For Eudora High School junior Braydee Miller, volleyball has been part of life since she was 6 years old. After years of playing school and club volleyball with year-round competition, Miller decided to stop playing basketball after her freshman year and focus on volleyball alone. She ...
TOPEKA — It took 80 regulation minutes, two overtimes and penalty kicks to finish, but a red card on Lawrence’s goalkeeper gave Topeka enough momentum as the Trojans beat Lawrence in penalty kicks. “With 20 minutes left in the first half we go down to 10 men and we take them all the way ...
While all four Lawrence and Free State boys and girls teams had runners qualify for the 6A state cross-country meet on Saturday in Manhattan, the Lawrence boys and Free State girls also both qualified as teams. The Lawrence boys were the runners-up in the Manhattan substate race, scoring 66 ...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Chiefs had been dominated in the trenches, Kenneth Walker had gone nowhere in his return to Seattle and Patrick Mahomes had been under duress all game, leaving Kansas City with a mere field goal on the board in the fourth quarter Sunday night. Yet the Chiefs were ...
The Kansas football program has come a long way from what it was in 2016, when Texas fired Charlie Strong after an overtime loss to the Jayhawks, or in 2010, when Colorado blew a 28-point fourth-quarter lead in Lawrence and then decided it had had enough of head coach Dan Hawkins. But in a ...
More fall sports seasons concluded this past week, while others are diving into postseason competition. Whether it was at state events or in regular-season finales, local athletes shone in their sports. Here are this week's selections for Journal-World Athletes of the Week: Oliver Schwartz, ...
