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Meier to get more time at wideout this season
Kerry Meier started the 2007 college football season as a backup quarterback. He finished the year, however, with a much larger role.
Mayer: Mayer: Hadl special athlete
The late Nanny Duver was noted for his Central Junior High football program that was, in effect, an incomparable farm system. CJHS helped push Lawrence High’s record up among the best the nation has ever seen. Hard-core Nanny wasn’t one to spew verbal superlatives so you had to take him seriously when he said of a young John Hadl, “This kid’s really gonna be SOMETHIN’!” Was he ever! LHS head coach Al Woolard drooled for a long time waiting for the kid to show up on his roster.
Mission: possible
Like KU in '02, Briles inherits struggling program
Art Briles doesn’t have to look far for proof Baylor really can turn around its football fortunes. Briles, the Bears’ first-year coach, inherits a team that has won a combined eight Big 12 Conference games in the past six years, hasn’t won more than three league games in a season in the history of the conference and has four seasons without a Big 12 victory.
Three Jayhawks to swim in Open Championships
Kansas University seniors Danielle Herrmann and Ashley Leidigh, as well as freshman Abigail Anderson, will compete in the U.S. Open Swimming Championships, which begin Tuesday in Minneapolis.
Jayhawks counting on Steward at tight end
After tossing touchdowns for most of his recent life, Kansas red-shirt freshman A.J. Steward will be charged with catching them this year.
Ex-MU guard’s trial delayed
Former Missouri basketball player Jason Horton will wait until at least September for his trial on assault charges for a midseason fight outside a downtown nightclub.