Calendar check

Many of you have already mentioned that you will not be able to make Feb. 9th. What weekends work well for people? How about Feb. 22-24? There is no home game, but there is still Mass. on Saturday.

Mangino Fears for City, MINI Cooper

Lawrence, KS - Jayhawks Football Coach Mark Mangino has urged the city of Lawrence and the Kansas University community to protest the planned February trip of a group with Iowa roots to the KU campus.

“This trip must be stopped,” Mangino said. “I fear for the safety of the entire campus, but especially my MINI Cooper.”

Coach Mangino was referring to an incident in the winter of 2005, when a Saab sedan was the reported victim of this party’s antics. He recently purchased a “near new” 2003 MINI Cooper that he wants to keep that way.

“I fear for us all, but I swear to god, if they touch my car, I’ll run over every last one of them.”

And it begins.

Its that time of the year again where I will spend the next month bothering, pestering, and guilt-tripping each of you into spending a weekend in Lawrence. This trip will mark a new era, as AC will no longer serve as host. We are still welcome at his house, where his good friend TJ has agreed to allow us to stay there. In the alternative, we can get a hotel on Mass for the weekend or just stay at B. Rush's crib.

I would put forth the weekend of Feb. 8-10 as a starting point for discussion. The Jayhawks have a home game against Baylor in the evening. I would like to go to the game, but I'll have to closely monitor my beer glass at Jefferson's to avoid the twisted fork. In the meantime, I look forward to the reminiscing and fence sitting that is to follow.