Somehow, our next-door neighbor Kansas City, Kansas, has become the regional hub for both NASCAR and professional soccer. (You’ve got your next reality TV hit if you combine those two tailgate parties.) But a new national ranking suggests that such diversity may be spot on: Kansas City, ...
If you are on a farm and say you want some Jersey Juice, you may find yourself on the business end of an udder. (A Jersey is a breed of dairy cow, for those of you who don’t hang out at a barn.) But soon, there will be a west Lawrence restaurant where some Juice from Jersey means something ...
https://www2.kusports.com/photos/2022/sep/02/335100/ It’s been years since Kansas football fans looked ahead at the Jayhawks’ schedule with any kind of optimism or anticipation, so let’s take advantage of it while it’s here. Who knows how long it will last? Week 1 was kind to the ...
As Kansas football fans wait for the start of a new stadium project of some kind in the future, they’ll have to settle for a new look to the current stadium for now. The outside walls of the north bowl at David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium received a new look on Tuesday, when 21 new photos ...
Smaller seems to be better in Lawrence these days, especially when it comes to housing. New plans have been filed for a 50-home neighborhood next door to some of the largest estate homes in Lawrence. The new homes, however, will be smaller and on smaller lots. A group led by Mike McGrew, ...
There have been 12 season opening home football games at the University of Kansas since Mark Mangino left town and the attendance at each one told some kind of story. That includes the 2020 opener, which hosted no fans because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Friday night, as the Jayhawks take the ...
If Instagram inspired the people in my household to start a business, I shudder to think what it would be. (The bow tie-wearing Boston Terrier of the household probably would be the CEO, given that he’s in all the photos.) But a pair of Lawrence moms think they’ve found an Instagram idea ...
The Big 12 Conference has agreed to engage in discussions with its primary television partners, ESPN and FOX, more than 18 months earlier than expected. ESPN.com’s Pete Thamel was the first to report the news, and the Big 12 followed up with the following statement from first-year ...
The University of Kansas is getting more serious about upgrades to its football stadium — and this time the plans may involve far more than football. KU officials recently have begun advertising for design firms that are interested in creating “concept and schematic design” services for ...
Still without a team for the 2022-23 basketball season, former Kansas guard Frank Mason III at least knows where he’ll be playing next month. USA Basketball recently announced that Mason was one of 12 players named to Team USA for the upcoming FIBA AmeriCup tournament in Recife, Brazil. The ...
Over the last two decades, Douglas County has experienced the largest increase in property tax rates of any urban county in Kansas, a review of statewide data has found. And the comparison is not close. Douglas County has seen its property tax rate increase 70% since 2002. The average ...
If you look at the numbers from ESPN’s Football Power Index, KU’s chances of winning a bunch of football games this fall aren’t great. According to the index, KU has a better than 50% chance of winning just two games — 97.1% vs. Tennessee Tech and 57.5% vs. Duke — and a 14.3% chance ...
Story updated at 3:36 p.m. Thursday: Development plans are in the works that could make the Lawrence Regional Airport a national destination for jets and other aircraft that need significant maintenance work. Lawrence businessman Doug Compton has confirmed to me that he has plans to build an ...
Earlier this month, I was asked what the Kansas football team would have to do during the upcoming season to capitalize on the momentum it captured down the stretch in 2021, Lance Leipold’s first season in charge of the program. Most fans want to point to a win total when asked this ...
There are new signs that KU is getting more serious about developing West Campus into a research and business park surrounded by homes and shops. These latest signs read: No Parking. The University of Kansas has closed its Park and Ride facility located on West Campus in order to prepare for ...
A Denver-based hospitality company has bought Lawrence’s The Oread, and will rebrand the hotel on the edge of the University of Kansas campus as a Hilton hotel. Mission Hill Hospitality announced Monday that it has completed a deal to purchase The Oread, and will change the name of the ...
There’s such a thing as an urban myth, and perhaps, there’s a Douglas County myth too. The urban one is likely to make its appearance around a campfire, a water cooler or even a bar. The Douglas County variety tends to show up around tax time. As Douglas County property owners face ...
Call it the Douglas County dichotomy. In a year when many Douglas County residents may have to dip into their savings accounts to pay their property tax bills, Douglas County government is significantly growing its savings account. A review of Douglas County’s proposed 2023 budget found ...
For most of their childhood, brothers Kwamie Lassiter II and Kwinton Lassiter dreamed of one day playing in the NFL and following in the footsteps of their late father, Kwamie, a former standout safety at Kansas and with the Arizona Cardinals, San Diego Chargers and Los Angeles Rams. And ...
The Big Ten, in conjunction with television partners CBS, NBC and FOX, [agreed to a 7-year, $7 billion media rights partnership that will begin in 2023 and run through 2030.][1] The deal is the largest in the history of college football and it further cements the conference as the king of the ...
