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Extra Minutes: Kansas 94, Pittsburg State 59
Tying up loose ends from KU’s 2007-08 exhibition debut, which featured the three-guard starting lineup of Mario Chalmers, Sherron Collins and Russell Robinson.
6Sports video: B-Mac ready for Huskers
Last week Kansas runningback Brandon McAnderson racked up 183 yards and 2 touchdowns against Texas A&M. This weekend B-Mac comes home to face the worst rushing defense in the nation.
6News video: Former mayor’s father coached last 8-0 team
It’s taken nearly a century for the Jayhawks to get this far into a football season undefeated, and that has a longtime Lawrence resident welcoming his late father’s return to the news.
6Sports video: Hawks pound PSU, 94-59
Plenty of experience returned to the hardwood this evening for Bill Self and the Kansas men. Kevin Romary has post-game highlights.
6Sports video: Star QB an “Incogni’hawk’”
Though KU enters this Saturday’s game as a 19-point favorite over NU, the Hawks aren’t walking around campus like rock stars.
6Sports video: Useless trivia with DJ
6Sports reporters DJ Whetter and Kevin Romary play KU basketball trivia.
6News video: Seating shake-up
Season ticket holders now have their hands on the coveted KU-MU football tickets, but for some the excitement was short-lived once they found out where they would be sitting.
6Sports video: Jayhawks unveil 07-08 team
A season of much promise begins tonight for the 4th-ranked Kansas men’s basketball team. This evening the Jayhawks open exhibition play against Pittsburg State.
6Sports video: KU-PSU pregame coverage
The Jayhawks hit the hardwood of Allen Fieldhouse tonight in their first exhibition game. Kevin Romary has more from the fieldhouse.
Paced by Collins and Chalmers, KU runs away from Pitt State, 94-59
Sherron Collins led all Jayhawks with 18 points, splitting them with eight in the first half and 10 in the second. Mario Chalmers was KU’s ultimate catalyst on offense in the first half, when he went four-of-five from three-point range. Darrell Arthur had 12 and Rodrick Stewart had 11 for KU. KU will take on Fort Hays State in its final exhibition tune-up Tuesday night in Allen Fieldhouse, followed by next Friday’s season opener against Louisiana-Monroe, also in Allen Fieldhouse.
ABC may televise KU-MU game, kickoff time TBA
ABC is exercising a six-day window to decide which game it wants to broadcast on Nov. 24, it was announced Thursday.
His father’s Jayhawks
Lawrence resident linked to KU's last 8-0 squad
Ted Kennedy, 95, answered the door of his Lawrence home, greeted his three visitors with a smile and welcomed them into his living room. “Oh, I hate that expression: ‘Still driving!’” Kennedy echoed one of his visitor’s patronizing statements. With those words, he taught his visitors a valuable lesson: Age is just a number…
Morris twins: basketball highlights
Basketball highlights from twins Marcus and Markieff Morris, highly-regarded prep school forwards from Philadelphia who recently announced their commitment to play with the Jayhawks in 2008.
Tune-up gives chills to rookies
Standing next to a concession stand in the northwest corner of Allen Fieldhouse, Cole Aldrich reverently eyed the tunnel that leads to James Naismith Court. “I had goosebumps going through it at Late Night. I’ve got goosebumps on my arm right now even talking about it … See?” Aldrich, Kansas University’s 6-foot-11 freshman from Bloomington, Minn., said, pointing to an arm that indeed was covered with small marks.
Morris twins commit to KU
Kansas has ventured to Philadelphia - home of former KU great Wilt Chamberlain - for not one, but a pair of blue-chip high school basketball prospects. “Wilt Chamberlain … he is big here, very big,” exclaimed Markieff Morris, a 6-foot-10, 230-pound power forward/center, who on Wednesday night orally committed to play ball at the alma mater of the late, great Chamberlain.
Mayer: Mayer: Jayhawks get it done
The Kansas football team’s 4-0 mark in Big 12 play might be 1-3 right now if the team hadn’t overcome its fourth-quarter el floppo tendencies of last year’s snake-bit crew. Unless the current Jayhawks suffer a massive collapse, they should be 9-0 and 5-0 after Nebraska’s visit Saturday.
Oklahoma drubs Rockhurst
Freshman Blake Griffin scored 19 points and Tony Crocker added 17 as Oklahoma beat Rockhurst of Kansas City, Mo., 93-58 in an exhibition game Wednesday night.
Major bowl representatives looking at KU
The Kansas University football team’s 8-0 start is starting to pique the interest of some major bowl games. The Jayhawks’ 11:30 a.m. game Saturday against Nebraska will be attended by multiple representatives of four big bowls - the Cotton, Sugar, Fiesta and Orange bowls.
KU staffer resigns
William Dent resigned Wednesday from his position as director of sports medicine for Kansas University, according to assistant athletic director Jim Marchiony.
Kansas volleyball falls to Bears
It took four games, but Baylor claimed its fifth straight Big 12 volleyball victory, a 30-19, 20-30, 30-24, 30-22 victory Wednesday night over Kansas University.
McIntosh key for Kansas women
Senior 'voice' of Jayhawks plays bigger than her 5-foot-11 frame
It’s not a push to compare Taylor McIntosh to Steve Jobs.
Case accustomed to ‘old’ jokes
Fifth-year senior really isn't 36; he just seems that, uh, advanced
Jeremy Case has heard the teasing. He knows what gives teammates reason to laugh at his expense.
Witherspoon relishes walk-on role
'Low-key' guard says his job to push scholarship players
OK, so Brad Witherspoon knows he’s not the big man on campus. It’s just that he’s a little bigger now than he was a year ago.
Stewart not going down without a fight
Muhammad Ali, Joe Frazier, George Foreman and … Rodrick Stewart?
Jackson grasping last opportunity
It’s hard enough holding onto a basketball when former Kansas University All-American Danny Manning is trying to knock it from your grasp.
Victories focus for Robinson
Everyone on the Kansas University basketball team, it seems, has a different opinion of Russell Robinson’s best attribute.
Kaun a role model
Jayhawks look up to tall Russian
With Sasha Kaun standing at 6-foot-11 - whether that is with or without the new curly hairdo is uncertain - most of the Kansas University men’s basketball team has to look up to see him.
Early foes saw run coming
Florida International football coach Mario Cristobal was met with rolling eyes and accusations of over-the-top coach-speak in September. Six weeks later, he’s getting the last laugh.
Kansas men loaded with seniors
In era of early departures, six fourth-year players on roster
Seniors are an endangered species at the country’s college basketball powerhouses. “It is pretty uncommon now. Pretty much all the talented players leave early,” KU guard Russell Robinson said. “It’s giving the smaller schools more opportunities to make runs late in the tournament.