It's Casey Walkup's turn to see how the National Baseball Congress World Series runs outside the foul lines.

He understands the view changes dramatically from player and coach now that he is operations manager for the 32-team baseball tournament. He will no longer be the guy griping about playing at 3 a.m. with a knucklehead umpire and an elimination game scheduled later that day. Instead, he will be the guy trying to explain why a game is scheduled at 3 a.m., that the umpires aren't trying to cheat anybody and why your team needs to be back in 16 hours to play again.

"You kind of realize how selfish you were," Walkup said. "You put your foot in your mouth with a lot of things you said over the years, because you realize a lot of those things you said are not necessarily how it works on this side of the field."

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Making his first rounds as Kansas football coach, Turner Gill knew some of the topics KU fans want to hear about before the start of the season.

There was the old stuff.

"Beat Mizzou," KU fan Chase Marzolf said while awaiting Gill's appearance. "That's all any KU fan wants to hear."

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The fans following Fred Couples and Tom Watson Thursday morning were sometimes six- and seven-deep, wedging themselves between tree trunks and ducking under limbs.

Very quietly and without much attention, Bruce Vaughan of Hutchinson was the player taking early control of the U.S. Senior Open in Sammamish, Wash.

Taking advantage of cool morning conditions and mostly avoiding the canopy of trees engulfing Sahalee Country Club, Vaughan opened with a 4-under 66 on Thursday to take a two-stroke lead.

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