Sam Zeff
EDUCATION REPORTER, Kansas News ServiceSam covers education for KCUR and the Kansas News Service. Before joining the station in August 2014 he covered health and education for KCPT.
Sam began his career at KANU in Lawrence. He hosted Morning Edition at WHYY in Philadelphia where he also covered organized crime, politics and government corruption.
The Overland Park, Kansas, native has won a National News and Documentary Emmy for investigative reporting, four Edward R. Murrow awards and four National Headliner Awards. Sam was assistant news director at the ABC station in the Twin Cities, executive producer at the NBC station in St. Louis and executive producer of special projects at the CBS stations in Minneapolis and Kansas City.
Sam was educated at the University of Kansas.
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Jeff Long Out As KU Athletics Director Shortly After School Parts Ways With Football Coach Les MilesMiles was fired after an investigation of his years at LSU revealed inappropriate conduct with students.
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The family of 19-year-old Braeden Bradforth is suing the hospital, the emergency department doctor and the EMS crew that transported him.
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As the University of Kansas prepares to open the men's basketball season Thanksgiving Day, it has paid over a million dollars defending the storied program against very serious NCAA violations.
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Nineteen-year-old Braeden Bradforth died of exertional heat stroke on his second day on the Garden City Community College campus. Just hours before the second anniversary of his death the school settled with his family for $500,000.
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KU's settlement in former head football coach David Beaty's federal lawsuit is not nearly the end of the problems for Kansas Athletics.
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KU Athletics Has Paid Hundreds Of Thousands Of Dollars To Defend A Lawsuit, With Meter Still RunningFormer University of Kansas head football coach David Beaty is suing KU Athletics for $3 million he claims he is owed following his firing in 2018. The athletic department has already spent more than $350,000 defending itself in federal court.
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The Kansas City Chiefs' appearance in the 1970 Super Bowl also marked the first big break in law enforcement’s longstanding efforts to bring down the Kansas City mob.
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Leaders On Both Sides Of State Line Prepare To Make Their Case For The 2026 World Cup In Kansas CityWith all the hullabaloo surrounding the Chiefs playing Sunday in the AFC Championship game, it is easy to forget there is another huge sporting event...
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As you prepare for Sunday's AFC championship game, here are a few tidbits to help. Who are the Chiefs playing? Kansas City will line up against the...
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In a stinging 48-page investigation, the death of a 19-year-old football player last year at Garden City Community College was blamed on "a striking...