Friday’s Television • Tennis: ATP Lyon/ATP Geneva/WTA Strasbourg/ WTA Rabat, 5 a.m., Tennis (Comcast 277) • Hockey: IIHF World Championship: Finland vs. Great Britain, 8 a.m., NHLN (276) • Auto racing: Formula 1 Spanish Grand Prix practice, 9:55 a.m., ESPN2 (29) • College softball: NCAA: North Carolina-Wilmington at Clemson, 11 a.m., ACCN (961) • College softball: NCAA: Liberty vs.
Oak Grove got off to a fast start and claimed a district baseball title as a result. The Panthers scored early and often to dominate University Academy 10-2 in the Class 3 District 14 championship game Wednesday night at Webb Park in Oak Grove.
The Kansas City Royals’ youth movement is starting to produce. Bobby Witt Jr.
COLUMBIA, Mo. — Earlier this month, three Mizzou football players — Ennis Rakestraw Jr., D.J. Jackson and Davion Sistrunk — made a surprise appearance at a 10-yearold boy’s birthday party in Columbia. They signed autographs. They ate cake. They played kickball.
The final signing class of 2022 took the stage Wednesday afternoon at William Chrisman High School. The student-athletes, from left, who signed their letters of intent are Kiersten Playter, rowing, Kansas State; Joseph Casebolt, soccer, St. Ambrose University; Janmarco Garcia Camacho, soccer, Metropolitan Community College (Blue River); Cam Dickerson, basketball, North Central Missouri College; and Emma Gervy, soccer, Kansas City Kansas Community College. COURTESY OF GREG MCGHEE/ WILLIAM CHRISMAN HIGH SCHOOL
KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Sporting Kansas City needed a lift after last Saturday’s 7-2 debacle at Portland.
Something wasn’t working. Even though the NFL attempted to enhance opportunities for minority candidates to become head coaches in a league whose players are 70% Black, there was a disconnect.
The Southeastern Conference spring meetings will be held in person for the time since 2019 in a little less than two weeks. It is unlikely two of the SEC’s superstar coaches will be chumming around Destin, Florida, together.
NEW BLOOMFIELD, Mo. – Though Grain Valley didn’t get the team finish it wanted, a little bit of history was made Tuesday at Meadow Lakes Acre Country Club.
The Lee’s Summit North girls soccer team couldn’t finish its chances and saw its season come to an end with a 2-0 loss to rival Lee’s Summit West in the Class 4 District 7 semifinals Tuesday. The Broncos finished 11-10 after their third loss to the Titans this season.