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KU basketball defeats Carleton, 84-83
The Kansas men’s basketball beat Carleton, 84-83, on Saturday night in Ottawa, Canada.
KU basketball defeats McGill, 72-67
Jayhawks win exhibition opener in Canada
The Kansas men’s basketball team recovered from a slow start to take a 72-67 victory over McGill University at Montpetit Hall in Ottawa, Canada.
Briscoe’s 3 TDs lead KU to 40-10 victory over FIU
The Newell Post
Jayhawks open season with blowout win.
Off on the right foot
KU counting on freshman WR/returner
A few weeks back, during the Kansas University football team’s annual media day, Daymond Patterson was not sure what his immediate future would entail. A true freshman competing in his first college training camp, Patterson was in the process of making the sometimes-smooth, sometimes-bumpy transition from high school to Div. I football, and despite whispers that he stood the best chance to forgo a red-shirt season, he stopped short of saying he’d prefer to play right away.
KU volleyball drops season opener to VCU
The Kansas University volleyball team was swept in its season opener against Virginia Commonwealth, 3-0, on Friday night.
Football’s return puts superstitions back in play
You stick with what works. A year after Kansas University’s football team vaulted to its most successful season in decades - with 12 wins and its first Orange Bowl title - Jayhawk fans vow to continue using the lucky rituals and charms they picked up last year.
Gary Bedore’s KU basketball notebook
Kansas University’s basketball players and coaches were greeted by about 50 Jayhawk fans upon entering the lobby of the downtown Fairmont Chateau Laurier Hotel at 8:30 p.m., Friday, in Ottawa, Ontario.
Coach changing FIU’s ‘culture’
The first things to go, the new coach with the funny name told them, were the cell phones and the iPods. Hats and pants that sagged halfway down butts? Those were history, too. Players, this new coach said, would sit in the first three rows of class. They would not slouch. They would ask questions. Oh, and if a practice began at 5 a.m., that was simply an easier way of saying that it started at 4:45 a.m.
OSU receiver Woods back from scary injury
Artrell Woods was in the Oklahoma State weight room when his life came crashing down.
Keegan: Keegan: Still no respect for KU
The best measure of the respect level a nation of college football fans has for any given school can be found in Las Vegas, where oddsmakers offer action on all sorts of propositions. Only one conclusion can be reached based on a number offered in one revealing proposition and that is that America still doesn’t respect Kansas University football. America still thinks Kansas is a basketball school coming off a fluke of a 12-1 football season.
Self to value progress over results
Jayhawks won't have set lineup in exhibition trip to Canada
A fierce competitor, Kansas University basketball coach Bill Self would rather win than lose three exhibition games in Canada this Labor Day weekend. Yet the Jayhawks’ sixth-year coach realizes the scores of today’s twinbill against McGill University (10 a.m., Central time, Montpetit Hall) and Carleton University (6 p.m., Scotiabank Place) and Sunday’s game against the University of Ottawa (6 p.m., Montpetit Hall) mean zip, zero, nada, nothing in the big scheme of things.
Pelini’s goal to erase sour 2007 memory
Those fans who chanted “We Want Bo” after Nebraska’s 2003 Alamo Bowl victory have waited five long years for this. The Bo Pelini era at Nebraska begins tonight when Western Michigan visits.
MU’s Maclin, Daniel develop into dynamic duo
This time last year, Jeremy Maclin was a backup wide receiver at Missouri. Highly touted, definitely, but still a red-shirt freshman coming off major knee surgery.
Two-wheeled parking on game day has free options
Free bus shuttles aren’t the only way to avoid parking fees in campus lots leading up to today’s season-opening Kansas University football game at Memorial Stadium.
Kansas vs. FIU: Head to head
Today, fans will get their first look at junior transfer Jocques Crawford, who rushed for over 1,900 yards at Cisco Junior College last year on the way to earning national junior college offensive player of the year honors. In last year’s meeting with FIU, three Kansas players rushed for 40 yards or more against the Golden Panthers, who struggled to stop the run throughout the season.
Scouting the KU opponents: Carleton a Canadian power
Here are some tidbits on Kansas University’s Labor Day weekend exhibition basketball opponents: McGill University of Montreal, Carleton University of Ottawa as well as the University of Ottawa:
Sherman generating buzz again at A&M
The Mike Sherman era at Texas A&M begins against the same opponent that the last coach faced in his first game.
Longhorns counting on freshmen on defense
The Texas Longhorns revealed their first depth chart for the season with a few new faces and a bit of anxiety about their pass defense.
MU-Illinois not just about hoops
Coming off a 12-win season and ranked higher than ever before to start the season, No. 6 Missouri is counting on an immediate test from Illinois. The 20th-ranked Fighting Illini feel likewise.