Kansas AD Perkins to retire

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06/10/2010 - Lawrence, KS (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The University of Kansas announced Thursday its athletics director of the past seven years, Lew Perkins, will retire effective September 4, 2011.

The revelation comes in the midst of a huge shift in the college landscape, as Colorado has announced its intentions to leave the Big 12 Conference for the Pac-10, while Nebraska is expected to bolt for the Big Ten as early as Friday, causing many to question the viability of the Big 12 going forward.

The Jayhawks have won the past six Big 12 regular season championships in men's basketball.

"I have loved my time here at the University of Kansas and I will continue leading Kansas athletics over the course of the next year," Perkins said. "At this time, my greatest priority is working on conference alignment issues, and as I've committed to the chancellor, I will work tirelessly on these efforts. Conference alignment is the biggest challenge we have before us as an athletics department and an institution."

Under Perkins, the Kansas athletics budget has more than doubled from $27 million to $55 million.

The highlight of his tenure was the 2008 NCAA men's basketball title, but the past few months have been mired in controversy, which includes a five-year ticket scandal that is currently being investigated by federal investigators, the tumultuous release of head football coach Mark Mangino that resulted in a $3 million settlement, and allegations of a former KU employee regarding an improper exchange of exercise equipment for preferential seating and irregularities in the school's drug-testing program.

Perkins, who was the head of athletics at the University of Connecticut for 13 years prior to taking over at Kansas, was cleared of the latter charge on Wednesday, as an investigation ordered by chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little found no evidence to substantiate the claims.

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FOOTBALL TRASH TALK

NFL Football Trash Talk

Trash talk has a place in every competitive endeavor (except baseball; those stirrup-wearers are too busy chewing on their sunflower seeds and their supplements to worry about what their opponents are doing).

Fantasy sports is no exception. Any intelligent discussion of the subject would probably start with a thesis statement or a definition of terms. Thankfully, this wont be an intelligent discussion.

Let me just say that I am happy to take a place in this space alongside my talented colleagues, even our commissioner. (You should see how she bleats like a demented paper boy about league fees on our fantasy site).

Trash talking, I would argue, is primarily about amusing your friends, their sheeplike demeanors and sloping foreheads notwithstanding. The best place I have found for football trash talking is at www.SportsAlarm.com.

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The best trash talk, in my view, is layered and nuanced. And it doesnt focus only on your opponents team. It picks apart your opponent. The idea is to create a shock-and-awe-scale blizzard of nonsense, and the goal is to make your opponent drop his hands from his keyboard in exasperation.

What team does your opponent root for? Accuse a Giants fan of having a Joe Namath pillowcase. Wheres your opponent from? Give a look of concern no matter his reply, then say, I'll try to type slower for you next time. Is your opponent into politics? Label everyone a tax-and-spend corporate shill.

Cap all that with a liberal application of irrelevance. For instance, dont just conclude by saying your opponent is a twerp who drafts like my grandmother. Say that your opponent is a sweater-wearing, eyebrow-plucking twerp who drafts his team about as well as Zsa Zsa Gabor gave acceptance speeches at the Oscars. By the time your foe makes sense of that, his starting running back will have had puppies.

But what about you? Hmm? Recall a memorable slam? Have a tried-and-true technique? Know someone who seems impervious to insult? Take a moment and tells us about it. Put together some (fit-for-publication) thoughts. You wont be too busy returning phone messages from your friends, Im sure, to reply.

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