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Answering Lindy’s Sports’ three big questions about Kansas football heading into 2024
The Lindy’s Sports college football preview has hit the shelves and the magazine spent two pages previewing each team, including Kansas. As a part of the preview, Lindy’s posed three key questions about the Jayhawks and provided answers.
WATCH: Flory Bidunga, Hunter Dickinson discuss first days of summer with KU
The summer in Lawrence is officially underway with the Bill Self Basketball Camp taking place this week. The entire KU team is back on campus for summer school and summer workouts. On Tuesday, the KU players scrimmaged against each other in front of the campers. After the scrimmage, Flory Bidunga and Hunter Dickinson met with reporters. Click the video above to see what Bidunga had to say. Click the video below to see what Dickinson had to stay.
Lance Leipold gives his thoughts on the additions of Amir Herring, Bai Jobe
The Kansas football program had a quieter spring transfer portal window, but the Jayhawks did add a pair of transfers with strong backgrounds. The Jayhawks added Michigan offensive line transfer Amir Herring, who spent last season with the national title-winning Wolverines and was a four-star prospect coming out of high school. KU also added Michigan State defensive end transfer Bai Jobe, who was a top-100 recruit and an All-American Bowl participant coming out of high school in the 2023 class. With both players now on campus to begin their KU careers, Lance Leipold is able to discuss their arrivals and provide background.
Eraser Dust
The Acolyte’s Opening Repeats Obi-Wan’s Oldest Lie
In the beginning of The Acolyte episode 1, several lines of blue text appear over a field of stars, akin to the “A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away.” This information acts similarly to the opening text crawls as seen in Star Wars movies, and is very much like the opening to Solo: A Star Wars Story. In this text, the Republic is described as having not seen war for generations, and this is similar to how Obi-Wan describes the Republic in A New Hope, as a golden age of peace – but this is technically a lie.
Tim Sheehy Wins G.O.P. Nod to Challenge Tester for Senate in Montana – The New York Times
Tim Sheehy, a businessman and former Navy SEAL, won the Republican primary for U.S. Senate in Montana on Tuesday, according to The Associated Press, setting him up for a November showdown against Senator Jon Tester, the Democratic incumbent.
Evangeline Lilly Is Done With Acting, Marvel Included
Actress Evangeline Lilly took to Instagram to announce her retirement from acting, featuring a video of herself taken in 2006. “Ten years from now, where would I like to be? I am terrified to admit this to the rest of the acting world but ideally 10 years from now I’d like to be a retired actress and have a family,” The younger Lilly says. “I’d like to be writing and influencing people’s lives in humanitarian ways.”
Ranking college basketball’s top 25 teams, following NBA Draft deadline and transfer portal decisions
Let’s rank the best 25 teams in the country with most of the rosters pretty much set. There are a few stragglers in the transfer portal, but the NBA Draft stay-or-go decisions are finalized and dozens of rosters are set for the 2024-25 campaign.
Tennessee: Parents sue governor and school district, claiming kids were punished after officials misinterpreted state statute | CNN
Two families have filed a federal lawsuit against Tennessee Governor Bill Lee and the Williamson County School District, claiming their middle school kids were arrested, strip-searched, placed in solitary confinement, forced to undergo evaluations and placed on house arrest after officials misinterpreted a Tennessee statute and claimed that conversations between peers were “threats of mass violence.”
The 50 Best Albums Of 2024 So Far
That’s enough from me, thanks for reading. Dig into Stereogum’s list of The 50 Best Albums Of 2024 So Far below. —James Rettig
US Senator Manchin encouraging industry to sue Treasury over EV tax credits | Reuters
WASHINGTON, June 4 (Reuters) – U.S. Senator Joe Manchin said on Tuesday he was urging U.S. companies to sue the Treasury Department over the local content rules it set for companies to receive clean energy tax credits under the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA).
Kansas leaders and new group ramp up efforts to lure the Kansas City Chiefs from Missouri | AP News
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Top Kansas legislators have intensified efforts to woo the Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs by offering to let the professional football franchise shape a plan for using state bonds to finance a new stadium in Kansas.
The most annoying golfer habit? Here’s what nearly 4,000 golfers said
But the most common irritant? It’s not even close. In our survey, more than 65 percent of respondents cited slow play as the worst of the bad behaviors.
Elon Musk’s Starlink Hookup Leaves A Remote Tribe Addicted To Porn
The Marubo tribe’s elders have come forward to admit that while the Tesla founder’s Starlink service was initially a huge celebration for them, it’s all turned into a mess … ’cause some of the previously chaste tribe’s men are now displaying “aggressive sexual behavior.”
4 of the Best Rock One-Hit Wonders From the 1990s – American Songwriter
Ah, the 90s! A lot of top-notch music came out during this decade, and a lot of rock bands released their no. 1 hits before the turn of the century. However, a lot of these bands only got to see one of their songs chart in the 1990s, and they have not seen that level of popularity since. Let’s take a gander at a few of the best rock one-hit wonders from the 1990s!