Time for a mea culpa
Anyone who has read this page for any length of time can see that I like to point out the foibles and missteps made by other people and organizations in the sports world. And since I do that, I would be remiss in not pointing out and acknowledging my own screw ups.
A couple weeks ago, I criticized ESPN — and by extension, Kansas State men’s basketball coach Frank Martin — for giving credit to Martin for having won two consecutive basketball championships during his tenure as a high school basketball coach in the late 1990s when those teams had been stripped of one of them for player eligibility improprieties. Those teams were stripped of a championship, but it was the one that would have been their third in a row. So ESPN and Kansas State had it right. It was a detail — an important one — that I didn’t full understand in my research, which I typically spend a lot of time doing before writing anything here.
I took that post down so as not to perpetuate that mistake to anyone landing on it in Google search terms. And in doing so, I apologize to ESPN, to Martin and K-State and to readers.
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