Junior guard Mario Chalmers has made

clear his intentions to enter the NBA

Draft. But, he is doing
so without hiring an
agent, giving him the
option of returning
to Kansas for another
year. Although he is
currently being featured
on the cover of Sports
Illustrated and has the
full support of Coach
Bill Self, Chalmers faces some pretty tough
competition from other undergraduate
guards who
are throw-
ing their
hats into the
ring.
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bhawley@kansan.com
When Sam Funk walks on his familys farm near Holcomb, he sees golden
fields of wheat, sorghum and hay and green stretches of alfalfa. What the KU
senior doesnt see is corn, the second-most common crop grown in Kansas. He
said his family quit growing it because it cost too much to water and they could
no longer profit from it.
Birdwatcher and KU assistant professor Philip Wedge normally hears birdcalls
of local birds like the American robin and house sparrow, but this year he heard
the call of the Northern Saw-whet Owl, which doesnt usually call outside its
breeding range in Canada.
Floyd Ott grows apples, nectarines, apricots, pears, peaches, plums and cher-
ries on his 25-acre orchard south of Eudora, but last April a harsh freeze killed
his fruit buds and cost him his entire crop.
Scientists widely accept that greenhouse gases are changing the climate, and
Kansans like Funk, Wedge and Ott are already seeing some of the effects of high-
er temperatures and less water. The shrinking water supply will make it harder
to grow corn. Disappearing surface water will make it harder for trees like sugar
maples and bur oaks to survive, and birds like the red-headed woodpecker that
rely on them may also disappear. The changes will make seasons unpredictable,
disrupting the natural life cycles of honeybees and the flowers and fruits they
pollinate. Each change will make life more difficult for humans, raising the prices
of food and eliminating the states biodiversity.
A CHANGING CLIMATE
Johannes Feddema, professor of geography, said Kansas was expected to get
almost one degree Fahrenheit warmer per decade, which by 2100 could mean a nine-
degree increase. In 2000, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
reported the average
May temperature
in Lawrence was
66 degrees, but
the predicted
warming would
raise it to 75 degrees by
2100.
Feddema said rain
would come less often
but in more violent
bursts, which wouldnt
allow the ground to
absorb as much mois-
ture and could cause
flooding.
Wes t er n
Kansas would espe-
cially be affected by this
change, increasing water
need six inches by 2100.
Garden City, which is about
10 miles from Funks fam-
ily farm, experiences an aver-
age rainfall of 20 inches, and
increased temperatures would
mean the environment would need
26 inches to stay the same in 2100.
Feddema said rainfall in Kansas
was hard to predict because it was
between different patterns in the
environment.
Donald Worster, professor of
environmental history, said the climate
change Kansas was experiencing now was
similar to what happened during the Dust
Bowl in the 1930s.
Worster said in the 30s farmers plowed
under native plants, which left the ground
exposed to strong winds and dust storms. He
said many people migrated out of the state to
find more jobs, and some towns in western Kansas
never recovered from the population drain.
Now were facing what is the worst period of Kansas
history, Worster said. Its not a matter of belief. Its a mat-
ter of scientific research.
Worster said some food production would move
north toward Canada as surface water disap-
peared in the west and water for irrigation
was depleted. He said some land could go
out of production within 20 years.
Worster said these predictions matter
because Kansas would not come out of the
drought period as it did from
the Dust Bowl. The land
would stay dry and hot
for a long time.
Sam Funks farm,
which his fam-
ily has owned for
four generations, is
right in the middle of
the area the Dust Bowl
hit. He said his fam-
ily was very con-
scious about
saving water
and growing
mostly dry-
land crops,
which dont need
to be watered. He
said his family was
willing to adjust to the
changing climate to contin-
ue to stay in the farming
business.
CROPS
Chuck Rice, profes-
sor of soil microbiology
at Kansas State University,
said warming would make
farming more expensive
and change the crops farmers
grow.
Rice said the changing cli-
mate led to predictions of more
thunderstorms and hail, which
could ruin whole harvests. He said
milder winters could also allow pests
to survive, which would increase the
cost of production with more expen-
sive pesticides.
According to the National Agriculture
Statistics Service, wheat is the largest
cash crop in Kansas, valued at $1.3 bil-
lion in 2006. With higher nighttime tem-
peratures, some wheat would not be able
to heal from extreme heat during the day
and may die, he said.
Youll see more cost, greater risk and more
uncertainty in food production, Rice said.
He said water was disappearing from the
Ogallala Aquifer, which supplies water for irriga-
tion to western Kansas and seven other states, and wells
would become more expensive each foot deeper they must be dug
to reach the water.
Rice said that if farmers couldnt afford to dig deeper wells, some
of their land might go back to non-irrigated crops, like wheat, grain
sorghum and even natural grasses. The loss of crop land to grass might
PARChED fuTuRE
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CHANGING CLIMATE
A warming climate is adversely afecting animals
native to Kansas and the crops of local farmers
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Red-headed woodpecker contributed by Ernesto Scott, Princeton Wildlife Management Area, Iowa; Bur Oak contributed by uSDA-nRCS PlAnTS Database / herman, D.E., et al. 1996.
The red-headed woodpecker feeds
on the bur oak trees acorns. The
tree grows near surface water
which is quickly disappearing in
western Kansas.
Jayplay
fEAR fACTOR
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Wave the wheat
Kansas is the top wheat producer in
the country and has 47 million acres
of farmland. In 2006, crops brought
in about $4.2 billion. Here are the
top fve crops by how much theyre
worth:0
$1.3 billion Wheat
$1.1 billion Corn
$615 million Hay
$601 million Soybeans
terms
$487 million Sorghum
aquifer underground layer of rock that holds water
Biodiversity the variety of organisms found within a specifed geographic region
Brood when birds sit on or hatch their eggs
deciduous trees that lose their leaves at the end of the season
irrigation supplying dry land, especially crops, with water through ditches, pipes or streams
reservoir a pond or lake used for storage and regulation of water
Source: The American Heritage College Dictionary
The bur oak grows near
creeks and reservoirs,
which are disappearing in
western Kansas.
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delegate at the Democratic National
Convention. Only three students in Kansas
were elected as delegates, and two others
were elected as alternate delegates.
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Odd news
Bulldog contest winner to
appear at Drake Relays
DES MOINES Buddy is a sleep-
ing beauty: Reddish brown, hes
usually asleep on his back, snoring
loudly with his large tongue lolling
out.
He was wide-awake Monday,
though, when he was crowned win-
ner of a Beautiful Bulldog contest.
He doesnt have a good stamina
to him ... hes been laying around
all winter, said George DuBois from
Ankeny, Iowa, who owns Buddy
with his wife, Cindy. Just in the last
10, 15 days weve done some walk-
ing. Weve been getting in shape
for this.
The DuBois 3-year-old dog was
among 50 bulldogs from mostly
Midwestern states that came to
compete. The beauty contest
honors Drake Universitys mascot
and one of the events leading up to
the Drake Relays, one of the nations
oldest and most prestigious track
and feld competitions.
Im so excited. I didnt think he
had what it took to get it, Cindy
said. His mom is back home and
she wont know what to think when
he comes home with all this good
stuf.
Buddy competed unadorned,
unlike many of his rivals. They
dressed up as fairy princesses, rock
stars, cheerleaders, bumblebees
and even Snow White and Mr. T.
Bella Star of Elmwood, Ill., had
her nails painted red and wore a
Hawaiian lei, pink bikini top and a
grass skirt. The skirt slipped of as
she strutted down the dogwalk
before the judges.
We felt this best represented
her personality, said owner
Amanda Price. Shes very fun lov-
ing, high-spirited.
Buddy panted heavily as he sat
on his throne, getting used to his
new crown and cape as photog-
raphers snapped his picture. On
Saturday, hell ride in a golf cart at
Drake Stadium before about 18,000
spectators.
I dont think he really wants at-
tention all that much ... he wants to
be with people, George said. Hes
just a rascal.
Free speech protects
short shorts, baggy pants
BATON ROUGE, La. A state
Senate panel rejected a bill on
Tuesday that would make it a crime
to wear ones pants too low, even
as Cajun-country towns around
Louisiana have been banning saggy
pants from their streets.
Sen. Derrick Shepherds bill
would have made it illegal to wear,
in public, clothing that intention-
ally exposes undergarments or
intentionally exposes any portion of
the pubic hair, cleft of the buttocks
or genitals.Violators would have
faced a fne of up to $175 and eight
days of community service.
Exceptions included thong swim
suits and clothing worn in fashion
shows.
Sen. Yvonne Dorsey said she
disliked the look of baggy pants but
wanted to defend the publics right
to wear their clothes as they wish.
When we begin to take the
freedom of speech away ... I think
were doing something thats just
not right, Dorsey said.
Shepherd said the state should
take a stand against droopy pants,
which he called just one example of
widespread indecency in contem-
porary clothing styles.
The shorts are getting shorter,
the tops are getting smaller, the
cleavage is getting larger, Shep-
herd said. When are we going to
say, Enough is enough?
With no objection, the Senate
judiciary panel voted against mov-
ing the measure to the foor.
Shepherd tried and failed to pass
a similar bill in 2004, but the mea-
sure died in the face of opposition
from the American Civil Liberties
Union.
About a dozen Louisiana towns
and cities have enacted or are con-
sidering bans on saggy pants.
The style is believed to have
started in prisons, where inmates
are issued ill-ftting jumpsuits but
no belts to prevent hangings and
beatings. The look was popularized
in gangster rap videos.
8-foot long alligator
invades Florida home
OLDSMAR, Fla. And some
people get jittery about mice in the
kitchen.
Authorities say a 69-year-old
central Florida woman found an
8-foot long alligator prowling in her
kitchen late Monday night.
Sandra Frosti says the gator must
have pushed through the back
porch screen door and then went
inside through an open sliding
glass door at her home in Oldsmar,
just north of Tampa. It then appar-
ently strolled through the living
room, down a hall and into the
kitchen.
A trapper with Animal Capture
of Florida removed the alligator,
which was cut by a plate that was
knocked to the ground during the
chaos. But no one inside the house
was injured.
