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Mangino to speak at Kickoff Rally
Kansas Athletics Inc. and the Kansas University Alumni Association will play host to a Kickoff Rally, which will feature KU coach Mark Mangino, from 6:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 22, at the Corinth Square (83rd and Mission Road) parking lot in Prairie Village.
KU assistant basketball coaches rewarded
KU’s men’s basketball assistant coaches have received pay raises following the NCAA title season.
Fans get an eyeful at new field
It may be the best deal on Mount Oread these days: A free, almost daily glimpse of the Orange Bowl Champion KU football team. Leaders of the Kansas University Athletic Department may not have planned it this way when they built a new $31 million practice field and football complex south of Memorial Stadium, but it now appears that members of the public will get a free look at the team even during “closed” practices.
Arkansas guard out
Arkansas guard Patrick Beverley won’t play for the Razorbacks this season, the school said Friday.
New TE Steward radiates ‘meanness’
A.J. Steward is trying to become a meaner person. Not in general, necessarily - he was, after all, recently voted the Kansas football team’s funniest player in a poll of players - but on the football field, where he’s currently attempting to transform from a backup quarterback to the Jayhawks’ No. 1 tight end by the start of the 2008 season.
Give Jocques the rock
KU practice paints picture of explosive offensive unit
More than the sky was sunny at the Friday morning Kansas University football practice. So was the outlook for an offense that lost five key starters from a 12-1 season. With 20 of the top 22 players returning on defense, the development of the offense will get more attention in coming weeks. Those who sunned themselves at Memorial Stadium had to be pleased with what they saw from the skill positions. And let’s be honest, isn’t that what most people watch? The first thing to grab the eyes was the low-to-the-ground, slithery running style of Jocques Crawford, who makes quick cuts and has the look of a guy who instinctively knows how to make tacklers miss.