If this is Tuesday, it's going to be a long week

It’s been a long sports day with a lot going on around my house, so let’s see what we’ve learned.

I expect Mark Mangino to be fired no later than Sunday by Athetic Director Lew Perkins.   When it became public that Perkins had held a players only meeting to inform the team of an investigation of Mangino, that started the clock ticking on the end of the Mangino era.

He essentially threw Mangino under the bus and he can’t turn back now.  Don’t blame Perkins for this though.  If the reports I’m hearing are true and from the sources I’ve talked to, I believe they are, this is all Mangino’s fault.

My 84 year old aunt wondered what the fuss was about.  She said, “It’s football, why are players upset if they got hit a little?”  Now if he'd fallen on them, someone could've been hurt.

In between the KU football news and the number one ranked Jayhawk basketball team sliding by an underdog but overachieving Memphis club late in the evening, we learned that Larry Johnson had signed with the Cincinnati Bengals.

He may have made out like a bandit financially after getting cut loose by the Chiefs and he may end up playing for a playoff team, but he’s still an idiot.  Instead of using Twitter, this time he posted on Facebook, “Gonna gallop all over the Chiefs.  Cleat prints on the chests.  Mud in the face masks.”

First, he has to play for the Bengals.  That’s not a given yet.  

With Johnson out of the way, the Chiefs needed new problems to deal with and they got them in the form of a 4 game suspension of Dwayne Bowe by the NFL for violating the substance abuse program.  Bowe is claiming it was a diuretic he took back in training camp.  Maybe, but who’s to say it wasn’t something more?  Nice timing Dwayne.

All this news overshadowed what should have been Zach Greinke Day in Kansas City.  The Royals right hander won the Cy Young award.  In typical Zach fashion, when asked if he’d thought about the award since the end of the season, he responded, “Not really. I’ve been playing this World of Warcraft game.”

The Jayhawk basketball team must have felt like they were getting pounded on by Twilight’s Hammer.  With their offense sputtering and Sherron Collins cramping, they couldn’t put away Memphis.  In fact, they needed a last second missed three pointer to survive by two, but survive they did.  Something Mark Mangino is unlikely to do.