Tarik Black, a six-foot nine-inch forward for the Memphis Tigers, will transfer to the University of Kansas. Before accepting an offer from the Jayhawks the junior took visits to Georgetown, Oregon and Duke while also speaking with coaches from Ohio State and San Diego State according to zagsblog.com. Black averaged 8.1 points and 4.8 rebounds [...]
Politicians are often accused of being out of touch with the American people. For instance, Congress failed to pass a measure expanding background checks on firearms despite the fact, according to several news sources, that 91 percent of responding registered voters supported it. In other words, they failed to empathize with the recent victims of [...]
The first “Iron Man” may have resuscitated Robert Downey Jr.’s career, but it was Shane Black who applied the defibrillator paddles back in 2005 when the “Lethal Weapon” screenwriter-turned-director cast the newly sober Downey as a motor-mouthed amateur sleuth in his rollicking L.A. neo-noir “Kiss Kiss Bang Bang.” Despite its tepid box office returns, the [...]
1145 Indiana Street is getting a makeover so it, too, can be listed among the other properties that are nationally recognized on the National Register of Historic Places. Tim Keller and fellow investor Ernie Eck will soon be renovating the house to restore it to its former glory. “It was originally built as a boarding [...]
Breathe in. Breathe out. Breathe in. Breathe out. I sit in my chair and close my eyes behind my sunglasses. All around me I could hear the shuffle of hundreds of feet, the shutter of hundreds of cameras, yet all I feel is an inner calm. I slowly let go of every thought in my [...]
The Kansas softball team made history on Sunday in the team’s doubleheader against No. 1 Oklahoma at Arrocha Ballpark in Lawrence. Sunday’s 2-0 victory over Oklahoma was the first by the Kansas softball program over a number one ranked team. Kansas was previously 0-5 all-time against top-ranked teams. Kansas coach Megan Smith said she was [...]
The Jayhawks’ weekend series sweep over the Baylor Bears is a testament to just how quickly fortunes can change in NCAA Baseball. At this time last weekend, Kansas players and coaches were preparing for the long charter flight back from Beckley, W.Va., after experiencing the wrong side of three one-run losses at the hands of [...]
On Monday, May 1, members from Environs, the Center for Sustainability, the University’s Design and Construction Department, and the Campus Tree Advisory Board all worked hard planting trees behind Frazier Hall. Read the full story here.
In the six years since the release of his debut “Shotgun Stories,” Jeff Nichols has been quietly establishing himself as one of the most exciting new voices in independent film, a writer-director with a refreshingly un-ironic affection for life in rural America and a gift for harnessing atmosphere as an active participant in his work. [...]
I was a staunch vegetarian for four bread-ridden years and I can say with confidence that you should not do the same. There is no better example of slacktivism than the vegan movement. It isn’t a political statement or lifestyle; it is a dietary choice. Being a vegetarian is not hard. People moan and whine [...]
When soccer fan RJ Keitchen entered Arrowhead Stadium to see the Wizards play, a massive, yet empty, stadium met him. Sporting Kansas City, then known as the Kansas City Wizards, played within the unwelcoming confines of Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, Mo. Keitchen watched the game in an atmosphere that carried little character or excitement. [...]
The Kansas tennis team did something Thursday it had not done in five years: advance past the first round of the Big 12 Tournament. The Jayhawks were able to beat Iowa State for the second time in a week when the teams met in Norman, Okla., for the Big 12 tournament. Two weeks ago Kansas [...]
The Kansas softball team dropped two of three games to the No. 14 Baylor Lady Bears this weekend to lose the series. The Jayhawks fell to the Lady Bears in the first game and won game two in thrilling walk-off fashion. The Jayhawks fell short in the final game of the series 5-4. In the [...]
Question: What happens when Michael Bay foregoes almost everything that makes him the eyeball-straining, intellect-draining king of summer blockbusters: his nine-figure budgets, his penchant for non-stop explosions, his borderline incomprehensible editing style and his inexplicable affinity for Shia Labeouf and leg-humping robots? Answer: He turns around and makes his best movie since 1996’s “The Rock.” [...]
Halfway through Friday’s Brown Bag Drag, a 6-foot-tall femme mimic in a Disney’s Snow White dress raised an expertly-painted eyebrow to draw a laugh from the line “He’s gotta be larger than life” as she sang Footloose’s “I Need a Hero.” “The fact that we can have a drag show on your campus and not [...]
In the early hours of a recent Tuesday, Bailey Fee, a freshman from Kansas City, Kan., arrived at the Jubilee Café at the First United Methodist Church with a smile and a willing spirit to spend several hours serving breakfast to the homeless. For Fee, working with the homeless hits close to home. In October [...]
