TORONTO (AP) — Bo Bichette homered and drove in five runs, Robbie Ray fanned 13 over seven innings to claim the major league strikeout lead and the Toronto Blue Jays beat the Tampa Bay Rays…

Even for baseball fans who’ve seen everything, this was a bizarre sight: The entire Baltimore Orioles’ grounds crew, perched behind the tarp and poised to spring into action as a storm approached, suddenly got told…

BURLINGTON — Baby steps. Iola High’s volleyball team, featuring a trio of seniors and a bevy of underclassmen, continues to take steps toward success, head coach Amanda Holman said. On Tuesday, the Mustangs fell in…

CHERRYVALE — Humboldt High’s volleyball team went 1-1 on the court Tuesday. The Lady Cubs won in straight sets over host Cherryvale, but a few lapses were costly in a three-set defeat at the hands…

MORAN — Marmaton Valley High’s volleyball team had a successful night on the home court Tuesday. The Wildcats won three matches while dropping nary a set in defeating Altoona-Midway, Uniontown and Yates Center,  improving to…

Iola Middle School’s seventh-graders are showing progress. The Mustang A-team put forth a valiant battle, but fell short in a three-set nail-biter against Osawatomie, 25-15, 24-26 and 25-21. “They showed tremendous improvement,” Mustang head volleyball…

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Salvador Perez is having the kind of season the Kansas City Royals won’t soon forget. The Oakland A’s are having the kind of September they might want to forget real…

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Kansas City Royals promoted general manager Dayton Moore to president of baseball operations and elevated longtime assistant GM J.J. Picollo to fill his previous role in a front-office shakeup…

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — NASCAR will open the 2022 season inside Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in one of the biggest shakeups to its schedule in years. The annual exhibition Clash, held at Daytona International Speedway…

OLATHE, Kan. (AP) — The father of a football coach at a suburban Kansas City high school said he hopes his unvaccinated son’s death from COVID-19 will convince people that the disease “is real.” KMBC-TV…