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also the only one to cast a dissenting vote against a resolution to approve the local option budget (LOB) — which grants the district the authority to spend

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the maximum amount allowed by the state finance formula. Before the vote on the operating budget, board member Shannon Kimball expressed concern that further opposition could potentially unravel months of hard work.

“Because we approved those staff salaries and other expenditures all throughout this past year for this school year — based on projections our staff have given us about money generated in the

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Site that used to house city’s largest private employer is on the market

Don’t hang up on me. I feel like I should make that request because I’m getting ready to talk about call centers. The main message is: There are fewer of them in Lawrence than there used to be.

Unless you enjoy talking about your car’s extended warranty, or lack thereof, you probably think that is good news. Maybe, maybe not. The industry has employed a lot of people in Lawrence over the years, and most of the time it has been for work far

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Chad Lawhorn clawhorn@ljworld.com

different from the annoying calls you get during dinner time. Among other projects, Lawrence call center workers have been the voices behind the helplines for federal student loans and federal health insurance programs, among other big topics. In fact, a call center

company that has had more names than my F150 has had denied warranty claims was the largest private employer in Lawrence for many years. The company, which has operated under the names NCS, Pearson, General Dynamics, Vangent and likely others that I have forgotten, has long occupied two large buildings in the East Hills Business Park. At various times, those entities employed more than 1,000 people in Lawrence.

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DEATHS

Journal-World obituary policy: For information about running obituaries, call 8327151. Obituaries run as submitted by funeral homes or the families of the deceased.

CARL EDWARD BURKHEAD

Carl Edward Burkhead

was born on June 20 1935

at St Mary s Hospital in Kansas City, Mo , to Clifton Dallas and Mabel Burkhead He was one of six children (not including an unnamed brother who died at birth): Kenneth Eugene of Kansas City, Mo (deceased) Clifton Raymond of Grandview Mo (deceased), Eleanor Marie of Arvada Colo John Stephen of Troy Ala and Mary Francis Hull of Buckhannon W Va Carl graduated from McCoy Grade School, Northeast Junior High Northeast High School in 1953 (all in Kansas City, Mo ), Missouri School of Mines and Metallurgy with a BS in Chemical Engineering in 1957 and the University of Kansas with a MS and PhD in Environmental Engineering 1963 and 1966 respectively He married Nancy Joyce Pollard on June 2 1957 and they have two children, Jeffery Allen (Jennifer) born in 1959 and Carla Joy (Tim) born in 1961 He and Joyce have seven grandchildren: Deon Marie Prue Michael Timothy Wilson, Carrie Grace Combs Leah Joy Johnson Clay Carlen Burkhead, Catie Jewel Burkhead and Chloé Hope Burkhead; eight greatgrandchildren: Riah Jude Ostrander Rade Howard Ostrander, Treson Carl Prue, Jorey Wayne Prue, Rowan Michael Johnson Marlee Grace Prue, Tauren Joy Johnson, and Roman Guthrie Combs Carl worked for Phillips Petroleum Co from 1957 to 1959 (including a sixmonth tour of duty in the U S Army Corps of Engineers); and Midwest Research Institute from 1959 to 1962 After completion of his graduate degrees, he worked as an assistant professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Kentucky in Lexington from 1966 to 1969 He worked at the University of Kansas from

1969 to 2003 as an associate and full professor in the Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering After retirement he worked part­time as a Professional Environmental Engineer for the Kansas Department of Health and Environment from August 2008 to June

2018 He was a member of Alpha Chi Sigma, Chi Epsilon and had two Fulbright Awards to Technion in Haifa, Israel, in 1987 and the Catholic University in Oporto, Portugal, in 1994 Carl received Christ at age 12 and spent the rest of his life sharing Jesus He is now with the Lord at the age of 88 He would like to thank all those who shared their lives with him And he looks forward to when we will see each other once again forever

A Visitation will be held from 5­7 p m Thursday, Sept 14 at Rumsey­Yost Funeral Home 601 Indiana St in Lawrence A celebration service will be held at 2 p m Saturday Sept 16 at Rev City Church (formerly the Mustard Seed Church) 700 Wakarusa

The family would like to express their heartfelt gratitude to Douglas County Visiting Nurses for their loving and compassionate care of our husband /father Online condolences made at rumsey­yost com

JUDITH WARD ANDERSON

Judith Ward Anderson passed away on September 6, 2023

She was born February 19, 1943, in Tahlequah, Oklahoma After graduating high school she received her Bachelor's Degree in Education from Northeastern State University, also in Tahlequah She taught high school English in various schools in Oklahoma

After moving to Kansas in 1972, she earned Master's Degree in Social Work from the University of Kansas She went on to a varied and successful career in social work, including work for the East Central Kansas Cooperative in Education, Baldwin Unif ied School District Douglas County Court Services, District Attorney's Off ice, Sheriff's Off ice Bert Nash Mental Health, and Ransom Memorial Hospital in Ottawa

She and her husband Loren moved to Minden, Nevada in 2014 where she remained busy with various volunteer jobs, always in service to others They returned to Baldwin City in 2021 She was an extremely knowledgeable and

capable equestrian who loved horses and horseowners Horseback riding was an essential part of her life since childhood She will be fondly remembered for her strength, sense of humor, and generosity Over the years she helped countless people through diff icult times In lieu of flowers the family suggests donations to the Baldwin City Emergency Fund of which she was a cofounder Donations to the fund can be made to the Baldwin State Bank, P O Box 46 Baldwin City KS 66006 She is survived by her husband Loren and sons Jason and Seth Osburn A celebration of life for Judith will be announced at a later time

BARBARA ANN DOWNING

S ervices for Barbara Ann Downing 84 Lawrence are pending and will be announced by Rumsey­Yost Funeral Home She died S eptember 5, 2023 rumsey­yost com

SAMUEL ROBERT BOWMAN

Graveside service for Samuel R B owman, 84, Lawrence, will be held at 12:30 p m on Thurs , S ept 14, 2023 at Stony Point Cemetery in Baldwin City, KS For Samuel's full obituary go to warrenmcelwain com

ANGELINA CAROLINA “CAROLYN” GONZALEZ

76 Topeka passed away S ept 7 2023 S ervices Thurs S ept 14 at Brennan­Mathena Funeral Home: visit 12­1pm, funeral 1pm Interment at Mt Calvary Cemetery in Topeka brennanmathenaf h com

SUSAN SARAH CRAWFORD

Funeral S ervices for Susan Sarah Crawford, 89, Eudora, will be 1 pm, Saturday, S eptember 16, 2023, at Rumsey­Yost Funeral Home A Visitation will be from noon to service time rumsey­yost com

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Man charged with indecent liberties with a child and distributing obscene material

By Chris Conde cconde@ljworld.com

A Lawrence man has been charged in Douglas County District Court with aggravated indecent liberties with a 13-yearold and distributing obscene materials.

The man, Caleb Allan Augustin, 38, faces one

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But now, one of those buildings is vacant and on the market. The ‘for lease’ sign has gone up in front of the 105,000 square-foot building at 2201 Noria Road, which is on the eastern edge of the East Hills Business Park. The building next door to it is occupied by Maximus, which is the call center company that took over for the NCS/ Pearson/General Dynamics, etc. etc. organization. In the past, whatever call center was operating that space leased both buildings, as the company frequently won government contracts that would boost the workforce to a size that it could no longer fit all the employees into a single building. Those days, though, might be gone for the Lawrence center. A Kansas City-based commercial real estate firm is seeking an entirely new tenant for the second building, which

Augustin

felony count of aggravated indecent liberties with a child for engaging in lewd touching or fondling and one

is owned by the publicly traded real estate investment firm Orion Office REIT.

For a mere $70,000 a month, you can lease the space and the row after row after row of cubicles inside the building, according to the commercial real estate listing online. The building is now one of the largest office spaces available in Lawrence.

However, it certainly isn’t the only example of a big, empty call center space in town. The I-70 Business Center — where the Journal-World is located in North Lawrence — has seen three large call center spaces vacated in the last year or so. (One has since been filled by what I call my walk-in vending machine, also known as Family Dollar.)

Another space of particular note is a 50,000 square-foot office building near the intersection of Sixth and Iowa streets. It has been a call center location and customer service location for a variety of companies including SS&C

misdemeanor count of distributing obscene material, according to charging documents. The charges are in connection with an incident on July 10.

Augustin was arrested on the charge just after 3 p.m. Friday at his home in the 2500 block of West 31st Street by Douglas

Technologies, DST Systems, and Boston Financial Data Services in recent years. Longtime residents, though, may still associate the site, 2000 Bluffs Drive, with its original tenant: Sallie Mae, which used the Lawrence site as a major processing center for federal student loans.

According to the commercial real estate listing online, that building is now empty and is for sale, with an asking price of $5.9 million.

At this point in the article you may be hoping for a phone call to discuss your extended warranty, if it gives you a reason to stop hearing about call centers.

In other words, why does any of this matter?

Jobs are the main reason any of this is of community concern.

If you recall, I mentioned that the call center complex at East Hills Business Park often employed more than 1,000 people. According to the latest job figures compiled by the Economic Development Corporation of Lawrence & Douglas

County sheriff’s deputies. He is being held on a $10,000 cash or surety bond and is scheduled to appear in court on Monday afternoon. Augustin has felony convictions in Johnson County for burglary and theft in 2006, according to Kansas Department of Corrections records.

