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Turning the tide: Michael Cummings-led rally falls short as KU falls to OSU

For three quarters Saturday at rain-soaked Memorial Stadium, Kansas University’s football offense did next to nothing against Oklahoma State and found itself staring at 20-point hole in the final quarter with a feeling of hopelessness washing over whatever remained of the 31,115 announced attendance.

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KU soccer blanked again, 1-0 by Texas

Kansas University managed a season-low three shots on goal and suffered a second straight 1-0 setback, the more recent on Sunday to Texas at Mike A. Myers Stadium.

KU women entertain committed twins

Kansas University’s latest two women’s basketball commitments — twins Dakota and Dylan Gonzalez of Highland High School in Pocatello, Idaho — attended Friday’s Late Night in the Phog in Allen Fieldhouse as part of their official recruiting visits.

Hoops target Joel Embiid elevates KU

Joel Embiid, one of three uncommitted high school senior basketball prospects who attended Friday’s Late Night in the Phog, on Sunday listed Kansas University as his current leader in recruiting.

Column: Lubbock Smith welcome upgrade

Every regime change in college football is accompanied by a promise from the new head coach that he and his staff will seek to upgrade the speed of the defense.

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Questions, no answers, for Kansas at QB

The question will be asked at least a thousand times this week, and Kansas University football coach Charlie Weis has no plans to share the answer.

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After festivities, Jayhawks get down to business

Kansas University’s basketball players were back on the court — for the first real practice of the 2012-13 season — a mere 13 hours after Friday’s festive Late Night in the Phog.

Kansas had a plan for ‘tragic’ rain delay

While Saturday’s 20-14 loss to Oklahoma State will likely be remembered as red-shirt freshman quarterback Michael Cummings’ coming-out party, the one-hour and 19-minute weather delay also may be talked about for some time.

LB Jake Love responds

Jake Love couldn’t get the bad play out of his mind.

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Column: QB switch affects RB James Sims, too

The lights were turned up at a factory in 1924, and productivity increased. After a while, the lights were dimmed, and productivity increased again. It’s known as the Hawthorne effect. Part of what happened when Charlie Weis replaced immobile senior quarterback Dayne Crist with the more elusive red-shirt freshman Michael Cummings in the third quarter of Saturday’s lightning-interrupted football game could be attributed to the way the quarterbacks handle pressure from the defense.