FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) A person familiar with the situation tells The Associated Press that former K-State assistant and Wisconsin coach Bret Bielema has agreed to become the new coach at Arkansas. Bielema will sign a multi-year contract soon. Bielema was 68-24 in seven seasons at Wisconsin, including an 8-5 mark this season. He was co-defensive coordinator at K-State in 2002 and 2003, and helped lead the unit that shut down Oklahoma at Arrowhead Stadium to win the Big 12 Championship. The move was the second stunning hire at Arkansas, which brought in John L. Smith after firing Bobby Petrino earlier…
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K-State quarterback Collin Klein appeared at a press conference on Tuesday afternoon to discuss the college football awards season. Klein will appear at the ESPN Home Depot Football Awards on Thursday in Orlando, where he is a finalist for the Maxwell Award (to nation’s top player) and the Davey O’ Brien Award (to nation’s best quarterback). He will then go to Baltimore, MD on Friday to accept the Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Award, which he was announced as the winner on Monday. Klein will then go up the east coast as one of three Heisman Trophy finalists on Saturday at…
K-State claimed their second Big 12 title this season, and coach Bill Snyder joined his former assistant Bob Stoops at Oklahoma as the only three-time winners of the Associated Press Big 12 coach of the year. Snyder also won the award last season and in 1998, and was a unanimous pick this season after the Cats were picked sixth in the league preseason poll. K-State won 11 games, and clinched the title this past Saturday night when they defeated Texas for the fifth straight time 42-24. The award was voted on by 18 reporters who regularly cover the conference. The…
The Riley County clerk’s office is reporting the first filing for Manhattan City commission. John Ball of Harahey Ridge is trying for a position on the commission. KMAN news hopes to speak with Ball a bit later.There are three positions opening up for that governing body. with the terms of Rich Jankovich, Loren Pepperd, and Jim Sherow expiring. The filing deadline is January 22nd at noon. The primary election if needed would be held February 26th, with the general election set for April second. It’s also time for other area city and school elections.
A former Riley County Corrections Officer faces several charges, following his arrest by Wabaunsee county officials. Russ McCormick, 30, was taken into custody on a Riley County warrant which includes charges of traffic in contraband in a correctional facility, unlawful sexual relations, and promoting obscenity. McCormick had been a corrections officer with RCPD for two years. Riley County Police Director Brad Schoen made the announcement Tuesday, saying the arrest resulted from an investigation into McCormick’s activities by detectives of RCPD. He added that in keeping with his desire that the department be open and transparent, officials wanted the public to know every…
GARDEN CITY, Kan. (AP) Two employees of a Garden City manufacturing plant that makes fiberglass tanks suffered smoke inhalation after a fire consumed much of the building. The Garden City Telegram reports firefighters were called to Palmer Manufacturing just after 10 a.m. Monday. Fire Chief Allen Shelton says about 50 percent of the plant was on fire when crews arrived. He says the two unnamed employees were reported in good condition after being taken to a local hospital. Shelton says winds of 31 to 41 mph made the blaze difficult to contain. Investigators had not yet determined what caused the…
NEW YORK (AP) K- State quarterback Collin Klein, Texas A&M quarterback Johnny Manziel, and Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te’o are the finalists for the Heisman Trophy. Klein would be the first player from Kansas State to win the Heisman. Manziel would be the first freshman to win the Heisman and the first Texas A&M player since halfback John David Crow won the school’s only Heisman in 1957. Te’o is trying to become the first defense-only player to win a Heisman and the eighth player from Notre Dame. The Fighting Irish have had seven Heisman winners, tied for the most, but…
K-State head coach Bill Snyder is one of nine coaches to be named a finalist for the 2012 Eddie Robinson Coach of the Year Award, the Football Writers Association of America (FWAA) announced today. It is the second coach-of-the-year award Snyder is in the running for as he was named a semifinalist for the Maxwell Coach of the Year Award last month. This is the 5th time Snyder has been a finalist…he was a finalist last year as well as in 1993, 1995 and 1998. The finalist for the award include Brian Kelly of Notre Dame, Urban Meyer of Ohio State,…
COURTESY K-STATE SPORTS INFORMATION AND ATHLETIC COMMUNICATIONS MANHATTAN, Kan. – In the midst of one of the greatest seasons in school history, Kansas State quarterback Collin Klein was named the recipient of the 2012 Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Award, the award’s foundation announced today. Klein is the first Wildcat to pick up the honor and the fifth from the Big 8/12 since the award’s inception in 1987. The Loveland, Colo., product earned K-State’s first major college football award since Terence Newman won the 2002 Jim Thorpe Award. “It’s a tremendous honor,” said Klein. “Anyone that is familiar with the game…
LENEXA, Kan. (AP) Lenexa police say a quick-thinking 11-year-old boy escaped an attempted abduction. Police say the boy was riding his bicycle Sunday afternoon when a white car drove past slowly and turned around. The boy says a passenger in the car pointed a gun at him and told him to get into the car. Lenexa police officer Dan Friesen says in a news release that the boy knew he couldn’t get into the car under any circumstances. So he ran to a nearby liquor store, and police were called. The vehicle was a dirty, white four-door passenger car of…