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Where Johnny Furphy, Kevin McCullar stand in NBA mock drafts heading into the combine
Kansas basketball will be well represented at the NBA Draft Combine in Chicago this week. Both Johnny Furphy and Kevin McCullar earned invitations to the combine and are set to showcase their talents at the annual event in Chicago.
Las Vegas releases updated win total over/under for KU football
The start of the KU football season is still a few months away but with spring practice over and the summer beginning Las Vegas sports books have started to release updated win total over/unders for football programs this fall. KU is included on that list.
Bill Self gives areas of improvement for Hunter Dickinson heading into the summer
Hunter Dickinson lived up to expectations during his first season with Kansas. The big man averaged 17.9 points per game on 54.8 percent shooting from the field with 10.9 rebounds and 2.3 assists per game. He was KU’s second-leading scorer behind Kevin McCullar and led the teaming rebounding. He was the only player in the Big 12 to average a double-double this season. He was also named a finalist for the Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Award, which is given annually to the nation’s top center.
Ten college basketball teams that boosted their 2024 transfer portal stock
The college basketball transfer portal closed May 1, and though there are still plenty of uncommitted prospects on the board, several teams have already pulled off successful roster overhauls this offseason. Several teams on this list, including Alabama, Kansas, and North Carolina, made the preseason top 25, while others, like Arkansas and Kentucky, entered the conversation with big portal hauls.
Eraser Dust
Canada wildfires hit northern U.S. air quality
Officials in western Canada warned of “volatile wildfire activity,” as dozens of blazes burn in dry conditions across the country, triggering evacuation orders in affected regions and air quality alerts in several U.S. states this week.
Star Wars’ Newest Show Brings Back a Classic Lightsaber Rule
Lightsaber users in the Disney+ era, like Luke Skywalker and Ahsoka Tano, will engage their lightsabers at the slightest threat, and there was no shortage of sabers on display in animated shows like The Clone Wars. But the Jedi were conceived as pacifists, experts in de-escalation who stopped conflicts with violence only when necessary.
America Can’t Quit Intermittent Fasting – The Atlantic
In 2012, the BBC aired a documentary that pushed diet culture to a new extreme. For Eat, Fast, and Live Longer, the British journalist Michael Mosley experimented with eating normally for five days each week and then dramatically less for two, usually having only breakfast. After five weeks, he’d lost more than 14 pounds, and his cholesterol and blood-sugar levels had significantly improved. The documentary, and the international best-selling book that followed, set the stage for the next great fad diet: intermittent fasting.
Jerry Seinfeld’s 17-Year-Old Girlfriend Saga Resurfaces After Duke Walkout
In conjunction with those military camp photos, a quick X search will bring up numerous tweets that reference Seinfeld’s teenage girlfriend from the 1990s, Shoshanna Lonstein Gruss, who he picked up in Central Park when she was still a senior at the private Nightingale-Bamford School in Manhattan, according to People’s cover story about the pair at the time. Lonstein Gruss, now a clothing designer, dated Seinfeld for four years beginning when she was 17 and he was 38.
The Grateful Dead Reaches An Incredible Milestone With Their New Album
As it launches in the runner-up rung on the ranking of the bestselling full-lengths and EPs in the country, Dave’s Picks Vol. 50 becomes the Grateful Dead’s fortieth top 10 hit on the Top Album Sales chart. That’s a massive accumulation of bestsellers—one that few, if any, other artists have reached in the past.
Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker bashes Pride Month, tells women to stay in the kitchen – Yahoo Sports
“I’m beyond blessed with the many talents God has given me, but it cannot be overstated that all my success is made possible because a girl I met in band class back in middle school would convert to the faith, become my wife, and embrace one of the most important titles of all. Homemaker.”
5 myths about Social Security as the program faces a funding crisis – The Washington Post
The trustees of the Social Security and Medicare trust funds have just released their annual report on the economic status of the programs. A crisis is looming.
Gianforte Appoints John Mercer to Replace Embattled Judge in the Flathead – Flathead Beacon
Gov. Greg Gianforte appointed John Mercer to replace District Court Judge Deborah Kim Christopher, who resigned earlier this year after the Montana Supreme Court removed her from a child custody case. Gianforte made the announcement Friday.
Red Lobster to close at least 48 restaurants after ‘endless shrimp’ debacle
The all-you-can-eat menu option was previously a time-limited promotional offer. But when Red Lobster made it permanent, patrons ended up eating far more shrimp than the restaurant could afford, while taking up tables and lengthening wait times for new arrivals.
Postscripts: How Big is Too Big for the Big 12?
What’s going on in the Big 12 and beyond? I expand and explain every Sunday in Postscripts at Heartland College Sports, your home for independent Big 12 coverage.
Vice President Kamala Harris used a profanity while offering advice on breaking down barriers | AP News
She added: “We have to know that sometimes people will open the door for you and leave it open. Sometimes they won’t. And then you need to kick that f——— door down.”