By JUSTIN KENDALL
ESPN writer Dana O'Neil has a fascinating story on the not-quite-cheating-but-it-looks-bad areas of college basketball recruiting.
The story highlights the recruitment of Daniel Orton, a top-10 player who signed to play for Billy Gillispie's Kentucky Wildcats. Orton's father, Larry Orton, was paid thousands of dollars to give 16 speeches at Kentucky-sponsored summer basketball camps. Even Orton's stepbrother got paid to speak at the Kentucky camps. It's all within the gray
Jeff Lyons' "Ascending Red Tiles," Acrylic on Canvas.ArtKC365 profiles Jeff Lyons 2-D Lego-inspired artwork. If you don't have anything going on today, check out Lyons' work at H&R Block's downtown HQ. It'll be up until February 28. And if you're not reading ArtKC365, you should be.Bottom Line thinks former Kansas State Wildcat and current Miami Heat baller Michael Beasley is as mature as a 12-year-old. I'm just glad the Bulls drafted Derrick Rose.Dirt Diver Kansas wonders where all the blac
Former Kansas State basketball player Michael Beasley has reportedly checked into a Houston rehabilitation facility "to address possible substance and psychological issues."The No. 2 pick in the 2008 NBA Draft appeared in a photograph on Twitter showing off his new back tattoo -- and the photo inadvertently showed a small plastic baggie on a nearby table (with many speculating about the contents of the baggie). Beasley dropped his Twitter account but first offered a couple final creepy tweets
Don't get too excited. The future looks like nothing but exhibition games (basketball and hockey) at the Sprint Center. But basketball magazine/Web site Dime lists nine cities that deserve NBA franchises, and yeah, Kansas City made the list. Here's what Dime says are the pros and cons of pro hoops returning to KC: Pros: Decades ago, Kansas City was home for Kings. The city is also home to two major sports franchises in the Royals and Chiefs. Seems like every time a team is relocating, Kansas
U.S. soldiers are committing suicide in record numbers, and the Army is struggling to fix the problem. This week's Pitch feature story, "Exit Strategy," looks at one solider who almost became a statistic. Also, Martin covers MoDOT's shoddy maintenance of inner-city bridges. Ferruzza reviews Café Trio. And Buckle Bunny talks tour managing. 1. Lynn Jenkins' "hope" for change is white. 2. Living next to a Rockhurst frat sucks. 3. Riverfront Heritage Trail is pretty cool. 4. 26 homicides in KCK.
If you read this morning's Kansas City Star, you wouldn't know that the Miami Heat and the New Orleans Hornets are playing tonight at the Sprint Center -- unless you saw the tiny ad on page three of the sports section. Two of the NBA's biggest stars -- Dwayne Wade and Chris Paul -- are in Kansas City and not even a tiny story on B9? Even with all of the local ties -- former KU stars Julian Wright and Mario Chalmers and Kansas State's Michael Beasley. Maybe I missed the story (I didn't). The S
Photos by Scott SpychalskiClick on Dwayne Wade throwing it down for a slideshow of last night's Heat-Hornets game.Matt Moore of Hardwood Paroxysm covered Thursday night's Heat-Hornets game at the Sprint Center. Here's his dispatch.The NBA in Kansas City. Man, that's weird. It's like barbecue in St. Louis. It's just absurd. And coming into Thursday night's game between the Heat and
the Hornets, I expected the city of KC to mostly respond in kind. Sure,
there would be a fair amount of folks who
