Fieldhouse urinal trough shows up on eBay

By J-W Staff Reports     Nov 18, 2004

Kansas University basketball fanaticism apparently knows no leaps and bounds.

Case in point: The saga of the urinal trough formerly in the men’s bathroom on the north end of Allen Fieldhouse. Construction workers, who remodeled the bathroom earlier this semester, ripped out the old trough and dropped it in a Dumpster outside the fieldhouse.

Voila … the trough showed up on eBay a day or so later and apparently was sold to an unknown bidder.

“When they put the trough outside, soon it was gone and on eBay,” KU associate AD Jim Marchiony said. “I guess it’s an indication at least one person felt somebody would buy it. I have no idea what that trough looked like. After 50 years, I’m sure it had its better days.”

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Video coming?: KU officials continue to examine sketches of video boards and hope to install a board in the fieldhouse next season. KU also is looking at putting a scoreboard on the north end of the football stadium and improving scoreboards for baseball and soccer. The total cost of all the scoreboards could be $6 million, Marchiony said. KU is looking for funding for that project.

“We’ve seen etchings, designs we like, but we need to figure where we are financially (on fieldhouse board),” Marchiony said.

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