By Tim Everson As the old adage goes, “It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.” After a week where No. 23 Kansas State’s offense was as bad as it could be, the Wildcats had about the best response you could have, topping No. 20 Oklahoma State 42-20 on the back of the best offensive effort of the season. K-State put up six scores and a season-high 559 yards leaving the offensively-inept Cowboys in their dust. To view the full story visit theMercury.com.
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By Tim Everson After a nightmarish trip to Utah last week, No. 23 Kansas State got the bounce-back game it needed in a 42-20 demolishing of No. 20 Oklahoma State at home on Saturday. After a bit of a slow start defensively, K-State smothered the Cowboys, keeping them out of the end zone until Oklahoma State’s final drive of the game. K-State’s offense ended the game with 559 total yards, the most since racking up 589 in a 41-3 win over TCU last season. Here are four takeaways from Saturday’s win: Return of the pass After struggling with a largely…
By Tim Everson Kansas State men’s basketball opened practice for the 2024-25 season earlier this week. They do so will almost an entirely new roster with just three returners after a reset following a tumultuous 2023-24 season that ended with a opening round NIT loss at Iowa. The Wildcats add 11 newcomers, including top-50 prospect and freshman point guard David Castillo, a junior college All-American in Mobi Ikegwuruka and nine Divison I transfers in Achor Achor (Samford), Coleman Hawkins (Illinois), Dug McDaniel (Michigan) and Ugonna Onyenso (Kentucky) as well as Baye Fall (Arkansas), Brendan Hausen (Villanova), C.J. Jones (Illinois-Chicago) and…
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By Megan Moser A candidate running for the Kansas House District 67 seat said this week that she voted in a 2022 referendum that would have removed the Kansas constitutional right to abortion, but public records show she did not participate in that election. Angel Roeser, the Republican candidate for the office, faced Democratic opponent Kim Zito in a debate Wednesday at the K-State Student Union. The two were addressing abortion and mentioned the “Value Them Both” amendment, which was on the Aug. 2, 2022, ballot. To view the full story visit theMercury.com.
By AJ Shaw and Peter Rice news@1350kman.com Two and a half years after a biological manufacturing company announced its plans to build a facility in Manhattan, there are few answers about when — and if — it’s going to happen, but local and state officials say discussions still are ongoing. Scorpius, formerly called Scorpion, announced in April 2022 it would construct a $650-million, 500,000-square-foot vaccine and biologic medicine plant on U.S. Highway 24 just east of Manhattan, a facility that would create 500 jobs. “The state is still at the table,” said Shanna Goodman, executive director of Pottawatomie County Economic…
By Emma Loura The association this year is celebrating 150 years of tradition, community and purple pride. With that milestone comes a celebration and the start of a strategic plan. The Alumni Association began June 24, 1874, when K-State was still Kansas State Agricultural College. Graduates from the college met at Manhattan’s First Presbyterian Church, against the wishes of John Anderson, the president of the college of the time, who wanted full control of the Alumni Association. The alumni wanted the organization to be independent. “From the very beginning, we’ve had a streak of independence about us so that way…
By Toby Hammes JUNCTION CITY — If you ask the Manhattan High football seniors what it’s like to not have the Silver Trophy in its trophy case, they won’t have an answer for you. The Indians (4-0) went into a hostile Junction City environment and took care of business, winning its fourth straight Silver Trophy matchup, 52-0. “It means a lot to win the silver trophy, and these kids deserved it,” head coach Joe Schartz said. “They worked hard and and it was a fun time for sure.” It was the 109th meeting between the two Centennial League foes. Manhattan’s…
City commissioners on Tuesday discussion a new $10 million cemetery master plan that would catch up on deferred maintenance, improve operational efficiency, make the cemeteries more ADA-accessible and bring in more revenue. Some of the proposed upgrades to Sunrise Cemetery include the construction of a new shop and office, renovating the existing shop, paving a section of the maintenance lot and fencing the maintenance yard. At Sunset Cemetery, upgrades could include building a new joint maintenance shop with Sunset Zoo, installing a new irrigation system, adding columbaria, making storm drainage and utility improvements, reconstructing cemetery roads, improving accessible sidewalks at…
By Tim Everson After setting an initial goal of raising $20,000 for his former high school principal’s cancer battle, Kansas State sophomore quarterback Avery Johnson’s fundraising efforts have far surpassed that with help from fans both of K-State and other Wildcat opponents’ across the country. Dr. Chris Botts’, the principal at Maize High School, was diagnosed with large-cell neuroendocrine thymic cancer in March of 2022, according to Johnson’s fundraiser profile on champsraise.com. In October of 2022, Botts received the news that he was cancer free, but in January of 2023, it returned and had spread, giving Botts a stage-four diagnosis. To…