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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.
KC blues: KU’s undefeated dream season ends at Arrowhead with 36-28 loss to MU
Still: 'We're going to go to a great bowl'
Scott Harrington is taking the half-full approach. Even if losing to his arch rival - and missing out on a Big 12 Championship and a chance at a national football title - is virtually impossible to swallow. “I hate losing to Missouri,” the Lawrence resident said Saturday, filing out of Arrowhead Stadium after his Jayhawks lost 36-28, in the annual Border War clash. “But still: We’re 11-1. We’re going to go to a great bowl.”
KU football team making habit of covering spread
OK, gambling geniuses: Who put $100 on Kansas at the beginning of the season and let it ride? You’d have $102,400 to wager on this weekend’s Missouri game, with a shot at much, much more.
Perfect record leads to big bucks
Lawrence economy still benefiting from game in KC
Turns out moving the final home Kansas University football game to Arrowhead Stadium will end up costing Lawrence merchants and local taxing bodies more than the $713,000 that had been estimated just last spring, an economist said.
Fans start drive for bowl trips
KU leaders, travel agencies anticipate potential destinations
Kansas University fans hungry for bowl trips already are inquiring about travel plans, whether it’s to San Diego, Dallas or - if the unbeaten crimson-and-blue streak continues - perhaps New Orleans to close out this most unexpected of football seasons.
KU’s winning vibe inspires whole city
Funny thing happens when Todd Reesing keeps throwing touchdown passes, Mark Mangino continues sawing wood and the Kansas Jayhawks unassumingly work their way deeper into college football’s national championship discussion.
6News video: A few tips to enjoying a safe KU gameday
Lawrence police suggest being mindful of some new enforcement strategies and even a new law on KU gamedays that could quickly turn a good time into a major loss.
Local businesses prepare for ‘million-dollar weekend’
KU officials hope for strong attendance at season opener
Lanny Riedel is looking forward to Saturday’s kickoff of the Kansas University football season. And not just to see Lawrence’s own Brandon McAnderson burst through holes, Aqib Talib pick off a pass or two and Todd Reesing drive the Jayhawks to victory against the Chippewas of Central Michigan.
Moving game to K.C. means ‘major business opportunity’ lost
Economist's analysis confirms fears of area business owners
Moving this season’s Kansas-Missouri football game to Arrowhead Stadium will cost Kansas, Douglas County and the city of Lawrence a combined $713,000, according to an economist’s analysis commissioned by the Journal-World.
Dejected, yet faithful
Jayhawk fans optimistic about next year's season
Awash in a sea of fans clad in baby blue - and, more importantly, an opportunistic lineup of sharp-shooting UCLA Bruins - Kansas fans once again are headed into the offseason with a postseason loss, this time one win away from the Final Four.
‘Ugly and brutal’ game sends fans in San Jose packing
Jack Merriman is a fan of Brandon Rush. Watched Brandon Rush. Even dressed up like Brandon Rush.
Fagan and the Fans: 15 seconds of … getting ready
Game just hours away
So, just how did you wake up today, now that Kansas University is playing for a spot in the Final Four?
‘Blinky’ Jayhawk pins sell like hot cakes
The best-selling items for Kansas University fans at the official team hotel in downtown San Jose are not Mario Chalmers jerseys, KU ball caps or even those pervasive plastic strings of crimson-and-blue basketball beads.
The ‘Madness’ continues to escalate
KU’s road to the Final Four in Atlanta goes through UCLA. Tip-off for the showdown is 24 hours away and 6News reporter Mark Fagan caught up with some KU fans in San Jose on the brink of the big dance’s biggest stage.
15 seconds of … what do we do now?
Moments after outlasting Southern Illinois to reach the Elite Eight in this year’s NCAA Tournament, Kansas basketball players settled into their folding chairs in the locker room to answer questions about the Salukis’ defense, Brandon Rush’s efficient sharpshooting and Rodrick Stewart’s inspired play. Then they told us what they’d be doing on the off day, the one before taking on UCLA in the regional finals Saturday.
15 seconds of … gloating
'Hawks fans love California
Temperatures in the 70s, no humidity to speak of and, well, several hundred Jayhawks willing to rub it in a bit for the folks back home.
Fans: Patience, perseverance important for scoring tickets
Take it from Chris Kaufman, Rich Littrell and Chris Green.
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