INDIANAPOLIS (AP) The NCAA has passed a proposal that will impose tougher sanctions on programs and hold coaches more accountable for rule-breaking. The board’s decision Tuesday concludes an effort that began in August 2011 when university leaders met with NCAA President Mark Emmert at a retreat in Indianapolis in the midst of one of the most scandalous years in college sports history. School chancellors and presidents promised then to get tough on rule-breakers and now they have. Under the new legislation, programs that commit the most egregious violations could face postseason bans of two to four years and…
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Brittney Griner became the third player to be a two-time unanimous choice on The Associated Press’ women’s basketball preseason All-America team, receiving all 40 votes from a national media panel Tuesday. Griner joined former UConn star Maya Moore and Duke great Alana Beard in that select club. Griner isn’t the only unanimous choice on the preseason team. Delaware senior Elena Delle Donne and Notre Dame senior Skylar Diggins were also on all 40 ballots. Stanford’s Chiney Ogwumike (23 votes), Maryland’s Alyssa Thomas (19) and Baylor’s Odyssey Sims (19) rounded out the squad. It’s the first time there’s been a tie…
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) Chiefs quarterback Matt Cassel will start Thursday night’s game at San Diego after Brady Quinn took a blow to the head in last weekend’s loss to Oakland. Coach Romeo Crennel said Tuesday that doctors have not cleared Quinn to practice, so Cassel will be the starter and Ricky Stanzi the backup. Cassel was the starter the first five games of the season before he sustained his own concussion against the Ravens. Quinn started one game in Cassel’s place, and then Crennel made the switch permanent going into last Sunday’s game against the Raiders. Quinn was hurt…
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) A convicted sex offender who escaped in Lawrence while being driven from Virginia to Colorado is back in custody. The Lawrence Journal-World reports police captured 22-year-old Deon Gregory Routt shortly after 3 p.m. Tuesday after a chase near Memorial Stadium at the University of Kansas. A private security firm was transporting Routt when the van stopped in Lawrence around 5:30 p.m. Monday so officers could check on a prisoner. Routt to the opportunity to bolt. Routt is a registered sex offender. He was convicted last year of sexually assaulting a child in Colorado. Authorities were uncertain if…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) Wichita is hopping as the city plays host to the National American Rabbit Breeders Association Convention. Broadcaster KAKE reports that the event has attracted more than 3,000 rabbit breeders from across the country. Organizers say the five-day event will provide a $2 million economic boost. Convention chairman Tom Little says downtown hotels and some in outlying areas are packed. The crowd pours into downtown Wichita at meal time. Convention-goer Allan Ormond says he grew up on a ranch in Utah. Everything changed when he moved to the suburbs. Because subdivisions frown on cattle, he settled on rabbits.…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Gov. Sam Brownback’s emphasis on increasing adoptions in Kansas is showing some early promising results. The Kansas Department of Children and Families says 777 adoptions were finalized in the state in the 2012 fiscal year. Another 761 state adoptions were recorded in 2011. Those are increases from 721 in 2010, although not as high as the 816 in 2009. Brownback, whose family includes an adopted boy and girl, has made public adoptions a priority. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports adoptions through the state cost almost nothing, while private adoptions can cost up to $30,000. Children adopted after age…
PITTSBURG, Kan. (AP) Pittsburg State University is offering an academic take on zombies, vampires and other things that go bump in the night. The school says assistant English professor Jamie McDaniel is planning a Halloween lecture titled “Let’s Talk Monsters.” The public is invited to attend for free at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday in Grubbs Hall. McDaniel plans to trace the origins of today’s monster culture, from Bram Stoker’s “Dracula” and voodoo zombie rites through the “Twilight” series and “The Walking Dead.” The school hopes that the “Let’s Talk” lecture will be the first in a series. Monsters, scary stories and…
MCPHERSON, Kan. (AP) A preliminary hearing for two men charged in the beating death of a Tabor College student has been rescheduled to December. The hearing for Alton Franklin and DeQuinte Flournoy, both 19-year-old men from Dallas, was scheduled for Monday. But it was postponed until Dec. 10. The Hutchinson News reports attorneys did not explain the reason for the delay. The suspects, both former McPherson College football players, are charged with being accessories to second-degree murder in the Sept. 22 death of 26-year-old Brandon Brown. Brown, a redshirt defensive lineman for Tabor College, died after being injured in a…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Gov. Sam Brownback and other top Kansas Republicans are planning a two-day motorcycle tour of the state ahead of next week’s elections. Lt. Gov. Jeff Colyer and congresswoman Lynn Jenkins are among those set to join the ride that starts Thursday in Topeka and ends Friday in Salina. Everyone taking part will travel by motorcycle if the weather allows. The so-called “Road Map for Growth Tour” will promote Republican GOP candidates for the U.S. House and state Legislature. Among the targets are several Kansas Senate seats where Brownback has backed conservative Republicans. From Topeka, the group plans…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Kansas officials and university economists plan to meet Election Day to draft new revenue projections for Gov. Sam Brownback and legislators to use in making budget decisions. The Nov. 6 meeting will allow the forecasters to revise earlier projections for the fiscal year that began July 1. They’ll also issue the first official estimates for the fiscal year that begins in July 2013. The team includes legislative researchers, members of Brownback’s budget stuff, Department of Revenue officials and economists from the state’s three largest public universities. The current forecast was issued in April and predicts the state…