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Can Oregon Ducks Flip Linkon Cure, Five-Star Kansas State Wildcats Commit?
The Oregon Ducks will be hosting five-star tight end Lincoln Cure for their rivalry game against the Washington Huskies on Saturday night. Cure is a Kansas State Wildcats commit, but is still making visits to other schools before national signing day.
The elite recruit from the Class of 2025 is predicted to stick with Kansas State, but the Ducks trying to flip his commitment.
Linkon Cure Player Profile
Linkon Cure is a 6-6, 220-pound tight end out of Goodland, Kansas. He is a rated as a five-star recruit and ranked as the No. 1 tight end in the class of 2025 per 247sports. Cure committed to Kansas State in July of 2024.
What makes him so special? 247Sports’ scouting analyst Gabe Brooks had this to say about Cure.
“Big, athletic, playmaking tight end prospect who can line up as a true receiver and provide mismatches in the passing game,” Brooks said. “Uses speed-changing nuance as a route runner and gravitates toward space when available. Combines strength with speed as a run-after catch threat. Athletic enough to hurt defenses in the vertical game, while also providing a big-play threat in the screen/quick game.”
In addition to having all of the athletic tools, Cure has knack for finding the ball. Cure is viewed as an elite prospect that will eventually be picked in the top half of the NFL draft.
“Enters senior season as an elite tight end prospect with high-round NFL Draft upside,” Brooks said. “Gifted flex tight end with physical tool and strength capacity to fit all tight end modes at the high-major level, and potentially beyond.”
Can Oregon Ducks Flip Another Tight End?
The Oregon Ducks flipped four-star class of 2025 tight end Vander Ploog from Washington to Oregon in early November. Now, Oregon is looking to flip another tight end to join the class of 2025 recruiting class.
While Linkon Cure will be visiting Oregon this weekend, he is still expected to end up singing with the school he is committed to, Kansas State.
247Sports experts Tom Loy, Ryan Wallace, and Miek Roach have all kept the predictions for Cure to inevitably sign with Kansas State.
“Everything stands out about Oregon for me,” Cure told Sports Illustrated’s Andrew Nemec. “We’ll just have to see how the weekend goes.”
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WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — Crews are battling multiple grass fires in southwest Kansas.
There are seven active fires near Rolla in Morton County, according to emergency management.
The Kansas Department of Transportation said Kansas 51 Highway between the U.S. 56 Highway junction in Rolla and the Kansas Highway 27 junction in Richfield is closed due to the fires.
According to Storm Track 3 Meteorologist Jack Maney, the fires started as a dry thunderstorm moved through the area. But the cause of the fires hasn’t been determined yet, as crews are still working to bring them all under control.
In addition to Morton County, there are also reports of wildfires in Ford, Clark, Meade and Stevens counties.
The State Emergency Operations Center has been partially activated to help respond to the fires.
The Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks said Meade State Park has not been affected but has warned visitors to reconsider coming due to multiple fires in the area.
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WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) -Matthew Ho likes to keep a clean car.
“I basically use my car a lot for work, with my multiple day jobs and weekend jobs,” Ho said.
However, on Tuesday, it was anything but.
“I was on 135 going northbound towards Bel Aire,” Ho said, “Right about the exit of 21st st I kind of saw this big mess of pile up that just happened right as I was blinking.”
Ho had no choice but to drive through it. Then the smell came.
“I think it took a little bit just because at first it didn’t seem like it was anything,” Ho said.
The smell continued to get worse and there was nothing he could do about it. It was a 90 degree day, and even with that intense weather he could not use the air conditioning because the air that it used was smelly itself.
“It sticks, and now that we’re downdraft winds you can just smell it all the time,” Ho said.
The company responsible for the spill, No Limit Logistics LLC, said, ‘There was no human waste’. The Kansas Highway Patrol says otherwise.
Ho has tried to wash the smell out of his car multiple times.
“It didn’t work,” Ho said, “Washed the car again, still didn’t go away.”
Now, he is looking for someone to take responsibility.
“I would really like compensations for all the car wash, especially when it was something I didn’t do personally,” Ho said, “A mechanical failure on a truck isn’t necessarily someone’s fault, but someone’s liable for it.”
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) – Fire damaged a Kansas City house so extensively it may need to be demolished.
Firefighters responded to a house fire near W. 81st and Summit Street around 1:45 p.m. on May 12.
Firefighters said they noticed smoke coming from the attic when they arrived at the house. They were able to extinguish the fire minutes after they arrived.
No one was in the house at the time of the fire, according to the fire department. The cause of the fire remains under investigation.
Inspectors are examining the house to see if it is stable and safe enough to remain standing or if it will need to be demolished.
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