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6Sports video: Chalmers to stay in NBA draft

Kansas guard Mario Chalmers confirmed on Sunday that he’ll forego his senior season at KU to stay in the NBA draft.

Chalmers to stay in NBA Draft, forego senior season at KU

Kansas University men’s basketball coach Bill Self confirmed on Sunday what Mario Chalmers has hinted at for a couple of weeks to media outlets while on his predraft workout circuit - Chalmers will forego his senior season at KU and keep his name in the 2008 NBA Draft. Chalmers’ entry in the draft means three Jayhawks will give up remaining eligibility and opt for this year’s draft. He joins Brandon Rush and Darrell Arthur.

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The final countdown

Anderson football complex nearly complete

The television sets were delivered the other day - 57 of ‘em. Ranging in size from a piddling 32 inches to a massive 60 (measured diagonally), the flat-screen, high-def plasma wonders remain boxed, waiting to be hung. But the walls and the wiring and the 57 wall mounts are raised, wired and bolted on as work on the 80,000-square-foot Anderson Family Football Complex - the soon-to-be-home for Kansas University football - screams toward completion.

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Father and son enjoy Self camp

Life as a college basketball coach can be rather grueling, especially when taking on a head coaching position for the first time. That’s why Ben Miller enjoyed the opportunity of spending Saturday at the Bill Self Kansas Basketball parent-child camp with his 5-year-old son Charlie.

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Georgia topples top-seeded Miami

Stanford grabs other Day 1 victory at College World Series

Georgia scored four runs in the ninth inning - two on Miami closer Carlos Gutierrez’s throwing error - and the Bulldogs came from behind to beat the top-seeded Hurricanes, 7-4, in the College World Series on Saturday night.

KU women’s track places 15th at nationals

Kansas University’s Nickesha Anderson placed third in the 200 and Crystal Manning seventh in the triple jump, helping the Jayhawks tie for a 15th-place finish at the NCAA Outdoor track and field championships.

Keegan: Keegan: Life in poker’s fast lane

Monster Kansas University fan that he is, Topeka native and Overland Park resident Grant Hinkle felt a huge charge out of the Orange Bowl victory. And then the Jayhawks won the national title in basketball, which triggered one of his favorite childhood memories. He was seated at his third-grade desk when the voice on the intercom blared, “Grant Hinkle, report to the office.”

Elite Camp preps hopeful for future

For soon-to-be high school sophomores Dashawn Harden and Natalie Knight, the path to a college basketball career took a step forward this week at Kansas University’s Elite Camp. They practiced like the Jayhawks practice, lived like the Jayhawks live, and got a look at a school they hope to attend.