Football and men's basketball players on scholarship in one of the major conferences can expect to soon earn a minimum of $50,000 each year he plays because of the influx of cash from so-called booster collectives brokering name, image and likeness deals.
COLUMBIA – The University of Missouri Department of Athletics’ annual promotional tour – expanded this year to at least 24 separate events – will make a stop in Chillicothe this coming Wednesday.
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) — College football coaches are pushing for changes to NCAA rules to help stabilize rosters depleted by transfers.
The Missouri Department of Conservation’s ongoing chronic waste disease detection efforts during last fall’s deer season have identified three counties where the deadly (to deer) disease had not been found before.
BROOKFIELD — It’s not a situation anywhere comparable to the New York Yankees’ 4-decades dominance of Major League Baseball from the 1920s into the early 1960s – dominance which by the 1950s had prompted popularity of the phrase “break up the Yankees” among fans of other clubs – particularly in the American League, but the still-fledgling Brookfield High School Bulldogs are enjoying a historic stretch of success of their own.
RICHMOND — As looked likely, the season for the Brookfield High School Bulldogs golf team reached its conclusion last Monday. Competing in the state-qualifying Class 2 District 4 tournament at Richmond’s Shirkey Golf Course, Brookfield – with only the minimum four golfers needed to produce a team score entered – generated a score of 518, last in the field of 12 teams entered (not all schools had enough players for a team score).
UNIONVILLE — Senior distance-running star and multiple-times state champion Alexandra “Alex” Sharp won once and was part of four Brookfield High School top-4 finishes in last Saturday’s Class 2 District 3 track-and-field meet at Putnam County High School.
UNIONVILLE — Six Marceline High School Lady Tigers and one Tiger extended their 2022 track-and-field seasons to this Saturday’s state-qualifying sectional meet at Monroe City while competing in the Class 2 District 3 track meet at Putnam County last Saturday.
PARIS — Competing in a scramble-format tournament last Friday to stay sharp prior to this past Monday’s district tournament, Marceline High School’s golf Tigers came up two stroke shy of claiming the team title in the Paris Scramble Tournament, MHS coach Michael Severa reports.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Anyone anticipating a return to normalcy in the Kentucky Derby got a dose of crazy on Saturday when an 80-1 shot came charging up the rail to win at Churchill Downs.