KCUR Sports News
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KU Basketball Signs Top High School Recruit
The prospects for next season's Kansas Jayhawks' basketball season got a huge boost Tuesday. Andrew Wiggins, the consensus pick as the nation's top-ranked
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A Fan's Notes: Still Running
The road to answers on why someone would bomb the Boston Marathon, the nation’s oldest annual one, remains long, and difficult. In this edition of "A
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Royals Win Home Opener
Seven games into their 2013 baseball season, the Kansas City Royals have a winning record for the first time. The home opener against the Minnesota Twins
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Going Out To The Ballgame
With a record number of spring training games won, the Royals started the regular season in Chicago last week with two losses and a win.
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Wichita State Shocks Kansas
The NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament is notorious for its unpredictability year after year, and as March Madness winds down, one Kansas university gets to
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Taking A Look Back To 1988's NCAA In Kansas City
Though Atlanta is this year’s host city for the NCAA’s Men’s Final Four, Kansas City still holds the record as the city with the most championship games.
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A Fan's Notes: Happy Together
For the 29th time, the annual NCAA Division I Basketball Championship -- that is, "the tournament" -- has arrived in Kansas City. With thousands upon
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Archery
The first bow and arrow is believed to have been used around 12-thousand years ago, but with the rise of guns, archery fell out of favor. Now, it’s being
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Actor Harrison Ford And '42' In Kansas City
Actor Harrison Ford plays Branch Rickey in "42," the movie on baseball Hall of Famer Jackie Robinson to be released next month. Rickey is the former
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The Madness Of March In KC
It’s a mad, mad, mad March. And there’s nowhere more crazy about college basketball than Kansas City. From the Sprint Center to Municipal Auditorium, up
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Rugby Team Provides Supportive Space For Gay And...
Sometimes the need to be accepted can be just as powerful as the need to be different. One local rugby club somehow offers both. The Kansas City Carnivores
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Sizing Up Tonight's Match-Ups In The Big 12
In college basketball, the Missouri Tigers advanced in the Southeastern Conference tournament after a 62-50 victory over Texas AM on Thursday night. The
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St. Mary's Final Basketball Season Comes To An End
Four basketball games took place last Friday at the St. Mary’s High School gymnasium in Independence for the last time. The Catholic Diocese of Kansas City
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A Fan's Notes: Wrestling With Decisions Of Olympic...
Last week, the International Olympic Committee announced it will be taking wrestling to the mat--the 2016 Games will be the last for the ancient sport. But
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Royals Baseball Play-Caller Bob Davis To Retire
A mainstay of Kansas City Royals baseball broadcasting is retiring. Bob Davis plans to devote more time to University of Kansas play-by-play.
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Former Chiefs DT Curley Culp Headed For Hall Of Fame
It wasn't Will Shields or Otis Taylor, but another former member of the Kansas City Chiefs will enter Pro Football Hall of Fame this summer.
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Kansas State Football Coach Signs New Five-Year Contract
Bill Snyder is the oldest active coach in major college football and shows no signs of retiring. Snyder will be 78 if he fulfills the 5-year extension he
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A Fan's Notes: The Name Of The Game
For every Arrowhead Stadium, there are a handful more named for banks, cell-phone companies, or airlines. In big-time sports, corporate naming-rights
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MLS Picks Livestrong Sporting For All-Star Game
For the second straight year, this area will showcase a major all-star event. This year, Major League Soccer has chosen LIVESTRONG Sporting Park in Kansas City, Kansas to hold its All-Star game on July 31st. While the best from the MLS will gather in the home locker room, KCUR's Greg Echlin says the visitors remain a question mark.
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Players React To Crennel Ouster As KC Chiefs' Coach
One week short of a year from being hired as the Kansas City Chiefs head coach, Romeo Crennel today learned he’d been fired.Crennel had directed the team to its worst season performance in Chiefs history.Some team members talked with reporters in the locker room at Arrowhead after the firing was announced and it was a somber room.It had been a hideous season for Crennel and for his team, winning only two out of 16 games for the year. And it was a month before Crennel was let go, he’d tried,...
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A Fan's Notes: The #1 That Got Away
As the year comes to close, A Fan’s Notes commentator Victor Wishna looks back on “the year that was” in the world of Kansas City sports… with a glimmer of hope at what could be.2012 will likely go down as a lost year for K.C. sports fans—that’s true for any year that begins with hope, as any sports fan’s year does, and ends in such disappointment. Sure, there were uplifting stories, the Olympics were a nice break, and it was an All-Star summer for Kansas City, but not so much the Royals,...
