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KU-KSU rivalry ‘intense, exciting’ — Ellis
By Gary Bedore
January 30, 2015
Wichita native Perry Ellis has followed the Kansas-Kansas State basketball rivalry — better known as the Sunflower Showdown — for a very long time.
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LHS girls hold off Wichita Northwest
By Bobby Nightengale, January 31, 2015
Firebirds fall in semis
By Bobby Nightengale, January 31, 2015
Seabury boys win in 2 OTs
Staff Reports, January 31, 2015
Tonganoxie splits with Bishop Ward
Staff Reports, January 31, 2015
LHS girls win bowling meet
Staff Reports, January 31, 2015
Kansas track wins 14 events
Staff Reports, January 31, 2015
How former Jayhawks fared in NBA games of Jan. 30, 2015
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Big recruiting weekend on tap for KU football
By Matt Tait
January 30, 2015
The final weekend before signing day is always a big deal, but this weekend looks to have even more importance for the Kansas University football program, which still is in the process of trying to fill up first-year head coach David Beaty’s first recruiting class. By Matt Tait
Baldwin girls reach finals
J-W Staff Reports
January 29, 2015
The Baldwin High girls basketball team steamrolled into the finals of the Wellsville Top Gun Classic with a 53-23 victory against Spring Hill on Thursday.
Firebirds get big lift from Piper
By Bobby Nightengale
January 29, 2015
Free State High sophomore Madison Piper didn’t play in the second half against Topeka West on Thursday afternoon. That was the only way any defense was going to stop her.
Lions tumble to Heights despite second-half surge
By Bobby Nightengale
January 29, 2015
It was a tale of two halves for Lawrence High’s girls basketball team on Thursday in the first round of the Firebird Winter Classic.
Column: Jayhawks banking on Mason
By Tom Keegan
January 29, 2015
Watching Frank Mason play basketball prompts a question to which no answer easily comes to mind: Is there a sport he could not excel at had he grown up playing it?
KU’s Hoag third in heptathlon
J-W Staff Reports
January 29, 2015
Kansas University senior Austin Hoag was in third place after the first day of the men’s heptathlon in the Jayhawk Classic on Thursday at Anschutz Pavilion.
Self will ‘take the win,’ but that’s all
By Gary Bedore
January 29, 2015
As badly as Kansas University’s basketball team played down the stretch against TCU, the bottom line is the Jayhawks survived Wednesday and remain in sole possession of first place in the Big 12 Conference.
Stigler stalwart for Jayhawks’ track and field
By Benton Smith
January 29, 2015
Seeing how the Super Bowl is just a few days away, a couple Kansas University track athletes had some advice for head coach Stanley Redwine before he stepped to the podium Thursday afternoon for the team’s preseason media day at Rock Chalk Park.
KU softball sets sights on NCAA repeat
By Benton Smith
January 29, 2015
Senior Kansas University softball pitcher Alicia Pille spent the offseason often reminiscing about the moment last spring when the Jayhawks found out they were NCAA Tournament-bound.
Another new uniform in the works for KU basketball
J-W Staff Report
12:07 p.m., January 29, 2015 Updated 10:47 p.m.
Kansas University and Adidas are at it again. The KU athletic department on Thursday unveiled a new-look uniform that the KU men’s basketball team will wear for its home match-up with Texas on Feb. 28.
LHS, Free State set for tournament
By Bobby Nightengale
January 29, 2015
After a week of long practices, Lawrence High’s girls basketball players are ready to show how much they’ve improved.
How former Jayhawks fared in NBA games of Jan. 28, 2015
January 29, 2015
Here’s a look at how former Kansas University players fared in NBA games of Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2015.
KU keeping an eye on football recruits
By Matt Tait
January 29, 2015
With national signing day less than a week away and coaches across the country still scrambling to fill their classes or find those diamond-in-the-rough athletes, it has become a tense time for the Kansas University football staff.
Free State snaps Lions’ stranglehold in wrestling
By Bobby Nightengale
January 29, 2015
Free State High’s wrestling team usually doesn’t have the depth to keep up with Lawrence High in the annual City Showdown dual. Not this year. By Bobby Nightegale
Horned Frogs lament blown chances at foul line
By Tom Keegan
January 29, 2015
TCU had a buzzer-beating shot that could have sent the game into overtime. It bounced out and Kansas University held on for a 64-61 victory. But it wasn’t the hurried 30-footer launched by Charles Hill Jr. that the Horned Frogs rued afterward. By Tom Keegan
Column: Brannen Greene has ups and downs in road win
By Tom Keegan
January 29, 2015
Let’s see, sophomore Brannen Greene contributed five points, a big blocked shot and a rebound in the final 32 seconds of Kansas University’s 64-61 Wednesday night victory against TCU, so why did it seem as if every time he turned around he was doing something wrong? By Tom Keegan
FSHS sweeps bowling titles
J-W Staff Reports
January 29, 2015
Eric Glogau rolled a 680 and Alex Jiminez a 656 to place 1-2 as Free State’s boys won the Shawnee Mission South bowling triangular on Tuesday.

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