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Osceola, MO asks KU to end Jayhawker name

What with all the hoopla about Civil War reenactment, this had to happen.
The declaration asking for the end of the jayhawker mascot as being politically offensive was first reported by the AP on Sept. 18. Furthermore, the resolution asks that neither jayhawk, jayhawker or kansas be capitalized by any University of Missouri [...]

It’s the Jayhawker’s year: MR 340 moves to Kansas River for 2011

When the river floods, and you want to paddle, ya do what ya gotta do.
The organizers of the Missouri River 340 have had to shorten and move the race upstream in order to hold it at all.
By Jo Schaper
Regretfully, that means to Kansas. The race, which has started from Kaw Point in [...]