County, the complex has 450 employees. For some comparison, local economic development statistics dating back to 2012 showed that call center complex had 1,500 employees. As recently as 2021, Maximus was employing 1,000 people at the site, according to the statistics. But that number fell greatly in 2022 and has not recovered.

As recently as 2020, the old Sallie Mae property had nearly 360 employees, according to the same economic development statistics. So, just those two properties alone have seen a decline of about 1,000 employees in recent years.

Whether they now can be used to attract new major employers in the future will be an important question for the Lawrence economy.

••• I did some digging for historic job numbers for this article, so let me throw a couple of leftover findings your way. The numbers, which I partially got from

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the city of Lawrence’s annual financial statements that list the top 10 employers of the community, provide a glimpse at how much the local job scene has changed over the decade. Call center jobs certainly aren’t the only ones that have have declined. But you also might be surprised to know that the community has had a big uptick in jobs at some key manufacturers. Here’s a look at some notable gainers and losers:

l University of Kansas: 2013: 9,881 employees; 2023: 8,845 employees. That’s a 10% decline in the KU workforce, or a loss of more than 1,000 jobs in Lawrence.

l City of Lawrence: 2013: 1,455; 2023: 860 employees. Take those numbers with a grain of salt. The lists are imperfect, which is why I don’t often report on them. I’m unsure whether one list is reporting all employees regardless of full-time vs. part-time status, while another list may be reporting full-time equivalent positions. However, I am confident the city has reduced its

workforce over the decade, although I’m not sure it has reduced it by 40%.

l Berry Global: 2013: 740 employees; 2023: 1,550. The maker of plastic cups and other such products has more than doubled its local workforce.

l Hallmark: 2013: 525 employees; 2023: 885 employees. The company continues to use its Lawrence plant to manufacture the bulk of its North American greeting cards. Employee totals have grown as some other Hallmark plants have closed in recent years.

l Amarr Garage Doors: 2013: 460 employees; 2023: 730 employees.

l LMH Health: 2013: 1,322; 2023: 1,945 employees. The numbers are interesting, but I would caution you to look at them broadly. Jobs numbers at these entities change frequently, and the entities often don’t publicly release those totals. So, these are the best numbers we have, but they are still subject to being out of date.

“I saw an ad in the paper. We didn’t have the internet back then. I saw they were hiring firefighters. So I thought ‘that might be OK, looks pretty good,’” Engleman said.

She applied for the job and doubted she would be hired, so she didn’t bother to tell her parents. To her surprise, she did get the job, beating out over 100 applicants.

“It was the beginning.

Thank goodness Chief McSwain knew that this was something that we (Lawrence) wanted to get into. I can’t think that I was a better candidate than another person,” Engleman said.

She still wasn’t sure how to tell her parents, who lived in Great Bend, but the news of a woman being hired as a firefighter in 1981 traveled fast across the Plains and her folks learned of her new job via a radio broadcast.

“They found out that I’d been hired and immediately called and said, ‘What are you doing with your life? This is a deadend career. You have a baby,’ all that kind of stuff,” Engleman said.

She assured her parents that the job was only temporary and that she would look for work as a teacher — in the meantime she needed the money. But then she worked her first emergency call.

The same day the Journal-World reported about Engleman and Denise Clemens starting with the department on June 19, 1981, a tornado ripped through the city, killing one person and injuring at least 33 more.

“My first day was a trailer house fire and a tornado… When I got off the truck, I didn’t have bunker gear that fit. I had bunker gear with long pants that were rolled or doubled up on the ground. It was an eye opener for me to see that (destruction),”

Engleman said. Engleman said the devastation of the tornado and the clear need for emergency responders was a big part of why what she thought might be a short-lived job turned into a 30-year career.

“You know, I always thought it was divine intervention that kind of got me to that point,” Engleman said.

Helping people and being able to see the reallife impact of the job kept Engleman driving forward in her career, but it wasn’t just the heartfelt moments of rescuing people; it was also the adrenaline rush of entering into a burning building.

“The first fire I went in was just amazing. Scary, but it was thrilling all at the same time,” Engleman said.

She divorced her husband soon after and quickly learned that working a 24-hour shift and raising a baby was not an easy task.

“I had a 4-month-old baby when I got on with the department. And so it was juggling, trying to be a mom and having a 4-month-old child,” Engleman said.

Engleman’s son spent some days at day care and

some days with his dad, but Engleman said that the guys at the fire station did their part to pitch in as well.

“The guys were very helpful,” she said.

In addition to helping her occasionally with the baby, they also taught her about firefighting.

“A lot of it was on-thejob training,” Engleman said.

In her first decade, Engleman rose through the ranks to become Lawrence’s first woman named lieutenant with the department and then captain. And while she never became a full-fledged fire chief, she did get to fill in as “acting chief” a time or two.

“I got to be fill-in chief because one of the chiefs got injured and he was gone for several months. And whenever a chief goes on vacation, then the captain is filling in for him, so I got to do that. I really enjoyed that,” Engleman said.

Engleman oversaw not only the cultural shift of bringing women into the department, but also the addition of medical services being added to the department’s service, the addition of various modern

technologies including automatic ladder trucks and infrared cameras that could see through smoke during a fire, and the construction of numerous new fire stations.

After 29 years with the fire department, Engleman said retiring in 2010 was bittersweet not just because she wouldn’t get to run fire calls, or because she never quite attained her goal of being named permanently as fire chief but because of the relationships she had with her fellow firefighters.

“There was a lot of camaraderie. That’s what I missed the most,” Engleman said. “If I was younger, I’d still be doing it. I miss it. You know, just helping people every day — showing up on the worst day of their life, trying to fix things”

Lawrence-Douglas County Fire Medical recently honored Engleman by naming a training room for her at Fire Station No. 1, where Engleman started all those years ago at the corner of Eighth and Kentucky streets. “I was there for the majority of my career… one of the busiest stations,” Engleman said. Engleman looks back with satisfaction at her

time in bunker gear and in command and says she is pleased that the culture has changed, that women can enter the field on equal footing with men and that while the world may have taken notice of her career because she is a woman, most of her coworkers and supervisors over the years took notice of her abilities and not her gender.

“Everybody that does that job, nobody really ever quits. You know, you see a lot of bad things but you’re there to help,” Engleman said.

Forty years later, Lawrence-Douglas County Fire Medical currently employs 10 women in sworn firefighting positions, holding the ranks

firefighter and fire engineer, said Fire Chief Rich Llewellyn. In addition to their firefighting training, each has an associated EMS certification level of EMT, advanced EMT or paramedic. The department employs seven nonsworn, or civilian, women in support roles.

In total, the department has 153 sworn positions and nine civilian positions, but some positions are vacant due to personnel retiring, Llewellyn said. The department was approved to add five sworn positions and two civilian positions in the city’s 2024 budget, as the Journal-World reported, and is actively recruiting to fill vacant positions, Llewellyn said.

This week at...

Lawrence City Commission

Lisa Larsen, mayor 785-331-9162 llarsen@lawrenceks.org

Bart Littlejohn, vice mayor 785-380-9413 blittlejohn@lawrenceks.org

Brad Finkeldei 785-550-9699 bfinkeldei@lawrenceks.org

Amber Sellers 785-813-1381 asellers@lawrenceks.org

Courtney Shipley 764-8998 cshipley@lawrenceks.org

Letter address: City Hall, 6 E. Sixth St., Lawrence KS 66044.

Douglas County Commission

Karen Willey 785-979-9455 kwilley@douglascountyks.org

Shannon Reid 785-331-9635 sreid@douglascountyks.org

Patrick Kelly 785-393-8346 pkelly@douglascountyks.org

Letter address: Douglas County Courthouse, 1100 Massachusetts St., Lawrence KS 66044.

Lawrence School Board

Kelly Jones, president 764-1465 Kelly.Jones@usd497.org

Bob Byers, vice president 785-979-3084 bbyers@usd497.org

Shannon Kimball, past president, 840-7722 skimball@usd497.org

Paula Vann, 979-2899 psmith@usd497.org

Erica Hill 620-727-5355 ehill@usd497.org

Carole Cadue-Blackwood, 550-7620 ccaduebl@usd497.org

GR Gordon-Ross 785-813-1769 gr.gordon-ross@usd497.org

Letter address: 110 McDonald Drive, Lawrence KS 66044.

OLD HOMETOWN

America is not the Roman Empire

A recent op-ed in The New York Times warns, as the headline puts it, that “America is an empire in decline,” and finds a precedent in imperial Rome.

The piece, written by the coauthor of a new book, “Why Empires Fall: Rome, America, and the Future of the West,” shows that the cottage industry in comparisons between the United States and Rome is as robust as ever.

It is an irresistible temptation to superimpose the history of Rome and especially its decline and fall — an enduring subject of fascination — on top of our own experience and future.

Both conservatives and progressives are prone to their own versions of this narrative, tending to emphasize either moral decline or imperial over-stretch respectively.

But the most important thing to know about us and our supposed imperial forbear is that we aren’t Rome and aren’t experiencing any of the most direct, spectacular causes of its fall.

It’s become fashionable among some scholars to argue that there was no fall. There were no barbarian invasions. There was no material decline. Nothing to see here — simply evolutionary change.

It is true that Rome’s fall — a long, messy process — didn’t unfold with the pleasing

Rich Lowry

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Both conservatives and progressives are prone to their own versions of this narrative, tending to emphasize either moral decline or imperial over-stretch respectively.”

cinematic simplicity that the popular imagination might believe; the extent of the barbarian population transfers has been exaggerated and the Eastern half of the empire lived on for another 1,000 years.

