There would be no Memorial Day picnic, no round of golf, no hanging out by a swimming pool with friends and family for the most revered of all former Kansas University football coaches.

When Kansas University football coach Turner Gill arrived earlier this year, he gave out questionnaires to his players, asking them which position they’d like to play.

Don’t let Kansas University football coach Turner Gill’s first recruiting class mislead you. Gill is a believer in Kansas high school football.

MANHATTAN | Kansas State’s baseball team is hardly a regular in the NCAA baseball tournament, but Brad Hill sure is getting used to hearing his team’s name called on the tournament’s selection show. A year after making their first appearance in program history, the Wildcats learned Monday they are headed back to the 64-team event for a second straight season. No one was happier than their coach.

Defensive lineman Adren Dorsey is transferring from Texas A&M to Lamar, Cardinals coach Ray Woodard told the Beaumont Enterprise.

K-State was selected as an at-large team for the 64-team field and will open play Friday in Fayetteville, Ark.

A free loan of an estimated $15,000 in exercise equipment is at the center of the Lawrence Police Department's investigation into the alleged blackmail of Kansas athletic director Lew Perkins, according to Mark Glass, a former co-owner of the now-defunct Lenexa-based Medical Outfitters.

COLUMBIA | Beyond the puffy, white clouds and the bright blue sky over University Field on Sunday afternoon it was impossible to tell if — out there in the cosmos — the stars were all aligning for the Missouri softball team. But it would be approaching improbable to imagine things turning out much better for pitcher Kristin Nottelmann, outfielders Lisa Simmons and Ashley Fleming and third baseman Nicole Hudson and Co. in Mizzou’s 7-2 NCAA super regional victory over Oregon.

All that time Kansas University football coach Turner Gill and his staff spent recruiting Florida during the past six months appears to have paid off.

Like father, like son indeed applies to 5-foot-7, 190-pound KU red-shirt freshman back Deshaun Sands, who, when asked by KU officials to name his favorite athlete of all-time for inclusion in KU’s media guide, chose his papa, a 5-6, 175-pounder who rushed for 3,788 yards from 1988 to ’91.

Texas and Oklahoma will represent the Big 12 as hosts of NCAA tournament regionals, the NCAA announced on Sunday.

Texas A&M defeated Baylor 5-3 on Sunday in the Big 12 tournament title game. Brodie Greene delivered the game-winner with a two-run home run in the 10th.

LAWRENCE — The alleged blackmail of Kansas athletic director Lew Perkins followed months of correspondence between he and a former Kansas Athletics employee who accused Perkins of accepting $35,000 of exercise equipment in exchange for securing premium men’s basketball tickets for the equipment company’s owners. read more

This week's Big 12 meetings in Kansas City will confront speculation over a possible drastic change to the conference structures of major intercollegiate athletics and see how far Dan Beebe, the Big 12 commissioner, is willing to push his “everybody-on-the-same-plane” ultimatum.

Texas senior Dimitar Kutrovsky ended his collegiate career with a 6-4, 5-7, 6-3 loss to Louisville’s Austen Childs in the NCAA quarterfinals.

Kansas senior Lauren Bonds won the 1,500 meters Saturday at the NCAA Outdoor track and field preliminaries in Austin, Texas. Bonds’ performance qualified her for the NCAA Outdoor championships June 9-12 in Eugene, Ore.

Nebraska athletic director Tom Osborne says he doesn’t really know what to expect at this weeks Big 12 meetings in Kans…

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