FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) TCU accepted an invitation to join the Big 12 on Monday night, seizing an opportunity to be a part of a conference with natural geographic rivals despite the league’s recent instability. The board of trustees unanimously approved the move and Chancellor Victor Boschini Jr. made the expected announcement in front a packed room of more than 200 people. Athletic director Chris Del Conte fought back tears as he recalled receiving the phone call from the Horned Frogs’ new conference last week. “This is living proof that dreams do come true,” he said. TCU has a…
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A Missouri move to the SEC could generate as much as $12 million more in annual TV revenue, according to a document obtained by The Associated Press. Missouri curators voted unanimously last week to give Chancellor Brady Deaton authority to explore options to leave the Big 12. The curators reviewed the 45-page document that outlines the pros and cons of leaving the Big 12 for the Southeastern Conference. The report outlines how much money Missouri could expect from its network and cable television contracts. It suggests Missouri could get $17.16 million in Big 12 TV money in 2012, compared to…
The 109th edition of the Sunflower Showdown, presented by Dillons, will air to a national audience as Fox Sports Net and the Big 12 Conference announced its football television selections for October 22. The game between the Wildcats and Jayhawks will kick at 11 a.m. from Memorial Stadium in Lawrence and mark the seventh straight week that a Wildcat football game will be televised this season.
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) Former K-State assistant Mike Stoops has been fired halfway through his eighth season as head coach at Arizona. Athletic director Greg Byrne announced Stoops’ dismissal at a news conference Monday evening, two days after the Wildcats lost their fifth straight game, 37-27 at previously winless Oregon State. Dating to last season, Arizona has lost 10 of 11 games, the lone victory this season’s opener over Northern Arizona, a Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) school. Stoops had a 41-50 record with the Wildcats. He was an assistant at K-State for seven seasons (from 1992-98), and was co-defensive coordinator on his brother Bob’s staff…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Three Kansas organizations will share nearly $275,000 to support production of locally grown fruits and vegetables, The funds come from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Specialty Crop Block Grant program, with the awards being made by the Kansas Department of Agriculture. The largest share about $172,000 goes to the Kansas Rural Center for a project that will provide technical help to local producers and buyers. Organizations throughout Kansas will be involved. Salina Downtown Inc. is receiving nearly $71,000 to help growers develop value-added specialty products and expand existing markets into year-round sales. The Wamego campus of Highland…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) Kansas is contesting a move by Dodge City Family Planning Clinic to join a challenge by Planned Parenthood to a new state law that stripped federal family planning money from both groups. The state argued in a filing Monday that the two entities have different interests. Kansas contends that the lawsuit by Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri seeks to protect its interest to provide abortion, advocate for abortion and associate with abortion providers on First Amendment grounds. But the Dodge City clinic contends the law violates the Supremacy Claus of the Constitution because it imposes additional…
WINFIELD, Kan. (AP) Investigators looking into the two-year-old disappearance of a south-central Kansas man are hoping for a break with the discovery of human remains in Oklahoma. Seventy-seven-year-old Winfield resident Richard May vanished in December 2009 after leaving the home of a friend in Pawhuska, Okla., for the 55-mile drive home. Ranch hands found May’s minivan three months later in Oklahoma’s Tallgrass Prairie Preserve, near Pawhuska. KAKE-TV reports that two ranchers recently found human remains while driving across the preserve. Authorities are trying to identify the bones, which a preliminary exam determined are those of an older man. One theory…
LYNDON, Kan. (AP) A Kansas judge is set to decide formal sentencing for a Columbia, Mo., city official convicted in the fatal shootings of four family members in 2009. A jury has already recommended that 48-year-old James Kraig Kahler be sentenced to death. District Judge Phillip Fromme can instead sentence him to life in prison without parole. The victims were 44-year-old Karen Kahler, her grandmother 89-year-old grandmother Dorothy Wight, and the Kahlers’ two daughters, 18-year-old Emily and 16-year-old Emily. A psychiatrist testified during Kraig Kahler’s trial that he was upset with his daughters for siding with their mother and believed…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Kansas is among seven states involved in a National Governors Association program for developing policies to boost manufacturing employment. The Kansas Department of Commerce says the states are participating in what the governors’ association describes as a policy academy. It’s designed to help states identify fast-growing clusters of manufacturing companies and to identify opportunities for expansion. The other states selected were Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, Massachusetts, New York and Pennsylvania. Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback says he’s pleased his state will be able to work on developing strategies that will help create jobs. The Commerce Department says the initiative…
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) The Kansas Highway Patrol says a driver involved in a triple fatality accident in Leavenworth County had alcohol and medication in his system. The patrol says 30-year-old Matthew Allen Nuzik’s blood-alcohol content after the Oct. 4, 2010 accident was 0.123 percent. The legal limit is 0.08. Nuzik, of Basehor, died after a head-on collision on Kansas 32. Two University of Kansas students in the second car, 21-year-old Jake Henry and 22-year-old Stephanie Conn, also died. Henry was driving and the tests found no alcohol or drugs in his system. A witness told troopers that Nuzik had about…