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Although a former Adidas consultant testified in federal court on Monday that he never told University of Kansas basketball coaches about paying the families of players, text messages between him and KU coaches Bill Self and Kurtis Townsend show they were aware of some sort of involvement in recruiting.
In a federal trial in New York, ex-Adidas consultant Thomas “T.J.” Gassnola, a key ...
Having a famous father can have its perks — like having him ask you to help research and write a book that attempts to solve some early-20th-century murders.
Rachel McCarthy James, the Lawrence native and daughter of Bill James, the man who forever changed the way people think about baseball with his writing on sabermetrics, recently co-authored her first book, “The Man From The Train,” with him.
In the ...
A trial aiming to tackle corruption in college basketball is expected to conclude in a matter of days.
In a letter filed in federal court on Saturday, Robert S. Khuzami, a U.S. attorney, notified presiding Judge Lewis A. Kaplan that both the prosecutors and the defense attorneys think they will finish calling witnesses to the stand and rest their cases as early as Tuesday.
The case would then go to the jury ...
While eating dinner and sharing conversation with neighbors in late September last year, the topic of a native Kansas fruit came up, said Ross Jones, a hobby farmer in rural Douglas County.
“Everybody was talking about pawpaws, so I ran down here with a laundry basket and pretty much filled it up,” Jones said of the fruit naturally growing on his land. “Several people said, ‘OK, you won, you have more ...
As a newspaperman myself, I definitely don’t mind when the arts express the importance of the freedom of the press.
Along with that First Amendment provision is the freedom of expression, which Theatre Lawrence will take advantage of in an upcoming one-night performance of an adaptation of the Sinclair Lewis novel “It Can’t Happen Here.”
The performance is 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at the theater. Tickets ...
Lawrence residents will get the chance to view homes in one of the city’s historic neighborhoods this weekend.
The East Lawrence Neighborhood Fall Home Tour — featuring six properties between the 900 and 1100 blocks of Rhode Island, Pennsylvania and New York streets — is 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday.
Eric Jay, an East Lawrence Neighborhood Association board member, said the featured homes were either newly ...