Still, the Western Roman Empire unquestionably fell, with disastrous consequences for a long time. It’s just that dragging us into it is wildly off base.

Rome tore itself apart with constant assassinations, usurpations and civil wars. It weakened itself economically and militarily, while confronting challenges from armed bands

on its borders that it became incapable of handling as it steadily lost its territory and sources of financial support to barbarian groups.

At the same time, it had to grapple with the Persian Empire to the East.

Is this happening to the United States? Well, an armed contingent of Quebecers isn’t (like the Visigoths) wandering throughout the United States, fighting periodic battles with the U.S. military and seeking subsidies from the U.S. Senate before besieging — and eventually sacking — Washington, D.C.

Migrants to the United States don’t settle en masse in national groupings led by military leaders seeking power and preferment. They disperse throughout the country and take illegal jobs as busboys and the like.

U.S. presidents have to worry about declining poll numbers, a recalcitrant congressional opposition, and reelection campaigns.

They don’t, like Roman emperors, need to think all the time about potential assassinations and armed usurpers. They don’t need to worry that if they assign a general to take over, say, CENTCOM, he will use the position to muster the troops and resources to challenge for power himself. They don’t need

Poor shelter planning

To the editor:

I was not surprised that there were no bidders to run the new pallet shelter project. From my limited dealing with trying to help the homeless, it’s hard to imagine a more thankless and difficult task. Not only have city officials failed to calculate the long-term cost of running this project (utilities, insurance, repairs), but they have yet to determine eligibility requirements to live in these shelters. Will this be up to the new manager?

Having unsuccessfully argued, over the past three years, on developing a set of rules for those camping on public property, I’m skeptical that solid provisions will be established whereby pallet-residents are required to help maintain these dwellings. Moreover, just like the tent-city mess in North Lawrence (and in several other areas around the city), there appears no willingness on the part of city officials to enforce even basic laws regarding open drug/alcohol use, litter and sanitation.

Maybe the pallet shelter project will prove to be an overwhelming success, where residents are given the opportunity to get their lives on a better track and learn to become contributing members in our community. And maybe city officials should consider contacting the U.S. Marine Corps for insights.

Ray Finch, Lawrence

No monkeys, please

To the editor: I recently solved a Cryptoquote that is the perfect metaphor for our current predicament:

“When there are no great tigers in the deep mountain, even a monkey can become king.” In a recent letter to the editor, I spelled out the reasons why we need a truly great president at this time. Though we may not have one running in next year’s election, just make sure you don’t vote for a monkey.

Patrick Shannon, Lawrence

Participatory democracy

To the editor:

Recently I went to a meeting at the Cider Gallery, a campaign rally for Courtney Shipley, who is running for reelection to the City Commission. People were there because they are concerned that their city remains a good place to live, concerned that it has good government, though I am sure there was no universal agreement on what our city needs.

Courtney spoke of her concerns and hopes for Lawrence and she spelled out some of what she intends to do. She described well what it takes for commissioners to do their job: time, energy, patience, homework, imagination and, especially, listening. I’m afraid I missed her explanation for why she wishes to continue serving on the City Commission. Certainly not for the salary. Not for the respect and appreciation she receives, which surely does not exceed the criticism and abuse by much. I think she just wants to help.

Regardless of how the election goes, I was inspired by this little bit of participatory democracy. This is how our great nation started, in small gatherings of concerned people. Democracy is not a given, not a sure thing. Especially now. It must

to consider the positioning of military forces with an eye to checking internal enemies.

Jan. 6 was a disgraceful day but a blip hardly worth mentioning relative to the perpetual, large-scale internal disorder in imperial Rome.

The 1st Infantry Division isn’t marching on Washington, D.C., from Fort Riley, Kansas, and fighting a pitched battle with the 4th Marine Division devastating to the countryside somewhere in Ohio.

None of this is to deny that the United States and the West may have entered a period of what will ultimately prove to be terminal decline or that rivals, most notably China, are on the rise. It is to say that unless our representative democracy degenerates into an unelected dictatorship with no reliable means of succession and Canada and Mexico begin to eat away at our territory, the story of our decline is not going to track closely with that of Rome, a vastly different polity, at a different time.

By all means, study the history of Rome for its own sake and for the insights it affords into human nature and the roots of the Western world. But the moral of the story needn’t be about 21st century America. — Rich Lowry is a columnist for King Features Syndicate.

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be maintained and promoted by people willing to be informed and involved and by candidates like this willing to use their talents and energy for the good of all of us. I left the meeting grateful for all those who do the work of democracy and excited again about what we the people can do if we are willing.

Joe Douglas, Lawrence

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When Lawrence leaders approved an ordinance making it illegal for landlords to discriminate against potential tenants based on their source of income, they also directed city staff to consider another proposal making rental licenses revocable for violating the approved amendments.

Now, city legal staff is indicating that such a proposal could be implemented in the city’s long-term residential rental property code, according to a memo from City Attorney Toni Wheeler included with the agenda for this week’s Lawrence City Commission meeting.

In February, city leaders approved an

ordinance codifying additional protections for tenants on the basis of not just their income but also their status as a survivor of domestic violence, sexual assault, human trafficking or stalking, as well as their immigration status. All of those additional protected categories are now codified under Chapter 10 of the city’s code, which outlines Lawrence’s policies for human relations.

The potential change that Wheeler outlines in the memo, however, would relate to Chapter 6 on business licenses, taxes and regulations, specifically the section that defines the regulations for rental licenses,

inspections and other issues pertaining to managing rental properties.

The protections approved in February took effect in June, but not without an attempted intervention by a group of local landlords. That group, the Landlords of Lawrence association, filed a civil suit against the City of Lawrence in April aiming to prevent the parts of the ordinance related to source of income and immigration status from going into effect. That request was denied, and the changes have been active while the case remains in litigation.

Most recently, Judge Mark Simpson ruled that case would continue after denying the city’s motion to dismiss the landlords’ lawsuit.

Wheeler also notes in the memo that a

complete rewrite of the city’s human relations policies could be undertaken in the future, depending on the recommendations of the city’s Boards and Commissions Structure Committee.

The City Commission won’t be taking any action on this issue at Tuesday’s meeting, since the memo appears as part of the city manager’s report.

In other business, commissioners will:

l Receive an update on the City Clerk’s Office’s record management system and code management system projects.

The Lawrence City Commission will convene at 5:45 p.m. today at City Hall, 6 E. Sixth St.

U.S. marks 22 years since 9/11 with tributes and tears

By Jennifer Peltz and Karen Matthews Associated Press

New York — Americans looked back Monday on 9/11 with moments of silence, tearful words and appeals to teach younger generations about the terror attacks 22 years ago.

“For those of us who lost people on that day, that day is still happening. Everybody else moves on. And you find a way to go forward, but that day is always happening for you,” Edward Edelman said as he arrived at New York’s World Trade Center to honor his slain brotherin-law, Daniel McGinley.

President Joe Biden, speaking at a military base in Anchorage, Alaska, urged Americans to rally around protecting democracy. His visit, en route to Washington from a trip to India and Vietnam, is a reminder that the impact of 9/11 was felt in every corner of the nation, however remote.

“We know that on this day, every American’s heart was wounded,” Biden said. “Yet every big city, small town, suburb, rural town, tribal community — American hands went up, ready to help where they could.”

Nearly 3,000 people were killed when hijacked planes crashed into the trade center, the Pentagon and a Pennsylvania field, in an attack that reshaped American foreign policy and domestic fears.

On that day, “we were one country, one nation,

one people, just like it should be,” Eddie Ferguson, the fire-rescue chief in Virginia’s Goochland County, said by phone before the anniversary.

The predominantly rural county of 25,000 people has a Sept. 11 memorial and holds two anniversary commemorations, one focused on first responders and another honoring all the victims.

At ground zero, Vice President Kamala Harris joined other dignitaries at the ceremony on the National Sept. 11 Memorial plaza. Instead of remarks from political figures, the event features victims reading the names of the dead and delivering brief personal messages.

Some included patriotic declarations about American values and thanked first responders and the military. One

lauded the Navy SEALs who killed al-Qaida leader and 9/11 plotter Osama bin Laden in Pakistan in 2011. Another appealed for peace and justice. One acknowledged the many lives lost in the post-9/11 “War on Terror.” And many shared reflections on missing loved ones.

“Though we never met, I am honored to carry your name and legacy with me,” said Manuel João DaMota Jr., who was born after his father and namesake died.

To Gabrielle Gabrielli, reading names “is the biggest honor of my life.” She lost her uncle and godfather, Richard Gabrielle.

“We have to keep the memory of everybody who died alive. This is their legacy,” Gabrielli said, heading into the ceremony. Biden, a Democrat,

became the first president to commemorate Sept. 11 in the western U.S. He and his predecessors have gone to one or another of the attack sites in most years, though Republican George W. Bush and Democrat Barack Obama each marked the anniversary on the White House lawn at times, and Obama also visited Fort Meade in Maryland.

Warning of a rise in extremism and political violence, Biden told service members and their families that “every generation has to fight” to preserve U.S. democracy.

“That’s why the terrorists targeted us in the first place – our freedom, our openness, our institutions. They failed. But we must remain vigilant,” he said.

