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KU volleyball coach holds camp

More than 250 girls aged between 6th and 12th grades are spending their week with KU head volleyball coach Ray Bechard.

KU football coaching staff readying for move into new complex

It’s a project so big, we’ll spend the next two nights trying to show it to you. On Thursday, Mark Mangino and the Kansas football coaches and staff move into the Anderson Football Complex at Kivisto Field.

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New K-State AD has grand vision

Everything about the man screams Chicago: The hard “Cs,” the flat vowels, the way he pronounces “South Side” as “Sout Side,” the firm handshake, the Dick Butkus connection, the straight-shooting way he answers questions, the friendly manner and general air about him suggesting he’s too much of a gentleman to start fights yet sure would feel comfortable finishing them. Kansas State’s new athletic director, Bob Krause, is proud of his Second City roots, but would object to Manhattan being labeled the Second (Kansas) City of the Big 12.

Volunteer KU coach headed to Olympics

Kansas University volunteer assistant track-and-field coach Aarik Wilson won the finals of the men’s triple jump Sunday at the U.S. Olympic Track and Field Trials and advanced to the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing.

Keegan: Keegan: Fam still selling Kansas

Former Kansas University football coach and fan favorite Don Fambrough remembers well the first time the hand of Mike McCoy relieved him of so much stress. “I had a hell of a time recruiting him,” Fambrough said Sunday of the offensive lineman from Hiawatha. “It was snowing and sleeting. I was staying at the Big Chief Motel. There was a gap of six inches between my door and the floor. Room full of snow.”