July 2024

Kansas State basketball new Big 12 coneference opponents announced

The Big 12 announced the Conference scheduling matrix for the 2024-25 Women’s Basketball season, as K-State will face traditional rivals Iowa State and Kansas twice and Cincinnati twice as part of its league slate.Teams will play three Big 12 opponents twice, then play the other 12 conference opponents one time, for a total of 18 Conference games.Opponents were selected based on a combination of geography, historical results and a poll of the coaches to best balance the schedule in terms of travel and competitiveness.

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A Holiday Proposal: Festivus in July!

When, in the course of human events, it becomes obvious to all that the current American political system bears little if any resemblance to the values put forward in the 13 colonies’ July 4, 1776 Declaration of Independence, it’s time to consider doing away with “Independence Day” as a positive commemoration.But not, I hold, worthy of cancellation as a holiday altogether.The Declaration still has some pretty good bones to base a holiday on, and who doesn’t love a day off work for grilling out and playing with explosives?Instead of celebrating the Big Lie that we live under a government which exists to “secure” our rights to “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness,” we’d do well to instead turn our attention to a Festivus-style “airing of the grievances.”The Declaration is chock-full of such grievances.

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