On this episode of the Life of Fitz podcast, host Tim Fitzgerald calls his friend, Jaime Mendez, a former Kansas State safety who arrived in Manhattan in 1989 and started for the Wildcats from 1990-93. By his senior year, Mendez was a consensus All-American who started every game of his four-year career, culminating in the 1993 Copper Bowl, just the school’s second bowl game and first bowl victory. Mendez still holds the K-State career record with 15 interceptions, including four against Temple in 1992. In 2002, Mendez was one of the six inaugural members of K-State’s ring of honor at Bill Snyder Family Stadium.

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Tim Fitzgerald is a sports journalist who writes, does TV, radio and is a long-time podcaster. He has served as publisher of GoPowercat.com, a website that focuses on Kansas State sports, for more than 20 years. Fitz also has stage 4 prostate cancer, so his doctors have advised him to stay home and lay low. Welcome to his life and the Life of Fitz podcast.

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