TOPEKA — Lawrence girls basketball lost its first-round matchup of the Capital City Classic against Shawnee Heights 74-61 on Thursday, despite a generally strong and impressive showing from the Lions. The Thunderbirds started hot from beyond the arc, hitting two 3-pointers in their first two ...
Looking to build off two straight conference wins, the Kansas women’s basketball team hit the road to Fort Worth, Texas, to take on No. 12 TCU, but ultimately couldn’t pull out the victory in a 79-77 loss. Kansas was led in scoring by freshman forward Jaliya Davis’ 29 points and nine ...
With January almost over, the winter sports season is entering its final full month, and teams and athletes are preparing for postseason competition and peaking at the right time. Here are this week's selections for Journal-World Athletes of the Week: Addie Fulscher, Free State Fulscher ...
In Shaun White's early days riding snowboards, the sport was so new that his mom was still getting the hang of things after a lifetime of skiing. Among Cathy White's rules: If Shaun, his brother and sister wanted mom to accompany them down the mountain, they had to ride "switch" — backward ...
GENEVA — American gymnast Jordan Chiles may reclaim the bronze medal on floor exercise from the 2024 Paris Olympics that was stripped from her following an appeal by Romania after all. Switzerland's supreme court said on Thursday its judges sent the "highly exceptional circumstances" of the ...
It wasn't easy for Laila Edwards' parents, missing much of their daughter's formative years developing into women's hockey Olympian away from her roots in Cleveland Heights, Ohio. Thanks to an outpouring of donations, including a major push from the hometown NFL brother tandem of Travis and ...
