Sports Columns
Mangino facing long odds to stay
Apparently, Mark Mangino has made it successfully to tonight’s game at Texas as the football coach at Kansas. A Kansas sports-information official confirmed that Mangino will be on the sideline. For Mangino, the news represents a small victory. He’s experienced ...
- Meier mature, classy
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. - Art is reminder of life’s pleasures
I was in Chicago with time on my hands and the sweet woman murmured to me — you know how this goes — “Would you like to see the Art Institute?” and I was thinking No No No God No, and I said, “Sure. Fine.” - What if KU stuns Texas?
In theory, Central Arkansas could have defeated No. 1 Kansas on Thursday night in Allen Fieldhouse. The Bears didn’t, losing 94-44, but since they played on the same basketball court under the same rules, a victory was within the realm of possibility. - Drama takes away from game
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?