Ten worlds of WTF

Farewell, pigskin messiah.

Kansas State football coach Bill Snyder, who took over a downtrodden program in 1989 and orchestrated one of the greatest turnarounds in college football history, has told his team he will retire at the end of this football season, ESPN confirmed Monday night....

Snyder, 66, will best be remembered for taking over a moribund program and leading it to the cusp of a national title. The Wildcats were 1-10 in his first season but improved to 5-6 in 1990 and 7-4 in 1991 before falling back to 5-6 again in 1992. But then came the string of 11 straight seasons to end with a bowl game.

Perhaps three seasons too late, but very few people have had the effect on this community that this man has -- revitalizing the football team has had a pretty profound effect on the local economy, with plenty of businesses attributing their boom to the resurging football team. And no, they've not been anywhere near spectacular lately, but they're still ninety times better than they used to be.

Also, of all the people to stab in Clay County, why Marvin Macy?

Authorities were searching Monday for three men who may have been involved in the stabbing of a 66-year-old rural Clay County man after he reportedly confronted them about poaching a deer on his land.

Marvin Macy was in serious condition Monday at Wesley Medical Center in Wichita with knife wounds to his abdomen and face.

He's a hell of a nice guy; went to school with his kids, Tammy and Terry (rest in peace, old chum). This is inexplicable and infuriating and mildly worrisome.

Night Stalker cancelled, somehow shorter than the series that spawned it. Gee, a new show not faring well against The Apprentice and CSI. Whodathunkit?

This morning: first snow of the season. Yay. Good day for it, really.

What would Tyler Durden do? Is that introspection?

Best lede of the year so far.

Somebody forgot the first rule of Fight Club: Do not talk about Fight Club.

Do not promote Fight Club. Do not build a Web site with scheduled bouts and videos of Fight Club. And do not — do not! — let Austin park police find out about Fight Club.

...mutter mutter snarl hiss...

Good to know that the Collegian is treating Snyder's resignation with all due effort for what'll probably be the biggest story of the calendar year. Instead of actually writing a story, they've posted the text of his farewell verbatim on the front page.

Witness the glory of the front page of the print edition. People, it's a big enough story that even if it happens at 9 pm, you scrap the front page and you redo it (yes, this trumps Web site domain confusion and local recycling efforts).

But if you must treat the story as shabbily as possible by exiling it into red-banner-at-top-land, could you at least spell his name correctly?

You'd think that the law of averages would kick in at some point and they'd be mathetmatically obliged to make just one decision in the process correctly, even accidentally. This is a goddamned travesty.

Here's a shred of what they could've written: ...Come to think of it, though, only Alvarez rebuilt. Snyder built something on an empty lot. He has 135 wins in 17 seasons. In the previous 54 seasons, the Wildcats had won 137 games. For that reason alone, I would be stunned if Snyder doesn't arrive at the College Football Hall of Fame in three years.