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Sports editor Tim Everson completes the viral 9-9-9 Challenge

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By KMAN Staff on April 28, 2026 Sports
Tim Everson, sports editor at The Manhattan Mercury, sits with one of his hot dogs and cans of beer while watching the first inning of Friday’s Kansas State and Kansas baseball game at Tointon Family Stadium. Staff photo by Lewis Marien

By Tim Everson

There are moments in life where you’re handed what appears to be an insurmountable task, a challenge to the indomitable human spirit.

On Friday — in Kansas State baseball’s series-opener versus rival Kansas — I removed my metaphorical sports reporter cap (I like to think of it as an old trilby with a press pass sticking out of the top) and donned an old K-State baseball cap that I very rarely get to wear anymore, and made my way to Tointon Family Stadium burdened with glorious purpose.

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