News flash: Life is more fun when your football team is 7-0.With no glaring problems on KU’s football squad, no major injuries to track and no chance of this season being a huge failure (hey, they’re bowl-bound already), the Tuesday press conferences have been tension-free and pretty much fun.For example, KU running back Jake Sharp was asked about the explosive playmaking of quarterback Todd Reesing – when Reesing runs the ball. Sparky, of course, had a 63-yard run against Colorado last year and then had a 53-yard scramble against Colorado last week.”He’s been ragging on me all week that he has the high-end gear that I don’t have,” Sharp quipped.This is a loose football team. It’s been obvious in how well they’ve played on the road, but even surviving those challenging contests have made this team more sure of themselves than they have ever been.As many of you know, Tom Keegan and I both picked Colorado to beat Kansas last week. During halftime in the press box, I told the guy next to me “If Kansas wins this game, I won’t pick them to lose again until they finally do.”I’ve picked against the Jayhawks twice this season. Both times, they rolled up the newspaper and whacked me on the snout. I learned. Kansas 21, Texas A&M 18.And now, Tuesday’s tidbits:**- Coach Mark Mangino** is starting to open up about all the problems from 2006, now that they’re obviously long gone. He said it started when Charles Gordon turned pro, continued with Rodney Harris’ career-ending injury and Eric Butler’s eligibility issues, and piled on with injuries to Angus Quigley, Darrell Stuckey, James Holt and Kerry Meier. It was, any way you look at it, a rough year.”Those kids, they did great to win six, to tell you the truth,” Mangino said after Saturday’s game.**- As you know,** KU placekicker Scott Webb was named Big 12 special teams player of the week, while Texas A&M quarterback Stephen McGee won on offense and Missouri’s Pig Brown on defense. I voted for Webb (based in part on how remarkable his first field goal was), Brown and K-State’s Jordy Nelson, who once again was awesome despite Oklahoma State pulling out the win.**- Webb, however,** didn’t win special teams player of the week at KU. That honor went to Kyle Tucker, who offered clutch punting and a great recovery of a bad snap that led to Webb’s 48-yard field goal. Todd Reesing earned offensive honors and Justin Thornton and James Holt split defensive honors.