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• Northern Beef Packers was at one time locally owned, but now is 41 percent owned by businessman Oshik Song. The rest of the ownership lies with 69 other Korean investors who each gave at least $500,000 under the federal EB-5 program that encourages foreign investment in exchange for qualifications to secure permanent residency.
• Northern Beef Packers was pitched in 2006 in response to then Gov. Mike Rounds' South Dakota Certified Beef initiative. Rounds hoped to get the state's ranchers premium prices by allowing consumers to track animals from birth, through a feedlot and to a meatpacking plant.
• But the plant faced a series of delays that included financial problems, lawsuits and flooding.
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Jayhawks bulked up, slimmed down for 2013 season
GEOFFREY CALVERT, Associated Press
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) -- It doesn't matter what the weather is like in Kansas. Doesn't matter the time of day, either.
• Scott Holsopple will still be wearing sweats on the Jayhawks' practice field.
• During their three-walk fall camp this month, the strength and conditioning guru for coach Charlie Weis was drenched in sweat under the same sweatsuit, and the reason for the suffering -- he calls it comfortable -- is quite simple: "It lets me know I'm working."
• Just the kind of guy you'd want working your football team into shape.
• Holsopple said he doesn't remember what made him start wearing sweats every day, but he's done it for 13 years while working at Kansas, Florida, Kentucky and Marquette. It's become routine for him, and routine plays a big role in his philosophy when it comes to strength work.
• "This summer it was 107 degrees and he still had on the same outfit," freshman quarterback Montell Cozart said. "We come outside saying it's hot. He says, 'What are you talking about? It's freezing out here.'"
• Holsopple could emerge as one of the biggest reasons the Jayhawks win a Big 12 game for the first time in years this season, or improve on the lone victory that they managed in Weis' first year in charge of the program.
• When quarterback Jake Heaps steps under center for the season opener Sept. 7 against South Dakota, he'll do so with 12 percent less body fat and 10 more pounds of muscle. Backup quarterback Jordan Darling will be standing on the sideline after dropping 6 percent body fat in two months.
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