U of Kansas beat in Kansas City?

Yeah? Tell that to Chris Low's replacement at the Tennessean (whoever that was; the beat was blown away so soon thereafter I can't remember!)

 

Back in my day at the KC Star (when it was still the morning KC Times and afternoon KC Star), KU and Mizzou coverage was assisted by interns at Missouri and Kansas hired on an annual basis, usually (or always) J-school students at those schools. The interns covered practices every day so that the beat writers didn't have to make the daily trip, and interns also covered some home basketball games, and wrote siders/notebooks at home football games and conference home basketball games.

Do they still use interns to help out the beat writers?

Chiefs have always been a huge beat in KC, but in the George Brett years I think the Royals were No. 1 at this paper, not the Chiefs. Especially when there were two daily papers. Not now, though. Royals haven't gotten their act together since.

Mizzou and KU beats were about even. In fact, it was always a toss-up which game got the lead headline when both were playing on the same night. Regardless of records and rankings, there are a ton of Tiger fans on the Missouri side (where the Star is actually located), and a ton of Jayhawkers on the Kansas side.

 

I would fully expect that from 1976 til about 1990 that the Royals would have been the top beat.

 

As a Nebraska fan, you just made me sad. Stupid Bill Callahan.

 

This is very true. It is certainly never a given that the big paper is going to beat the hometown paper and the Tennessee beat was proof of this even when Low (one of the best) was on the beat for the Nashville paper. I've always really liked the Knoxville paper even though they have (or had) one of the worst web addresses for a sports section (govols.com).

 

Not a Nebraska fan on any level, but it's good for college football when NU is in the top 10. It keeps things interesting...

 

Crazy to think of all the talent gone from Kansas City, most voluntarily. Head count of the big-name writers, though I'm sure I'm missing a few:

Elizabeth Merrill - ESPN
Wright Thompson - ESPN
Jason King - ESPN
Jason Whitlock - Fox Sports
Bill Reiter - Fox Sports
Joe Posnanski - Sports Illustrated
Jeff Passan - Yahoo! Sports
Jim Pedley - Racin' Today

But the paper is still loaded with talent: Sam Mellinger, Adam Teicher, Bob Dutton, Candace Buckner (Is she still around?)...

 

Candace left to write books.

 

Brady announced on his twitter and on the Star website this afternoon that tonight's game at USC is the last event he's covering for the Star.

http://campuscorner.kansascity.com/node/2316

 

Brady has always done an awesome job and Sam Mellinger always keeps things interesting with his feature column, yet the first comment on that going away post is "thank God."

Geeze.

 

Just to clarify the first post, we are happy to have Brady McCollough as our new enterprise writer at the Post-Gazette. Welcome aboard, Brady!

 

Anyone know if there's movement here?