Stories for October 8, 2012

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Afternoon

Point guard Frank Mason commits to KU basketball

Frank Mason, a 5-foot-11 point guard from Massanutten Military Academy in Woodstock, Va., has orally committed to Kansas University, Mason told the Journal-World on Monday afternoon.

Night

Ceremony has KU flavor

Former Jayhawks David Jaynes, Bud Stallworth, Wayne Simien enter Hall

A blue-chip quarterback at Bonner Springs High School, David Jaynes committed to play football for Bear Bryant’s powerhouse University of Alabama football program in the fall of 1970. Jaynes changed his mind after Kansas University assistant football coach Terry Donahue invited him to a KU-Kansas State basketball game in Allen Fieldhouse.

Stories

Sherron II? Collins-like guard Frank Mason picks KU

Virginia native Frank Mason, who cited Kansas University’s tradition in basketball as one reason for orally committing to the Jayhawks, hopes his college career mirrors one of his all-time KU favorites.

Column: Time for Weis to get creative

Business as usual won’t cut it for a Kansas University football team armed with squirt guns and facing one Big 12 nuclear offense after another the rest of the schedule.

Kansas trailer soon to have Kansas tags

Formerly, it was licensed in Maine

Nearly everywhere you look, ‘Kansas’ is plastered somewhere on the big semitrailer that hauls shoulder pads, helmets and other gear for the Kansas University football team to road games. Well, almost everywhere. It isn’t on the license plate.

Point guard Frank Mason commits to KU basketball

Frank Mason, a 5-foot-11 point guard from Massanutten Military Academy in Woodstock, Va., has orally committed to Kansas University, Mason told the Journal-World on Monday afternoon.

KU-OU kickoff set for 6:05 p.m. Oct. 20

The Big 12 Conference announced Monday morning that Kansas University's Oct. 20 football game at Oklahoma would kickoff at 6:05 p.m. and would be televised on Fox Sports Net.

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