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AI-generated summary reviewed by our newsroom. Read our AI Policy. Frank Seurer said Don Fambrough centered his Kansas pitch on beating Missouri. Seurer went 2-2 against Missouri from 1980 to 1984 and 2-0 in Lawrence. Lance Leipold said KU could work in Fambrough tape before Friday's Border War game.

For years, Jim Kobbe was one of the people Wichita sports fans invited into their living rooms every night. He was clever without sounding rehearsed, funny without needing to dominate the room and serious enough about the craft that coworkers still remember how much time he put into making sure a story was told the right way. Most of all, the person viewers saw on television was the same person his colleagues knew when the cameras turned off.

LONDON, Sept 9 (Reuters) - Amazon was set to raise 4 billion pounds ($5.43 billion) from its first ever sterling bond sale on Wednesday that drew strong demand, according to a bank managing the deal, as hyperscalers rush to diversify their funding sources to finance the AI boom.

Bouncing Back Mercedes-Benz didn’t have the best of starts in the EV market. The initial EQ models weren’t met with the warmest of receptions and were heavily criticized for a number of reasons – design included. The EQS failed to meet market expectations by a long way, along with the EQS SUV, EQE, EQE SUV, among others. Those models were strategic blunders hampered by the technological constraints of the time. But harsh lessons lead to greater improvements.

In 1966, Micky Dolenz, Davy Jones, Michael Nesmith and Peter Tork became The Monkees, first as the stars of an NBC television series and then as a real-life band that became one of the biggest pop phenomena of the decade. Sixty years later, Dolenz is the last surviving member of the group, following the deaths of Jones in 2012, Tork in 2019 and Nesmith in 2021. Dolenz, 81, has spoken before about still feeling the presence of his former bandmates.

Sept 9 (Reuters) - Barclays raised its year-end target for the benchmark S&P 500 index to 7,950 from 7,800 on Wednesday, following a standout earnings season led by technology companies. The revised target is about 3.6% higher than the index's last close. The brokerage sees the benchmark reaching 8,800 points by the end of 2027.

Chrysler has announced a recall for its Voyager and Pacifica minivans as their electronic stability control (ESC) systems could fail. That’s not something you want to happen in a tall minivan packed with up to eight people, as such vehicles are more susceptible to losing control or being involved in a rollover. Only minivans built between June and late October 2025 are affected, so the heavily refreshed 2027 Pacifica isn’t included in this recall.

AI-generated summary reviewed by our newsroom. Read our AI Policy. Malachi Jordan and Jalen White will make official recruiting visits to KU this weekend. Jordan ranks No. 16 by ESPN in the class of 2027 and has visited USC officially. White has visited Mississippi State officially and holds offers from several schools. Blue-chip high school basketball recruiting prospects Malachi Jordan and Jalen White are slated to make official recruiting visits to Kansas this weekend, On3.com has reported.

Broadcom (AVGO) just delivered one of its strongest quarters ever, yet the stock slipped, and at least one Wall Street firm trimmed its price target. That mix of good news and caution is what investors are weighing right now. Broadcom designs custom chips and networking gear that power the data centers behind today’s biggest artificial intelligence systems. It also sells infrastructure software after buying VMware.

Virginia mother Karyann Parkinson was convicted of contributing to the delinquency of a minor after she let her 5-year-old son Samuel, pictured, walk half a mile to a pond in their gated community to collect goose feathers. How old is old enough to walk alone? For Virginia mother Karyann Parkinson, the answer was 5.