DENVER (AP) — Nearly stumbling heading into the playoffs, Nick Bolton and the Kansas City Chiefs gathered themselves just in time to thunder into the postseason with an AFC-best 12 wins, even though that wasn’t enough to get them a first-round bye.
MARCELINE — Last Friday’s basketball clash of neighboring Linn County high schools at Marceline delivered on its potential for excitement and close, hard-fought action, capped by what MHS boys’ coach Michael Severa termed “an instant classic.”
A couple of area high school girls’ basketball teams came out on the right end of the final score in the early-week games, even though they took alternate routes in the homestretch. In first-round play in the Salisbury Invitational tournament Monday, Meadville’s Lady Eagles couldn’t protect a 10-points cushion starting the fourth quarter, but recovered to outscore Carrollton 10-7 in overtime to claim a 56-53 verdict.
MARCELINE — With the boys due to face a team included in the Class 2 state rankings, it figured that the Marceline hopes for a taste of victory in last Thursday’s Lewis and Clark Conference home doubleheader against Harrisburg rested with the girls.
The AFC playoffs will be running through Music City, and the Tennessee Titans should have Derrick Henry back for their first game this postseason. The Tennessee Titans, who used an NFL-high 91 players for the most ever in a non-strike season, clinched their first No.
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Kobe Brown scored a career-high 30 points and added 13 rebounds as Missouri beat No.
CAMERON — Senior upper-middleweight Mason Barnett’s 5-0 day highlighted an outstanding overall performance by the Marceline High School wrestling Tigers in last Saturday’s Crossroads Duals tournament.
The money sportsmen spend on hunting and fishing licenses is a major contributor to funding conservation across the country. Today’s license fees are the foundation of tomorrow’s opportunity. If we hope pass on our national commitment for conservation to future generations, then sportsmen must continue to lead the way. This means license fees must stay current with the times. It’s rare to hear applause for fee increases, but they are at times necessary.
MARCELINE — Exploiting its greater depth born of double Marceline’s enrollment, visiting Hallsville used fullcourt defensive pressure to generate bundles of turnovers and extra scoring chances, leading to a pair of runaway victories to close MHS’ 2021 high school basketball play Thursday, Dec. 30.
ST. JOSEPH — In more than one way, it wasn’t a good week after Christmas for the Brookfield High School basketball teams collectively on the court and individually healthwise.