Sports Columns

Tom Keegan

Meier mature, classy
November 21, 2009
With all the mud-slinging flying through the eight years of Mark Mangino’s soon-to-end reign as coach of the Kansas University football team hogging the headlines, it ought to come as no surprise that one man standing above the fray is a guy who always has managed to sound a voice of reason and conduct himself with class and maturity.

Chuck Woodling

Firebirds’ 4-year run notable
November 17, 2009
Not many presidents have had as memorable a four-year run as Free State High football.

Bill Mayer

Drama takes away from game
November 19, 2009
Anyone else dream of those times when athletic teams got ready to compete, coaches and players discussed what was shaping up, played games and then talked about what happened, win or lose?

Gary Bedore

Memories from 24 Late Nights
October 16, 2009
Last year at this time, I commented on — OK I bragged about — the fact yours truly is believed to be the only person to have attended all 24 season-opening Late Nights in Allen Fieldhouse.

Ryan Wood

Tracking down team fun, but difficult, task
Google, cell phone indispensible
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

Coaching your son not easy
October 14, 2009
Whoever coined the phrase, “Hitting a baseball is the hardest thing to do in sports,” probably never coached his son.

Nate Reed

Reed: No Beckham, no problem
Star won’t play in Kansas City tonight, but his presence will be felt
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.