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Presidential election
KU student to represent Obama at national convention
By Francesca chamBers
fchambers@kansan.com
While other college students
will attend back to school par-
ties and settle into their classes,
one KU student will help shape
the future of the U.S. as a del-
egate at the Democratic National
Convention.
Clarissa Unger, state coordina-
tor of Students for Barack Obama,
was one of only three students
from the state of Kansas elected on
April 12 to represent Obama at the
convention.
Unger, Colby junior, was the
only KU student elected as a del-
egate to the convention from the
Kansas Democratic Partys District
Conventions.
Unger said her selection was
significant because in the third dis-
trict, two of the
delegates elect-
ed were state
representatives,
another was a
field organizer
for Obamas
campaign, one
was an Iraq war
veteran and one
was a soldiers
mother.
I guess I
gave a good speech, Unger said.
I guess it was just compelling
enough that people voted for me.
Hilary Tilkens, an Omaha, Neb.,
senior who attended the third dis-
tricts convention as an Obama
delegate but was not elected to
the national
convent i on,
said she would
try for one
of Kansas 11
state delegate
seats at the
state conven-
tion on May
17.
T i l k e n s ,
who helped
organize the
Douglas County Fairgrounds cau-
cus, said she was glad Unger was
chosen at the district convention
because Unger had put a large
amount of time into Obamas cam-
paign. She said Ungers election
showed that the stereotype about
college students and their lack of
interest in politics was not true.
This just kind of goes to prove
that some of us do care and some
of us are really, really passionate
about this, Tilkens said.
State Rep. Paul Davis, a
Lawrence Democrat who was also
elected as a delegate to the national
convention, said Ungers election
was significant because tradition-
ally, few youth from Kansas were
elected.
Davis, 35, has worked in the
party since 1992. He said usually,
only people who had worked in
the party for many years received
spots. Davis said he was younger
than the people who were usually
selected.
Im really excited to see young-
er people get involved and get
elected, Davis said. They deserve
to be represented at the conven-
tions because there are so many
young people who have gotten
involved in the Obama campaign
and have played a role in its suc-
cess.
The other two students elected
as delegates to the national con-
vention were high school students
from the second and fourth dis-
tricts. Lawrence falls in the second
and third of Kansas four congres-
sional districts. No delegates under
40 years old were chosen to repre-
sent Hillary Clinton.
In 2004, no KU students were
chosen as delegates to the national
convention.
Unger said she was excited to
represent the youth of Kansas and
be able to vote on the Democratic
Partys platforms at the conven-
tion.
Unger said that Obamas cam-
paign told her the trip would cost
about $1,000, but that she would
look into sharing costs with the
other students from Kansas who
were elected.
Edited by Katherine Loeck
assOcIaTeD Press
WASHINGTON Army Gen.
David Petraeus, the four-star gen-
eral who led troops in Iraq for the
past year, will be nominated by
President Bush to be the next com-
mander of U.S. Central Command,
Defense Secretary Robert Gates
said Wednesday.
Gates said he expected Petraeus
to make the shift in late summer or
early fall. The Pentagon chief also
announced that Bush will nomi-
nate Army Lt. Gen. Ray Odierno to
replace Petraeus in Baghdad.
Central Command oversees the
wars in Iraq and in Afghanistan.
I am honored to be nominated
for this position and to have an
opportunity to continue to serve
with Americas soldiers, sailors, air-
men, Marines, Coast Guardsmen
and civilians, Petraeus said in a
brief statement from Baghdad.
At a hastily-arranged Pentagon
news conference, Gates said the
wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and
other problems in the Central
Command area of responsibil-
ity, demand knowledge of how to
fight counterinsurgencies as well as
other unconventional conflicts.
I dont know anybody in the
U.S. military better qualified to
lead that effort, Gates said.
While congressional Republicans
swiftly offered ringing endorse-
ments of Petraeus anticipated
nomination, Democrats were more
cautious.
A spokeswoman for Sen. Carl
Levin (D-Mich.), said only the
chairman of the Senate Armed
Services Committee was hoping
to schedule a prompt confirma-
tion hearing. Sen. Joseph Biden,
(D-Del.), chairman of the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee, said
he hopes Petraeus does not bring
an Iraq bias to his new job, at the
expense of Americas broader secu-
rity needs.
GOP presidential hopeful John
McCain (R-Ariz.), said he supports
both Petraeus and Odierno. He
called Petraeus one of the great
generals in American history.
Gates said he had consulted with
Levin and other senior lawmak-
ers about the nominations. The
defense secretary said he antici-
pated no Capitol Hill obstacles to
confirmation.
While Democrats are unlikely to
block the popular general, Senate
Majority Leader Harry Reid noted
in a statement Wednesday that any
war commander must be commit-
ted to implementing major chang-
es in strategy if directed to do so
by a new president.
Asked if moving Petraeus from
the Iraq command could interrupt
momentum against the insurgency,
Gates said that by waiting until late
summer or early fall he hoped to
ensure plenty of time to prepare
for a good handoff. He said it also
would help that Odierno has had
experience as Petraeus right-hand
man over the last year.
If confirmed by the Senate,
Petraeus would replace Navy Adm.
William Fallon, who abruptly
stepped down in March after a
m a g a z i n e
reported that
he was at odds
with President
Bush over Iran
policy. Fallon
said the report
was not true
but had become
a distraction.
Od i e r n o ,
currently com-
mander of the
Armys 3rd
Corps based at Fort Hood, Texas,
finished in February a 15-month
tour as the top deputy to Petraeus
in Baghdad. He had been nomi-
nated for promotion to full gen-
eral and assignment as the Armys
vice chief of staff, but Gates said
the Fallon resignation changed the
plan. With Odierno tapped for a
return to Baghdad, Gates said Bush
will nominate Gates senior mili-
tary assistant, Army Lt. Gen. Peter
Chiarelli, for
the Army vice
chief of staff
job.
Petraeus, 55,
is widely hailed
by the Bush
administration
and members
of Congress for
implementing a
new strategy in
Iraq, including
the deployment
of some 30,000 additional troops,
that dramatically improved secu-
rity.
Gates said he expected that
Petraeus would make an initial rec-
ommendation in late summer on
when to resume pulling U.S. forces
out of Iraq, following a several-
week pause to evaluate the security
situation in August.
Central Command, with head-
quarters in Tampa, Fla., is respon-
sible for U.S. military operations
throughout the Middle East,
Central Asia and the horn of
Africa, and thus oversees the wars
in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Fallon relinquished the com-
mand March 28 to his top deputy,
Army Lt. Gen. Martin Dempsey,
and retired from the Navy earlier
this month. Dempsey was in the
unusual position of having already
been nominated to take command
of U.S. Army Europe when Fallon
bowed out. He appeared to be
among those considered as Fallons
permanent replacement, but it now
appears he will go to Europe once
Petraeus leaves Iraq.
Gen. Petraeus to be promoted to U.S. Central Command
armed forces
I dont know anybody in the
U.S. military better qualifed to
lead that efort.
RobeRt Gates
Defense secretary
I guess I gave a good speech.
I guess it was just compelling
enough that people voted for
me.
ClaRissa UnGeR
Colby junior
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increase prices of basic foods like

bread and pasta.
Corn, the second-most revenue
producing crop in Kansas, brought
in $1.1 billion in 2006. Since corn
is used to feed livestock and also to
produce ethanol, higher corn pric-
es means hamburgers, steak and
ethanol-based fuel would become
more expensive. Corn cannot grow
in much of Kansas without being
irrigated, and Rice said farmers,
like Sam Funks family, may not
want to pay the costs of digging
deeper wells.
Funk said his family members
already dug their wells 100 feet
deeper than they used to and get
only half the water. He predicted
other farmers would soon give up
corn, as his family did, because
changing growing seasons might
require even more water.
Nebraska wont be the
Cor nhuskers
a n y m o r e ,
Funk said.
It will be the
South Dakota
Cornhuskers.
Rice said
some crops
could deal with
the increasing
temperatures,
such as sor-
ghum, a grain
that can feed
animals and also be made into
gluten-free flour. With tempera-
tures warming in Kansas, could
the Kansas Jayhawks become the
Kansas Sooners?
PLANTS
Sharon Billings, pro-
fessor of ecology and evo-
lutionary biology, said even
a slight change in water avail-
ability would make it difficult for
some hardwood trees to grow in
Kansas.
She said Lawrence was on
the western edge of the Eastern
Deciduous Forest, so many trees
already wont grow west of the area.
The sugar maple, which inspires
the Maple Leaf Festival in Baldwin
City with its flaming orange colors,
grows only on high-quality land
with lots of moisture and good soil.
They grow more readily north and
east of Kansas, and Billings said
even a slight change in the amount
of rain would make them unable to
grow.
S h e
said that many
trees in west-
ern Kansas
already grew
only near
creeks and
r e s e r v o i r s .
She said these
trees, like the
bur oak, would
die out if the
water disap-
peared. Billings said it was hard for
trees to adapt to warmer weather.
Its not like trees can just pick
up and walk north, she said.
Billings said if the oaks started
to die, animals
that depend on the
trees acorns would suffer, such as
turkeys, deer and squirrels.
Fruit trees, like the ones on Otts
farm, are introduced species which
farmers must water because they
dont naturally grow in Kansas.
Billings said the fruit buds had a
better chance of freezing because
the seasons were so unpredictable.
The trees are being lured into
thinking its OK to flower earlier,
she said.
Last April, a harsh freeze caught
Ott by surprise. Trees budded early
in a mild March then temperatures
dropped below freezing at night
during the first weeks of April. The
thaw and freeze also resulted in
poor crop conditions for 41 per-
cent of the states winter wheat.
Ott said he lost at least $9,000
worth of fruit sales and his loyal
customers at the Lawrence Farmers
Market were unable to buy his
usual bounty of homegrown apples,
peaches, apricots, nectarines, cher-
ries and plums.
Craig Freeman, curator in
charge of botany at the Natural
History Museum, said that when
populations of plants like snap-
dragons lost one year of producing
seeds, a whole generation of plants
was lost and there was a chance the
whole population eventually would
decline.
