4 years ago
Brady Singer began his third Major League start by striking out Cubs leadoff man Kris Bryant on a slider that darted wickedly out of the strike zone. His finish in the fifth inning was equally impressive: a 92 mph heater that Javier Báez chased up in the strike zone and missed. In between, there were flashes ...

4 years ago
This is the ace the Royals hoped left-hander Danny Duffy would turn into in 2020. Duffy delivered six strong innings -- the first Kansas City starter to go that deep into a game this season -- but it wasn’t enough for the Royals in a 2-0 loss to the Cubs at Wrigley Field on Monday night. The Royals ...

4 years ago
The Big 12 Board of Directors announced that Conference football programs will play a “9+1” schedule for the 2020 season consisting of nine conference games and one non-conference home opponent. The start of Conference play will be solidified in the coming weeks, with an anticipated start sometime between mid- to late-September, with the expectation that non-conference ...

4 years ago
LAWRENCE, Kan. – Kansas men’s basketball will host Stephen F. Austin on Dec. 29, 2020, inside historic Allen Fieldhouse, replacing KU’s previously scheduled Dec. 29 game against Harvard. On July 8, the Ivy League announced it would have no athletics competition for the fall semester which forced Kansas to find an opponent for the vacant date. Stephen ...

4 years ago
KANSAS CITY -- It won’t be long now until the Royals have most of the rotation they envisioned starting the season with back in place. Right-hander Jakob Junis returned from the injured list on Sunday and provided an encouraging start against the White Sox, going 4 1/3 innings with two earned runs. Kansas City, though, lost 9-2 and ...

4 years ago
Even before the White Sox took the field for an 11-5 victory over the Royals on Saturday at Kauffman Stadium, the organization made history as the first Major League team to have a Cuban-born player in each of the first four spots of the batting order. Then, a few White Sox players came up just short ...

4 years ago
Adam Engel's three-run home run in the second was all the offense the White Sox needed in a 3-2 victory over the Royals at Kauffman Stadium Friday night, marking a second consecutive victory for the South Siders. There wasn’t much offense for the White Sox after Engel's blast, just two more singles through the eighth. But ...

4 years ago
KANSAS CITY, MO – The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics Council of Presidents (COP) voted on Friday, July 31 to postpone the fall national football championship to spring 2021. This decision came after the COP voted earlier this week to postpone championships in all other fall sports until spring. This decision still allows NAIA conferences to ...

4 years ago
Join outdoor expert Bob Roberts on Saturday mornings on 1150 KSAL for the latest edition of Central Kansas Outdoors. Bob Roberts interviews Brad Loveless, secretary of Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism. Blue-green algae treatments may help our lakes and Loveless talks about what the department tried at Milford. The secretary also talks about the good reaction ...

4 years ago
The Royals finally got some late-innings production. Kansas City had taken early leads in two previous losses to the Tigers but then watched its offense go dormant, not scoring a run after the third inning in the 4-3 or 5-4 defeats. Not on Thursday. The Royals scratched across a run in the seventh on a hit batter, ...

4 years ago
The Philadelphia Union are into the MLS is Back Tournament semifinals thanks to a 3-1 win over Sporting Kansas City on Thursday night that included a Sergio Santos brace. Head coach Jim Curtin’s group will face either the Portland Timbers or NYCFC next Wednesday, with their opponent determined after Saturday’s nightcap quarterfinal matchup (10:30 pm ET | FS1, ...