kstatefootball.com: Not just purple

When I have spare time in front of a computer, I go to kstatefootball.com to find the latest sports stories. While most people think that link will connect them to anything and everything purple, that is not always the case.

There is an area on that site called "Timeless News" that features two, in-depth sport stories from biggie newspapers. Today, an article from the NY Times explains why kids participate in youth sports. The other article from the Philadelphia Inquirer chronicles the first football postseason game played 1932.

As interesting as today's offerings are, they don't hold a candle to a 2008 story from NPR about football in Alaska. Here is a sampling:

This Saturday, Alaskans will be watching the state's first-ever high school football playoff game north of the Arctic Circle. The Barrow Whalers host the top-of-the-world game against the Houston Hawks.

David Gerke, the father of the Whalers' 17-year-old quarterback, Albert Gerke, tells NPR's Melissa Block that a polar bear was wandering near the field a couple days ago.

He says someone will keep an eye out for polar bears during the game this weekend.

Google "Alaska Football" to find out how football in the frozen North differs from football in Kansas on a cold weekend.

And, in case anyone is interested in current football news with a Wichita connection, this link to the Sun-Sentinel says that Arthur Brown, Wichita East High School, has left the University of Miami.

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/sports/um-hurricanes/fl-college-football-0203-20100202,0,1227777.story

For more details about AB from another website check out this story:

www.miamiherald.com/sports/story/1459302.html