Hired by Iowa State at the start of the 2005-06 academic school year, Jamie Pollard has seen quite a change in the office he has occupied as the Cyclones' athletic director for the past 13 years. “It can be absolutely smothering if you want to do it well because you've got to be everything ...
If the recent Scottsdale pow-wow attended by billionaires (with a ‘b’) didn’t cost Sheahon Zenger his job, it obviously didn’t save it. It represented Zenger’s last chance to scratch out a hit with two strikes by getting the heavy hitters to join the chant for a renovated football ...
The University of Kansas is in the market for a leader of its athletic department for the first time since late 2010 now that Sheahon Zenger is out. Monday morning's news that KU Chancellor Doug Girod had relieved Zenger of his duties, effective immediately, means that the university is ...
University of Kansas Athletic Director Sheahon Zenger has been fired, effective immediately, KU Chancellor Douglas Girod announced Monday, citing a lack of progress and a need for new leadership. "This morning I met with Sheahon and relieved him of his duties," Girod said in a news release ...
This week's NBA combine in Chicago brought with it a mixed bag of results for Kansas center Udoka Azubuike, the lone KU player of the five in attendance who still could return to Kansas for the 2018-19 season. The 7-foot sophomore's point production during the two five-on-five scrimmages in ...
The best basketball prospect playing Saturday night on Court 3 at Lawrence Sports Pavilion wasn’t difficult to spot. He was the one calling for the ball and, more often than not, wasn't having it passed to him. Such is the fate of AAU centers more often than not it seems. They still benefit ...
The NBA combine taking place this week in Chicago is all about drills, testing, scrimmages and interviews designed to give all 30 NBA franchises an even better picture of the players they might draft during the June 21 NBA Draft in Brooklyn, N.Y. But just as technology continues to advance the ...
When University of Kansas Chancellor Douglas Girod thinks about his university’s athletic department, a number sometimes comes to mind. It is not one you’ll find on the scoreboard or in the record books, though. Rather, look through enrollment records. The number is 40 percent, and that ...
While Day 2 at the NBA combine in Chicago proved to be beneficial for all five Jayhawks in attendance, sharp-shooting guard Svi Mykhailiuk may have helped himself the most. Mykhailiuk, who is participating at the pre-draft combine for the second year in a row, was one of the top performers in ...
The mere idea that former Kansas point guard Devonte' Graham — he of 17 games of 40-plus minutes and 11 more of 38-plus during the 2017-18 season — could be deemed “out of shape” less than two months after the end of his senior season is borderline laughable. Yet, there was Graham, in ...
Before getting too euphoric over the Supreme Court’s decision to put the fate of legalized sports gambling in the hands of the states, consider the reason that an inordinate number of gamblers still wear polyester disco shirts that went into and out of style in the early 1970s. It’s not ...
It is still too early to know whether Kansas will legalize sports betting in the wake of Monday’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling, but already Kansas Athletics can envision the ruling changing its operations. “This is truly a door that has opened that none of us foresaw even two years ago,” ...
KU sophomore Udoka Azubuike may have made his first trip to workout with an NBA franchise at this time last week, but according to Kansas coach Bill Self, now that final exams have finished, Azubuike's workout schedule may increase dramatically. “The teams contact us. We're the ones who are ...
The smile surfaced after one of those particularly tough Kansas losses, the kind every team experiences at least once or twice during the rough and rugged Big 12 Conference grind. Bill Self's Jayhawks had just been manhandled by Baylor in Waco, Texas, back in February, an 80-64 loss that left ...
The year of the big deal for the Big 12 Conference was 2012. The year for big paychecks at Kansas Athletics Inc. came right after it with administration salaries increasing by $6 million — or 42 percent — in a single year, a review by the Journal-World has found. After months of ...
In Lawrence, college athletics is a basic necessity. Don’t believe it? Look at the numbers. In 2017, according to budget documents, the city of Lawrence spent $81.9 million on police, fire and roads — often ranked among the most important of government services. Kansas Athletics during ...
As far as weekends go, they don't make them much bigger than the one KU senior Devonte' Graham and his family will experience during the next couple of days. From his mother, Dewanna King's birthday today, to two separate graduation ceremonies and Mother's Day on Sunday, Graham and his family ...
In Nashville to check out the Justin Timberlake concert with his wife, Kelly, former Kansas basketball player and current Washburn head coach Brett Ballard got a first-hand look this week at the end of an era. On Thursday afternoon, Ballard's old teammate and friend, Nick Collison, announced ...
While his NBA statistics, outside of longevity, might leave a little to be desired, Nick Collison will forever be remembered around these parts as one of the greatest Kansas basketball players of all time. Collison, a lottery pick of the Seattle Supersonics in the 2003 NBA Draft, spent his ...
Generally, danger lurks where fads flourish. Fads warp minds, blind fashion taste from born followers and stunt individualism.Remember the Tamagotchi, the hand-held, digital pets that flew off the shelves late in the 20th century? It supposedly was marketed to children, but the inventors knew ...