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A friend recently mentioned her family’s new Christmas tradition of viewing wildlife. After they opened presents and finished their Christmas meal last year, the family loaded up and drove to a nearby wildlife refuge.

When I would screw up in my younger years, my dad would look me in the eye and tell me, “You can’t fix stupid.” That may have been harsh treatment but in truth no better words have ever been spoken. I watched from the press box at Arrowhead Stadium when the Las Vegas football team thought it would be a good team building exercise to go to the middle of the field and make a ridiculous scene on the Chiefs logo at midfield.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. – Los Angeles Chargers tight end Donald Parham is expected to be discharged from a hospital Friday after being removed on a stretcher during a game against Kansas City.

It was a unique and tight-knit National Signing Day for the Blue Springs as head football coach David White watched three players sign to play Division I football. Defensive lineman Ike Ezeogu and linebacker Carson Willich signed with Iowa State and defensive back Dalesean Staley signed with FCS Northern Iowa.

Truman coach David Gardner sat front and center in the gymnasium as three members of his team signed national letters of intent to play volleyball in college Wednesday. He looked like a proud parent – and there were plenty of parents and other family members and friends on hand for the ceremony.

“Adapt or die.” Missouri head football coach Eli Drinkwitz quoted Brad Pitt’s mantra as Oakland Athletics executive Billy Beane in the 2011 film “Moneyball” on Wednesday to describe his approach to recruiting. Amid the rise of name, image and likeness as well as the transfer portal into the forefront of college athletics, Drinkwitz’s assertion that adjustments are required to achieve sustained success may be the biggest factor playing into the long-term results of his tenure in Columbia.