KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Kansas City Chiefs have signed Ronald Jones to a one-year contract, the team confirmed during the weekend, adding some depth behind Clyde Edwards-Helaire in the running back room.
Kansas has only trailed for about 24 minutes through its first four games in the NCAA Tournament, and in both its opener against Texas Southern and its regional final against Miami, the margin of victory was more than 25 points. Yet somehow, the Jayhawks are flying down to the Final Four under the proverbial radar
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Saint Peter’s coach Shaheen Holloway pulled his starters off the court as the seconds ticked down and would not let them wallow in defeat. The Peacocks locked arms for one final team huddle — Doug Edert, KC Ndefo, Daryl Banks III and the rest of the bracket-busters who put the tiny commuter college in Jersey City, New Jersey, on the map.
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Villanova coach Jay Wright has won national championships with well-balanced and fundamentally sound teams, yet even he knew staying in contention for another title was going to take a rugged and exhaustive effort.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Mike Krzyzewski slowly climbed up the ladder, bowed to the adoring Duke fans and then pointed to his players to give them the credit before cutting the final string of the net. Coach K’s farewell tour will end at his record-setting 13th Final Four.
PALMYRA — Five players from Linn County high schools have been selected to the Missouri Sportswriters and Sportscasters Association’s northeast district all-district basketball teams for the recently-concluded 2021-22 season, it was announced by the association Tuesday.
Albert Pujols is returning to St. Louis after agreeing to a one-year deal with the Cardinals, according to published reports.
The 2022 season fully began for another county school’s spring team last Friday when Marceline’s baseball Tigers steamrolled host Glasgow 11-3. That same afternoon, Brookfield’s track-and-field squads had their first outdoors meet of the season, competing in an “open,” non-team-scoring meet at East Buchanan High School at Gower.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Dayton Moore has spent more than three decades in baseball, first with the juggernaut Atlanta Braves of the 1990s and the last 16 in charge of the Kansas City Royals, leading them to two World Series and a long-awaited championship. He still sounds like a giddy schoolboy when spring training begins.
Even though the weather was better suited for outdoors sports competition on the former date, the 2022 high school track-and-field seasons for the Brookfield and Marceline boys and girls began March 19 and 21, respectively, with both county schools having competitors taste victory in markedly-different level-of-competition settings.