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THURSDAY NOVEMBER 6, 2008
quote of the dav
"We are in a performance-based profession and have made this decision in the best long-term interest of both the university and its football program. Our goal remains the same: to build a winning program that is positioned to consistently compete for championships. I appreciate the hard work and dedication that Coach Prince and his staff have put in over the last three seasons and wish him the very best for the future."
Obama can bring Olympics to Chicago
Kansas State Athletics Director Rob Krause
fact of the dav
Kansas State football coach Ron Prince, who announced his resignation on Wednesday afternoon, is 16-18 in three years at K-State.
trivia of the day
Q: Where did Kansas State football coach Ron Prince coach before Kansas State?
A: Prince coached as an offensive line coach at Virginia.
They stood in that park by the lake and they roared.
They watched the next president of the United States speak and they couldn't stop cheering. Couldn't stop cheering for the man, couldn't stop cheering for themselves, couldn't stop cheering for the moment. More than anything, they cheered for America.
They stood in that park in Chicago and they cheered the most unlikely political story of our time.
All the while, Chicago watched.
The great American writer, Norman Mailer, once wrote this about Chicago: "Chicago is a great American city. Perhaps it is the last of the great American cities."
There's something lovable about Chicago. The old Windy City on the edge of Lake of Michigan. The city of pizza and Michigan Avenue and Wrigley Field and the Sears Tower. The city of Michael Jordan and Al Capone and Soldier Field and the Blues Brothers.
Sure, Chicago has its flaws. Chicago has its warts. Chicago is real. Chicago is America. Chicago
is us.
Now our future president calls Chicago home - at least until he moves into the White House.
And our future president knows Chicago.
We don't know how he will govern. We don't know how he will deal with Iraq and the energy crisis and our failing economy.
But we know this: We know Mark Twain called Chicago "a city where they are always rubbing a lamp, and fetching up the genii, and contriving and achieving new impossibilities."
We know Tuesday night was a victory for the last great American city.
The Olympic Games might be coming to Chicago. In 2016, the world will find out what we
already know.
As it stands today, Chicago is just one city in the running for the 2016 Olympics. Chicago is competing against Tokyo, Madrid, and Rio de Janeiro.
That should be a mere formality.
The host will be chosen by the International Olympic Committee in Denmark on Oct. 2, 2009.
In 2005, Paris was considered the favorite for the 2012 Olympic Games. But then-British Prime Minister Tony Blair flew to Singapore — the site of the decision — and campaigned for London, and the International Olympic Committee passed over the Eiffel Tower for Buckingham Palace. The Olympics will be in London in four years.
Barack Obama can do the same thing. And he will.
Yes, the Olympics are coming to America.
THURSDAY YOU-TUBE
SESH
Chicago might just be the
great American sports town, too. New York has the Yankees and Madison Square Garden and the Giants and the lets. And Boston is the trendy sports city right now, with the Red Sox and Tom Brady and the Celtics resurgence.
But my friend Aubrey says it's not even close. Chicago wins the crown.
If nothing else, Chicagoans had the pleasure of watching
greatest basketball player of all time win six NBA Championships.
It's hard to believe it's been 10 years since Michael Jordan retired from the Chicago Bulls.
To satisfy your YouTube —
and Michael Jordan — fix, go to
YouTube and type "Michael Jordan Top 10 Plays" into the search. Enioy.
Edited by Brenna Hawley
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BIG 12 FOOTBALL
Prince resigns before 2009 season
BY JOHN MARSHALL ASSOCIATED PRESS
Kansas State coach Ron Prince watches the final moments of the football game against Missouri in Manhattan on Nov. 17, 2007. Prince will not return for the 2009 season, stepping aside after failing to rebuild the Wildcats into a Bio 12 contender.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Kansas State coach Ron Prince will not return for the 2009 season, stepping aside after failing to rebuild the Wildcats into a Big 12 contender.
Prince took over for Bill Snyder in 2006, his first head-coaching job after 14 years at six different schools. He never lived up to the standard Snyder set, going 16-18 in $2\frac{1}{2}$ seasons in Manhattan, including 4-5 this year.
"We are in a performance-based profession and have made this decision in the best long-term interest of both the university and its football program," Kansas State athletic director Bob Krause said Wednesday. "Our goal remains the same: to build a winning program that is positioned to consistently compete for championships."
Snyder was a consistent winner in 17 years as coach, turning a team that won one game from 1987-89 to one that won at least 10 games seven times, reached bowl games in 12 straight seasons from 1992-2003.
He retired after a 5-6 season in 2006, handing the program off to Prince, Virginia's offensive coordinator the previous three years. Prince never really got the Wildcats going in the right direction.
Kansas State was 7-6 and went to a bowl game in his first season, but has regressed since, going 5-7 last season, losing four of five Big 12 games this year.
nator the previous three years..
The Wildcats have lost three straight head into Saturday's game against Missouri, including a 56-21 setback to Kansas last weekend that dropped Prince to 0-3 against Kansas State's in state rival
Prince's teams never had trouble generating offense, with a wide-open offense and strong-arm quarterback Josh Freeman piling up yards and points.
Defense has been a problem, though.
Kansas State had one of the nation's worst defenses last season, allowing 30.8 points and 400.6 yards per game. The Wildcats have been even worse this year, ranking 107th in scoring defense at 33.7 points per game, 108th in total defense at 444.6 yards per game.
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