The beautiful Independence Events Center opens today. I have been in Independence from day one, and it’s amazing how far we’ve come.

Taryn Miller received a special surprise Friday afternoon at Municipal Auditorium, the site of the Missouri State Class 4 volleyball championships.

With the deer season just one week away, there is nary a sound to be heard in the Missouri forests.
Welcome to 11-year-old Noah Fahncke’s world. He is deaf.

During the past bye week for the Kansas City Chiefs, local pundits have dissected the past 20 years of the team.

Forrest Rovello isn’t one of those frantic coaches who searches for the panic button when things aren’t going right for his Grain Valley football team.

I love to wax nostalgic about 1985.
You see, 1985 was my official summer of love (for baseball and a girl).

How’s this for an alarming statistic:
• An overweight child has a 70 percent chance of becoming an overweight adult.

I say it again and again, the fall sports season is the best.
And again and again, officiating continues to factor into key games.

Like a lot of my outdoor buddies, I’m not a big phone person. So when I get that rare call from my fellow hunter/golfer/videographer Rod Owen of Blue Springs I make certain assumptions.

“Don’t shed a tear, ‘cause mama I ain’t happy here.”
The infamous words from late rap artist Tupac Shakur’s “I Ain’t Mad At ‘Cha” single could just as easy be used to describe the dilemma that Kansas City Chiefs running back Larry Johnson finds himself in here in Kansas City.