¢ Did Kansas University football fans steal the Mizzou flag from the Chancellor’s Residence at the University of Missouri? The flag turned up missing early Sunday, the Columbia Tribune reports. The paper raises the issue of whether the theft might have been related to Saturday’s KU-MU football game, but police say whether the game had anything to do with it isn’t known._”We don’t have anything to indicate that they’re students or not at this time,” MU police Capt. Brian Weimer said. “We don’t have anything to indicate that it had anything to do with the game or KU.”_¢ Personal mementos of James Naismith, the man who invented basketball and went on to coach it at Kansas University, are being auctioned off in Dallas. The Dallas Morning News provides an update on the auction._”These are the creationary documents for one of the most popular games in the world,” said Chris Ivy, director of sports auctions for Heritage and a sports memorabilia collector. “A lot of the things in the sale are one-of-a-kind items that have never been on the market before. This is really a great opportunity for collectors.”_¢ Lawrence resident James Bush has a letter published in today’s USA Today about children playing tag, which has been a controversial topic in some school districts across the country._Ironically, there is one long-term solution to the issues of an overly litigious society and a lack of health care coverage for the poor: It is recess. Recess has it all – exercise, activity, competition, conflict resolution … the list goes on. How does a society as physically out of shape as ours even think of banning free play on the playground, not to mention funding for physical education?_