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MANHATTAN, Kansas – Following the third NCAA Tournament appearance in the last four seasons for K-State women’s basketball, head coach Jeff Mittie has agreed to a two-year contract extension through 2023-24 season, Director of Athletics Gene Taylor announced on Friday (August 16). The extension was unanimously approved by the K-State Athletics, Inc., Board of Directors. “Coach ...

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The Kansas Wesleyan Men's Soccer team is ranked No. 18 in the NAIA Men's Soccer Top 25 Preseason Poll released on Wednesday by the NAIA National Office. The Coyotes were ranked No. 19 in the final poll last December after a 17-5 season in 2018, winning the KCAC Regular Season and Tournament Championships and tying the ...

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Kansas Wesleyan Women's Soccer is ranked No. 21 in the NAIA Women's Soccer Top 25 Coaches Preseason Poll released on Wednesday by the NAIA National Office. The Coyotes are coming off a KCAC Championship season in 2018, winning both the regular season and tournament titles with a 17-3-2 overall record and an 11-0-1 mark in the ...

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Sam Burt has been a Kansas Jayhawk since 2017. Now, he can remove the term walk-on. The former Abilene Cowboy was surprised with a football scholarship from head coach Les Miles during a team meeting Wednesday. The first year head coach presented Burt, a 6-foot-4, 293-pound nose tackle, with a sheet of paper that was hidden under ...

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KANSAS CITY -- Despite a runaway seventh inning, Royals right-hander Brad Keller continued his strong second-half surge and continued to show evidence he can be the ace of the team’s rebuild. Keller threw six no-hit innings Wednesday night before three straight singles forced his exit in the Royals’ 6-0 loss to the Cardinals at Kauffman Stadium. Using ...

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KANSAS CITY -- There’s one pattern that held true for Royals right-hander Glenn Sparkman on Tuesday night at Kauffman Stadium. Sparkman really loves to pitch at home, proving it again by giving up just one earned run through six innings in the Royals’ 2-0 loss to the Cardinals. Sparkman came into the game 3-3 with a 3.00 ...

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KANSAS CITY -- The Royals’ tentative 2020 schedule is out, and for the first time since 2017, Kansas City will open on the road, on March 26 at Guaranteed Rate Field against the White Sox. It will be the earliest Opening Day in team history. Times of the 2020 games will be released at a later ...

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Kansas Wesleyan is favored to defend its Kansas Conference women's soccer title this fall. Despite a mid-summer coaching change, the Coyotes received 144 points and 11 of 13 first-place votes in voting by conference coaches. KWU returns several top players from last year's conference championship team that posted an 11-0-1 record and was 17-3-2 overall and advanced ...

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Oklahoma Wesleyan is favored to win the Kansas Conference men's soccer title this fall. And that suits Kansas Wesleyan coach Diego Cocon and his team just fine – again. OKWU received 10 of 13 first place votes and 142 points in the KCAC preseason poll released Friday. Cocon's Coyotes were second with 134 points and the ...

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In what is likely a testament to continuity and a tradition of success, Kansas Wesleyan is picked second in the Kansas Conference's preseason volleyball poll released Friday. 2018 runner-up Ottawa is the favorite, receiving 11 of 13 first-place votes and 143 points. KWU's second with 124 points and one first-place vote. Saint Mary's third with 119 ...

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DETROIT -- When this 10-game road trip started, Royals third baseman Hunter Dozier did not have any career multihomer games. Now he has three. And when this trip began, there wasn’t a ton of chatter about Jorge Soler getting close to Mike Moustakas’ single-season club home run record of 38. But Soler blasted seven home runs ...