Wichita Can’t Get No Respect

Worse, to my knowledge, no one has ever been interested enough in Wichita to point out this error before.

Wichita is halfway between a couple of slightly more famous places (Kansas City and Oklahoma City) that are themselves halfway between two truly famous locales (New York and Los Angeles). It’s one of the great aircraft manufacturing hubs of the world, but the outside world hardly ever asks about aviation pioneers like Clyde Cessna and Bill Lear. Instead, folks want to talk about Dorothy Gale and her little dog, Toto, who together flew a farmhouse to Oz.

So it was hardly unexpected when the Wichita State Shockers, the winningest team in major college basketball, were dissed after claiming the Missouri Valley Conference title in St. Louis on Sunday. They had just barreled over Indiana State for their 34th victory against zero losses—yes, zero—but the t-shirts they were handed by conference officials had Indiana State identified as champions.

 

Typo, or typical?

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