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Dream Season Worth the Pain for Kansas State's Grant Gregory

Usually Manhattan, Kan., isn't the most obvious place where dreams come true. For Grant Gregory it proved the perfect location. Since 2004, Gregory had waited for an opportunity to be a starting college quarterback and contribute -- to really contribute -- in a game.After spending 2004 at Indiana, Gregory transferred to...

Leach Weighs in on Mangino Flap

Leave it to Texas Tech coach Mike Leach to come up with a brutal assessment of the issues surrounding Kansas coach Mark Mangino and the allegations last week he has been both physically and mentally abusing his players. Kansas athletic director Lew Perkins has launched an investigation into Mangino's actions after one of...

Big 12 North Gets Nostalgic

The Big 12 North remains a ways from returning to the prominence it enjoyed when the conference first formed in the late 1990s, but if Saturday's matchup between Kansas State and Nebraska for the division title is any indication then better days are certainly on the horizon. After years of struggles by the Kansas State...

Once Again, Bill Snyder Resurrecting Kansas State

Somewhere in the privacy of his own home, 70-year-old Kansas State coach Bill Snyder is enjoying this and laughing at those who quietly thought the energy was gone to resurrect the Wildcats. But as we've suspected for years, the private Snyder is different from the public guy. So it should be no surprise Snyder seems...

Big 12 Notebook: '05 Still Alive in Texas

The comparisons between the Texas Longhorns 2005 team and this season's team are inevitable. At this point in the 2005 season, the Vince Young-led Longhorns looked pretty invincible. After a tough early season game against Ohio State , they romped over opponents with relative ease on the way to the BCS national title....

BillSnyder News From the Web

05/23/12 Q&A: Tom Cervone, new executive director for the... Source: Metro Pulse - Knoxville TN Starting June 1 as the executive director for the Tennessee Theatre, Tom Cervone is retiring as managing director for the Clarence Brown Theatre.
05/21/12 Kentucky second state to add state bass fishing... Source: USA Today Following the lead of the Illinois High School Association (IHSA), Kentucky will become the second state to sponsor a high school bass fishing state championship, beginning next April.
05/19/12 Kentucky to sponsor bass fishing state championship Source: Cincinnati.com - Cincinnati OH Matt Luken didnt base his college decision entirely on the fact that Murray State University had a bass fishing club.
05/19/12 Kansas State University football coach Bill Snyder... Source: The Abilene Reflector-Chronicle - Abilene KS Kansas State University's first football win was a 24-0 victory over a team from Abilene on Nov. 3, 1894, according to one web page.
05/18/12 Covington Catholic students volunteer for annual... Source: Cincinnati.com - Cincinnati OH In recent years, community service coordinator Bill Snyder has focused much of the service program on Northern Kentucky residents with physical and mental disabilities, primarily through collaboration with the Special Olympics and "The Point/ARC of Northern Ky." Most recently, 37 Covington Catholic students volunteered to support the "Special Olympics Track and Field Day." For many years CCH students have volunteered for Special Olympics skiing and helped with Special Olympic track and field day, golf and fishing events.