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Documents show what it looks like when Mangino loses his temper
Coach accused of berating student parking employee in 2007, has not had a ticket since
The summer before Kansas football would embark on its most successful season in history, the team’s coach would be accused of verbally berating a KU student who had issued him the latest of nearly two dozen tickets for illegally parking in a loading zone near his office.
Kansas Highway Patrol advises football fans to arrive early, stay sober at KU-KSU game
The Kansas Highway Patrol offers a winning game plan for fans attending Saturday’s Sunflower Showdown in Manhattan: Arrive early and leave sober.
KU wants to alter 11th Street to increase parking for new Gridiron Club
Project would improve traffic flow, add parking
A split formation for 11th Street near Memorial Stadium would be straightened out in conjunction with Kansas Athletics Inc.’s game plan for a new $34 million Gridiron Club.
KU couple name kids after football, basketball heroes
Two of the littlest Jayhawks fans in Lawrence have some big KU names to live up to.
Joe-College.com ordered to pay Kansas Athletics more than $660,000
Judge orders business to cover KU Athletics’ attorney fees, expenses
The owners of Joe-College.com must pay Kansas Athletics Inc. $667,507 in attorneys fees and expenses generated during a court case over the content of loosely — and perhaps not-so-loosely — KU-themed T-shirts, a federal judge ruled Monday.
Ticket ‘stimulus’ program kicks off
As officials at Kansas Athletics Inc. line up Jayhawk boosters to finance a $34 million Gridiron Club and pump another $40 million into academics, they’re working to keep less well-to-do fans in the game plan.
Former city leadership settles in with KU athletics
Two longtime public servants are pleased to be continuing their careers in a different kind of arena. Debbie Van Saun and Frank Reeb, former co-workers at Lawrence City Hall, are back on the same team — this time with Kansas Athletics Inc.
To meet fan, alumni expectations, KU Athletics commits to fieldhouse matters
Sure, brothers C.J. and Xavier Henry will play for their parents’ alma mater this fall, more than two decades after mom and dad each suited up for the Jayhawks. The incoming basketball brothers also will be among the thousands of crimson-and-blue players, staffers, fans and others who will be stepping into the next generation of Allen Fieldhouse: a basketball building long revered for its history but one quickly becoming home to the latest in technology, comfort and competition.
City considers bus shuttle for KU football game days
KU football fans would be able to pay $1 for a round-trip bus ticket connecting downtown and Memorial Stadium this season, under a plan up for approval Tuesday night by Lawrence city commissioners.
Purported Mizzou Web address sends Internet surfer to a more crimson destination
The owner of http://Mizzou.us is using the address to direct visitors away from their expected online lair — a home page affiliated with the University of Missouri — and lure them instead into the official, virtual world of the Kansas Jayhawks: KU.edu
Lawrence No. 2 on list of “great college basketball towns to visit”
Lawrence ranks among five “great college basketball towns to visit,” according to CNN.com.
Jayhawks’ first-round foes back in North Dakota battling flooding river
After battling the Kansas Jayhawks, members of the North Dakota State men’s basketball team returned to campus and found themselves taking on another challenge: fighting the threat of flooding.
Jayhawk still alive among top 10 ‘pet’ mascots
An online site ranks Kansas University’s Jayhawk as the No. 10 mascot in this year’s NCAA Tournament field, but the mythical bird already has survived longer than four higher-ranked animals — including the pre-tournament No. 1, Dubs the Husky from the University of Washington.
Jayhawks fly high as No. 3 seed in Midwest
First NCAA opponent: N.D. State
For the Kansas Jayhawks, the Road to the Final Four leads 480 miles to the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome in Minneapolis, Minn. And plenty of fans will be joining Bill Self’s defending national champions for the ride. “Alumni always flock to wherever the team will be playing, and this year will be no different,” said Jennifer Sanner, senior vice president for the Kansas University Alumni Association.
Plan ahead to make holiday travel easiest
Just think: If Santa can manage to traverse the globe while enduring extreme weather conditions, conflicting flight restrictions and countless rooftop landing challenges — all in a single night, no less — perhaps it’s easier to envision making a trouble-free trip to grandma’s house.
KU, MU reach agreement to continue Border War at Arrowhead through 2012
The Kansas City Chiefs announced this afternoon that the Kansas Jayhawks and Missouri Tigers will play their annual football meeting at Arrowhead Stadium through 2012.
Neighbors support 18th Street closure near Allen Fieldhouse
The temporary barriers are gone. The signs are gone. The pavement’s gone. In their place along 18th Street is a new concrete lattice, one strong enough to support the weight of hundreds of cars, vans and SUVs leaving after a Kansas University basketball game, but open enough to allow new grass to grow, bicycles to pass through and neighbors to rest easy.
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.
