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MANHATTAN PREPARES FOR SUPER BOWL 22 AT WILDCATS' OCTAGON OF DUMB

Manhattan, KS-- It's that time of the year again.

"This is what it's all about, baby!" yelled Jacob Pullen, after defeating Baylor Tuesday night in Waco. "This team is ready to win another World Championship. I know we can do it. This team is coming together and we're playing hard. 2 world titles in 3 years would be a great accomplishment."

Must be Super Bowl time in Manhattan.

Saturday night, the #2 ranked Kansas Jayhawks come to the Octagon of Dumb to take on the Kansas State Wildcats in Super Bowl 22. Kansas State beat the Jayhawks 2 years ago in the Dumb to win their first World Title in Super Bowl 20.

"That was an amazing night", said K-State coach Frank Martin. "To this point, that's been the pennacle of my career. It was the biggest thing to happen in this city in over 25 years. Even today, everywhere you go, you see World Champion t-shirts, bumper stickers, baseball caps, everything. I went to the bank the other day to get a payday loan and they handed me a 'K-State: 2008 World Champions' pen to sign with."

Since opening the Octagon of Dumb in 1988, Kansas State had never beaten ku there until that fateful night 2 years ago.

"I remember it like it was yesterday", said Michael Beasley, now in the NBA and started on that K-State team. "Coach just kept telling us we were world champions everytime there was a timeout. He made us believe."

Following the historic win in 2008, Kansas State ordered a $15,000 banner to hang in the Dumb, and Martin says it is the most intimidating banner in the building for opposing teams.

"This building is full of banners. We have half a dozen banners just in the south end pointing out that we led Kansas at the half 6 out of 8 consecutive years here. But the World Championship banner scares opponents. It really does. Other teams come in here and they know we beat Kansas, and around here, beating Kansas is the World Championship."

Other coaches around the country seemed somewhat confused when asked about the title game this weekend.

"Isn't it just a conference game?" asked Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim. "If K-State wins, isn't it just one win? I mean, both teams will keep playing the rest of the season, right?"

Coach Bill Self of the Kansas Jayhawks was similarly confused.

"He said they won a what?" asked Self, when told Kansas State hung a World Championship banner in the Dumb after their 2008 victory. "That was a great win by K-State, no doubt, but it's just one game. I guess playing Kansas is a bigger deal to them than playing K-State is for us. We want to win, but if I remember correctly, didn't we win a National Title that year? A real one, I mean?"

Martin acknowledged ku's NCAA tournament run in 2008 to win the title, but puts it in perspective.

"ku had a great team that year, and they had a great run in March. But that was a National Title, and they didn't play anyone any good to get it. If I remember right, a bunch of higher seeds lost in the early rounds, so they really didn't have to do that much. Memphis actually won the game except they missed free throws. Our team played a helluva game against Kansas, and we won. There isn't anything bigger than that around these parts."

After the KSU victory in 2008, Manhattan closed down for 2 days to give farmers and ag students time to celebrate. Farm animals were let loose in the streets, and what looked like a redneck Mardi Gras was unleased in the dirt streets of downtown Manhattan.

Kansas State will try to do it again tonight.

"We've got the banner picked out, we already have the license agreement worked out for the DVD box set, and we have some other things planned which I can't get into because they're a surprise. But we have a basketball game to win, and that is what matters. This is what every little boy who grows up in these here parts wants to do: they want to win a World Championship in the Dumb against ku. This is our season. We're not worried about March or the conference standings. We're interested in championships....world championships, and we'll be more ready for this game than any game in the history of the Dumb."

[smith1051]

 

[TheWildcat]

Dumb, DumbDumb, Duuuuumb

[dobbie4ksu]

Get a fuqing life seriously, you took ten minutes to write up that garbage, KSU must be a big fuqin deal to you, If I knew were you lived I would come punch your face in

[feralchat]

Dumb bitch buried the lede. You know, the part where your cvnt stinks.

[Dirty Sanchez]

I like this article better

http://www.theage.com.au/news/web/how-lori-drew-became-americas-most-reviled-mother/2007/11/30/1196394672124.html

How Lori Drew became America's most reviled mother

  
December 1, 2007
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A 13-year-old's suicide highlights the risks to teens of predatory behaviour online, writes Ian Munro.
Vulnerable … Tina and Ron Meier's daughter, Megan, killed herself after being dumped by "Josh", in reality a female neighbour.

Vulnerable … Tina and Ron Meier's daughter, Megan, killed herself after being dumped by "Josh", in reality a female neighbour.
Photo: Peter Newcomb/The New York Times
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It is an odd sensibility that gave Lori Drew comfort at the funeral of the 13-year-old girl to whose suicide she almost certainly contributed.

But there is much that is odd about Lori Drew. Drew, then 47, told police she felt better when she learned Megan Meier had previously considered suicide, before she hanged herself in a wardrobe of her Missouri home a year ago.

That would suggest Drew considered it somehow less reprehensible to anonymously torment a mentally unsettled teenager than someone of sterner stuff.

In any case, Megan's mother, Tina Meier, said there was nothing to suggest her daughter would have taken her own life. But an internet "romance" with a boy called Josh Evans changed all that.

Josh was supposed to be 16, and he charmed Megan through her MySpace website. They never spoke, since Josh said his parents did not have a phone. Josh was, however, a fiction, an invention of Drew, a neighbour of the Meiers in Dardenne Plains, Missouri.

Drew created Josh to try to find out what Megan was saying about Drew's daughter. At one time, Lori and Curt Drew's daughter and Megan were best friends, but they drifted apart, and when Megan changed schools she ended the friendship.

Lori Drew had told a neighbourhood girl about the hoax, and the girl's mother, who asked for anonymity, said that "Lori ([email protected]) laughed about it", adding that she would "mess with Megan". Soon after Josh insulted and turned on Megan, she killed herself.

Law enforcement authorities warn that older children and teenagers tend to be most at risk from internet predators because they are less likely to be supervised. They are also more open to discussing personal issues and relationships, although the predators police have in mind are probably nothing like Lori Drew.

A child and school psychologist, Laurie Zelinger, said the internet was intensifying pressures on adolescents. They were particularly susceptible to peer pressure and peer acceptance as part of becoming independent.

"We know that kids are so desperate to be accepted that they will violate their own rules. They need to experience affiliation, and a sense of belonging will lead children to engage in behaviours that are counter to family values and even their own sense of conscience.

"Before the internet, all of this happened in school hours. They would pass notes in class, have sorts of sign language, use the telephone when they reached home … now neighbourhoods are more spread out, people are living in large homes, children tend to maintain contact through the internet and text messaging. They can have this contact 24/7. It's magnifying an issue that's always existed."

[LimestoneOutcropping]

The football season owning is still driving them nuts.

[Cougar2k]

Have you seen tomorrow's front page article?

"ku Fan writes 755 word satire piece about K-State; claims KSU fans are obsessed with ku"

[The Kaiser]

is really falling behind, first Kellis, now this.

[SkinnyBenny]

LOL@ Lori Drew trying to play us about banner-hanging.

 

[WillieWannabe]

well done im impressed. Little stalkerish...but whatevs.

[GimmeEMAWorGimmeDeath]

God, Lori Drew just SOUNDS like the name of a mother who would drown her children in an ammonia filled bathtub.