♦ Stay true to Midwest roots, Ol' Mizzou (Columbia Tribune)
I first attended a football game in 1948 when Mizzou upset Southern Methodist University and Doak Walker. Ageless John Kadlec was a Tiger lineman — one of the greatest to wear the black and gold.
I recall wooing a pretty Kansas City girl in the early 1950s by taking her to the Big 6 preseason basketball tournament in Municipal Auditorium.
She wasn’t a basketball fan, but I was. One love affair ended, and another was born — hating the Jayhawks.
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I treasure my friendship with baseball Coach John “Hi” Simmons and his successor, Gene McArtor, and have no shame in admitting I helped MU find players that made MU better.
I hated to see the Big 12 come into being. We were fine as the Big Eight. We didn’t need the state of Texas; the state of Texas needed the Big 8.
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Read the rest at http://www.columbiatribune.com/news/2011/oct/17/stay-true-to-midwest-roots-ol-mizzou/
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