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 ...
Lawrence’s housing market is in a slowdown — in every way except one. Housing prices aren’t falling at all, according to the latest numbers from the Lawrence Board of Realtors. Lawrence homes sales in June fell 13.5% compared to June 2021 numbers. For the year, Lawrence home sales are ...
One of the top combo guards in the 2023 recruiting class arrived in Lawrence on Monday for the start of his official visit to Kansas. Ranked No. 24 overall by ESPN.com, — 32nd by 247 Sports and 58th by Rivals.com — Chris Johnson noted his arrival on KU’s campus on Twitter on Monday ...
What is generally thought to be the oldest community building in Lawrence has new owners — and new plans to become a performance venue on the edge of downtown. Plans have been filed at City Hall to expand the Turnhalle building, 900 Rhode Island St., as new owners seek to turn the old stone ...
At the halfway point of 2022, the Lawrence metro area finds itself in a position it would rather not be in: It is the only metro area in the state that has fewer jobs now than it did a year ago. The job losses for the Lawrence metro aren’t huge. Jobs located in the Lawrence metro — which ...
The 247 Sports network recently ranked [the top wings in college basketball entering the 2022-23 season,][1] and Bill Self’s defending national champion Kansas Jayhawks landed in the top spot. A case could probably be made for a couple of other schools to be there, but the Jayhawks are ...
In the seven weeks following his decision to return to school for his junior season, Kansas forward Jalen Wilson has been asked for his thoughts on just how good the 2022-23 Jayhawks can be. Each time, and without hesitation, Wilson has said something along the lines of: “We’re going to ...
A longtime supplier of bargain building materials is planning to make the move to south Iowa Street. But no, this isn’t a sign that a new, big discount chain is entering the market. Instead, it is Lawrence’s existing Habitat for Humanity ReStore. The nonprofit has announced a deal to move ...
Shannon Hodges can envision a school day this winter where the temperatures are about 20 degrees and the big news of the school day is a fire inside a tent. No need to call the fire department. No need to call the principal. There’s not even a need to call a repairman for the furnace. At ...
Former Kansas guard Christian Braun was solid in his debut with the Denver Nuggets’ Summer League team earlier this month after being selected by the team with the No. 21 overall pick in June’s NBA draft. In addition to showing off his all-around game and the always-on approach that made ...
