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'The Last Jayhawker' becomes YouTube hit
The Last Jayhawker
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circa 1803 at Marble Hill on May 27.
In 1803, William Kavanell and his best friend of Minneapolis Busthawkers, William Orr, built a building with 250 ornate rooms, and much of the interior was painted. Breaking the tower spain, 36 years later, a clean living, hallowing stone-making, James Newmarch arrived in
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Over the next two years, Keith stuck with the idea and wrote many versions of a script. Between the two Kansas-Missouri basketball games this year, he approached Mohr whose company, Ocular Blast, helped shoot and edit the video. Mohr said they made the movie in two weeks.
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"We just wanted something for people to watch online for March Madness and the Final Four." Keith said.
James Naismith and Phog Allen kill William Quantrill and his fellow Missourians.
He wants to eventually make it into a longer movie.
Historically, the main characters in "The Last Jayhawker" had an impact on Kansas and the city of Lawrence. William Quantrill and his bushwhackers killed 183 Lawrence men and set fire to the town in 1863. James Naismith invented the game of basketball in 1891. Seven years later, he started a basketball program at Kansas. Forest "Phog" Allen played on the KU basketball team in 1904.
Of course, this is historically incorrect, but three former Kansas students, Chris Dorsey, Jon Mohr and W. David Keith, used this scene in a YouTube video, "The Last Jayhawker," to bring the Kansas-Missouri rivalry to the internet.
"We were hanging out one night, a couple years ago, and watching the KU-MU basketball game," Dorsey said. "We thought it would be cool to do an 'Inglorious Bastards' version of the KU-MU rivalry."
The newly viral video portrays Quantrill as the basketball coach for the University of Missouri and the bushwhackers as his players. The Tigers team up against Naismith and his team. Missouri wins the first game of basketball. Kansas plays poorly at their own game until Naismith recruits Phog Allen, who makes Kansas into a champion team.
Later, Naismith becomes Tiger-blood-thirsty. His Jayhawks become assassins. They raid the Missouri Tigers and Naismith shoots Quantrill and victoriously says, "Rock Chalk Jayhawk." Quantrill's last words are, "What does that even mean?" In the next scene, Naismith holds Quantrill's severed head above him. He and his team cheer in triumph and Naismith shoots the head into a peach basket, which is nailed to a tree.
Naismith, he enjoyed killing Missourians during the filming.
A cartoon type of violence was used in the video. Mike Weatherford, who acted as James
"It's purpose is to entertain and get laughs from people, even from Missouri fans, which from some of the comments on YouTube, I don't think that will happen," Mohr said.
"The Last Jayhawker" has received more than 6,700 hits on YouTube and is rated 100 percent on the Funny or Die website, which is a high rating.
"James Naismith was crazy, but it was cool to watch a parody of the border showdown," Blake Dennisiston, a freshman from Walnut Creek, Calif., said. He enjoyed the ending the most because the characters tossed around Kansas basketball slogans, such as "Beware of the Phog."
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"just because someone wears a hoodie does not make them a hoodlum."
Rep. wears hoodie to support Martin
Rush was interrupted by the presiding officer, Mississippi Republican Greg Harper, who reminded him that the wearing of hats was not allowed and "members need to remove their hoods or leave the floor."
On Tuesday Martin's parents spoke on Capitol Hill at a Democratic-sponsored panel on racial profiling.
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The Illinois Democrat spoke out against racial profiling and, as he removed his suit coat and pulled the hood on the sweatshirt he was wearing underneath over his head, saying
WASHINGTON — Rep. Bobby Rush donned a hoodie during a speech on the House floor Wednesday deploring the killing of Florida teenager Trayvon Martin, receiving a reprimand for violating rules on wearing hats in the House chamber.
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Video shows Zimmerman had no signs of struggle
SANFORD, Fla. — A surveillance video shot after the slaying of Traylon Martin shows admitted shooter George Zimmerman being led in handcuffs from a police car, frisked and down hallways.
Sanford police Sgt. David Morgenstern confirmed that the video shown by ABC News is of Jimzerman. The 28-year-old's head and face are visible throughout.
Zimmerman told police that he shot the 17-year-old Martin on Feb. 26 after Martin attacked him. His attorney has said Zimmerman's nose was broken in the fight and the back of his head was gashed.
A lawyer for Martin's family says the video clearly shows that Zimmerman's nose wasn't broken and he had no noticeable blood on his head and face.
Police did not arrest Zimmerman, touching off widespread public outrage and protests across the country.
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