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ELECTION 2016
What if Kansas paid its basketball players?
Poll: Trump likely to win Kansas, but Clinton still has shot ———
Brownback’s approval rating at 15% in survey of voters
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By Peter Hancock
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f you want to be a Kansas basketball player, 82 is an important number to know. It’s how many games are in an NBA season. It’s also how many times more money KU Inside, 4A coach Bill Self l How Kansas made than his 13 student-athletes men’s basketball get paid. scholarship athl Where KU stipends rank letes last year. in the Big 12. This may seem l How stipends unbelievable, can affect nonstudent-athletes. but it’s true: Self earned more than $3.9 million, while the 13 players on scholarship took home $47,372 combined. The unbelievable part is that the players were paid at all.
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Per men’s scholarship player per year
Actual value $38K
Projected value $608K
Financial website Nerd Wallet used a theoretical revenue-sharing model to calculate the average value of a Kansas men’s basketball player at $608,500 last year. The annual value of the average financial aid package a men’s basketball player receives is $38,122.
Expenses across all sports
Staff
Players
NCAA
Tickets
Travel $24.8M $20.4M
$37M
Please see PAID, page 4A
$11.9M
$6.9M
versus revenues
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Source: KU Athletics Inc.
Scores of KU fans check out DeBruce Center By Elvyn Jones Twitter: @ElvynJ
Payam Farajiani was impressed by more than what was on display Saturday at the DeBruce Center. Farajiani was one of a continuous stream of visitors to the open house marking the opening of the center that is the home of the 13 rules of basketball Dr. James Naismith committed to two typewritten pages in 1892 in Springfield, Mass. The Iraq native is also a testament to the worldwide reach of the game Naismith created as a sport to occupy
athletes forced indoors during cold winter months. Farajiani played high school and college basketball in his homeland. He learned of Kansas University’s excellence in basketball after deciding to study for a master’s degree in aerospace engineering at the institution and became better acquainted with that tradition after arriving in Lawrence six months ago. Richard Gwin/Journal-World Photo On Saturday, Farajiani made several loops through the cen- VISITORS CHECK OUT A LARGER-THAN-LIFE DISPLAY OF ter, taking in the rules and WILT CHAMBERLAIN on Saturday during a grand opening other displays on Naismith’s event for Kansas University’s new DeBruce Center. The center houses James Naismith’s original rules of “Basket Ball” Please see DEBRUCE, page 8A and other displays celebrating KU’s basketball history.
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Topeka — Voters in Kansas are overwhelmingly dissatisfied with their choice of presidential candidates this year, but if the election were held today, Republican Donald Trump would most likely walk away as the winner. Still, Trump has not yet convinced a majority of Kansas voters to support him, leaving a slim possibility that Democrat Hillary Clinton could gain some ground here. Trump Those are the findings of a recent poll by the Docking Institute of Public Affairs at Fort Hays State University, sponsored by nine Kansas media outlets including the Lawrence Journal-World. The poll also showed a high level of dissatisfaction with the current Kansas Leg- Clinton islature, while Republican Gov. Sam Brownback’s approval rating has dropped to a record low 15 percent. The survey of 487 likely voters was conducted July 11-21 and had a margin of error of 4.4 percentage points. It was completed just before Trump’s acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention, and three days before the start of the Democratic National Convention. “I think in some ways we’re reflecting kind of the malaise you see nationwide, and in other ways I think this is a reaction to some Kansas-specific dilemmas,” said Kansas University political science professor Patrick Miller. Among the key findings of the survey: l Trump currently leads Clinton in Kansas, 44-27 percent, with 16 percent still undecided. Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson is drawing support from 7 percent of likely voters, while 6 percent said they intend to vote for someone else. l In the 1st Congressional District, among 176 likely voters, the Republican primary between Rep. Tim Huelskamp and challenger Roger Marshall is a statistical dead heat. Marshall fares better among voters who are “very likely” to go to the polls Aug. 2, while Huelskamp leads among those who are “somewhat likely” to vote.
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