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Former player Howard Engleman truly was KU basketball great
By Bill Mayer
January 14, 2011
No Kansas University student athlete ever met Phog Allen’s ultimate standard for excellence better than Howard Engleman, the multi-faceted former basketball All-American who died Wednesday at age 91.
Kansas multis plentiful
By Bill Mayer
April 16, 2010
But even if the scholarly Conner Teahan somehow should become the No. 1 quarterback, then earn a starting spot on next season’s KU basketball team, he’d still be far in arrears of numerous earlier Jayhawk multi-sportsters.
Tables, railings, KU in ’11
By Bill Mayer
April 9, 2010
Two technical aspects of college basketball keep bugging me as speculation broadens about next season and how Kansas fits into the 2011 Big 12 picture.
Underdog Butler a great story
By Bill Mayer
April 2, 2010
Butler’s emergence as 2010 NCAA basketball champion would be one of the greatest underdog stories in college history, maybe sports in general. Go Bulldogs!
Hey KSU: Embrace history
By Bill Mayer
March 26, 2010
Kansas University basketball fans increasingly have embraced the school’s brilliant history. By now some are even conversant with the marvelous records and players of the 1930s before there was an NCAA Tournament to stir the pot and create bracket mania.
KU must revisit Temple
By Bill Mayer
March 17, 2010
As the Kansas University basketball team begins stalking another NCAA title, it needs to copycat this: Jan. 2, 2010, Philadelphia — Kansas 84, Temple 52.
No asterisks of infamy for Jayhawks
By Bill Mayer
March 11, 2010
In all the glitter, glamour and eulogizing during college basketball tournaments and NCAA March Madness, some of the seamier aspects of competing teams in the Big Show get swept under the rug. All you have to do is scan the footnotes of the brackets since 1961 to realize the rather rampant truancy in the system.
Don’t bet against Kansas
By Bill Mayer
March 5, 2010
Talk about assets — this Kansas basketball team is loaded with them as it begins a realistic quest for another NCAA title.
College athletics shaken up
By Bill Mayer
February 26, 2010
While no massive temblors have been reported, ominous financial rumblings are creating cracks in the walls and shaking dishes off the shelves in college athletics these days. We’ll see a lot more wavy-gravy as struggling sports treasuries are further depleted.
Olympians celebrities, not heroes
By Bill Mayer
February 19, 2010
You watch the endless interviews with Winter Olympics personalities and are apprised about their dedication, courage, injury problems and the enormous amount of hard work it took to get them to Vancouver. Then there’s always the reference to the great pressure under which they find themselves, particularly if they are from a developed country that demands that they succeed.

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