Jayhawk Marching Band gets big gift
A musical flock of Jayhawks will be expected to grow larger, play louder and ensure that crimson-and-blue notes are heard clearly throughout the country.
Two-wheeled parking on game day has free options
Free bus shuttles aren’t the only way to avoid parking fees in campus lots leading up to today’s season-opening Kansas University football game at Memorial Stadium.
Recycling effort at KU football games boosts charities
When KU wins, local charities win. That’s the game plan for folks at Cans for the Community, an organization whose members line up in parking lots, streets and yards near Kansas University’s Memorial Stadium in search of aluminum cans for recycling.
KU football fans to pay more for pregame fun
The cost of tailgating in a campus parking lot is going up faster than Todd Reesing’s anticipated passing yardage.A space in the lone on-campus, tailgate-friendly lot designated for parking by people outside the Williams Educational Fund - lot 90, east across Naismith Drive from Allen Fieldhouse - will cost $20 this season, up from zero a year ago.
Backpacks banned from KU football stadium
Football fans making the hike to Kansas University’s Memorial Stadium no longer can tote their belongings - blankets, diapers or anything else - in backpacks.
KU, city team up for free game-day parking, shuttle
KU football fans looking to avoid confusion with on-campus parking lots, on-the-hill construction and any remaining road detours can turn to a new option for game-day parking beginning Saturday. Park and ride, for free, from downtown Lawrence.
KU tops North Carolina for royalties title
Kansas has beaten North Carolina again, this time when it comes to proceeds from sales of officially licensed merchandise.
Traffic officials brace for first game-day blitz
Hundreds of motorists will need to call a game-day audible as they enter and exit Lawrence for Kansas University’s season-opening football game, now just two weeks away.
KU: Donor on schedule with $12M for athletics
Tom Kivisto's job loss hasn't affected pledge to university
Tom Kivisto may be out as CEO of what had been one of the fastest-growing private companies in the country, but he’s still part of Kansas Athletics Inc. And he’s still current on his payments for a $12 million pledge he’s made to improve football facilities on campus.
Investors buy into KU success
As if an Orange Bowl championship and national basketball title weren’t enough already, Kansas University is riding its athletic prowess into unprecedented success in what just might be the most competitive market around. High finance.
Some offices to move for a time
Lawrence Paper Co. will be temporary home during renovations
Some athletics officials from Kansas University soon will be moving their offices to a building owned by the folks who make Jayhawk Boxes. Kansas Athletics Inc., which runs athletics programs at KU, has leased 11,000 square feet of space in an office building owned by Lawrence Paper Co. in northwest Lawrence.
6News video: KU athletics to take on t-shirt shop
This week, KU goes to court in a legal contest against an upstart t-shirt shop with plenty of royalties at stake. 6News business editor Mark Fagan looks for a few legal minds in this report.
Department seeking win in court
Jury to hear case regarding sale of unlicensed T-shirts
Now that Kansas Athletics Inc. already has secured an Orange Bowl title and an NCAA basketball national championship, the protector of all things Jayhawk is playing to win on a different field of competition. In a jury trial set to begin this week, the department hopes to convince a federal jury to order Larry Sinks to quit printing up Kansas-related designs on blue T-shirts.
Chamber not paying for canceled banquet
The Lawrence Chamber of Commerce hasn’t acceded to Kansas Athletics Inc.’s request for as much as $6,400 to cover the department’s costs associated with canceling a postseason basketball banquet at the Lawrence Holidome. And chamber leaders don’t intend to, either.
Jayhawk gets Corvette treatment
A fiberglass Jayhawk is back in the fast lane, spiffed up by a high-end auto body shop to shine, sparkle and shimmer at a busy Lawrence intersection. The Jayhawk - “Peace, Love and Daisy Hill Forever,” from Jayhawks on Parade five years ago - is back resting on its concrete stand atop a base of stone tiles on the lawn out front of Douglas County Bank, at the southwestern corner of 31st and Iowa streets.
6News video: Jayhawk statue returns to local bank fully restored
A point of pride for a local bank is back on its public perch - in full, restored glory!
Parade and awards ceremony to honor Jayhawks today
Mario Chalmers made the shot. Bill Self’s still the coach. Now it’s time for KU’s heroes of the hardwood - the 2008 national champions, less than a week after outlasting Memphis to claim the NCAA title - to ride triumphantly through the heart of Lawrence, in a parade of significance unseen since Kansas’ last title 20 years ago.
Parade route growing to accommodate crowd
'It's going to be a full house'
Downtown simply isn’t big enough for Jayhawk Nation. Organizers of Sunday’s parade of champions for the KU basketball team are extending the route beyond the central business district, aiming to accommodate tens of thousands of people expected to descend on Lawrence to celebrate the university’s first national championship in 20 years.
