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6Sports video: Kansas sweeps ISU

On the courts this afternoon, the Kansas tennis team was trying to end their regular season schedule with a win over Iowa State.

6Sports video: Final day of Kansas Relays concludes with a few broken records

As the saying goes: all good things must come to an end. And on Saturday, the 81st Kansas Relays came to a close - but not before a few records were broken along the way.

Kansas baseball slammed

Kansas University had twice as many homers and matched Nebraska hit-for-hit, but the Huskers used a fourth-inning grand slam by Mitch Abeita to claim an 8-6 Big 12 Conference baseball victory over the Jayhawks on Saturday at Hawks Field.

Nebraska football fans turn out

Cornhuskers' spring game draws crowd of 80,149

After an agonizing end to the Bill Callahan era, Nebraska fans couldn’t wait to see what Bo Pelini’s Cornhuskers had to offer.

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Breaking the tape

'Batman' victorious again on Relays' last day

Bershawn “Batman” Jackson continues to perform superhuman feats at the Kansas Relays. “I need to buy a cape. Look for it next year,” the 24-year-old Miami native said Saturday after winning his fourth straight Relays 400-meter hurdles title and fifth in six years at Memorial Stadium.

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Keegan: Keegan: Touted hoopster doesn’t look it

Few of those sitting in the sun at Memorial Stadium early Saturday afternoon had any clue that months from now the girl wearing “Sequoyah” on her jersey and handing the baton to her sister in the 4X200-meter high school relay race could transform the perception of a Kansas University athletic program.

Kansas Relays notebook

Nichole Denby, who was named Most Outstanding Female Performer at last year’s Kansas Relays, won the 100 hurdles in a time of 12.78. Competing for Total Sports, she bested Josannne Lucas of Trinidad Tobago, who was timed in 13.05.

Lion starts strong as legend looks on

Before the start of the Saturday’s 1,600-meter run at the final day of the Kansas Relays, Lawrence High’s Dylan Hedges had a vision.

KU soccer wins final exhibition

Sophomore Monica Dolinsky scored a pair of first-half goals, and goalkeepers Julie Hanley and Stephanie Baugh combined to hold visiting Washburn scoreless as Kansas University blanked the Lady Blues, 5-0, Saturday at the Jayhawk Soccer Complex as KU wrapped up its spring exhibition season.

Kansas rowing strong at Southern regatta

All but one of Kansas University’s boats moved onto the Grand Finals after heats Saturday at the Southern Intercollegiate Rowing Association regatta.

Texas A&M no-hits Jayhawks in softball

Texas A&M senior Megan Gibson pitched her first no-hitter to lead the Aggies to a 14-0 Big 12 Conference softball rout of Kansas University on Saturday that was shortened to five innings by the run rule.