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Chiefs assistant coach charged with misdemeanor domestic battery

OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (AP) — Kansas City Chiefs assistant coach Dave Merritt was charged Thursday with misdemeanor domestic battery after a complaint filed by the district attorney in Johnson County, Kansas, accused him of causing bodily harm to a daughter. The Chiefs said they were aware of ...

AJ Dybantsa officially declares for the NBA draft

AJ Dybantsa has made it official: He's entering the NBA draft. The BYU forward — widely expected to be a top candidate to be the No. 1 pick — made the announcement Thursday. Dybantsa led the nation by averaging 25.5 points per game in his lone college season, along with 6.8 rebounds and ...

Former Firebird Graves commits to Pitt State baseball

After nearly two full seasons at Barton Community College, former Free State Firebird Kyle Graves is committed to Pittsburg State to finish out his college career. “I have a pretty good relationship with the head coach over there,” Graves said. “He recruited me during high school, and ...

A thought experiment: What if Kansas doesn’t get Tyran Stokes?

To be clear, I’m not saying Kansas is not going to get Tyran Stokes. That caveat has to go at the top because Stokes’ recruitment has been the sort of high-scrutiny, high-stakes affair in which the mere brand of athletic apparel he wears in an Instagram story can send three fan bases into ...

Journal-World Athletes of the Week: Erin Derby and Henry Thompson

The spring sports season is around a month away from its conclusion, and local teams and athletes are battling for seeding positions to enter the postseason at the top of their sports. Here are this week’s selections for Athletes of the Week: Erin Derby, Lawrence Lawrence beat Shawnee ...

KU softball enters home stretch with postseason berth at stake

To achieve a 30-win season for the first time as a collegiate head coach, Jennifer McFalls admits, has taken a bit longer than she would have thought. KU hired McFalls, a longtime Texas assistant, in the fall of 2018. The Jayhawks struggled early and got disrupted, like so many programs, by ...