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Five prep pitchers to watch for the 2025 MLB draft
There may be some built-up frustration among Royals fans surrounding the potential of drafting a prep arm at the top of the draft due to some struggles with pitching development in the past. But it is a new day in Kansas City, and due to some...

The Kansas City Chiefs have the best defensive line in the NFL?
Actualizado 06/07/2025 - 17:43 CDT The Kansas City Chiefs boast one of the most dominant defensive lines in the NFL, a strength they showcased last season by reaching the Super Bowl for the third consecutive year. Their defensive unit has been a...

MLB's Rob Manfred is pushing for salary cap, and players are skeptical, union official says
Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred recently outlined his plans to convince players to make big changes to the sport’s economics. Tuesday, Bruce Meyer, the second-in-command at the Major League Baseball Players Association, said Manfred...

Windy City Smokeout 2025 opens this week, the annual double bill of barbecue and country music
It’s no secret that country music is booming, what with streaming services like Spotify reporting triple-digit increases in listenership in the last five years, Gen Z fans adding their numbers and major artists like Beyoncé jumping on the...

What Happened to Randy Couture? Health Update After UFC Legend’s Car Accident
Randy Couture has always been a man who pushed the boundaries, whether in the Octagon, on a movie set, or behind the wheel of a race car. But this time, almost everything went wrong. The UFC Hall of Famer, now 62, was about to make his...

Denny Hamlin’s Chicago Detour With $110B Partner Sets Social Media Ablaze
Denny Hamlin’s chaotic weekend in Chicago became more than just a race; it was a collision of branding, bad luck, and unwavering ambition. Hamlin began the 2025 season with uncertainty, a new crew chief and a lack of sponsors, but he bounced back...

PHOTOS: Kansas & 38 Special at Rose Music Center

Kansas invited amateur archaeologists to dig out ruins from the state’s ‘bloody’ past
Just a few stone walls remain of what was once a stately, three-story stone mansion on the bluffs of the Kansas River near Lecompton, Kansas.Among the ruins, amateur archeologist Debi Aaron is hunched over a dry-screening tripod carefully sifting...

Tom Brady and Sofia Vergara having ‘summer romance’ after NFL legend ‘asked to sit next to her’ on luxury voyage
TOM BRADY and Sofia Vergara are enjoying a "summer romance" together in Spain, according to reports. The NFL legend and TV star first met one another on a superyacht a week ago. 7 Tom Brady has been enjoying a 'summer romance' with Sofia...

Joey McGuire Confirms Patrick Mahomes’ Involvement in College Football After Big $5.1M Move
Patrick Mahomes is one of the most popular names that pop up in a conversation about football. But long before he became what he is now, making no-look throws and stacking Super Bowl rings with the Kansas City Chiefs, he was slinging it in...

Mexico wins Gold Cup in front of passionate Kansas City crowd as excitement builds for World Cup 2026
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - Chants of ¡Viva México! echoed through the Power & Light District Sunday night as Mexico defeated the United States 2–1 in the Gold Cup Championship. The game reignited one of soccer’s strongest rivalries and gave fans in...

Athlon Sports ranks Top 10 LB units in college football for 2025
The 2025 college football season is still roughly two months away from offically kicking off, but that leaves plenty of time for Ranking Season to continue. And Athlon Sports more than provided with its 2025 preseason college football preview...

Steelers A to Z: Joey Porter Jr. looks to diminish penalties, increase number of splash plays in 3rd season
Editor’s note: From now until reporting day to training camp at Saint Vincent College, TribLive is running through the Pittsburgh Steelers’ 90-man roster, looking at each player and assessing his outlook for the 2025 season. The breakdown will run...

Sports on TV, radio: July 5-7, 2025
• Formula 1: Qualifying, Silverstone Circuit, Towcester, England, 8:55 a.m., ESPN2 • NTT IndyCar Series: Practice, Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course, Lexington, Ohio, 9:30 a.m., FS1 • NASCAR Cup Series: Practice, Chicago Street Race, Chicago, noon, TRUTV...

Minus Big 12 media poll where does Cincinnati Bearcats football rank?
The Big 12 conference has joined the Big Ten in doing away with their preseason football media poll. Since the University of Cincinnati has been part of the Big 12 conference, the preseason football media days have been held at ATT&T Stadium in...

Sports Roundup – July 5
LOCAL SPORTS AGR Fastpitch: The St. Andrews Flyers won both games of their home-field doubleheader, defeating the Pomquet Acadians 7-2 and the U17 Chiefs 21-9. Game 1 Stats: Winning pitcher Jarron Kennedy, Losing pitcher Richie Connors Top hitters...

Know When to Fold: What Smart Failure Looks Like in Sports Business
Today’s guest columnists are professors John Cairney and Rick Burton. In sport, as in life, the idea of failure is often cast as a villain—something to be denied, delayed or danced around. But the longer we work with sport industry leaders, the...

Sporting KC tops Colorado Rapids for 2-1 victory
COMMERCE CITY, Colo. -- Erik Thommy had a goal and an assist, Dejan Joveljic also scored a goal and John Pulskamp had eight saves Friday night to help Sporting Kansas City beat the Colorado Rapids 2-1. Kansas City (6-10-5) beat the Rapids on the...

Sporting Kansas City 2, Colorado 1
Sporting Kansas City 1 1 — 2 Colorado 0 1 — 1 First Half_1, Sporting Kansas City, Joveljic, 12 (Thommy), 4th minute. Second Half_2, Sporting Kansas City, Thommy, 4 (Pulskamp), 53rd; 3, Colorado, Navarro, 7 (penalty kick), 89th. Goalies_Sporting...

On Facebook, posts about celebrity donations for Texas relief efforts went viral. They were baseless
As communities in Texas continued their search for the missing affected by a flood that so far has killed nearly 120 people, dozens of Facebook posts trumpeted news that sports and music icons were on their side. Some of the posts showed...