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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.
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Firebirds get big lift from Piper
By Bobby Nightengale, January 29, 2015
Lions tumble to Heights despite second-half surge
By Bobby Nightengale, January 29, 2015
Column: Jayhawks banking on Mason
By Tom Keegan, January 29, 2015
Baldwin girls reach finals
J-W Staff Reports, January 29, 2015
KU softball sets sights on NCAA repeat
By Benton Smith, January 29, 2015
Stigler stalwart for Jayhawks’ track and field
By Benton Smith, January 29, 2015
KU’s Hoag third in heptathlon
J-W Staff Reports, January 29, 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
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.
Seabury girls, boys stumble
J-W Staff Reports
January 29, 2015
Bishop Seabury’s girls basketball team never found an offensive flow in Wednesday’s 48-12 loss to Pembroke Hill.
Worrisome win: Jayhawks’ late mistakes nearly cost them at TCU
By Gary Bedore
January 28, 2015
Bill Self was squirming, and seething, on Kansas University’s basketball bench Wednesday night as his first-place squad suffered a meltdown of near epic proportions against last-place TCU in Wilkerson-Greines Athletic Center. “We were awful,” Self, KU’s coach, said after the (17-3, 6-1) Jayhawks, who led by 11 points with 3:35 to play, eked out a 64-61 victory over the last-place (14-6 1-6) Horned Frogs. By Gary Bedore
Notebook: World Games not yet priority for Kansas
By Gary Bedore
January 28, 2015
Kansas University basketball coach Bill Self said on his Hawk Talk radio show he’s not yet put a lot of thought into the Jayhawks’ upcoming appearance in the World University Games in July, in South Korea.
Junior forward King likes KU
By Gary Bedore
January 28, 2015
V.J. King, a 6-7 junior small forward from Paul VI High in Fairfax, Virginia, tells Rivals.com he has heard from college basketball coaches from Kansas University, Kentucky, UConn, Florida, North Carolina, Louisville, Maryland and North Carolina State.
Jayhawks do just enough to win at TCU
By Matt Tait
January 28, 2015
Wednesday’s game at TCU featured some unusual lineups and all kinds of fouls and ebbs and flows, but the No. 9-ranked Kansas University men’s basketball team did enough good things at enough key moments to hold off the Horned Frogs, 64-61, in Fort Worth, Texas.
Kansas women upend Iowa State, 61-56
Staff Reports
January 28, 2015
Chelsea Gardner’s double-double of 23 points and 11 rebounds carried Kansas University’s women’s basketball team to a 61-56 victory over Iowa State on Wednesday.
Our Town Sports for Jan. 29
Staff Reports
January 28, 2015
A weekly roundup of local sporting events, results and opportunities.
KU commitment Carlton Bragg earns McDonald’s All-American invite
By Gary Bedore
05:04 p.m., January 28, 2015 Updated 11:04 p.m.
Carlton Bragg, a 6-foot-9 power forward from Cleveland’s Villa Angela St. Joseph High was one of 24 players named to the 2015 McDonald’s All-American team, which was released Wednesday evening.

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