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6News video: Volunteers make Relays happen
Meet director Tim Weaver says the volunteers are what make the Kansas Relays one of the best events in the country. More than 600 people will volunteer this weekend at the relays at Memorial Stadium.
6Sports video: Lewis backs off commitment
Dwight Lewis, a junior basketball guard from Archbishop Rummel High in Metairie, La., who orally committed to Kansas University on Tuesday, backed off the commitment Thursday.
6Sports video: Greene to run 100-meter dash at Relays
In addition to running the 4x100-meter relay, Olympic champion Maurice Greene will also compete in the Invitational 100-meter dash.
6Sports video: Battle advances to hammer throw finals
Kansas University’s Sheldon Battle advanced to the finals of the men’s hammer throw Thursday. Battle finished second in the event behind 2004 Kansas Relays champion Nick Welihozkiy.
KU, ESPN sign $40 million TV deal
ESPN Regional Television has sweetened its existing contract with Kansas University’s athletic department. KU officials on Thursday announced a seven-year, $40.2 million extension to the current agreement, which, since July 1999, has granted ESPN Regional Television the Jayhawks’ athletics corporate partnership and multimedia rights.
Greene a late addition to 100-meter dash
It’s a track meet, but it’s being described in terms that would make boxing promoter Don King proud. The director of the Kansas Relays said Thursday that Olympic-champion sprinter Maurice Greene — previously scheduled only to compete in a relay — would also run in the 100-meter dash.
Woodling: Woodling: Memorial Stadium perfect for Relays
Those of you sitting in Memorial Stadium today and Saturday watching the Kansas Relays are dinosaurs. You are perched in the football stadium of a major university watching a track and field meet. You can’t do that in many other places, certainly nowhere else in the Big 12 Conference.
Jayhawks head to Tech
Kansas University’s baseball team returns to conference play this weekend as its travels to Lubbock, Texas, to battle Texas Tech in a three-game Big 12 series at Dan Law Field.
Blue Jays clip Jayhawks, 3-2
Kansas University’s softball team dropped a heartbreaker to No. 19 Creighton, 3-2, before thunderstorms halted the second game of a nonconference doubleheader Thursday at the CU Sports Complex.
City prep squads well aware of huge challenge at Relays
Both Lawrence High and Free State will have athletes competing against each other in the Kansas Relays today and Saturday, but neither team considers this a city showdown of any sort.
Jayhawks off to fast start at Kansas Relays
KU 2nd in hammer, wins twice on track
The 2005 Kansas Relays started with a thud — the sound of the hammer hitting the ground in the men’s hammer-throw competition, which signaled the start of the 78th incarnation of the track meet at Memorial Stadium.
Lions’ Penny keeping busy on and off track
Lawrence High’s Scott Penny stood out among a crowd of hammer-throwers at the Kansas Relays. He wasn’t the biggest competitor and he didn’t throw the farthest. But he was the only high school competitor among collegiate athletes.
Chat wrap with Maurice Greene
Olympic champion Maurice Greene answered questions from KUsports.com readers Friday, just a day before he took part in the 2005 Kansas Relays.
Recruit backs out for time being
Lewis not committed, but still 'loves Kansas'
Dwight Lewis’ nonbinding oral commitment to Kansas University certainly didn’t last long. Lewis, a 6-foot-5 junior basketball guard from Archbishop Rummel High in Metairie, La., who Tuesday committed to KU, on Thursday backed off the commitment, saying, through his dad, he definitely would visit KU on April 29-30 and in-state school Louisiana State at a yet-to-be-determined date.
KU bowling locks down top seed
Kansas University men’s bowling team’s national title defense is off to a favorable start.