Check one more milestone off the list for K-State senior high jumper Erik Kynard. With a jump of 2.26 meters (7-05.00), Kynard broke the R.V. Christian Track Complex facility record in the men’s high jump Saturday during the Ward Haylett Invitational in Manhattan. The previous record was 2.24 meters (7-04.50) held by former Olympian Ed Broxterman. That record had stood since 1998. Kynard also received the Heartbeat of the Team Award from the 299th Brigade Support Battalion, the track and field team’s partner unit from Fort Riley. It was given to the team member who best demonstrated high moral character…
Author: KMAN Staff
The Riley County Police Department will host the 2013 Law Enforcement Memorial Ceremony to honor those local law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty. This ceremony will also recognize all employees of the Riley County Police Department and their service to the public. The community is invited to attend this ceremony held on Friday, May 17 starting at 11:00 AM at the Alvin D. Johnson Law Enforcement Center located at 1001 Seth Child Rd. The ceremony will be held in front of the Law Enforcement Center and will include the posting of the Colors by the RCPD Honor…
K-State will play Tulane at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn on December 28th as part of the Brooklyn Hoops Winter Festival. The game will be second of a triple header scheduled for the Brooklyn Hoops Winter Festival. St. John’s and Columbia will lead off the action and VCU and Boston College will be the final game of the day. K-State will play just the single game against the Green Wave. Television coverage and game times will be announced at a later date. “This will be a great opportunity to take our East Coast guys home – especially being Shane’s senior…
The Royals did something over the weekend for the first time this season against the Yankees, and that is get swept in a series. The Royals lost 11-6 on Friday night, 3-2 on Saturday night, and 4-2 Sunday afternoon. On Sunday, the Yankees were powered by Robinson Cano and Vernon Wells who both homered in the third inning. The Royals could only salvage a sacrifice fly from Alex Gordan in the first inning and an RBI ground-out from Alcides Escobar in the eighth inning. The pitching for Kansas City was good on Sunday but again the offense is what sealed…
The Kansas State Wildcat Baseball team wrote another chapter in what is fast becoming a storybook season for the program as they jumped on arch-rival Kansas early then finished off the Jayhawks late as they cruised to a 7-3 victory to complete a three-game sweep of the Sunflower Showdown on Sunday before 1,806 at Hoglund Ballpark in Lawrence. Mitch Meyer led the way for the Bat Cats driving in a career-high three runs and Blake McFadden allowed just three hits in five innings of work to pick up his fifth win of the season. The Bat Cats jumped on KU…
Gunmen opened fire on dozens of people marching in a neighborhood Mother’s Day parade in New Orleans on Sunday, wounding at least 19 people, police said.
Britain’s Prince Harry, a veteran combat helicopter pilot, met Saturday with wounded service members competing in the Paralympic-style Warrior Games in Colorado. The prince, wearing brown camouflage and boots, met with athletes.
Astronauts making a rare, hastily planned spacewalk replaced a pump outside the International Space Station on Saturday in hopes of plugging a serious ammonia leak.
The Kansas State Wildcats have now won 36 Baseball games this season, but none may be more impressive than the one they pulled off Saturday afternoon at Hoglund Ballpark in Lawrence. Trailing 6-0 at one point, the Wildcats scored the next nine including the the three in the ninth that would provide the winning margin in a 9-6 victory over Kansas in Game 2 of the Sunflower Showdown. The Jayhawks built up their lead in the first three innings by jumping all over starter Matt Wivinis for six runs and seven hits. After that, the Wildcat bullpen held KU scoreless…
SALINA, Kan. (AP) Salina police expect to make more arrests in the death of a woman whose body was found this week. Officers arrested a Salina man Wednesday on suspicion of premeditated first-degree murder in the death of Kristin Tyler. Tyler’s body was found Thursday in a ravine off Interstate 135 near Salina.