First lady Jill Biden laid a wreath at the 9/11

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U.S. moves ahead on prisoner swap deal with Iran; releases $6B

washiNgtoN (ap) — The Biden administration has cleared the way for the release of five American citizens detained in Iran by issuing a blanket waiver for international banks to transfer $6 billion in frozen Iranian money from South Korea to Qatar without fear of U.S. sanctions. In addition, as part of the deal, the administration has agreed to release five Iranian citizens held in the United States.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken signed off on the sanctions waivers late last week, a month after U.S. and Iranian officials said an agreement in principle was in place. Congress was not informed of the waiver decision until Monday, according to the notification, which was obtained by The Associated Press.

The outlines of the deal had been previously announced and the waiver was expected. But the notification marked the first time the administration said it was releasing five Iranian prisoners as part of the deal. The prisoners have not been named.

Trump lawyers seek recusal of judge presiding over election subversion case

washiNgtoN (ap) —

Lawyers for Donald Trump on Monday asked the federal judge presiding over his election subversion case in Washington to recuse herself, saying her past public statements about the former president and his connection to the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol call into question whether she can be fair.

The recusal motion from Trump’s lawyers takes aim at U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan, a former assistant public defender who was

nominated to the bench by President Barack Obama and has stood out as one of the toughest punishers of Jan. 6 defendants. The request is a long shot given the high threshold for recusal and because the decision on whether to recuse belongs to Chutkan, who is unlikely to see cause to step aside from the case.

Even so, the request that she give up the high-stakes trial marks the latest flashpoint in already delicate relations between the defense team and the judge, who has repeatedly cautioned against inflammatory public comments from Trump but has nonetheless been lambasted on social media by him.

Chutkan ordered Smith’s team to file any opposition to Trump’s recusal bid by Thursday.

American rescued from Turkish cave taseli plateau, turkeY (ap) — Rescuers pulled an American researcher out of a Turkish cave early Tuesday, more than a week after he became seriously ill more than 3,000 feet below its entrance, officials said.

Teams from across Europe had rushed to Morca cave in southern Turkey’s Taurus Mountains to aid Mark Dickey, a 40-year-old experienced caver who became

seriously ill on Sept. 2 with stomach bleeding. He was on an expedition to map the cave, which is the country’s third deepest.

Around 190 experts from Bulgaria, Croatia, Hungary, Italy, Poland and Turkey took part in the rescue, including doctors, paramedics and experienced cavers. Teams comprised of a doctor and three to four other rescuers took turns staying by his side at all times.

Flooding in Libya leaves 2,000 feared dead

Cairo (ap) — Mediterranean storm Daniel caused devastating floods in Libya that broke dams and swept away entire neighborhoods in multiple coastal towns in the east of the North African nation. As many as 2,000 people were feared dead, one of the country’s leaders said Monday.

The destruction appeared greatest in Derna, a city formerly held by Islamic extremists in the chaos that has gripped Libya for more than a decade and left it with crumbling and inadequate infrastructure. Libya remains divided between two rival administrations, one in the east and one in the west, each backed by militias and foreign governments.

The confirmed death toll from the weekend flooding

memorial at the Pentagon, where a giant American flag hung over the side of the building. Earlier, bells tolled, and musicians played taps at 9:37 a.m., the time when one of the hijacked jets hit the military headquarters.

“As the years go by, it may feel that the world is moving on or even forgetting what happened here on Sept. 11, 2001,” but the Defense Department will always remember, Secretary Lloyd Austin said. He deployed to Iraq in the war that followed the attack.

Harris’ husband, Doug Emhoff, laid a wreath at the Flight 93 National Memorial near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, where another plane crashed after passengers tried to storm the cockpit. Earlier Monday at the memorial, a rabbi from Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue, where a gunman killed 11 worshippers in 2018, called for ensuring that younger people know about 9/11.

“With memory comes responsibility, the determination to share our stories with this next generation, so that through them, our loved ones continue to live,” Rabbi Jeffrey Myers said. The memorial is offering a new educational video, virtual tour and other materials for classroom use.

Many Americans did volunteer work on what Congress has designated both Patriot Day and a National Day of Service and Remembrance. Others gathered for anniversary

events at memorials, firehouses, city halls, campuses and elsewhere.

In Iowa, a march set off at 9:11 a.m. Monday from suburban Waukee to the state Capitol in Des Moines. In Columbus, Indiana, observances include a remembrance message sent to police, fire and EMS radios. New Jersey’s Monmouth County, which was home to some 9/11 victims, this year made Sept. 11 a holiday for county employees so they could attend commemorations.

Pepperdine University’s campus in Malibu, California, displayed one American flag for each victim, plus the flags of every other country that lost a citizen on 9/11. Reflecting the tragedy’s scope, U.N. General Assembly President Dennis Francis exhorted world nations Monday to counter extremism, build tolerance, “join hands and say never again.”

Fenton, Missouri, is more than 650 miles from the attack sites. But the St. Louis suburb, population 4,000, holds an anniversary ceremony at a memorial that includes steel from the World Trade Center’s fallen twin towers and a plaque honoring Jessica Leigh Sachs, a 9/11 victim with relatives in town.

“We’re just a little bitty community,” Mayor Joe Maurath said ahead of the anniversary, but “it’s important for us to continue to remember these events. Not just 9/11, but all of the events that make us free.”

stood at 61 as of late Monday, according to health authorities. But the tally did not include Derna, which had become inaccessible, and many of the thousands missing there were believed carried away by waters after two upstream dams burst.

In a phone interview with station Monday, Prime Minister Ossama Hamad of the east Libyan government said 2,000 were feared dead in Derna and thousands were believed missing. He said Derna has been declared a disaster zone.

Police defend strategy in hunt for escaped killer

Authorities in Pennsylvania who have been trying to capture an escaped murderer for nearly two weeks pushed back Monday against questions about whether they blew a chance to collar him, instead blaming the complex terrain in the initial search area for the fugitive’s success in getting clear of it.

Top state and federal officials insisted that the blown perimeter around the area where hundreds had been searching for Danelo Souza Cavalcante includes heavy woods, underground tunnels and drainage ditches. They also said it took more than two hours for news to reach them that he had been spotted outside of the perimeter for the first time.

At a news conference, they rejected the suggestion that they haven’t been using enough searchers and insisted that the effort — in its 12th day Monday — favors them, despite the fact that there is no longer a well-defined perimeter or any fresh sightings to report.

Robert Clark, the supervisor of the U.S. Marshals fugitive task force in Philadelphia, contended that law enforcement teams have the advantage now that Cavalcante is apparently in a less rural environment in suburban

Philadelphia. Cavalcante, 34, has eluded capture since Aug. 31, when he broke out of the Chester County Prison while awaiting transfer to a different lockup. He had been sentenced to life in prison for fatally stabbing an ex-girlfriend in 2021, allegedly to stop her from telling police that he’s wanted in a slaying in his home country of Brazil.

U.S. approves updated COVID vaccines to rev up protection

washiNgtoN (ap) — The U.S. approved updated COVID-19 vaccines Monday, hoping to rev up protection against the latest coronavirus strains and blunt any surge this fall and winter. The Food and Drug Administration decision opens the newest shots from Moderna and Pfizer and its partner BioNTech to most Americans even if they’ve never had a coronavirus vaccination. It’s part of a shift to treat fall updates of the COVID-19 vaccine much like getting a yearly flu shot.

There’s still another step: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention must sign off. A CDC advisory panel is set to issue recommendations today on who most needs the updated shots. Vaccinations could begin later this week, and both the COVID-19 and flu shot can be given at the same visit.

A third vaccine maker, Novavax, said its updated shot is still being reviewed by the FDA.

Google at center of biggest antitrust trial in decades

The U.S. government is taking aim at what has been an indomitable empire: Google’s ubiquitous search engine that has become the internet’s main gateway.

The legal attack will swing

into full force today in a Washington D.C. federal courtroom that will serve as the battleground for the biggest U.S. antitrust trial since regulators went after Microsoft and its dominance of personal computer software a quarter century ago.

The 10-week trial before U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta is expected to include potentially revelatory testimony from top executives at Google and its corporate parent Alphabet, as well as other powerful technology companies. Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai, who succeeded Google co-founder Larry Page in 2019, will be among the most prominent witnesses likely to testify. Court documents also indicate one of Apple’s highest-ranking executives, Eddy Cue, might be called to the stand.

The case against Google mirrors the one brought against Microsoft in many ways, including the existential threat it poses to a renowned tech giant whose products are relied on by billions of people.

Scientist who led team that cloned Dolly the Sheep, dies at age 79

loNdoN (ap) — The British scientist who led the team that cloned Dolly the Sheep in 1996 has died at age 79. The Roslin Institute at the University of Edinburgh announced Ian Wilmut’s death. Wilmut set off a global discussion about the ethics of cloning when he announced that his team at Roslin had cloned Dolly using the nucleus of a cell from an adult sheep. It was the first time that a genetically identical mammal was created from an adult cell and spurred questions about the potential cloning of humans. Wilmut later focused on using cloning techniques to make stem cells that could be used in regenerative medicine.

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HAGI ABUCAR PUTS FLOWERS ON THE 9/11 MEMORIAL during the commemoration ceremony on the 22nd anniversary of the September 11, 2001, terror attacks on Monday in New York.

Libyan Government Photo via AP A SEASIDE ROAD IS COLLAPSED after heavy flooding in Derna, Libya, on Monday.

Mean mom needs but doesn’t want help

Dear Annie: My mom probably has narcissism and borderline personality disorders but has never been diagnosed. She is extremely difficult to deal with, and everyone knows this. She believes she is super special, has very high standards and has been catered to by everyone. Her children have taken different paths in dealing with her: One has rigid boundaries and rarely deals with issues that arise. I am forever trying to help my mom; I have suffered greatly but have also gotten help and developed some boundaries so that she bothers me less than she did previously.

