For at least the past few decades, and probably a lot longer, college athletics — particularly football — has been more or less defined by a facilities arms race. Bigger, better, nicer, newer has been the currency for national relevance and a requirement for competitive programs. And ...
Former University of Kansas golf standout Gary Woodland saved his best for last at the St. Jude Championship, site of the first round of the 2022 FedEx Cup playoffs. But it was not enough to advance Woodland to Round 2 next week. After back-to-back 1-under 69s to just make the cut on ...
When you’ve covered Kansas football as long as I have, you’ve heard about, seen and written about all kinds of different recruiting approaches from the long list of head coaches and assistants that have come through Lawrence. From a Kansas-first approach or heavy reliance on junior ...
If you pay property taxes in Douglas County, chances are you soon will pay more of them. Even if the governments that serve you — the county, a city, a school district, a township — hold their property tax rates steady, you likely are going to pay more in property taxes. Even if the ...
Fresh off of a family vacation, Kansas basketball coach Bill Self made a visit to KU football practice on Wednesday morning to chat with coach Lance Leipold and get a look at the team. According to the Kansas soccer team's Twitter account, Self also stopped by Rock Chalk Park to talk with Mark ...
When news broke this week that [ESPN had turned down a massive rights package offered by the Big Ten Conference — $380 million per year for seven years —][1] my thoughts immediately turned to the Big 12. Without the Big Ten in the mix for the first time in nearly 40 years, ESPN is going ...
An old tavern building on an East Lawrence corner may get new life as a neighborhood restaurant. Longtime Lawrence restaurant and bar owner Brad Ziegler has filed plans at City Hall to use the mid-1800s stone building at 900 Pennsylvania St. as a “neighborhood restaurant.” Those of you ...
Kansas football coach Lance Leipold has plenty to worry about between now and the Sept. 2 season opener against Tennessee Tech. But the one concern that likely will not go away by then, no matter how sharp his players look or how solid his depth chart appears, is the importance of support for ...
Polls are a pretty unscientific way to rank teams but they’re always good for sparking a little discussion. That’s what made Monday’s college football coaches poll — [the first one released for the 2022 season][1] — interesting even for fans of a program as far down the line as ...
On Wednesday morning, at the indoor practice facility adjacent to David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium, KU football coach Lance Leipold jokingly shouted to media members in attendance that junior Jalon Daniels was the team’s quarterback. It came off as a joke because Leipold had basically ...
A couple of weeks after making the decision to return to Kansas for his redshirt junior season, KU’s Jalen Wilson noted that the freshman class the Jayhawks will go to battle with during the 2022-23 season reminded him a lot of the group he came in with as a freshman in 2019-20. “Just ...
Imagine the Energizer Bunny with a turbo charger. Plans in De Soto for a new $4 billion, 4,000-job plant that makes batteries for electric vehicles may get growth moving at that type of speed in Eudora — and perhaps Lawrence. The EDC of Lawrence and Douglas County — a countywide economic ...
I have yet to see [new KU commitment Chris Johnson][1] play basketball in person, but watching his highlight clips showed me everything I needed to know. Johnson is the guard version of current Kansas forward Jalen Wilson. Big, physical, tough and fearless, Johnson plays a brand of ...
For today’s Town Talk, let’s do a news and notes election edition: — While the outcome was clear when we went to press Tuesday night, the total vote count was not for the proposed Kansas constitutional amendment that would have eliminated a constitutional right to an abortion in the ...
For months, Kansas football strength coach Matt Gildersleeve pushed the Jayhawks to dig deep for every rep, throw up as much weight as they could and sculpt their bodies into athletic specimens. So it goes during the college football offseason. With that being the goal of the past eight ...
Plans have been filed for a new Starbucks drive-thru coffee shop on Sixth Street, as the competition for Lawrence’s coffee dollars appears to be heating up. A plan filed at City Hall shows Starbucks is interested in building about a 2,200-square-foot coffee shop with a drive-thru at the ...
Four-star combo guard Chris Johnson, who visited the University of Kansas earlier this week, will announce his college choice on Tuesday, according to his Instagram page. Johnson’s Instagram story on Saturday night featured a countdown to his commitment time. Ranked No. 24 overall by ...
With summer workouts now in the past and the 2022-23 Kansas basketball roster set, we have a little better idea of how Bill Self’s squad will look when it hits the floor to defend the 2022 national title later this year. The Jayhawks will feature a returning core of veterans in Jalen Wilson ...
Today, I have a tale of a hole in a roof, a gun and a MacBook computer. It sure sounds like a bad IT day, but don't let your imaginations run wild. Rather, it is news and notes from around town, featuring one business that is expanding and two that have closed. — Let’s start with the ...
Pac-12 Commissioner George Kliavkoff did his best to sound like a man with confidence in his conference’s future on Friday morning. But anyone who’s been paying attention probably heard his words as desperate and defensive more than anything. Don’t get me wrong. There are plenty of ...
