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Former KU Football Coach Mark Mangino Will Be Recognized at Jayhawk Season Opener

By Greg Echlin
Published August 15, 2017 at 9:25 PM CDT
Former KU Football Coach Mark Mangino at the Orange Bowl in 2008. Former Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius is pictured looking on, in the lower right. (Photo from the Topeka Capital-Journal)
Former KU Football Coach Mark Mangino at the Orange Bowl in 2008. Former Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius is pictured looking on, in the lower right. (Photo from the Topeka Capital-Journal)

This coming football season marks the 10-year anniversary of the last Kansas Jayhawk victory in the Orange Bowl.  Members of that 2008 team, along with their former coach, Mark Mangino, will be recognized at KU's season opener on September 2nd.  KPR’s Greg Echlin has more.

 
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Greg Echlin
Greg Echlin is the sports reporter for KPR and KCUR. Ever since he set foot on the baseball diamond at Fernwood Park on Chicago's South Side, Greg Echlin began a love affair with the world of sports. After graduating from Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, he worked as a TV sports anchor and a radio sportscaster in Salina, Kansas. He moved to Kansas City in 1984 and has been there since covering sports. Through the years, he has covered multiple Super Bowls, Final Fours and Major League Baseball's World Series and All-Star games. With his high metabolism rate, Greg is able to enjoy a good meal and stay slim when he's not running around on the sports scene. He loves desserts, even making them. Cheesecakes, pies and parfaits are the most common around the Echlin household.
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