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Arizona 6 Kansas City 4 »

Kansas City Royals starting pitcher Luis Mendoza, center, meets with pitching coach Dave Eiland (58) and teammates on the mound during the sixth inning against the Arizona Diamondbacks Friday (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) The Diamondbacks are finally getting things to fall in their favor. Chris Young came off the disabled list Friday night and provided a pair of RBIs. Joe Saunders kept Arizona in the game after a shaky start, and Miguel Montero drove in three runs against the Kansas City Royals, including the [...]

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Big 12 and SEC team up for new bowl game »

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The Big 12 and the Southeastern conferences have announced a deal that will pit their football regular-season champions against each other in a New Year’s Day bowl game for five years beginning in 2014, positioning themselves for the expected switch to a four-team playoff. In fact, SEC commissioner Mike Slive all but said that scenario [...]

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Baltimore beats KC 5-3, sweep 2-game series »

Kansas City Royals center fielder Jarrod Dyson misses an RBI single hit by Baltimore Orioles' Chris Davis during the seventh inning Thursday. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) Tack the Kansas City Royals onto the list of teams that are sick of seeing Adam Jones. The Orioles’ slugger followed up his eventual winning homer in the 15th inning the previous night with a two-run shot on Thursday, helping Baltimore climb back from a three-run deficit to beat the Royals [...]

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Pratt ends Hoisington’s season »

Pratt's Savanah Buntemeyer takes a swing in Wednesday's victory over Hoisington.  photo - Doug Will, Pratt Tribune

The Pratt Greenbacks rode the pitching of Brittnee Hill to defeat the Hoisington Cardinals 5-0 in the championship game of the 4A Softball Regional in Pratt Wednesday night. Hill shutout the Cardinals in picking up her 14th win of the year. Pratt advances to the 4A State Tournament with a record of 23-0.  Hoisington ends [...]

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Barton Baseball’s Castagnini and Garland earn conference first team honors »

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Barton Community College sophomores Federico Castagnini and Clayton Garland were recently named to the first team KJCCC All-Jayhawk West baseball team.  The duo led the Cougars in nearly every offensive category as Barton finished 33-26 on the season. Federico Castagnini Castagnini led the Cougars in runs batted in and three of the four extra base [...]

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Jones homers in 15th, lifts Orioles to win »

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – Adam Jones homered with one out in the 15th inning, lifting the Baltimore Orioles to a 4-3 victory over the Kansas City Royals on Wednesday night. Jones was hitless in six at-bats before connecting for his team-leading 12th home run – nine of them tying the game or giving the [...]

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Royals win second straight over Rangers, 7-4 »

Kansas City Royals' Mike Moustakas, right, celebrates with third base coach Eddie Rodriguez (14) while rounding the bases after hitting a solo home run against the Texas Rangers during the fourth inning Tuesday. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) – Mike Moustakas homered, Billy Butler and Brayan Pena each drove in a pair of runs and the Kansas City Royals kept Texas’ potent offense in check for a second straight game in a 7-4 win over the Rangers on Tuesday night. The Royals took advantage of two throwing errors by Rangers [...]

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No Jayhawk logo’s on Missouri license plates »

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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Missouri license plates won’t be sporting Kansas Jayhawks logos anytime soon if the Missouri House has its way. The House approved an amendment to a higher education bill Tuesday allowing only Missouri schools to be featured on license plates. An effort to create a University of Kansas specialty plate in [...]

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Goddard ends Panthers season 8-0 »

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The Goddard Lions beat Great Bend 8-0 in the championship game of the 5A baseball regional Tuesday afternoon in Goddard.  The Panthers end the season 14-8.  Goddard advances on to the 5A State Tournament next week with a record of 19-3.

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Lady Panthers lose 2-1 »

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Goddard-Eisenhower beat the Great Bend the Great Bend Lady  Panthers 2-1 Tuesday the championship game of the 5A RegionalTournament in Goddard. The Lady Panthers ends the season 17-5.  Eisenhower advances to next weeks StatTournament with a record of 19-3.

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