Ticket talk

Ticket sales are going extremely well for KU’s Nov. 3 game against Nebraska at Memorial Stadium, as well as the Nov. 24 game with Missouri at Arrowhead Stadium.

The Nebraska game was announced as a sellout Tuesday. The Missouri game, which was moved to Kansas City, Mo., in the offseason, has just 1,500 tickets left for a stadium that seats 79,451.

It appears, however, that plenty of tickets remain for Saturday’s game against Baylor. Kansas has offered a deal in which two adult and two youth tickets can be purchased for $99 for Saturday’s game, which is the only time Kansas is at home in the month of October.

KU received a bad break when the Baylor game was scheduled the same weekend that many students will be out of town because of fall break.

Replays a go

Sunflower Broadband has reached an agreement with Fox Sports to replay the remaining KU home football games this season on Channel 6.

Home games against Baylor (Saturday), Nebraska (Nov. 3) and Iowa State (Nov. 17) will be shown tape-delayed the following Sunday at 11 a.m. and 5 p.m.

Change on the way?

The struggles of KU freshman Raimond Pendleton returning punts last week may lead to a change soon.

Pendleton muffed two punts (though KU recovered both) and appeared to struggle judging the ball as it was carried by the wind during KU’s 30-24 victory over Kansas State on Saturday in Manhattan.

The Jayhawks didn’t hold their first big practice of the week until after coach Mark Mangino spoke with the media Tuesday. However, no immediate change at the position was made.

“As I stand here, no, I have not,” Mangino said of a switch, “but that could change.”

Doing better

Kendrick Harper’s right arm has been getting an unusual amount of attention, mainly because the Jayhawks have stayed relatively injury-free otherwise.

Harper talked to reporters on Tuesday with no hard cast on his arm, which was injured Aug. 3 when he landed on it funny after defending teammate Marcus Henry in practice.

“I was going up for the ball, and I just landed wrong,” Harper said.

Harper had surgery a few days later, which caused him to miss all of August and KU’s first four games in September. He played a couple of plays against Kansas State and recorded a key interception.

Though he wasn’t wearing a cast Tuesday, Harper said he probably would have to wear one for Saturday’s game against Baylor.

Riggins coming

Former Jayhawk great John Riggins will be in Lawrence this weekend to watch as his name is added to the Memorial Stadium Ring of Honor.

Riggins, a KU fullback from 1968-70, lives in New York and works in television and radio in the Washington area.

“He’s one of the former great players here, a great NFL player,” said Mangino, who never has met Riggins. “I think it’s great that he’s going to be in the Ring of Honor. I think that’s a well-deserved honor for him, and we’re looking forward to seeing him this weekend.”

Players of the week

It was quite a homecoming for KU left guard Adrian Mayes.

Mayes, a Manhattan native, performed well enough to be named offensive player of the week for the Kansas State game. Defensive tackle James McClinton earned the honor on defense, and kicker Scott Webb was cited on special teams.

KU receives commitment

The Jayhawks received a non-binding oral commitment Tuesday from John Williams, a 6-foot-4, 335-pound offensive lineman out of Tulsa, Okla., according to Rivals.com.

Williams stood out at KU’s Super Jayhawk Camp over the summer and had offers from Kansas, Arkansas, Northwestern, Colorado State and Tulsa.

Kansas now has nine known commitments for the 2008 signing class, including two offensive lineman.