Kansas State junior fullback Glenn Gronkowski will forgo his senior season and enter the NFL Draft, his father told Sports Illustrated’s Pete Thamel Saturday night. Gronkowski has appeared in most of K-State’s games the last three seasons, but spent much of the 2015 campaign splitting snaps with Winston Dimel. In his career, he scored seven touchdowns for the Wildcats, with five of those coming via the pass. K-State leads the Big 12 with having at least one player taken in 22 straight drafts. Before the season, college football expert Phil Steele listed Gronkowski as the best NFL prospect among fullbacks.
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. — In a fitting conclusion to the 2015 season, a gritty effort was not good enough for Kansas State as the Wildcats fell to Arkansas, 45-23, in the 57th AutoZone Liberty Bowl on Saturday afternoon. K-State (6-7) went to Memphis on a three-game win streak and with its sights set on securing a winning season. But the Wildcats, who were shorthanded all year, ran into a more athletic version of themselves and could do little to slow down the Razorback offense once they fell behind. Unlike many of K-State’s recent bowl games, a slow start was not the…
For as hard and intensely as Kansas State worked, a loss doesn’t seem like a fair result. Thus is life in the Big 12 Conference basketball season. K-State went step-for-step with No. 19 West Virginia in Saturday’s league opener before falling in double-overtime, 87-83, at Bramlage Coliseum. “We had chances,” K-State coach Bruce Weber said. “We gave ourselves chances. We just didn’t take advantage of enough of them to win. We didn’t make enough plays.” K-State knew what kind of game WVU would bring to the table. The Wildcats were ready to embrace it, building a nine-point lead in the…
Tel Aviv residents paid their respects on Sunday at the site of a popular bar where a gunman opened fire on Friday afternoon, killing two people and wounding several others before fleeing the scene.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers released flood water at a rate of 13,000 cubic feet per second at the Tenkiller Lake Dam in Oklahoma after historic levels of flooding have affected the region.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) A 25-year-old Kansas City man is charged with second-degree murder and 14 other felonies after a home invasion and shooting rampage that left one person dead and another injured. Vincent Jackson is charged with killing 17-year-old Gabriel Avila on Wednesday.
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) A Kansas Court of Appeals panel has ruled that a Dodge City casino doesn’t have to pay the state’s “use tax” on electronic gaming machines it operates for the Kansas Lottery. The three-judge appeals panel agreed with a state Board of Tax Appeals decision that said the Kansas Department of Revenue was wrong in collecting $801,588 in compensating use tax from the Boot Hill Casino and Resort in Dodge City. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports the tax was from the casino’s purchase of out-of-state vendors’ electronic gaming machines on behalf of the Kansas Lottery, the state agency that…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Kansas lawmakers have approved a six-month contract with a software company that was criticized for technical delays last year. The Legislative Coordinating Council this week approved a $293,488 contract for Propylon, a Dublin-based technology firm with a U.S. office in Lawrence. The company will perform technical support and upgrades for the Legislature’s custom software. The Wichita Eagle reports (http://bit.ly/1mup4hO ) legislative leaders complained during the last session that software problems slowed down the legislative process and delayed votes. The contract was under review since July. The state has paid Proplyon about $16 million since 2005 to construct…
Just before 8 a.m. on Friday, a new baby boy joined the Manhattan populous. The as-of-yet- unnamed baby boy, was born at Via Christi Hospital at 7:48 a.m. on New Year’s Day, weighing in at 6lbs 13oz and measuring 20 inches long. Parents Donghun Kim (father) and Eun Kyung Shin (mother) were overjoyed when they spoke to KMAN about the birth of their son. Kim says that he and Shin weren’t quite expecting their son to arrive on New Year’s Day – with an original due date of January 14th. The excited father went on to say that he and Shin…
A Manhattan man was arrested on Friday, on charges of aggravated Burglary. Riley County Police say that 28-year-old Napolean Melton was arrested near Laramie street just after 2:00 a.m., on Friday. Melton was arrested on the charges of aggravated burglary and criminal damage to property between $1,000-25,000.00. Melton was given a bond of $20,000.00. A 26-year-old Manhattan man has been arrested following a probation violation. According to Riley County Police, Jeffrey Patrick Thompson was taken into custody on New Year’s Eve. Thompson was arrested on two counts of probation violation, operating his vehicle without an ignition interlock device, failure to…