December 2021

Kansas turns its focus to Missouri

KANSAS CITY — Kansas men’s basketball coach Bill Self is sitting inside the T-Mobile Center in Kansas City, reflecting Tuesday on the victory against UTEP, and he stops himself. Responding to a question about whether there may have been concern his players would overlook the Miners (4-4), with Missouri looming, Self admits there was.

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Laverne W. Schumacher

HAYS - Laverne W. Schumacher, age 83, of Hays, Kansas, passed away Tuesday, December 7, 2021, at Hays Medical Center, Hays. He was born February 28, 1938, to Wendelin and Anna (Schmidt) Schumacher in Pfeifer, Kansas. Laverne graduated from Saint Joseph Military Academy in 1956 and later served in the Army National Guard. He married Janie B. Urban on May 9, 1959, in Loretto, Kansas.

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