K-State Football media day is today and K-State basketball finds out their first opponent for the Maui invitational. Royals demolish Arizona. Mitch Holthus joins the show. Joan Kurtz will call in from Bill Snyder Family Stadium. We will go “Around College Football”. “You Can’t Be Serious” wraps up the show.
Author: KMAN Staff
On today’s In Focus, KMAN’s Laura Monsanto filled in for Cathy and spoke with Manhattan Ogden USD 383 School Board Member, Darell Edie and Superintendent, Bob Shannon; as well as K-State Vice President for Student Life and Dean of Students, Pat Bosco.
K-State will take on Purdue in their opening game of the 2014 Maui Invitational on November 24th at 1:30 P.M. on ESPN2. Bruce Weber was an assistant for 18 years under Gene Keady at Purdue from 1980-98 and was 7-11 against the Boilermakers during his time at Illinois. Purdue finished just 15-17 and 5-13 in the Big Ten last season. They return four players that started at least 15 games last season and add two top-100 recruits in Isaac Haas and Vince Edward. The other game in K-State’s half of the bracket is Missouri against Arizona. Pittsburgh, Chaminade, BYU and…
PHOENIX — The Kansas Royals had given Danny Duffy almost no run support over his previous four starts and little all season, so they were anxious give him something, anything against the Arizona Diamondbacks. Ten runs on three swings did the trick nicely. Billy Butler had a three-run homer among his four hits, Nori Aoki hit a grand slam and the Royals gave Duffy some rare run support by bashing the Diamondbacks 12-2 on Tuesday night. Salvador Perez had the first big blow with a three-run homer in the third inning and Butler added another three-run shot during Kansas City’s…
Amateur footage shot after an afternoon downpour in southern Nevada captures the power of flash floodwaters. Doug Bennett’s video shows him screaming for people to get out of the way as the two vehicles float downstream.
Denver is offering to take care of some of the immigrant children who have flooded across the border in recent months. The city has submitted an application for a federal grant over three years to provide housing, counseling and other services.
Supporters cheer for U.S. Sen. Pat Roberts at a Johnson County Republican’s election watch party Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2014, in Overland Park, Kan. Roberts defeated tea party-backed challenger Milton Wolf.
On Tuesday night the Manhattan City Commission passed the first reading for the 2015 budget. It includes a 2.1% increase from the 2014 budget coming in at a total of 134,125,392. Some last minute changes brought on by a travel spending reduction desired by Mayor Wynn Butler began a discussion on the merits of the commission traveling to local and national events. Mayor Butler said a reduction would prove to the community the desire of the commission to be good stewards of the budget. Commissioner Karen McCulloh disagreed with the sentiment stating that involvement in these events could be crucial for…
A major upset was scored Tuesday with challenger Ben Wilson defeating incumbent Dave Lewis in the race for Riley County Commissioner in District one. With all Riley County Precincts reporting Wilson garnered 615 votes for 52 percent of the vote to Lewis’ 549 votes or 47 percent. Over in Pottawatomie County, the race was still too close to call as of late Tuesday night between incumbent Commissioner Gary Yenzer and challenger Dee McKee as the lead was changing hands frequently. Three-term U.S. Senator Pat Roberts won Riley County and also won the statewide race on the Republican side for U.S.…
A NATO soldier opens fire in an apparent warning shot in the vicinity of journalists near the main gate of Camp Qargha, west of Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2014. Earlier in the day, a man dressed in an Afghan army uniform opened fire on foreign troops at the military base, killing a U.S. two-star general and wounding others, among them a German brigadier general and a number of Americans troops, authorities said.