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March 17, 2014 · 2:01 pm

Go WuShock and the Wichita State Shockers!

WuShock: A True Original

Fun to see WuShock (above) – the world’s weirdest college team mascot – in the news WuShock in the New York Times and even better to see Wichita State in the N.C.A.A. basketball tournament. I know I’m supposed to be rooting for an Iowa team or U of Kansas (this IS a Jayhawks household) but my heart is with underdog Wichita State, which gets scant recognition compared to powerhouses like Kansas and Iowa, and with WuShock (for the record: a shock – or bundled pile – of wheat that looks like, um, a demented version of the Wizard of Oz’s scarecrow (below).

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March 31, 2013 · 3:31 pm

Way to go (Wichita State) Shockers! And bring it on WuShock!

WuShock: A True Original

WuShock: A True Original

If the Jayhawks couldn’t be in the Final Four (much to the dismay of the huge Kansas basketball fans in this Iowa household), there is some consolation in seeing the Wichita State Shockers make it to the Final Four  – along with one of the sports world’s stranger mascots WUShock – which for the uninitiated is a figure based on a shock (or bundle) of wheat!! (“What is THAT?” I remember thinking when I first moved to Wichita in the late 1980’s for a job on the local newspaper.)

Go Shockers!

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