Sports

Fans of Crest Lancer basketball won’t have to go far to watch one of their best get a chance to compete at the next level.  Crest senior forward Hayden Hermreck committed to walk-on to the…

As college athletes have filed one antitrust lawsuit after another demanding they be paid, the NCAA and its legion of attorneys have proffered various, convoluted legal defenses to preserve its sacred notion of amateurism, claiming…

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Hundreds gathered in Kansas to remember a Washburn University football player who was killed in a shooting that also wounded a friend who had been drafted hours earlier by the New…

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Big 12 coaches are discussing the implementation of a standardized conference-wide injury report, but they would prefer some type of national uniformity. The Big 12 is among six FBS conferences holding…

The recent New York Giants draft pick injured in a Topeka, Kan., shooting sent a message Monday to his slain Washburn University teammate, thanking him for being a “true friend.” “I love you forever,” Corey…

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Clark Hunt stood in front of a dozen or so reporters and offered humility. Finally. Humility not from himself, necessarily, but from the Chiefs as an organization. Maybe this can mean…

The Register is on the lookout for our area’s top athletes. Whether it’s on the court, field, course, track or otherwise, we want to honor the best that our area has to offer by naming…

Both Iola and Humboldt Middle School track teams competed at Burlington on Thursday.  Iola eighth-grade boys finished atop all eight teams with a second-place finish followed by a fourth-place finished for the seventh-grade Pony boys…

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Royals pitching staff gave up runs in bunches to both start and end the evening, including three runs in the final two innings to make a ninth-inning rally a far-fetched…

HUMBOLDT — Weekly racing returned to the 3/8 mile Humboldt Speedway on Friday with six action packed classes. The main event of the evening was the $1,000 to win McCarthy Auto Group/USRA A-Modifieds.  Matt Johnson,…