Before last season, Bob Stoops proclaimed that it was about time for the Sooners to win another national championship. When it was all done, the Sooners didn’t even wind up with bragging rights in their own state.
College football coaches have the sport picking up where it left off last season, with a pair of SEC West teams atop the 2012 USA Today/coaches preseason poll.
Joseph Randle sounds nothing like a running back who found the end zone 26 times last season.
KU coach Charlie Weis has plenty of respect for K-State coach Bill Snyder, head coach of his program’s biggest conference rival. But he also has a Snyder story that gives credence to Snyder’s legendary focus and hatred for the tiniest of distractions.
When Blaize Foltz was a freshman at TCU, he would sometimes wander off campus and journey into the nearby neighborhoods of Fort Worth. Foltz was just a first-year football player from Rose Hill, a redshirt offensive lineman who had gone unrecruited by Kansas and Kansas State.
By Oklahoma standards, 2011 was an off year. The Sooners tied for third in the Big 12, got crushed by Bedlam rival Oklahoma State in the regular-season finale and settled for a postseason trip to the Insight Bowl.
One of the most interesting questions Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops will have to answer this season is how to use quarterback Blake Bell.
Coaches, start your speed dial.
The Big 12 annual meetings in Kansas City conclude today with little drama expected, except perhaps future championship sites.
Chuck Neinas says a vacation is in his near future. Nobody in college sports will be more deserving of some down time.
Narrowing the focus of college football’s postseason future will be a priority as annual meetings begin this week in the Big 12, which meets in Kansas City, and Southeastern Conference in Destin, Fla.
Kansas State jumped on Oklahoma State for three first-inning runs and eliminated the Cowboys from the Big 12 baseball tournament Thursday with an 11-5 win in Oklahoma City. Later in the day, Kansas ousted third seed Texas 4-2.
Kansas State and Kansas both lost their opening games Wednesday at the Big 12 baseball tournament.
Two of college football’s heavyweight conferences will soon be hooking up on an annual basis. The Big 12 and Southeastern Conferences on Friday announced a five-year agreement that will match the champions from each league in an annual postseason bowl game beginning after the 2014 season.
When Ryann Krais began competition in the heptathlon Friday at the Big 12 Track and Field championships she wasn’t just thinking big, she was thinking huge.
Florida State’s status in the Atlantic Coast Conference was safe and secure on Friday and anything but on Saturday based on separate interviews with Seminoles powerbrokers.
It was hard to miss Sam Humphreys during the first day of the outdoor Big 12 Track and Field championships on Friday.
Erik Kynard has jumped over a bar hanging more than 7 feet, 7 inches high, competed in the Olympic trials and won an NCAA championship, but he is only now becoming a popular athlete at Kansas State.
Iowa football coach Kirk Ferentz remembered being surprised when his athletic director, Bob Bowlsby, left for Stanford.
A teary-eyed Bob Bowlsby walked out of a Stanford auditorium to a roaring ovation from coaches and staff members Thursday, leaving behind one of the nation’s top athletics program for a conference in desperate need of a strong leader..
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