up at that point, driving his Roush
Fenway No. 99 Ford to a lead of more
than four seconds over Johnson. It
was his first victory at Fontana but
his seventh top-10 finish in eight
starts at the track formerly known as
California Speedway.
Gordon, who dominated Sundays
rain-interrupted racing, finished
third. He was followed by Kyle Busch
and Roushs Matt Kenseth, who had
won the two previous February races
at this track. Another Roush driver,
Greg Biffle, won this event in 2005.
A year ago, Johnson and Gordon
ended 1-2 in the season points.
Johnson won his second straight
cup title and the team rolled up 18
victories in 36 races. The Hendrick
contingent also won nine of the 16
races in which NASCARs new Car
of Tomorrow was raced.
The CoT is being used for the
entire Sprint cup schedule in 2008 and
its debut on Auto Club Speedways
two-mile oval was a triumph for
Edwards and Roush Fenway Racing.
I know that last year I would
not have traded my car in for one
of theirs at any of the CoT races
towards the end of the year, Edwards
said. I thought we had the best
car. Everyone knows, all the drivers
know for sure, its what youre sitting
in a lot of the times that makes a tiny
little difference and Im proud to be
driving this car.
Team co-owner Jack Roush
dragged his feet testing the bigger,
boxier CoT a year ago. But Roush
said that changed last May when he
realized other teams were getting too
far ahead.
He said his team made a
Herculean effort from that point on
to develop the CoT.
On Monday, Edwards went into
the final round of pit stops under
caution on lap 221 while leading. He
came out behind Johnson, Gordon
and Roush Fenway teammate Jamie
McMurray.
He quickly passed McMurray after
the green flag waved for the start of
lap 225 and set out after the leaders,
passing Gordon for second on lap
233 and moving alongside Johnsons
No. 48 Chevrolet on lap 236.
They stayed side-by-side for almost two laps before Edwards
nosed ahead and began to pull away.
I told my guys, We got em right
where we want em. This is what we
prepared for, Edwards said. I enjoy
that kind of stuff.
Gordons engine blew seconds
before the last of 12 caution flags in
the race froze the field.
Carl Edwards was in another
league, Gordon said. Weve got
some work to do to catch those
guys.
Gordon, a four-time cup cham-
pion, and Johnson got off to a tough
start last week at Daytona, finishing
39th and 27th, respectively.
Its a good rebound from Daytona
and well roll on, Johnson said. I
was too loose off the corners to do
anything with Carl.
Maybe another practice session
would have helped, Johnson added,
referring to all the track time lost to
rain Friday and Saturday. I think it
would have helped the whole field.
About 25,000 fans, far short of the
approximate 120,000 capacity, were
on hand Monday, with the sun peek-
ing out from high clouds and tem-
peratures moving into the high 60s.
The drivers spent most of Sunday
waiting through rain, track drying
and attempts to stop water seeping
through seams of the track. The race
finally began about two and a half
hours late, followed by a rain delay
of just more than an hour and then
a five-hour wait after a downpour.
NASCAR and track officials finally
gave up after 11 p.m. and postponed
the conclusion until Monday.
Intramurals
Pskills advance with tight win against Law Dogs
Whitney hAmilton
whamilton@kansan.com
Play-offs for intramural bas-
ketball have officially begun.
Now, teams are fighting for
their chance to play in Allen
Fieldhouse for the champion-
ship game. The games are get-
ting tougher and the opponents
are getting fiercer.
Monday night at the Student
Recreation Fitness Center, the
game was already competitive
as Pskills and Law Dogs tipped
off. Members
of each team
r e pr e s e nt e d
graduate stu-
dents from
the School of
Pharmacy and
the School of
Law.
Throughout
the game, nei-
ther team had a
large lead before the other team
rebounded to make the score
neck-in-neck. Even a three-
point shot that was released one
second too late by Law Dogs
couldnt help. Pskills won the
game by one point in a 47-46
victory.
Both teams played with
aggression and guarded their
opponents well, which kept each
team on its toes throughout the
game. Finding an opening near
the basket, Adam Engel, Salina
graduate student, dribbled the
ball for the first two points of the
game. Law Dogs tried to respond
with a quick layup to the bas-
ket, but the ball whirled around
the rim falling into a Pskills
players hands. Pskills passed the
ball down low and searched for
openings near the net.
Luke Wohlford, Wichita grad-
uate student, pushed his way
through a Pskills player for two
points. Law Dogs continued
to play assertively as Bradley
Serafine, Salt Lake City graduate
student, drove down the lane,
jumped above
his opponent
and guided the
ball into the
basket for two
points.
In the first
half, Michael
H a n s f o r d ,
Topeka gradu-
ate student,
had three fouls,
which sent him to the bench for
awhile. Although each team had
chances for foul shots, neither
team made both shots the entire
night.
A bloody forehead and blood
on the court postponed the
game for a few minutes, letting
each team talk about things to
fix before the half ended.
With another quick break
before the second half, both
teams devised plans and scoring
techniques. Law Dogs looked up
at the scoreboard, which read
24-20 in Pskills favor, and moti-
vated each other for a better
half.
Both teams had strong
defenses but some sloppy pass-
ing caused turnovers in the sec-
ond half. Still, Pskills rebounded
the ball after foul shots and used
the backboard for easy points.
Law Dogs were quick to catch
up and wasted no time to tie
the game at 26 just four minutes
into the new half. Fast breaks
and quick feet made it easy for
Brett Stoecklin, Ness City gradu-
ate student, to steal the ball away
from Law Dogs.
With less than 30 seconds left
in the game, Aaron Steele, Scott
City graduate student, hit a solid
three-point shot from the right
wing gaining the lead.
With only 13.4 seconds left,
Beau Jackson, Wichita gradu-
ate student and Law Dogs play-
er, received his first foul of the
game giving possession of the
ball to Pskills.
Law Dogs player Brett
Sweeney, Wichita graduate stu-
dent, scored 18 points during the
game but couldnt pull out the
victory. Pskills advances to the
next round on March 2 to play
Team Awesome. Pskills already
knows what it must fix to move
closer to the title. We need to
attack the basket and rebound,
Steele said.
Carl Edwards brings home his eighth Sprint Cup victory, his frst in Fontana
nasCar
03 MVP
to fnish
season in
Colorado
AssociAted Press
DENVER The Colorado
Avalanche knew that Peter
Forsberg and his balky right foot
came with risks.
They decided the gamble was
worth taking.
The Avalanche and Forsberg
agreed Monday on a deal to bring
the NHLs 2003 MVP back to
Colorado through the end of the
season.
Forsberg will earn around $1
million prorated from a one-year,
$5 million deal, since there are
about six weeks left in the regular
season.
Hes a premier player in this
league, Avalanche general man-
ager Francois Giguere said in a
conference call. Were very excit-
ed Peter agreed to come back.
Forsberg won two Stanley
Cups in his nine seasons with
the Avalanche and won the Hart
Trophy in 2003 after scoring 29
goals and adding 77 assists.
I feel good, Forsberg said.
Im confident that its going to
be good.
nHl
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Topeka graduate student and member of Pskills,Michael Hansford , puts up a shot over
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