Sports Desk
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BASEBALL
UMPIRES ANGRY OVER KLU KLUX KLAN QUESTIONS
Umpires are livid that Major League Baseball has sent investigators to their hometowns, asking neighbors a series of questions that include whether the ump belongs to the Ku Klux Klan.
“The questions that we found out are being asked are about beating wives, marijuana use and extravagant parties,” World Umpires Association president John Hirschbeck said in a telephone interview yesterday. “And then finally with this whole thing about the Ku Klux Klan.
“You get someone from security, shows his credentials and starts asking these kind of questions, and right away what’s the neighbor going to think other than the umpire is in trouble, he’s done something wrong and he’s going to lose his job.”
COLLEGE BASKETBALL
KSU UPSETS NO. 2 KANSAS
Michael Beasley scored 25 points and Bill Walker had 19 and no. 22 Kansas State ended a 24-year, home-court losing streak against arch-rival Kansas with an 84–75 victory last night against the previously unbeaten No. 2 Jayhawks. Always double- and sometimes triple-teamed when touched the ball inside, Beasley was held to only eight points in the first half but scored six in a row in the first few minutes after intermission and Kansas never caught up.