INSECTS
Orley Chip Taylor, professor
of insect ecology, said warmer win-
ters were a big problem for bees
because there was less snow cover
and predators could find the win-
tering bees more easily. He said a
warmer winter would also keep
the bees metabolic rates high and
they wouldnt have enough food
or energy to live though the entire
winter.
Taylor said virtually all insects
were dependent on plants and vice
versa. He said 90 Kansas crops
were dependent on honeybees for
pollination, including almonds,
plums, apples, cherries, pears and
various berries. When bees dis-
appear, the efficiency of produc-
ing these products goes down and
their prices go up.
Taylor said bees and other
insects had a difficult time adjust-
NEWS 4A thursday, april 24, 2008
Marla Keown/KANSAN
SamFunk, Holcomb senior, was raised on a farmthat has been in his family for four generations. Funk is fnishing his fourth year at the
University of Kansas and hopes to become an optometrist. Funk said his family has been very conscious about saving water and growing mostly
crops that dont need to be watered, like wheat, sorghumand hay. Funk balances his free time between interning for an optometrist and helping
out back home at the farm.
Mindy Ricketts/KANSAN
Richard Bean, a beekeeper, helps a customer at the Farmers market on Saturday, on NewHampshire Street between Eighth and Ninth streets.
Bean owns BlossomTrail Bee Ranch where he breeds bees and harvests their honey.
cliMAte
(continued from 1A)
now were facing what is the
worst period of Kansas history.
its not a matter of belief. its a
matter of scientifc research.
DonalD Worster
Professor of environmental history
the green sunfsh live in
streams that keep their eggs
safe frompredators. the rising
temperatures could mean
shallower waters and less safety
for the sunfshs reproduction.
contributed by Bryan Sirtokin
ing to unpredictable seasons. He
said that in Lawrence, plants were
usually at full bloom on April 14.
Last year, that day was April 2, a
full 12 days early. This year, flowers
reached full bloom yesterday, seven
days later than the norm. Normally,
the bloom days vary only by three
or four days.
If plants flower early but bees
dont emerge, the bees miss the
prime time to collect pollen and
nectar and some starve. If the sea-
son starts early but then an extreme
freeze hits, the vegetation freezes
and there is no pollen or nectar
because blooms die, Taylor said.
Richard Bean, owner of Blossom
Trail Bee Ranch, raises about 60
colonies of bees for honey to sell
at the Lawrence Farmers Market.
He said last
year, when the
freeze killed
many fruit
buds, his bees
werent able to
collect nectar
for more than a
month and had
already gone
through their
winter stores of
food.
They really struggled, Bean
said. They had more mouths to
feed.
He said the queen bee slowed
down laying her eggs when there
was less food, which was the oppo-
site of what he needed for honey
production.
Chip Taylor said many yellow-
jackets, bumblebees and paper
wasps didnt survive the late freeze
last year and that their numbers
were still small.
He said that when the insects
die, they cant pollinate the plants
and the plants then cant reproduce
or bear fruit, also affecting other
insects that rely on that food.
FISH
Keith Gido, associate profes-
sor of biology at Kansas State
University, said drier streams and
rivers were eliminating some spe-
cies of fish, although scientists
didnt know yet how fish will react
to higher water temperatures.
Gido said irrigation in west-
ern Kansas caused streams to dry
up and the Arkansas River also
had considerably less water. The
Kansas Department of Wildlife
and Parks listed the spotted suck-
er, which lives in the Arkansas
River, as one species already in
need of conservation. Gido said
species like the plains minnow,
the Arkansas River Shiner and the
green sunfish were disappearing.
He said droughts were the biggest
problem for fish.
Theres not much fish can do
when it gets completely dry, Gido
said.
He said stream fish couldnt
move into lakes because they
werent adapted to the still water
of a lake.
Gido said that stream fish
spawn and their eggs wash down-
stream to develop. Long stretches
of moving water are necessary for
the eggs because the constant cur-
rent makes it harder for predators
to eat them.
He said when stream species
populations wane, it upset the
streams whole
ecosystem. The
plains minnow
is an herbi-
vore and eats
algae. He said
the amount of
algae played a
strong role in
the streams
ability to retain
nutrients, so
the fishs disap-
pearance could upset the health of
the stream and its surroundings.
Gido said fish had different
ideal temperatures and scientists
dont really know how fish will
react to warmer weather. He said
most streams in Kansas flowed
west to east, which made it more
difficult for fish to escape warm-
ing weather by heading north like
other animals do.
REPTILES AND
AMPHIBIANS
Linda Trueb, curator in charge
of herpetology at the Natural
History Museum, said reptiles
were tough and independent from
their environment. They are more
likely to adapt to warmer tempera-
tures, but drought would affect
amphibians.
She said the biggest problem
reptiles faced was that they were
cold-blooded and couldnt regu-
late their own body temperatures.
However, warmer temperatures
make reptiles more active, so they
would be more aware of what is
going on around them.
Trueb said most amphibians in
Kansas were tolerant of high heat,
especially native toads, but many
other amphibians that need mois-
ture would go underground and
wait for more water to come. She
said the amphibians that would
be most affected would be those
already in small numbers across
the state, like the crawfish frog,
which lives in the Haskell-Baker
Wetlands in south Lawrence. The
Eastern Narrowmouth Toad lives
in the southeastern corner of the
state on the Ozark Plateau,
most of which is in
Missouri.
BIRDS
Bill Busby, a scientist at the
Kansas Biological Survey, said
migratory birds were arriving in
the state earlier than normal and
some of their ranges were expand-
ing.
When Philip Wedge, an assis-
tant professor of English, heard
the Northern Saw-whet Owl in
his yard a block away from cam-
pus, the bird was thousands of
miles away from where it normally
whistled its mating call. Last win-
ter Wedge helped with the annual
Audubon Societys Christmas Bird
Count in Lawrence, and he helped
count 15 yellow-rumped warblers.
These birds previously didnt
winter in Lawrence
because it was too
cold, but milder win-
ters had allowed the
warblers to stay in the state.
Busby said the big problems
for birds were synchronizing their
food supply and the chang-
ing weather. If the birds miss
when plants flower or insects
come out, they miss their
food source. Many birds use
weather and natural events to
time their lives. The whip-poor-
will broods when the moon was
full, and Busby said many birds
had a reproductive cycle tied to
changes in weather.
If certain trees disappear
because of weather, like the bur
oak, Busby said birds that rely on
them for food and shelter would
become scarce. The red-headed
woodpecker feeds on the oak trees
acorns during winter, so when the
tree produces less, there is less food
for the birds.
He said roadrunners once asso-
ciated with deserts used to be scarce
in Kansas because of harsh winters,
but people were now spotting them
as far north as Wichita because the
winters were milder.
The Canada goose is also
appearing in greater numbers in
the state and staying for milder
winters and cornfields.
MAMMALS
Robert Timm, curator in charge
of mammalogy at the Natural
History Museum, said mammals
might not be affected as much
by climate change as they would
be from humans destroying their
habitats. If mammals are affected,
it may happen to them last because
they are at the top of the food
chain and eat birds, insects and
plants.
Since humans are at the apex
of the food chain, the effects of
climate change may affect people
later but greater. Whether it is the
crops we grow, the birds we feed
and watch, the trees that shade
us in the summer and entertain
us in the fall, the fish we catch or
the bees that pollinate our crops
and share their honey with us, can
Kansans look to Oklahoma for a
preview of the future of the hotter,
drier environment of Kansas?

Edited by JefBriscoe
news 5A thursday, april 24, 2008
Taylor Miller/KANSAN
Floyd Ott, a fruit farmer south of Eudora, points out dead leaves on a tree in his orchard leftover froma late freeze last year. Ott valued his loss
of apples, apricots, nectarines, plums, cherries, pears and peaches at $9,000.
Roadrunners are
typically associated
with deserts but
are appearing more
frequently in Kansas
as the climate gets
warmer.
Nebraska wont be the Corn-
huskers anymore. It will be the
South Dakota Cornhuskers.
Sam Funk
Holcomb, senior
Wheat brought in $1.3 billion to Kansas
farmers in 2006. Some farmers have
abandoned growing corn for wheat
because it does not require as much water.
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cAitlin thornbrugh
COMMentary
editorials around the state
Promoting armed students
and faculty within the collegiate
environment establishes a cul-
ture of fear in anticipation of a
shooting.
Many of my fellow students
cringe at the sight of these acrid
anti-weapons signs which our
many of our buildings and stores
now must post in order to secure
ourselves against the legal pres-
ence of weapons.
The Board of Regents took
responsibility in banning weap-
ons where our State Legislature
played sycophant to an aggres-
sive gun lobby and dangerous
ideology of Sen. Phil Journey (R-
Haysville).
I would prefer we focus our
efforts on securing our campus-
es to greater ends rather than
granting anyone the false sense
of security derived from a mea-
ger band of students and fac-
ulty armed mostly in callowness.
Such actors would likely endan-
ger themselves in their hubris,
concomitantly jeopardizing the
safety of their peers.
These students were lucky they
were not mistaken for possessing
weapons, and I hope any student
who feels threatened by their rash
display does not hesitate to con-
tact the police.
I would prefer a campus be
primed to raise an alarm at the
sight of weapons than grow
accustomed to them.
We must be cautious of the
notion that killers willing to
sacrifice their own lives will be
deterred by any physical means,
as most of these shooters seem
to seek death both for themselves
and others.
To destroy the culture of vio-
lence we must not promote it in
another manner, but we should
eradicate the motivations of
those who perceive the use of
deadly force as a solution to their
troubled hearts and minds.
Marc Langston,
Wichita senior
After completing a test, I was
sitting on a bench at the bus stop
in front of Snow Hall. The test was
just 20 multiple choice questions,
some of which were identical to
the ones from the practice test my
professor put on blackboard, and
went over in class. The girls sit-
ting two benches away from mine
apparently thought that I was read-
ing a book, which rendered me
temporarily deaf, because one of
them proceeded to retell in detail
the ways in which she cheated on
the test we had just taken.
In her candid description she
used her own name, and said she
felt like her TA was asking her
to cheat. She also felt she trusted
the guy in front of her more than
she did herself, so she just went
ahead and copied down all of his
answers.
