The Kansas State Wildcats were looking to make history Saturday night. K-State had not won a conference tournament since the 1979-80 season when they hammered a higher-seeded Kansas team at old Kemper Arena in Kansas City. After breaking a 36-year regular season championship drought last week by sharing this year’s Big 12 title with KU the Wildcats sought to win the tourney title from them. However, poor shooting and foul trouble doomed the 11th-ranked Wildcats as they fell to seventh-ranked Kansas 70-54 in the Big 12 title game before another tournament record crowd of 19,256 at Kansas City’s Sprint Center.…
Author: KMAN Staff
After a rough start to conference play for the Kansas State Wildcats Baseball team, the Bat Cats righted the ship and managed to scrape out two victories in less than 24 hours against new Big 12 member West Virginia. Due to weather moving into the Manhattan area for St. Patrick’s Day, the series schedule was altered allowing the teams to play a Friday Doubleheader followed by a single game to close things out on Saturday afternoon. In Friday’s first game, the Mountaineers came out swinging, scoring the game’s first 13 runs before settling for a 13-2 run-rule-shortened game that ended…
A crowd dressed in varying shades of green crowded into Aggieville on Saturday to celebrate the Saint Patrick’s day holiday with the 35th annual parade presented by the Aggieville business association. Evan Tuttle, the Executive Director for the association says that there were over sixty participants in this year’s parade, with organizations such as the Manhattan Shriners taking part, as well as various children waving ribbons and riding scooters. Tuttle also stated that since it was an election year, there were quite a few political candidates in the parade as well. The Grand Marshall for the parade was former Kansas…
For the second night in a row, Rodney McGruder took his Kansas State teammates and put them on his shoulders as he scored 25 points and Angel Rodriguez tossed in 17 as the 11th-ranked Wildcats pulled away from 14th-ranked Oklahoma State for a 68-57 victory in the Big 12 Tournament Semifinals before a tournament-record crowd of 19,160 at Sprint Center in Kansas City, Mo. Despite making just one shot in the first five minutes of the game, K-State still held a 7-2 lead before the Cowboys got going. OSU’s largest lead was 17-12 before Rodriguez and Shane Southwell led a…
A failure to appear charge out of Oklahoma lands a man behind bars. Michael Duncon (29), of Chandler, Oklahoma was arrested around 5:30 p.m. Friday and is being held in Riley County jail for failing to appear on a misdemeanor charge. His bond is set at $8,000.
The U.S. will add 14 interceptors to a West Coast-based missile defense system, reflecting concern about North Korea’s focus on developing nuclear weapons and its advances in long-range missile technology.
Pope Francis greeted Cardinals at the Vatican on Friday.
Silver Dollar City, an amusement park in Branson, Missouri, is set open it’s Outlaw Run roller coaster to the public Friday. The amusement park says the ride includes the steepest drop and first double barrel roll on a wood coaster.
Manhattan’s Director of Parks and Recreation for nearly seven years is on administrative leave for an unspecified period of time. Curt Loupe confirmed the leave but indicated he could make no further comment to KMAN news Friday night. Loupe took over as Director in 2006, the same year when former Recreation Superintendent Ivan Wilkinson resigned due to allegations of theft. Former Parks and Rec Director, Terry DeWeese, also resigned in the wake of the allegations (DeWeese was not implicated). A time frame or further information regarding conditions of the leave are not being released by city officials. No reason for the…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) The Kansas Legislature is considering bills that would change local elections across the state. One bill before the Kansas Senate would allow local elections to be partisan and held in even-numbered years, while another would have them in odd-numbered years. The House bill calls for the local elections to remain non-partisan and be held in odd-numbered years. Local elections are currently held in the spring of odd-numbered years. The Lawrence Journal-World reports Brad Bryant, deputy assistant secretary of state, says the changes are intended to increase voter turnout, although he acknowledged he had no data to prove…