(AP) Sporting Kansas City is looking to break a three-match home skid when it plays host to first-place Los Angeles FCat Children’s Mercy Park Saturday. Here’s a glance at the upcoming game: WHAT: Los Angeles FC (13-4-3, first in the Western Conference) vs.
MILWAUKEE — Blame it on lingering effects of the pandemic, resentment over the lockout or economic fears. Major League Baseball is struggling to fill the stands at pre-COVID levels as the sport heads into the last 2 1/2 months of its first season since 2019 without capacity restrictions.
ATLANTA — Two-time defending champion Alabama was predicted to win a third consecutive Southeastern Conference title in voting by media attending this week’s SEC Media Days. Alabama beat Georgia in last year’s SEC championship game in Atlanta before losing to the Bulldogs in the national title game.
AUSTIN, Texas — Former sports superstar Bo Jackson helped pay for the funerals of the 19 children and two teachers killed in the Uvalde school massacre in May, revealing himself as one of the previously anonymous donors who covered costs for families after one of the deadliest classroom shootings in U.S. history.
MANHATTAN, Kan. — Kansas State women’s basketball coach Jeff Mittie agreed to a two-year extension Friday that will pay him $2,745,000 in base salary over the next four years and includes several potentially lucrative bonus provisions. Mittie, a Blue Springs High School graduate, will be entering his ninth season with the Wildcats. He is coming off his fourth NCAA Tournament appearance, but it also was just his third 20-win season in Manhattan and came on the heels of a 9-18 record during the 2020-21 season.
Watching trolling rods on an early morning excursion across Norfork Lake in Arkansas is cool and exhilarating, even during the hottest days of summer. Jake Dale, veteran guide, consistently finds large striped bass for clients and was determined to hook us up.
In sports, typically if you play bad, you lose. But it is difficult to accept a loss when you play great.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Despite desperate pleas from aides, allies, a Republican congressional leader and even his family, Donald Trump refused to call off the Jan. 6 mob attack on the Capitol, instead “pouring gasoline on the fire” by aggressively tweeting his false claims of a stolen election and celebrating his crowd of supporters as “very special,” the House investigating committee showed Thursday night.
Tom Lesnak says Independence Chamber of Commerce members want City Council members to stay on course for a charter review commission. The chamber president/ CEO said members were asked this week to keep up those reminders with council members, as a charter review has been part of the Chamber board’s legislative agenda this year, and City Council decided earlier this month to postpone creating the charter review commission until Aug.