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Missouri junior forward Kobe Brown earned All-Southeastern Conference honors from the coaches but not the writers. As voted on by the league’s head coaches, Brown was named second-team All-SEC, one of 17 student-athletes honored on the first or second team.

Mario Goodrich III was showered with orange and white confetti. He raised his arms in elation while wearing the brown Cheez-It Bowl MVP belt that resembled the ones WWE wrestlers flaunt.

Truman girls basketball coach Jim Page knows about heartbreak. That’s what the third-year head coach had to endure the last two times his Patriots played in the district championship game.

Nicolau Neto wasn’t planning on being in goal Friday night. The Kansas City Comets goalkeeper has been rehabbing a posterior cruciate ligament (PCL) tear the past six weeks, but he was rushed into duty Friday at Cable Dahmer Arena when backup goalie Lou Misner aggravated a rib injury he suffered last weekend in a loss at Ontario.

Five Eastern Jackson County area players are still among the top candidates for the metro area’s top award. Three area girls and two boys players were named Monday as semifinalists for the DiRenna Award, which is given to the top male and female high school basketball players in the metro area.

A pair of weekend losses didn’t make Kansas City Mavericks players shy away from the fans Sunday. Despite a lost weekend in which the Mavericks failed to pick up any ground in the ECHL’s Mountain Division — following a 6-1 loss Saturday to the Iowa Heartlanders and a 5-3 setback to the Wichita Thunder Sunday afternoon at Cable Dahmer Arena — many members of coach Tad O’Had’s squad let the fans just how much they mean to them.

COLUMBIA, Mo. — When in doubt, just play the hits.

LAWRENCE, Kan. — Texas coach Chris Beard made the calculated decision to take away the flotilla of Kansas sharpshooters in their showdown at Allen Fieldhouse, where the sixth-ranked Jayhawks were trying to clinch a share of the Big 12 title Saturday.