Sherron Collins = Great Leader

[pissclams]

Team Captain?  Really?  LOL @ his role in this mess, what a joke of a human being.

Sherron Collins ----->   

[doom]

&@#%ing espn bias.

Self says fight was bad for university
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LAWRENCE, Kan. -- Kansas basketball players involved in fighting with Jayhawks football players apologized Thursday, saying they embarrassed themselves and the school.

During an impromptu news conference, basketball coach Bill Self called the fighting bad for the entire university. He and a few of his players met with reporters Thursday for the first time since fighting erupted Tuesday evening and Wednesday morning at two different sites on the normally peaceful campus.

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Basketball guard Tyshawn Taylor injured his finger and will be sidelined for up to a month. He was apparently one of the main instigators and posted on his Facebook page that he had injured his finger "throwing a punch."

Taylor's account also included several suggestive and vulgar passages which may have been the lyrics of rap songs. The posting was later taken down. Thursday, Taylor called his actions "stupid."

"I'm embarrassed because of the situation," he said. "It's a situation that none of us should have gotten into. We embarrassed our campus, our university, both teams, and it's just a situation that shouldn't have happened. Looking back at it, it was just really stupid. I wish I could take it back."

Self said he was stern and unyielding when he met with his team Wednesday night.

"We don't act like this," Self said. "To me, somebody asked me how did Tyshawn dislocate his thumb? My reply was: I don't care. It doesn't make any difference to me. The fact is that it happened. The reason it happened was because a really small group of individuals put selfish motives ahead of what was really important."

Self and senior guard Sherron Collins came to Taylor's defense.

"It's not just Tyshawn," Collins said. "It was a group of individuals from both sides that let egos and pride get involved in something that could have been resolved. We let something small become something big. We as a team, we accept this all together. Not everyone had something to do with it, but we are all together as a team."

The Kansas football team is unbeaten in three games and ranked No. 20. Self's basketball team could be ranked as high as No. 1 in the preseason poll.

The incidents, possibly the continuation of bad blood that had been simmering between the two groups for more than a year, drew quick condemnation from school administrators. Self was out of town on a recruiting trip and did not get back in time for a hurried meeting of basketball and football players that athletic director Lew Perkins called Wednesday evening.

"It's very disturbing to me," Self said. "I've coached a lot of great kids, and Tyshawn Taylor definitely fits that bill. His judgment in what he posted on his Facebook is totally inexcusable and it was done in very poor taste. So even though they may not be his words and they may be words of lyrics to songs he listens to and likes, it's still something that isn't to be put out there like that. I do think it's offensive."

But Self also said for Taylor "to be portrayed as anything other than a good kid that really made an ignorant play on doing that with his Facebook would be totally inaccurate."

[pissclams]

http://www.nbcactionnews.com/sports/default.aspx

^lol

video on right   

[Bookcat]

mostly peaceful..

except for that Ben Lueken kid who got his head ran over by a ku football player.


otherwise mostly peaceful...


oh, and that guy who was jailed Tuesday for threatening to shoot a lady in a parking lot...

otherwise, mostly peaceful

[Pete]

LOL at them not giving those guys talking points about the "N" word.   

[pissclams]

TT:  I used it b/c it's in a rap song.

terrible friggin' excuse, that doesn't make it right even if he learned the word from his mentor Lil' Wayne who shockingly has felony drug and weapons charges pending against him.  let me drive down troost tomorrow night dropping Lil Wayne lyrics, I'm sure everyone will accept my Lil Wayne Out Of Jail Free card.

[pissclams]

the point is that it's wrong for Lil Wayne to be using it, not that it's right because he does.   

[QuinnMac]

mostly peaceful..

except for that Ben Lueken kid who got his head ran over by a ku football player.


otherwise mostly peaceful...


oh, and that guy who was jailed Tuesday for threatening to shoot a lady in a parking lot...

otherwise, mostly peaceful

Are rapes on Sunday evenings considered 'peaceful'?

[nicname]

LOL at them not giving those guys talking points about the "N" word.   

I don't really think it matters.  Black dudes call each other african american all the time.

[Bookcat]

mostly peaceful..

except for that Ben Lueken kid who got his head ran over by a ku football player.


otherwise mostly peaceful...


oh, and that guy who was jailed Tuesday for threatening to shoot a lady in a parking lot...

otherwise, mostly peaceful

Are rapes on Sunday evenings considered 'peaceful'?

depends on ku's AP ranking at the time.

[mcmwcat]

wow.  didn't know there were 2 separate rape cases on Sunday.  holy &@#%ing christ.  you really have to be brave to be a civilian in Lawrence these days.  here's to you kids.

they don't even have the health care facilities to take care of these poor girls

http://www.kctv5.com/news/21107596/detail.html

[willie]

Rape Victims Turned Away From Lawrence Hospital
Women Sent To Other Hospitals For Treatment Last Weekend

POSTED: 5:02 pm CDT September 24, 2009
UPDATED: 5:37 pm CDT September 24, 2009


LAWRENCE, Kan. -- Police said a student was raped Sunday night on the University of Kansas campus and that same night another student was raped across town at Haskell University.

Prosecutors said that the two cases are not connected, although both victims went to Lawrence Memorial Hospital where two other rape victims went as well. Two of the victims that night were sent to out-of-town hospitals for treatment.

"The frustration of the prosecution is delay," said Douglas County District Attorney Charles Branson. "Delay is important. You have evidence that degrades with the passage of time."

Those frustrations trickled over motivating Branson to write a letter to Lawrence Memorial to ask for a meeting. Branson's office was looking for answers as to why sexual assault victims were being sent to other hospitals for exams.

"Transporting (victims) to another facility can be difficult," said Branson. "And there can be a loss of evidence, too."

"This weekend was a very difficult weekend," said Gene Meyer, CEO of Lawrence Memorial Hospital. "It was a tragic weekend for our community."

The hospital CEO said they have five nurses trained to work with sexual assault victims. One was on duty and the other four were out of town. Meyers said the hospital does not have complete coverage when it comes to collecting evidence for sexual assaults in Lawrence, but they are trying to fix those gaps.

"It is our desire to have maximum coverage," Meyer said. "There may be situations that occur -- but we hope they're minimal -- where the most appropriate place, for a variety of reasons, is to transfer a patient to another hospital."

At the end of the meeting, both sides said they may need to turn to the community to help recruit volunteer nurses that can help.

JFC!!!!  They had FOUR rape cases in ONE night.  It's so bad that they need volunteer help!!! This is absolutely unbelievable!!

[Andy]

to be fair and knowing the clientele in lawrence, its 50/50 as to whether its "rape"

[JTKSU]

Couple a brawls and 4 rapes.  Yawn.  Just another day in flyover country.

[Pett]

Sherron Collins & the Morris Twins = Misunderstood.

[JTKSU]

Sherron Collins & the Morris Twins = Misunderstood.

QFT.  I can't understand half the stuff the Morris twins say either.

[feralchat]

I understand the History Channel's sniffing around Loserville