Neither of us live near our mom, and no one else related to her lives nearby. She lives alone and has been OK for a long time. She does have friends, all of whom are older. Now

Dear Annie

Annie Lane dearannie@creators.com

Mom seems to have dementia and is also sick. She needs help but rejects it. She remains impossible to deal with and impossible to please; her doctor just dismissed her for her abusive ways.

So now she has what appear to be personality disorders with dementia and illness on top; meaning, she is confused and mixed up but also very angry, nasty and mean. She has rejected anxiety or depression medication

VMAs go beyond MTV channels

The 2023 MTV Video Music Awards (7 p.m., MTV, CMT, Comedy Central, MTV2, Nickelodeon, Paramount, VH1) air once again. Highlights include the presentation of the Video Vanguard Award to international star Shakira, a staple of the VMAs since 2000. Another familiar face being honored, Sean ‘‘Diddy’’ Combs will receive the Global Icon Award. He is also nominated for four other awards this year, including two for Best Collaboration, as well as Best HipHop Video and Best R&B Video.

Diddy joins Blackpink, Doja Cat, Kim Petras, Miley Cyrus, Nicki Minaj, Olivia Rodrigo, Sam Smith, Shakira and SZA among the most nominated contenders. Taylor Swift leads with eight nominations.

The first VMA took place in 1984, a time when MTV was best known for airing music videos (and not series like ‘‘Jersey Shore.’’) Madonna appeared and performed her 1984 hit ‘‘Like a Virgin.’’

l An unscripted series that has generated a feel-good vibe on two continents, “Welcome to Wrexham” (9 p.m., FX, TV-MA) enters its second season.

For the uninitiated, “Wrexham” follows the exploits of Ryan Reynolds (‘‘Deadpool’’) and Rob McElhenney (‘‘It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia’’) after they buy a cellar-dwelling soccer club in a forgotten Welsh mining town.

Both their investment and the series itself were considerable long shots. There was a chance that the people of Wrexham might have resented Hollywood money and the self-promotion a reality series might entail. But the team, the town and the owners have enjoyed a mutual love affair, as the fortunes of the soccer, or football, squad have improved in a way that could have been scripted by the writers of ‘‘Ted Lasso.’’

As season two begins, the team awaits a visit from King Charles III, ready to bask in the reflected glow of Wrexham magic.

Tonight’s other highlights

l Armed robberies on “FBI” (7 p.m., CBS, r, TV-14).

l A fetching interior designer falls for a rugged pilot who runs a home for rescued dogs in the 2020 romance “Love on Harbor Island” (7 p.m., Hallmark, TV-G).

l Panelists from three generations compete on the season finale of “Beat Shazam” (7 p.m., Fox, TV-PG).

l Blood on the catwalk on “FBI: International” (8 p.m., CBS, r, TV-14).

l A filmmaker who attended the first integrated classes in his rural Mississippi school system returns a generation later to see how his small town has changed or remained the same in the 2023 documentary “The Harvest” on “American Experience” (8 p.m., PBS, TV-PG, check local listings).

and all forms of therapy. She demands to be in control and seems to be competent. I feel an obligation to get her help, but I can’t handle her, and, for my own mental and physical health, can’t let her control me or send me off the edge.

I’m going out to help her but am scared because I know her behavior, and attitude, are terrible. It seems like one remaining option is to go to court to get control and do what’s best for her. She can’t really do anything for herself; she never really did before either. I would appreciate your thoughts, please.

What I ask myself is, why was I dealt this hand? — Problem with Elderly Mom Dear Problem: While the Disney fantasy of a fairy godmother would be ideal, most moms

ROYAL STARS HOROSCOPE

For Tuesday, Sept. 12:

You are energetic and idealistic. You want to help and educate others. Be careful of being overwhelmed. This year is the beginning of a new nine-year cycle for you. It’s time for action and initiative. What you do now will benefit your future. Prepare for leadership.

The Stars Show the Kind of Day

You’ll Have: 5-Dynamic; 4-Positive; 3-Average; 2-So-so; 1-Difficult ARIES (March 21-April 19)

HHHH This is a poor day for shopping and important decisions, but it’s an excellent day to pursue the arts and express your creative talents.

Tonight: Work.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20)

HHH This is the perfect day to take it easy. Enjoy schmoozing with others. Explore picnics, barbecues, art galleries, museums and relaxing with friends. Tonight: Play!

GEMINI (May 21-June 20)

HHHH This is the perfect day to cocoon and relax at home among familiar surroundings. It’s a poor day to spend money and make decisions.

Tonight: Cocoon.

CANCER (June 21-July 22)

HHH You’ll be tempted to shop and buy things for yourself and others. Don’t do this. Forewarned is forearmed. Tonight: Conversations!

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22)

HHHH It’s a wonderful day to socialize, schmooze and appreciate the arts. But it’s a poor day to spend money and make important decisions. Tonight: Maintain belongings.

will never live up to those unrealistic expectations. It does sound like you were dealt a particularly challenging hand with a mom like yours. The good news is that you are an adult now who survived this type of mother, and as an adult, you have a choice on how you want to have your relationship be with her. Set clear boundaries, and call her on it if she steps over them.

In the meanwhile, the best advice I can give you for your upcoming visit is to say the serenity prayer each time your mom puts you down. “God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.”

— Send your questions to dearannie@creators.com.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)

HHH Today you’re strong and forthright, but you might face some self-doubt. That’s why this is a poor day to make important decisions.

Tonight: You win!

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)

HHHH In one way, you want to be low-key. However, in another way, you want to socialize. You can do both. Tonight: Solitude.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)

HHH Important conversations with people in authority could be confusing and might amount to nothing. Don’t make your pitch today. Tonight: Friendships.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)

HHHH Today you might have ideas about travel plans. Do your homework, but don’t put anything into action. Tonight: You’re admired.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)

HHH You might be tempted to make important decisions about financial matters. Wait until tomorrow.

Tonight: Explore!

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)

HHHH Although you might have a frank talk with someone, agree to nothing important. Don’t hold anyone else to whatever they say, either.

Tonight: Check your finances.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20)

HHH Shortages, delays and silly mistakes might plague your work today. However, it’s a very creative day. Tonight: Listen.

— The astrological forecast should be read for entertainment only.

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previous information provided to the board by Cynde Frick, the district’s executive director of finance.

“I would say to the community that if this board made a different decision that we just made in terms of our LOB, I’m not sure how we would live up to the commitments that we have made to our staff in terms of wages,” Kimball said. “We made some really hard financial decisions over the last year to fund those raises.”

uncontrollability and discipline issues I saw as a substitute teacher in the district were just alarming to me,” said Melanie Dill. “And now I’m thinking, ‘you’re raising my taxes for what?’ These are kids that are not getting the kind of discipline they need, and don’t want to be productive citizens. This is what I’ve seen, and I don’t want my taxes raised for this.”

In other business, the board:

votes centered on the closures of Pinckney and Broken Arrow elementary schools and the burden that the closures placed on those families.

The approved budget raises the district’s mill levy by just over a mill to 52.229, but even a slightly decreased mill levy would have been offset by soaring property tax values. Under the district’s 2023-24 budget plan, a homeowner would pay roughly $64 more in taxes for a home valued at $250,000, according to

Some of the difficult decisions alluded to by Kimball included the closure of the two elementary schools.

“When you look at this, you have to understand that closing schools is not separate from the action we just took,” said board member Bob Byers following the local budget option vote. “That actually makes it possible for us to have the money to do things we are hoping to do in our schools.”

Several members of the public expressed displeasure with the budget plan.

“The level of

l Unanimously approved a bid for the installation of solar arrays at Prairie Park Elementary as part of a pilot program. Of seven bid submissions, the board selected a $240,590 proposal from Cromwell Environmental Inc., the parent company to Lawrence-based Cromwell Solar. Larry Englebrick, the district’s chief operations officer, told the board prior to the vote that the installation of the solar system will “return a $480,000 profit to the district in its general fund” through reduced energy consumption over the next 25 years.

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Long trip, late game throws wrench in Jayhawks’ schedule

By Henry Greenstein hgreenstein@ljworld.com

This year’s road trip to Reno, Nevada, presents a momentary obstacle for Kansas football coach Lance Leipold and his staff, but the broader issue of managing visits to West Coast destinations will persist — and even intensify.

The Jayhawks have games scheduled at Washington State in 2027, even farther west at Hawaii in 2028 and at Fresno State in 2029, all of which require crossing multiple time zones for games that frequently occur late at night.

Not to mention the more immediate concern of league games in the forthcoming expanded Big 12 Conference at Arizona and Arizona State, programs that spend part of the year aligned with Pacific Time.

In short, while KU hasn’t played a game

‘‘ Why we don’t change the rule right now, I don’t have any understanding...”

— Kansas coach Lance Leipold

loss at UNLV, and hasn’t even played in Mountain Time since Colorado left the Big 12, these sorts of trips are about to become the norm.

“Once you build a template of what you want to do, mainly, of your Friday and your Saturday schedule, you just kind of slowly modify it from there,” Leipold said Monday. Although Leipold previously played in Reno when he was at Buffalo, constructing that template has been a challenge for Saturday’s game in Nevada for several reasons. The team has chosen to shift the times of some of its meetings and give its players some extra sleep afterward to account for what is a 9:30 p.m. Cen-

the latest KU has started a game this century, if not ever. (Since 2002, the closest it got was 2020, when it kicked off a pandemic-altered game in Lawrence against Coastal Carolina at 9 p.m. for increased TV exposure.)

