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Extra! Extra! Write the championship headline

Posted Saturday, April 5, 2008

As the Jayhawks get ready for their final game of the season and the Final Four — the really big one — against Memphis, we're giving everyone a chance to submit their suggested headlines for Tuesday morning's paper.

Some advice: Be clever, descriptive and, of course, concise. Remember: Your optimistic words just might end up being prophetic.

So put on your editor's visor, grab a thesaurus and get to work. Post your headlines below and play editor for a day.

Comments

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Posted by larnedbear (anonymous) on April 5, 2008 at 10:18 p.m. (Suggest removal)

#1 JAYHAWKS SLAY TIGERS

Posted by mdwinkler (anonymous) on April 5, 2008 at 10:31 p.m. (Suggest removal)

umm
HEY ROY SUCK IT

FATHER LIKE SON....HANSBOROUGH CRYING

on a side not i love how announcers turn on kansas as soon as it gets close but then when it looks like a winner they are back on kansas side....

Posted by cwag (anonymous) on April 5, 2008 at 10:42 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Memphis Sings the Blues as Hawks Win Big

Posted by Jyhwk_InTigrtwn (anonymous) on April 5, 2008 at 10:54 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Different Tigers, Same Results - KU Wins!

Posted by dannyxo (anonymous) on April 5, 2008 at 11:29 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Roy Who?

Posted by g24ku57 (anonymous) on April 5, 2008 at 11:34 p.m. (Suggest removal)

20th Anniversary Celebration!!!!

Posted by approx (anonymous) on April 5, 2008 at 11:36 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Cole Saw Cole Slaw Cole Conquered

Posted by MOJHawk (anonymous) on April 5, 2008 at 11:55 p.m. (Suggest removal)

KUcan..UNCan't

Posted by MOJHawk (anonymous) on April 5, 2008 at 11:58 p.m. (Suggest removal)

The Bloom is off the Rose....KU snips Tiger hopes

Posted by jaybate (anonymous) on April 6, 2008 at 12:13 a.m. (Suggest removal)

KU Buries Calipari
And Memphis

KU Rips, Burns
CD-R, Memphis

Free Throws
Sink Memphis

If Beale Street Could Talk:
KU Beats Memphis for NC

Jayhawks Reach Graceland,
Beat Memphis For NC

Posted by robot (Robin Smith) on April 6, 2008 at 1:14 a.m. (Suggest removal)

Better Than The Best
Jayhawks Win Historic Final Four

The Only 1 Left
Jayhawks Are Champions

2008 National Champions
The Kansas University Jayhawks

Posted by westtexjayhawk (anonymous) on April 6, 2008 at 1:19 a.m. (Suggest removal)

Jayhawks have a Tiger by the Tail!

Chalmers Rose to the Occasion, Jayhawks Cruise to Championship

Crimson and Blue Blew out the Blue

Calipari? Call a Doctor!

Posted by Dr_Hawkenstein (anonymous) on April 6, 2008 at 1:53 a.m. (Suggest removal)

Win or lose, this is will still be one of the best feeling seasons for KU all time. Memphis has althletic specimans but we have a TEAM. No joke, the best team will win! Rock Chalk, Jayhawk, Go KU!!!

Posted by toby19891 (anonymous) on April 6, 2008 at 1:57 a.m. (Suggest removal)

How Sweet It Is...Revenge, That Is

Posted by CasperCorps (anonymous) on April 6, 2008 at 2:04 a.m. (Suggest removal)

Memphis as nervous as a short person on Mass street Sat. Night..

Posted by kushaw (anonymous) on April 6, 2008 at 3:35 a.m. (Suggest removal)

Carolina Tar Heel Born, Carolina tar Heel Bred
KU Defeats Carolina Tar Heels Dead Dead Dead!

This is basically right out of their fight song!

I probably would only use one "Dead" but I wanted extra emphasis for posting purpose.

Posted by overseashawk (anonymous) on April 6, 2008 at 5:40 a.m. (Suggest removal)

I think a great headline would be:

Kansas captures title; Memphis Barbecued!

Posted by 5DecadeHawk (anonymous) on April 6, 2008 at 6:41 a.m. (Suggest removal)

You want Headlines? I'll give you headlines. Try some of these on for size:

John Calipari posts LJW Headline contest in locker room to inspire his Memphis Tigers.

Stay Classy KU Fans, because the LJW doesn't know how.

KU's opponent disrespected by narrow sighted LJW Editors.

Advertisers boycot Lawrence Journal World for irresponsible behaviour.

Fans pile thousands of copies of the LJW on the paper's office doorstep to protest stupid decision.

Bill Self Incensed at LJW for disrespecting Memphis.

KU Players work hard to overcome stupidity of local paper.

Editor at Lawrence Journal World fired for enraging Memphis team and fans.

Fans cancel subscriptions to Lawrence Journal World in protest of it's irresponsible actions.

Memphis papers print story about LJW disrespectful headline contest.

ESPN Interviews LJW Editors about Headline Contest Fiasco

Lawrence Journal World stoops to new low. Acts like a Mizery Paper.

How many more do you want? I can think of hundreds and hundreds more.

