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KANSAN.COM/SPORTS | MONDAY, APRIL 24, 2017
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BEST LATE-NIGHT DRUNK FOOD PIZZA The Wheel
$2^{nd}$ Place: Fuzzy's $3^{rd}$ Place: Pizza Shuttle
EMILY WELLBORN
@EmWellborn
KANSAN.COM
"Megan is 21. You go girl," the bright marker on the side of the booth says. It is in a sea of birthday wishes and Greek letters that cover the Wheel's walls and furniture. Loud music plays over the speakers as Betty Jury sits with her family for lunch.
She went to the University in the 50s, was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta sorority and graduated with a degree in home economics. Her family was visiting her from Seattle, for a tour of the University that has changed a lot since she was a student. The Wheel, she said, hasn't changed at all.
"It was the place to eat. The place to eat." Jurv said.
Jury said, "the camaraderie and the friendly atmosphere" made the Wheel special and what makes The Wheel Pizza Company so special for current students.
"I think it's great for the new generation," Jury said.
"My generation, we didn't even know what pizza was."
Camaraderie is also something that Rich Brown, who is as much a Lawrence icon as the bar,makes the Wheel Pizza special for students.
Rob Farha, the current
"We're underneath The Wheel, and we're across the street from The Hawk and the Bull." Brown said. "The people get along together."
"You see a lot of funny things, hear a lot of funny things." Brown said.
Brown is known to late-night customers as "Pizza Pete," and has been serving the braided-crust pizza since 1999. He said that The Wheel has never been a boring place to work.
He said the customers are the most interesting part of his job. The "not sober" patrons can be very funny, he said.
"People have tried to put money into the ATM to get out more money," Brown said. "It's like it's a slot machine."
owner of The Wheel, said Brown does a good job of handling drunk patrons.
"It's positive and fun, but there are some negative things. Sometimes the alcohol gets in the way," Farha said. "People can be disrespectful sometimes. He does a good job of tailing that."
Farha said that he wants to keep the tradition of the Wheel going in the future and that the late-night, noisy patrons are worth it.
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"The positive is kids are walking around not driving," Farha said. "To have that, you're going to have a little noise and stuff, but it's better than the alternative. I think and it gives them something to munch on late night."
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BEST LIQUOR STORE JAYHAWK LIQUOR
$ 2^{nd} $ Place:Cork and Barrel $ 3^{rd} $ Place:On the Rocks
BEST WAY TO EXPERIENCE NATURE
HIKING Clinton Lake
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aided the effort, having 14 athletes finish in top-three positions, including seven first-place finishes. Their performances earned Kansas an additional 138 points to add onto the 93 earned by the field athletes.
"I can't believe how loud
Behind an exuberant home-crowd, several Kansas athletes contributed the home-track advantage to their strong performances.
Senior Jacob Morgan crosses the finish line to place first in the men's 5,000-meter run on April 29 at the Kennesaw Box.
In one of the final events of the evening, Morgan raced out to an early lead in the 5,000-meter race and never looked back. Morgan finished the race in 14:19.59, 2.8 seconds ahead of teammate Dylan Hodgson. The pair won 16 points between them
est race of the relays. Coming in at a time of 3:53-57, Richards finished ahead of Joyce by .01 seconds.
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"The cheering, I loved it. It was awesome," Richards said, looking toward the large crowd of Kansas fans.
Jacob Morgan Senior
I can't believe how loud people were getting on that backstretch, I was like 'dang, is that for me?"
The Kansas women's team also put on a good
performance for the home crowd, finishing second in a hotly contested competition with 181.5 points. They trailed Minnesota by 14 points, which ended the night with 195.5 points.
Dabney, who placed seventh out of a field of seven in the women's 100-meter hurdles, also competed in the college open 100-meter hur
Both the men's and women's team saw several athletes run multiple events throughout the day, one of whom was sophomore Gabbi Dabney.
Dabney felt some pain in her groin area throughout the day,but didn't feel that performing twice in one day affected her performance.
dles event earlier in the day. Dabney finished the scored quadrangular race with a time of 14.48 seconds.
Junior Christian Hicks was another athlete to compete twice for the Jayhawks, competing in both the college
"I really wanted to score some points for my team and finish out the weekend," Dabney said.
open and scored quadrangular men's 110-meter hurdles.
Hicks beat his personal-record in the college open with a time of 14.28 seconds, but unfortunately for the Derby native, the wind was over two meters per second, the limit for an official personal-record. Hicks then followed that performance up in the scored invitational, finishing second behind California's Ashtyn Davis. Although the wind was under two meters per second, Hicks finished his race in 14.46 seconds, .01 seconds behind his personal-record.
"I needed a lot of times under my belt so I can keep lowering it. This definitely really helped me," Hicks said, looking ahead toward the Outdoor Big 12 Championships.
Kansas will return to action next week with the Jayhawks staying in Lawrence for the Rock Chalk Classic on Saturday, April 29, with the hammer throw kicking the meet off at 11 a.m.
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