Plano, Texas — Mark your calendars, iPhones, iPads or technological device of choice for 10 a.m. on Monday and Tuesday, July 25-26, when Big 12 football media days take place at the Westin Galleria in Dallas. I arrived a few days early to visit the family in Plano and take some vacation ...

It's easy to forget how much has happened with the Big 12 Conference in the last year. Just one summer ago, the Big 12 was on the brink of extinction, stuck in the every-school-for-itself realignment mess that altered the landscape of collegiate athletics. Nebraska said adios and joined ...

It doesn't require much of a memory to recall the last seven regular season Big 12 men's basketball champions. Kansas, Kansas, Kansas, Kansas, Kansas, Kansas, Kansas. (Note: Three of those years, KU shared the regular-season title with Oklahoma [2005] and Texas [2006, 2008], but you get ...

Ten observations from another wild weekend in the NCAA Tournament that produced a most improbable Final Four, featuring No. 3 seed Connecticut, No. 4 Kentucky, No. 8 Butler and No. 11 VCU: **1. jra004 leads the KUsports.com [bracket challenge][1] with one weekend left.** It appears no one ...

[My NCAA Tournament bracket][1], like many others on KUsports.com and across the country, is running on fumes after the first weekend of basketball mayhem. A top seed is already done, two schools that call Richmond, Va. home are in the Sweet 16 and four double-digit seeds still have their ...

Because America's workforce slacks off this week in the holy quest to fill out the perfect NCAA Tournament bracket, here are 10 bullet-point observations leading up to the Big Dance. If this blog entry takes you away from work, the Conference Chatter blog apologizes in advance (hey, that ...