The way she talked about cheat-
ing was nonchalant, and she must
have felt pretty secure about it
because shes talking freely in front
of all the other students at the bus
stop.
But what about the guy sitting
in front of her she cheated off of?
He obviously had no idea what was
going on, and yet if she had been
caught the consequences for him
could have been just as severe.
Hearing this one girl talk about
cheating isnt an isolated incident.
Cheating has become an epidemic,
and it made me start to wonder if
anyone thinks cheating is wrong
anymore. When I actually started
talking to people about it, what I
believed to be a strictly right-or -
wrong issue turned out to be more
complex than I thought.
I dont feel the need to learn
in classes that dont directly affect
me or my major because Im being
forced to take them in order to get
my degree, Fletcher Farley, South
Dakota junior, said. Im never
going to use the information in my
actual life. Theres so much pres-
sure to get good grades you dont
worry about learning the informa-
tion.
Farleys opinion raises several
questions. Is it okay to cheat in
classes that have nothing to do with
what youre majoring in?
George Tsoflias, assistant pro-
fessor of geophysics gives a teach-
ers standpoint. Consider those
questions: Is the prospect of a
slightly higher grade worth the risk
of ruining your academic career
and any future opportunities that
depend on it? Do you come to col-
lege to get a grade or gain knowl-
edge? Is it a good investment of
your time and money if you cheat
yourself from learning? I think the
answer is obvious, and students
that cheat simply have not contem-
plated those questions.
Tsoflias is teaching a class this
semester with more than 500
students in it. During this classs
exams he has a minimum of 10
proctors and hands out different
versions of the test.
I havent had a teacher make
me put up folder tents like we did
in grade school, but I did have
a professor require us leave our
jackets, hoodies, hats, bags, purses
and backpacks at the front of the
classroom to avoid cheating, yet it
still happened (and peoples jackets
were stolen). Ive even had teach-
ers become paranoid about any
form of the Live Strong bracelets,
because answers could be written
on the underside.
There needs to be a balance
between harsh paranoia and com-
plete disregard for academic stan-
dards. Our primary goal should be
to learn, and the primary goal of
the University and the professors
teaching here should be to cre-
ate an environment conducive to
learning, not memorization no
matter the subject or size of the
class.
Thornbrugh is a Lenexa
sophomore in womens stud-
ies and creative writing.
Gun advocates getting
concealed, carried away
Letter tO the editOr
I support immigration.
After watching the recent docu-
mentary Crossing Arizona, I sup-
port it now more than ever.
The documentary, littered with
first hand experiences of immigra-
tion, reiterated my beliefs as to why
most immigrants risk their lives
to come here. Its not to take our
jobs, commit crimes and be free
from prosecution or to not pay
taxes. I do acknowledge that some
may take advantage of our system,
but I should point out the number
of Americans who take advantage
of the same system, and theyre cit-
izens. I dont think we should label
and stereotype a group of people
with different motives based on
the actions of a handful of malo
manzanas (bad apples).
These people are risking their
lives to improve the lives of their
families. The documentary stat-
ed that more than one million
attempts are made each year to
cross Arizona. Out of those mil-
lion, about 75-150 people die each
year while trying to make the trek.
Some immigrants said it was worth
it to at least try; they would men-
tion their starving children at home
or their spouses needing medical
attention.
It is an absolute outrage that
over 4,000 men, women and chil-
dren have lost their lives attempt-
ing to cross the US/Mexico border
to find work, director Dan Devivo
said in an e-mail interview.
This is a tragic waste of talent
and if our conscience doesnt per-
suade us to change course, then at
least our self-interest ought to. By
trying to protect society from the
perceived threat of immigration,
we are actually harming ourselves.
Stunting our economy and person-
al freedoms as we foster injustice
and criminality.
Some people have ignored the
reasons behind immigration, let-
ting their biased views get in the
way. One man in the film said that
every American should be sitting at
the border with a shotgun waiting
for them to cross.
After a recent trip to Arizona,
Samuel Seliger, Seattle senior, felt
differently. I was surprised by how
many Border Patrol vehicles I saw
and how much tax payer money
theyre wasting on it.
While some believe Border
Patrol is a waste of money, others
feel enough isnt being done. At a
rally called Protect Arizona Now,
a man in the film said if he could
he would go as far as to deport the
pre-schoolers. He said he would go
to the retirement communities and
deport the elderly. He even said
that he would go the hospitals and
take out the IVs and send them
to their own hospitals.
Of course, the extreme irony of
this scene was at the end, the clean
-up crew at the hotel where the rally
was taking place, was Hispanic.
Migration is inevitable. The pol-
icies that our country is governed
by affects less fortunate countries,
continuing to make our rich richer
and the poor around the world
poorer. Immigrants dont hinder
our society, but instead, add to it.
Devivo agreed. Its curious
how the immigration debate in
this country focuses exclusively on
what immigrants take and never
considers what immigrants bring.
Throughout our own history,
immigrants have had a positively
vibrant influence on our culture
that has improved our lives in ways
to numerous to detail. And immi-
grants are the backbone of our
economy. Not because they are a
source of cheap labor but because
they are determined to improve
their lives and the lives of their
families.
I find myself wondering, if we
talk on how to diversify our cam-
pus, why not continue to diversify
our nation?
McNaughton is a Topeka
junior in journalism.
For good grades or
for new knowledge?
U.S. should put brakes
on new biofuel policies
Few of us living in the
breadbasket of the United
States can imagine what hun-
ger is like. Not the kind of hun-
ger that comes with a growling
stomach in between meals but
real hunger from going days
without food and the despair
of not knowing when solid
sustenance will come along.
Hunger is always a fact of
life somewhere on the globe,
but right now it is becoming
a crisis.
Hunger isnt confned to the
places that are accustomed to
periods of famine. It is becom-
ing an issue around the globe.
The crisis has led to sharp
criticism of U.S. policies meant
to stimulate biofuel produc-
tion.
Maybe we need to take a
time-out on the rapid growth
of our biofuels industry. We
also need to be shifting focus
to new inputs such as switch-
grass, crop waste and other
alternatives to grain-based
ethanol.
We need to be taking a hard
look at our agriculture policies
as Congress works on a new
farm bill. When commodity
prices are high is not when we
should be renewing subsidies.
Americans are fnding high-
er prices in the grocery store
and at the pump, but we arent
starving, and it wouldnt hurt
to practice a little conservation
and sufer through the high
gas prices. Not when millions
of our brothers and sisters
around the world are going
hungry with little hope of food
for their stomachs tomorrow.
The Hutchinson News
April 20 editorial
Angelique mcnAughton
COMMentary
immigration about more than
what is given and what is taken
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pennsylvania primaries
The polls in
Pennsylvania are
about 40 minutes
away from closing,
but CNN is going
over early exit polls.
Newly registered
voters backed Sen.
Barack Obama while
late decision makers went for
Sen. Hillary Clinton. Clinton is
likely to do better in
rural Pennsylvania,
where she plays well
with blue collar work-
ers. Obama is likely to
do well in large cities
like Philadelphia and
Pittsburgh.
Kelsey Hayes
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WASHINGTON Hillary
Rodham Clinton parlayed her cam-
paign-saving primary victory into a
fundraising bonanza Wednesday in
the Democratic presidential race.
Rival Barack Obama, his delegate
lead intact, said, We just keep on
plugging away.
One day after Clintons comfort-
able win in Pennsylvania, she and
Obama looked ahead to contests
on May 6 in Indiana and North
Carolina and offered sharply con-
trasting assessments of the race
to date.
The big win that I had, the
broad base of coalition that I put
together, is exactly what were going
to need to have in the fall, the for-
mer first lady said, arguing that her
Pennsylvania victory showed she
was more electable than her rival.
Obama countered Clintons sug-
gestions that hes not tough enough
to shoulder the presidency. You
know, Ive always believed that if
youre tough, you dont have to talk
about it, he said.
With her win, Clinton made
only a modest dent in Obamas
overall delegate lead, and she has
virtually no prospect of overtak-
ing him before the primary sea-
son ends on June 3. Instead, she
hopes to convince party leaders
who will attend the national con-
vention as superdelegates that she
is better able to defeat Republican
John McCain in November and
persuade them to swing behind her
candidacy as a result.
With a handful of Pennsylvania
delegates yet to be awarded, Obama
had 1,723.5 and Clinton had 1,592.5
in The Associated Press nationwide
count. It takes 2,025 to clinch the
nomination.
Clinton said donors had con-
tributed more than $3 million to
her candidacy in the hours since
her Pennsylvania victory, some of
it from thousands of new donors.
Her campaign said she was on
track for raising $10 million in the
first 24 hours after her victory.
Financial reports on file with
the Federal Election Commission
underscored her need. Obama
showed more than $40 million in
cash on hand as of April 1, while
her debts of $10 million exceeded
her cash of just more than $9 mil-
lion.
McCain sought to strengthen
his credentials as an unconven-
tional Republican, campaigning in
a poor region of Kentucky follow-
ing stops earlier in the week in
Selma, Ala., site of a historic civil
rights march, and Youngstown,
Ohio, a down-at-the-mouth steel
city.
He spent part of Wednesday in
an intramural dispute, unsuccess-
fully urging the North Carolina
Republican Party not to air a com-
mercial that shows Obamas former
minister, Rev. Jeremiah Wright,
denouncing the United States from
the pulpit.
The commercial says both
Democratic candidates in the state
gubernatorial primary support
Obama, whom it labels just too
extreme for North Carolina.
The television advertisement
you are planning to air degrades
our civics and distracts us from the
very real differences we have with
the Democrats, McCain wrote
Linda Daves, North Carolina party
chairwoman. In the strongest
terms, I implore you to not run
this advertisement.
Daves turned the request aside,
saying, It is entirely appropriate
for voters to evaluate candidates
based on their past associations.
Clinton and Obama each netted
one superdelegate during the day.
In New Albany, Ind., Obama was
asked why he thought he could win
Indiana when he lost Pennsylvania
and Ohio, two states with large
numbers of blue-collar workers.
People are a little more familiar
with me here, he said of a state
that shares a border and a northern
television market with Illinois.
Clinton was in Indianapolis,
where she pledged to focus on
economic issues. This campaign
for me here in Indiana is about
jobs, jobs, jobs and jobs, she said.
