Notebook: National Champs Return to KU in Celebration

The Rock Chalkboard

Lance Leipold discusses how KU basketball's success can impact the football program

NEW ORLEANS, La. — Lance Leipold made it about five steps inside House of Blues in New Orleans before a person in Kansas ger stopped him. Leipold appeared to know him and the two spoke briefly before Leipold met with a few reporters ahead of Kansas' national championship pep rally.

Big 12 Commissioner Bob Bowlsby to step down

“After more than 40 years of serving in leadership roles in intercollegiate athletics, including the last 10 with the Big 12, and given the major issues that college sports in general and the Big 12 specifically will address in the next several years, I have reached a…