¢ KU basketball recruit Cole Aldrich says Bill Self’s coach staff is up with the times when it comes to text-messaging, according to a story in the St. Paul Pioneer Press about possible NCAA regulations on text-messaging._”They respect when I’m in school, and they don’t text me then,” Aldrich said. “Once I’m out of school, they’ll text me or give me a call. After fall league games, I’ll text Coach and say, ‘I got 25 (points) and 15 (rebounds) and 7 blocks.’ “__When he gets texts from Kansas, it’s in the contemporary style.__”It’s mostly a lot of shortcut words, like ‘Gr8′ – they’re definitely catching on to high school kids’ text language,” Aldrich said._¢ A finalist for the city manager position in Lawrence has been passed on again. This time, R. Leon Churchill Jr., managing director for Reading, Pa., was not selected to be city manager in Dayton, Ohio, the Reading Eagle reports._After being turned down for two jobs he was seeking elsewhere over the past several months, Reading’s managing director says he will stay in the city._