Also from January 2
Audio clips
- Bill Self full press conference
- Cole Aldrich says he was surprised there were so many KU fans at the game
- Cole Aldrich says KU's inside game played a major role in the blowout win
- Sherron Collins says the Temple contest was a statement win for the Jayhawks
- Temple coach Fran Dunphy full press conference
Births
Couples
- Engagement: Meyer
- Engagement: Kesinger and Jones
- Wedding: Mason
Obituaries
On the street
Photos
Photo galleries
Podcasts
Polls
In which phase of the game was KU better against Temple?
Poll results
| Response | Percent | |
|---|---|---|
| Defense | 73% | |
| Offense | 19% | |
| Undecided | 6% | |
| Total | 1858 | |
Who was KU's first-half MVP against Temple?
Poll results
| Response | Percent | |
|---|---|---|
| Sherron Collins | 71% | |
| Marcus Morris | 12% | |
| Xavier Henry | 9% | |
| Cole Aldrich | 6% | |
| Other | 0% | |
| Total | 32 | |
How do you feel heading into today's game against Temple?
Poll results
| Response | Percent | |
|---|---|---|
| Somewhat confident | 41% | |
| Somewhat scared | 22% | |
| Neither scared nor confident | 16% | |
| Extremely confident | 10% | |
| Extremely scared | 9% | |
| Total | 163 | |
Videos
All stories
- FINAL: KU overwhelms Temple, 84-52
- 03:08 p.m., January 2, 2010 Updated 07:32 p.m.
- The Jayhawks held the Owls to 25-percent shooting in the runaway victory.
- Accidents reported around Lawrence as snow falls, Turnpike reopens
- Maintenance crews started working Saturday in anticipation of 1”-3” accumulation
- 02:08 p.m., January 2, 2010 Updated 12:29 a.m. in print edition on A1
- City street maintenance crews started work Saturday in anticipation of snow showers that could last until late Sunday.
- Airport pat-downs often ineffective security stop
- January 2, 2010 in print edition on A6
- With all the screening technology at U.S. airports, the last line of defense is still the human hand: the pat-down search.
- Bowden deserved better from FSU
- January 2, 2010 in print edition on B2
- Grandpa, always classy and kind, deserved to leave us with more dignity. He requested just a touch of respect at the end. Pleaded for it, in his own humble way. The family fortune? He built that, from nothing. The family name? He not only made it matter but made it his life’s work to represent it with uncommon grace.
- Wizards teammates accused
- Reports: Arenas, Crittenton pulled guns
- January 2, 2010 in print edition on B2
- The investigation of Gilbert Arenas and the guns he brought to the Verizon Center took a much more serious turn Friday amid a report that the Washington Wizards point guard and teammate Javaris Crittenton allegedly drew on each other during a locker-room argument over a gambling debt.
- People in the news
- January 2, 2010 in print edition on C5
- People in the news for January 2, 2010.
- Van Helsing returns in ‘Demons’
- January 2, 2010 in print edition on C5
- The world of vampires just got a whole lot uglier. And it’s about time.
- 100 years ago: Eudora community declared ‘dry’
- January 2, 2010 in print edition on A7
- From the Lawrence Daily World for Jan. 2, 1910: “Apparently no one drinks in Eudora where the German citizens thereabouts are known as total abstainers.
- 2010 could be new chapter for nation
- January 2, 2010 in print edition on A7
- A turn of the calendar page and the ringing in of a new year is usually meaningless to me; my least favorite holiday.
- New Year’s baby surprises family with early arrival
- Parents haven’t yet named 1st child born in city in 2010
- 12:00 a.m., January 2, 2010 Updated 07:38 a.m. in print edition on A3
- The first baby born in Lawrence in 2010 wasn’t supposed to be the “baby of the year.”
- Humane Society workers now armed
- Employees carry guns for protection on the job
- January 2, 2010 in print edition on A3
- Workers at the Lawrence Humane Society have started carrying concealed guns to work, and they say it’s for a very good reason.
- Four Tennessee basketball players suspended ‘indefinitely’ after drug, gun charges
- High profile players involved
- January 2, 2010
- Tennessee coach Bruce Pearl indefinitely suspended four Tennessee basketball players, including starting senior forward Tyler Smith, who were charged with gun possession and other counts after a Friday traffic stop.
