Sustaining Kansas Sports Hall of Fame a priority

It was encouraging to see some progress this week on sustaining the Kansas Sports Hall of Fame. By advancing a bill to earmark $1.5 million in lottery funds for the hall over the next three years, the Senate Ways and Means Committee acknowledged that the facility’s survival is a legislative issue. The attraction may be located in Old Town these days, but it was created by the Legislature in 1961 to preserve and celebrate the entire state’s rich sports history. As state Sen. Jean Schodorf, R-Wichita, said, the bill offers the hall’s leaders “a three-year opportunity to show who they are and how they serve the people of Kansas.” If members of the full Senate and the House disagree, they should suggest a better way to keep the hall open.
Posted by Rhonda Holman

9 Comments

  1. ProudMan
    Posted March 9, 2007 at 6:32 am | Permalink

    Why is the Kansas Sports Hall of Fame a government issue?

  2. Tony
    Posted March 9, 2007 at 8:53 am | Permalink

    Let It Close or let someone with cash step up and pay for it to be open…

  3. fleettwood
    Posted March 9, 2007 at 9:02 am | Permalink

    This Kansas Sports Hall of Fame must sound like an owl convention while looking at the inductees.Who? Who? Who?

  4. RepubliKhan
    Posted March 9, 2007 at 9:18 am | Permalink

    Great.. another facility to bail out in the future for its financial failings.

  5. Vaughn Tolle
    Posted March 9, 2007 at 9:42 am | Permalink

    Having looked at the enabling statute for the Kansas Sports Hall of Fame, it is clear that the Legislature, in passing it, was: lukewarmly establishing something that was wanted; and that the state wasn’t interested in financially supporting it. Can’t recall the statute right now, believe I may have posted it some time ago on another thread.

  6. Doug
    Posted March 9, 2007 at 11:04 am | Permalink

    Yes, it’s absolutely essential that we preserve the history of some guy hitting a ball with a stick. How else will society advance unless we can go to this building and admire the struggles humanity have gone through as they have passed a ball to another person.

  7. Ben Huie
    Posted March 9, 2007 at 11:20 am | Permalink

    I enjoy going to Players to watch game on the Big screen from time to time. Dave owns and displays a lot of sports memorabilia. He does all this as a capitalist businessman. Why do I need this government one?

  8. J R
    Posted March 9, 2007 at 4:16 pm | Permalink

    Rhonda

    It would seem the lack of posts here and the nature of those posts are at odds with the Sports Hall of fame being a priority to much of anyone.

  9. Mrage
    Posted March 9, 2007 at 5:05 pm | Permalink

    JR,

    Don’t take Weblog so seriously, its not the place the whole community reflects on.

    I like the Sports Hall Fame. It should have some state support to operate. They could use more money to promote it. Make the history of Sports in there more interactive.

    Sports drives so much business and culture, there is no way we should forget the players. If children play sports they should understand who played the sport before and did well.

    If anyone hates sports, who cares, never go in that Hall of Fame.