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Kansas Ticket Scandal: Judge Takes a Shot At OU
A second former Kansas athletic official has pleaded guilty in a ticket skimming/scalping scandal. Brandon Simmons and Jason Jeffries both worked in the KU athletic department's sales and marketing department, and both have pleaded guilty to being part of a group of KU employees who illegally sold...
Kansas Ticket Scandal: Just The Tip of The Iceberg?
Rock Chalk Jayhawk has been rocked by ticket scalping scandal that the school's own internal investigation reports could reach into the millions. The report alleges that five former KU athletic staff members sold almost 20,000 basketball and football tickets from 2005-2010, with the estimated value...
Lew Perkins Makes Almost As Much As Mack Brown
Perkins is the Kansas Athletics Director, and the Kansas City Stars reports that thanks to a one-time retention bonus, Pekins made 4.4 million in 2009. Most of the bonus came from Kansas Athletics Inc a non-profit corporation that oversees University Athletics. Only about $200,000 of his 2009...
KU Football Job Search
KU has completed their interviews and I'd expect them to make a move within the next three weeks. Our friends at Oread Boom Kings have the skinny on the replacement for the Fat Man. According to the estimable HipHop, the preferential public pecking order appears to be: Harbaugh Holtz Gill I like...
Musings on Mangino: The Future of KU Football
Our KU friend Hiphopopotamus free-styled some brilliance on this subject yesterday and it's an absolute must-read if you want to understand why Mangino's days are numbered. KU AD Lew Perkins (himself a former 400 pounder - what is the Jayhawk fascination with gluttony?) is making a paper trail...
RPI WATCH: 12/23/2010
His coach stuttered and stammered, that man named Bill Self,And Bern laughed when she heard him, in spite of herself;As St. Selby, after a good-natured bet,Fired a halfcourt shot that was nothing but net;He spoke not a word, but went straight to the lockers,While his teammates made plans to go see...
ROUNDTABLE: UCLA-Missouri State Interregnum
In the wake of K-State's biggest season-opening win in almost a decade (as well as one of the most embarrassing losses in KU football history), there's plenty to discuss before Saturday's contest against FCS stalwart Missouri State. Don't sneer at the Bears, though, even if they are coached by one...
Future of the Border War: A Fan's Take
Lew Perkins made a few waves last week when discussing the future of the Big 12, especially with this quote in the KC Star: "If a school — I’m not even talking about Missouri — if a school in our conference doesn’t want to participate in our conference, it would be...
American Pie History X
Maybe you've heard that the latest domino has fallen in Lawrence: Xavier Henry announced today that he will enter the NBA draft. Well, the heartless bastard in me heard his sniffling press conference, and in a rare moment of muse-inspired creativity, I penned the following lyrics on the fly. So,...
Big 12 Cob of the Week: Can A Fat Man Fit Under A Bus, Texas A&M, and Colorado
I got tired of waiting for Corn Blight to give me a nomination so the heck with him I'm going to do one of my own. Maybe it's not fair to Husker Mike and Jlew because it didn't happen last week but it happened because of last week. I going to make this nomination because its the 800-pound gorilla...
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