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Kansas fails to move up in polls
The Kansas football team, following a 30-14 victory over Colorado on Saturday, stayed in the same place in both the Associated Press and ESPN/USA Today Coaches’ polls released Sunday.
‘Late Night’ nears
Get the latest on the Kansas Jayhawks as the men’s basketball team prepares to defend its national championship in “Late Night in the Phog,” our special section coming Friday in the Journal-World. The section will preview Friday night’s traditional season-opening celebration, an event set to feature both the men’s and women’s teams.
Buffs QB OK with benching
Colorado quarterback Cody Hawkins wasn’t nicked up when his dad, Dan, pulled him from the field with almost a full quarter to play Saturday at Memorial Stadium. The hook in the Buffs’ 30-14 loss to No. 16-ranked Kansas was performance-related - nothing else.
Kansas football notebook
Despite another standout performance in a season that - so far - has been filled with them, Kansas University receiver Kerry Meier looked far from healthy in the Jayhawks’ 30-14 home victory over Colorado on Saturday.
Oklahoma State stuns Tigers, 28-23
Chase Daniel’s Heisman Trophy stock just plummeted. Missouri’s national championship hopes took a tumble, too. And how about those Oklahoma State Cowboys? No. 17 Oklahoma State stopped an offense that had been scoring at will, intercepting Daniel’s passes three times in the second half and upsetting the third-ranked Tigers, 28-23, on Saturday night.
Vanity plates show LUV4KU
Shannon Murphy rambles around town with a vanity license plate - 5288N08 - that no one else can claim, celebrating Kansas University’s national basketball championships in 1952, 1988 and, of course, 2008.The lifelong Jayhawk fan wouldn’t mind struggling to come up with a way to squeeze a 2009 onto her seven-digit metal placard of mobility.
Keegan: Keegan: For Jayhawks, training wheels off
Kansas University football coach Mark Mangino’s words and actions during and after Saturday’s 30-14 victory against Colorado at Memorial Stadium amounted to a father unfastening the training wheels from a bicycle and tossing them in the attic for storage.
Top 25 Roundup: Gators, Tebow tear apart No. 4 LSU, 51-21
Tebow threw two touchdown passes to Percy Harvin and ran for a score, and the Gators thumped defending national champion LSU, 51-21, Saturday night in The Swamp.The fourth-ranked Tigers (4-1, 2-1 Southeastern Conference) had won six consecutive games, 19 in a row at night and 23 straight in regulation.
Bill Self to sign copies of new book
Bill Self, head coach of Kansas men’s basketball, will sign his new book, “Bill Self: At Home in the Phog,” from 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday at the KU Bookstores, level two of the Kansas Union. The event is free and open to the public.
Big 12 Roundup: Tech outlasts Huskers in OT
Eric Morris had a one-yard touchdown run in overtime, and Jamar Wall made it stand up for Texas Tech with an interception. Texas Tech (6-0, 2-0 Big 12) left the door open for the Cornhuskers (3-3, 0-2) to win it with a touchdown and extra point when the Red Raiders botched the PAT after Morris’ score.
Never a dull moment
Sharp knifes through Buffs
For five weeks of its 2008 season, Kansas University’s football team had worked tirelessly to assimilate running back Jake Sharp into the run-game scheme that had served the team so well over the past few years, a north-south, fairly straight-forward attack.
Special-teams shakeup coming
Mangino miffed over Jayhawks' punt, kick, return woes
Kansas coach Mark Mangino made a promise shortly after his team’s 30-14 victory over Colorado on Saturday at Memorial Stadium: The Jayhawks’ struggling special teams would be improved. And quickly.”I’ll get that corrected,” a visibly upset Mangino said. “If there’s one thing that I do here during my tenure as head coach, I’m going to get these special teams squared away here.
Game balls & Gassers
¢ Jake Sharp, for the second week in a row, showed Kansas does have a running game after all, gaining 118 yards and rushing for three touchdowns.¢ Jake Laptad tackled Colorado quarterback Cody Hawkins for a safety and then made the safety sign, putting his hands together above his head.¢ Kerry Meier limped his way to 94 yards on nine receptions and sprinted away from any injury talk afterward.