Bad news for the grandpa-chasing hippie chicks of the University of Kansas.
Jimmy Neil Tucker, known as the Jayhawks' third-string mascot White Owl,
pleaded no contest to charges that he violated a protection order and
was sentenced to a year of probation and barred from returning to the
KU campus, according to the Lawrence Journal-World.
This is undoubtedly is a major distraction for Bill Self's Jayhawks heading into tonight's Border Showdown War rivalry game with Missouri.
In November, the man caged the 62-year-old in the Douglas County jail after allegedly
no-showing a court date on charges that he violated a protect order in
September -- taken out by his ex-, a 23-year-old KU student.
White Owl's 2009 wasn't a good one. In July, White Owl claimed KU
officials told him that he was banned from
campus. This made the burnout
cry and tell a fantastic story of praying on campus only to be
told by a police officer that he was barred and would be arrested if he
came back. Except, campus police denied this ever happened.
White
Owl was so distraught that he decided to run away to California. Tragically, White Owl only
made it 30 miles before "God" intervened and told him to go back to KU.
White Owl was also accused last year of stealing books from KU's Anschutz Library. The news shocked the university that had embraced White Owl.
Be strong, Jayhawk nation. Remember the good times.
Updated: Here's a preview for a documentary that shows White Owl and his ex- in happier times.
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