KU is choosing to sleep over in Reno to let its players get some rest, rather than effectively taking a red-eye back to Lawrence, but as a result, the NCAA is counting Sunday as a workday for the team, Leipold said, meaning that the Jayhawks will need to practice Sunday night on short rest after they get back and take Monday off, rather than resting and resuming Monday.

“Why we don’t change the rule right now, I don’t have any understanding,” Leipold said. “We say we do all these things for the players but we don’t. All we want to do is get them up, get them a good night’s sleep in a bed, get them back, give them the rest of the day off, but right now the rule in the Autonomy 5 (conferences) doesn’t allow us to do

KU football roster could be depleted for Nevada game

By Henry Greenstein hgreenstein@ljworld.com

Targeting suspensions and nagging injuries are making for a depleted Kansas football roster ahead of Saturday night’s road game.

Starting cornerback Cobee Bryant and promising rotational defensive end Austin Booker will both miss the first half at Nevada on Saturday because they were flagged for targeting — essentially, going after an opposing player with forcible contact more violent than a legal tackle — in the second half against Illinois. KU’s appeals of those penalty calls to the NCAA were denied, head coach

Chiefs optimistic Jones, Kelce will play in Week

By Dave Skretta Associated Press

Kansas City, Mo —

The Kansas City Chiefs are trending toward having their two All-Pros on Sunday in Jacksonville.

Chiefs coach Andy Reid said Monday that tight end Travis Kelce, who hyperextended his knee in practice last week, has been progressing in his recovery. Just hours later, the club also announced that defensive tackle Chris Jones had agreed to a new oneyear deal that should end his holdout and put him in line to play against the Jaguars.

“Chris is an elite player in this league, and over the last seven years, he’s really developed into a leader on our team,” Chiefs general manager Brett Veach said in a statement. “He’s been instrumental to our success and Super Bowl championship runs and it was a priority for us to keep him in a Chiefs uniform.”

Kelce hurt his knee in the Chiefs’ final practice before Thursday night’s loss to Detroit. Tests

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to catch five passes for 43 yards.

showed there was no ligament damage, only a bone bruise and some swelling, and Kelce tried to get loose enough to play in the season opener. Chiefs coach Andy Reid and trainer Rick Burkholder ultimately made him inactive after a workout earlier in the day. “Travis is getting better,” Reid said. “We’ll see how he does the rest of today or tomorrow and we’ll go from there.”

The Chiefs could certainly use their star tight end after their offense

fizzled in the 21-20 loss to the Lions.

Without his security blanket, reigning NFL league MVP Patrick Mahomes was just 21 of 39 for 226 yards with two touchdown passes and an interception. The pick bounced off the hands of Kadarius Toney, who had several of the eight drops by Kansas City receivers, and was returned by 50 yards for a touchdown by Lions rookie Brian Branch.

Meanwhile, backup tight ends Noah Gray and Blake Bell combined

“We’ll get the receiving things taken care of. I feel good about the receivers we have,” Reid said on a zoom Monday with local reporters. “We are not normally guys that drop the ball but we did and we have to fix it. But I think there is talent that will just keep improving as they continue to play. I have seen them do it before. I think we’ll get that worked out.”

The Chiefs have had some extra time after playing Thursday night. The Jaguars won 31-21 on Sunday in Indianapolis.

“We’ve all got to do better. That’s the thing I took out of this,” Reid said, “whether it’s coaching, it’s playing, the Oline, the D-line — we can all take something out of this game and get better at it. There were spurts of good and there were spurts of not-so good, and we were in position

Leipold added Monday, which was a day off for the team, that several key offensive players were inhibited by minor ailments during Sunday’s practice.

“Jalon (Daniels) did very little, Luke (Grimm) did very little, Devin (Neal) did very little,” he said. “Today’ll be a good day for those guys and hopefully we can get some guys back. And that’s probably what you expect, and we’ll have some more of these as we go.”

Quarterback Daniels had missed the opener and wide receiver Grimm sat out part of it; both returned in full against Illinois. Neal, the starting running back, played extensively in both games, though sat out a chunk of the second half against the Illini following a hard tackle along the sideline.

KU soccer takes first loss at Washington St.

By Henry Greenstein hgreenstein@ljworld.com

Despite promising early chances from Lexi Watts and a flurry of late corner kicks, the Kansas soccer team took its first loss of the season Sunday, 1-0 at Washington State. The 15th-ranked Cougars controlled the flow of play in the early going, but then had to avoid going down in the 11th minute when defender Reese Tappan cleared a shot from Watts off the line. They scored the eventual game-winner off the right foot of Rajanah Reed, from a tough angle on the left wing, with five minutes to go in the first half. Washington State goalkeeper Musuai Isaia then recorded two additional saves after the break to preserve her clean sheet at Lower Soccer Field in Pullman, Washington. Melania Pasar tallied six saves and Watts racked up four shots for the Jayhawks (3-1-4), whose coach, Mark Francis, was pleased with their

performance in the loss.

“The biggest thing today was we needed to come out and get back to competing again,” Francis said. “We did that today. Other than the first (eight to 10) minutes, I thought we went toe to toe. They had a couple of good chances and Melania (Pasar) made a couple of good saves, but we had some good opportunities too. I could not have asked for more from the group today.”

Margie Detrizio led all players with six shots for the Cougars, who outshot KU 21-10 on the day.

The Jayhawks begin their Big 12 Conference slate Thursday at Oklahoma (4-3), which will enter off a longer break after beating Murray State 5-1 last week.

“Coming out of nonconference with one loss against the competition that we played, I’m really happy with the group,” Francis said. “We made progress over these eight games and now we’re getting ready for Big 12 play.”

run in the first quarter against Kansas on Sept. 7, 2002, in Las Vegas. In the rear are Kansas’ Tim Allen (90) and Tony Stubbs. l Kansas' June Henley finds a hole in the Utah defense during a game in Salt Lake City on Sept. 28, 1996. l Kansas wide receiver Dezmon Briscoe, right, pulls in a pass for a touchdown as Colorado safety Ray Polk comes in to cover in Boulder, Colo., on Oct. 17, 2009. l Kansas wide receiver Luke Grimm (11) has his hel- met ripped off for an Illinois penalty to help set up a Kansas touchdown on Sept. 8 at David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium.

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KANSAS HEAD COACH LANCE LEIPOLD has words for two officials after a targeting call against the Jayhawks on Friday at David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium.

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TRAVIS KELCE, LEFT, AND CHRIS JONES, who both missed the season opener, could be back on the field Sunday.

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Royals-White Sox to hold doubleheader after game rain-out

By Matt Carlson Associated Press

ChiCago — Monday night’s game between the Kansas City Royals and White Sox in Chicago was postponed due to rain. The teams will play a straight doubleheader on Tuesday starting at 3:40 p.m. CT.

Kansas City righthander Brady Singer (810, 5.34) will start against Chicago right-hander Dylan Cease (6-,7, 4.98) in the opener. Royals righty Jordan Lyles (4-16, 6.24) will oppose White Sox righty Touki Toussaint (36, 4.70) in the nightcap.

The Royals entered Monday with the worst record in the majors at 44-100. The White Sox, at 55-88, have the fourthworst record in MLB.

Both AL Central rivals have been mathematically eliminated from the postseason.

Earlier on Monday, the White Sox recalled right-hander Deivi Garcia and catcher Carlos Perez from Triple-A Charlotte. Chicago optioned outfielder Oscar Colás and righty Edgar Navarro to the farm team.

Colás made the White Sox opening day roster and was slotted as a regular in right field. But the 24-year-old Cuban batted just .216 with five homers and 19 RBIs in 75 games and, despite talent, still needs to work on baseball basics and reducing mistakes.

“He’s got the tools to impact this team,” manager Pedro Grifol said.

“However, fundamentally, he still needs a lot of work. He’s got to go down there and take care of those fundamentals.”

Grifol said Colás would benefit from playing winter baseball after the season to hone both his games.

Garcia, 24, was claimed by the White Sox off waivers from the Yankees on Aug. 10. Garcia started in eight of 10 career games with New York over three seasons, going 3-4 with a 4.84 ERA.

Grifol expects the 27-year-old Perez to get some playing time behind catcher Korey Lee, a 24-year-old prospect the White Sox recalled on Aug. 24, and veteran Yasmani Grandal who also plays at first base and as designated hitter.

“He’s a right-handed bat that we think has got some promise,” Grifol said.

The Royals selected the contract of catcher Logan Porter from TripleA Omaha on Monday and designated catcher Tyler Cropley for assignment.

Porter, 28, is a Las Vegas native who was never drafted and was signed as a free agent into the Royals system from Dixie State University. Porter attended high school across the street from the Royals spring training facility in Surprise, Arizona, and was a clubhouse attendant there.

Porter joined the Royals in Chicago and will get his first taste of the majors behind eight-time All-Star catcher Salvador Perez.

Waldichuk holds Astros hitless in relief, A’s avoid 100th loss

The Associated Press houston — Ken Waldichuk pitched six hitless innings in relief and Brent Rooker hit the first of three home runs by the Oakland Athletics in their 4-0 victory over the Houston Astros on Monday night.

crushed a 95 mph sinker from Framber Valdez (11-10) a projected 442 feet onto the train tracks above left field.

