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6Sports video: Pless to join Ring of Honor
The Kansas football Ring of Honor will add its’ 14th member on September 1 when the Jayhawks take on Central michigan. KU defensive legend Willie Pless will be added to the wall at memorial Stadium.
KU target adds 2 schools to list
Blue-chip basketball recruit Willie Warren, a 6-foot-4 guard from North Crowley (Texas) High, has added Connecticut and Seton Hall to his list of schools. From Las Vegas, he told the Louisville Courier-Journal “schools two through eight” on his list of 10 are “all the same. There’s no two through eight.”
Wake coach Skip Prosser dies at 56
Heart attack believed to be cause of 'devastating' death
Skip Prosser, who led Wake Forest to its first basketball No. 1 ranking three seasons ago, died Thursday of an apparent heart attack, the university said. He was 56. Prosser was found slumped on his office couch and unresponsive by director of basketball operations Mike Muse shortly after returning from his noon jog, athletics director Ron Wellman said. Medical personnel performed CPR and used a defibrillator on Prosser, who was taken to Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center and pronounced dead at 1:41 p.m.
KU soccer players coach at camp
Kansas University goalkeeper Julie Hanley doesn’t plan to give up her starting job this season, but taking part in the KU Girls Residential and Preseason Soccer Camp on Thursday evening at the Jayhawk Soccer Complex, she took on another job title: coach. “It’s great,” Hanley said. “It’s good coaching them. They’re a lot of fun to work with, actually. And I think it helps us as players to kind of coach other kids.” Hanley gave three campers advice on defending the goal.
Pollard: Ref ‘didn’t stand out’
Scot Pollard hasn’t had any memorable run-ins with disgraced NBA referee Tim Donaghy, who has worked games during the former Kansas University forward’s entire 10-year pro career. “I could say I don’t like him that much, but there’s a long list of refs I don’t like very much,” said always-colorful former Kansas University forward Pollard, who played last season with the Cleveland Cavaliers. “When I first heard of this, it’s not like I said, ‘I know who that is.’ He didn’t stand out in my mind.”
Ex-Jayhawk fires 60 on Nationwide stop
Lawrence resident and former Kansas University golfer Chris Thompson shot an 11-under par 60 Thursday in the first round of the Cox Classic, a Nationwide Tour event played at Champions Run in Omaha, Neb. Thompson, who carded two eagles, seven birdies and nine pars, takes a one-stroke lead over Scott Sterling into today’s second round. Thompson played the back nine first and then fired a 29 on the front nine holes. He drove the green on No. 9, a par 4, and then made a 30-foot putt to secure the 60.
Mayer: Mayer: KU-MU moved before
Lew Perkins and The Suits on Mount Oread stirred up a mess of pottage when they shifted the Nov. 24 Kansas-Missouri football game from the KU campus to Kansas City. That’s supposed to dump a million bucks or so into the Jayhawk cash drawer, to hell with the mucho bucks the move on a Thanksgiving weekend will cost local people who’ve carried the load so long and so well.