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Investors buy into KU success

As if an Orange Bowl championship and national basketball title weren’t enough already, Kansas University is riding its athletic prowess into unprecedented success in what just might be the most competitive market around. High finance.

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Summer recruiting heats up for Self

A modest guy, Bill Self didn’t wear 2008 Kansas University national-championship apparel into gyms in Akron, Ohio; Louisville, Ky.; Philadelphia; and North Augusta, S.C., during the first half of the July recruiting period.

Commentary: Deadly drills should be outlawed

Cause of death: mat drills. That’s what the autopsy report should have said Friday. It should have said, “Ereck Plancher, just 19 years old, literally worked himself to death doing a draconian football drill that should be outlawed in 21st-century America.”

Paterno among hall’s inductees

Quarterback Flutie also enters college football shrine

Penn State coach Joe Paterno helped a lot of players make it into the College Football Hall of Fame. He counts former Boston College quarterback Doug Flutie among them.

KU golfer advances to match play finals

Kansas University junior-to-be Patrick Roth advanced to the finals of the 98th Kansas Amateur Match Play Championship on Saturday at Wichita Country Club.