THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2012
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THE MORNING BREW Love of KU basketball grows into respect for other sports
TRIVIA OF THE DAY
A: Jim Thorpe won multiple track and field medals in the 1912 Olympics. Afterward he played baseball for the New York Giants, White Sox and Brewers while simultaneously playing football for the Canton Bulldogs, one of the first teams to join the NFL. All the while, he played professional basketball as part of Native American traveling exhibition team.
Q: Who is an athlete famous for playing multiple professional sports?
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W When I came to the University, I expected to love basketball. I expected sore arms from waving
the wheat, ringing ears and a horse throat,
all courtesy of Allen Fieldhouse.
I didn't expect to become a fanatic. I found myself buying tickets and scouring the Internet for last minute, overpriced and disgusting New Orleans hotels. If the Jayhawks were going to the Final Four, so was I.
When we lost to Kentucky, I stood in the Superdome toting my "Withey Mad!" poster, and I found myself selfreeling, partially because we lost but mostly because my time as a super fan was up.
I didn't like not checking the rankings every Monday. I was a fan scorned, and I needed a rebound.
That rebound found me at a sports bar one May night in the form of the NBA Playoffs.
The closest I'd been to watching a pro game was probably "Space Jam" but seeing familiar
former Jayhawks playing for the Oklahoma Thunder and Miami Heat caught my attention.
Chalmerns, Aldrich and Collison were just the pick-up line the NBA needed to keep me wanting more and more basketball. It wasn't the magical relationship I have with our hawks, but it was enough to tide me over until June.
I didn't dare insult seasoned fans by picking a team, but I did place a few bets, furthering my involvement. I'll never get out from under the Memphis Grizzlies' game-seven loss to the Los Angeles Clippers.
My love for men's basketball has also given me a new respect for football. Having never been to a school with a decent program, I never saw the point. But after watching several Kansas games and Detroit Lions games, I can now say I know what it means to "styme"
For the first time, I downloaded an ESPN College Football app, but most surprisingly, I even empathized with Kansas State friends when they lost to Baylor.
With the return of men's basketball, I haven't been as focused on football or the NBA, but KU basketball has taught me to see sports in a way I didn't know how. I still feel as if I'm cheating on the best four months of the year when I watch Sunday football, and
I'm still years away from being any kind of expert or true fan. But because of KU basketball, I understand that sports extend beyond our sacred Naismith Court, and it's OK to do a cheer that's not the "Rock Chalk Chant."
This week in athletics
Edited by Lauren Shelly
Wednesday No events scheduled
Thursday
Track
Bob Timmons Challenge
3 p.m.
Lawrence
Women's Basketball
Arkansas
7 p.m.
Fayetteville, Ark.
Friday No events scheduled
Saturday
Men's Basketball
Colorado
1 p.m.
Lawrence
Sunday
Women's Basketball
Newman
2 p.m.
Lawrence
Monday
No events scheduled
Tuesday No events scheduled
Heisman Trophy finalist Klein deserves recognition, award
ASSOCIATED PRESS
MANHATTAN — Collin Klein is the Heisman Trophy finalist who fits no mold.
He was lightly recruited out of high school and ultimately chose to attend Kansas State, a program that had fallen on hard times. He was turned into a wide receiver, and then went back to being a quarterback, where he sat on the bench and bided his time.
It finally came last year, when he led the Wildcats to the Cotton Bowl, his bruises and bloody elbows and gritty toughness creating something that bordered on a cult
following in the heart of the Flint Hills.
There's more to Klein, too, that stands out of the ordinarv.
The guy plays the piano and the mandolin — how many college kids even know what a mandolin looks like? He's married to the daughter of one of the greatest players in Kansas State history, but when they gather for the holidays, they prefer card games to dwelling on the pressures of big-time football.
"He's a great story, and it's a story that will evolve over time, as we get old," said Kansas State wide receiver Chris Harper. "It's a story about a guy that was humble, one
of the most humble guys you'll ever meet."
Harper certainly knows who would get his vote for college football's most prestigious award, and it wouldn't be Texas A&M quarterback Johnny Manziel or Notre Dame linebacker Manti Teo, though he admits that both of the other Heisman finalists are deserving of everything that's come their way.
It would be the fifth-year senior who led a ragtag group of guys predicted to finish somewhere in the middle of the Big 12 to the second Big 12 title in school history and a berth in the Fiesta Bowl. The kid
from Loveland, Colo., with the nickname "Optimus Klein."
"In my vote, he should get it"
Harper said of the heisman Trophy, which will be awarded Saturday night in New York. "Being a biased guy watching football, the dude — he's done some crazy things. I don't understand how he goes out
"He's a great story, and it's a story that will evolve over time, as we get old."
there and has one bad game and
be's already out of it. I didn't know
it goes off of the last game you play.
I thought it went off the whole season."
Yes, therein lays the biggest knock against Klein.
CHRIS HARPER K-State wide receiver
ingly close. But he responded with a three-interception game in a loss at Baylor, and all those aspirations
Remarkably consistent all season, Klein had driven the Wildcats to the top of the BCS standings with two games left, a berth in the national championship game taintaliz-
were dashed in just one night.
Most people thought Klein's Heisman hopes went with them.
But with Manziel and Teo having already finished their regular seasons, Klein took the field last Saturday night with a captive national audience, needing to lead Kansas State past Texas to win the Big 12 title. He threw for 184 yards and a touchdown and ran for another 103 yards and two scores in a 42-24 romp on senior night.
"Well, I don't know about everybody else, but I don't know anybody who means more to his football team than Collin Klein," said Kansas State coach Snyder.
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