Stories for June 6, 2008

6Sports video: Five Jayhawk baseballers drafted

Five KU baseball players were drafted on day two of the Major League draft.

Kent State added to slate

Kansas University’s men’s basketball team will play defending Mid-America Conference champion Kent State next season in Allen Fieldhouse. No date has yet been determined for the game, KU senior associate athletic director Larry Keating said Friday. The Golden Flashes return three starters off last year’s 28-7 squad, including MAC player of the year Al Fisher, a 6-foot-1 junior from Pennsauken, N.J.

B-ball ‘Boogie’ to laud KU, raise funds

Jayhawk fans are preparing to get down this Saturday at “Bill’s Basketball Boogie.” The event is to celebrate the 2008 men’s basketball national championship and to raise funds for coach Bill Self’s Assists Foundation to promote child health and wellness.

Paralyzed ex-player dies

Former Texas Tech defensive tackle Stoney Garland, who was paralyzed in a car accident more than a decade ago, has died. Garland, 33, died at his home in Plains on Wednesday, Tech’s athletic department said in a statement Thursday.

Ex-OU women’s coach dies

Burl Plunkett, who coached Oklahoma to the National Women’s Invitation Tournament title in 1994 and helped set the program up for its rise to national prominence, died Thursday. He was 75. Plunkett went 52-36 in three seasons as the Sooners’ coach, immediately prior to Sherri Coale’s hiring in 1996. He took Oklahoma to its second NCAA Tournament appearance in school history in 1995.

Mayer: Mayer: Jayhawks represent state well

Missouri and Kansas State zealots will cringe at this, but how could people with any Kansas connections not be beaming with pride over the way coach Bill Self and his Kansas Jayhawks projected the “sunflower” image in their recent trip to Washington and the White House?

Gary Bedore’s KU Basketball Notebook

Darrell Arthur, who at last week’s NBA pre-draft camp indicated he had played his last game at KU, confirmed his decision to stay in the NBA Draft to coach Bill Self on this week’s trip to Washington, D.C.“We’ve known all along this would be the case. He didn’t want to do anything (with regard to hiring an agent) in case of injury,” Self said. “He’s definitely going (to NBA).”

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