Pigskin questions

Grab your stadium seats folks, the high school football season is here! Two weeks from right now, area high schools kick off the 2016, season. Practices are already underway with two-a-days nearly out of the way.

At the Mike

I'm in – hook, line and sinker. Like that fish along the bottom of the river I am dumb enough to keep biting at the worm on the hook.

Ward wants to bring collegiate summer baseball to Great Bend

The cat got out of the bag before Roger Ward was ready.

Waterfowl blind permit drawing scheduled at Kanopolis Lake

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers at Kanopolis Lake announces the annual waterfowl blind permit drawing. The event will be held at 1:30 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 17, at the Kanopolis Lake Information Center located at 105 Riverside Drive in Marquette.

World Series Champs

Kansas Dream Team places 4th at national tournament

St. John’s Kinnamons win MAYB title Sunday

GODDARD - Cole Kinnamon's last-second 3-point game-winner has developed a viral life of its own.

Rio Olympics

Like most of you, I've been tuning into the 31st Olympiad from Rio de Janeiro. There are some things I don't understand. You probably don't have these weird thoughts but I do.

Team Great Bend wins championship

Local Larned man inducted in Dodge City Rodeo Hall of Fame

Ted Webster, Larned, was recently inducted into the Rodeo Hall of Fame at Dodge City on Aug. 6, at Dodge City. The association hosted a reception for the inductees, followed by the presentation of a plaque and belt buckle at the rodeo in front of approximately 6,000 spectators and proud PRCA fans. The plaque with his picture will be hung in the rodeo offices along with previous inductees.

Viroqua. Wis. wins Central Plains Regional

WAUPUN, Wis. - Viroqua, Wis. rallied for five consecutive wins and beat Glenwood-Lowry, Minn. 4-1 Sunday to capture the Central Plains American Legion Class AA National Baseball Regional.

Top Supercharged Thunder at Sunflower Rod and Custom Association Drag Strip

The Colorado Rocky Mountain Superchargers rolled into the Sunflower Rod and Custom Association's (SRCA) dragstrip in Great Bend on Saturday. Some folks like to characterize this as the Colorado-Kansas summer shootout. The Super Chargers are a travelling racing tour with cars from Kansas and Colorado. It was a beautiful overcast day providing cool temperatures and lots of O2 for maximum horsepower resulting in some very fast acceleration competition.

Larned finishes fourth at Regional

WAUPUN, Wis. – After getting outplayed in the winners bracket final, Larned's quest for the Class AA Central Plains National Baseball Regional championship collapsed with a flurry of errors and missed plays Saturday.

Larned reaches winners bracket final

BY JIM MISUNAS

Who knew?

There was a terrific AAA American Legion State Baseball Tournament played in Great Bend last weekend, and in the days preceding it. At the same time in Fort Scott, the AA tournament was being played.

Charlie's Inside Corner: August 11

Speaking of spitting, who cleans those artificial turfs and those dugouts after those baseball games? I mean, HOLY SALIVA! This is as epidemic as the ...

At the Mike: August 11

Five years ago a new event was added to the summer schedule by the City of Great Bend and Christina Hayes. One last blast to ...

Bat Cats earn league honors

BY JIM MISUNAS

Braves lose in regional opener

FARGO, N.D. – The good news is the Great Bend Braves need one victory to advance to Saturday's Mid States 17-and-under Regional baseball semifinals.

Charlie's Inside Corner: August 4

Okay, you're going to think I am really old. Well, maybe I am! I'm going to tell you readers about a story I ...