EUREKA — The action was hot and heavy as athletes from Crest, Humboldt and Yates Center descended upon the Eureka Invitational Thursday. Crest High’s Jerry Rodriguez (long jump), Josie Walter (1600 meters) and Hanna Schmidt…

Fresh off winning a pair of gold medals a day earlier with the Iola Middle School track team, eighth-grader Reed Clift capped an eventful day on the golf course with a third-place medal Wednesday. Clift…

Area high schools know where their postseason activities will take place. The state announced this week regional sites for baseball, softball, golf, tennis and track and field activities. The lists for Iola, Humboldt, Marmaton Valley,…

ERIE — Talk about getting into the swing of things quickly. Buoyed by four golfers in the top 10, Humboldt High’s junior varsity golf team took home first place Wednesday at the Erie Invitational, a…

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — The Athletics will leave Oakland after this season and play temporarily at a minor league park near Sacramento until their planned new stadium in Las Vegas is built. The A’s announced…

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Like a loss in the playoffs, voter rejection of a stadium tax plan will force the Kansas City Royals and Chiefs to reevaluate their approach. The defeat Tuesday of a three-eighths cent sales…

BOLIVAR, Mo. — Maddox Johnson, a freshman track and field athlete at Pittsburg State University, may have found himself on the cusp of qualifying for nationals with a career-best day at the javelin Saturday. Johnson,…

A pair of dazzling pitching performances put Iola High’s baseball team back on track Tuesday. Buoyed by a combined no-hitter from Grady Dougherty and Landon Weide in a 4-0 win in Game 1, Iola’s fun…

Iola High’s softball team has had its defensive struggles this young season. So it was perhaps fitting that one of the rarest plays in the game — a triple play — proved key in the…

CHANUTE — Iola High’s tennis team is starting to wonder how to get on Mother Nature’s good side. The Mustangs were greeted once again Tuesday by cold, windy conditions at the Chanute Invitational. “It’s not…