Sports

A view from the east of a possible Royals ballpark in the East Village area of downtown.

Jackson County Legislature Defies Frank White to put Chiefs and Royals Stadium Funding on Ballot

By Celisa Calacal, KCUR 89.3 | January 22, 2024

Jackson County voters in April will vote on whether to renew a crucial stadium sales tax for the Kansas City Royals and Chiefs.

Concern Chiefs May Bolt to Kansas Prompts County Town Hall

By Kevin Collison | December 5, 2023

Jackson County Legislator Manny Abarca has scheduled a community meeting to discuss the future of the Kansas City Chiefs and Royals at Truman Sports Complex.

New hunter Antonette Coffee of Topeka posed with her guide, Mike Ellenwood, and the results of her first-ever hunting trip, an antelope buck.

New Hunter Learns to Thrive in the Wild

By Brent Frazee | November 24, 2023

Growing up in Chicago, Antonette Coffee associated guns with violence. Then she learned to be a hunter. Now she eats what she kills, and gives thanks.

By the mid-1930s Kansas City area high school football players, like these members of the William Chrisman High School football squad in Independence, competed while wearing helmets and protective padded apparel.

Risks and Rewards of Playing High School Football

By Brian Burnes | September 6, 2023

Kansas City football history is littered with players killed and maimed playing the sport. It was so violent high school football once was banned for 13 years.