LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — The fastest two minutes in sports will also be the quietest in Kentucky Derby history. Churchill Downs scrapped plans earlier this month for 23,000 physically distanced, masked fans to attend today’s…

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Kansas may be one of the only schools in the country where three wins was a sign of progress. That’s how dire of a situation Les Miles walked into a year…

MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) — One of these days, Kansas State coach Chris Klieman will go through an offseason full of familiarity. He hasn’t had one yet. He was hired away from North Dakota State to…

GARNETT — Humboldt High’s Drew Wilhite opened the 2020 cross country season with a gold medal, winning the Anderson County Invitational Thursday. Wilhite completed the boys 5K race in 19 minutes flat. On the girls…

Iola High’s doubles teams each went 1-1 on the day Thursday as part of the Fillies only home matches of the 2020 season. Manning the No. 1 doubles team, Sidney and Miah Shelby narrowly missed…

It’s a good thing fans were wearing face masks at Iola Middle School’s season-opening volleyball matches Thursday.  Otherwise, they likely would have spent the afternoon biting their fingernails to the nubs, with several tightly fought…

HUMBOLDT — Humboldt Middle School opened its 2020 football season in fine fashion Thursday, blasting visiting Neodesha, 38-0. “It was great to see our kids back on the field competing again,” head coach Mike Miller…

Fans arrived at the Riverside Park football stadium expecting a football game Thursday. What they saw was a veritable Mustang stampede. Iola Middle School opened the 2020 season with a 58-14 romp over visiting Osawatomie,…

Kansas saw an increase of 1,280 cases of COVID-19 from Wednesday to Friday, according to the Kansas Department of Health and Environment.  The state’s total is 45,220 cases, and 481 deaths.  Local caseloads are: Allen…

At a Kansas City, Kansas, nursing home, employees tested positive for COVID-19 and went back to work the next day. Health workers cared for residents who had tested negative for the virus in the same…