- Lions move up kickoffs
- May 26, 2009
- Lawrence High football games will kick off at 7 p.m. — not the traditional 7:30 — this fall, and other notes.
- KU still lagging in Big 12
- May 19, 2009
- Clang. That’s the sound of the gate slamming shut on another Big 12 Conference sports season.
- Hull twins vexing
- May 12, 2009
- The Free State High softball team’s four Smiths — only two are sisters — are relatively easy to tell apart, compared to twin sisters Rosie and Maggie Hull.
- Freeman looks the part
- April 28, 2009
- Many years ago, when I was writing a feature story on a Kansas University football player, I went to his position coach for an assessment. After chatting for a minute or so, I asked the KU aide what he thought of the player.
- Talent runs in the family
- April 24, 2009
- In late summer of 1981, Barbara Adkins enrolled for her freshman year at Kansas University. Adkins had been recruited out of an Oklahoma City high school to play basketball for the Jayhawks.
- Lassiter undrafted standout
- April 21, 2009
- With the NFL Draft — and all of its overhyped whoop-de-do coming this weekend — I found myself wondering again what it all means. For instance, we all know that John Hadl, Gale Sayers, John Riggins, Dana Stubblefield, et al., parlayed first-round selections into Pro Bowl careers.
- Wesley original nomad
- April 14, 2009
- If I walked along Massachusetts Street and asked passing pedestrians if they had heard of Walt Wesley, I would want to do it on a warm day. I couldn’t stand on Mass that long in cold weather. Who was Walt Wesley? He was a slender 6-foot-11 center on some of coach Ted Owens’ quality Kansas University men’s basketball teams of the mid-1960s.
- KU softball deserves upgrade
- April 7, 2009
- Glen Mason may not have been the most popular football coach in Kansas University annals. Mason could be gruff at times, downright surly at others.
- Kansas NCAA Q&A
- March 24, 2009
- Everything you wanted to know about Kansas University men’s basketball, but were so mind-numbed by the repetitive CBS commercials you forgot to ask …
- Jayhawks taking baby steps
- March 17, 2009
- Let’s talk about some positives for Kansas University’s women’s basketball team. And why not?
- Dead end for name change?
- March 10, 2009
- As Sue Hack’s days as a city commissioner dwindle down to a precious few, she has established one notable lame-duck priority.
- Marian noticeably absent
- March 3, 2009
- Over the weekend, while celebrating 40 years of women in sports at Kansas University, a woman named Marlene Mawson was introduced as the “Mother of KU Women’s Athletics.”
- Five-year plan update
- February 25, 2009
- Here we are early in the fourth year of Lew Perkins’ five-year strategic plan for Kansas University athletics, and, in many ways, the KU athletic director’s grand vision appears on target.
- Colleague will be missed
- February 11, 2009
- We’re supposed to be competitors, but the propinquity of the press box turns sports writers more into friends than foes.
- ‘Thunder’ triggers memories
- February 4, 2009
- Back in mid-December, a man named William Thornton died in Columbia, Mo. A succinct newspaper obituary mentioned he had once been an assistant football coach at Missouri University.That was about it. Until more than a month later when someone in Nebraska realized who that William Thornton was.
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