- School budget is No. 1 concern
- January 2, 2010 in print edition on A1
- At the beginning of 2009, the Lawrence school district was about to start a search for a new superintendent.
- KU coach Self: Temple toughest test yet
- 12:00 a.m., January 2, 2010 Updated 08:46 a.m. in print edition on B1
- The Kansas-Temple game was viewed as a homecoming for the Morris twins, nothing more, nothing less, when the Jayhawks’ 2009-10 basketball schedule was released last June 3.
- Top 5 social media screwups of 2009
- January 2, 2010 in print edition on C1
- Today we count down the five worst (and most frequently committed) online faux pas that we witnessed in 2009.
- Winter wipeout
- The great blizzard of ‘09 snuffs out special Christmastime services
- January 2, 2010 in print edition on C1
- The phone calls had been coming in as fast and furious as the snow.
- Lawrence man arrested after firing gun near residence
- January 2, 2010
- A 20-year-old Lawrence man was arrested early Friday morning after firing a gun near a Lawrence residence.
- Russia sets minimum price for vodka
- January 2, 2010 in print edition on C10
- The price of the cheapest vodka on the Russian market more than doubled Friday as the government set a minimum price in an effort to fight rampant alcoholism.
- Pirate cash suspected cause of property boom
- January 2, 2010 in print edition on C10
- Property prices in Nairobi are soaring, and Somali pirates are getting the blame.
- Flight diverted because of suspicious ornament
- January 2, 2010 in print edition on A6
- An Orlando, Fla.-bound Northwest Airlines flight from Detroit was diverted to Nashville, Tenn., on Friday morning after a suspicious item was discovered aboard the plane. The item: a Christmas ornament.
- Iraqis outraged at Blackwater decision
- January 2, 2010 in print edition on A6
- Iraqis seeking justice for 17 people shot dead at a Baghdad intersection responded with bitterness and outrage Friday at a U.S. judge’s decision to throw out a case against a Blackwater security team accused in the killings.
- Procter & Gamble open to outside ideas, but not kitty Swiffers
- January 2, 2010 in print edition on A2
- Swiffer kitties? Just attach little dusting pads to your felines’ paws, so they can help keep your floors clean while making their rounds.
- Suicide bombing kills 88 in anti-Taliban area of Pakistan
- January 2, 2010 in print edition on A2
- A suicide bomber detonated his explosives-packed vehicle in a crowd of people watching a volleyball tournament in northwest Pakistan, killing 88 people in the deadliest attack in the country in more than two months.
- Back and forth: Today’s date a palindrome
- January 2, 2010 in print edition on A2
- Some people are into cars. Some people dig the ocean. Aziz Inan, a professor of electrical engineering at the University of Portland in Oregon, loves numbers.
- Mudslide kills at least 19 people at resort
- January 2, 2010 in print edition on A2
- A rain-soaked slab of hillside collapsed on three houses and an upscale waterfront lodge after new year celebrations on an island resort in the city of Angra dos Reis, near Rio de Janeiro, killing at least 19 people, authorities said.
- House fire kills 5, including 3 children
- January 2, 2010 in print edition on A2
- Authorities say five people, including three children, were killed in a New Year’s Day house fire in northern Missouri.
- Mine deaths hit record low of 34 in 2009
- January 2, 2010 in print edition on A2
- The number of miners killed on the job in the United States fell for a second straight year to 34, the fewest since officials began keeping records nearly a century ago.
- Opposition leader defiant after threats
- January 2, 2010 in print edition on A2
- Iran’s opposition leader on Friday pledged to remain defiant in the face of new threats — including calls by hard-liners for his execution — and said he would sacrifice his life in defense of the people’s right to protest peacefully against the government.
- Police shoot man attacking cartoonist
- January 2, 2010 in print edition on A2
- A Somali man wielding an ax and a knife was shot by police as he attempted to kill an artist who drew a cartoon depicting the Prophet Muhammad that sparked outrage in the Muslim world, Denmark’s head of intelligence said today.
- Seminoles’ Bowden goes out a winner
- January 2, 2010 in print edition on B6
- There was no way Warrick Dunn would miss this.
