If you really like sports, especially local sports, then I suggest the Kansas Sports Museum in Newton.
If you’re a casual sports fan, and typically only like what’s popular, then I suggest Heroes Sports Bar in Oldtown.
A recent visit to the Kansas Sports Museum taught me one thing. Unless you are an avid sports fan, enough to where you really dig the most obscure artifacts, then you wasted a trip to Newton.
It’s not that the museum is completely null and void of interesting memorabilia, but they are few and far between.
For every Bill Synder headset is a handful of track and field medals from a high school you’ve probably never heard of.
For every KU Big 8 trophy is another handful of track and field medals from a high school you’ve probably never heard of.
I understand the issue probably nothing to do with sports and everything to do with money. At one time the museum had a beautiful new home in downtown Wichita. Now it’s been banished to an outlet mall in Newton, sandwiched between and wholesale carpet supplier and an archery repair shop.
If the museum could generate some interest I believe the funding will follow. It’s not like the state doesn’t have some of the most dominant and interesting sports programs in the country.
I mean basketball, one of the biggest sports in the world, was invented in Kansas. That alone is worthy of its own museum.
The history is here, the museum just needs the dollars to make it happen.
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