She promised to make investments
in manufacturing and to end tax
breaks for companies that ship jobs
overseas.
Clinton said she had received
more votes by the people who have
voted, than anybody else. Her
reckoning included Florida and
Michigan, states that held prima-
ries so early in the year that the
Democratic National Committee
said they did not count, and denied
seating to delegates.
Obama leads in the combined
vote totals in primaries and cau-
cuses that have counted, and he
dismissed Clintons claim.
There have been a number
of different formulations that the
Clinton camp has been trying to
arrive at to suggest that somehow
theyre not behind, he said.
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PRESIDENTIAL ELEcTIoN
Clinton boosts fundraising after primary
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Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary RodhamClinton, D-N.Y., waves after her speech as a supporter holds a sign for her to auto-
graph at a rally in Indianapolis Wednesday.
game against
Kansas Wesleyan
cancelled
BY ALEX DUFEK
adufek@kansan.com
When the Kansas tennis team hits the
courts on Thursday they will be looking to
give Iowa State a serious dose of dj vu.
Just five days after sweeping the Cyclones,
7-0, in Lawrence, the Jayhawks, ranked 5th in
the Big 12, will face Iowa State in the open-
ing round of the Big 12 tournament. The
Cyclones, who have lost 29 straight matches
to the Hawks, will be hoping a change of
scenery and a trip to College Station, Texas,
will be the lucky charm to stopping a streak
almost three decades in the making.
Kansas coach Amy Hall-Holt said the
teams success against Iowa State wouldnt
affect the way they prepare for the match.
Any time were up against somebody we
want to take it one match at a time and thats
what we do, Hall-Holt said.
Kansas will have momentum on its side
when it enters the tournament Thursday. The
Jayhawks are currently riding a two-match
winning streak after dropping four straight
matches earlier in April. Hall-Holt said she
felt like the late season push and positive
response to adversity had put Kansas right
where it wanted to be.
The way it looks, this is where we want
to be and this is where our goals were, Hall-
Holt said. We wanted to be in the top half of
the Big 12 and the girls pulled through some
obstacles and made it.
With a difficult regular season schedule
under their belt, the Jayhawks appear to have
the confidence and the experience necessary
to make a deep run in this years tournament.
Out of the 21 teams Kansas faced during the
regular season, 13 finished the regular season
with an ITA ranking.
Another advantage of this years team is
its experience in age. The Jayhawks have a
good amount of leadership on a roster that
consists of three seniors and two juniors, all of
whom have experience in the Big 12 tourna-
ment. An even more important factor is the
success the upperclassmen have already had
this season.
In singles, Kansas is lead by junior Edina
Horvath, who has recorded a team-leading 11
wins this spring, mostly at the No. 3 position.
Senior Lauren Hommell trails just behind
Horvath with 10 wins, almost all at the No.
6 position. With four match sealing victories
on her rsum already this season, Hommell
is inarguably one of Kansas most reliable
players in pressure situations. The Jayhawks
will almost certainly need Hommell to rise to
the challenge again, if Kansas expects to make
a deep run in this years draw.
In doubles, Kansas is led by the experi-
enced duo of Horvath and senior Elizaveta
Avdeeva. With 13 victories all at the No. 1
position, they lead the team in doubles wins
this spring. Avdeeva, who set the mark for the
most career Big 12 doubles victories in school
history on Sunday against Iowa State, said
even though the team handled Iowa State on
Sunday you can never be too prepared for a
match.
Even if you know that youve never lost to
a team you have to expect anything, Avdeeva
said.
Kansas will be looking to continue its
domination over the Cyclones when they
face off at 10 a.m. on Thursday at the George
P. Mitchell Tennis Center in College Station,
Texas.
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Mario Chalmers, junior guard, and Bill Self, Kansas coach, talk to the press Wednesday afternoon about chalmers future plans. chalmers is not using an agent for the nBa draft which leaves himthe option of returning to Kansas.
super mario
Chalmers faces tough competition in Draft
BY RUSTIN DODD AND
MARK DENT
rdodd@kansan.com
mdent@kansan.com
Being considered a sports hero hasnt
changed Mario Chalmers life too much in
the past two weeks.
He goes to school. He plays basketball.
He shops.
The only difference is that when hes
out, he sees his face on a certain magazine
on sale throughout Lawrence.
Seeing yourself on Sports Illustrated
on the cover wherever you go, Chalmers,
junior guard, said, is something you never
thought would come true.
Another dream could soon come true
for Chalmers in the coming weeks. He
announced his intentions to enter the NBA
Draft without hiring an agent Wednesday
afternoon, meaning he still has the option
of returning to Kansas.
Its been kind of the vogue thing to do
with everybody, to announce and not hire,
Kansas coach Bill Self said, and I certainly
support him in his quest for living out
another dream.
Chalmers said hed been told he was
currently projected to get drafted in the
late first round or early second round. He
wants to improve his status before he signs
with an agent. If hes not guaranteed a spot
in the first round, Chalmers said hed come
back. He has until June 16 to make his final
decision.
Until then, Chalmers will have to try
to impress scouts and teams in individu-
al workouts. Self thinks
Chalmers could play his
way into a top-20 pick.
Thats kind of the
consensus across the
board, Self said.
Chalmers averaged
12.8 points per game this
season and finished with a school-record
97 steals. His outside shooting stroke
and stealing ability are two of his biggest
strengths. And, of course, his game-tying
three-pointer in the national champion-
ship game, proved he could play in the
clutch.
But Chalmers could have trouble find-
ing a position. At 6-foot-1, hes played
shooting guard for all but a few games
during his freshman
year. Hell be too small
to play shooting guard in
the NBA and will have to
move to the point.
Chalmers isnt the only
underclassman guard
whos entered his name in
draft for this June. Hell have to prove he can
hang with Memphis Derrick Rose, UCLAs
Russell Westbrook and Darren Collison,
Indianas Eric Gordon, Arizonas Jerryd
Bayless and more to solidify his status.
Next years draft probably wont be as
strong on paper, Self said, and I think
thats something he should consider. But
hes earned the right to investigate.
If Chalmers does come back, Kansas
backcourt will be one of the best in the
nation. Chalmers could automatically
boost Kansas from a fringe top 25 team
to a top 10 contender. And maybe again,
Chalmers could see himself on the cover
of a magazine come next April.
The more you win, Self said, the more
you want. I want more, and I guarantee
hell be as hungry as hes ever been.
Note: Brandon Rush, who declared for
the NBA Draft last week, recently signed
with the Chicago-based agency group
Priority Sports.
Edited by Jared Duncan
BY ASHER FUSCO
afusco@kansan.com
In the days leading up to the 2007 foot-
ball season, the Kansas secondary looked
like a weak spot starting cornerback
Kendrick Harper sat out with a broken
wrist, forcing freshman Chris Harris into
service.
What seemed a devastating blow last
fall looks like a convenient twist of fate
these days.
Harris stepped into the starting role and
earned All-Big 12 Freshman Team recog-
nition. That extra experience could pay
dividends this season as Kansas attempts
to fill the void left by NFL-bound first team
All-America cornerback Aqib Talib.
We know we have big roles to fill, so we
just want to come out and show everybody
were ready to play, Harris said. We wont
be hurting.
Harris, who started 10 games last sea-
son, played much bigger than his 6-foot,
180-pound frame would suggest as a fresh-
man, making two interceptions and 65
tackles. Harris stepped into the starting
spot because of injury and held onto the
job for most of the season once Harper
the junior guard seems like a shoo-in for the nBa, but has to prove himself against other undergrads
Weston White/KANSAN
Senior Stephanie Smith returns a lowshot in the front court sunday afternoon. Kansas faced of against iowa
state over the weekend and travels to college station, texas, for the Big 12 championship today.
tennis
Jayhawks head to Big 12 tourney
Players want to bring home 30th straight victory against iowa state
football
Jayhawks to provide
cross-position depth
experience eases anxiety over losing talib
Jon Goering/KANSAN
Senior cornerback Kendrick Harper celebrates with sophomore cornerback chris Harris and junior safety darrell
stucket during the spring game april 14 at memorial stadium. these three will likely start in the backfeld for Kansas
in the fall. they will also likely be joined by junior safety Justinthornton, who did not play in the spring game
because of an injury.
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A: The Boston Celtics Bill
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the same players have led the
NBA in points and rebounds.
Los Angeles Lakers guard Kobe
Bryant has been the points
leader every year since 2005
while Orlando Magic center
Dwight Howard has held the
rebouding crown in the same
span.
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Rain cancels game against
Kansas Wesleyan Coyotes
For those of you out of the
country Wednesday afternoon,
heavy rain in Lawrence put the
kibosh on any chances Kansas
had of playing its game with
Kansas Wesleyan, scheduled
for 6 p.m. The game will not
be made up and no announce-
ment has been made about
making the game up with
another school. Kansas (25-19)
will wait until Friday to play
its next game, when it will
kick off its weekend series at
Oklahoma State (28-11) at 6:30
p.m. Kansas is 3-10 in weekend
series after playing at least
two midweek games, but the
Jayhawks are 10-4 in weekend
series after playing fewer than
two midweek games. Kansas
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was a 6-4 loss to No. 14 Wichita
State on Tuesday.
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returned.
Harper, now a senior, returned
from his preseason arm injury to
play in seven games. A junior col-
lege transfer, Harper started three
games and filled in as a nickel
back in the other four contests. At
5-foot-9 and 190 pounds, Harper
doesnt have the size or speed of
Talib, but is a sure tackler who is
quick to the ball in run defense.
Should Harris or Harper suf-
fer an injury, Kansas holds sev-
eral talented cornerback reserves.
Junior cornerback Anthony Webb
is the Jayhawks lone four-star
recruit and has played in 22 col-
lege games. Freshmen Anthony
Davis and Isiah Barfield should
battle for the second backup spot.
Barfield made four tackles in the
spring scrimmage.
From Webb, to Barfield, to
Anthony Davis, were just real
deep, Harris said. Everybody
somewhere has had a little bit of
experience, so those guys could
easily play with the ones.
