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Tough as nails

Posted Wednesday, May 14, 2008

The importance of the regular season, compared to the postseason, seems to vary within each sport. With football, for instance, it can be argued no other sport places as much importance on the regular season. To even have a shot at a conference title and/or BCS berth, teams typically have a margin of error of one loss. Read more.

Sorrentino: North making strides

Posted Wednesday, May 7, 2008

Comparing the Big 12 North football division to the Big 12 South division a few years ago used to be like comparing the NBA Eastern Conference to the Western Conference. Read more.

Sorrentino Spring Scale

Posted Wednesday, May 7, 2008

Staff writer Eric Sorrentino hands out preseason Big 12 football rankings from best to worst. Read more.

Big 12 South Preview: Locked & loaded

Posted Wednesday, May 7, 2008

When it comes to the Big 12 South, the Red River Rivalry between Oklahoma and Texas typically decides which team will advance to the conference championship game with a chance at a BCS berth. Read more.

Debatable division

Posted Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Kansas and Missouri didn’t do anything to alleviate the tension of the oldest rivalry west of the Mississippi River last fall. The football success of the Jayhawks and Tigers brought into focus a not-so-surprising newsflash on the national radar: These teams don’t like each other. Read more.

Draft day looms

Posted Wednesday, April 23, 2008

It’s been 15 years since the Kansas University football team had a player selected in the first round of the NFL Draft. Read more.

Stay or go?

Posted Wednesday, April 16, 2008

As many as eight Big 12 basketball players could leave the college ranks early for the NBA. Some decisions were no-brainers. Others should use their brains and return to school to further develop their games: Read more.

Sorrentino: Deja vu avoided in Texas

Posted Wednesday, April 9, 2008

With 2:12 left in regulation of Kansas’ 75-68 overtime triumph against Memphis on Monday, similarities to the 2003 national championship against Syracuse were eerily present. Read more.

A defining moment

Posted Wednesday, April 9, 2008

When Mario Chalmers left his spot on the right wing and made his way toward the top of the key in a designed weave to get the junior guard the ball, a crowd of 43,257 at the Alamodome watched the release of the most historic and biggest shot in the history of the Big 12 Conference. Before Monday’s 75-68 KU victory, no Big 12 team ever had won the national title. Read more.

KU carries torch for conference yet again

Posted Wednesday, April 2, 2008

If Kansas were to capture its third national championship this season, it wouldn’t be a stretch to say it would be the most prominent victory in the history of the Big 12 Conference.
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The Big 12 & the Big Dance

Posted Wednesday, April 2, 2008

The following is a look at the seasons in which a Big 12 Conference men’s basketball team has reached the Final Four and how the last weekend of those seasons played out. Read more.

Top teams have Big 12 ties

Posted Wednesday, April 2, 2008

What has four teams, roughly 56 players and is watched by millions of sets of eyes around the globe? The Final Four, of course. And this year, fans of the Big 12 Conference have an overwhelming number of reasons to pay attention.
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Sorrentino: Texas floor general resembles NBA MVP

Posted Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Texas point guard D.J. Augustin is like an artist with the basketball, gracefully competing in a rapidly moving sport with 100 percent control of his maneuvers. Read more.

Taking their best shot

Posted Wednesday, March 26, 2008

The Final Four is a week and a half away, and the Big 12 Conference still has two chances to send a team to college-basketball utopia.
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All eyes on San Antonio

Posted Wednesday, March 19, 2008

It’s one day away from the Big Dance and Big 12 Conference teams are sprinkled across all areas of the bracket in anticipation for the most exciting time in college basketball. Read more.

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