The fall sports season continues to cruise along at high speed, with local high-schoolers aplenty making their marks on the football field, volleyball court and cross country grounds. Several have risen to the tops of…

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…