The A’s picked up another run in the fifth when Kevin Smith doubled to right and Nick Allen followed with a single to make it 2-0.

Reddick rides a fast car and good fortune into the 2nd round of playoffs

By Dave Skretta Associated Press

KANSAS CITY, Kan.

(AP) — Tyler Reddick knows you need to have speed to win a NASCAR Cup Series championship. Denny Hamlin knows just as well that you need to have breaks go your way.

Reddick had both going for him Sunday at Kansas Speedway, taking advantage of a late caution and four fresh tires to breeze by six other drivers in the final two laps for the win. It ensured that Reddick would be in the round of 12 of the playoffs for the first time, taking almost all the pressure off the No. 45 team heading to next week’s cutoff race at Bristol.

“We have enough speed, we should be able to make it through this first round, and winning certainly helps,” Reddick said. “Going into the round of 12, we can pick up just a little, and then as we go we can keep amping it up.”

Hamlin, on the other hand, had a bit of bad luck Sunday. Bubba Wallace and Martin Truex Jr.

had a whole lot of it.

Hamlin looked as if he would cruise to a record fifth Kansas win as he dominated the last 35 laps. But when Chris Buescher blew a right rear tire, a consistent problem for drivers throughout the weekend, the caution flew and the leaders were forced into the pits. Hamlin’s lead suddenly was gone as the field prepared for a twolap sprint to the finish. Hamlin had been chased for much of the race by Kyle Larson, who was lurking behind on the restart. When the green flag flew, the driver of the No. 11 was so focused on what Larson was doing that he lost track of what was happening in front.

Reddick had a terrific restart, fooling everyone by shooting past them on the bottom rather than the top, where he is known for running. And by the time Hamlin realized his mistake, Reddick was far enough ahead that he couldn’t catch up.

“It stinks. It certainly flipped the results from first to second,” Hamlin said. “But that’s part of racing, right? Our sport is different than others. It’s a sport of chance at

times, and luck does play a factor, and we were unlucky to get that caution.

“We knew that there was going to be a handful of cars that were going to do the opposite of what we did. I think the right call was four tires,” Hamlin added, “but the 45 just did a great job of executing. They executed the restart really, really well.” It wasn’t entirely bad for Hamlin. He co-owns the No. 45 of 23XI Racing along with Michael Jordan.

“It makes me happy,” Hamlin said, “that if it wasn’t us, it was them. It’s a decent day.” Would have been even better had 23XI’s other car, with Bubba Wallace, not had the same right rear tire problem. In his case, the defending race winner was running second when his tire went down, sending Wallace on a wall-scraping ride around the track. The tire was shredded and smoke came billowing out as Wallace entered the pit.

It turned out that he broke the toe link, a piece that holds the rear tire straight. The No. 23 team fixed it quickly, but Wallace wound up finishing

four laps down, dealing his playoff chances a big blow with just one race left before the round of 12.

“I got loose like, five laps before,” said Wallace, now 19 points below the playoff cut line. “Three or four laps later it blew.” Just like the rear tire of Truex, the regular-season champion, only his came three laps into the race. It sent him into the wall with heavy enough damage that he was done for the day, and he went from 25 points above the cut line to seven points below it.

“Just unfortunate and very unlucky,” Truex said. “I took off really tight and I knew something was up, and then cut a right rear. Not really sure what happened, obviously, but it blew in the worst place possible. I hate it for my guys. We were going to have a great day. Just not where what we need to do to get some luck here.”

Indeed, Truex was fast. So were Hamlin and Wallace.

None of them got the break they needed to beat Reddick on Sunday.

Houston, which entered with a 2 1/2-game lead in the AL West over Seattle, fell to 9-2 against the last-place A’s this season. Oakland improved to 45-99, delaying the team’s 100th loss for at least another day.

Last season, Oakland went 60-102 following an 86-76 finish in 2021. The A’s need one more win in their final 18 games to assure they will avoid matching the franchise record of 117 losses in a season set when the team was in Philadelphia. The low mark in Oakland is 108 in 1979.

Shea Langeliers and Ryan Noda also had solo homers for the A’s.

Oakland opener Mason Miller pitched two innings and allowed one hit. Waldichuk (3-7) entered in the third and gave up just two baserunners, on a walk and a hit by pitch.

The left-hander has permitted only one run in his last three outings, spanning 16 innings. He hasn’t given up a run in his past 12 innings.

José Altuve led off the ninth with a single, the Astros’ first hit since Jeremy Peña singled in the first. Peña followed Altuve with another single off reliever Trevor May, and what was left of the Minute Maid Park crowd began to stir.

But then May was able to retire Yordan Alvarez, Alex Bregman and Kyle Tucker on three straight flyouts to hang on.

Oakland took a 1-0 lead in the second when Rooker

Langeliers hit his 18th homer in the seventh, and Noda connected off Rafael Montero in the ninth for his 15th of the season.

Brewers 12, Miami 0

Milwaukee — Brandon Woodruff and Jesús Luzardo were both on a roll when they took the mound Monday night. Only Woodruff could keep it going. Woodruff delivered Milwaukee’s first completegame shutout since 2021, and the NL Central-leading Brewers collected a seasonhigh 17 hits in a 12-0 blowout of the Miami Marlins.

Milwaukee’s lopsided victory came one night after the Brewers lost 4-3 at New York despite Corbin Burnes, Devin Williams and Abner Uribe holding the Yankees hitless for the first 10 innings.

Woodruff’s only previous complete game came in a 4-2 loss to St. Louis in a seven-inning doubleheader matchup during the pandemic-shortened 2020 season. He recorded the Brewers’ first completegame shutout since Adrian Houser threw a three-hitter in a 4-0 triumph over the Cardinals on Sept. 4, 2021. Manager Craig Counsell agreed to let Woodruff (51) go out for the ninth, but he said the veteran righthander couldn’t go over 105 pitches. Woodruff gave up two hits in his final inning, but Counsell let him stick around to complete the sixhitter on his 106th pitch.

In win for for Oregon St. and Washington St., judge says departing Pac-12 schools can’t meet

By Ralph D. Russo Associated Press

A judge granted a request by Oregon State and Washington State for a temporary restraining order on Monday to prevent departing Pac-12 members from meeting until it can be determined who has the right to chart the future of the disintegrating conference.

At a hearing in Whitman County Superior Court in Washington, Judge Gary Libey ruled that a board of directors meeting scheduled for later this week with conference Commissioner George Kliavkoff and university leaders from 10 departing members cannot take place.

Washington State President Kirk Schulz, who now serves as the chairman of the Pac-12’s board, and athletic director Pat Chun attended the hearing at a courthouse not far from the school’s Pullman campus. The judge did not immediately set another court date.

Oregon State and Washington State want full control over decision making for the conference as the only schools committed to the league beyond the current school year. The schools filed the breach of

bylaws complaint Friday. “I am pleased with today’s decision. As the two remaining Pac- 12 members, Oregon State and Washington State must be able to chart a path forward for the Pac 12--not the members that have chosen to leave it,” Oregon State President Jayathi Murthy said in a statement.

Leaders of the Pacific Northwest schools have stated they would like to rebuild the Pac-12, taking control of its assets and intellectual property while preserving its brand. They say they fear the outgoing schools will try to dissolve the conference and divvy up its assets on the way out the door if they are permitted to convene a board meeting.

“Members who have announced that they are leaving to join a competitor no longer have any loyalty to the Pac-12, cannot be entrusted to make decisions on behalf of the Pac-12,” said Eric MacMichael, an attorney for Oregon State. MacMichael said on the agenda for the scheduled meeting was a discussion of amending the conference bylaws. He also accused departing members of plotting to use Pac-12 assets to fund their transitions to other conferences.

The Pac-12’s attorney, Mark Lambert, said the meeting was called by Kliavkoff to address the operation of the conference for the rest of the school year. He also disputed the plaintiff’s assertion that schools were considering using Pac-12 funds to pay for transition costs.

“There are certainly the types of amendments that could be very harmful to their interests, but none of those are on the table and there’s no evidence that a motion for dissolution or a motion to hoard conference funds is even in discussion,” Lambert said.

MacMichael said under the Pac-12 bylaws, Oregon State and Washington State should have the opportunity to keep the conference alive without any interference from outgoing members.

Oregon State and Washington State contend that eight schools —- Arizona, Arizona State, Colorado, Utah, Oregon, Washington, Stanford and California — forfeited their right to be on the board when they announced their intentions to join other conferences next year.

USC and UCLA were stripped of voting rights by the Pac-12 in 2022 when they decided to join the Big

Ten.

The eight schools that have announced their departures over the last month and half dispute what constitutes formal notification of departure from the conference, according to the bylaws.

The official departure date for schools leaving the Pac-12 is July 31, 2024. Lambert said there is still conference business to attend to by the league office, including the retention of nearly 200 employees.

Libey did allow for the conference to continue to conduct day-to-day business as usual, and granted Lambert’s request to permit the league office to take actions that are agreed upon by unanimous written vote of the 10 members that made up the board before the latest round of departures. Lambert said Kliavkoff and the conference office are caught in the middle of a conflict between Oregon State and Washington State and the outgoing schools. There were no attorneys for any of the departing schools present for the hearing.

“Each are highly suspicious of the other,” Lambert said.

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TYLER REDDICK, CENTER, CELEBRATES ON THE TRACK after winning a NASCAR Cup Series auto race at Kansas Speedway in Kansas City, Kan., on Sunday.