Victory parade route extended
The route for Sunday’s parade of champions for the Kansas Jayhawks has been extended beyond downtown.The parade, as originally scheduled, will start at 3 p.m. at Seventh and Massachusetts streets, and move south on Massachusetts toward South Park.But instead of stopping there, the parade crew of KU players, coaches, support staffers and members of the pep band and Spirit Squad will continue down Massachusetts to 19th Street.From there they’ll turn and head west, toward 19th and Naismith Drive.
KU, city preparing for parade on Sunday
Kansas University’s hoops heroes will be joined by the KU pep band and Spirit Squad in riding, marching and cheering down Massachusetts Street for a victory parade at 3 p.m. Sunday.
Parade of champions planning progresses
Plans are in the works for Bill Self, Mario Chalmers and the rest of the NCAA Champion Kansas Jayhawks to ride down Massachusetts Street in the city’s first championship parade in two decades.Joining the team as parade participants Sunday will be athletics support staff, the pep band and members of the Spirit Squad. Unlike years past, there will be no room for public floats, good-luck charms or other folks who might want to join in.
KU, city preparing for parade on Sunday
Kansas University’s hoops heroes will be joined by the KU pep band and Spirit Squad in riding, marching and cheering down Massachusetts Street for a victory parade at 3 p.m. Sunday.
‘We’re better than everyone’
Jayhawk Nation celebrates second title in 20 years
Jessica Greenwood, a Kansas University senior, stood in the middle of Massachusetts Street, under the glow of hundreds of cell-phone snapshots and digital camera flashes, knowing that she needed to capture the moment forever.
Around and about Lawrence on the night of the NCAA championship
We’re out and about again in Lawrence tonight, as part of our coverage of Kansas University’s National Championship game against the University of Memphis. Mark Fagan and Jonathan Kealing are where the fans are. Here’s their report, which will be updated throughout the evening.
Taking two sides
For Roy Williams' Lawrence friends, KU-UNC game presents a tough choice
Randy Towner plans to hunker down at the newly remodeled 19th Hole lounge at Alvamar, unable to decide whom to cheer for. Mike Davis intends to duck into the Alamodome sporting an orange outfit, seeking refuge in a seating section neither dominated by crimson and blue nor awash in Tar Heel blue.
Home-field advantage for KU
Ford CEO says Detroit arena ready for Jayhawks
Good seats are still available for Friday night’s KU basketball game in Detroit, to be part of what could be the largest crowd ever for an NCAA Tournament game. So says Alan Mulally, who knows a thing or two about the venue.
TapStats to make a play at Big 12 Tournament in Kansas City
A statistics program and display package developed by two information-technology professionals in Kansas University’s athletics department is getting its big shot this week in Kansas City, Mo.
KU champs aim to ‘take over’ NBA
Members of 1988 basketball team rising as executives in league
Kevin Pritchard is convinced one of his teammates will join him atop an NBA franchise’s front office. That would make three players or staffers from Kansas University’s 1988 NCAA championship team to ascend to the top rung of an NBA team’s executive ladder. “Milt (Newton) will be an NBA GM, no doubt about it,” said Pritchard, general manager for the Portland Trail Blazers. “He will be a great GM.”
20 years older, still champs
1988's wonder team credits life skills learned on court
It’s been nearly 20 years since Chris Piper, Kevin Pritchard, Milt Newton, Jeff Gueldner and Danny Manning closed their last season together with six straight victories to win an NCAA championship. And they’re still winning. The five starters from that 83-79 victory over Oklahoma in Kansas City, Mo., are continuing to post success in their professional pursuits, from basketball to banking, cars to custom-made glassware.
Booth’s stint over as KU basketball announcer
Hank Booth’s four-year career as public-address announcer at Kansas University men’s basketball games is over. Booth - a one-time radio station owner, longtime radio executive and ongoing on-air personality - learned last week that his services no longer would be needed near center court at Allen Fieldhouse.
Jayhawk Notebook
Nico Roesler came into Saturday’s game with a pretty good idea about the opposition. After all, he’d been doing his best Chase Coffman impersonation all week - and his Kansas University teammates had managed to successfully stuff Roesler and his fellow scout team players more often than not.
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Aldrich must wait months for tooth replacement November 23, 2009
Big 12 colleagues voice support for embattled KU coach November 23, 2009
Morris leads KU women past Michigan November 22, 2009
Huskers sweep KU volleyball November 22, 2009
KU football competes but falls at Texas November 22, 2009
_r90x60.jpg?781011941c6c07bdfc65b7b14fce7e91909b1ea6 "KU guard Sade Morris battles Michigan guard Dayeesha Hicks for a loose ball during the first half of the game on Sunday, Nov. 22, 2009, at Allen Fieldhouse.")
