After two straight overtime games in highly emotional environments and with the most recent game a disheartening double-overtime loss at Baylor, one might think that Kansas State’s game with TCU on Wednesday night would be a cakewalk, a time to take out frustrations and get back on track against a team that was winless in conference play and has just two victories overall since joining the conference last season. However, after a quick start, K-State found itself struggling against a Horned Frog squad that refused to roll over and it wasn’t until the game’s final 12 minutes that the Wildcats…
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As changes come to the McDonald’s on 3rd street, the time came for the old to be taken down on Wednesday, February 19.
“The Game” on KMAN gets you set for Kansas State men’s basketball back on the hardwood at Bramlage against TCU. How will the Wildcats respond after the double overtime loss to Baylor on last Saturday? The K-State women are also in action down in Ft. Worth against TCU and are hoping to pick up their fifth league win of the season. Reaction to the K-State baseball team giving up three runs in the bottom of the ninth inning to lose at San Francisco 7-6. Should fans be a little concerned that the bat cats have started the season 0-4? The guys talk some summer baseball plus Reid Gettys from the Big 12 Network joins the show to talk about Big 12 Hoops and more around the conference. All that and much more on “The Game” on KMAN.
USA goaltender Jonathan Quick looks up form the ice as both Team USA and Team Czech Republic cause a loose puck during the third period of men’s quarterfinal hockey game in Shayba Arena at the 2014 Winter Olympics, Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2014, in Sochi, Russia. USA defeated the Czech Republic 5-2.
Nadezhda Tolokonnikova is pulled away by a Russian security officer after she and fellow members of the punk group Pussy Riot staged a protest performance in Sochi, Russia, on Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2014. The group had gathered in a downtown Sochi restaurant, about 30km (21miles) from where the Winter Olympics are being held. They ran out of the restaurant wearing brightly colored clothes and ski masks and were immediately set upon by about a dozen Cossacks, who are used by police authorities in Russia to patrol the streets.
U.S. Congressman Tim Huelskamp appeared in a town hall meeting in Wamego Wednesday afternoon held in the Wamego Public Library. According to KMAN’s partner, the Wamego Smoke Signal, Huelskamp showed different graphs and then discussed a variety of topics including: minimum wage, social security, the age of kids working on farms, and more. The session lasted more than an hour and included questions from constiuents.
A September 2015 jury trial has been set for two scientists from China accused of taking seeds from a private Junction City research facility and passing them off to a visiting delegation from China. A scheduling conference was held Tuesday before a federal judge in Kansas City for Weiqiang Zhang, who had been living in Manhattan, and Wengui Yan. A federal grand jury indicted the two in December on conspiracy to steal trade secrets and theft of trade secrets in a case involving rice seeds taken from Ventria Bioscience in Junction City. Pretrial motions are due by November 28th of this…
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) The University of Kansas Hospital has received $3.5 million in private donations toward construction of a new facility. The Lawrence Journal-World reports the donations were announced Monday at a news conference at the hospital’s campus in Kansas City, Kan. The hospital bought 14 acres of land near the campus in 2005 with the expectation of needing to accommodate more patients and surgery space. There’s no timetable yet for construction of what’s planned as a 92-bed facility. Hospital spokesman Dennis McCulloch says the donations announced Monday are the first funds raised so far for the $250 million…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Kansas Senate President Susan Wagle has created a special committee to review issues surrounding the state Public Employees Retirement System. Wagle named nine senators to the panel Monday. Its chairman is Independence Republican and Senate Vice President Jeff King, and its vice chairman is Emporia Republican Jeff Longbine. The Senate doesn’t have a standing committee on pensions, as the House does. The House committee is reviewing multiple pension issues, including a proposal to start a 401(k)-style plan for new public employees. The other Republicans on the Senate panel are Elaine Bowers of Concordia, Jim Denning of Overland…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Kansas residents are being urged to act cautiously with outdoor burning as the state marks a week of awareness of the dangers of wildfires. Gov. Sam Brownback has signed a proclamation declaring this Wildfire Awareness Week. The state fire marshal’s office said in a news release Monday that Kansas had more than 3,200 vegetation fires last year, resulting in more than $4 million in property damage and losses and six injuries. The fire marshal also says those fires burned more than 125,000 acres of land. Brownback’s proclamation says preventing wildfires is a public safety issue affecting all…