KANSAS CITY, Missouri, March 11 [Category: Sports] -- The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics posted the following news release: * * * 2025 NAIA Baseball Players of the Week - No. 3 (March 11) KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Ricardo Hernandez of Park (Mo.) is the NAIA Baseball Player of the Week, and Ashton Luera of Oklahoma Wesleyan is the NAIA Baseball Pitcher of the Week. The duo was selected based on their performances from March 3-9 and were chosen out of a pool of conference/Continenta  more

LAWRENCE, Kansas, March 12 -- The University of Kansas issued the following news: * * * Famed historian chronicles his 'radical' intellectual and political transformation LAWRENCE -- In the opening sentence of his new autobiography, noted historian David Roediger writes, "I learned racism about when I learned to walk." He's spent his whole life trying to unlearn it. "We receive an informal education in racism and antiracism," said Roediger, the Foundation Professor of American Studies at th  more

KANSAS CITY, Missouri, March 12 -- The Big 12 Conference, a college athletic conference, issued the following news: * * * Mitchell Helps No. 13 seed Cincy Defeats No. 12 Seed Oklahoma State 87-68 in Phillips 66 Big 12 MBB Championship Opener Dillon Mitchell had 18 points and a career-high 15 rebounds, Day Day Thomas scored 21 points, and No. 13 seed Cincinnati took an 87-68 victory over No. 12 seed Oklahoma State to open the 2025 Phillips 66 Big 12 Men's Basketball Championship on Tuesday. J  more

CANTON, Ohio, March 11 [Category: Sports] -- The National Football League posted the following news: * * * Ravens signing former Chiefs WR DeAndre Hopkins to one-year, $6 million contract DeAndre Hopkins is hopping over to the other side of the Chiefs-Ravens rivalry. Baltimore is signing the three-time All-Pro wideout to a one-year, $6 million contract, NFL Network Insider Ian Rapoport reported Tuesday. Hopkins, 32, joined Kansas City via trade from the Tennessee Titans midseason in 2024   more

LAWRENCE, Kansas, March 12 -- The University of Kansas issued the following news: * * * Relationships with robots drive plot of novel 'Luminous' LAWRENCE -- Yes, Silvia Park's debut novel, "Luminous," has a posthumanist bent. But the University of Kansas assistant professor of English rejects the label dystopian. In "Luminous," humans, after all, have survived climate change long enough to have robot brothers and sisters. And there's even a place of acceptance for queer people in Park's imagi  more

LAWRENCE, Kansas, March 12 -- The University of Kansas issued the following news: * * * Study: Social media doesn't always bring people together, even when they have shared goals for democracy LAWRENCE -- Since its inception, social media has been touted by some as a way to bring people together, even to collaborate and advance revolutionary causes. But research from the University of Kansas has found that when people don't view each other as equals -- even if they have common goals -- soci  more