Sports Columns

Tom Keegan

Keegan: Next KU returner? Mmm …
By Tom Keegan
July 3, 2008
Mark Mangino’s football teams typically are among the least-penalized in the nation, and the special teams routinely rank among the best in the Big 12. More often than not, they’re on the right side of the give-away, take-away ratio. All three areas generally are considered accurate barometers of how well-coached a football team is. Mangino believes in putting the best players on special teams. Some coaches believe in putting the best of the rest, as in non-starters.

Chuck Woodling

Woodling: Happy new year!
By Chuck Woodling
July 1, 2008
You know what today is, don’t you? OK, it’s the first day of the rest of your life. But it’s also a new year for Kansas Athletics Inc. KAI, the corporate behemoth that operates on the Kansas University campus, functions on a fiscal year basis that begins on July 1. The arrival of New Fiscal Year’s Day means that just about all the KAI employees will be receiving their hefty raises based on the bountiful booty created by the football team’s appearance in the Orange Bowl and the men’s basketball team’s … well, you know what it did.

Bill Mayer

Mayer: Draft spot just the beginning
By Bill Mayer
June 28, 2008
Most Kansas University basketball fans were looking forward to this weekend as a time to reflect fondly on how well things went for Jayhawks in the NBA Draft. Instead, many of us are puzzled, perplexed and downright angry about some nitwit developments which indicate why the NBA has trouble sustaining meaningful loyalties.

Gary Bedore

Bedore: A look back at Late Nights past
(From someone — the only person? — who has seen them all)
By Gary Bedore
October 12, 2007
Call me on the phone, send me an e-mail — or drop a card or letter in the snail mailbox — to correct me if I’m wrong. But until I hear from you, I’m going to make what I consider a can’t-miss assertion: That, after tonight, I will remain the only person to have attended all 23 season-opening “Late Nights” in Kansas University’s tradition-rich Allen Fieldhouse.

Ryan Wood

Tracking down team fun, but difficult, task
Google, cell phone indispensible
By Ryan Wood
February 16, 2008
The phone rang for a man I presumed to be Lincoln Minor, the former Kansas University basketball player who played 34 games in the 1987-88 season. “Hello?” the man on the other end answered. “Hi, is this Lincoln?” I asked. “Yes,” he said. “The Lincoln who played basketball for the Kansas Jayhawks?” “No,” the man replied. “This is his father.” Hey, that’s progress.

Matt Tait

Tait: Tradition leads LHS
By Matt Tait
May 28, 2008
In the final standings of the World Company Cup, Free State defeated Lawrence High, 17-10, to retain the Cup for a third straight year. Yet, in two of the city’s most high-profile sports — basketball and baseball — it was the Lions who got the last laugh. What gives?

Nate Reed

Reed: No Beckham, no problem
Star won’t play in Kansas City tonight, but his presence will be felt
By Nathan Reed
September 27, 2007
So here it is, the day many soccer fans have waited for since January. The Los Angeles Galaxy come to Arrowhead Stadium to take on the Kansas City Wizards in Major League Soccer.
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