Nov

15

Chiefs season over

November 15, 2004 | Leave a Comment

Yesterday’s 27-20 defeat in New Orleans ended the Chiefs’ last hopes for the postseason. Football fans are now experiencing a deja vu from baseball season - a season of high hopes ending in bitter disappointment.
Posnanski: Season’s collapse complete.
Whitlock: Fingers point to everyone.

Oct

5

Politically correct border war

October 5, 2004 | 3 Comments

Political correctness has claimed the MU-KU Border War rivalry, which will now be known as the Border Showdown. This was the one atheletic rivalry that actually did begin as a war, the Civil War era clashes between the bushwhackers and jayhawkers on the Missouri-Kansas border.
Maybe it’s time to burn Lawrence again?
The Star: They [...]

Sep

30

The mothership has landed - arena design proposals

September 30, 2004 | 2 Comments

Today the two competing arena architect candidates presented their qualifications to the city’s selection committee. The pictures below are conceptual proposals from the Downtown Arena Design Team consortium. Their ideas include a saucer-shaped arena with a glass exterior showing off the interior, and an elaborate lighting and video system showing scores and video [...]

Sep

23

Bistate II afraid of the tough questions?

September 23, 2004 | 2 Comments

Shortly after launching the Bistate II campaign last week, the votebig.org forum began getting pointed questions about the proposal, and the decision to renovate Kauffman Stadium in favor of a new Downtown baseball stadium. Instead of replying to the posters and explaining their position, Bistate boosters just pulled the forum off of the web [...]

Sep

20

Bistate II campaign launched

September 20, 2004 | 3 Comments

Last week the Chamber of Commerce and others kicked off the Bistate II campaign. In November, voters in the five core counties will be asked for a 1/4-cent sales tax to renovate the Truman Sports Complex and fund arts and cultural projects. The arts projects include both the proposed Performing Arts Center and [...]

Sep

17

Arena competition heating up

September 17, 2004 | Leave a Comment

A September 30th presentation to the committee selecting architects for the Sprint Center is fast approaching, and competition between the two teams is getting a little nasty. On one hand we have the Downtown Arena Design Team, a coalition of world-famous sports architecture firms based here in Kansas City. On the other hand [...]

Sep

16

Big 12 football at Arrowhead

September 16, 2004 | 1 Comment

Chiefs and Arrowhead Stadium officials are cranking up the Big 12 football at the stadium. In addition to Big 12 championships in 2003, 2004, and 2006, Mizzou is bringing its 2005 and 2006 home openers to Arrowhead. Now it looks like KU is getting in on the action, with The Star reporting that [...]

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