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6Sports video: Chalmers: Teahan’s three-pointers ‘automatic’
Last night Kansas crushed Florida Atlantic to improve to a perfect 6-0. Among the highlights: how about freshman walk-on Connor Teahan? Kansas City Rockhurst High grad scored 9 points in 9 minutes.
6Sports video: D-Jax earns 5th start of career
Three seasons on the hill and just four career starts for Darnell Jackson. Last night in D-Jax’s 91st game as a Jayhawk, he earned start number 5.
6Sports video: Talib named All-American
This morning the American Football Coaches’ Association named junior cornerback Aqib Talib a first-team All-American.
Kansas basketball notebook
Stuff me now, not later: Brandon Rush, who had 17 points off 6-of-14 shooting in 19 minutes, had a dunk try snuffed by high-flying FAU player Xavier Perkins in the first half.
KU’s Harris named top newcomer
Kansas University cornerback Chris Harris was named Big 12 Defensive Newcomer of the Year by the Associated Press, it was announced Wednesday.
A good, strong start
Jackson propels Jayhawks
An emotional guy, Darnell Jackson admits that being introduced as a starter at Allen Fieldhouse really gets his blood churning. “When they call your name,” said Jackson, who made his first start of the season and fifth of his four-year Kansas University basketball career Wednesday night, “and you run out there and everybody is yelling, it gives me a lot of energy. I was real comfortable starting the game.”
KU’s Self lauds Walters
Bill Self joined the Allen Fieldhouse fans in giving Florida Atlantic coach Rex Walters a thunderous ovation during pre-game introductions on Wednesday night. “I got goosebumps,” Self, Kansas University’s fifth-year coach, said of the applause accorded to ex-Jayhawk standout Walters prior to opening tip of the Jayhawks’ 87-49 rout of Walters’ Owls.
Commentary: Sit back and enjoy BCS madness
You can tell college football’s regular season is almost over. The arguing has begun. Which teams deserve a title shot? Who’s getting shafted? What will we see first, a playoff or a Martian president? Things always get contentious, but this year could set the record for holiday angst.
Texas Tech to review rider
A Texas Tech committee is looking into a stunt by the school’s caped mascot, who apparently violated safety policy by riding a horse into the football stadium with the reins in his teeth and hands flung into the air like pistols.
BCS changes unlikely
One wild and unpredictable college football season won’t cause the Bowl Championship Series to change.
Miles may talk to Michigan
Michigan athletics officials asked for and received permission from LSU to meet with Les Miles about the Wolverines’ head football coaching vacancy.
Baylor names Briles coach
Houston boss leaving after five seasons
Houston coach Art Briles is next to take on the task of pulling Baylor out of the Big 12 basement. Greeted by enthusiastic applause, Briles flashed the school’s trademark bear claw sign to supporters when he walked into a crowded room to be introduced Wednesday as Baylor’s 25th coach.
Sonics’ Collison suffers broken nose
Seattle SuperSonics forward Nick Collison will miss at least the next three games after breaking his nose against the Los Angeles Lakers.
Fans honor ‘Sexy Rexy’
Kansas University basketball fans welcomed former guard Rex Walters back to Allen Fieldhouse on Wednesday night with a rousing ovation in pregame introductions. One fan brandished a sign that read: “Welcome Back Sexy Rexy.”
Keegan: Keegan: Teahan on top of heap
The toughest thing about garbage time during a college basketball game is watching the patronizing cheers for walk-ons and the gut-busting by the regulars that takes place on the bench when one of the non-scholarship players scores.
Tigers tumble at Arkansas
Mike Anderson’s return to Bud Walton Arena ended a little sooner than he wanted. “I don’t think our guys lost,” Anderson said. “They just ran out of time.” Charles Thomas scored 21 points and defended two last-second 3-pointers by Missouri, helping Arkansas hold off the Tigers, 94-91, Wednesday night. Anderson, Missouri’s coach, spent 17 seasons as an assistant at Arkansas.
Tar Heels dispatch OSU; Spartans crush N.C. State
North Carolina didn’t need any help from apparitions. It just seemed that way to cold-shooting Ohio State. Wayne Ellington and Deon Thompson led a second-half surge, and the top-ranked Tar Heels held Ohio State without a field goal for almost 11 minutes in a 66-55 victory Wednesday night.
KU player submits diversion application
Dezmon Briscoe, a leading receiver on this year’s Kansas University football team, has submitted a diversion application to Douglas County District Court.
KU in contact with BCS bowls
The University of Georgia recently sent a marketing package to the Rose, Orange and Fiesta bowls showing just how the school is going to sell a boat-load of tickets to whichever game the Bulldogs are invited. This is what the at-large BCS bowl candidates do in the days leading up to Selection Sunday.