Tom Keegan

Keegan: KU will be able to run
By Tom Keegan
August 21, 2008
Former Kansas University offensive coordinator Nick Quartaro ran a spread offense. Successor Ed Warinner ditched the huddle, spread the field even more and had a superior quarterback in Todd Reesing. Both coordinators had productive running backs. Jon Cornish led Quartaro’s offense with 1,457 rushing yards and eight touchdowns as a senior. A year later, in Warinner’s offense, Brandon McAnderson rushed for 1,125 yards and 16 touchdowns.
Keegan: Mangino faces decision
By Tom Keegan
August 20, 2008
I know a guy who knows a guy who got his start in the college football coaching business as a spy. This is how the spy didn’t do his job: He didn’t wear a big red “S” on his forehead. He didn’t wear a Groucho Marx nose, glasses and mustache set. He didn’t carry a briefcase. This is how the spy did his job: He peeled back a few bills from the huge wad of cash one of the coaches paid him, purchased a round-trip airline ticket, and arrived in town mid-week, late enough that if he were spotted, the enemy couldn’t redo its entire game plan.
Keegan: Hmmm, good question
By Tom Keegan
August 18, 2008
The question sounded easy enough, until, that is, it came time to answer it. “Which team will be better this year,” a marginal sports fan asked, “Kansas football or basketball?” It’s been so long since the answer automatically was basketball that the question threw me for a loop. Which team will be better, Kansas football or Kansas basketball?
Keegan: Tourney turnout uplifting
By Tom Keegan
August 17, 2008
Usually, for coaches, winning comes first, and popularity follows. Seeing two packed Alvamar golf courses on a sun-kissed Saturday afternoon proved that isn’t always so. Sixty foursomes, another way of saying 240 golfers, participated in the fourth-annual Bonnie Henrickson Golf Tournament. Quite the turnout for a fourth-year coach whose Kansas University team never has posted a better Big 12 record than 6-10.
Keegan: Focus shifts to football
By Tom Keegan
August 16, 2008
Now that the Royals are back to back to back to back to awful, surrendering four consecutive home runs in Thursday night’s loss, nothing within miles qualifies as a decent way to capture the local sports fan’s attention in the days leading up to the Kansas University football team’s season opener Aug. 30 at Memorial Stadium against Florida International.
Keegan: Mangino a visionary
Meier, Reesing typical of coach’s genius
By Tom Keegan
July 26, 2008
Two Kansas University football players who happened to be roommates two years ago best capture the Mark Mangino era. One is quarterback Todd Reesing, a perfect example of Mangino’s ability to see a big-time college football player where others saw a high school star too short to have a high ceiling. The other is former quarterback Kerry Meier, who symbolizes the upgrade in athletic ability that Mangino has been able to lure to Kansas. He also symbolizes Mangino’s ability to find a way to put the best athletes on the field.
Keegan: Reesing provides security
By Tom Keegan
July 23, 2008
Knots in the stomach start forming when you sit back and take an objective look at just how much blocking the Kansas University football team lost from last season.
Keegan: Great Santee speaks
By Tom Keegan
July 16, 2008
The great Wes Santee knows greatness when he sees it. Other than during his morning shave, it sounds as if he didn’t see much of it during a recent trip to Eugene, Ore., for the Olympic trials. Santee, who resides in El Dorado, spent a good part of Tuesday in Lawrence and shared his thoughts on the state of distance running in the United States. I asked the Great Santee: Was there any one runner who really impressed you? “In all honesty, no,” Santee said.
Keegan: The best starting five ever
By Tom Keegan
July 13, 2008
Picking an all-time baseball team shaped up as quite a challenge. Selecting an all-time starting five in basketball rates as a far easier task because five dominant players from the game’s rich history blend so well together offensively and defensively. Picking this team is easier than breaking 100 on the golf course.
Keegan: Kansas loads up again
By Tom Keegan
July 9, 2008
The selection of Travis Releford to the USA Basketball U-18 national team underscores just what a blockbuster recruiting year Bill Self and his staff executed. One of 12 players chosen to the team that is a blend of rising high school seniors and incoming college freshmen, Releford has been the stealth recruit of the 2012 class ranked by Rivals.com as second in the nation to UCLA.
Keegan: Fam still selling Kansas
By Tom Keegan
July 7, 2008
Former Kansas University football coach and fan favorite Don Fambrough remembers well the first time the hand of Mike McCoy relieved him of so much stress. “I had a hell of a time recruiting him,” Fambrough said Sunday of the offensive lineman from Hiawatha. “It was snowing and sleeting. I was staying at the Big Chief Motel. There was a gap of six inches between my door and the floor. Room full of snow.”
Keegan: Ranking baseball’s best ever
By Tom Keegan
July 6, 2008
My all-time baseball team features a battery in which the pitcher and catcher have the same last name. To enable more time to guess that name, I’ll count backward, starting with right field, which is the number “9” position on the scorecard.
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.
Keegan: Happy 10th birthday, Eagle Bend
By Tom Keegan
July 2, 2008
If Alvamar Country Club pro Randy Towner’s wit were any drier, it would combust, and all those trees that leave a signature on my golf balls would burn to the ground. What is the origin, Towner was asked, of the Zoysia grass on Alvamar’s fairways? “It’s Korean,” he answered. Pause. “South Korean,” Towner added.
Keegan: Arthur gets shaft in draft
By Tom Keegan
June 27, 2008
Somebody done somebody wrong, and the second somebody is Kansas University forward Darrell Arthur. This became obvious to the world when Arthur was queried on national television about a reported kidney issue that led to him tumbling in the draft. “My health is fine,” Arthur said. “I took another blood test in Washington, and everything came out fine, but I guess those guys never contacted anybody. Everything is cool.”

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