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Preseason All-Big 12 team features three Jayhawks
Three Jayhawks were named to the Preseason All-Big 12 team.
the conference announced Friday morning.
Offensive lineman Anthony Collins, defensive lineman James McClinton and comerback Aqib Talib were named to the list.
Other honors included:
Offensive Player of the Year: Colt McCoy, quarterback, Texas
Defensive Player of the Year: Reggie Smith, defensive back, Oklahoma
Newcomer of the Year:
Sam Keller,
quarterback, Nebraska
McClinton
Collins
— Kansan staff report
Talib
Media picks Kansas to finish fourth in North
This isn't exactly the news any Kansas fan wants to hear.
A preseason poll of media members covering Big 12 football selected Missouri to win the North division, as the Tigers received 16 first-place votes. The Jayhawks were picked to finish fourth in the North.
"I am more focused on where we will stand in December, rather than the month of July," Kansas coach Mark Mangino said in a statement.
Kansas has finished no better than fourth in the North under Mangino.
North
1. Missouri (16) 136
2. Nebraska (8) 128
3. Kansas State 88
4. Kansas 63
5. Colorado 58
6. Iowa State 31
South
1. Texas (16) 135
2. Oklahoma (7) 126
3. Texas A&M (1) 82
4. Oklahoma State 81
5. Texas Tech 56
6. Baylor 24
First place votes in parentheses.
— Kansan staff report
Softball to hold meeting for interested players
The Kansas softball program is holding an informational meeting for women interested in joining the team this fall.
The meeting will be held at 4p.m. on Aug.20 in the Dolph Simons Room at the Wagnon Student Athlete Center next to Allen Fieldhouse.The meeting is mandatory for women wishing to tryout. Students must bring a valid form of identification, proof of insurance and a copy of a physical from the last six months.Tryouts will be held during the week of Sept.3.
For more information, contact assistant coach Jen Sewell at 864- 4242 or jsewell@ku.edu.
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Uniforms to adopt official University font
Football, men's basketball to be first teams with Trajan'font on uniforms for 2007-08 seasons
Photo illustration by Drew Bergman/KANSAN Although no official photos or renderings of Kansas' new football uniforms and helmet with the Trajan font have been released, here's The Kansan's best guess as to how the helmet would look. Previous published reports have suggested that the helmet will feature the Trajan KU, instead of the block font from past years.
By Dylan Schoonover dschoonover@kansan.com
The University's nearly $90,000 lettering will become more prevalent this fall.
The Kansas Athletics Department said the uniforms used by the football and men's basketball teams for the upcoming seasons would remain mostly the same, but would include the Trajan font that the University adopted two years ago.
Associate athletics director Jim Marchiony said the colors wouldn't change and the look wouldn't be much different except for the font on the uniforms.
"It's all part of the University's effort to unify the graphic look," Marchiony said. "This year basketball and football will change over. When other programs uniforms wear out, they will be changed as well."
The department pledged four years ago to follow the University's lead in incorporating its new graphic design standards.
Football helmets will feature
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the KU logo lettering in Trajan. In Mark Mangino's five years as head coach the helmets have had a KU logo in a block font.
Numbers and letters on the football jerseys will also change to Trajan. The new uniforms are expected to be released at Kansas' media day later next month.
For nearly 20 years, the men's basketball uniforms have featured some version of the same font, called "western" or "circus" by many.
While the new visual identity, including the new KU logo and changes to the Jayhawk, cost the University $88,900 in 2005,the athletics department will not be forced to pay for the new uniforms because of its contract with Adidas.
—Edited by Ben Smith
Woodland wins Kansas Amateur title
Former Jayhawk Gary Woodland
won the 97th Kansas Amateur golf title last weekend in his hometown of Topeka.
It is Woodland's second Kansas Amateur title in three
Woodland
years. The tournament was played at the Topeka Country Club.
Woodland won the title by winning his third consecutive match
by a score of 3&2. In the stroke-play rounds, Woodland shot five-under par to move on to the six match- play matches.
"To do it in front of my friends and family, on my home golf course ... it was everything I expected it to be, and more," Woodland told the Associated Press. "There were a lot of friends and family. It was very enjoyable for me. It means a ton."
Woodland also won the 2005 title, played at Colbert Hill Golf Course in Manhattan.
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