- KU women’s hoops hosts holiday clinic
- January 2, 2010 in print edition on B4
- More than 300 children and parents attended the Kansas University women’s basketball Holiday Hoops Clinic on Friday afternoon.
- Red Raiders sluggish in victory
- January 2, 2010 in print edition on B3
- Pat Knight finally got Texas Tech to buckle down on defense, just in time to avoid a costly loss.
- Club news
- January 2, 2010 in print edition on C3
- Club news for January 2, 2010.
- Scouting news
- January 2, 2010 in print edition on C3
- Scouting news for January 2, 2010.
- Douglas County among disaster areas
- January 2, 2010 in print edition on B8
- Lt. Gov. Troy Findley on Thursday signed a state disaster declaration for much of Kansas, including Douglas County, because of the record holiday snowstorm.
- Local officers stay busy with New Year’s arrests
- January 2, 2010 in print edition on A4
- Even though area law enforcement agencies did not use special patrols on New Year’s Eve, officers made an above-average number of arrests.
- Democrats play to GOP fears about Brownback
- January 2, 2010 in print edition on A4
- Democrats in Kansas have pinned their hopes for winning the governor’s race this year on exploiting discomfort among moderate Republicans about the conservative politics of U.S. Sen. Sam Brownback, the presumed GOP nominee.
- New Year’s Day college football bowl roundup
- Seminoles’ Bowden goes out a winner
- January 2, 2010
- Bobby Bowden’s final victory and Tim Tebow’s record-breaking day highlight the 2010 New Year’s Day bowl games.
- Legislative delegation to meet with groups
- January 2, 2010 in print edition on A5
- Area organizations are invited to present their concerns at a hearing before the Douglas County legislative delegation.
- Laid-off worker wins $1M lottery prize
- January 2, 2010 in print edition on A5
- A laid-off aircraft manufacturing employee has won a $1 million lottery prize.
- College athletics financing needs ‘serious, sensible reform’
- January 2, 2010 in print edition on A3
- A headline last month read, “College football needs fiscal reform,” and the story reported the concerns of William E. Kirwan, chancellor of the university system of Maryland, and R. Gerald Turner, president of Southern Methodist University.
- Gary Bedore’s KU Basketball Notebook
- January 2, 2010 in print edition on B4
- Kansas University’s fabled treadmill has been situated just off the northwest corner of the Allen Fieldhouse court for two-a-day practices this week.
- Lion’s leap
- LHS grad Green enjoying breakout freshman season
- January 2, 2010 in print edition on B1
- Former Lawrence High standout Dorian Green has spent most of his life around basketball. The days in the driveway, high school stardom and an AAU education all led him to Colorado State University, where he currently starts for the 9-5 Rams as a true freshman.
- Horoscope for January 2, 2010
- January 2, 2010 in print edition on C5
- This year, you break past imposed restrictions with the help of a key partner and/or associate. No matter how you look at a situation, it can be transformed. If you are single, you desire the closeness of a relationship more than ever. If you are attached, your relationship will benefit from weekends away and dinners together where sharing happens with ease. Leo understands you, nearly better than you do!
- 25 years ago: Frost accompanies snowfall
- January 2, 2010 in print edition on A7
- Jack Frost painted Lawrence with a heavy hand, leaving a thick covering of hoarfrost to go with the 7-inch snowfall of Jan. 1.
- Napolitano displays quiet competence
- January 2, 2010 in print edition on A7
- Most Americans got their first prolonged look at Janet Napolitano, the secretary of homeland security, last weekend.
- Stranded
- January 2, 2010 in print edition on A7
- Americans have had some serious transportation problems of late, but at least they weren’t buried in a tunnel beneath the English Channel.
- Dec. 1st month without U.S. deaths in Iraq; forces renamed
- January 2, 2010 in print edition on A1
- December was the first month since the Iraq war began in which there were no American deaths, a milestone hailed by military officials Friday as they inaugurated a new name for the U.S. force at the start of the year that will see the war wind down in earnest.
- Religious leaders suggest what you should resolve to change in 2010
- January 2, 2010 in print edition on C4
- Going into a new year, it’s easy to make resolutions that are too tough on yourself — and hardly realistic.
- Faith Forum: What kind of New Year’s resolutions do faith leaders make?
- January 2, 2010 in print edition on C1
- Two local religious leaders give their opinions on New Year’s resolutions.
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