Kansas Jayhawk News
The Border War is back on in 2025. Check out the background from Wikipedia here to get up to speed.
The rivalry has historic roots in the often violent relationship between the states of Kansas and Missouri, including guerrilla warfare between the states before and during the American Civil War.
Lance Leipold discusses the Tigers and has a pal tell him to kick their a**
while he was at church on Sunday.Kansas coach Lance Leipold said he was at church with his wife on Sunday when a Jayhawks fan stopped
him and told him to “kick their butt.”
Kansas volleyball lost to Creighton in 5 sets.
The Kansas Jayhawks and Creighton Bluejays met for the first time ever on a neutral floor, as the Bluejays beat out the Jayhawks in an exhausting five sets.
The women’s soccer team finished up their non-con slate with a win over Drake.
“This was always going to be a tough one for us,” Lie said postgame. “We emptied the tank fully on Thursday night…it takes a physical toll, I think it takes an emotional toll too.”
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The CBS Sports Power Rankings have to go down here because there’s still no mention of the Jayhawks.
Three top-10 showdowns are in the books, and the preseason polls will shake up in Week 2. There were four games between Power Four teams in the AP poll’s top 10, and all four ended with upsets.
Same story with the Playoff projections. No, no Jayhawk mentions yet.
There were plenty of high-profile college football matchups in Week 1 of the 2025 season, with Ohio State, LSU and Miami grabbing massive wins over Texas, Clemson and Notre Dame respectively. However, the biggest result was Florida State toppling No. 8 Alabama in Tallahassee 31-17. The Seminoles are coming off a 2-10 disaster season but now seem to be a contender in the ACC and beyond with quarterback Tommy Castellanos running the show.
How about some overreactions on Arch Manning and Belichick?
No one topped 17 points in either of Saturday’s top-10 matchups, FBS teams averaged only 23.5 points per game against other FBS teams, and throughout the country, rebuilt offensive lines and new quarterbacks seemed at a disadvantage against rebuilt defenses.
The Sickos Committee has a stat summary for weeks 0 & 1.
It’s basically going to be weird stats on different things we found that we don’t think get a lot of attention. We will make some graphics every week and try to give you a few amounts of stats that are unconventionally appealing or things that don’t get highlighted much.
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Techdirt reports on Wired and other outlets screwing up journalism.
As U.S. news outlets fire staffers and editors, cut corners, and endlessly compromise integrity and standards, they’re also apparently being increasingly duped by people using AI to generate bogus stories and reporting. Like this freelancer for Business Insider and Wired, who apparently tricked editors at both publications into publishing several completely fabricated stories written mostly by LLMs.
We’ve had some government shutdown scares over the years. The Reflector writes that it may be time to worry this fall.
The ongoing tension, combined with party leaders’ increasing focus on next year’s midterm elections, makes the possibility of a shutdown higher than it has been for years.
NPR looks back after 20 years on the impact and fallout from Hurricane Katrina.
“Sometimes, it’s hard to remember that people were kept away from their houses for a year,” Green said. “If you had a job and lost it, you had to get one somewhere else. A lot of people also lost their homes because the Road Home Program gave money based on property value. In low-income areas, you couldn’t get as much money. So many people couldn’t return.”
QOTD: What’s your favorite non-Border War rivalry in all of sports?
