Kansas target TyTy Washington revealed Tuesday that he plans to announce his list of five finalists sometime this weekend. A 6-foot-4, 180-pound point guard who originally committed to Creighton last November — from a list of 10 finalists — opened his recruitment back up in early March ...
Rising property values are sure to create some higher property tax bills in Douglas County this year. But one group is less likely than others to see them: owners of buildings that house restaurants, bars, storefronts, offices and other commercial property. Commercial property values in ...
Wednesday marks the start of college basketball’s spring signing period and the Kansas men’s basketball program is poised to officially add a couple of its new additions this week. Junior college transfer Sydney Curry, a 6-foot-8, 265-pound sophomore forward from Logan Community ...
Whether it is to be nearer to where the deer and the antelope play or simply to be farther away from pandemic crowds, a home on the range seems to be growing both in popularity and price in Douglas County. While there has been a lot of attention on the shortage of available and affordable ...
Now that all of the introductions, handshakes and pleasantries have subsided, new University of Kansas Athletic Director Travis Goff can fully immerse himself in the job of finding KU’s new football coach. And the place he should start is on the telephone. If it were me sitting in the ...
I have a hard time believing that I ever would fall asleep in a dentist’s chair. (I make sure I eat a pound of candy beforehand because my dentist’s selection, quite frankly, stinks.) But in the field of sedation dentistry, getting someone so comfortable that they fall asleep in the chair ...
The transfer portal has transformed college basketball’s offseason from a time for projected returners and their programs to address weaknesses and needs to one that starts and ends with players looking for other places to play. The Kansas men’s basketball program has certainly felt the ...
When you work with 6-foot tall chickens, having the right amount of space is important. Considerations like those are behind plans filed by a Lawrence businessman and artist to set up shop in a North Lawrence industrial location. Mike Riggs is seeking a special permit from Lawrence City Hall ...
Will Soo, owner of Lawrence’s new Lucky Seb’s Dumpling Bar & Grill, is the mastermind behind a Chinese-style dumpling stuffed with a traditional loaded American baked potato. What’s going on in that mind to create that combination? “I’m Chinese American,” Soo said. “I was ...
http://www2.kusports.com/photos/2021/apr/05/332356/ Travis Goff was formally introduced as the new athletic director at Kansas Wednesday morning at the Lied Center. Goff, who is a 2002 graduate of the University of Kansas and native of Dodge City, is the fifth AD hired by Kansas since the ...
The University of Kansas athletics department filled one of its two major vacancies on Monday, as Travis Goff became the new athletic director. And while Goff’s plan for the KU football job remains to be seen, several Jayhawks didn’t waste any time backing interim head coach Emmett ...
If you remember back in January, the big news was that every man, woman and child would soon be getting a $600 COVID-19 relief check from the federal government. Well, the checks certainly came, and in most Kansas communities, a big boost in spending followed. But that wasn’t the case in ...
If you have a slice as bad as mine, you’ve maybe played golf indoors before. (A Berber carpet makes for a good lie, and I’ve found a 7-iron works great, depending on the size of the picture window you’re going through.) Regardless, Lawrence may soon be getting an actual indoor golf ...
When I saw palm trees at a new west Lawrence home, I knew they weren’t a mirage fueled by Caribbean withdrawal symptoms. (My Caribbean withdrawal mirages usually are of the all-you-can-eat buffets on the cruise ship that used to take me there.) Indeed, there are palm trees at the home under ...
North Lawrence is a long way from Tokyo, and it is just far enough from Massachusetts Street too. At least that is the case for Tokyo Sushi, which has moved from the 600 block of Massachusetts Street to a small North Lawrence location along the Kansas River. Leaving busy downtown Lawrence for ...
On national search firm TurnkeyZRG’s website, the listing for the University of Kansas’ open athletic director position has an instruction for applicants in bold type: “Contacting the University of Kansas will delay your consideration.” In other words, applicants need to go through ...
As college basketball players around the country continue to seek out new opportunities, the Kansas men’s basketball program has started to surface as a potential landing spot for a few of them. Yesterday, we shared a report that [Northeastern’s sophomore point guard, Tyson Walker, had ...
Still smarting from his team’s [85-51, season-ending loss to sixth-seeded USC on Monday night][1] in Indianapolis, Kansas coach Bill Self talked about the Trojans the way dozens of past KU opponents had always talked about the Jayhawks. Too big. Too long. Too athletic. Too talented. It ...
A $21 million welcome center along Oread Avenue — full of modern design and high-tech displays — is the latest strategy for the University of Kansas to woo prospective students to the Lawrence campus. Plans have been filed at Lawrence City Hall for a new glass and steel structure, dubbed ...
The way the Jayhawks struggled to score inside this season, Kansas was going to need some good fortune in terms of March Madness matchups to make any kind of deep run in 2021. In the NCAA Tournament’s 68-team field, there might not have been any team more perfectly suited to knock out Kansas ...
