Taliyah Scott and the Truman girls basketball team probably couldn’t get off to a hotter start than Thursday night’s game at Belton. Scott poured in 18 points in the first quarter alone on her way to a career-high 36 in a 69-26 drubbing of the host Pirates in a Suburban Middle Six Conference matchup.
Today’s sports broadcast highlights Saturday’s Television • Rugby: Premiership: Exeter at Harlequins, 9 a.m., CNBC (Comcast 33) • College basketball: Wichita State at Houston, 11 a.m., KCTV 5 (3) • College basketball: Connecticut at Seton Hall, 11 a.m., WDAF 4 (6) • College football: FCS Championship: Montana State vs. North Dakota State, 11 a.m., ESPN2 (29) • Skiing/snowboarding: FIS World Cup: Monmouth, Calif.
(Schedules subject to change) SATURDAY, JAN. 8 ECHL MINOR LEAGUE HOCKEY 7:05 p.m.
There are many things to talk about after the New Year’s weekend of sports. To begin with, how do you analyze the actions of Tampa Bay wide receiver Antonio Brown? His actions were insane in the game against the New York Jets.
Former Missouri starting quarterback Connor Bazelak has found a new home. Bazelak committed to Indiana via social media on Thursday morning.
USGA nearly doubles US Women’s Open purse The U.S. Women’s Open just set a new benchmark for women’s golf.
Winter is the time to learn and dream about fishing. I am impressed with the show that will be in Kansas City Jan.
For 25 years, Ken Musgrave has been a customer at Dave’s Barbershop in Grain Valley. “I think I was one of Dave’s first customers,” Musgrave says of Dave Gramling, whose Main Street barbershop has been a gathering place and community hub for a quarter of a century.
What: City Theatre of Independence presents “Over the River and Through the Woods,” a comedy by Joe DePietro (1994), directed by Julie McDaniel and presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service.
The Fort Osage wrestling team came into Wednesday’s Suburban Middle Six Conference matchup against Grain Valley shorthanded. Some of its wrestlers were out with injuries and other reasons, which left the Indians with four open spots to Grain Valley’s one.