
St. Michael hires veteran football coach Mark Bliss
The St. Michael the Archangel Catholic football team will have a new leader with extensive experience.

The St. Michael the Archangel Catholic football team will have a new leader with extensive experience.
The Blue Springs South and Grain Valley boys basketball teams had little trouble advancing to the championship of Grain Valley’s Sonic Showdown tournament.
Going into a Suburban White Conference tri-dual against Truman and Ruskin, the Grain Valley boys wrestling team had some of their best wrestlers out of the lineup.

Sitting under a media tent and clinging to every inch of shade from the sun and summer heat in St. Joseph, Missouri, a reporter with a striking resemblance to the ruggedly handsome face that accompanies this column watched Kansas City Chiefs training camp practices and focused on a second-year quarterback and first-year starter named Patrick Mahomes.
Many fans were angry before and after the Kansas City Chiefs defeated the Buffalo Bills 32-29 to advance to their third straight Super Bowl on Sunday night.
They don’t just score, they pour – 3 after 3, if only because they can’t shoot a 4. The rain won’t let up in Columbia, where Mizzou’s Tigers are among the Southeastern Conference’s top 3-point shooting teams.

With only two teams left in the NFL’s postseason mix, football’s focus is turning to the 254 picks in the league’s upcoming draft.
Eastern Jackson County area sports calendar for Feb. 1-3

Fans who enjoy prep basketball had the rare opportunity to see several games rolled into one in semifinal action at the Grain Valley Sonic Showdown.

Landon McCallum stayed hot and goaltender Jack LaFontaine stopped nearly everything to give the Kansas City Mavericks a good start to a three-game home set in a battle for first place in the ECHL’s Mountain Division.