The Daily Mauling: 5/21/26

Kansas Jayhawks News

CJ Moore from The Athletic goes in-depth on Bill Self’s health and his decision to return this year

Kansas hoops scheduled the front end of a home-and-home with Villanova for this upcoming season

On3 wrote about how much Tyran Stokes also factored in to Self’s decision to keep coaching

Links!

This is more of a local story, but a Trump-endorsed congressional candidate in my district (he’s also kind of a celebrity in law enforcement circles, I guess), has some explaining to do after alleged improprieties while he served as Pinal County Sheriff

The NY Times writes that the recent San Diego mosque shootings were a moment made for and by the internet

USA Today has a Big 12 basketball portal scorecard that judges every school’s portal haul this offseason

Two US Capital Police officers from the J6 riots are suing over the slush fund created in part for the insurrectionists who put their lives in danger. How does the blue lives matter crowd reconcile this one?

Barney Frank, among the first openly gay congressmen, died yesterday at 86

Chiefs WR Rashee Rice made headlines this week with a probation violation, but it turns out he also quietly had a knee surgery as well

As the World Cup draws closer, US hotels in host cities are panicking more and more about canceled reservations and far fewer bookings than anticipated

Question of the Day

Hat tip to Shabs for this one: Name a cover version or two of songs that you really like, not counting versions that are more famous than the original