Lew tries to hustle Holiday Inn

Sweet Lew Perkins, the ethically challenged hustler captaining the Beaker ship, recently told the Holiday Inn in Lawrence they just weren't important enough to hold the basketball banquet. As Jeffrey Flannigan explains in the Star:

A year ago, the KU basketball team held a post-season banquet with select donors at the Holiday Inn Holidome in Lawrence. This year, after the Jayhawks won it all, KU cancelled that banquet because it figured a much bigger party was in order — such as a parade and a celebration at Allen Fieldhouse.

But, according to reports in Lawrence, the Holiday Inn still wants to collect a $6,400 cancellation bill. And KU officials want Lawrence and the chamber of commerce to help foot the bill, reasoning that the city’s commerce benefited from the thousands of fans who flocked downtown.

Wouldn't expect anything less of ol' 70-30% Lew.

In a surprising show of backbone the Holiday Inn is telling Lew to pay up or face the consequences. Dun, dun, dun.

Stay classy, Lew.

Chef Lew prepares Mangino's bonus

Perkins invited Manning to Super Bowl

Kansas athletic director Lew Perkins is an important man. If you couldn't tell just how important he is from trying to boot Phog Allen's grandkids from their seats at KU basketball games or from him selling an undeserving football team to the Orange Bowl (and still finishing below lots of two loss teams) you will surely be educated from his comments Monday night.

By now most of you have heard that sweet Lew was in the Gatorade suite sitting in front of Peyton Manning during the Super Bowl. Well, what you might not know is that Lew is the reason Peyton was at the game at all. The Kansas City Star's Mike DeArmond elaborates:

Prior to Monday night’s tipoff, Jayhawks athletic director Lew Perkins gave this flippant answer to the flippant question of whether KU athletic department funds paid for the suite seat he had at Sunday night’s Super Bowl.

“You mean the suite I invited Peyton (Manning) to?” Perkins said. “No, you had to make the Orange Bowl to get that.”

That was not the last reference to the Orange Bowl Monday night. At halftime, KU recognized its Orange Bowl champion football team.

A small percentage of the Kansas students wore orange-colored T-shirts to signify the Jayhawks’ Orange Bowl win over Virginia Tech. Of course, it was no coincidence that they wore them with Missouri in town, as KU trotted out the trophy at halftime along with about 25 players and head coach Mark Mangino.

There you have it, folks. Proof that Lew Perkins is a very, very important man. Just ask him. And not only is he important, he's also magnanimous. How else would Peyton have had a chance to watch his brother if not for Lew?

The Kansas City Star: Border War Buzz.

MU made more $ than KU in '07 Border War

Kansas AD Lew Perkins (above) now has another reason to hang his head in shame. Not only did Mizzou beat Kansas on the football field in November, news today in The Kansas City Star reveals that MU made more at the box office than the Beakers, too. And, don't forget, it was a KU home game.

In the final accounting, Kansas earned $1.264 million, Missouri $1.277 million. The Tigers collected a shade more because the Jayhawks sold more discounted tickets to students.

The 2008 Border War will be played at Arrowhead Stadium and will be a Missouri home game. No plans have been made for the location of games after next season, but Mizzou coach Gary Pinkel has expressed a desire to return the game to campus sites at some point in the future.

The Kansas City Star: Kansas and Missouri each received $1.3 million for Arrowhead game.