GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Kansas City coach Andy Reid looked slightly perplexed during Sunday's postgame press conference when asked why his quarterback Patrick Mahomes is so good in season openers.
SHELBINA – 2022 Brookfield High School football junior quarterback Colton Parn threw for Bulldogs-record 399 yards and senior wide receiver Gambal Staddie had a BHS-best-ever 220 receiving yards against the South Shelby Cardinals last Friday night, but it wasn’t enough to give Brookfield back-toback victories. Coming off its “Bell Game” triumph at Marceline the week before, BHS fell behind by three touchdowns in the first period and lost 36-20 on the road.
Tough days on diamond for Meadville girls late last week Marceline High School’s defending Class 2 state-champion softball squad remained undefeated in 2022 last week, but Meadville’s softball girls sustained three defeats during the week. Off the diamond around the county, the Brookfield volleyball Lady Bulldogs won a game, but not the match at home against Hamilton: Penney last Thursday, while the BHS cross country runners uniformly improved their times in their second meet of the fall.
MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) — The century- old rivalry between Kansas State and Missouri still means something in Big 12 country, more than a decade after the Tigers bolted the league for the SEC, and that was evident this week when Wildcats coach Chris Klieman asked players who grew up across the border to talk about it.
MARCELINE — Flexing their offensive muscle a second-straight time while also playing strong technical defense and getting outstanding pitching, the Marceline High School softball Lady Tigers steamrolled visiting South Shelby 15-0 in four innings last Tuesday (Sept. 6).
LCL OUTDOORS SPORTS EDITOR 2022-23 fall hunting seasons have finally begun with the opening of dove season on Sept. 1.
Her injury-throttled freshman year at Brookfield High School hopefully now a fading memory, sophomore Samantha Sharp successfully completed her return to cross country running competition this past Tuesday when she placed second as BHS only entrant in the varsity girls’ division of the 19th-annual Chillicothe Invitational meet. A 2021 Class 2 state meet qualifier, even though her then-relatively- new leg injury wound up keeping her from participating, Sharp completed the 5-kilometers (approximately 3.1 miles) 2-loops course around and through Simpson Park in north Chillicothe in 21:43.2.
MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) — Chris Klieman remembers when Missouri and Kansas State played every year in football, back before money-grabbing university administrators ushered in an era of conference realignment at the expense of deep-seated rivalries that in some cases stretched back a century.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Nobody could blame Patrick Mahomes for not knowing what to expect when the Pro Bowl quarterback walked onto the field for the season opener a year ago behind an entirely rebuilt Kansas City Chiefs' offensive line.
NASCAR is investigating a spate of car fires that left one championship contender fuming after his Ford erupted into an inferno during the opening playoff race. Kevin Harvick lashed out at NASCAR and the new Next Gen car after his inexplicably caught fire at Darlington Raceway.