Current Kansas University forward Justin Wesley (4) will play KU legend Wilt Chamberlain (13) in an upcoming movie by Lawrence filmmaker and KU faculty member Kevin Willmott. Thursday is the last day ...

“Jawhawkers” explores the effect that basketball legend Wilt Chamberlain (played by real-life KU basketball player Justin Wesley, center) had on Lawrence and the history of basketball. Courtesy photo ...

During a scene from the first day of the filming of Jayhawkers, outside the School of Architecture, Kansas forward Justin Wesley, playing the part of Wilt Chamberlain, is greeted by various students ...

Nathan Peterson, a student at the University of Kansas, will play legendary KU basketball coach Forrest “Phog” Allen as a young man in the upcoming movie Jayhawkers. Peterson, who grew up in Topeka, ...

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Broad, sweeping biographical films that try to sum up a person's entire life in two hours rarely ever get it right. That's why the best thing that happened to Kevin Willmott's ...

LAWRENCE — The NCAA has a lot of rules. Here are a couple more. Kansas senior forward Justin Wesley was able to be cast in a lead role of the movie "Jayhawkers", which premiered on Friday in Lawrence.

Filmmaker Kevin Willmott never runs from race. He swipes at intolerance, injustice and bigotry with satire and sci-fi alike. His sixth full-length film, a sports biopic premiering Friday in Lawrence, ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. --Just as the Jayhawks of today are starting to hit their stride, FOXSportsKansas City.com was granted an exclusive first look at a movie about the greatest Jayhawk of all -- Wilt ...

At the outset and in the spirit of full disclosure, let me just say that I am a graduate of the University of Kansas and a huge fan of Wilt Chamberlain, aka “Wilt the Stilt," and “The Big Dipper.” He ...

Former University of Kansas basketball player Scot Pollard sat quietly in an old telephone booth Wednesday morning at the Jayhawk Tower in downtown Topeka. “Action,” someone said loudly. Dressed in a ...

An explosion, a conspiracy, and an unlikely duo on a mission to expose the truth.

Thursday is the last day for the upcoming feature film “Jayhawkers” to receive much-needed funding from the community whose story it tells. If it doesn’t receive $50,000 in contributions by Thursday, ...