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By JASON WHITLOCK

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Well, it didn’t take president-elect Barack Obama long to disappoint me and remind me why I place little faith in politicians.

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Billy Packer and Dick Vitale gave college basketball its voice

By JOE POSNANSKI

The Kansas City Star

College basketball has a different energy from the other sports on television. It doesn’t stop and start like football or move leisurely through the evening like baseball or gradually build up to the big moments like soccer. It isn’t violent chaos coming at you in shifts like hockey. It isn’t tactical like golf or savage like boxing or a geometry lesson like tennis. College basketball is not even like professional basketball, which is, you know, professional, with all...

Blair Kerkhoff

Oklahoma victory adds to BCS confusion

NORMAN, Okla. | Oklahoma made it look ridiculously easy, walloping Texas Tech 65-21 on Saturday. Now comes the hard part, separating three Big 12 teams with similar credentials. Nothing less than the programs’ postseason fate is at stake.

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Starters & Benchwarmers | Week 12

By LADD BIRO

Special to The Star

You don’t need me advising you to start Drew Brees and Frank Gore, or to steer clear of JaMarcus Russell and Ashley Lelie. So I’ll spare you the obvious recommendations, focusing instead on the players typically on the bubble of most fantasy rosters.

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Dealing with crunch time

By HERBIE TEOPE

Special to The Star

We’re officially in crunch time, a mere 2-3 weeks away from that most glorious time of the season. That’s right, ladies and gentlemen: The playoffs are rapidly approaching.

Candace Buckner

Momentum leaves Kearney crushed as it falls to Webb City

Momentum sure can be a tricky thing. Teams try to hold on to it and never let go because momentum can change sides like a fair-weather fan. Through the opening 23 minutes and 40 seconds of the Saturday afternoon Missouri Class 4 semifinal game at Kearney, momentum wore purple and gold, whispering sweet words like “Edward Jones Dome” in the Bulldogs’ ears.

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