YATES CENTER — Fresh off their first tournament title of the 2024 season, Humboldt High’s Lady Cubs were right back at it Monday. It wasn’t always easy. Humboldt (17-8) was challenged by Erie before winning,…

BALTIMORE (AP) — As Bobby Witt Jr. prepared to make his much-anticipated playoff debut for the Kansas City Royals, he took a moment after the final notes of the national anthem rang out at Camden…

Rebuilding the Pac-12 Conference centered around football. It’ll be a pretty good basketball conference, too, after landing one of the perennial hoops powers on the West Coast. Gonzaga will become the latest member of the…

LAWRENCE — Area runners got to stretch their legs Saturday in one of the pre-eminent cross country meets in the nation. Foremost among them was Crest High’s Josie Walter, who captured 15th in the Girls…

CHANUTE — Iola High sent some of its less-experienced tennis players to Chanute for a junior varsity tournament Monday. “We have some very new players who are becoming better and better by the day,” Mustang…

Iola Middle School’s Braylon Keithly pulled in a pair of interceptions Monday against the Anderson County Bulldogs. Keithly returned the first interception about 30 yards for a touchdown just before halftime. The second interception stopped…

A slow start did in Iola High’s junior varsity Monday. Iola sophomore Kale Pratt gave the Mustangs a boost, running 48-, 3- and 68-yard touchdown runs. Problem was, visiting Anderson County already led, 28-0, before…

Iola Middle School’s seventh-graders had some close sets on the volleyball court Monday, but could not come up with a victory. The Mustang A team dropped three sets to visiting Santa Fe Trail, 25-13, 26-24…

MORAN — Marmaton Valley Junior High’s volleyball teams kept the fans on the edges of their seats Monday evening. The Wildcat A team took both visiting Northeast-Arma and Jayhawk-Linn to the brink. Alas, the hometown…

HUMBOLDT — Humboldt Middle School’s volleyball team is rolling along in high gear of late. The Lady Cubs swept all four matches Thursday at Eureka before Humboldt did the same thing Saturday at the SEK…