Sports

Pity any poor souls who left the gym early for Iola Middle School’s first home volleyball matches of the season. It wasn’t looking pretty early on for the IMS eighth-grade A team as visiting Osawatomie…

YATES CENTER  — The Yates Center Wildcats have won four of their last five after sweeping the Kansas School for the Deaf and Hartford during Monday’s triangular. After opening the evening with a 25-10, 25-13…

UNIONTOWN — Marmaton Valley Junior High’s volleyball A team fought valiantly Monday, but they could not come up with a win against a pair of fledgling rivals. The Wildcats were in Uniontown for a triangular…

MELVERN — Marmaton Valley High’s volleyball team had a tough go of it during a jam-packed schedule. The Wildcats traveled to Marais des Cygnes Valley Monday, where they fell in straight sets, 25-4, 25-4 and…

Carson Wentz finally gets to throw to Justin Jefferson five years and five teams later. J.J. McCarthy’s ankle injury opens the door for the Wentz-to-Jefferson combination that Philadelphia Eagles fans desperately wanted to see in…

Willie Fritz began his coaching career more than four decades ago at Pittsburg State, a Division II school tucked into the corner of Kansas, where he had played defensive back in the late 1970s and…

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The fact that Patrick Mahomes has been the Kansas City Chiefs’ leading rusher each of the first two weeks is concerning. About as concerning as their 0-2 start. In fact,…

The Marmaton Valley High School Wildcats’ dominance of the Three Rivers League continues following a 46-0 victory over the Yates Center Wildcats last Friday. In a battle for the namesake, the MVHS Wildcats proved to…

The Iola Mustangs continue searching for their first win after a calamity of errors resulted in a 43-14 loss to Wellsville in Friday’s home opener. After jumping out to a 43-0 lead heading into halftime,…

COLONY — Maybe the superstitious folk have had it wrong all this time when they equated Friday the 13th with bad luck. Turns out Friday the 12th can make things pretty miserable as well. Such…