Today’s sports broadcast highlights Tuesday’s Television • Tennis: ATP Rotterdam/ATP Buenos Aires/ATP Dallas/WTA St. Petersburg, 5 a.m., Tennis (Comcast 277) • Winter Olympics: Women’s luge, 6:15 a.m., 7:35 a.m., USA (52) • Winter Olympics: Speed skating (men’s 1,500), 8:20 a.m., USA (52) • Winter Olympics: Men’s biathlon (taped), 9:30 a.m., USA (52) • Soccer: FIFA Club World Cup semifinal: Palmeiras vs.
The new-look Kansas City Mavericks are on a winning streak that coach Tad O’Had believes could run through the end of the season. And their new look has nothing to do with uniforms or game gear.
Jake Kates was polite and to the point following a hard-to-figure-out 47-44 Suburban Middle Six loss to visiting Raytown Friday. “I don’t have a lot for you tonight,” Kates said after the Bears fell to 14-6 overall and 3-2 in conference play.
Kyle Bruce’s shooting and a physical presence helped the Blue Springs boys basketball team win its fourth straight. Bruce, a senior point guard, shot 7 of 8 from 3-point range on the way to a game-high 27 points to lead the host Wildcats to a 68-56 Suburban Big Eight home victory over Raymore-Peculiar Friday.
Friday night under the lights has been a passion, and tradition for prep football players and fans for decades. But that could change if younger people don’t step in for today’s officials, who are growing older.
When the vast majority of your life is happening within the four walls of your home, every square foot counts. So the past two years have inspired some serious, space-saving creativity. • “Everybody all of a sudden was just surrounded by their environment, just sort of thinking, ‘If I’m going to be spending this much time here, I really want it to be great quality space,’ ” says interior designer and HGTV host Vern Yip. • Oddly enough, one popular strategy for creating multipurpose spaces at home in 2022 is an innovation born more than a century ago: the Murphy bed, a fully made bed emerging from a wall to instantly transform a living room into a bedroom. • New Jersey-based interior designer Karen Topjian remembers seeing Murphy beds in old black-andwhite Hollywood movies and thinking they looked wonderfully glamorous. It seemed almost magical, she thought. Unlike a sofabed that requires moving cushions and some degree of assembly, Murphy beds have the superpower of transforming a space with just a single motion.
Something serious appears to have prompted Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., to label a fellow Republican, Missouri Sen.
Taliyah Scott and her sister Layla put on a basketball exhibition Thursday night. They combined for 35 points to help lead Truman to a “near perfect” 72- 22 mercy rule Suburban Middle Six Conference victory over Fort Osage.
As she did over the prior months, Independence Mayor Eileen Weir far outspent her challengers over January, according to the latest campaign finance reports filed with the Missouri Ethics Commission. The eight-day-out reports cover January, prior to Tuesday’s primary election.
From police staffing to utility rates, economic development and homelessness, Independence mayoral candidates offered a variety of answers and possible solutions during Thursday’s forum just days before the primary election.