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Chiefs Linebacker Kills Girlfriend, Self
Chiefs Linebacker Jovan Belcher shot his girlfriend,Kassandra Perkins, multiple times around 8 o'clock this morning, drove to the Chiefs training facility, reportedly thanked his coaches for supporting him, walked away and shot himself in the head, police said this morning.Dead are Belcher, 25, and Perkins, 22.Belcher and Perkins had been living at the home of Belcher's mother on CryslerAvenue in Kansas City, Missouri. They have a three-month-old child.Police say they got a call fromMrs....
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A Fan's Notes: Jinx
At least one local college football team is on the brink of a perfect season. But as Victor Wishna explains in this month's edition of "A Fan's Notes," that storybook ending is in jeopardy, thanks to a cover.With two weeks left in the college football season, the Kansas State Wildcats are a perfect 10—as in, 10-0. And they’re currently number one in the BCS standings, for the first time in school history. Coach Bill Snyder, who came out of retirement three years ago to resurrect the football...
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Cassel Out, Quinn In As Chiefs Quarterback
Matt Cassel is out and Brady Quinn is in as starting quarterback for the Kansas City Chiefs. ACoach Romeo Crennel made the announcement on Monday.Crennel emphasized that he is not blaming Cassel for the team's failures, but says no other change would have as broad an impact. He said he made the change that would change the dynamic of the team the most.Crennel admits that Quinn was “rusty” in his start against Tampa Bay two weeks ago, but that he showed poise and promise. He said he intended...
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KC Sports Report
We’re unfolding the newspaper for a look at the latest headlines from the sports section. Did you miss a game this season? ...or all of them?Well, join us for Monday’s Central Standard. It's a local sports roundup with reporter Greg Echlin. Let's all catch up on the Chiefs, Sporting KC and local college football: the Missouri Tigers, Kansas Jayhawks and K-State.Plus, what does it mean to be a 'sports town?'TELL US:What do sports mean to Kansas City? What local sports news recently caught...
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A Fan's Notes: Misplaced Cheers?
When the bad news is about the fans instead of the game, you know things just aren’t right.Commentator Victor Wishna has more with this month’s installment of “A Fan’s Notes.”With four losses in five games, there’s no denying the Kansas City Chiefs are, once again, pretty awful. But it is their fans, apparently, who are destroying the fabric of society.“What is happening in this country?” cried ESPN’s Ron Jaworski, the former NFL quarterback who once played for the Chiefs. “Where’s our...
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Former KC Chiefs Player Returns, Loss For Home Team
One of the best players in Kansas City Chiefs history returned to Arrowhead Stadium on Sunday. It was a triumphant return - for the visitingteam.In twelve seasons with the Kansas City Chiefs, Tony Gonzales experienced multiple moments like this:"ANNOUNCER: Good coverage by the Broncos. A throw to the end zone. It's a touchdown to Tony Gonzales!"Then, Gonzales would take the football and dunk it over the goal post, as if he were playing college basketball again. In an Atlanta Falcons uniform...
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A Fan's Notes: This Is Our Youth
The Kansas City Chiefs open their regular season this Sunday against the Atlanta Falcons. It’s hard to see underneath those protective uniforms, but this years’ team is….well, let’s not sugar coat it – young.Commentator Victor Wishna explains this month's “A Fan’s Notes.”“Youth is wasted on the young.”It’s a line often attributed to George Bernard Shaw who was, no doubt, an old man when he said it.In sports, as fans know, youth is more than just the rule—it’s the premise, [a necessary...
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Walter Byers Legacy Virtually Ignored At NCAA Office
There will be plenty of college football viewing choices on television this weekend. It has come a long way since Kansas City native Walter Byers engineered the NCAA’s first national television rights contract in 1952. But for all that Byers has accomplished while establishing Kansas City as the NCAA’s home base, there’s a reluctance to talk about him today at the national office in Indianapolis.Ruffling some feathers post-retirementIntensely private, Walter Byers sheds very little about his...
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The 2012 Olympic Games: Inspiration Through Perspiration
The 30th Summer Olympic Games come to a close on Sunday in London.In his latest episode of "A Fans Notes," commentator Victor Wishna tells us why we even the least athletic of us can find something powerful in the Games message."Inspiring is one of those words we looove to over-use.That speech was inspiring.What an inspiring sunset.OhmigodThe Hunger Games? Sooo inspiring!But even hardened cynicsnot that Im one, of coursecant deny that the Olympic Games are a wealth of inspiring moments. I...
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Ending The Myth Of Amateurism In College Sports
College athletes are considered amateurs in their sports because they are not allowed to be paid for their efforts. Many spend more than 40 hours per week practicing and playing while pursuing a degree, and generate income streams for their institutions, and one college professor says its time to disprove the myth about amateurism in college sports and restore the balance between athletics and academics.Wednesday on Up to Date, Steve Kraske talks with Dr. Angela Lumpkin, Professor of Health,...
