| 23 September 2009
Less than 24hrs after some ladies from the men's basketball team and football teams decided to pull hair and punch with their thumbs, another fight happened about 10a this morning.
Several students on the Kansas University campus said there was another altercation between KU men's basketball and football players Wednesday morning shortly before 10 a.m.
KU Public Safety Officers were dispatched to the area around Budig and Wescoe Hall after a report of about a dozen individuals, all wearing athletic gear, in the midst of a confrontation.
This incident comes fewer than 18 hours after an altercation that sent KU basketball player Tyshawn Taylor to the hospital with a dislocated thumb.
Witnesses said the incident may have been caused after a player was shoved down a set of stairs.
Is Todd Reesing gonna have to choke a bitch?
UPDATE 11:24a- This thing just gets better and better. Here's video of the basketball players walking out of the cop shop after being questioned.
UPDATE 11:28a- The official 2nd fight story (with names) after the jump.
A group of football and basketball players were seen arguing and shouting racial slurs at each other at about 10 a.m. this morning outside Wescoe.Among the basketball players seen at Wescoe Underground this morning were the Morris twins, Mario Little, Sherron Collins, Tyshawn Taylor, Brady Morningstar, Travis Releford, Tyrel Reed, Thomas Robinson and Elijah Johnson. One of the Morris twins seen telling the police, "One of them just jumped out and threw his hands on me."
Among them were seen the Morris twins, Mario Little, Sherron Collins, Tyshawn Taylor, Brady Morningstar, Travis Releford, Tyrel Reed, Thomas Robinson, Elijah Johnson and many other players. The only football players identified in the group were Dezmon Briscoe and Chris Harris, who the police were questioning.
One of the Morris twins told the police, "One of them just jumped out and threw his hands on me," referring to the football players who were involved in the fight.
Shannon Jobe, Topeka sophomore, said she heard a football player tell the police one of the basketball players had tried to push a football player down the stairs.
Football and basketball players were seen arguing at Wescoe Underground at about 10 a.m. on Wednesday morning. Brett Ballard, director of basketball operations and former backup point guard for the Jayhawks for two seasons, is seen here in a black KU jacket with basketball players.
Harrison Hems, San Diego senior, saw basketball and football players gathered in groups between Anschutz Library and the lower entrance to the Wescoe Underground. Hems said several basketball players were yelling at the group of football players. Hems said the group of football players continued to grow to 15 or more.
Erryn Kindle, Eudora junior, said basketball players were trying to calm Collins down.
"Mario Little told me football players had beef with Sherron," Kindle said. "He said they were talking trash."
Stephen Adams, Perry junior, witnessed the argument. He said he was walking down the stairs between Wescoe and Budig when he saw a big crowd.
“I saw a huge crowd,” he said. “I come down and can immediately see on each side football players and some basketball players yelling at each other. I couldn’t hear anything because I had my Ipod on. I turned it off to try and hear a little bit but it was already broken up at that point.”
Adams said he thought the fight was just a verbal argument, and that no blows were thrown. He said the fight was broken up soon after it began.
“No blows seem to have been thrown, because you would have heard something from the crowd. Nobody was on the ground and nobody was at each other’s throats, they were just kinda facing off.”
Athletics officials separated the football players and basketball players into separate rooms in the Underground after the fight.
Joe Dooley, assistant coach of the basketball team, arrived while the police officers were questioning the basketball players.
The coaches requested a meeting with the players for an undisclosed reason.
Police officers escorted some of the players inside Wescoe Hall shortly after the incident. The players were seen congregating outside the building near the entrance to The Underground. No police officers or players were available for questioning.
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