It was only a matter of time before baseball's next no-hitter, and the way it unfolded was somewhat appropriate. The New York Mets — one of the game's biggest April success stories this year — blanked Philadelphia on Friday night.
When amputee athlete Jacky Hunt-Broersma says her mantra is, "I can do hard things," she's not kidding — the amputee athlete has run 104 marathons in as many days, all using a carbon-fiber prosthesis.
NEW YORK (AP) — Last season, dwindling batting averages put baseball in a panic and prompted a midseason change in the enforcement of rules banning sticky stuff by pitchers. The crackdown was awkward — remember Gerrit Cole stumbling over a question on Spider Tack? Or Max Scherzer defiantly beginning to disrobe during an in-game check by umpires? Funny enough, it also worked, with batting average rising from .232 through April 30 to .244 by season's end.
FAYETTE — Marceline High School’s hopes of at least a shared Lewis and Clark Conference baseball title in only the program’s third year of existence remained solid as they steamrolled host Fayette 13-2 in five innings behind senior pitcher Jaxon Schmitt and an 11-hits attack.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Brett Veach found himself in the same vexing position as every other NFL general manager during the draft, trying to remain true to his scouting board — and all the work put in this past year — while also understanding there were glaring holes on the roster that need to be filled.
MARCELINE – When the visiting Harrisburg Bulldogs bumped the bet on the Marceline High School baseball Tigers a third time last Monday and MHS didn’t match it, the hosts lost both the game and a clear path to the Lewis and Clark Conference championship, although they could hope Harrisburg might give the latter back a couple of days later.
Behind a first-place showing in one of the three playing formats used, Marceline High School’s golf Tigers brought home the team championship from last Tuesday’s Kirksville Invitational tournament with a team score of 233.
MACON — Highlighted by MHS senior Ramzee Bruner’s reset of her school record in the high jump and BHS 12th grader Alex Sharp’s victories in the two longest girls’ races, Marceline’s and Brookfield’s girls’ and boys’ teams competed in the Gerald Mansfield Invitational high school track-and-field meet at Macon this past Tuesday.
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas legislators were close Wednesday to approving a measure authorizing sports betting that would dedicate most of the state's revenues from it to efforts to lure the Kansas City Chiefs from Missouri to the Kansas side of the metropolitan area.
Their time and number of opportunities beginning to run low, the 2022 Brookfield High School baseball Bulldogs finally made more progress toward at least matching their modest inaugural 2021-season wins total of three early this past week.