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Saturday, September 04, 2010
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Published here are K-State Sports columns.

Opinion columns are written by our Sports Editor Joshua Kinder, Sports Writer Joel Jellison and contributing writers who share their thoughts about various K-State Sports.

Columns reflect the opinion of the writer and contributing writers.

Feel free to respond to the columns online here as part of a discussion at the end of the article itself.

Headlines
Six wins would be OK. Seven would be nice. But eight should be the precedent for Kansas State in 2010.
Published 9/2/2010
Last week, I took numerous trips to the Riley County Courthouse, repeatedly checking the file in regards to the case "Kansas State University, and K-State Athletics v. Ronald D. Prince, and IPP, L.L.C."
Published 7/26/2010
Three weeks prior to the 2008 football season, I sat in Bob Krause's office in Anderson Hall conducting an interview with the then-Kansas State athletic director. The primary topic of discussion: Giving football coach Ron Prince a contract extension.
Published 7/18/2010
Dominique Sutton, a member of Frank Martin's first recruiting class in 2007 — a nine-member class that was rated by several recruiting outlets as the best in the nation — has transferred from Kansas State to move closer to his original home in North Carolina.
Published 7/4/2010
After umpire James Joyce blew the call to ruin Armando Galarraga's perfect game two weeks ago, he immediately apologized. Later, the two shared a hug, and most of us have forgiven Joyce for his unfortunate error.
Published 6/20/2010
So this was it? Thousands of stories were written and anonymous sources were quoted frequently. The Big 12 Conference was said to be dead, then barely breathing on life support and then dead again.
Published 6/15/2010
After Monday's events I'm convinced that nice guys don't always finish last.
Published 6/15/2010
Over the next 48 hours, Dan Beebe could go from the Big 12 Conference's scapegoat to its hero.
Published 6/14/2010
As the future of the Big 12 Conference continues to hang in the balance, keeping up with the story has become increasingly difficult in what has seemed like a change-by-the-minute phenomenon, thanks to Twitter.
Published 6/14/2010
Sixty years ago, the United States soccer team defeated England in the World Cup in arguably the team's biggest upset ever.
Published 6/11/2010
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