Lance Armstrong will make a limited confession to doping during his televised interview with Oprah Winfrey next week, according to a person with knowledge of the situation.
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Shane Southwell may have had one of the finest 20 second stretches for a Kansas State Men’s Basketball in recent memory on Saturday and Head Coach Bruce Weber along with his teammates will certainly be grateful. Southwell sank two critical free throws with 21 seconds left and then blocked a layup attempt in the final seconds by West Virginia’s Gary Browne as the 18th-ranked Wildcats ran their winning streak to six games with a thrilling 65-64 victory over the Mountaineers Saturday afternoon at WVU Coliseum. Southwell shared the game-high total with reigning Big 12 Player of the Week Rodney McGruder…
In what was a competitive game for much of the day, the West Virginia Mountaineers Women’s Basketball team marked their first trip to the Little Apple a rousing success as they used a 21-7 run down the stretch to earn a 66-52 win over Kansas State before 6,778 Saturday afternoon at Bramlage Coliseum. K-State jumped out to an early lead in the first half but the Mountaineers eventually pulled even and both teams took turns at the lead with the Wildcats heading into the locker room with a slim 23-22 lead at intermission. The Mountaineers led by as much as…
The NFLPA Collegiate Bowl All-Star Game has selected Kansas State Defensive Back Allen Chapman to play in its event on Thursday, January 17 at the Home Depot Center in suburban Los Angeles. Chapman finished the 2012 season with 57 tackles, 10 passes defended and five interceptions including three in one game against Oklahoma State in helping lead the Wildcats to the Big 12 Championship and an appearance in the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl. Chapman who is from San Francisco will play in the game which kicks off at 5 p.m. CST on Thursday, January 17 and will televised on ESPN 2.…
On Saturday January 12th, the North East Kansas Chapter of the “Veterans of the Battle of the Battle of the Bulge” celebrated the 68th anniversary of the end of the epic World War II battle named “The Battle of the Bulge”. Nicknamed “Hitler’s Last Stand”, it was the largest land battle for the United States Army throughout WWII. The battle began on the morning of December 16th, 1944. German troops surprised the un-expecting American Troops along the Ardennes between Belgium and Luxembourg. With the freedom of Europe at risk, over one million soldiers battled for 43 days through one of…
The nation’s flu outbreak is now widespread in all but three states and hitting the city of New york hard as the nation grapples with an earlier-than-normal season.
Vice President Joe Biden says he’s interested in technology that would keep a gun from being fired by anyone other than the person who bought it. Biden commented Friday as he met with representatives from the video game industry. <iframe width=”425″ height=”239″ src=”http://www.youtube.com/embed/imbZVdJXR1Q” frameborder=”0″ allowfullscreen></iframe>
On Friday the Manhattan city commission met for their annual retreat and goal setting sesseion at the Sunset Zoo Nature Exploration Center. The meeting took a look at the past performance of the city in 2012, and discussed future goals for the new year. Some of the highlights from the meeting included presentations by city staff, and department heads on their 2012 accomplishments and challenges. Those included a strong year for the Flint Hills Discovery Center who saw over 60,000 visitors and generated higher revenues with lower than expected cost for 2012. The Sunset Zoo Nature Exploration Center opened, and is…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Gov. Sam Brownback has named two Kansas trial judges to the state Court of Appeals. Brownback on Friday announced the appointments of Sedgwick County District Judge Tony Powell and Stevens County District Judge Kim Schroeder to the state’s second-highest court. Powell served in the Kansas House for eight years and was a leader among conservative, anti-abortion Republicans before becoming a judge in 2003. He’ll fill a vacancy on the appeals court created by the October death of Chief Judge Richard Greene. Schroeder was appointed to the trial court in Stevens County in 1999 by then-Gov. Bill Graves,…
OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (AP) The mystery surrounding a 300-pound concrete gorilla that showed up in a northeastern Kansas park has been partly solved. Overland Park police said Friday the owners have been identified as residents of nearby Olathe, who reported it stolen from their front yard around Dec. 15. Still unknown is who swiped the statue and took it to Overland Park, where it showed up last weekend by a gazebo in a neighborhood park. The concrete gorilla was so heavy that police brought in a tow truck with a crane to haul it away. Police say the owners are…