August 2022

Jayhawks’ Lance Leipold settled in, optimistic about Year 2

By DAVE SKRETTA AP Sports Writer LAWRENCE (AP) — Lance Leipold first walked into the head coach’s office at Kansas, arguably the worst program in Division I football, amid terrible circumstances and during a time of the year that only made everything worse. The Jayhawks were coming off a winless 2020 season under Les Miles, who had then resigned in ignominy amid a flurry of sexual harassment allegations dating to his time at LSU.

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Western Kansas was ‘hell’s aquarium’ 80 million years ago. Here’s what it can teach us today

By David Condos Kansas News Service CASTLE ROCK BADLANDS, Kansas — How do you save sea turtles from climate change? Maybe start by digging around in the arid badlands of western Kansas. Eighty million years ago, this dry, desolate landscape was completely covered by water, teeming with exotic forms of life.

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MAY ERA GENTRY

May Era was born December 23, 1928, to Alvan Eugene and Mildred Lenora (Coles) Essary in rural Cleveland County, Oklahoma. May Era was the third of six children.

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