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About Our Editorial Staff

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The editorial staff in the Journal-World sports department works around the clock year-round to be your best source for breaking KU sports news, features and opinions. Here's your chance to get to know the men behind the bylines a little more personally.

Tom Keegan - Journal-World sports editor
Tom Keegan, sports editor/columnist/Spodcaster/panelist for "The Drive" television show for the World Company, has a diverse media background as a baseball writer, author, and sports talk radio host. A 1981 graduate of Marquette University, Keegan has written for the Orange County Register, National Sports Daily, Daily Southtown, Baltimore Sun and New York Post. Keegan also was co-host of an afternoon drive-time radio show on 1050 ESPN Radio in New York.
Keegan, 48, has written three baseball books. During his career, Keegan has interviewed, among others, Hank Aaron, Barry Bonds, Jim Brown, John Hadl, Michael Jordan, Sandy Koufax, Tommy Lasorda, Willie Mays, Liza Minelli, Denny McLain (in prison), Terrell Owens, Cal Ripken, Jim Ryun, Wes Santee, Gale Sayers, Mike Tyson and Dwyane Wade.
Favorite teams: Marquette basketball, Rochester Red Wings.
Favorite sports moment: Kirk Gibson's Game 1 home run in the 1988 World Series.
Favorite sports quote: "I'll always take your calls, but don't ever call me again." -Told that by George Steinbrenner.

Ryan Greene - KUSports.com editor
Ryan has been the editor of KUSports.com since October 2006, coming from The Olathe News, where he covered prep sports. A native of Vernon Hills, Ill., Ryan graduated from Libertyville High School in 2000 and from KU with a journalism degree in December 2004. Ryan, 25, lives in Lawrence, and his hobbies include basketball, golf, tennis, running, fantasy baseball, going to ball games in the summer, football/hoops road trips and scouring the cable listings for Entourage, Scrubs, The Office and Seinfeld.
Favorite teams: Bears, Cubs, Bulls, A's, Blackhawks, University of Michigan anything.
Favorite sports moment: Either John Paxson's three in game six of the 1993 NBA Finals, the Bears winning the 2006 NFC Championship or witnessing the 1997 Michigan-Ohio State game.
Favorite sports quote: "I was rooting for (K-State). I wanted them to beat Texas so that would make us look even better — after they beat Texas and come and get served by us.” -Aqib Talib after last year's 39-20 KU win over K-State.

Gary Bedore - Journal-World KU men's basketball beat writer
Gary has covered KU basketball exclusively since Roy Williams' first year. Before that, he also covered the Royals, Chiefs and Lawrence High when it was the only school in town. He's from Chicago's South Side, as well as the Western suburb of Lisle, and a fan of both Benet Academy and Brother Rice, where he split his high school years before attending KU.
Favorite teams: White Sox, Bulls during Jordan era, Bears, Illinois Institute of Technology basketball, Brother Rice and Benet High football and basketball, Gabe Kaplan (poker), Anna Kournikova (tennis).
Favorite sports moment: White Sox World Series title two seasons ago.
Favorite sports quote: "My mom said I woke up from a dead sleep one time and said, 'I need some hot dogs from Steak and Shake.' I didn't even remember saying that. I was pretty messed up. -Jeff Graves commenting to me about his recovery from a car wreck at KU.

Ryan Wood - Journal-World KU football beat writer
Ryan has covered KU for the Journal-World and KUSports.com since 2004. He currently is the beat writer of the KU football team, and also covers administration and assists with the nonstop men's basketball coverage.
A native of Lee's Summit, Mo., Ryan lives with his wife in Lawrence and enjoys baseball, golf, playing basketball, fantasy sports, reading, going to the lake and watching Seinfeld and Family Guy reruns.
Favorite teams: The Kansas City Royals.
Favorite sports moment: Witnessing my dad finally get a hole-in-one after 30 years of trying. Now it's my turn.
Favorite sports quote: "Ohh the band is out on the field!" -Joe Starkey's legendary call of 'The Play'

Kevin Romary - 6News Sports director
Kevin joined the 6News Sports Team in 1997. Four years later, he became Sports Director. The Mansfield, Texas native and University of Kansas graduate lives in Lawrence. He spends his spare time on the links at Eagle Bend and occasionally plays a few sets of tennis.
Favorite Teams: KU, and all pro teams from Dallas.
Favorite Sports Moment: Making my first hole in one with my dad watching on.
Favorite Sports Quote: “Game, Blouses.”

D.J. Whetter – 6Sports Nightside anchor
D.J. has been the 10 p.m. anchor for 6Sports since August 2005. Before that, he worked part-time at Ch.6 covering news and sports on the weekends, while completing his Journalism and Political Science degrees at the University of Kansas. Born in Stockton, California, D.J. also lived in Ohio and Arizona before moving to Kansas in 1995. He graduated from Blue Valley High School in 2001 and from KU in 2005. D.J. still lives in Lawrence, and his hobbies include golf, swimming and basketball, along with dying a little bit each year the Chicago Cubs fail to win the World Series. He is getting married in April 2008…to a girl.
Favorite teams: Bears, Cubs, Bulls, University of Kansas.
Favorite sports moment: Steve Kerr’s 3-pointer with 5 seconds gives the Bulls Game 6 of the 1997 NBA Finals and their 6th World Championship in the 90’s.
Favorite sports quote: “The mailman doesn’t deliver on Sundays.” – Scottie Pippen to Karl Malone before he took two free throws toward the end of Game 1 of the ’97 Finals. Malone missed both freebies, and Jordan hit the game winning shot at the buzzer.

Bill Mayer - Contributing editor
Joined Journal-World staff in 1950 and has ranged from reporter, sports editor, news editor, managing editor and executive editor and columnist-editorialist before semi-retiring as contributing editor. Native of Kansas City, Kan., World War II Army Air Corps veteran and graduate of Wyandotte High School and Kansas University. Main hobby reading - anything fair or foul that might help provide fodder for J-W editorials and columns.
Favorite teams: Jayhawks, Lions and Firebirds and once the Celtics and Yankees.
Favorite sports moment: Forrest Griffith's last-minute touchdown that gave Kansas a 20-14 football victory over Missouri here in 1947 and sent the Jayhawks to their first bowl game.
Two favorite sports quotes: Boston Celtics' Bill Russell when asked by a young reporter how he thought he might have fared against Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: "You've got that backward, son."