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Tom Keegan, sports editor/columnist/Spodcaster/panelist for “The Drive” television show for the World Company, has a diverse media background as a baseball writer, author, and sports talk radio host.

A 1981 graduate of Marquette University, Keegan has written for the Orange County Register, National Sports Daily, Daily Southtown, Baltimore Sun and New York Post. Keegan also was co-host of an afternoon drive-time radio show on 1050 ESPN Radio in New York.

Keegan, 49, has written three baseball books: He co-authored “Sleeper Cars and Flannel Uniforms,” the autobiography of late K-State great Elden Auker; authored “Ernie Harwell: My 60 Years in Baseball,” an authorized biography of the Detroit Tigers Hall of Fame broadcaster; authored “The First Baseman,” a look at the nuances of the position through interviews with several major league first basemen, past and present. During his career, Keegan has interviewed, among others, Hank Aaron, Barry Bonds, Jim Brown, John Hadl, Michael Jordan, Sandy Koufax, Tommy Lasorda, Willie Mays, Liza Minelli, Denny McLain (in prison), Terrell Owens, Cal Ripken, Jim Ryun, Wes Santee, Gale Sayers, Mike Tyson and Dwyane Wade. Keegan was named Marquette University 2005 Communicator of the Year at the Alumni Association Awards. He earned a second-place finish in the Associated Press Sports Editors contest, breaking news category, in 2006.

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Keegan: Don’t freak out yet
By Tom Keegan
September 8, 2008
Two games into the season, the Kansas University football defense has allowed three points, the receiving unit looks as if it could become known as the best in school history, the punt-return team has transformed from a horror show into a highlight show, and the Jayhawks are ranked 13th in the nation by the Associated Press. Sometimes it pays to pause and soak in all that before returning to freaking out about the state of the running game.
Keegan: Stuckey simply gets it
By Tom Keegan
September 7, 2008
Put a knucklehead in a fishbowl, and he’s bound to expose himself sooner or later. Bang, there goes his reputation, up in smoke. He says he didn’t do it. Some even believe him. Others never again will trust him. It happens to athletes all the time.
Keegan: Big Mike deserves honor
By Tom Keegan
September 6, 2008
Finally, Kansas University lineman Mike McCormack’s name goes up on the Ring of Honor at halftime of tonight’s football game against Louisiana Tech. McCormack doesn’t have the name recognition of a Gale Sayers or a John Riggins, a John Hadl or even a Bobby Douglass. Sayers ran the football with such speed and grace that he still jumps out of your television when his Chicago Bears highlights are shown.
Hard-hitting victory
LHS maintains composure, squeaks by SM North, 10-3
By Tom Keegan
11:31 p.m., September 5, 2008 Updated 12:53 a.m.
Clifton Sims' one-yard touchdown run with 3:04 left in the fourth quarter broke a tie and helped Lawrence High defeat Shawnee Mission North, 10-3, on Friday night in Overland Park.
Offensive line will be key for Lawrence
By Tom Keegan
September 5, 2008
Most who make the trip to Shawnee Mission North District Stadium to watch Lawrence High play its football season opener against Shawnee Mission North today at 7 p.m. will watch the football. They’ll watch Clifton Sims tuck it under his arm and keep his legs churning until the Indians can bunch enough tacklers to bring him down.
Keegan: Bowlers back in house
By Tom Keegan
September 3, 2008
Generally, you find what you’re looking for in life. Wayne Martin, who runs Royal Crest Lanes and the adjacent bar and restaurant with Larry Burton, Lawrence’s best lefty bowler, could find the sunny side of life if he lived in a cave with no exit. When the city enacted a smoking ban, Martin could have turned the Mojave Desert into an ocean of tears. He didn’t.
Keegan: Defense rock-solid in debut
By Tom Keegan
September 1, 2008
Consider all the issues raised in Kansas University’s sometimes-sloppy 40-10 season-opening victory against Florida International, and then note what they have in common. Based on the unproductive run game and the heat put on quarterback Todd Reesing by FIU’s blitzing defense, the readiness of the inexperienced offensive line remains a concern. Red-shirt freshman Jeremiah Hatch, who had earned the starting right tackle spot, did not play.
Keegan: Texas twosome awesome
By Tom Keegan
August 31, 2008
It’s tough to say whether the Kansas University football team has the muscle up front to get the better of the behemoths from Oklahoma and Texas, but nobody can question the Jayhawks have the skill players to hang with anybody, any night in any stadium. Never mind that Florida International was the competition in Saturday night’s season-opener witnessed by a Memorial Stadium-record 52,112 fans.
Keegan: Still no respect for KU
By Tom Keegan
August 30, 2008
The best measure of the respect level a nation of college football fans has for any given school can be found in Las Vegas, where oddsmakers offer action on all sorts of propositions. Only one conclusion can be reached based on a number offered in one revealing proposition and that is that America still doesn’t respect Kansas University football. America still thinks Kansas is a basketball school coming off a fluke of a 12-1 football season.
Keegan: Facility upgrades needed
By Tom Keegan
August 27, 2008
I live near Free State High, which depending on for which high school a parent’s son or daughter competes either means I favor the Firebirds or I bend over backward not to favor them and therefore favor Lawrence High. Anyway, during the summer, regardless of how the day went at work (usually fine) or on the golf course (usually down-right awful), the sight of lights at Free State on my way home always had a pick-me-up effect.

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