Kansas University athletic director Lew Perkins was expected to be released from Lawrence Memorial Hospital today after being hospitalized Sunday night for a bleeding ulcer.
“He’s doing fine,” associate athletic director Jim Marchiony said Tuesday. “He has a couple of ulcers, but he’s going to be fine. He’ll be out of the hospital tomorrow.”
Senior associate athletic director Larry Keating is in charge of the day-to-day operations of the department while Perkins is out, said Marchiony, who added the AD should return to work by Monday.
“The question is whether he’s going to be in before then,” Marchiony said. “We’d like him to take the rest of the week off.”
Perkins, 59, was unable to attend Monday’s athletics awards dinner.
“He doesn’t like to miss that,” Marchiony said. “That’s one of things he puts on his calendar and doesn’t move. I know he’s not happy about missing that.”
