Our area runs basically from about Abilene all the way to Colorado and about 30 miles south of I-70 up to Nebraska.

As for why it takes so long to get the all-area team in the paper it is a matter of getting the time to get it put together. The Monday after the state wrestling tournament, sub-state basketball starts and then you go right into state basketball. I have to be at those events as well to cover those which does not allow me the time in the office to get everything put together, get the kids together for the photo and so on. This year we had intended to run the all-area teams one week earlier but when KU qualified for the Final Four we had to put it on hold a week because we needed the space out front to cover the Jayhawks. KU in the Final Four was obviously a very large story that couldn't be downplayed but I did not want the all-area teams to play second-fiddle to something else in the paper. We felt it was better to simply hold a week so that it could be the main focus of that day's paper.