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Mangino and KU football are headed for divorce because only one side worked on its faults
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Mark Mangino and Kansas football was a flawed marriage from the beginning. Each side knew what it was getting into, but accepted the other's faults because the partnership was their best shot at happiness -- for better or worse.The marriage is now ending because too many...
Royals to bring out powder blue hats in 2010
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The Royals announced Thursday that next year's team will wear a new powder blue hat with their powder blue jerseys, which have been worn every home day game since the 2008 season.
How does the Big 12 rate in Basketball?
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Big 12 vs SEC, Ken Johnson of Hoopszone sent me an email and made this comment. “My general take is that all conferences wax and wane from year to year, and if you take a long enough period (say a decade or more), they probably all average out to be about the same. ...
Tigers vs Cyclones
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Missouri FootballPinkel: “The football team is preparing for Iowa State. They are playing very well, and are bowl eligible. Paul Rhoads has done an exceptional job with the football program. They have a dual threat quarterback, probably the best in the league, and...
For Greinke and Royals, the clock is ticking
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Pardon this blog if the relief and pride of seeing Zack Greinke win baseball’s highest pitching honor hasn’t yet faded, but there is a fast-approaching reality that the Royals will have to face. They now have anywhere from 1 1/2 to 2 1/2 years to build a contender...
Henry will be pitching coach for Omaha Royals
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Doug Henry will be the new pitching coach for Class AAA Omaha after spending one season as the Royals’ roving pitching coach. Henry replaces Tom Burgmeier. The rest of the coaching staffs for the Royals’ top four affiliates will return intact, the organization...
Royals firm up minor-league coaching staffs
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Doug Henry will be the new pitching coach for Class AAA Omaha after spending one season as the Royals' roving pitching coach. Henry replaces Tom Burgmeier.
The rest of the coaching staffs for the Royals' top four affiliates will return intact, the organization announced...
Hey, everybody, we landed on the moon! (and we're getting the All-Star game in 2012)
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OK, well, enough of you have e-mailed or Tweeted about this "news" about Kansas City getting the All-Star game in 2012 that we may as well put something up here.Yes, it's true. And we reported it back in July, from the All-Star game in St. Louis:"...commissioner...
Reality check: Greinke's success means the clock is ticking on Dayton Moore and the Royals
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Pardon this blog if the relief and euphoria and pride of seeing Zack Greinke win baseball's highest pitching honor hasn't yet faded, but there is a fast-approaching reality that the Royals will have to face.They now have anywhere from 1 1/2 to 2 1/2 years to build...
Bill Self: Can You Not Hear My Cries?
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Too Close for ComfortThere are two things in the world that I can’t comprehend. The first is how something the size of an atom can be converted into enough explosive power to destroy a city. The second is why Bill Self refuses to press. Actually, make that one thing...
Jayhawks vs Longhorns
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Kansas FootballMangino: “Texas is an outstanding team, an excellent football team. No weaknesses on the offensive side of the ball. They feature a great quarterback in Colt McCoy. He can beat you throwing and he can beat you with his feet. Their defense gives you looks...
Greinke proves he's the best in the league
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Around here, among Royals fans in Kansas City, there’s been a persistent buzz about whether Zack Greinke would win the Cy Young Award as the American League’s best pitcher. Out there, in Zack Greinke’s offseason in Orlando, not so much.
A look at Cy Young winners in or before their age-25 seasons
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Zack Greinke is the ninth pitcher to win his first Cy Young Award in or before his age-25 season since 1985 — when Bret Saberhagen and Dwight Gooden exploded on the national scene. Each of the previous eight enjoyed at least good careers, and at least half of them could...
What they've said about Greinke
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•“He’s just kind of riding that wave. It’s not always going to be that easy as it is right now. But there’s no question he’s as good as there is right now.” | White Sox first baseman Paul Konerko, May 4, after Greinke has a complete...
Greinke gets almost unanimous support for Cy Young
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The headline on the announcement that Zack Greinke was the American League Cy Young winner called the voting a “landslide.” It figures, then, that most of the opinions among voting members of the Baseball Writers Association of America followed. “I voted...
Zack Greinke is rewarded for KC's best pitching season ever
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The one thing you get used to in Kansas City is learning how to appreciate athletes who perform valiantly when there isn’t much at stake. Well, it’s all we have left. The Chiefs have not won a playoff game in 15 years, and the Royals have played 24 straight seasons...
Greinke Makes MLB History
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Stats: The Universal LanguageZack Greinke won the ALCY today in somewhat of a landslide over second place Felix Hernandez. Although I predicted Greinke to win easily (see below), the winning margin was even greater than I expected. What makes it historical? Well, that&rsquo...
Zack Greinke wins American League Cy Young award
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Zack Greinke's sweep of the major awards is complete after being named the American League Cy Young winner by the Baseball Writers Association of America. Greinke won with 25 of 28 first-place votes.
Dear KC: leave your inferiority complex behind, and enjoy the last Greinke Day of 2009
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Happy Greinke Day, last one of the year, and please, on behalf of the voting members of the Baseball Writers Association of America, trust our process.Regular readers here know that I love Kansas City, with the people and the food and the convenience and everything else, but...
Is Mark Mangino on Life Support? By Tim Sweeney
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That's a Hard RainThis is the third reader contribution since we started the policy of including our best readers as part of UFR. If you didn’t have a chance to read the others, Greinke – Jonathan Tucker and Cassel – Jason Lisk… “Mark Mangino...
Butler receives Royals' top honor
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Billy Butler is working. That much he assures you. He is working, seven days a week, with a personal trainer and with yoga and weights and cardio and anything else he can find to get himself into better shape. It worked last offseason, and Butler figures it’ll work again...
Win or lose Cy Young, Greinke wants to play for a winner
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The Royals’ first Cy Young winner has simple advice for the man expected to become the latest. “Whatever his pregame meal is,” Bret Saberhagen says of Zack Greinke, “just keep on eating it.”
Royals reinstate Guillen, Aviles, Waechter from DL
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The Royals reinstated OF Jose Guillen, SS Mike Aviles, and RHP Doug Waechter from the 60-day disabled list on Monday, pushing their big-league roster to 39.
Royals select Billy Butler as player of the year
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Butler, at 23 years old, becomes the youngest winner since George Brett in 1976.
The bigger point of Belichick's 4th down decision
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Good to be back, and big ups to everyone who responded on Twitter about gyms downtown. Gotta love technology.Surely there is a way to mathematically determine the exact level of boneheadedness/brilliance of Bill Belichick's fourth-down decision last night in front of millions...
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