December 2022

HOUSTON (AP) — Wearing shirts that read 'Conquered the West' and baseball caps commemorating their AFC West title, the Kansas City Chiefs celebrated winning the division for a seventh straight season after outlasting the Houston Texans in overtime Sunday.

The four Class 1 high schools in Linn County had very limited high school basketball action the last half of last week with both Linn County R-1 and Meadville totally off the game court. Mendon: Northwestern split its Carroll- Livingston Activity Association road doubleheader with Hardin-Central, taking the boys’ contest 53-33 to improve to 7-3 overall and 4-1 in the conference and dropping the girls’ contest 53-23 to slip to 3-7 overall and 2-3 in the loop.

A non-conference triumph by the Lady Tigers was the only solace for the Marceline High School basketball teams during their action the latter half of last week. After dropping Lewis and Clark Conference home contests to Schuyler County last Thursday – including the boys surrendering 106 points in an 81-points loss to the Rams, MHS split with non-league foe La Plata at home the next night.

LUSAIL, Qatar — After finally winning the World Cup, Lionel Messi made his strongest case yet to be considered soccer's greatest player of all time. It will never be possible to say definitively, though, even after Argentina's 4-2 penalty shootout victory over France on Sunday in the final at Lusail Stadium.

MU plays Friday; Kansas has first bowl game since 2008 Dec. 28 The bowl season is now three years removed from the last time every postseason game was played.

SEDALIA — Led by individual champions Payton Weese, Maddie Dauber, and Drew Griffin, Marceline High School’s wrestling squads brought home second- and third-place team honors from last weekend’s “Battle at the Katy Trail” tournament. Havingnotonlythetwotitle-winners, but also eight other top-10 finishers in the tournament that involved more than 40 schools, the Lady Tigers took second behind Brookfield with 345 points, four points more than thirdplace Polo.

SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) — DeAndre Gholston hit a buzzer-beating 3-pointer to lift Missouri to a 68-66 victory over Central Florida on Saturday at the Orange Bowl Basketball Classic doubleheader.

At separate sites last Saturday, Brookfield High School’s basketball squads sustained losses to an Iowa school by virtually-matching margins. Crossing the state line, but without two usual starters, the Lady Bulldogs fell to Central Lee of Donnellson, Iowa, 41-29, at Keokuk, Iowa, slipping to 7-2 on the season.