A few links for your Friday …
• **Give credit to the NBA’s Miami Heat for giving its own take on the “Harlem Shake” dance craze.**
Kansas basketball fans will be most interested in the left side of the screen, where former KU guard Mario Chalmers is dressed up as — appropriately — Nintendo’s Super Mario.
Chalmers also was recently featured in Lifestyle magazine, with a lede I thought was great:
> Mario Chalmers has a table reserved at
> his favorite restaurant in South
> Florida. It’s a place where he walks
> in and gets treated, like, well,
> LeBron James.
>
> Chipotle.
>
> “I know the manager pretty well now
> that I’ve been going so much,”
> Chalmers says. “I just go in there,
> and they’ve got a table set up for me
> already.”
• **Our own Gary Bedore** wrote about the mob scene that took place for Elijah Johnson in the locker room following his 39-point performance in KU’s 108-96 overtime victory over Iowa State.
The video of that is below from KU Athletics. Skip to the 2:05 mark if you don’t want to see the rest of the highlights from the game.
Self said this about the scene: “I knew our guys liked Elijah, but I didn’t realize how much they respected him and liked him until after the game. I have never seen a group of guys more happy for one guy than they were for Elijah.”
• **USA Today’s Eric Prisbell had a nice feature story Thursday on KU guard Ben McLemore** being able to overcome poverty on his way to college basketball stardom.
• **Bleacher Report’s C.J. Moore** took a look at what teams are doing defensively to cause McLemore to disappear offensively for long stretches.
• **The Boston Globe’s Paul Lazdowski** wrote an extended feature on KU basketball signee Wayne Selden. Some interesting nuggets in there, including the fact that a few times, Selden has played all five positions for his high school team in the same game.
• **Speaking of KU basketball signees, here’s a just-released video on future KU guard Conner Frankamp.**
• **It’s March, which means baseball and softball seasons have already started.**
With that in mind, I thought KU Athletics did a nice job with this “More than a number” feature on KU softball player Maggie Hull, who is talented enough to 1) lead the Big 12 in hitting; and 2) put up with us in the Journal-World sports department during an internship a few summers back.
