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KU cross country team opens 2008 season on Saturday
The Kansas cross country team opens the 2008 season on Saturday.
Mayer: Mayer: Pay to park? Please!
You get all agog about a football team and its prospects, then have a jug of Gatorade dumped on your enthusiasm when facing the perils of parking, which so many Kansas fans have to conquer. With the Jayhawks coming off a 12-1 Orange Bowl season and hopes soaring for 2008, wouldn’t it be wonderful if there were simpler ways to get to the stadium and luxuriate? Gets tougher and costlier every year.
Rivera ready to go
'Big Time' linebacker hopes to live up to nickname
They come up with nicknames for guys like Mike Rivera, usually something like Freight Train, The Animal or Mad Dog. Rivera’s no different. In fact, he has more nicknames than most. He has been called The Italian Stallion. That one’s near and dear to his heart. Two years ago, when he let his hair and beard grow wild, they called him Caveman. He still smiles when he hears that one.
Injury-prone senior has high hopes for final KU volleyball season
Natalie Uhart figures she must have been cursed. How else to explain her string of injuries as a collegiate volleyball player?
Wake Forest crushes Baylor, 41-13
Riley Skinner goes through stretches where he looks as if he just can’t miss. A pass tucked under a cornerback, another dropped over a linebacker, followed by a mid-range pass down the middle. All of it keeps No. 23 Wake Forest on the move.
OSU guard suspended
Oklahoma State point guard Andrea Riley, the Big 12’s top scorer, has been reprimanded and suspended by the NCAA for fighting with an LSU player during the Cowgirls’ final postseason game last season.
KU’s Little working with bigs
Mario Little has been working out with Kansas University’s ‘bigs’ during pre-Canada-trip basketball practice sessions. Those in the know say the 6-foot-5, 210-pounder out of Chipola (Fla.) Community College has fared well inside in the absence of 6-9 Markieff Morris and 6-8 Marcus Morris, who have yet to be cleared for practice by the NCAA Clearinghouse.
Recycling effort at KU football games boosts charities
When KU wins, local charities win. That’s the game plan for folks at Cans for the Community, an organization whose members line up in parking lots, streets and yards near Kansas University’s Memorial Stadium in search of aluminum cans for recycling.
ISU forces 6 turnovers in 44-17 rout of SDSU
Turnovers weren’t exactly Iowa State’s strong suit last year. The Cyclones turned that around in their season’s opener, converting nearly every South Dakota State miscue into points.