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6Sports video: Sooners top KU softball squad on Senior Day

The Oklahoma Sooners softball team squashed the KU team on Senior Day, winning 13-4.

6Sports video: Cornish headed back to Canada to play in CFL

After not being selected in this year’s NFL Draft, former KU standout Jon Cornish will join the CFL team the Calgary Stampeders.

Cornish to play for CFL’s Calgary Stampeders

Jon Cornish, who last season set the Kansas University single season rushing record, was not selected on Sunday, when the fourth through seventh rounds of the 2007 NFL Draft were conducted in New York’s Radio City Music Hall.

KU offered pleasant surprise during ‘95 football campaign

Max Falkenstien, the legendary Kansas University basketball and football announcer, has written a new book, “A Good Place to Stop, 60 Seasons with Max and the Jayhawks.” Today the Journal-World is running another excerpt from the book, published by Power House.

Everybody needs to step up’

Aldrich knows Jayhawks must account for loss of Wright and Rush next season

Cole Aldrich realizes he’s more important to Kansas University’s basketball team today, than, say, three weeks ago. “I think so,” Aldrich, KU’s 6-foot-11, 250-pound incoming freshman from Bloomington, Minn., said Saturday, asked if he’d have to arrive at KU as an impact player rather than a role player in the wake of decisions by Brandon Rush and Julian Wright to enter the NBA Draft.

Humphreys hunkers down

KU ace silences Big 12's hottest hitting team

As she took the mound in the seventh inning, Kassie Humphreys stared down the heart of the lineup for Oklahoma, which entered Saturday’s game ranked first in the Big 12 Conference in team batting.

Youth medal sparked KU’s Smith

Former Salina Central star fell in love with tennis at young age

A medal first got Stephanie Smith interested in tennis. Smith, now a junior on the KU tennis team, was 9 years old and playing in her first novice tennis tournament 15 minutes outside of her hometown, Salina. She didn’t win the tournament, but she got a medal.

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International players impact KU roster

The six Kansas University tennis players warm up in pairs - separating themselves by their countries of origin. The two Americans practice on the first court, the two Russians together on the middle court and the two Hungarians on the far court. “It’s gotten a little cliquey,” Salina junior Stephanie Smith said.

Afenir, Czyz stymie Sooners

Sophomore catcher Buck Afenir went 2-for-3 with two RBIs and sophomore left-hander Nick Czyz allowed just one earned run in six innings of work as the Kansas University baseball team knocked off Oklahoma, 6-3, on Saturday in a Big 12 Conference battle at Dale Mitchell Park.