On a cold, windy Friday night in November, the Lawrence High football team had barely gotten off the bus as raindrops started falling ahead of the Class 6A state regional matchup against Derby – a team that had beaten the Lions in the very same playoff in consecutive years. Without missing a beat, Hank Booth threw on his headset and jumped right into his signature pregame show alongside partner Matt Llewellyn ...
This preview is the fifth of a 12-part series breaking down the upcoming KU football schedule. It may be a Big 12 Conference farewell tour for Texas in 2023, but that won’t stop head coach Steve Sarkisian and the Longhorns from playing their hand for a league title. Kansas will take a road trip to Austin in Week 5, at the end of September, and the Longhorns will arguably be the Jayhawks' toughest test of the ...
A Baldwin City teen is now considered part of the world’s third-best high school bass fishing team after reeling in a third-place finish at the Major League Fishing High School World Finals on the Mississippi River in La Crosse, Wisconsin. Cayden Harmon, a returning senior at Baldwin High, and teammate William Shepherd of St. Thomas Aquinas in Overland Park competed against nearly 400 of the world’s best ...
After a hot June, Sporting Kansas City II is on track for an even hotter July. A record-setting match saw Sporting (6-4-5) roll past Vancouver Whitecaps FC 2 7-1, the most goals scored by SKC II in the developmental club's history, on Sunday at Rock Chalk Park. Opening July with a win, SKC II extends its unbeaten streak to five matches and now rests at fifth in the MLS Next Pro’s Western Conference. SKC II ...
Senior Spotlight is a summer series highlighting incoming area high school senior athletes. Volleyball was always part of the plan for Seenane Brewer. The daughter of longtime college volleyball coach Nana Allison-Brewer, Seenane raised her game to become a three-year varsity starter on the Lawrence High volleyball team and will be a key returning piece on Stephanie Scarborough’s squad this fall. Brewer ...
All state high school football championships will be held at three locations beginning in 2024, the Kansas State High School Activities Association executive board announced, along with several other key changes to activities approved during a June board meeting, on Wednesday. All three state football sites will host three games each, one on Nov. 29 and two more the following day. Locations for each of the ...