A dozen Iola High School students cheered and celebrated as school board members agreed to spend $50,000 to replace outdated weightlifting equipment.  Weight teacher Mike Wilhelm and wrestling coach Jason Bates asked the board to…

TORONTO (AP) — After pushing the Toronto Raptors to the brink of elimination, Philadelphia’s Joel Embiid pledged to finish the job as quickly as possible. Embiid made a 3-pointer with 0.8 seconds left in overtime…

NBA icon and Los Angeles Lakers legend Jerry West is declaring the depiction of his character in HBO’s “Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty” to be “cruel” and “deliberately false,” and is demanding…

Iola Middle School’s Noah Schowengerdt crosses the finish line Tuesday to win the eighth-grade boys 800-meter run during the Terry Lower Invitational. Tuesday’s track meet featured more than 1,000 athletes from 15 schools, including Iola,…

NEW YORK (AP) — Outfielder/first baseman Danny Santana, pitcher Richard Rodríguez and infielder José Rondón were suspended for 80 games each Monday in the first discipline since the major league drug testing program resumed March…

BURLINGTON — India Barney made it 2-for-2 on Monday. As in two track meets, two school records. Just days after setting a new Iola Middle School record in the 75-meter hurdles in Humboldt, Barney etched…

LYNDON — Humboldt High’s track and field team had plenty of highlights to open the season Friday at Lyndon. Best of all, the Cub athletes show room for improvement, head coach Eric Carlson said. “I…

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — At some point during this Kansas season, head coach Bill Self deemed this group different than its predecessors. They all turn out to be that way, of course, but this version…

OSWEGO — Marmaton Valley High’s softball team hauled in plenty of runs and hits in a successful road venture Monday at Oswego. The Wildcats swept Oswego, 17-4 and 19-4, to even MV’s record at 2-2…

OSWEGO — Marmaton Valley High put forth some late-inning magic to pick up the program’s first wins in nearly three years. The Wildcats — who haven’t fielded a team since 2019, and lost their opening…