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... Ventura County Star: College Get Local News Sports Entertainment Lifestyle Business Opinion - Announcements -> Obits SPORTS VCPreps.com Youth College Golf MLB NBA NFL NHL Tennis Outdoors Other Sports Columnists PRINT THIS STORY | E-MAIL THIS STORY Thomas more than proving his pointBy Blair Kerkhoff, Knight Ridder NewspapersMarch 30, 2006If 310-pound Glen "Big Baby" Davis is the smiling face of LSU hoops, Tyrus Thomas is the scowl.

Davis often waggles his tongue and sometimes looks up and speaks to the heavens during the action.

Thomas swats a shot, then snarls and barks at his opponent.

After dominating Duke and Josh McRoberts, Thomas spoke of not just outplaying his man but "taking an opponent's soul." Proving is a big thing with Thomas, who bristled when he was asked during the regional about his unheralded start to the season.

"You said I was on nobody's radar," said Thomas, a freshman forward.

"That's other people's fault.

I knew what I could do.

Coaches knew what I could do." And now we all know what he can do.

Thomas, the regional's most outstanding player, is headed for the Final Four.

From under the radar to off the charts, Thomas has come that far so soon, all the way to a meeting with UCLA on Saturday in Indianapolis.

It's not the 12.6 points or the 61 percent shooting grabbing attention as much as the 9.3 rebounds and 3.1 blocked shots.

Those numbers are a...

...As part of this, Chris had decided to run the marathon.

Chris explains: “We were encouraged to set ourselves goals as part of the programme.

“But I don’t think anyone envisaged anything quite so challenging as the marathon, after all the goals were supposed to be attainable.

“However, I have always watched the London Marathon and thought how brilliant it must be to take part and I began to believe that I might actually be able to do it, so I set it as one of my goals.” Chris will be wearing a green Macmillan t-shirt on the day of the run to show her support.

She must raise £1,700 in sponsorship.

“I’d missed the entry deadline for the marathon ballot so the only way for me to run was to apply to one of the charities that have guaranteed places.

“Macmillan Cancer Relief is a charity I am very familiar with.

I have worked at Weston Park hospital for almost 20 years and know just how much patients and their families value the services provided by Macmillan, so it is a charity that I feel comfortable asking people to support.

“Early in December I got a phone from Macmillan offering me one of their places.

It was really exciting, but it also involved a commitment to raise at least £1700.00 so training and fundraising began in earnest.” With the help of a wonderful group of friends, Chris has already raised £1,053 and is hoping to raise more through a series of fundraising events.

On Saturday April 1 the...

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30, 2006 email this print this reprint or license this Arm trouble Rays' starters shrug off spring struggles as season approaches ROGER MOONEY Herald Staff Writer SARASOTA - Maybe they are in denial.

Or maybe they really do know what they're doing, and getting smacked around by opposing hitters in the final week of spring training is not as bad as it looks to the uneducated eye.

This much is true: Seth McClung became the third Tampa Bay starter in as many games to get hit hard and the third starter in as many games to say it wasn't as bad as it looked.

The right-hander allowed seven runs on eight hits Wednes...