“The MU Star”

I heard not one but three KU fans refer to today’s edition of The Kansas City Star as “The MU Star.” Hopefully they were joking.

But anyway, The Star has a great story on William Moore, the unsung hero of our team from last season and possible All American this year. They also had a great story on Pinkel and the expectations the Tigers enter the 2008 season with.

We have to be covered KU fans. There is a good chance MU will contend for its first national title ever and that is very newsworthy. They are the defending Big XII North champs and won the Cotton Bowl convincingly. Mangino will not receive his three-page spread (and that is just for the photo of him) until tomorrow, since he spoke today instead of yesterday when Pinkel did. But there will be a good package of stories, I am sure.

But for one good edition that is singled out on MU, for KU fans to accuse them of bias is completely laughable.

We Tiger fans have poked fun at the Kansas City press for a number of reasons:

• The fact that no one bothered to report that KU was actually on probation during their Orange Bowl and national title run. Meanwhile, sports talk and “The MU Star” inspected Quin Snyder’s program. Now – I have no problem with that. That is what media does We are supposed to find the story no one knows about. However, they need to do it in Lawrence and even Manhattan. A great example: there was very little news reporting done on Darrell Arthur’s situation other than the initial report on the Dallas news piece.

• Other than Kevin Keitzman of 810 WHB, no one bothered to look at the Perkins ticket scandals with the Orange Bowl. There was a deal folks. What other reason did they pick KU over MU?

• Even though pretty much the entire Kansas City press is located in Missouri, they focus on KU a lot more. Greatest example – KCTV 5 showed the KU game twice after it originally aired, including one month after they won the title. For you KU fans who are seriously upset with The Star today, imagine how we MU and KSU fans feel 365-52-24-7 when the press covers everything KU to death.

I am not denying Kansas is not important – obviously they are. But even though George Brett of all people called KC a “KU town” last year during a basketball game, it is not. There are plenty of proud Tiger fans and Wildcat fans here.

Get over it, Jayhawk fans.