KU swim coach recalls competing against Lance Armstrong

Clark Campbell, swim coach at Kansas University, recalls competing against Lance Armstrong during the cyclist’s record-setting appearance in the Tulsa Triathlon in a story in the Tulsa World._ Looking back on the teenager who went on to win the Tour de France seven times, Campbell said, “He was a very confident young man, I’ll put it like that. He was sure of his ability. It’s proved out. You’re either confident or you’re cocky — with his ability, it was confidence.”_¢ Lawrence native Ralph Houk, who played catcher for the New York Yankees and managed the Yankees, Boston Red Sox and Detroit Tigers, is quoted in a Cox News Service story about Bobby Cox preparing to break the Major League Baseball record for ejections of a manager. Houk and Cox are good friends._Many of those breaths featured sizzling words from Houk to umpires. Although Houk isn’t among the all-time elite for ejections as a player and manager, he ranks with the best ever for throwing a fit whenever he thought an umpire had temporary blindness. If nothing else, Houk is the undisputed king of cap-kicking.__”Well, I know I must have kicked more than Bobby, because my knees have gone bad on me,” said Houk, the former World War II major, chuckling over the phone. “If you talk to Bobby, you tell him not to kick too much or else he’ll have the same kind of knees that I’ve got.”_