The Jayhawk depth chart is also
brimming with talent at the safe-
ty position. Junior safety Darrell
Stuckey, one of Kansas most con-
sistent players last season, will
shift to strong safety to make room
for junior Justin Thornton at free
safety. Thornton emerged late last
season as a starter and made five
interceptions.
Though sophomore safeties
Olaitan Oguntodu and Phillip
Strozier both lined up on the white
team, usually meant for backups,
during the spring game, each could
see time in Kansas pass-defense
package. The Jayhawks often use
three safeties in third-and-long sit-
uations, and Oguntodu is the sort
of 220-pound bruiser who could
help the teams pass rush.
There are various packages,
Kansas coach Mark Mangino said.
So a lot of those kids in the white
are going to play a lot and have big
roles in the defense, and thats good
it means we have depth. We
need to have depth so we can play
well for four quarters.
Edited by Madeline Hyden
spring depth chart
Defensive backfeld
Cornerback
Chris Harris, 6-0, 180,
sophomore
Anthony Webb, 6-0, 185,
junior
Kendrick Harper, 5-9, 190,
senior
Isiah Barfeld, 6-0, 175,
redshirt freshman
Free safety
Justin Thornton, 6-1, 202,
junior
Phillip Strozier, 6-0, 196,
sophomore
Strong safety
Darrell Stuckey, 6-1, 205,
junior
Olaitan Oguntodu, 6-0,
220, sophomore

football (continued from 1b)
AssociAted Press Writer
BEIJING Chinas new plan
for press coverage of the Olympic
torchs ascent of Mount Everest
has touched off a new contro-
versy.
Health experts and media
groups said Wednesday the plan
will expose reporters to undue
health risks due to the altitude.
It also underscores Beijings
worries about reporting in Tibet
and adds another sour note to
what Beijing hoped would be a
grand feat taking the torch up
the worlds tallest peak. Like the
entire torch relay, the event has
become more contentious after
last months protests of Chinese
rule in Tibet, where Everest
stands.
Under the new schedule intro-
duced by Beijing Olympic offi-
cials Tuesday, reporters time in
Tibet would be halved, to about
10 days, most of it in transit. The
trip from Beijing, just above sea
level, to the Everest base camp at
16,800 feet would be compressed
to three days a third of the
adjusting time experts recom-
mend to ward off the some-
times fatal effects of sudden
exposure to low oxygen levels
at high altitude.
To take a week or two, its
acceptable, and to take three
days, its ridiculous, said Dr.
Robert Schoene, a mountaineer
and expert on altitude sickness
at University of California-San
Diego. If you take low-landers
who are healthy, almost every-
body, at least 80 to 90 percent,
would get acute mountain sick-
ness in three days.
The plan drew complaints from
most of the nine foreign media
organizations invited to Everest,
including The Associated Press.
The journalists expressed con-
cern about the health risks in
a letter to the Beijing Olympic
Organizing Committee. BOCOG
replied it was carefully studying
and considering the request for
more time to adjust and agreed to
leave Friday, 24 hours earlier than
proposed.
It was not clear if the addi-
tional day would make a differ-
ence. Organizers have said the
mountaineering team at Everest
base camp might set out as early
as Saturday, weather permitting.
That would put the group on
track to reach the summit May 1,
a holiday in China.
The rushed schedule under-
scores Beijings unease over Tibet
and fears that the presence of for-
eign reporters could incite more
protests.
Tibet and Tibetan communi-
ties across a large slice of western
China remain closed to foreign
reporters following the wid-
est, most sustained uprising by
Tibetans against Chinese rule in
nearly 50 years. Twice in the past
month, government-arranged
tours for foreign media have been
disrupted by protesting Buddhist
monks.
What is the Chinese govern-
ment hiding behind Tibets closed
doors? the Paris-based media
freedom group Reporters Without
Borders said Wednesday. The
group and the New York-based
Committee to Protect Journalists
cited the shortened schedule of
the Everest torch relay as a worry-
ing sign of lack of access to Tibet.
Officials have been vague
about when the ascent would be
made, saying it would likely be in
May. The reticence is partly due to
unpredictable Himalayan weather
at the 29,035-foot peak.
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NaSCaR driver a.J. allmendinger has struggled this season, including failing to qualify for the frst three races of the season. After a fve-race
hiatus, Allmendinger is set to return to the No. 83 this weekend at Talladega Superspeedway.
Allmendinger gears up for his return
Tough season builds drivers confidence for season debut
AssociAted Press
CHARLOTTE, N.C. AJ
Allmendinger had his heart bro-
ken twice in a 10-minute span
earlier this season.
First, Red Bull Racing told the
second-year driver they were tem-
porarily pulling him from his ride.
Then Brett Favre, his hero,
announced his retirement.
I swear I almost burst into tears
when they told me about Favre, he
remembered. I was like This just
aint my day.
Nor were the next six weeks.
Allmendinger was forced to
watch from the pit box as Mike
Skinner took over the No. 84
Toyota to help Red Bull correct the
struggling program. Allmendinger
had failed to qualify for the first
three races of the season, leav-
ing the team at the bottom of the
standings and unsure how to fix
it behind Allmendingers limited
NASCAR knowledge.
A former star in the now-defunct
Champ Car Series, Allmendinger
struggled through his rookie sea-
son last year. He made 17 of 36
races, finished 30th or lower in 13
of his starts and never got enough
seat time to get a proper feel for
stock cars.
New general manager Jay Frye
said he believed the best fix was
putting an experienced veteran
behind the wheel.
Mike was able to help fix it, and
it has AJ postured to come back in
a better situation than he was in
before, Frye said. The team has
made six races in a row, so it has
data, a playbook, so to speak.
And he did a terrific job of
coaching and mentoring and
showing AJ the ropes. AJ should
be better, too, because sometimes
you have to take a step back and
watch and understand to figure
out what you need to do going
forward.
Allmendingers scheduled to
make his season debut this week-
end at Talladega Superspeedway.
Im pumped up, bouncing
around like a little school girl, and
I think Ive been quite annoying
to the entire team, Allmendinger
said.
Absolutely, Id agree with that,
Frye said. But its in a good way.
Although Allmendinger strug-
gled with the emotions of being
benched, the experience helped
build his confidence and assured
him he wasnt as clueless about the
cars as he had feared.
Because Red Bull entered
NASCAR the same time as
Allmendinger, the team wasnt fully
prepared to provide the driver with
the learning curve he needed.
It became a maddening cycle
of futility as the car missed races
and neither Allmendinger nor Red
Bull knew how to help each other
fix it.
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covering the Olympic torchs ascent of Mount Everest expose reporters to undue health risks and showBeijings worries about reporting in tense
Tibet, health experts and media groups saidWednesday.
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5BR 3BA house at 1326 Raintree Place.
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913-302-7209.
7 BR, 4 BA, 2 kitchens, downtown, off-
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4 BR 2 BA, Sweet house, big backyard.
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4 BR, 1 BA, 1336 Mass. Newly remod-
eled, W/D, gas heat, $1520/month. Avail.
August 1, 1 yr lease. 760-840-0487.
4BR 2 1/2 BA. Double garage. W/D
hookup, D/W, large bedrooms, 2729 Harri-
son Pl. $1050/mo. Call 766-9012.
4BR 2BA at 613 Maine. W/D,
covered parking. $1200/mo.
Please Call 550-6414
4BR 3 1/2BA house for rent. Fenced back-
yard. W/D. Central heat and air. Very spa-
cious. Close to campus. $1400/mo.
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4BR 3BA recently remodeled downtown
location. C/A, W/D, D/W, wood foors.
Avail Aug 1. $1550/mo. Call 979-9120
4BR house at 924 Ala. Avail June 1. Lg.
living area, deck, 1 & 1/2 BA, W/D, D/W,
C/A, $1300. No pets or smoking. 749-
0166 or 691-7250.
4BR older home near campus (16th &
Tenn). $1600. With C/A, upgraded heat-
ing/cooling, wiring, plumbing; stove,
fridge, DW, W/D; large covered front
porch; off-street parking; no smoking/pets.
Avail 8/1/08 - 8/1/09. Please call Tom @
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pets, no smoking. $405/mo. 841-6868
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Close to Downtown/KU Campus. Call
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7BR 3BA 1005 Kentucky, 6BR 3BA 839
Miss St. will split each for 2 groups, fully
renovated homes, no pets.
785-423-6912.
7BR lg country home (5Ksq/ft) 5 mi west
of Lawrence. No smoking or pets. All ap-
pliances. $1950/mo + utils. Call
843-7892
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story home near KU. Stove, fridge, W/D,
upgraded elec/plumb/heat/cool; wood
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w/swing; off-street park; no smoking/pets.
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downtown. Close to GSP/Corbin. $450.
No utilities. No pets, Call 785-550-5012
Available August 1st. 2BR 1BA, W/D
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Pets allowed w/additional deposit & addi-
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$375 each + utilities. No pets, Call 785-
550-5012.
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Available immediately. We love pets.
Call for details. 816-729-7513
Canyon Court. 1,2,3 BRs and BAs. Lim-
ited $99 dep/BR. Secure your luxury liv-
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4 bedroom, 2 bath $840-850. Pool, large
closets, KU bus, pets OK. Please call
785-843-0011. www.holiday-apts.com
4 BR 2 BA large duplex, 3928 Overland
Dr. 2 car garage, all appliances, avail.
Aug. 1. $995/month. Call 785-766-9823.
Close to Allen Fieldhouse, 3 BR 2 BA,
1822 Maine. W/D, A/C, $1260/month.
Avail. Aug. 3. 760-840-0487
3-4BR 2BA house. Just south of campus.
1644 20th Terr. Two drive-ways. Must
see! W/D. $350/per BR 785-760-0144
3-6 BR nice apts & houses for Aug. 1.
Most close to KU, wd frs, free W/D use,
parking. $610-2250/mo. Call 841-3633.
2 HOUSES DOWNTOWN: 3 BR, 2 BA,
study loft, wd frs, $1175/mo,1047 Rhode
Island. Also 3 BR, 1 BA, carpeting,
$1050/mo., 117 E. 11th St. Both have
W/D, D/W, on bus route, available Au-
gust, shown by appt. only: 785-841-2040
2 BR Flat $700/mo and 3 BR 1 1/2 BA
Townhome $1000/mo Available at
Delaware St. Commons. 785-550-0163
2, 3 and 4 BR duplexes and houses avail.
for June & Aug. Call Jill 785-393-7368.
www.rentinglawrence.com.
