Lawrence Journal-World 01-26-13

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klahoma University basketball walk-on James Fraschilla and former Kansas walk-on Jordan Juenemann aren’t related but forever will be linked by blood. To say that most friendships start under less brutal circumstances would be an understatement. This is pretty much how the introduction that planted the seeds of a friendship went late in the KU-OU game on Jan. 7, 2012, in Norman, Okla.: James Fraschilla’s nose, meet Jordan Juenemann’s elbow. Hello, blood, and Juenemann hello, a return to the bench for both players. Juenemann was whistled with a flagrant foul and taken out of the game by coach Bill Fraschilla Self. Trainers were putting Fraschilla’s face back together, so someone else shot the free throws. Afterward, it was Fraschilla who felt worse about the play that ended both players’ days in unpleasant fashion. “I had just come into the game and he had just come into the game,” said Fraschilla, in uniform today with the Sooners for today’s 3 p.m. tipoff against Kansas in Allen Fieldhouse. “He got a pass on the wing, and I ran into him and closed out. I was so nervous about getting beat on the dribble that I got down real low playing defense. He tried to swing the ball over his head, and I got hit with the elbow. I felt

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KATIE CAPPS, Kansas University’s director of operations, hugs Gavin Walrod Jan. 15 at Allen Fieldhouse, as the KU women’s basketball team helped members of the Douglas County Chapter of the Special Olympics hone their basketball skills.

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Equal opportunity to participate in extracurricular sports must be provided By Peter Hancock phancock@ljworld.com

“After elementary school, that pretty much just knocked me out of being in gym class and keeping up, running up and down gym courts,” Petty said. Now living in Lawrence, Petty is president of Kansas Accessible Sports, a group that promotes recreation and fitness opportunities for people with mobility impairments. And on Friday, he was thrilled with an announcement from the U.S. Department of Education that school districts must provide students with dis-

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abilities an equal opportunity to participate in extracurricular athletics. “Kids sitting on the sidelines keeping score books or being in the band, and never having the chance to participate in competitive sports, or team sports in particular, in my view really miss out on a lot of socialization,” Petty said. The new federal guidelines were issued by the Department

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TOPEKA — A statewide ban on smoking indoors in public places hasn’t stopped the flow of alcohol, according to a study released Friday. The Kansas Health Institute analysis concluded “there is no apparent evidence that smoking bans in Kansas have been associated with a decrease in statewide restaurant and bar sales, or with a decrease in the number of establishments serving liquor.” After four years of debate, the Legislature in 2010 approved the Clean Indoor Act, which generally prohibited smoking in restaurants, bars, places of employment, as well as outdoor smoking close to doorways. The measure was aimed at protecting the public health by reducing secondhand smoke. But some restaurant and bar owners fought the initiative, saying it would hurt business. The KHI analysis looked at restaurant and bar sales for eight years prior to the statewide ban and two years after and found sales

AIMEE WUTHRICH AND HER DAUGHTER, MAYA, 3, push baby carriages around Old West Lawrence on Friday. Mom’s carriage contains younger daughter Zoe, 6 months.

When he was an infant, Ray Petty contracted polio in the early 1950s. The disease, which affected thousands of other American children, robbed him of much of his ability to use his legs. Looking back at his childhood growing up in Texas, he said it also robbed him of the chance to participate in many school acPlease see KEEGAN, page 2A tivities.

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