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Chad Lawhorn

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Fans get an eyeful at new field

It may be the best deal on Mount Oread these days: A free, almost daily glimpse of the Orange Bowl Champion KU football team. Leaders of the Kansas University Athletic Department may not have planned it this way when they built a new $31 million practice field and football complex south of Memorial Stadium, but it now appears that members of the public will get a free look at the team even during “closed” practices.

Benefits reaped from KU title run

Sales tax collections up 9 percent

You may not have worked it off yet, but those series of March Madness celebrations are beginning to pay off for the city’s coffers. Sales tax collections for the late March and early April period - the heart of the Jayhawk’s National Championship run - were more than $160,000 higher, or about 9 percent greater, than they were a year ago, city leaders recently learned.

Fans urged to stay off roofs at parade

Police, property owner concerned about safety at event

Downtown property owner George Paley hopes that one tradition from the 1988 National Championship parade doesn’t carry over to the parade on Sunday - using the roofs of downtown buildings as a viewing area.

Sunday parade set for champs

The streets couldn’t hold them all. Perched atop roofs of Massachusetts Street buildings were Kansas University flags that flapped on a bright spring day, balloons that drifted as high as the spirits of a town, and - most importantly - there were Jayhawk fans taking in a sight unlike any they had seen before.

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Jayhawks on parade? No plan for one yet

Prospects for a parade to celebrate Kansas University’s National Championship were a lot like the weather that greeted the team on Tuesday - cloudy at best.

KU won’t commit to downtown parade for National Champions

It doesn’t look like a parade will be part of Kansas University’s National Championship celebration.

Heavy rain expected to cover basketball celebrations

People looking to celebrate outside tonight as part of National Championship festivities should prepare to get wet - and not just with champagne.

Final Four revelry expressed through littering, T-shirt sales

It looked like a frat house exploded. That’s one way to describe the mess of beer cups, beer cans, beer bottles and anything else beer-related you can think of on Massachusetts Street following Kansas University’s basketball victory Sunday evening that sent the Jayhawks to the Final Four.

Crews finish Downtown Lawrence cleanup following basketball bash

Parts of Massachusetts Street were a mess following Sunday evening’s basketball celebration, but city crews largely had the mess cleaned up by mid-morning today.

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Jayhawks bask in victory

'I have a feeling we're starting a new tradition'

The kids didn’t know any better, and as a result they had the party figured out better than anyone. A gap-toothed 7-year-old held high a poster of coach Mark Mangino wearing a crown of oranges. Ten-year-old Sydnee Pointer of Independence, Mo., showed off her KU cheerleader outfit and told how she got to wear it to school.

The man behind the sunglasses

Passion for game led Mangino from Pennsylvania to prairie

It was the rarest of days in Memorial Stadium. The flags were limp, even the one high atop the construction crane that was supposed to be the season-long symbol of new heights the Kansas University football team would reach in the future.

Group hopes city will OK plans for KU-MU party

Big game. Big screen. No, a really big screen. Kansas University fans may have the chance to watch the upcoming KU vs. Missouri football game on a 50-foot, outdoor screen near the corner of Ninth and New Hampshire streets, if city commissioners approve a request from Downtown Lawrence Inc.

BCS rank ‘the right number’

Don’t get greedy. So what if zero is still less than one? Who cares if a Duck is getting more respect than a majestic Jayhawk? Kansas University football fans Monday weren’t complaining too loudly that the Jayhawks improved only to No. 3 in the Bowl Championship Series standings.

Boathouse proposal approved

Local environmentalists object to Burcham Park plan at city meeting

Plans for a Kansas University boathouse to be built in Burcham Park won City Commission approval Tuesday night, despite encountering choppy waters from environmentalists. Commissioners unanimously approved a special-use permit for an approximately 16,000-square-foot, $6 million facility that will serve as a boathouse and clubhouse for the Kansas University rowing team.

Boycott of KU-MU game urged

Bar owners protest loss of revenue from moving match to K.C.

Stay at home and party. That’s what a pair of downtown Lawrence business owners will be trying to convince Lawrence residents to do on Nov. 24, rather than travel to the Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, Mo., to watch Kansas University’s “home” football game against Missouri.

KU boathouse along Kaw gets go-ahead

Rowing team plans $6M facility at Burcham Park

City commissioners Tuesday evening jumped at a chance to make Lawrence look more like its moniker of River City.

Businesses oppose game in writing

Group sends statement to KU that objects to moving MU showdown to Arrowhead

Message delivered. In case there was any doubt, the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce has made it clear that the city’s business community is upset about a decision to move this season’s Kansas University football game against Missouri to Kansas City’s Arrowhead Stadium.

KU fans taking money to K.C.

Game venue means loss of local revenue

Thank heavens for the dog show. The Lawrence Jayhawk Kennel Club’s annual dog show will be the big event in town this weekend since Kansas University decided to move Saturday’s home football game with Oklahoma University to Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, Mo.

Arrowhead game deemed a fumble for city’s economy

Officials say KU's scheduling matchup in K.C. takes revenue from Lawrence

With Kansas University’s home football game against Oklahoma scheduled to be played in Kansas City’s Arrowhead Stadium this year, the Boomer Sooners won’t be making much noise in the Lawrence economy.

Bar owners expect to score with KU game

Local establishments ready for Madness to strike tonight

To Ulysses Demby’s way of thinking, late is great. Count Demby, manager of Lawrence’s Set’Em Up Jacks, among the restaurant and bar operators who are pleased with tonight’s late tipoff of Kansas University’s first-round NCAA Tournament game.