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Harrison Hill doesn't think a lot about the youth baseball team he played on, the Blasters, that won a national championship in 1991. He doesn't have to. For Hill and many of his Blasters teammates, the success they enjoyed beyond their adolescent years far outweighs an achievement as youth athletes.
Playing football was a violent way to make your way in the world. Lawrence Pete understood that from a very young age.
Somewhere in Atlanta, a lifelong hockey fan is crushed.
Let's make it clear, Dennis Delmott remembers very little of winning the first River Run in 1977.
Steve Clark has never stepped foot inside Kansas.
Every once in a while, we Wichita sports fans have mini-referendums on ourselves.
On Selection Sunday, one of the high holy days on the sports calendar, let me offer a blasphemous suggestion:
It appears that NFL owners and players are digging their heels deeper into the dirt, preparing for a labor battle that could last months. I'm still holding out hope that they will come to a resolution before August.
Thanks to rapper Wiz Khalifa, we have the Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 song "Black and Yellow" and more importantly, we have a seemingly unstoppable proliferation of remixes of said song.
Most of us mellow as we get older, so my "fingernails on a chalkboard" list has narrowed over the years:
The Super Bowl is more than a football game. It's the most-watched television show of the year, and that doesn't happen solely because it's the last NFL game of the season.
When Herschel Walker comes up with a wild idea, there's a good chance he's serious about it... no matter how unlikely the idea might seem to others.
Lost," "The Sopranos," "The Office," "24," "Entourage," "Boardwalk Empire," "The League," "Sons of Anarchy," "The Shield," "Prison Break," "How I Met Your Mother," "Arrested Development," "Supernatural," "The Wire," "The OC," "Chappelle's Show," "True Blood," "Chuck," "Fringe," "Dexter," "Freaks and Geeks," "Rome," "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia."
The Kansas City Royals don't love us anymore.
How're you holding up, Chiefs fans? This playoff thing feel a little strange to you? Understandable. It's been a while... and a lot longer since the final score was satisfying.
Kansas State fans, I'm sorry for your Pinstripe Bowl loss.
Kansas State basketball players Jacob Pullen and Curtis Kelly are serving suspensions for receiving impermissible benefits on the purchase of clothing at a Manhattan department store.
ESPN hit a home run with its "30 for 30" series 30 sports documentaries to commemorate 30 years as a network.
I don't often talk to my computer, but the words of Bowl Championship Series executive director Bill Hancock in a USA Today op-ed piece last week had me mumbling.
Stuck in a post-Thanksgiving malaise? Catch one of the 37 illnesses floating around Kansas? Already so overwhelmed by the coming holidays that you haven't had a spare minute for sports?
Congratulations, big boys, you're almost there.
It's time to play the "What If" game. It's every boxing fan's ultimate fantasy league: We transport fighters at the peak of their careers through time and space to match them up in megabouts almost too big to dream up.
Sometimes, athletes leave Wichita and we lose track of them.
The photo above is how I remember Bruce Bochy 18 years ago. Leaning on the batting cage at Lawrence-Dumont Stadium on a hot summer day, running his hand over day-old whiskers and not speaking unless spoken to.
I'm losing my stomach for the NFL. It wasn't a single event that turned the tide for me; it's been building for some time. The game's violence bothers me more than it used to.
If you're a football fan and I'll go out on a very short limb and say you are it's been a strange week.
To Wichitans younger than 40, from a 43-year-old graduate of Wichita State University and sports editor of a newspaper that knows the importance of WSU athletics in this community:
Even today, it's not easy being a Chiefs fan.
Roughly 15 years into the Internet's reign as the general public's medium of choice, I have determined its greatest contribution to our lives.
Has there ever been a more unappealing Heisman Trophy winner than Reggie Bush?
I'm picturing a mix of "Around the Horn" and "Pardon the Interruption" with a dash of "Sports Reporters." The good parts of all those, of course. No Woody Paige, no Mike Lupica.
Have you watched a Royals game recently and become nostalgic about the final days of the Wichita Wranglers?
Watching the buildup to this year's Pro Football Hall of Fame induction ceremony, the attention centered, understandably, on Jerry Rice and Emmitt Smith.
I'll let you in on a little secret: There's somewhere Bryce Brown can get a scholarship this season even without his release from Tennessee, and it's somewhere that produces NFL running backs on an almost-yearly basis.
A few years ago, someone from the Wichita State athletic department invited me to speak to a group of freshman athletes about the relationship between sportswriters and the people we interview.
We're more than halfway through the baseball season. It's been a good season — a bunch of tight pennant races are developing, starting pitching has been tremendous, and I didn't watch the Home Run Derby.