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2025 Rankings Update: The Battle for No. 1, Darryn Peterson’s opportunity, Nate Ament’s rise
The post-summer rankings update puts a bow on an arduous, yet fulfilling, few months of evaluation and grassroots basketball. This update for the 2025 class, which dropped on Wednesday live on the 247Sports College Basketball Show, comes after all the summer circuits have wrapped and hours upon hours of events and games have been consumed. It also sets the stage for the high school season which is right around the corner which then gives way to the spring grassroots season.
Notebook: Brian Borland talks DJ Warner, preparing for UNLV and more
When the Kansas football depth chart was released ahead of Week 1, DJ Warner was tabbed as the No. 2 weak side defensive end behind Dean Miller. Through two games, Warner is getting the snaps that reflect his listing on the two deep. The true freshman and highest-ranked high school signee for KU this century has shown some flashes, too.
How KU’s offense is working to learn from a disappointing performance while preparing for UNLV
The Kansas football offense faces a challenge in between Week 2 and Week 3. Fresh of KU’s first loss of the season — a 23-17 defeat to Illinois in which KU’s three turnovers and seven points in the second half doomed the Jayhawks — the offense is looking to balance learning the lessons from the loss necessary to improve week over week while also getting ready for a UNLV defense that will play with great intensity on Friday night.
What KU football players are saying ahead of rematch with UNLV
In the lead-up to KU’s Week 3 contest against UNLV on Friday, several KU football players met with local reporters to discuss its game against UNLV. The players interviewed included Lawrence Arnold, Marvin Grant, Logan Brown and Mello Dotson.
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Kalispell couple admit to defrauding Social Security of nearly $200k | Daily Inter Lake
The defendants, Mistie Lynn Knapton, 49, and her husband, Travis Ray Knapton, 50, each pleaded guilty to theft of government money in separate hearings. Mistie Knapton pleaded to a felony charge and faces a maximum of 10 years in prison, a $250,000 fine and three years of supervised release. Travis Knapton pleaded to a misdemeanor charge and faces a maximum of one year in prison, a $100,000 fine and one year of supervised release.
Congressional Republicans try to hide from Trump’s debate performance – The Washington Post
Republicans faced their own presidential nominee’s poor performance without the same clear-eyed analysis Democrats voiced after Biden’s terrible June 27 debate.
Mia Khalifa’s Dave Grohl Remark Takes Off Online – Newsweek
“We lost Dave Grohl, but we still have Billie Joe,” Khalifa wrote on the platform, in apparent reference to Green Day rocker Billie Joe Armstrong.
David Gilmour says “Oasis should do exactly what they want to” but “put a price on tickets and stick to it”
Speaking as part of a new interview with ITV News, the guitarist, singer and songwriter said: “I think Oasis should do exactly what they want to do. I’m not sure about this strange ticketing thing that’s going on. They should put a price on tickets and stick to it.”
4 Iconic Classic Rock Songs That Were Banned From the Radio After 9/11 – American Songwriter
The attacks on September 11, 2001, killed 2,977 people—2,996 when counting the 19 hijackers—and changed the world forever. Today, 23 years later, reverberations of that harrowing Tuesday morning can still be felt throughout the nation. Legislation changed, airline travel became more secure, and, for some Americans, attitudes about the Middle East and Islam were irrevocably shifted. In the short term, entertainment was censored and many songs were banned from the radio after 9/11.
Presentation uncovers unusual aspects of historic tales | Daily Inter Lake
Sally Thompson will look at a different side of well-known stories, such as the “moccasin telegraph” that tracked Lewis and Clark’s journey on Sept. 16.