RIP Wayman Tisdale

Glad others noticed this. Is Woodling senile, or what is the deal here? Usually, when somebody really screws up, I try to put myself in that person's place, try to think "OK, how did he/she come to do this?" This time, I'm stumped. Can't freaking imagine. Also can't freaking imagine any editor reading this and breezily writing the head and sending it along its merry way. Good God.
Can anybody with Kansas ties shed any light here? WTF?

 

Some of those Deadspin comments are piss-your-Zubaz hilarious

 

The guy needs a hug. Or something.

 

The Lawrence Journal-World beats to the Jayhawk drum 24-7, 365. Period. If the president of the United States committed suicide the same day KU won the national title, the president would be on Page 3 and the meeting would've lasted about 10 seconds.

My guess is that this column tried to rehash a crazy moment in KU history, kind of a "speaking of Wayman Tisdale" piece. I wasn't around in the mid 80s, but from what I've heard that Oklahoma-Kansas game was absolutely crazy, like one notch below the Ron Artest brawl at Detroit. With Billy Tubbs involved, that doesn't surprise me.

I read it and didn't see it as a column about Tisdale, despite the headline. I saw it as a column about that insane night that's brought back to the front of the memory bank due to the latest news about Tisdale.

If you look at it that way, it's not all that offensive.

 

Some classy AP photos of the funeral today.