In yet another recasting of Athletic Director Gen Taylor’s remarks about Coach Bruce Weber and the state of the men’s basketball program, Tim Bisel noted that the Wildcats may have issues, but they are the right kind of issues.
Though this story was told several years ago by the Kansas City Star’s Sam Mellinger, Frank Martin’s brush with death soon after moving to Manhattan as part of Bob Huggins’ staff is getting national attention, courtesy of a 7-minute video titled “Miracle in Manhattan.” (Yeah, we recognize the title is ripped off.) Whether you believe in miracles or mystic occurrences of scoff at such notions, and even if you read it when it was first published nearly eight years ago, the story is remarkable and worth a few minutes to read.