It has been more than 12 years since Steve Eck finished his 10-year run as boys basketball coach at South High. Garrius Hollomon, Jawanza Poland, Cortez Barnes, Adonis Gantt, Lance Russell and Kelton Marshall were in kindergarten then.
How do you think Conor Gillaspie and Andy Dirks stack up historically among Wichita State 1-2 punches?... Paul Pierce has been in danger of being one of those very good NBA players who never really accomplished much outside of personal stats.
Eric Sexton has been on the job as Wichita State athletic director for just more than three weeks. Do we really want to bombard him with the football question already?
Tyler Grimes hit a home run in his first at-bat against East High earlier this season, but in his following three trips to the plate he swung at first pitches and flew out each time.
If Bill Snyder was the mastermind behind the 20th century's most amazing college football transformation at Kansas State, then the man who hired Snyder deserves some really nice description of his mind, too.
For the love of basketball, and the hope that someone's eyes will set upon them, Paul Miller, Jamar Howard and Rob Kampman continue to pursue their hoops dreams.
Who knows what we'll be saying about the Wichita Wingnuts in a month or two. If they don't figure out their cashless system for buying concessions and souvenirs, they might be run out of town by June.
I have great news for the beleaguered Wichita State baseball fans who probably never want to see the Shockers play another mid-week game.
The old ballpark shows her age with every passing winter. It sits in a pristine spot, west of the Arkansas River, with a spectacular view of Wichita's changing downtown. It is a treasure in this community, which is why we can never, ever ignore her.
Played my first round of golf of the season Sunday. It showed: What I like about horse racing is the time between when the gates open and the horses spill out until the time when one horse crosses the finish line ahead of the others.
In 1963, Bob Long caught nine touchdown passes for the University of Wichita, a record that may not be broken. Especially if the Shockers don't bring back football.
The Gene Stephenson situation is in the hands of lawyers and judges. It will take time to determine whether the accusations of a woman who said Wichita State's hugely successful baseball coach stalked her in 2007 are valid.
With the 253rd pick of the NFL Draft, the... what, it's over? I think the Chiefs got it right with their draft. Of course, how could they possibly have gotten it wrong with all of their picks -- including two in the first round?
There was a tendency to look right over Herb Hess. He was, after all, just an inch or two over 5 feet tall, and he didn't bring attention to himself by being loud, either.
This is an exciting day for the Chiefs, who are probably not going to have many of them the rest of this year. This one, though, is going to be great. At least it better be.
By the time it happened, there had been a one-hour rain delay; Eck Stadium, which earlier held 2,400 people, was nearly empty. That defies the legend of the event 23 years later. At least 2,400 fans, times 20, will tell you they were witnesses on that late-April evening to one of the most prodigious home runs ever hit.
Sheryl Crow is in town and my heart is aflutter: There's a pond that needs to be re-stocked. Casey Blake, who finished his Wichita State playing career in 1996, is the only former Shocker position player on a big league roster. And Blake, the Cleveland Indians' third baseman, is the last WSU non-pitcher to make an impact in the bigs -- former second baseman Kevin Hooper did get a cup of coffee with the Detroit Tigers, playing in 14 games in 2005 and 2006 and Koyie Hill spent some time with the Arizona...
Memo to Sherron Collins: Stay put. Don't even think about leaving Kansas for the NBA. We're going to be busy enough around here when the NBA Draft is held June 26 and we don't need one more guy to worry about.
You know how Mario Chalmers would barely acknowledge that his shot -- The Shot -- was anything more than ho-hum. Never mind that it sent Kansas' national championship game against Memphis into overtime, during which the Jayhawks ran away and hid in winning their third title. Never mind that it was, as far as any can remember, the biggest shot in KU basketball history.
I would imagine that Bill Self announcing he was going to Oklahoma State to coach basketball three days after leading Kansas to a national championship would have been just a little bit of a downer for KU fans.
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