2BR/1BA. $675. 1 BLOCK TO KU. W/D
Hookups. Hardwood Flrs. 1824
Arkansas. Avail 8/1. Call 218-3788 or
218-8254 or www.midwestestates.com.
2406 Alabama. 3 BR, 2 BA townhouse on
KU bus route. D/W, W/D, FP, gar., C/A.
Nice place w/large rooms. Cats consid-
ered. $900/mo. Call 312-9605
2BR 2BA townhome. W/D, freplace,
clean, well-kept, appliances, garage.
Available August 1.
Please call 785-760-2896.
2BR bsmt. apt. 2 blocks from stadium.
$600/mo ,W/D included, utilities paid.
Please call 785-331-9903
2BR, 1BA 1310 Kentucky. Close to KU
and Downtown. CA, DW, Parking. Avail-
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2BR/1BA. $650. W/D Hookups. Pets OK.
713 Conn. Avail 8/1. Call 218-8254 or 218-
3788 or www.midwestestates.com.
3 BD 2 BA condo close to campus. On
bus route, wood frs, updated painting and
dcor. W/D, microwave included. Off-
street parking, $865/mo. Landlord pays
water and garbage. Please call
979-2778.
3 BR, 2 BA w/ washer/dryer included and
fully-equipped kitchen. Only $269/person.
Please call 785-841-4935.
3 bedroom, 2 bath. $690 - 710. Pool, walk-
in closets, peaceful setting, pets allowed,
KU bus. Please call 785-843-0011.
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Mississippi &999, 785-841-1074. avail
Aug, cats ok, W/D, DW, high effciency
furnace, CA, car port, wood foors
3 BR 2 BA. Near downtown & KU.
916 Indiana. $870/mo. Remodeled. 785-
830-8008.
3 BR available now. Includes W/D.
Ask about our 2 person special.
Call Lindsey @ (785) 842-4455.
3 BR, 2 BA house for rent, was $1150,
now on sale! Remarkable price and
amenities. Call Caren at 842-0508. Avail.
Aug. 1st.
2 BR 1 BA apt in renovated house,
1328 Vermont, $740, call 785-841-1074,
avail Aug, cats ok, W/D, DW, high eff-
ciency furnace, off street parking, large liv-
ing room and dining room, small BRs.
1BR/1BA Studio. $395. Close to bus
route. Pets OK. 508 Wisconsin. Avail 5/1
& 8/1. Call 218-3788 or 218-8254 or www.-
midwestestates.com.
2 and 3 BRs, avail. now and in Aug. For
more info, visit www.lawrencepm.com or
call (785) 832-8728.
2 BR 1 BA apt in renovated house,
1321 Vermont, $720, call 785-841-1074,
avail Aug, dogs < 15 lbs & cats ok, W/D,
DW, CA, fenced yard, off street parking
2 BR 1 bath available. Pool, patio/bal-
cony, quiet setting $520-535. Pets OK,
KU bus. 785-843-0011.
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2 BR August lease available. Next to
campus. Jayhawk Apts. 1130 W 11th
$600/mo. No pets. 785-556-0713
3BR Townhome special, Lorimar Town-
homes. For August. $270/month/person.
($810/month) 785-841-7849
3BR 1BA hardwood foors, full basement,
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$800. Avail. Aug 1 Please Call 749-3193
3BR 2.5BA avail. Aug. 1 @ Williams
Pointe Townhomes $1050 cable & inter-
net paid, gym, rec room, no pets, call 312-
7942
3BR 2BA apartment. 5th & Colorado.
Close to campus, W/D. $750/mo. Patio,
Small pets ok. Call 785-832-2258.
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1 BR fully furnished avail. June 1 for
grad/intl student. W/D, DW, Direct tv, wire-
less internet, phone. Close to KU, down-
town. No pets. $430 includes util. 766-
2821.
1 BR, 1 BA, plus sun room/offce, 1411
Westbrooke, avail. Aug. 1st, close to KU,
D/W, W/D, C/A, freplace. 728 sq. ft., cov-
ered parking, pool, $600/mo. plus util. Call
785-841-4935.
1 BR 1 bath plus den/offce. Pool, quiet
setting, patio/balcony. $520-535. Pets
OK, KU bus. Please call 785-843-0011.
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1 BR avail. Aug. 1st, $400/mo. 2 BR
house, 433 Wis. avail. 6/1, W/D, C/A, no
pets, no smoking, $680/mo. Also, 3 BR
1320 Mass. avail. 8/1. $960/mo.
331-7597.
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parking, $650/mo. See www.defreeseliv-
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1-4 BRs, W/D, DW, pets possible.
$450-$1600. Owner-managed, downtown
and campus locations. 785-842-8473
1131 - 35 Ohio, 3 bedroom apartments,
1.5 bath, w/d, cental air, Close to KU. No
pets. $915.00. 749-6084. eresrental.com
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air. Garage. Close to KU. No pets.
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comfortable home in quiet area. 841-0445
or 727-8961, juolas@ku.edu
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a Job Fair April 23-25 from noon-6pm.
Looking for experienced servers, bussers
and dishwashers. Apply within at 1847 Vil-
lage West Pkwy.
Raintree Montessori School. 4601 Clinton
Parkway located on 14 acres with pools, a
pond, and a land tortoise named Sally has
an opening for two late afternoon assis-
tants to work with children ages 3-6. 7-9
hrs and child related course work and ex-
perience working with children required,
but Montessori certifcation is not. A
sense of humor however is. (M-F, $9.25-
/hr) Positions begin June 2. 843-6800.
Sitter needed for the summer Mon-Fri 8:-
45-12:45 in my home caring for 3 year old
girl. Please email beccacop@ku.edu or
call 979-2400. Ref & Background Check.
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Student Summer Help Wanted:
General Field Work growing Flowers,
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Research and Extension Center South
of Desoto. Must have own Transporta-
tion to site at 35230 W. 135 Street
Olathe Kansas 66061. $8/hr 40 hrs/wk.
May- 15/Aug-15. For Application Call Jill
913- 856-2335 Ext 101.
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sports 7b Thursday, april 24, 2008
mlb
Smoltz throws his 3,000th out
nfl
Dolphins sign Wolverines tackle
ASSOCIATED PRESS
MIAMI The spotlight will be
elsewhere Saturday when the NFL
draft begins, and thats fine with
the Miami Dolphins and Michigan
tackle Jake Long.
My understanding is St. Louis
is on the clock, said Longs agent,
Tom Condon.
The Dolphins opted to dispense
with any on-the-clock drama by
signing Long to a five-year con-
tract Tuesday with $30 million
guaranteed. Theyll select him with
the top pick in the draft Saturday.
Jake Long was on the top of
our board for a long time, gen-
eral manager Jeff Ireland said. We
thought it was a very good fit with
the Miami Dolphins.
Both sides were pleased the deal
allows them to avoid a possible
holdout.
Im real glad we got the con-
tract done so I dont have to worry
about any of that, Long said.
Its really important for us to
know Jake is going to be on the
field for us on time when training
camp begins in July, coach Tony
Sparano said. That was critical.
Longs total contract package
is for $57.75 million, said a per-
son familiar with the negotiations
who didnt want to be identified
because the Dolphins declined to
reveal terms. Last years top pick,
JaMarcus Russell, signed for $61
million with the Oakland Raiders
but missed all of training camp
before reaching a deal.
Long becomes the highest-
paid lineman in the NFL and a
6-foot-7, 315-pound cornerstone
in a rebuilding project for the new
Miami regime led by Bill Parcells.
Last season the Dolphins went 1-
15, and the offensive line has been
a chronic problem in recent years.
They have many other needs as
well, and were interested in trad-
ing the top pick for multiple lower
choices. When no suitors surfaced,
Miami began negotiations last
week with Condon.
The Dolphins said they didnt
conduct contract talks with any
other potential pick.
It was a very straightforward
negotiation, Condon said. They
didnt leverage us with other play-
ers, and we didnt tell them we
wanted to be on some different
team or any of those kinds of
things.
Reaching a contract agreement
before the draft isnt unprecedent-
ed. The Houston Texans signed
defensive end Mario Williams as
their No. 1 pick on the eve of the
2006 draft.
In the past 40 years, only two
other offensive linemen have been
taken with the No. 1 choice
Ohio State tackle Orlando Pace by
the Rams in 1997, and Southern
Cal tackle Ron Yary by the Vikings
in 1968.
Pace made the Pro Bowl seven
consecutive times, and Yary made
the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
The Dolphins would be thrilled
with comparable achievements by
Long.
Jake has all the qualities were
looking for in our linemen, said
Sparano, who coached the offen-
sive line with the Dallas Cowboys.
Hes very tough, smart and dis-
ciplined. Those are the people we
want to surround ourselves with
here.
Long started 40 games at
Michigan and was Big Ten offen-
sive lineman of the year in 2006
and 2007. He finished second to
LSU defensive tackle Glenn Dorsey
in balloting last season for the
Lombardi and Outland trophies.
Coach Parcells and I have had
several conversations during the
last few weeks, said Lloyd Carr,
who coached Long at Michigan.
I know this: Jake Long is his type
of player.
The Dolphins decided to use
the top pick on offense rather than
take Dorsey, Virginia defensive
end Chris Long or Ohio State line-
backer Vernon Gholston. It turns
out Irelands comment last week
about drafting a pillar of your
defense was a slip of the tongue
or a smoke screen.
Thats for me to know, a smil-
ing Ireland said, and you to guess
about.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
University of Michigan ofensive lineman Jake Long goes up against Eastern Michigan
defensive lineman Eric Young on Oct. 6. If Miami makes Long the top selection in the 2008 draft,
he will be the frst ofensive lineman to be the No. 1 pick since 1997.
Five-year contract guarantees Jake Long $30 million
ASSOCIATED PRESS
John Smoltz, sitting on 2,999
strikeouts, had two strikes on
Felipe Lopez. With the home
crowd cheering, Smoltz went with
the pitch he still credits for help-
ing win the 96 NL Cy Young
Award: the split-finger fastball.
