Just a few hours before the start of Super Bowl 56, one of the most unusual things to ever happen in the moments immediately before the big game occurred: a gigantic piece of news broke. It was about Aaron Donald.
The Fort Osage wrestling team has plenty of youth, with six freshmen and two sophomores among the 11 Indians who competed in Saturday’s Class 4 District 4 Tournament at Staley High School. Typically, a team with so many underclassmen wouldn’t see most of their wrestlers qualify for state, but Fort Osage proved to be an exception.
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Tamika Catchings is stepping down as vice president of basketball operations and general manager of the Indiana Fever, the team announced Monday. The franchise’s most storied player, who helped Indiana win a WNBA championship in 2012 and was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame last year, had held the front-office positions since 2017, and the team has struggled under her leadership.
The star-studded Los Angeles Rams fulfilled their destiny, beating the Cincinnati Bengals 23-20 Sunday to win Super Bowl 56 at SoFi Stadium. Quarterback Matthew Stafford threw two touchdown passes to Super Bowl MVP Cooper Kupp, and defensive end Aaron Donald made key stops late to propel the Rams to victory.
Blue Springs boys basketball put together a memorable senior night for its half-dozen seniors Friday, cruising away from Lee’s Summit North for a 69- 47 conference win at home. Ikenna Ezeogu netted 11 of his gamehigh 27 points in the third quarter, when the Wildcats (19-4) stretched a 30-19 halftime lead into a 56-30 bulge for the fourth.
BEIJING — Madison Hubbell and Zachary Donohue have known for months that this competitive season, and these Olympics, would be their last. And thanks to an emotional performance Monday at Capital Indoor Stadium, they’ll be going out with an Olympic medal.
There’s an adage: “Don’t poke the bear.” It basically means don’t add fuel to a fire that can get out of hand. That’s what Truman High School basketball fans discovered Friday night as a large, hand-painted sign, hanging about the standing room only student section read: Any Other College > MSSU.
Riley Ragan finally felt the joy of being a state qualifier. The William Chrisman senior not only punched his first ticket to the MSHSAA State Wrestling Championships this week in Columbia, he is going as a district champion.
For a few brief moments it appeared that captain John Sosa was going to help his team overcome a lackluster fourth quarter Saturday as he scored a late goal to give the Kansas City Comets a 5-4 lead at Cable Dahmer Arena.