DELETE THIS CONTEST PLEASE. END THIS NOW BEFORE IT DOES FURTHER DAMAGE!

This contest does NOT reflect my opinions about Memphis. The LJW does NOT speak for me! I respect Memphis and do not presume to write a championship headline before a game is played.

Any Memphis fan reading this, please don't think everyone in Lawrence is an idiot. Just a couple Missouri Alumni that run the local paper.

Please, fellow Jayhawk fans, protest this contest and get this contest pulled.

QUICKLY!

Posted by 5DecadeHawk (anonymous) on April 6, 2008 at 7:08 a.m. (Suggest removal)

Dewey Defeats Truman
Anyone remember that one?

Writing a championship headline before the game is even played? Is it possible to be more classless than that?

If you agree with me, please tell the Lawrence Journal World and ask them to delete this headline contest. We do NOT need John Calipari posting this in his locker room before KU's biggest game in years.

Main Phone Number: 785-843-1000

http://www2.kusports...

Ryan Greene, 785-832-6357

http://www2.kusports...
KUSports Web Producer
Nick Nelson, 785-832-6314

Let's start making calls people.

Posted by DCSven (anonymous) on April 6, 2008 at 9:35 a.m. (Suggest removal)

Jayhawks Tame Tigers, Tradition Rich Program Gets Richer

KU begins Dynasty, Rush, Chalmers and Arthur Vow to Repeat!

Orange Bowls and Peach Baskets, Kansas is Campion!

Posted by KUbsee69 (anonymous) on April 6, 2008 at 10:05 a.m. (Suggest removal)

Got a Bill that's big enough to twist the Tiger's tail ...

Posted by kellen813 (anonymous) on April 6, 2008 at 10:28 a.m. (Suggest removal)

20 years - A miracle in the making!

Posted by okiedave (anonymous) on April 6, 2008 at 11:06 a.m. (Suggest removal)

San Antonio's Local forcast on the 8's - JAYHAWKS NATIONAL CHAMPS.

Posted by katbasher (anonymous) on April 6, 2008 at 11:33 a.m. (Suggest removal)

And Then There Was One

** or **

Last Standing at the Alamo

Posted by larnedbear (anonymous) on April 6, 2008 at 11:43 a.m. (Suggest removal)

Bill does for KU what Roy could not,
Bring home the national championship!

Posted by RebeccaR (anonymous) on April 6, 2008 at 1:04 p.m. (Suggest removal)

No Grace for Graceland

Graceless in Graceland

Self Made Men

Posted by vegasartie (anonymous) on April 6, 2008 at 2:18 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Dewey defeats Truman. I beat the Urinal would have run that headline.

Bad idea to post a winning headline before the game is even played. Fellow Jayhawk fans -- doesn't this screw with your superstitions about getting too far ahead of yourselves?

I don't even want to think about what Self or the players would say. This is the kind of poor judgment people make fun of for years after the fact. Why not hold this contest on Monday night, after the game, win or lose?

Posted by KUSU (anonymous) on April 6, 2008 at 2:34 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Kansas Hits Free Throws to Win it

It's not Roses for Memphis, KU wins

KU Rush's to a Victory

Posted by jsmith76 (anonymous) on April 6, 2008 at 4:22 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Self Fulfilled!!!

Posted by jhox (anonymous) on April 6, 2008 at 4:33 p.m. (Suggest removal)

KU GIVES MEMPHIS REASON TO SING THE BLUES!

Posted by jhox (anonymous) on April 6, 2008 at 5:09 p.m. (Suggest removal)

JAYHAWKS ROCK WHILE MEMPHIS SINGS THE BLUES

Posted by actorman (anonymous) on April 6, 2008 at 5:11 p.m. (Suggest removal)

For you guys who are bitching and moaning about this contest, are you aware that they ran this SAME contest before the UNC game? Didn't make a whole lot of difference, did it? You're not SERIOUSLY superstitious enough to believe that it will have the slightest impact on the game, are you? And you don't SERIOUSLY believe that Memphis will use a contest from a Lawrence paper as motivation for the NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP GAME, do you? Two words come to mind: Lighten Up.

Posted by actorman (anonymous) on April 6, 2008 at 5:12 p.m. (Suggest removal)

20-20 Hindsight:
'Hawks crush Tigers for first title since '88

Posted by approx (anonymous) on April 6, 2008 at 7:09 p.m. (Suggest removal)

5DecadeHawk - this is a hypothetical contest in good fun. Nobody is saying that the Jayhawks have already won. They are writing what they would LIKE the title to be. If we're guilty of anything, it's putting so much weight on a GAME to begin with, but this exercise brings some levity to that.

Posted by wissoxfan83 (anonymous) on April 6, 2008 at 8:42 p.m. (Suggest removal)

If Rush has a big game again:
BRush With Greatness

If Mario has the big game:
Super Mario and Brothers

And a dig on our foes to the east:
Jayhawks beat Tigers, what else is new?

Posted by sho_tyme21 (anonymous) on April 6, 2008 at 8:54 p.m. (Suggest removal)

ROCK CHALK ON THE RIVER WALK: Jayhawks Win 3rd National Title

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