Delivering a couple of well-timed hits and then blowing the game open late, the visiting Lawson Cardinals spoiled the Chillicothe High School baseball Hornets’ 2022 season opener last Monday, winning 9-1 in a game that was very much within the Hornets’ reach after five innings.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Kansas City Chiefs traded wide receiver Tyreek Hill to Miami for a package of draft picks Wednesday, and the Dolphins gave the three-time All-Pro a $120 million, fouryear contract extension that makes him the highest-paid player ever at his position, a person familiar with the moves told The Associated Press.
Dennis Gates was a young standout at Chicago’s Whitney Young High School and mulling college scholarship opportunities when Norm Stewart, late in his coaching career, tried to persuade him to play point guard for Missouri.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Kansas City Royals have agreed to a $3 million contract with shortstop Adalberto Mondesi and five other players for the upcoming season, avoiding arbitration before Tuesday’s deadline for teams and players to submit numbers.
JUPITER, Fla. (AP) — St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Jack Flaherty will miss the start of the season and there’s no timetable for his return after he received a platelet-rich plasma injection in his ailing right shoulder.
As the 2022 high school spring sports season began last Friday, the Missouri State High School Activities Association announced teams’ classification and district assignments for the six sports – girls’ and boys’ track and field, baseball, girls’ soccer, and boys’ golf and tennis.
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Kansas coach Bill Self has always relied on veteran point guards to run his teams, All-Americans such as Frank Mason III and Devonte’ Graham, or Tyshawn Taylor, who led an unheralded group of Jayhawks to the Final Four in 2012.
SEDALIA — The Chillicothe High School soccer Lady Hornets certainly didn’t want to open their new season with a loss – much less a shutout defeat, but, all things considered, including having two projected starters out with new injuries and how last season went after a similar debut against the same foe, last Friday’s 3-0 setback at the hands of CHS alumna Meredith Brick’s Sedalia: Smith-Cotton Lady Tigers likely ranks as nothing more than a speed bump on the 2022 Chillicothe journey.
Top seeds Gonzaga, Kansas and Arizona are in. So is little Saint Peter’s, the giant killer and only the third No.
COLUMBIA — All indications Monday were that long-time Florida State University assistant coach Dennis Gates, head coach at Cleveland State University the past three years and Horizon League Coach of the Year each of his first two seasons at that school, was set to be named new men’s basketball head coach at the University of Missouri.