Tribute paid to photographer who died after sideline hit

The Associated Press

Wichita — A Kansas high school football team paid tribute to their longtime photographer following her death Friday, four days after an accidental hit on the sidelines of a junior varsity game she was photographing.

Linda Gregory died a few hours before Friday’s game, her husband Mel Gregory announced on Facebook.

The 69-year-old woman had fallen backward and struck her head on concrete while taking pictures Sept. 4 at the junior varsity

She was taking pictures of JV football game in Wichita

matchup between Wichita Northwest High School and rival Bishop Carroll High. Critically injured, she had been on life support all week waiting to donate her organs ever since the inadvertent hit during a blocking play by two players.

Mel Gregory, who owned a local photography business with his wife and was her photography partner, joined several other family members at Northwest’s game against Heights High School on Friday just as the couple had done for years,

the Wichita Eagle reported. All the players wore “LG” stickers on their helmets that will be there all season, and there was a moment of silence in her honor before kickoff.

“I was back on the sidelines tonight to watch Linda Gregory being honored with many tributes. It was hard to do the interviews and my voice broke way too many times but I hope I made my beloved Linda Gregory proud of my attempt to be as good as she was,” Mel Gregory wrote

on Facebook after Friday’s game.

The Gregorys started taking pictures of Northwest High sporting events in 2014 and have been a regular presence around the school’s teams.

“Linda was an amazing person who breathed life into our students here at Northwest,” coach Steve Martin said after she was critically injured. “She would go out of her way to make each kid feel important in her own unique way. Her passion for kids was

amazing, but it went deeper than taking pictures for Linda and Mel. They were a part of our football team and always will be. They are family!”

Longtime friend Joanna Chadwick said Linda Gregory made a lasting impression on the players she took pictures of. Chadwick became close to her when her husband coached basketball at Northwest.

“Linda is the third grandmother to my sons and that is something I’ll never, ever be able to repay her for,”

Chadwick said. “But what is so amazing about Linda is that as much as she loved my family and as much as we loved her, it was that same way with so many other people.”

Former Northwest High star Breece Hall, who is now a New York Jets running back in the NFL, asked for prayers Tuesday after he heard about the injury.

“These are the most genuine, polite, kind, giving, whole hearted people. Prayers out to you and your wonderful wife, Mel Gregory,” Hall posted on Facebook.

Texas jumps to No. 4 in AP poll

By Ralph D. Russo Associated Press

Texas jumped seven spots to No. 4 in The Associated Press college football poll on Sunday after beating Alabama, and the Pac-12 became just the second conference to place as many as eight teams in an AP Top 25.

Georgia received 55 first-place votes to remain the clear No. 1. Michigan was No. 2, with two-first place votes. No. 3 Florida State received three first-place votes and moved up a spot.

Texas received two-first place votes after its biggest regular-season victory in years. The Longhorns are in the top five for the first time since starting the 2010 season at No. 5 and have their highest ranking since finishing No. 2 after losing the BCS championship game to Alabama in 2009.

Behind quarterback Quinn Ewers, Texas became the first team to

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Although Leipold said that backup Jason Bean took all the team reps at quarterback Sunday, he suggested that “Jalon’s able to do more” than Grimm and Neal, who are “maybe the ones more in question.”

That’s not all. He added that reserve wideout Tanaka Scott, who has not yet played, is still working his way into action, and that LSU transfer cornerback Damarius McGhee has been dealing with a back injury of his own.

That means that both position groups could look plenty different on Saturday, and KU adjusted its depth chart accordingly by moving the usual nickel back, Kalon Gervin, ahead of Bryant as the starter. Leipold noted that Gervin is experienced and Kwinton Lassiter has made plays, including the first two interceptions of his career in consecutive games, and the staff has high hopes for redshirt freshman Brian Dilworth.

The Jayhawks’ depth has proven itself so far this season; Leipold pointed out, for example, that Doug Emilien, Grimm’s direct backup, has performed well and would have had a touchdown Friday if not for a block-in-the-back

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The hope for KU is that the Monday off day will help the team reestablish a regular rhythm entering its next game at home against BYU, which was announced Monday to take place at 2:30 p.m. Sept. 23 on ESPN.

“It’s almost like getting back used to another routine of getting back to playing on Saturdays,” running back Devin Neal said after KU beat Illinois on Friday.

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to win the game. Normally we do that and we did not.”

Watching it all transpire was Jones, who had taken his contract holdout into the regular season and wound up watching

beat Alabama by double-digits on its home field under coach Nick Saban.

The loss dropped Alabama seven spots to No. 10, its lowest ranking since early last November, when the Crimson Tide also were 10th.

Southern California moved up a spot to No. 5, giving the top five representation from each Power Five conference for the first time since Sept. 24, 2017. That top five was Alabama (SEC), Clemson (Atlantic Coast Conference), Oklahoma (Big 12), Penn State (Big Ten) and USC.

No conference has more teams than the Pac-12, which is in its last season with its current membership before 10 of its schools depart for other leagues in 2024.

Only the Southeastern Conference ever had placed as many eight teams in single AP Top 25, doing it 21 times with a record 10 in September 2015.

In this week’s AP Top 25, Washington is No. 8, Utah is 12th, Oregon is 13th and Oregon State is No. 16. Moving into the rankings are Washington State at No. 23 and UCLA at No. 24.

The Pac-12’s previous high was six ranked teams, achieved multiple times including last week.

Oregon State and Washington State are the only members of the conference committed to it beyond this school year and would like to preserve the Pac-12, but whether its Power Five status can preserved remains to be seen.

After Washington State beat Wisconsin on Saturday night, Cougars coach Jake Dickert noted his school’s unfortunate position.

“We belong in the Power Five,” Dickert told ESPN among a swarm of Cougars, who rushed the field in Pullman.

No. 6 Ohio State, No. 7 Penn State and No. 9 Notre Dame rounded out the top 10.

penalty. However, having players miss such extended practice time taxes on-field chemistry. Leipold mentioned that the team was trying to figure out Monday morning who would run the specific route concepts that are so closely associated with Grimm if he’s unable to go.

“You lose that timing and working that you need during the week,” he said, “and we’ve got to find a way to get through that, because eventually that’s going to cost us.”

Leipold had a more optimistic outlook in another area. Taiwan Berryhill Jr., the starting weakside linebacker for Kansas,

In the meantime, the Jayhawks have to play their last nonconference matchup in Reno, with some physiological disadvantage. Sleep science shows that teams traveling west across time zones generally do worse in night games because they play after their peak hours for physical performance has already passed. Another challenge KU may face is that its players are less acclimated to the elevation at Mackay Stadium (4,610 feet).

Leipold characterized that as a minor factor for which the team’s August camp would help prepare it.

the opener alongside his agents, Jason and Michael Katz, from a suite inside Arrowhead Stadium.

The Chiefs did not disclose the terms of his new deal, but a source told The Associated Press no years were added to his fouryear, $80 million deal due to expire. The person, speaking to AP on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the deal, said it instead

dealt with a minor hamstring injury during fall camp and has been in and out of action since; he played a portion of the season opener against Missouri State, but not Friday against Illinois. Bowling Green transfer JB Brown has thrived in his absence. Now, with Berryhill taking on more reps in practice, the Jayhawks are hoping to get him back and even use both of them on the field at the same time.

“I still don’t know if our defense has lined up five consecutive days, really, with everybody out there,” Leipold said.

When his Buffalo team played at Nevada, he said, “We were in the second year of building and we weren’t as good as we hoped. We were a 2-10 football team that year so we had other things to worry about other than elevation.”

He added, though, that the training and medical staffs will discuss the matter in advance of the trip. On the whole, the staff is continuing to work through its plans for the week ahead of the game.

“Our players will adjust well,” he said drily, “I just hope I can stay awake long enough for the end.”

includes incentives to substantially increase what Jones will make this season. Jones forfeited a $500,000 workout bonus, accumulated $50,000 in fines for each day missed of mandatory minicamp and training camp, and lost about $1.1 million in his first game check for sitting out the game against Detroit.

OU assistant sorry for distraction by disgraced father-in-law

Briles was at helm of Baylor’s football during sex assault scandal

By Cliff Brunt Associated Press

NormaN, okla — Oklahoma offensive coordinator Jeff Lebby apologized Monday after his father-in-law, disgraced former Baylor coach Art Briles, was seen on the field with Lebby after Oklahoma’s 28-11 win over SMU on Saturday night. Baylor fired Briles in 2016 after an investigation concluded he and his staff took no action against players named in sexual assault allegations. The images of Briles decked out in Oklahoma gear on Owen Field drew backlash from Sooners fans on social media.

Art Briles

“Just want everybody to understand, my father-in-law — his presence on the field after the game the other night is just something that created a distraction. And I do — I apologize for that,” Lebby said in a prepared statement at the start of his weekly media session. “That was not the intent at all. The intent was just to celebrate with my family.”

The situation caught Oklahoma athletic director Joe Castiglione and coach Brent Venables off guard. Castiglione said in a statement on Saturday night that it should not have happened based on boundaries that had been set.

“Joe Castiglione, coach Venables both have addressed concerns with me, have talked to me about it, and again, can make sure that everybody understands that this is something that will not come up again,” Lebby said. No. 19 Oklahoma visits Tulsa on Saturday.

Colin E. Braley/ AP Photo KANSAS RUNNING BACK DEVIN NEAL (4) gets past several Illinois defenders to score a touchdown during the third quarter of a football game on Friday at David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium.

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