The drive to Burlingame on Friday was similar to our previous trips back home. As you head into town from the east and the hustle and bustle of Kansas City into the sleepy confines of Small Town, America, the view rarely changes. Past the city limits, just north of Highway 56, are the remnants of […]
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Something drew me to Dover, Kansas. On a frigid day in 1996, I jumped into my car and drove west from Burlingame, traveling through Harveyville on my way to tiny Dover, located about 10 miles southwest of Topeka. In a conversation a few days before, Brenda Michelle Keller’s name was mentioned. It was a name most of
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1. kansas (24-5, 14-2) | LAST WEEK: Defeated Texas A&M, Missouri | THIS WEEK: Monday at Oklahoma State, Saturday vs. Texas THE RUB: Eight straight titles. Don’t see that ending until the Big 12-2-1-1+1+1 folds in three years. 2. MISSOURI (25-4, 12-4) | LAST WEEK: Lost to Kansas State, kansas | THIS WEEK: Wednesday vs. Iowa
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“It’s who you are.” Those words have been running through my head this week. They are Shana’s words, said after Missouri’s loss to Kansas State and my surly mood for a day. Truer words have never been spoken. For more than 20 years now, I’ve been a Tiger living around the enemy. Days without trash talk
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During Wednesday night’s Missouri-Iowa State game, the girlfriend and I were talking about her sister (a kansas basketball, but not football, of course, fan) talking trash via text message about the Tigers’ humbling loss to kansas State over the weekend. I stopped mid-sentence, realizing at that moment that the days of talking smack with kansas
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Mike Leach to Kansas. Everybody outside of Lawrence knew that was a pipedream. Almost as ridiculous as that Jim Harbaugh-to-Kansas storyline from 2009, when the Jayhawks ran the only decent football coach in school history out of town. Other big names are being thrown out there, none more preposterous than Notre Dame’s Brian Kelly. I’m
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How could I not write about whining, crying, big baby Texas A&M bailing on the Big 12? As the season starts, a look at how each team feels about the Aggies folding up tent (and week one predictions): OKLAHOMA: Like pretty much everybody, Texas A&M has done virtually nothing against the Sooners the past decade.
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What did we learn in 2010-11? That the Big 12 is Kansas’ league until somebody actually dethrones them. That’s seven straight conference titles for the Jayhawks. This week’s rankings include a look back at my preseason predictions (http://tinyurl.com/2ccn3ay) and are brought to you by Vatican assassin warlock Charlie Sheen. 1. KANSAS (29-2, 14-2): A lot
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We’re down to the final week with virtually every seed, with the exception of Iowa State as the No. 12, still up for grabs. This week’s rankings are brought to you by the “Rocky” series. 1. TEXAS (24-5, 12-2, +5): Are we in the midst of another late-season swoon by the Longhorns? With K-State tonight and Baylor on Saturday,
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Six, well 6½ now, weeks into the season and it looks like we have a clear-cut top five in the Big 12. After frustrating their fans for weeks, Missouri and Kansas State have gone on runs to lock up bids to the NCAA Tournament. 1. TEXAS (24-4, 12-1, +5): What was that, Texas? Fortunately for
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