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Raytown Native, And His Family, Head To London Olympics
Many athletes dream of going to the Olympics, but few ever succeed in representing their country on sports most prestigious stage.On July 1st, Raytown native Maurice Mitchell realized his dream after finishing second in the mens 200m during the Olympic Trials in Oregon.Now Maurice Mitchell has some packing to do.The local track star is traveling to London, where the opening ceremonies of the Olympics will take place on July 27th. For Maurice Mitchell, this has been the culmination of hard...
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Royals Fans Hope To See All-Stars In Kansas City Again...
The Kansas City Royals have won the World Series every time theyve made the playoffs the last 27 years. Problem is, theyve only made the playoffs once in that span in 1985.This week, though, Royals fans had their best week in years Kansas City hosted Major League Baseballs 2012 All-Star festivities. It gave the citys fans a rare midseason moment of baseball-related hope.Hope is a foreign thing for most Royals fans, including Michael Engel.There are some times where I think that if I lived...
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Kansas City As All-Star Host: How Did We Do?
The All-Star game is over. The National League has the home field advantage in the World Series and the New York Mets host the 2013 All-Star game.That brings up the question: How did Kansas City fare as an All-Star city host?Visitors React to Booing at the Game Fans continued to be vocal toward New York Yankees second baseman Robinson Cano during the red carpet parade yesterday on the Country Club Plaza, less than 24 hours after Cano was relentlessly booed during the Monday night Home Run...
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Waiting To Become An All-Star
There was a sense of Finally! when Billy Butler of the Kansas City Royals was named for the first time to the American League All-Star team.After all, in three full seasons with the Royals before this year, Butlers lifetime batting average was barely under .300. However, Butlers wait in becoming a first-time All-Star pales in comparison to others who waited for their first chance.New York Mets knuckleball pitcher R.A. Dickey is 37 and an All-Star for the first time. Three years ago,...
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The All-Star Game Hits Kansas City
The throngs gather at Kauffman Stadium for the biggest summer sporting event, but for many, its more than just a game. On Up to Date, we look at how the game and the Royals have changed since 1973. Hear "A Fans Notes" with Victor Wishna. Then join the conversation as host Steve Kraske and KCUR sports reporter Greg Echlin draw a comparison between 1973 prospectslike George Brett and Frank White--and young Royals playing today.Plus, whats on the menu at Kauffman stadium, and what does it take...
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Celebrity Softball Game Elicits Cheers And Boos
At Kauffman Stadium on Sunday, baseball fans got a mix of the young and the old on the diamond. In the Futures game that featured top minor league prospects, the USA team pounded the World team, 17-5.Royals outfield prospect Wil Myers drove in three runs. Then the crowd energy picked up for the celebrity softball game.The stage was a little different for former American Idol winner David Cook of Blue Springs. He played the outfield in a celebrity softball game in front of a sellout crowd at...
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2012 All-Star Game Stirs Memories Of Home Runs
For Monday nights Home Run Derby at Kauffman Stadium, there is certain to be some tape measure jobs.It may even surpass the longest homerun hit in Kauffman history at the 1973 All-Star game. But one person at the stadium on Sunday would rather forget the last All-Star game played in Kansas City.Washington Nationals scout Bill Singer arrived at Kauffman Stadium early on Sunday to check out batting practice before the Futures game. It featured the top prospects in the minor leagues. Singer...
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Rejoice! KC Has An Incredible Football Team
With All Star weekend ahead, Kansas City has gone baseball crazy. And, why not? Its not like we have a decent football team anymore... oh, but we do. Meet the KC Tribe.
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Balancing Competition And Fun In Youth Sports
More than 52 million young people around the country participate in organized sports, according to the National Council of Youth Sports.
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A Fan's Notes: That Competitive Fire
Although youre more likely to find people huddling over their smokers in warmer weather, barbeque is a year-round passion. And for some, its a whole lot more, says A Fans Notes commentator Victor Wishna:
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Sportswriter Frank Deford On Life, Love & Loss
If you have ever listened to NPR on a Wednesday morning, then youve heard Frank Deford offer his commentary--cantankerous as it may be--on everything happening in the world of sports.
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A New Chapter In Frank White's Baseball Career
Five-time all-star Frank White always thought he would finish his baseball career at the Royals. He was the hometown guy who played second base with the team for 18 seasons, starting in 1973.
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Skateboarders Test-Ride Upgrades To Penn Valley Skate...
When Kansas City Parks and Recreation built Penn Valleys Skate Park in 2006, the $380,000 cost didnt cover everything on the plans.
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Willie Mays Aikens: A Second Lease On Life
Baseballs Willie Mays Aikens has done a lot of living in his 57 years. Hes now a hitting instructor for the Kansas City Royals, something he knows a thing or two about: he was the first major leaguer in history to hit two home runs in a game twice in the same series.
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