Fans celebrate on Mass. St. after the Jayhawks' 75-68 overtime win over Memphis in the final game of the 2008 NCAA Men's Basketball championships. KU's National Champion basketball team will be honored on Sunday at a 3 p.m. parade that will run along Massachusetts Street from Seventh Street to South Park.

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Addison Whitenight, 15-months, has biliary atresia and has been on a liver transplant list since May 2007.

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Addison Whitenight, 15-months, has biliary atresia and has been on a liver transplant list since May 2007. At a recent weekly check up at Lawrence Family Practice Center, 4951 W. 18th St, Addison and her mother Shawna Davis wait to get some lab work done on Addison.

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Shawna Davis, Lawrence, holds her daughter, Addison Whitenight, while Addison has blood drawn during a checkup at Lawrence Family Practice Center, 4951 W. 18th St. Addison has biliary atresia and has been on a liver transplant list since May.

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Addison Whitenight, 15-months, has biliary atresia and has been on a liver transplant list since May 2007. At her recent weekly check up at Lawrence Family Practice Center, 4951 W. 18th St, a happy Addison lays on her back on a clinic bed and reaches for the photographer's camera.

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Eighteen-month-old Addison Whitenight grabs the nose of her 4-year-old brother, Cameron. Addison has biliary atresia and needs a new liver. She has been on a transplant waiting list since last May, and recently fell and broke her leg and arm because of rickets, which causes softening of the bones.

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Hundreds of Kansas University fans filled Massachusetts Street on Sunday, with one even enjoying a little body-surfing, after KU advanced to its first Final Four since 2003 in the NCAA basketball tournament. The Jayhawks defeated Davidson 59-57 Sunday in thrilling fashion and will face North Carolina and former KU coach Roy Williams on Saturday in San Antonio.

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KU fans flood Massachusetts Street after the Jayhawks' 84-66 victory over North Carolina in the Final Four on Saturday in San Antonio. KU will play Memphis on Monday for the national title.

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Jayhawk fans at the Granada display frustration in the final minutes of regulation play. KU tied the game and won 75-68 in overtime win over Memphis in the final game of the NCAA Men's Basketball championships Monday, April 7, 2008.

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Fans at the Granada celebrate a late Mario Chalmers three-point basket to tie Memphis. KU went on to win 75-68 overtime win over Memphis in the final game of the NCAA Men's Basketball championships Monday, April 7, 2008.

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Fans at the Red Lyon Tavern, 944 Mass., celebrate a KU score during overtime of the Jayhawks' 75-68 win over Memphis in the final game of the NCAA Men's Basketball Championships. KU on Monday night won its first basketball title since 1988.

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Nearly 40,000 Jayhawk fans fill Massachusetts Street from Seventh to 11th streets after the Jayhawks' 75-68 overtime victory over Memphis in the final of the NCAA men's basketball championship Monday. This photo is taken from the roof of the Eldridge Hotel looking south.

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Students watch their instructor on the balance beam at a recent practice at the East Lawrence Parks and Recreation Center, 1245 E. 15th St.

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Pigeons sit on a cable across the Kansas River as the sun rises through a morning fog over the river.

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A runner at far left makes her way along the top of the river levee and into the sun as the morning light filters through a thick fog. A fog rolled over the river and across downtown Lawrence around 8 a.m. Wednesday.

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Pinckney second-grader Oliver Broce, straightens out his tie in class, Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2008. Several boys started wearing ties after student Wyatt Carson choose to wear one to school. In background at left is Milo McKay.

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Wyatt Carson, center, a second-grader at Pinckney school, started a fashion fad after choosing to wear a tie to school. Now several second-graders are wearing ties. In class Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2008, from left are Milo McKay, Arthur Hughes, Carson, Oliver Broce and Hunter Jones.

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