SURPRISE, Ariz. — On opening day, the Kansas City Royals will hand the ball to one of the three pitchers in franchise history who’ve won a Cy Young Award: Zack Greinke. Greinke will start the season opener against the Cleveland Guardians on Thursday, A…
KC Chiefs president says team is exploring possible sites for stadium in Kansas: report
Could the Chiefs set up shop in Kansas? A tweet Tuesday morning from Kevin Clark, who covers the NFL for The Ringer, seems to indicate the NFL franchise is exploring the idea of building a new stadium in the Sunflower State. The idea came from Chiefs p…
Chiefs reportedly plan to sign former Buccaneers RB Ronald Jones
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Chiefs are adding a player who helped defeat them in Super Bowl LV to their stable of running backs. Tom Pelissero of the NFL Network reported Saturday that Ronald Jones II has agreed to a one-year deal with the Chiefs. Pelissero…
Kansas, last No. 1 seed standing, reaches Elite Eight with late surge against Providence
CHICAGO — Kansas is one win away from a spot in the Final Four. The Jayhawks, who entered Friday’s Sweet 16 contest against No. 4 seed Providence as the only No. 1 seed left in the men’s NCAA Tournament, squandered a 13-point second-half lead but still…
Former Kansas guard Charlie Moore returns to Chicago with Miami
CHICAGO — Charlie Moore, the pride of Morgan Park High School on the far South Side, has returned to his hometown for what he hopes will be two of the most important games of his six-year college basketball career. “It’s a once-in-a-lifetime type of ex…
Chiefs move quickly to address receiver needs, signing former Packer Marquez Valdes-Scantling
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Chiefs needed speed at the wide receiver position after trading Tyreek Hill to the Miami Dolphins. They found it a day later. The Chiefs are signing wide receiver Marquez Valdes-Scantling to a three-year deal worth up to $36 mill…
Kansas’ Bill Self not buying into theory that Jayhawks’ Sweet 16 foe has been lucky
CHICAGO — Analytics guru Ken Pomeroy provided Providence College’s men’s basketball team a rallying cry recently when his metrics deemed coach Ed Cooley’s Friars the “luckiest” of the NCAA’s 358 Division I programs. “The luck narrative, that’s called d…
Chiefs trade superstar wide receiver Tyreek Hill to Dolphins
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes officially needs a new No. 1 wide receiver. The Chiefs traded superstar wide receiver Tyreek Hill to the Miami Dolphins in exchange for Miami’s first-, second- and fourth-round picks in 2022 and fou…
Kansas holds off Creighton to reach Sweet 16 for first time since 2018
FORT WORTH, Texas — Kansas men’s basketball team is headed to the NCAA Tournament Sweet 16 for the first time since the 2017-18 season. Senior Remy Martin scored 20 points (his KU career high) with seven rebounds and four assists and Ochai Agbaji added…
‘Slammers’ caused crashes, then blamed truckers to collect insurance money, feds say
A group of people from Louisiana staged car wrecks in which a driver would intentionally collide with semitractor-trailer trucks in order to collect settlement money, authorities said. The group scammed thousands of dollars from insurance companies, co…