Lopez whiffed, and Smoltz
became the 16th pitcher in major
league history to reach the 3,000-
strikeout plateau.
Smoltz got two standing ova-
tions and a video tribute. About
the only thing he didnt get was
a victory.
The 40-year-old was out-
pitched by rookie John Lannan
in the Washington Nationals 6-0
win over the Atlanta Braves on
Tuesday night.
The crowd at Turner Field gave
Smoltz two ovations, and the huge
Mitsubishi TV screen flashed
many of his career highlights.
Today, for one single
moment, Smoltz said, it was
an incredible feeling.
In other NL games
Tuesday, it was: Milwaukee 9,
St. Louis 8; Chicago 8, New
York 1; Pittsburgh 3, Florida
2; Cincinnati 8, Los Angeles
1; Houston 11, San Diego 7;
Philadelphia 8, Colorado 6; and
Arizona 5, San Francisco 4.
Lopez will now forever be
a footnote in baseball history,
the answer to a trivia question.
Against the split-finger pitch
Smoltz first debuted in the 1992
NLCS, Lopez felt he had little
chance.
That guy is good, Lopez
said. Hes freaking nasty. Hes
tough. He never follows a pat-
tern. He changes it up.
Smoltz got a congratulatory
text message from his friend
Greg Maddux, already a mem-
ber of the exclusive club.
I already got a text (mes-
sage) from Maddux, Smoltz
said, He said Ive lost one hair
for every strikeout Ive made.
Smoltzs two teenage daugh-
ters watched the game from the
front row behind the Braves
dugout. His parents were in
Arizona but left a message on his
cell phone.
Nationals team president Stan
Kasten, who used to work in the
same capacity for Atlanta, walked
through the Braves clubhouse to
shake the pitchers hand.
Among the 15 pitchers ahead
of him on the 3,000 strikeout list,
Smoltz reached the mark faster
than all but Randy Johnson,
Pedro Martinez, Nolan Ryan, Curt
Schilling and Roger Clemens.
Maddux is the only other active
pitcher with more strikeouts
(3,287).
Lannan, a rookie, allowed five
hits in seven innings and the
Nationals snapped a three-game
losing streak. Washington had lost
six of seven and is just 3-15 since
winning its first three games of
the season.
A win like that, with John
Smoltz chasing 3,000 strikeouts,
is worth two or three losses,
Nationals manager Manny Acta
said. It was nice regardless of the
score.
The Braves five-game winning
streak ended.
Smoltz (3-1) allowed a run and
five hits in seven innings, and
didnt walk a batter. Still, his ERA
rose 22 points to 0.78. He got no
run support from an offense that
came into the game leading the
NL with a .286 average.
Willie Harris RBI double in
the second gave the Nationals a
1-0 lead. Washington added five
runs in the ninth off reliever Jorge
Campillo, who made a throwing
error in the inning. Four of the
runs were unearned.
Smoltz was quick to acknowl-
edge Lannans performance in the
face of history.
Ive got to tip my hat to
Lannan, Smoltz said. He out-
pitched me.
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MINNEAPOLIS All-Pro
defensive end Jared Allen was trad-
ed from Kansas City to Minnesota
in a blockbuster deal, making the
Chiefs one of the major players in
this weekends NFL draft and the
Vikings a serious contender in the
NFC.
Kansas City gets Minnesotas first-
round pick, No. 17 overall, and both
of the Vikings
t h i r d - r ou nd
s e l e c t i o n s .
The teams also
swapped sixth-
rounders in the
deal announced
Wednesday.
Allen, who
had an NFL-best
15 and one-half
sacks last season
despite being
suspended the first two games,
agreed to terms on a six-year deal
that includes $31 million in guar-
anteed money. It could be worth
more than $74 million if he reaches
certain incentives, according to a
person familiar with the deal. The
contract will make Allen the highest
paid defensive player in the league.
The source spoke on condition of
anonymity because of the sensitivity
of the situation.
The Kansas City Star was the first
to report the trade.
Coming off an 8-8 season, the
Vikings are paying a hefty price in
a move they believe will vault them
into contention in the wide-open
NFC.
A pass-rushing defensive end
became the teams top priority this
season after Kenechi Udeze was
diagnosed with leukemia, and with
fellow former first-rounder Erasmus
James coming off a third major knee
surgery. The Vikings werent sure
a gifted pass
rusher such
as Floridas
D e r r i c k
Harvey would
be around at
pick No. 17, so
they went after
a player who
d o mi n a t e d
them last sea-
son.
The Vikings
played at
Arrowhead Stadium in Week 3 of
2007, Allens first game after serving
a two-game suspension for mul-
tiple DUI convictions. Allen had
two sacks, eight tackles, two bat-
ted passes and a forced fumble in
Kansas Citys 13-10 victory.
The relentless rusher fills perhaps
the lone weakness on a proud vet-
eran defense. Minnesota ranked No.
1 against the run last year, but last
against the pass primarily because
opposing offenses abandoned the
run and had all day to throw against
a weak pass rush.
Ben Leber, Ray Edwards and
Udeze tied for the team lead with
five sacks apiece, allowing offensive
lines to double-team Pro Bowlers
Kevin Williams and Pat Williams
on nearly every play.
Just 26, the 6-foot-6, 270-pound
Allen was a supplemental fourth-
round pick by the Chiefs out of
Idaho State in 2004. He quickly
established himself as a topflight
pass-rusher, but also has a tendency
to overpursue and sometimes gets
out of position on running plays.
Allen was recognized as the
premier defensive player in NCAA
Division I-AA as a senior, but fell to
the fourth round because of charac-
ter concerns. Allen says he has quit
drinking, and another DUI arrest
could bring with it a yearlong sus-
pension from the NFL.
The Chiefs designated Allen their
franchise player, but Allen made it
clear he wanted no part of the teams
massive rebuilding plan. He told
the team he wanted to play for a
contender and was not interested in
signing a long-term deal with a team
that is embarking on a youth move-
ment under coach Herm Edwards
following a 4-12 season.
The bounty of picks obtained in
the trade, and the cap space created
by Allens departure, could help expe-
dite that process in Kansas City.
The Chiefs now have their own
fifth overall selection to go with
Minnesotas No. 17, six of the first
82 picks and 13 altogether in this
weekends draft.
In making the splashy move to
cap a busy offseason in free agency,
the Vikings are telling their fans that
their time is now.
They shelled out more than
$30 million in guaranteed money
to get receiver Bernard Berrian,
safety Madieu Williams and full-
back Thomas Tapeh in free agency,
then exceeded that number to make
Allen the highest paid player in
franchise history.
Minnesota has made the playoffs
just one time in the last seven sea-
sons, a stretch of futility that hasnt
helped owner Zygi Wilf s efforts
to secure public money for a new
stadium.
With Green Bays Brett Favre
retired, the Chicago Bears losing
more players than they gained fol-
lowing a 7-9 season and the typi-
cal dysfunction surrounding the
Detroit Lions, the NFC North is
there for the taking.
By BARRy WILNER
AssociAted Press
NEW YORK Matt Walsh will
get his day with the commissioner.
What he has to offer is anyones
guess.
The former Patriots assistant will
meet with NFL commissioner Roger
Goodell on May 13 about New
Englands videotaping of opposing
teams. It took a couple of months,
but the league reached an agree-
ment with Walsh on Wednesday.
During Super Bowl week, and
nearly five months after the Patriots
were sanctioned for illegal taping
of the New York Jets in the season
opener a $500,000 fine for coach
Bill Belichick, a $250,000 fine for
the organization, and the loss of a
first-round draft pick on Saturday
there were reports of possible
other videotaping by the Patriots.
Those reports centered on Walsh,
who shot vid-
eos for the
Patriots dur-
ing his six-year
stint with the
organization.
Since the
Super Bowl,
Goodells staff
has sought a
meeting with
Walsh.
Today, Mr.
Walsh and the
National Football League reached
an agreement under which the NFL
will provide legal indemnification
and a release of claims against Mr.
Walsh relating to his employment
by the Patriots and the Patriots vid-
eotaping operations, said Walshs
lawyer, Michael Levy of McKee
Nelson LLP.
I am pleased
that we now
have an agree-
ment that pro-
vides Mr. Walsh
with appropri-
ate legal pro-
tections. Mr.
Walsh is look-
ing forward to
providing the
NFL with the
materials he
has and telling the NFL what he
knows.
So what might Walsh have and
what does he know? The Patriots
say he has nothing.
The New England Patriots are
pleased to learn that Matt Walsh
is finally willing to come forward
to meet with the NFL, the team
said in a statement. We are eagerly
anticipating his honest disclosures
to commissioner Goodell next
month and the return of all the
materials he took during his time of
employment.
We fully expect this meeting to
conclude the leagues investigation
into a damaging and false allegation
that was originally levied against the
team on the day before this years
Super Bowl.
The allegation was that New
England videotaped the St. Louis
Rams walkthrough on the day
before the 2002 Super Bowl.
Although Belichick admitted to
Goodell during the Spygate inves-
tigation that his team often taped
opposing coaches signals during
games, he adamantly has denied
anything about that Super Bowl.
Ive never seen a tape of anoth-
er teams practice. Ever! Belichick
said at last months NFL owners
meetings. Certainly not that one.
I think theyve addressed every-
thing they possibly can address. Ive
addressed so many questions so
many times from so many people
I dont know what else the league
could ask.
In their statement Wednesday,
the Patriots reiterated that stand:
At all times, we cooperated
fully with the leagues investiga-
tion and stand by our initial public
statement from Saturday, Feb. 2,
2008: The suggestion that the New
England Patriots recorded the St.
Louis Rams walkthrough on the
day before Super Bowl XXXVI in
2002 is absolutely false.
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Former Patriots assistant, commissioner to meet about spying
Mr. Walsh is looking forward
to providing the NFL with the
materials he has and telling the
NFL what he knows.
MichAel levy
Matt Walshs lawyer
Allen, who had an NFL-best 15
and one-half sacks last season
despite being suspended the frst
two games, agreed to terms on
a six-year deal that includes $31
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