Kansas Jayhawks News
Through the Phog looks at the current basketball roster and concludes the Jayhawks still need to find another guard:
While the question of “who will be the starting point guard” won’t quite be answered, adding either Bashir or Miller would likely eliminate the small backcourt situation that Blyden and Kinney would have posed.
Joshua Schulman over at SI takes a look at Kansas being labeled one of “the offseason’s biggest losers” by Rob Dauster:
The entire blue blood group of Kentucky, Kansas, and North
Carolina was labeled the No. 1 offseason loser. This includes all three schools, which have had a relatively underwhelming transfer portal haul.
“Kansas got Stokes, but if you look at what they got out of the portal and their haul this spring, it is not what you would expect a Kansas roster to be,” co-host Rob Dauster said.
The Big O is now a mayor and maybe the tallest elected official ever:
“That’s what my wife said. She says as soon as I get sworn in next week, she’s going to call Guinness (Book of World Records) and see,” Ostertag, winner of Saturday’s Mount Vernon, Texas, mayoral race against incumbent Brad Hyman told The Star on Monday night in a phone conversation.
As an instructor at the Lawrence campus, I have watched the mood among students over the past few years go from disbelief (“There’s no way that we won’t win the Big XII!”) to protest (“It’s just not fair!“). This year I was surprised by the mid-week apathy among students. Basically no one was talking about the Jayhawks in my classrooms, a rare symptom from those in crimson and blue.
The Jayhawks ten game win streak on the baseball field has come to an end with an extra inning loss to Creighton on Tuesday night:
No. 7 Kansas Baseball fell 9-8 to Creighton in 13 innings on Tuesday evening in nearly a five-hour game at Charles Schwab Field Omaha. The loss snapped a 10-game winning streak for the Jayhawks. A walk-off solo homer by Creighton’s Ben North ended the game in the 13th.
Other Links!
Alan Sepinwall covers the surprise episode/spinoff tied to the The Bear:
Earlier today, an odd thing showed up on the Hulu home screen: an image of Jon Bernthal and Ebon Moss-Bacharach, in character as Mikey and Cousin Richie from The Bear, in a standalone prequel special called “Gary.” For Emmy purposes, it’s being submitted alongside the rest of The Bear Season Four, and there is a tab labeled “Gary” when you go to The Bear page on the app. But it’s presented as the first (maybe only?) episode of something else, and was released without any advance publicity.
ESPN covers schedule proposals made by the American Football Coaches Association:
The AFCA board announced Tuesday four proposed calendar changes: ending conference championship games; reducing open weeks in seasons from two to one; preserving an exclusive window for the Army-Navy game in December but allowing postseason games to be played on the same day; and reducing the minimum number of days between games to no fewer than six.
The OKC Thunder didn’t have an issue taking out the Lakers in game 1 of their series:
Reigning and likely repeat MVP Shai Gilgeous-Alexander scored fewer points and committed more turnovers than he had in any other game this season in Tuesday’s Game 1 of the Western Conference semifinals.
His Oklahoma City Thunder still cruised to a 108-90 win over the Los Angeles Lakers.
Following protests against data center construction in Utah, we get an “outside agitators” mention:
“What’s happening in Utah right now, we think over 90% of the protesters are actually not people who live in Utah or Box Elder County,” O’Leary said in a video he posted to X on Tuesday morning. “They’re being bused in.”
And since we’re all nerds here, the Defector link of the week goes to Barry Petchesky highlighting some of his favorite photos that were released after the Artemis mission.
QOTD: When does a decision go from carpe diem to #YOLO?
A little backstory to this question…my wife and I are trying to figure out what we want to do this summer to get away for a little bit. We’ve talked short road trips, possibly going back to the Caribbean, or a longer US trip. However, I can’t decide if I should focus on saving some dollars right now or go ahead and enjoy a trip while we can. And I say that because of all this Iran nonsense. When this administration faced a major challenge previously, I think we can all agree it did not go swimmingly. Will this one be different or will it be like the reminder towards the end of Charlie Wilson’s War about the zenmaster?
